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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INDIE BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a...

Betty Lennox is an elemental witch in a desert town that gives Hades a run for its money in summer. Her magic is tied to the land under a paranormal seniors' trailer park she inherited from her mother, land that hasn’t fully accepted her. Because of this, her power has become unpredictable, unreliable, and unbelievably inconvenient.

The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller everyone is talking about, One of Us Is Lying! There's a new mystery to solve at Bayview High, and there's a whole new set of rules. Come on, Bayview, you know you've missed this. A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up...

Maria McErlane is best known for appearing in The Fast Show, Killing Eve, Eastenders, Fat Friends, HIGNFY, Holby City, as the voice of Eurotrash and her weekly contributions as agony aunt on the Graham Norton radio show. Her memoir details a warm and witty, sometimes difficult ride through life. For Maria, navigating life in all its glory has been accompanied by a steady stream of bicycles.

How fast can charity fundraiser CeCe Barclay’s unimpeachable society life come tumbling down? One minute she’s speaking before Chicago’s glitterati. The next, her financier husband is wanted for embezzlement. Her assets seized and her fall mortifyingly public, CeCe grasps for refuge—and employment—as a sorority housemom at Eli Whitney University, her daughter Hayden’s alma mater.

From number one best-selling mystery and suspense author Blake Pierce comes book two in a gripping new series: The FBI has created an elite unit to target criminally insane killers, and when a serial killer writes taunting letters to the press, FBI Special Agent Valerie Law and her elite team are summoned. But this killer is truly deranged, and with the trail soon cold, Valerie may just be the only who can enter his mind and crack the baffling case.

Meet JeriLee Randall, aspiring actress, ambitious writer, and sexual powerhouse. It is this ambition that takes her away from her tiny hometown of Port Clare and sets her on a collision course with her future. Surviving on determination and seduction, she makes her way to Broadway and then on to Hollywood. The bright lights mask a deeper darkness, and JeriLee is quickly drawn into a world of greed, drugs, casting couches, and smooth-talking power players.

On the White Sea, realm of smashers and sea monsters, a ship is carrying Nazafareen and Darius to the Isles of the Marakai, where the wise woman Sakhet-ra-katme has guarded the secret of the talismans for centuries. But another is searching, too - a daeva born in the brutal prison of the Kiln, who plans to use the talismans to free the Vatras and their mad king.

Julia está en la cúspide de su poder, pero la traición y la división familiar amenazan con echarlo todo a perder. Para colmo de males, el médico Galeno diagnostica que la emperatriz padece lo que él, en griego, llama karkinos, y que los romanos, en latín, denominan cáncer.

Abenteuer in einem geheimnisvollen Land. Der Waisenjunge Bo Vilhelm Olsson, der bei Pflegeeltern in liebloser Umgebung aufwächst und sich nach Verständnis und Geborgenheit sehnt, findet auf geheimnisvolle Weise das "Land der Ferne", in dem sein Vater, den er noch nie gesehen hat, König ist und er selbst als Prinz Mio ein vom Kampf gegen das Böse erfülltes Leben führt.

Orwells visionäres Meisterwerk - meisterhaft gelesen von Christoph Maria Herbst! Als Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums für Wahrheit verbringt Winston Smith seine Tage damit, die Geschichte zugunsten der regierenden Partei umzuschreiben. Aber in seinem Inneren wächst ein Widerstand gegen das totalitäre System, in dem das Leben aufs Strengste reguliert und überwacht wird. Als Winston sich verbotenerweise verliebt, erfährt er, was der Wunsch nach Freiheit kostet. Orwells Klassiker in zeitgemäßer Neuübersetzung mit einem Vorwort geschrieben und gelesen von Robert Habeck!

'A beautiful collection that I both lost and found myself in. Unbelievably exciting stories from some show-stoppingly talented writers.' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie. Lost love. Forbidden Love. Unrequited love. Tenderness. Desire. Romance. Passion. Who's Loving You? is a celebration...

After years of being signed up to every matchmaking site known to man, speed dating, getting set up by well-meaning (if somewhat delusional) friends and family, and even applying for the reality TV show Fairytale Love to find her prince charming, Kennedy Dawes was starting to lose hope. On the advice of her therapist, she'd written down—in excruciating detail—everything she was looking for in an attempt to manifest her Mr. Right. There was just one problem—she couldn't get Mr. Wrong out of her mind.

Toms World-Of-WerWizards-Gilde „Rübenbrei" hat Tickets für ein Mittelalterfestival gewonnen – inklusive der Campingstandplätze! Als sich herausstellt, dass weder Dada noch Welf als erwachsene Begleitpersonen mitfahren können, schlägt Herr Erdmann Dieter Fleetenbecker vor.

Malcolm Max reist nach Rom, um seine entführte Weggefährtin Charisma aus den Händen der SCHWARZEN ENGEL zu befreien. In den tiefsten Gewölben der Engelsburg werden die Nehmerqualitäten unseres Helden gehörig auf die Probe gestellt, denn plötzlich erscheinen an allen Enden und Ecken Dämonen, die nichts Besseres im Sinn haben, als die Menschheit auszurotten. Zudem taucht außer Malcolms Vater auch noch seine totgeglaubte Mutter auf, was dem Ganzen eine unerwartete Wendung beschert.

Elara Millstone never wanted a life of impossible bargains. But when her father, once a respected alchemist, claims he can change straw into gold, they find themselves trapped in a dangerous game with the powerful Duke of Sutton. If her father fails to deliver on his promise, imprisonment would be the least of their worries. Desperate to save them, Elara makes a deal of her own with a mysterious masked gentleman who seems to hold the key to their survival.

After raising twin girls as a single father and spending his days on construction sites, Ford was ready to live out his early retirement on his terms, which included solitude and fishing. So he ditched the big city, moved to a town the size of a postage stamp, and bought a house in the middle of nowhere without a neighbor in sight. His recluse plans hit a snag when the abandoned house down the road is suddenly inhabited by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his childhood crush and her four kids.

Die Zinnen von Windcliff Castle heulten im Sturm wie die Pfeifen einer riesigen Orgel. Dumpfe, klagende Laute, dazwischen grelles Kreischen und das Grollen eines nahenden Gewitters weckten Noel Allister gegen zwei Uhr morgens. Verschlafen setzte sich der grobschlächtige Mann im Bett auf und griff sich verwirrt an den Kopf. Mit einem hässlichen Geräusch bohrte sich das schwere Werkzeug in die Brust des Mannes, durchstieß sie mühelos und drang in die Matratze. In diesem Moment brach die Hölle los … Ein neuer Fall für Rick Masters.

Vor der schottischen Küste pumpten die Bohrinseln das schwarze Gold aus dem Meeresboden. Erdöl. Neue Straßen durchzogen das düstere Land. Schwere Lastwagen rollten an alten Schlössern vorbei. Die moderne Zeit schien endgültig ihren Einzug gehalten zu haben. Die blutige Vergangenheit dieses Landes holte seine modernen Bewohner ein. Alles begann mit einer Probebohrung ...