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A professional assassin, disguised as an old woman integrates into a group of homeless drug addicts and poisons six on a cold, rainy November night. So, begins a series of murders and assaults aimed at driving criminal segments of the population out of the city. The police chief assigns Angeline Morris as lead detective...There is a twist. The killer begins calling into a classic rock radio program, requesting songs that suggest a secret code. Jack Burris, known in the city as “The Music Man” begins working the puzzle...he goes to the police and meets Angeline.

Nach fast dreißig Jahren kehrt Rike unfreiwillig zurück in ihr altes Kinderzimmer. Damals hatte sie die Enge der Kleinstadt mit wehenden Fahnen verlassen, um die Welt zu erobern. Nun ist sie wieder da. Mit gebrochenem Herzen und einem Koffer voll Problemen. Alle anderen scheinen ihr in punkto Lebensglück einen Schritt voraus. Und Rike muss erkennen, dass nicht alles schlecht war früher, dass Schein und Sein manchmal eng beieinanderliegen, dass Alter nicht vor Torheit schützt und dass sie sowohl von ihrem Sohn als auch von ihrer Mutter noch viel lernen kann.

Ich liege im Bett und wälze mich herum. An Schlaf ist nicht zu denken. Ich will mein voreheliches Leben zurück, mein freies Leben. Das, in dem ich allein Entscheidungen für mich treffe, ohne Rücksicht auf Kind, Mann oder sonst wen. Mit dem heutigen Geburtstag wollte ich einen Schlussstrich unter die letzten 25 Jahre ziehen - mein persönlicher Unabhängigkeitstag. Von heute an wieder tun und lassen, was ich will und wann ich will. Im ganzen Haus laut Songs von Bon Jovi und Robbie Williams mitgrölen ohne dass sich meine Tochter Greta bei den Nachbarn für mich schämt.

Der erste Teil der neuen emotionalen New-Adult Reihe von Rose Bloom. Sie sagten, ich wäre nicht gut genug für sie. Sie sagten, sie und ich, das könnte niemals funktionieren. Sie sagten, sie hätte etwas Besseres verdient. Sie hatten recht. Aber es interessierte mich nicht. Und ich zog sie hinab in die Dunkelheit. Bis ich selbst daran zerbrach. Drogen, Armut und ein prügelnder Pflegevater. Das ist Tanners Leben, bevor Cassie auftaucht. Tanner und Cassie wachsen in zwei unterschiedlichen Welten auf und fühlen sich doch zueinander hingezogen.

Interrail mit Ende 40? Bestsellerautorin Franka Bloom schickt ihre Protagonistin mit Ende 40 auf Interrail-Tour. Das perfekte Sommerbuch über alte Träume, neue Wege und das große Glück. Es reicht! Caro braucht in diesem Sommer dringend Veränderung: 20 Jahre Ostseeurlaub sind genug! Oder steckt viel mehr dahinter? Eine Ehe, die nur noch aus Routine besteht? Eine Tochter, die das Haus verlässt? Unterdrückte Sehnsüchte? Für Caro ist der Zug jedenfalls noch nicht abgefahren.

Robert Saville had been told that the king will soon be after him to wed. He is at the age when he should be siring an heir. He meets the perfect mate, Beatrice, at her brother’s wedding. His offer of marriage changes her future. He opens possibilities she hasn’t considered in eight years. But the promise of a future that could bring love and security is accompanied by expectations; expectations she can never meet. Beatrice has worried about this from the moment Sir Robert articulated them.

Lisa Lopez is returning to Cove Bay after spending two months in New York recovering from heartbreak. But when she returns, will she be able to resist the charms of Peter - the wealthy, sophisticated lawyer with whom she was so desperately in love before he broke her heart into a million pieces? And what of Matt - the scruffy baseball coach with a warm heart and a kind soul - will he be able to win her over?

Often the characteristics of a narcissistic mother can be brushed off as her being "difficult" or "overbearing". In reality, the narcissistic mother hides many damaging behaviors that are a very real form of childhood abuse. This can be difficult for adult children of narcissistic mothers to come to terms with and comprehend, especially with the term narcissistic being such a broad term for a complex type of emotional abuse.

The Tigress of Gloucester: The End of Loneliness is a historical romance set in medieval England in 1075. King William refused to sanction the marriage of the Earl of East Anglia, Ralph de Guader. Ralph enjoined his brother-in-law, the second Earl of Hereford, Roger de Breteuil, and Waltheof, the Earl of Northumberland, and started a rebellion. Goeffrey de Grey is commissioned by the king to aid in the defeat of the Earl’s Rebellion. He is part of the superior force that engages Earl Ralph at Cambridge and routs them.

A world that operates in the shadows has set its sights on Dolma. Dolma is a seemingly normal young woman living a routine life. She first encounters the alluring Lucas in a sensual dream. Later he reveals himself in her real life, telling her she is in danger. Two opposing factions in the immortal world want her to join them, and each is determined to kill her if she makes the wrong move. Lucas claims he can help her and warns they must flee from those hunting her. He assures her that's he's the person who can teach her to tap her own immense powers.

Mary Brown, our fabulous, full-figured heroine, is off on safari with an old school friend. What could possibly go wrong? Lots of things, it turns out. Mary starts off on the wrong foot by turning up dressed in a ribbon-bedecked bonnet, having channeled Meryl Streep from Out of Africa. She falls in lust with a khaki-clad ranger half her age and ends up stuck in a tree wearing nothing but her knickers while sandwiched between two inquisitive baboons.

The adorable fat girl needs to do something to get fit, so she tries yoga. She signs up for a weekend retreat, packs up assorted snacks, and heads for the countryside to get in touch with her chi and her third eye. And that's when it all goes wrong. Featuring frantic chickens, an unexpected mud bath, men in loose-fitting shorts and no pants, calamitous headstands, a bizarre new friendship with a yoga guru, and a quick hospital trip.

Hooray, it's Christmas! It's the Adorable Fat Girl's favorite time of year, and she embraces it with the sort of thrill and excitement normally reserved for toddlers seeing jelly tots. Our funny, gorgeous, and bonkers heroine finds herself dancing from party to party, covered in tinsel, decorating the Beckhams' Christmas tree, dressing up as Father Christmas, declaring live on This Morning that she's a drug addict and enjoying two Christmas lunches in quick succession. She's the party queen as she stumbles wildly from disaster to disaster....

She didn't expect to run the family business. But Gramps is in the hospital, and her father is in prison. She promised Gramps that she wouldn't let his life's work perish with him. Doesn't that make her a Mafia Boss? Bill Hart is just a beat cop on the night shift in the toughest part of the city. He sees a solitary figure on the docks in the wee hours of the morning. This can't be good. Whoever it is must be a lookout and, in some way, involved in something criminal.

It began with a quarrel over which newborn should be the baby Jesus in the town's Christmas pageant. Decades later, two scientists arrive to study small-town genetic patterns, only to run up against the invisible walls that split the leading citizens into two congregations that can only be joined by love and forgiveness - and maybe a little deception, because there might be some things people just don't need to know.

Mary Brown is the star of the Adorable Fat Girl series. She's funny, gorgeous, and bonkers, and when the series starts, she's seriously overweight. She heads for Fat Club and slowly starts to lose weight. The novels tell the tales of the fun she has and the people she meets as she battles the pounds. As well as having a crazy amount of fun, she also loses weight...a massive 40 pounds! How did she do it? Here in this audiobook - for the first time - she describes the rules that helped her. Also included are the stories of readers who have written in to share their weight loss stories.

Mary Brown is funny, gorgeous, and bonkers. She's also about six stone overweight. When she realises she can't cross her legs, has trouble bending over to tie her shoelaces without wheezing like an elderly chain-smoker, and discovers even her hands and feet look fat, it's time to take action. But what action? She's tried every diet under the sun. This is the hysterical story of what happens when Mary joins "Fat Club", where she meets a cast of funny characters and one particular man who catches her eye.

She flees home to avoid certain death at the hands of the old man from the North. There is a refuge, Sir Thomas d'Ecouis, but only if he will marry her before she is caught by her pursuers. So begins the journey that takes her across England and takes her from a sheltered 16-year-old girl to a woman of 17 years, one far wiser than most.

Bronte Bell is the last of the Star children, the last of her race, but there are those that would see her kind eradicated in a long-running battle for darkness over the sky. On her own and lost in space and time, Bronte must try to find her own path toward her destiny while uncovering the truth about who she really is. When one discovery finds her at odds with her partnered soul, Nick, and fighting a broken heart, will Bronte be able to keep battling her way to the truth so long withheld?

Harper is a modern-day detective story set in a large city in the Northeast region of the United States. Who would hit a mafia boss? Evidence leads to involvement of the rival mafia family, but there is no motive. John Hart comes from a family of cops. The young homicide detective is part of a team assigned to the case. How did the hit man get into the secured building? How did he know the mafia boss would be at his restaurant that night? Who ordered the hit and arranged the logistics? Gradually a story falls into place, but the case is not strong enough to charge anyone.