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It's Memorial Day weekend and Sonoma County's Alexander Valley is buzzing with activity. For Cece, business at Vino y Vida is going great, as is her romance with new beau, Benjamin. Meanwhile, Cece's neighbor, Richard Flora, is stirring up controversy with his newest article, an exposé of Regan Greene, power-hungry director of a valley district organization. Also in the mix is the town's big classic car show, paired with wine tastings....

Ein Heiratsschwindler und Frauenmörder treibt sein Unwesen in Paris, doch die Polizei tappt im Dunkeln. Erst als eine Frau, die ihm entkommen konnte, behauptet, den Mann an seinem Eau de Toilette wiedererkennen zu können, öffnet sich eine Spur, die für keine Geringere als die Herstellerin von Chanel No 5 von Bedeutung ist: Coco Chanel. Nach der Trennung von ihrem Geliebten Dimitri Romanow und einer kurzen Affäre mit Picasso ist sie zudem einsam. Wird die Hobbydetektivin das nächste Opfer sein?

Maddie Pace has a gift—an ability to glimpse a person’s past just by meeting their eyes. It’s a blessing that isolates her… and a curse that others would do anything to control. Her mother, Cynthia, will stop at nothing to keep Maddie safe. But when they’re torn apart, each is thrust into a world beyond comprehension—one imprisoned, one awakening in a realm between life and death. As years pass and powers grow, their bond becomes the only hope of reunion across worlds.

En Influencias de las ideas modernas (1907), Luisa Capetillo, como si se tratase de una obra de teatro en tres actos, nos presenta a Angelina, hija de un rico empresario y terrateniente puertorriqueño, que se educa leyendo las obras de los escritores, filósofos y anarquistas europeos.

Elsa May, ein zähes Cowgirl, trifft auf den geheimnisvollen John Dicksen. Die Anziehung zwischen ihnen ist elektrisierend, doch der Westen ist kein Ort für Schwäche. Werden sie sich gegenseitig stärken oder in Flammen aufgehen?

Latisha Walker Adams is a young married woman, settled in a new home and her long-sought-after career. She's earned her DVM and treats small animals at a veterinary clinic in nearby Oxford, Mississippi. The parting words of her estranged mother haunt her: "You might want to check your DNA" causing her much unhappiness. Is it true, or did Angel Forrester throw those words at her in spite? Is LaMont her father? Beyond that is her beloved Gran, Rose Walker, really her grandmother?

This is the true story, told in her own words, of "The Girl with the Million Dollar Smile", how everyone described Linda Varisco, the vibrant young chiropractor whose infectious grin lit up every room. But when she meets Joseph on a pristine Cancun beach in 1988, even her dazzling smile can't compete with the electricity between them. Their connection is instant, magnetic, destiny written in the sand. A successful doctor in her own right, Linda thinks she's found her soulmate in this charismatic Italian chiropractic physician who seems to perfect her in every way.

Are we alone in the universe—or is life a cosmic inevitability? Life in the Cosmic Context goes beyond the conventional search for extraterrestrial biology, asking deeper questions about the very nature of life and our place in an immense, evolving cosmos. In this groundbreaking work, astrobiology becomes more than the science of life beyond Earth; it is a philosophical lens for reimagining what life itself can be. From the origins of life on Earth to the potential for entirely different biochemistries elsewhere, this book challenges listeners to rethink what is possible.

Nach einem schweren Sturz bei einer Eiskunstlaufmeisterschaft sucht Izzy Zuflucht in ihrem alten Zuhause. Dort trifft sie auf den charismatischen Eishockeyprofi Liam, der gerade dabei ist, sein verkorkstes Leben zu ordnen. Trotz einer frostigen ersten Begegnung können die beiden schon bald ihre Finger nicht mehr voneinander lassen. Können Izzy und Liam die Hürden überwinden, die das Schicksal ihnen in den Weg stellt, und gemeinsam das Gleichgewicht auf dem dünnen Eis ihrer noch jungen Liebe finden.

Zwei junge Studentinnen wollen ihre Leidenschaft für gemeinsamen Sex mit "reiferen Herren" im Haus von Professor Santana ausleben. Dieser darf sich dabei auf die Befriedigung seines Sockjob-Fetisch freuen. Zuerst wird er allein verwöhnt, doch den Frauen steht der Sinn nach mehr, und es folgt ein spritziger Abend zu fünft.

Femina: A Collection of Dark Fiction explores the horror of womanhood. Or, more accurately, the horror of gender norms and societal expectations placed on women. This collection features work that delves into themes of identity, motherhood, sexuality, and isolation. A mix of Kristen Roupenian’s Cat Person and Other Stories and Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, this collection is a blend of psychological, supernatural, and body horror. Femina looks at the horror of being a woman in a man’s world.

This is the story of Morning Glory’s turn of the century kenbutsu—her travels—to America. Guided by her uncle, a Harvard graduate, Morning Glory travels at a time when most Americans know little or nothing about Japan, aside from the popular tunes of The Mikado (1885) and The Geisha (1896).

Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's executive vice president and corporate secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees.

Dès ses premiers pas, Lili accumule boulettes, gaffes et situations rocambolesques. Ses mésaventures vous plongeront dans un mémorable bêtisier et feront ressurgir vos propres souvenirs.

Auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Sternensystem wird die Odyssee völlig unerwartet und ohne vorherige Provokation angegriffen. Selbst mit einem Sprung in den transdimensionalen Raum können sie den technologisch haushoch überlegenen Gegner nicht abschütteln. Der einzige Ausweg, die der Besatzung der Odyssee bleibt, ist eine Verzweiflungstat. Und tatsächlich, der Trick gelingt. Aber die Freude über die gelungene Flucht ist nur kurz, denn kurz zuvor konnte ihr Feind auf den Bordcomputer des Schiffs zugreifen und so von einem lohnenswerten Ziel erfahren – der Erde.

This is a collection of stories of murder, ghosts, and magical mysteries mixed with various kinds of love and obsession, dreams, and other realities...and a bit of erotica.

My name is Linda Almond and I am an interior decorator in New York City and elsewhere. I bought a small home in Portland, Maine, to renovate for my future retirement, but now that I've bought it, I can't afford to retire...or give up my Manhattan loft that I have lived in since the early days of Soho in the 1970s. I am single and I used to have several cats, but they have passed on and I haven't replaced them because I've been doing so much traveling. I have two good friends, Janet and Stan, who moved to Maine before me. I am glad to have them already there as friends in a new place.

The AIDS Quilt will be on display in June 2021 for the 40th anniversary of the first cases, but it will be its last appearance as ordered by the heavy hand of the President of the United States. Nine nurses who worked with AIDS patients during the early years of the pandemic travel to Washington, D.C. to see the Quilt.

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With cats to hide and crimes to solve, Lorilee and Jess, her ward, are pretty busy. Once again, they will find that amateur sleuthing can be dangerous—even deadly.