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Sophie ist 15 Jahre alt, als ihr geliebter großer Bruder bei einem Motorradunfall ums Leben kommt. Alles hat sich seither geändert: Aus dem fröhlichen Mädchen ist eine einsame junge Frau geworden, die ihr Herz fest verschlossen hält. Als eines nachts in ihrer Wohnung ein Feuer ausbricht, wird Sophie in letzter Sekunde von einem Passanten gerettet. Danach weicht Ben ihr praktisch nicht mehr von der Seite. Sophie ist dankbar, gerührt - und macht mit Bens Hilfe erste, langsame Schritte zurück ins Leben.

Alison Green, desperate Valedictorian-wannabe, agrees to produce her school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. That’s her first big mistake. The second is accidentally saying yes to a date with her oldest friend, Jack, even though she’s crushing on Charlotte. Alison manages to stay positive, even when her best friend starts referring to the play as “Ye Olde Shakespearean Disaster.” Alison must cope with the misadventures that befall the play if she’s going to survive the year.

Gwen used to be the most feared of the Twelve Generals of Lucifer — demons who have roamed the Earth since being sent down from heaven at the dawn of time, bringing chaos and destruction to everything around them. Their goal: Open the gates of hell and destroy Earth once and for all. However, Gwen is starting to have a conscience.

Vampires around the world are coming forth to remind humans they are not romantic fantasies to be sought, nor are they should that can be redeemed. These are the stories that they must tell. The first novella in a series of 12, Anne Fitzgerald gives the tale of her involvement in the Irish gangs in the 1930s and her transformation into the Wyandot's vampiric legend of the hooh-strah-dooh. Her tale is a hard one to tell, with love, loss, and abuse plaguing her past. But she must tell it so that humans know the truth. That the world of the vampire is one of suffering.

Vampires around the world are coming forth to remind humans they are not romantic fantasies to be sought, nor are they souls that can be redeemed. These are the stories that they must tell. Captain Henry Williams had everything he wanted back home in England: a woman waiting to marry him, his dream of owning a pub, and starting a family.

A secret cult operates at the zoo Carla works at. The pay doesn't keep food in her cupboards. All her clothes are second hand. There isn't enough money to cope with management, preferred employees, and customers. Starving before her wages land in her pay packet, Carla walks up the hill to steal some food from the zoo. She isn't alone. Induction night for the cult happens at the same place. They need sacrifices to the old Gods to maintain power. Left with no choice, and nothing to eat, Carla must overthrow the cult. It isn't a simple case of one bad employer, but many.

An uplifting audiobook for living in each moment as positively and presently as possible - written by Instagram sensation Dani DiPirro, who, after years of struggling, figured out how to make the most of each day and now shares her tips with others to help them enjoy life more, too. In this practical guide to remaining optimistic in tough times, social media hit Dani DiPirro expands on content from her popular online platforms, exploring how to be more "positively present" in all aspects of life.

The government gave me an ID with that name and let me enroll in a community college to get my GED. All the psychologists that they had examine me thought that would be best and going to school might jog some memories since they figured I was in my late teens. Well, it did, as I ran into a boy my age that I felt I knew, but before I could fully recover those memories, we found ourselves being chased into a portal that led to the other side of the universe.

Home-schooled and under the stifling grip of an overprotective father, Talia Fielding’s life is pretty miserable. Playing her beloved ukulele and writing songs is as close as she comes to having fun. But that all changes on the night of her 18th birthday. She’s invited to her first party, where she learns two things: Girls can be very, very mean, and Griffin Stanford kisses better than any fantasy she’s ever had.

Everything is riding on the races. As planned, I have entered the races to get back the map to Sanshli. Everything is riding on this and I cannot lose. Torn between my brother, Nygard, and Jack, I didn’t know who to trust. The more I thought about it, the more I wondered if Nygard had it right - maybe we were more powerful and deserved to rule. Only time would tell, and the winner of the races would be able to find Sanshli and end this once and for all.

Now it is time to figure out who I really am. A year has passed since we were all on Sanshli. My idiot brother decided to pull out the sword and now we were stuck in the past, all in new bodies. Like my life wasn’t complicated enough. But now it was going to get even more complicated. Time was running out and I had to finish my mission: Destroy Nygard once and for all. I knew I would be on my own for this one, as I was the only one who I could trust. And there was always Jack, but I still didn’t know where he was. Hopefully it would all make sense soon.

Eleven Years ago, my life was ripped away from me. My father, my brother, my humanity. Everything. I was thrown into the Kamps, created to become a mindless machine. But I fought against it, not letting them take away my memories of the past. And I succeeded. It has been seven years since I was taken out of the Kamps and made into the Emperor's Shadow. Now I only take orders from him, and him alone, without question. That is, until my brother, whom I thought was dead, shows up and kidnaps me in order to help him find some long lost planet that our father used to tell stories about.

Todos pensamos que mientras dormimos nuestro cerebro está en “stand by“ pero en realidad, no descansa sino que en ese plano subconsciente tiene una actividad diferente a la que tiene durante el día. El conocimiento de esa actividad subconsciente es algo que se escapa en muchas ocasiones a la ciencia, porque en definitiva ¿quién no ha tenido un sueño que después se ha cumplido? ¿Y cómo puede la ciencia explicarlo?

Thunder boomed. The storm came up quickly, pushing the dead to the surface. The fish people rode it in. A raft for Vict to carry him into the mountains. He looked back on the house he shared with his mother for the last time. He was needed in the mountains.

This is a deeply personal story of growing up within evangelical Christianity, and questioning its guidance on premarital sex. Now updated with a new preface by the author! Dani Fankhauser was 26, in a new city, and a virgin who’d never had a boyfriend. Her trust that God would bring her a perfect partner, as the Christian self-help books had promised, was fading. She worried she would never find love if she continued on the same path.

Was she his red raven or just another cheechako, a tenderfoot from the outside world looking for excitement, or a news story in his remote Alaskan village? Rocky didn't know but was intrigued by the sassy yet compassionate young woman, stranded thousands of miles from her home with no luggage, little money, and no place to stay.

Ever since Sage walked into church the first Sunday I was delivering my sermon, I knew I was in trouble. When I laid eyes on her, I was hooked. It is forbidden. I shouldn’t WANT her. But I do. I can’t deny it. My mind is no longer on my sermons. Every moment I spend working on the good, righteous topics I’d like to teach my congregation, all I can think of is teaching Sage how to take all of me.

1997年亚洲金融危机重创了大多数东亚新兴经济体，IMF和世界银行等国际组织“献计献策”，为接受援助的经济体开出统一的“政策处方”，结果却事与愿违……1997年亞洲金融危機重創了大多數東亞新興經濟體，IMF和世界銀行等國際組織「獻計獻策」，為接受援助的經濟體開出統一的「政策處方」，結果卻事與願違……

I dance to forget, but I always remember. I taunt and tease, it's why they're here. The spotlights, the sleek silver pole. The stage is mine, I own the crowd. Until he walked in. Dark eyes pierce me. A devilish smirk scorches me. Memories brand me. One night was all I gave him. One night wasn't what he wanted.

This Love is an emotional family drama for fans of Jojo Moyes and Dorothy Koomson, from the best-selling author of Fractured. Sophie stopped believing in happy endings a long time ago, but could this love change all of that? Sophie Winter lives in a self-imposed cocoon - she's a single 31-year-old translator who works from home in her one-bedroom flat. This isn't really the life she dreamed of, but then Sophie stopped believing in dreams when she was a teenager and tragedy struck her family.