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Kelly Frost, a textiles conservator, is invited to the Massachusetts coastal city of New Bedford to restore a 150-year-old Mariner's Compass quilt. But there is one stipulation: she must live and work in Gray House, a former whaling captain's home, where the quilt is stored. There she meets Army veteran Tom Pereira, the caretaker of Gray House, whose heart seems as hard as the rocky Massachusetts coastline.

He bought her with cold, hard cash, but can she stop him from stealing her heart? Blackmailed to marry against his will, Ricardo Almanza needs a wife before he's 30, and time is running out. A notorious playboy, marriage is the last thing he wants, but his stepmother's sexy, debt-ridden personal assistant is the perfect solution. He makes her a business deal she can't refuse--one million euros for three months as his wife. He might even enjoy being married to her...if she doesn't kick the crap out of him again.

Lisey's Story, Stephen King's most personal and powerful novel, explores wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. In this special event, recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City, King is interviewed by Irish novelist John Connolly. Maria Tucci reads a selection from Lisey's Story.

Maria Bamford is back and subjectively better than ever! Weakness is her brand, so get ready to feel much better about yourself. This Lady Dynamite explodes onstage (after two naps with her husband Scott and two old, pillowy dogs). Let her be the poor example from which your greatness can be determined.

The crown now sits atop Eleira's head. With her new powers as queen, she can begin the healing process to reunite the Haven's ailing vampires. But a deep betrayal from one close to her heart has undermined all sense of safety. Morgan's lingering spirit continues to overshadow Eleira's rule. Elsewhere, the forsaken sisters have received the blood gift. But their maker was not the promised one, and the consequences will cast lasting effects on everything that is yet to come. Meanwhile, a new threat lurks beneath the Haven. An army, grown there for centuries, is now ready to strike.

Che cosa fa una ragazza ingenua, ambiziosa, che non si rassegna a sistemarsi con un matrimonio qualunque? che vuole evadere dal meschino mondo della provincia che ragiona per pregiudizi e condanna senza appelli una donna sulla base del sentito dire?

En Coreografía del caos María Luz Pilheu, psicóloga y astróloga, nos cuenta que nunca nos cruzamos con nadie por casualidad. Algunas personas llegan a nuestra vida a destrabar nuestro lado B y otras a conectarnos con nuestra alegría y con el deseo, para así poder conocernos un poco más a nosotros mismos.

And She Was Never the Same Again is about you. It is about your family and your friends, everyone you've ever met, and all the strangers you have yet to meet. It takes you on a journey of gains and losses that stretch generations, cultures, identities, and decades of time. It awakens you to the inevitable and makes you look at things most people want to avoid seeing. It explores near-death experiences; medical, individual, and intergenerational trauma; the stigmatized death of a partner; perfectionism; athletics.

Three cozy mysteries from international best-selling author Susan Harper: Murder at the Museum, A Deadly Reunion, and The Final Piece.

This memoir lays bare Byrne’s integral involvement in the “Russian Collusion Delusion” and the Clinton Investigation, exposing them as deceptive maneuvers orchestrated on an unsuspecting public. As the story unfolds, Byrne becomes a national lightning rod, branded the “kingpin” by PBS in 2021 and identified as the Department of Homeland Security’s top domestic threat in August 2022.

Falls du dich je gefragt hast, warum Squibs niemals einen Platz in Hogwarts erhalten, was eigentlich passiert ist, als Vernon Dursley und James Potter sich das erste Mal getroffen haben, oder wie die lebenslange Freundschaft zwischen Dumbledore und McGonagall entstanden ist, dann sollte Aus dem Zaubererarchiv ganz oben auf deiner Wunschliste stehen! Es enthält 80 Artikel, die J.K. Rowling für die Original-Pottermore-Website geschrieben hat. Nur bei Audible sind diese jetzt erstmalig als Hörbuch verfügbar. Ein wahres Fest für die Harry Potter-Fangemeinde!

Lula Mortiz may be a bruja with healing powers, but after her family's battle in Los Lagos, she feels broken in a way she can't seem to fix. Then tragedy strikes when a bus crash leaves her friends and her boyfriend, Maks, dead. Desperate to reclaim normalcy, Lula invokes a dark spell to bring Maks back. It isn't until she hears that all of the bodies from the crash have gone missing that she realizes something is wrong. Lula has unwittingly raised an army of casi muertos - creatures between the living and dead - and they're hungry for freedom...which they can only achieve if Lula dies.

En reveladoras conversaciones con Sofía Vergara, Ismael Cala, y Emilio Estefan entre muchos otros y recordando anécdotas que incluyen a personalidades como Cristina Saralegui, Oprah Winfrey, y Jennifer Lopez, Luz María Doria recorre el camino que la llevó a conquistar el éxito. Todos soñamos con triunfar, con lograr lo que nos proponemos. No importa la edad: siempre pensamos en esas versión mejorada de nosotros mismos que queremos ser. En La mujer de mis sueños, verás que sí es posible lograrlo: con fe, sin miedo y con muchos consejos.

In this much-needed audiobook, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of us special and the ways in which we can become a force for good in a broken world.

Eleanor convive con la prosopagnosia, l'incapacità di riconoscere i volti delle persone. Un disturbo che causa stress, ansia acuta, e può farti dubitare di ciò che pensi di sapere. Una sera la ragazza si reca a casa della nonna Vivianne per la consueta cena domenicale. Ad accoglierla sull'uscio non trova però la nonna, ma una persona cui non riesce a dare un nome, che scappa via per le scale. Dentro casa, la nonna è distesa sul tappeto accanto a un paio di forbici con le lame spalancate. Nella stanza, odore di ferro e carne.

When DaVinci's younger sister Kahlo visits the Bahamas with friends, Kahlo thinks her host Jules Khan is a grumpy misanthrope. But when he offers her the chance to visit her idol the painter Maxfield Parrish in the past, Kahlo jumps at the opportunity, despite threats from Jules’s murderously jealous girlfriend. Soon Jules and Kahlo are obliged to join forces on a trip gone awry, and Kahlo begins to see Jules as someone capable of helping her become her best self—as long as Jules’s girlfriend doesn’t kill her first.

La destrucción requiere paciencia, pero el derrumbamiento llega siempre de forma inesperada. Una niña de nueve años espera ilusionada el momento más importante de su vida: su comunión. Tal vez entonces todo cambiará. Al barrio barcelonés del Carmelo, donde vive, llegará el metro.

Hope Harper has spent four years working her way up on the Caribbean Honey cruise ship and is finally sure a promotion is coming her way. When she gets passed over again, and for a pretentious young man with less experience, she could just...well, you know. When a cruise guest is killed, she is thrown in the middle of a murder mystery on the high seas. Then there’s a deadly beach party and a lethal bidding war at a charity auction. Can she put her feelings aside and solve these mysteries, or will the criminals get the best of her and the crew?

After breaking the 100m world record, 16-year-old Calli is whisked away to a secret facility where she's placed with other teens who possess superhuman speed. She soon finds herself in a deadly situation involving other superpowers, a magical diamond, and a centuries-old clan vying for world domination. Calli will have to rely on her quick wit and gut instinct to navigate her new world, which includes secretly carrying a power-infusing diamond, all the while steering clear of the young man who mistakenly believes she's his soul mate.

From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans think of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and publishing activists. Messengers of the Right tells the story of the little-known first generation. Beginning in the late 1940s, activists working in media not only started an array of enterprises - publishing houses, radio programs, magazines, book clubs, television shows - they also built the American conservative movement.