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Summer is ending, fall is here, and as antique season heats up, Emma find her B&B finally busy. But that is not the only thing heating up: her antique dealer boyfriend has gotten serious. Very serious. And it may just be time for Emma to make some major life decisions.

After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ 40-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking for was down a road less traveled. In this bold, graphic memoir, she explores her sexuality, her values, and the versions of love our society accepts and practices.

From the wrong side of the tracks and with most of her family in jail or dead, Piper Walsh is used to everyone in town thinking the worst about her. It doesn't seem to matter that she's worked hard to build a good life for herself. So she isn't surprised that when she comes into contact with Sweet Hill's wildly irresistible, arrogant sheriff, Hale Walters, they're instant adversaries. Piper has nothing in common with the town golden-boy-turned-lawman - and she refuses to be a notch on his bedpost.

Fans of Samantha Young, Jodi Ellen Malpas, Jamie McGuire, Katy Evans and Prison Break will find this powerful love story utterly addictive and unforgettable. Can true love heal the deepest scars? Wes Carter: Dangerous, brooding and behind bars, Carter's emotional scars are as permanent as the ink on his skin. Kat Lane: Vibrant and gutsy, Kat chooses to become a prison tutor in tribute to her father whose murder haunts her.

Months after her boyfriend dumped her, Georgia can still hear the insults he hurled at her. Boring. Predictable. Tame. Tired of feeling bad, she's ready to change her image and go a little wild. What better way to prove her ex wrong than a hot night of adventure at the secret campus kink club? In the shadowy den of the club, she unexpectedly runs into Logan Mulvaney, her friend's little brother. A player extraordinaire too hot for his own good, he may be younger, but the guy is light-years ahead when it comes to the opposite sex.

2020 began with fire storms raging through the country, followed by floods and then a global pandemic that has changed how Australians think, feel and live. We all experienced this year differently, but one thing rings true for all us: this is a year we won't forget. This anthology brings together original work from a diverse collection of Australian voices, from writers to scientists, journalists to historians, all expressing what 2020 meant to them.

Deux ans se sont écoulés depuis qu'Arhylia, princesse Fae héritière de l'ancien royaume de Dorianthe, a été capturée par le souverain du royaume voisin, Oryn de Minorthryl. Autrefois reconnue pour sa maîtrise rare de la magie, Arhylia est aujourd'hui réduite à l'impuissance, soumise aux abus du meurtrier de ses parents. À la frontière de Minorthryl, Barhan, un jeune Fae rongé par la culpabilité, tente de s'infiltrer dans le royaume sans attirer l'attention des gardes.

For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the environment – for good and for bad. Nature’s Ghosts examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last ice age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries.

Emilia und Livia sind endlich glücklich miteinander. Sie haben einen Weg mit ihren Erkrankungen gefunden und alles scheint perfekt zu sein. Doch dann wird Emilia Patin der vierzehnjährigen Mira und spürt sofort, dass diese eine Geheimnis hat. Emilia kämpft mit den Erinnerungen, will aber dennoch für Mira da sein. Livia macht sich immer mehr Sorgen um ihre Freundin, doch Emilia beteuert, dass alles gut ist. Dass sie immer weiter abrutscht, verdrängt sie und konzentriert sich immer stärker auf Mira. Nun kämpft auch Livia mit ihrer Vergangenheit.

Fühlst du dich in deiner Partnerschaft manchmal unverstanden, missverstanden oder emotional distanziert? Sehnst du dich nach echter Nähe, Vertrauen und einer Kommunikation, die verbindet statt trennt? „Liebevoll kommunizieren – Nähe schaffen in der Partnerschaft“ ist dein einfühlsamer und praxisnaher Begleiter, der dir zeigt, wie du mit emotionaler Klarheit und gewaltfreier Kommunikation eine tiefere Verbindung zu deinem Partner aufbauen kannst.

En aften, hvor hun er i byen med sine veninder, snubler hun og mister bevidstheden. Da hun vågner op på hospitalet, er hendes sidste minde stadig byturen. Men det viser sig, at hun siden hen har været ude for et trafikuheld. Tre år er forsvundet fuldstændig fra hendes hukommelse. Nu begynder arbejdet med at rekonstruere de forgangne tre år: Hvad har fået hende til at holde af fitnesscentret og kulhydratfattig kost, når hun plejer at foretrække sin sofa og toast med smør?

Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pug who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, and her mischievous cat sister, Lara, who runs away from her family, seeking a courageous adventure and different life.

Fourteen years ago, scientist William Fox implanted four babies with the Medusa gene, a gene for psychic abilities. But Fox died and the babies were hidden away for years. Now they’re teenagers and unaware that their psychic powers are about to kick in. Cocky, charismatic Nico thinks his emerging telekinetic abilities will bring him money, power and the girl of his dreams. He’s about to find out how wrong he is.

Seventeen years ago an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok's lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna's survival depends on the world believing she is dead.

Agatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved her astonishing success. HRF Keating, a crime novelist and respected reviewer of crime fiction, brought together a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this double mystery.

When Raven Ferragamo finds a stranger’s diary, she has no idea it will catapult her into the mystery of diamond heiress Lark Kingsley’s disappearance. But Raven soon learns that Lark knew what was coming, and there was much more to her disappearance than the news headlines show. The more she discovers, the more Raven realizes that she and the girl born into Manhattan society aren’t so different after all. Now Raven can’t walk away from Lark’s pleas for help. But the deeper she goes, the more Raven realizes that she may end up ensnared in the dark secrets she seeks to unearth....

The labyrinth is a death sentence. And I’m trapped inside with a monster. I’m being imprisoned for a crime I didn’t commit. My sentence is brief—only three months—but it doesn’t matter. No one gets out of the labyrinth alive.

When 13-year-old Olia steps through a magical doorway, she discovers another land. A land tangled by magic, where hope is lost and a scheming wizard holds all the power. Soon Olia learns that she is destined to save this land, but with time running out and her new friends and family in danger, she must search for the magic within herself—to save everything and everyone she loves.

In the title story, an engaged couple working in distant corners of the galaxy plan to arrive on Earth simultaneously and walk down the aisle together. But small incidents wreak havoc on their vast journeys, pushing the date of their wedding far into the future. As centuries pass on Earth and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. Through two pairs of interlinked stories stories, Kim explores the driving forces of humanity - love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence.

Sophie Green is the bestselling author of The Bellbird River Country Choir (2022), Thursdays at Orange Blossom House (2021), The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle (2019) and The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club (2017). She also works in publishing and for the last decade or so she's also been interviewing Australian country music artists at her website Sunburnt Country Music. Sophie knows that songwriters and authors have some things in common, and some things that are different, but each of them has fascinating insights into the process and craft of writing and storytelling....