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Fancy Jones, best-selling crime writer, discovers that someone is trying to kill her. When she is invited to lecture at a writers’ conference in the Derbyshire Dales, she leaps at the chance to leave London and hopefully escape the threat of her assassin. Events turn sour when a body is found floating in a lake at the conference venue, and bizarre things start happening to Fancy. Suspicion falls on the other delegates but has her stalker followed her?

Share a traditional tale and provide a stepping stone into the land of art and story. The seven folk tales in this colorful collection are well known and well loved, and each imparts an important lesson using humor, action, adventure and classic characters.

What would you do if you found a dragon on your doorstep? Or a crocodile in your closet? In this playful hide-and-seek book that gently introduces children to the animals that often scare them, best-selling Barefoot author and artist team Stella Blackstone and Debbie Harter have created another humorous and highly entertaining story that kids will love.

Ever since shape-shifter Elin escaped to Whidbey Island, danger has stalked her every move. Her human traits, combined with her unique supernatural gifts, make her a prized being to be possessed... or destroyed. It is only the passionate attraction she shares with were-hound Sean Black that gives her hope for her future - if she can elude the lethal predators who are hot on her scent. But Sean carries a secret that binds him to an enemy from the past and to a darker, deadlier force - a malignant evil that is hunting the women of Whidbey Island....

Stella Maddox is approaching forty. After sacrificing her career to become a stay-at-home mom, her marriage and life disintegrate. Birthdays don't bother her, but screaming kids, superficial friends, and grey hairs do. She compromises her spirit over and over, and finds herself slipping through the cracks as her family's lives take priority over her own.

She strikes up a friendship with her neighbor's college-age son, Tad.

In the Spanish-language edition of Walking through the Jungle, join a fearless young explorer as she encounters different animals and terrains of the world and makes it home for supper, safe, and sound. Recorded by the internationally renowned Los Angeles Children's Museum, this tale is ideal for Spanish language learning and fun!

My newlywed husband Adam did an incredible job with the wedding. Can you believe I landed a man who could plan everything? Well…he did make one mistake. He wanted a wedding band he knew I'd love, but he didn't agree to a fee ahead of time, and they'd already performed at the reception before he realized he was out of money! It was time for me to be super bride, and I headed to the dressing room to negotiate a fee and a payment plan. The band was very understanding…

She wasn't sure she could go through with the wedding. When she finally came to her senses, everyone was already on their way! Without a ride, the stress jumps into high gear. To make it worse, a sudden rainstorm gets in the way, too…and she's locked out! Thankfully a kind stranger stops and opens the car door. He'll get her where she needs to go... in this case making a pit stop first for some domination, bondage, and rough sex!

It was my wedding day, and everything should have been perfect, but I was clumsy and knocked the champagne pyramid over, breaking hundreds of dollars' worth of genuine crystal glasses. As if that wasn't enough, Stacey the caterer is ready to make me pay for it! I'm not just talking about money either because before she's done with me, I'll be blindfolded and dominated! I won't just be punished by Stacey either, but also by her boyfriend...

Carly is excited about her wedding. What bride doesn’t dream of tying the knot and really starting out on a new life with a wonderful husband? Everything would be just perfect if the best man didn’t know about her past as a sex slave submissive in the underground world of BDSM. He has plans of his own to make it a special day, plans that include his own domination of the bride and a rough and intense double penetration!

Libido's Best is a groundbreaking audio adaptation of the very best writing from Libido magazine. These provocative and sexually-charged stories explore the depth and variety of sexual desire from both the male and female perspective. In "Seeing the Botticelli", a female college student has a passionate encounter with an older guard in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. In "Ratatouille", a lawyer finds he is in competition with zucchinis and other vegetables for the affections of his sexually-adventurous dancer girlfriend. Seduced as she walks around the romantic city of Paris with a suave, European colleague, a woman on a business trip has a steamy encounter in a public restroom in "La Toillette".For Adults Only: Explicit language. Must be 18 years of age to purchase.

Being yourself can be such a bad idea. For 16-year-old Badi Hessamizadeh, life is a series of humiliations. After withdrawing from public school under mysterious circumstances, Badi enters Magnificat Academy. To make things "easier", his dad has even given him a new name: Bud Hess. Grappling with his Iranian-American identity, clinical depression, bullying, and a barely bottled rage, Bud is an outcast who copes by resorting to small revenges and covert acts of defiance, but the pressures of his home life and the unrequited affection of his new friend, Nikki, prime him for a more dangerous revolution.

Christie is getting married. That's it. Her life is set, and she'll be comfortable and tame forever. Though she's happy, she also has nagging regrets that she's never done anything crazy. Now, she's afraid she'll never have a chance. Her best friend and Maid of Honor realizes what's wrong, and on her wedding day Selina decides to give Christie what she wants, whether she likes it or not! Before long, Selina has Christie pinned, unable to stop the first lesbian sex that follows and unable to deny how much she wants it!

After her husband's tragic death, Leigh Kelly arrives on Whidbey Island determined to start over. Yet the tiny town of Chimney Rock is not as peaceful as it seems. Women have been disappearing, and Leigh can't shake the feeling that she's being watched . . . especially at night. Soon, she's experiencing visions she can't explain and fighting her attraction to a handsome stranger who seems to know her most intimate desires.

Three stories that explore the most evocative experience of summer - outdoor swimming. 'To Brixton Beach': A mysterious swimmer spends all day in the pool at Brockwell Lido. Written by Stella Duffy. Read by Adjoa Andoh. 'Lido Lover': An Englishwoman finds a kind of fulfilment on the Venetian Lido. Written by Michele Roberts. Read by Joanna Tope. 'The Horizon Pool': An unexpected swimming companion in the UK's northernmost outdoor pool - the Trinkie in Wick - may hold the key to recovery for a teenage boy. Written by Linda Cracknell. Read by Finn den Hertog.

Midsummer Madness follows the fortunes of talented actress Sophie Gresham as she struggles with the secret she is desperate to hide from her theatre company. Sophie is shocked when she realises that Joe Harrison, their tough guest producer from New York, is in fact the penniless actor she once helped out in the days when she had more heart than sense.

This city-based series of outstanding erotic stories moves on to Dublin, the birthplace of Guinness, James Joyce, and so much more. Here's a glittering array of tales guaranteed to titillate, shock, and delight as listenersjourney across the Liffey and the streets of the Irish capital. Brand new stories from authors Ken Bruen, Sean Black, Colin Bateman, Stella Duffy, Shelley Silas, Nikki Magennis, and many others are collected here to celebrate and eroticise Dublin.

Summer Price ist wegen ihres absoluten Gehörs als Klavier-Wunderkind bekannt und steht kurz vor der Aufnahme ins New York-Orchestra. Niemand ahnt, dass sie heimlich Melodien für die Songs ihres Zwillingsbruders Xander schreibt, einen skandalumwitterten DJ. Eher unfreiwillig begleitet sie ihn auf das Beat-it-up-Festival. Doch nicht nur der Lärm und Trubel machen Summer zu schaffen, auch Xanders stärkster Konkurrent Gabriel wirbelt mit seinem Charme und seiner Unverschämtheit ihr Leben gehörig durcheinander. Gegen jede Wahrscheinlichkeit kommen sich die beiden näher - doch kann Summer Gabriel wirklich trauen?

Den velskrevne romanserie Drømmeverden inviterer læserne med ind i en forførisk verden, hvis aura afføder ekstraordinære sensuelle bekendtskaber. Oplev kærlighedshistorier med enestående erotisk magi, der strækker sig fra det vidunderlige Bretagne, syndige Venedig, flippede Wien, det på alle måder charmerende Alsace og helt til det ophidsende Washington. "Florence havde næsten glemt, hvor smukt der var i Alsace. Med lysende øjne så den unge kvinde med det lange lyse hår ud over det underfulde landskab med de blide grønne bakker og de frodige vinmarker, som lå langs med landevejen.

Den velskrevne romanserie Drømmeverden inviterer læserne med ind i en forførisk verden, hvis aura afføder ekstraordinære sensuelle bekendtskaber. Oplev kærlighedshistorier med enestående erotisk magi, der strækker sig fra det vidunderlige Bretagne, syndige Venedig, flippede Wien, det på alle måder charmerende Alsace og helt til det ophidsende Washington. "Viviane trak vejret dybt og slukkede tv’et. Kærlighedsfilmen, der havde fortryllet hende i to timer, var slut. Desværre! Hun havde fordybet sig i handlingen, lidt med heltinden og glædet sig over hendes lykke til sidst.