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Laila finds herself caught between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate's suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge. Suddenly for Laila, it's 1969 again. She's only 17, and she's left her sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. She realizes her search to belong has led to tragedy.

When Maeve McKenna renounces her witch powers and accepts a low-key nurse practitioner position at a Virginia retirement community, the last thing she expects is a suicide her first day on the job. As the town's sexy sheriff, Paul Sutton, starts looking into the tragic death of his father's friend, Maeve can't help but get involved - with both the case and him.

Lady Arabella Trunkett's adventures continue as she seeks to rescue Rett after he's kidnapped in Moro. Bounty hunters, eager for the fortune offered by the Baron, spirit Rett off to the smuggling king's hidden compound. Belle and her friends sail Rett's airship, knowing he will never escape without their help once he's with the evil Baron, deep in the dangerous Nabu Rainforest. Lady Arabella soon faces a perilous journey filled with larger than life man-eating beasts.

When advertising executive Talia Quinton takes on the unwelcome job of promoting the country of Romania, she has no idea it will involve rescuing a real vampire and being thrust into a conflict among warring vampire factions in New York. She and her rescued vampire, Drake, must fight for their lives to protect their growing love for each other and escape capture in time to present Talia's campaign to the Romanians.

When Lady Arabella Trunkett's father, the High Lord Minister of Urbannia, is kidnapped, all clues point to the mysterious country of Gandiss, throwing the world into political upheaval. Arabella is convinced that the more sinister nation of Carabarras is actually to blame, urged on by a mad scientist seeking revenge. So, she sets out on a perilous airship journey across a variety of exotic locales to save him, and to halt the potential world war.

In 1968, a naive 19 year old Midwestern girl marries an older Pakistani man and moves to Lahore where she lives as a Muslim wife for almost two years. She did not realize that her new husband married her to gain American citizenship and return to the United States. Her life in Pakistan is adventure-filled: shopping bazaars, dancing girls, an Islamic red light district, historical Moghul architecture, and social turmoil.

Once a free spirit who refused to be tied down, Anna is a 40-something single mother trying to put her life together after a bitter divorce. She crosses paths with a 20-year-old neighbor who could not be more wrong for her - and her life suddenly has a new focus. She is drawn to his youth, his easy grace, and his freedom from the constraints that rule her existence. Though she resists temptation in every way she can, Anna is soon engaged in a reckless and obsessive affair. The consequences are life changing.

The adventure continues as Lady Arabella, Rett and friends chase after the evil Dr. Krakov in hopes they can stop his attack on Aereopolis. Faced with albino cannibal pygmies, snow monsters and angry mountain men, while fighting devastating storms against impossible odds, they are forced to use every possible resource to stay alive. Krakov escapes all attempts to thwart him and rains his deadly automatons on the capital city in a conflagration that will spread to the entire world.

Todos queremos encontrar el amor, mantener una relación o superar un fracaso amoroso, hemos escuchado muchas veces que el amor propio es importantísimo y que, sin amarnos primero a nosotros, no podemos amar a nadie más...pero nadie nos ha dicho cómo lograr que ese amor propio crezca, tampoco nos dicen cómo evitar que un amor a punto de fracasar sobreviva o cómo salirnos de un patrón de relaciones tóxicas.

Leidenschaft, Versuchung und Gefahr in der High Society Manhattans! Als Gabriel Noble schwer verletzt an Körper und Seele aus Afghanistan zurückkehrte, war der Milliardär Nick Baine der Einzige, der ihm eine neue Chance gab. In seinem Auftrag soll er das ehemalige Supermodel Evelyn Beckham beschützen. Doch die Mission wird zur größten Herausforderung seines Lebens, denn zum einen soll Evelyn nichts davon wissen und zum anderen verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Pflicht und Leidenschaft, je mehr Zeit er mit der faszinierenden jungen Frau verbringt. Spin-Off zur "100"-Trilogie.

Rimasta vedova, dopo la morte di un marito crudele, lady Emmalyn di Fallonmour è decisa a prendere il controllo del proprio destino, ma quell'indipendenza conquistata a caro prezzo è minacciata da un misterioso guerriero inviato dal re a proteggere il castello. Emmalyn è alla mercé di sir Cabal, un temibile cavaliere soprannominato Cuore Nero. Grande combattente, tormentato da un passato doloroso, Cabal è leale solo a sé stesso e al proprio sovrano.

Figlia del Re degli Assassini, Zahirah è stata addestrata per essere tanto letale quanto è bella. Quando entra furtivamente nell'accampamento deserto dell'esercito inglese, ha un unico obiettivo: uccidere re Riccardo Cuor di Leone per bandire i crociati dalla sua patria. Ma il suo piano fallisce e la consegna nelle mani del nemico, l'impetuoso Leone Nero, Sebastian di Montborne.

Lei è stata promessa a un altro... A un passo dall'altare, l'ereditiera Isabel de Lamere viene portata via senza sapere che l'artefice del rapimento altri non è che il mitico eroe della sua infanzia: Griffin, il Leone Bianco. Isabel si sente perduta ma al tempo stesso non può negare che Griffin popoli ancora i suoi sogni, risvegliando la passione nel suo cuore indifferente. Lui non è mai stato un eroe per nessuno. È un uomo solitario, dal carattere forte e determinato.

In Off Island, novelist Lara Tupper imagines Paul Gauguin - chasing new light, new color - ran away to a new island, a rugged outpost off the coast of Maine. There, Gauguin leaves behind some paintings and letters and maybe a child. A hundred years later, another Maine painter, Pete, finds himself torn between his muses: the sturdy, reliable Molly, and the unhappy, peripatetic Karla - who promises to take him to other, newer islands.

Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood presents a look back at four decades of the successful, spooky soap opera that made sympathetic vampire Barnabas Collins a pop-culture phenomenon and prompted the big-budget big-screen Warner Bros. revival starring longtime fan Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton, that premiered May 11, 2012. With the ongoing fascination for all things vampiric, this audiobook about the making of the new film and the history of the original series will be an enticing volume for new and old fans alike.

Lara Feigel's first novel, The Group, is a fiercely intelligent, revealing novel about a group of female friends turning 40. Who has children and who doesn't? Whose marriages are working, whose aren't and who has embarked on completely different models of sexuality and relationships? Who has managed to fulfil their promise, whose life has foundered and what do they think about it, either way?

DCI Michael Gilbert is called out to Sark - the world's first dark sky island - after bones are found on Derrible Bay. He is followed by journalist Jennifer Dorey, driven by a secret in her own past. The remains are decades old, but after a body is discovered Jennifer and Michael fear there may be a killer on the island. Together they follow a dark trail of bad blood and a conspiracy of silence. Everyone on the island is under suspicion. No one is what they seem. And the murderer could strike again at any time....

In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number of men and women exonerated from crimes that kept them behind bars for years - sometimes decades - and that devastate not only the exonerees but also their families, the crime victims who mistakenly identified them as perpetrators, the jurors who convicted them, and the prosecutors who realized too late that they helped convict an innocent person.

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Wer glaubt denn schon an Magie? Mel mit Sicherheit nicht! Das Leben als karottenköpfiger Teenager und Streberin ist schon schwer genug. Riesige Augen, Trolle, Feen und Kobolde gehören da nicht in ihre Zukunftsplanung. Mel möchte einfach nur normal sein, aber das ist schwierig, wenn man von einem Elf verfolgt wird und Frösche sich auf dem Schreibtisch neben den Hausaufgaben materialisieren. Was aber wirklich auf sie zu kommt, wird ihr erst an ihrem sechzehnten Geburtstag bewusst.