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The job I've dreamed of at the Supernatural Ambassador Institute awaits me...if I can stay alive long enough to claim it. An unknown darkness is slithering through my veins, poisoning me with its deadly venom. Still, I’m determined to fight—to claw my way on shredded nails to survive. I can see Wyatt’s desperation to help.

I’m still recovering from the chaos of the Trials, but there’s no time to fall behind. Strange things are afoot at the Academy of Unpredictable Magic, and somehow, I’ve found myself in the middle of it all again. On top of that, even as I start to fall harder for the four men who have worked their way into my heart, an unexpected revelation threatens to upend everything between us. But Elliot Sinclair doesn’t go down without a fight.

When journalist Ella Franks is unmasked as a woman writing under a male pseudonym, she loses her job. But having risked everything to write, she refuses to be silenced and leaps at the chance to become a correspondent in war-torn France. Already entrenched in the thoroughly male arena of war reporting is feisty American photojournalist Danni Bradford. Together with her best friend and partner, Andy, she is determined to cover the events unfolding in Normandy. And to discover the whereabouts of Andy’s sister, who has followed a lover into the French Resistance.

An inspiring memoir about a courageous woman's survival and recovery from an adventure-induced trauma - and the power of her dreams to overcome tragedy and live life to the fullest. Her wilderness adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing more than 200 miles along California's John Muir Trail, Jean faces death from a mountaineering accident on Mount Whitney. Broken and bleeding on the highest peak in the continental United States, she vows to realize her greatest dreams if she lives until morning.

Feeling burned out, unmotivated, or stuck? The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook is here to help. This authoritative guide to ancient healing offers more than 100 daily and seasonal Ayurvedic rituals - each taking 10 minutes or less - to reconnect you with nature’s rhythms, and to unlock better health

The second my brothers ex-best friend tore off my clothes, I was obsessed. His ripped muscles, seductive smirk, and bad boy charm made my knees weak and everything else tingle ever since we were teenagers. I always dreamed I'd become the center of his world. I guess I should have been more specific about my wish.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, read by Sarah Jes Austell. The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion. It was a stolen book. At age 17 she was a dumpster-diving, shoplifting anarchist. By 29 she was the founder and CEO of Nasty Gal, a $100 million-plus fashion empire. Filled with brazen wake-up calls ("You are not a special snowflake"), frank observations ("Failure is your invention"), and behind-the-scenes stories....

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” This phrase was supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, and it became a defining expression of a turbulent time in American history. Throughout the 1970s, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color.

In a land sculpted by glaciers, the forest is on fire. Thick smoke chokes the mountain air and casts a twilight glow over the imposing mountains and vistas of Montana's Glacier National Park. When firefighters are called in to dig fuel line breaks near the small town bordering the park, a crew member is shocked to unearth a shallow grave containing human remains.

Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read is a fun collection of stories. It’s exactly like The Count of Monte Cristo apart from the many differences. Our lawyers have instructed us to warn you that listening to it may directly cause you to come down with every single disease you are worried about contracting. On the plus side, our nation’s beloved and heroic critics have had their say.

Ruby's singing career is on the verge of hitting the big time when her voice breaks. Fearing her career is over, she signs up for a retreat in Tenerife to recover. But an unexpected call from a stranger on a remote Scottish island takes her on a short trip to sort out some family business. It's time to go and see the grandfather she's never met. City girl Ruby knows she will be happy to leave the windswept beaches behind as quickly as she can, especially as a years-old family rift means she knows she won't be welcome at Teach Mhor.

Daphne adorait la façon dont son fiancé, Peter, racontait leur histoire : leur coup de foudre, leur retour dans sa ville natale au bord du lac. Jusqu'à ce qu'il ajoute un chapitre final inattendu : il était, en fait, amoureux de sa meilleure amie d'enfance, Petra. C'est ainsi que Daphne se retrouve en coloc avec Miles, l'ex de Petra, qui vient lui aussi de se faire larguer. Ils n'ont rien en commun, sauf un coeur brisé, une bonne dose de rancoeur et une idée folle : s'afficher en « couple » pour semer le trouble.

A rogue attack changed Tyson's life forever. Already frustrated at not being publicly acknowledged as the rightful heir to the Steel Pack, his anger grows when he's wounded in battle and left behind. Saved by vampires but unable to return to what's left of his family, he's wandered for years, plotting his revenge. The darkness inside him eats away at his soul as he plans how to get his revenge, reclaim his pack and find the mate he's been searching for since a chance encounter right before the attack.

Lily and her brother Rory have just moved into a new house after their family spent months renovating it. The formerly rundown, creepy old house is now totally transformed into a tech lover's dream. Rory has installed a smart device called Mastermind that can turn on lights, lock doors, and even open the windows, among other things. He and Lily love showing off what the Mastermind can do. But someone doesn't love the changes—the ghost of the girl who died in the house. She's angry—and ready for revenge.

With her beautiful flat in London, Alice appears to have it all. But beneath the surface, everything is unravelling: she needs money, and fast. Her boss Mina, the wife of a powerful MP, lives a life dripping with luxury – one Alice can only dream of. And she’s about to make Alice an offer she can’t refuse. When Alice agrees to loan Mina her flat for the night – she couldn’t possibly imagine what Mina is planning to use it for. And when she discovers the shocking truth, what starts as a simple favour spirals into a web of desire, secrets and deadly lies that could destroy them both.

Doreen Diller wants to be a movie star. But after 15 years of failed auditions, she’s yet to garner a single callback from a Hollywood producer. Determined to hit the big time before she turns 40, she pins her hopes on a job assisting soap opera heartthrob Tad Longmire. He could be the answer to her dreams—or the beginning of her nightmares. While filming a new TV series starring Tad, a stabbing death rocks the set. Unfortunately for Doreen, the role of murder suspect is finally one she appears ideally suited to play.

A Rescued from Ruin Collection: Volume Three includes three full-length novels. Anything but a Gentleman (Book Eight): Augusta Widmore must force her sister's ne'er-do-well betrothed to the altar, or her sister will bear the consequences. She needs leverage only one man can provide-Sebastian Reaver. When she invades his office demanding a fortune in markers, he exacts a price a spinster will never pay-become the notorious club owner's mistress. And when she calls his bluff, a fiery battle for surrender begins.

When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution.... Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless.

When Jill's husband discovers he can never have children, it tears a hole in their marriage that Jill doesn't know how to repair. Frustrated, she seeks comfort in her friends: fierce Leigh, with her high-powered career and doting family, and sweet, uncomplicated Wendy, who has a rock-solid marriage any woman would envy.

Painfully shy Jane Huxley is the furthest thing from a diamond of the first water. Bookish, bespectacled, and, well, plain, she never expected to befriend a dissolute charmer like Colin Lacey, much less agree to help him retrieve a lost family heirloom. Fortunately, he is nothing like his cold, rigid older brother. Unfortunately, he is not above deception if it means winning a wager. And that puts Jane in a most precarious position. For Harrison Lacey, the Duke of Blackmore, protecting his family honor is not a choice, it is a necessity.