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Eine mysteriöse Gabe. Eine verborgene Akademie. Ein gottgleicher Mitschüler. Maddison James hat an Silvester immer zwei Dinge getan: ein Jahr älter werden und ihre Haarfarbe ändern. An ihrem 22. Geburtstag wird ihr Leben jäh unterbrochen, als ihr eine mysteriöse Frau erklärt, dass sie ein übernatürliches Wesen ist. Mehr noch, sie soll gewaltiges Potenzial besitzen und wird kurzerhand auf eine magische Akademie entführt. Dort weiß nur leider niemand, zu welcher Gattung sie gehört: Vampire, Gestaltwandler, Fey oder Magiewirkende.

Michael Gallo tiene una vocación: la lucha de artes marciales mixtas, y, aunque trabaja en Tatuado, la tienda de tatuajes de su familia, donde se encarga de los piercings, se pasa las mañanas entrenando para alcanzar su sueño de ser el campeón de su categoría. Michael está centrado en su objetivo cuando un encuentro casual altera su existencia para siempre. A partir de entonces, ganar el campeonato ya no será suficiente para él: debe conquistar también a la mujer de sus sueños.

"Sei ganz ehrlich: Wenn du dich nicht zwischen uns entscheiden müsstest, würdest du es dennoch tun?" Der Deal ist simpel: Ein Jahr lang soll die 19-jährige Cecelia zu ihrem entfremdeten Vater nach Triple Falls ziehen und in dessen Fabrik arbeiten, im Gegenzug erhält sie Zugang zu seinem Vermögen. Angewiesen auf das Geld, um ihrer kranken Mutter helfen zu können, willigt Cecelia ein – nichts ahnend, dass sie als Tochter des Chefs dort nicht den einfachsten Start haben wird. Doch das ändert sich, als sie Sean kennenlernt.

Spirits and secrets spin out of control during a séance at the turn of the century.

Dorothy Murphy, magische Tierärztin aus dem verträumten Hexendörfchen Snickerford, will eigentlich nur eines: Endlich aus dem Schatten ihrer identisch gekleideten Drillingsschwestern treten und sich selbst finden. Als sie eine scheinbar herrenlose Katze mit einem Adressanhänger findet, führt dieser sie ins Katzencafé von Canterbury – betrieben vom brummigen und widerwillig charmanten Elliott, der das Café samt Schuldenberg von seiner abgehauenen Ex geerbt hat. Kaum hat Dorothy das Kätzchen dort für eine Stunde untergebracht, wird Elliott gebissen ...

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences of a psychologically harrowing childhood as she seeks refuge from the past and recovers what was lost.

First published by Noble Press in 1992, then reprinted and revised by Lantern in 2005 and 2012, this 30th anniversary edition is revised, expanded, newly typeset, updated, and has a new foreword. It’s the story of Valerie, a 23-year-old police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland, whose world is turned upside down when she learns about the abuses of animals in laboratories.

The sequel to Liz Hurley's "A New Life for Ariana Byrne" and second in the Wiverton Sisters series, perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Phillipa Ashley and Milly Johnson. Ever since the Byrne sisters - Ariana, Aster, Clem, Paddy and Nic - discovered they were heiresses to the vast Hiverton fortune, their lives have never been the same. No longer living in poverty in London, they now own an estate in Norfolk, a castle in Scotland and a picturesque village in Cornwall.

Begleitet die "Weise aus dem Feengarten" durch 16 Märchen, die von Mut, Freundschaft, Liebe und der Überwindung von Hindernissen erzählen. Hier verwandeln sich Jungen zu Mäusen und stellen sich mutig Zauberern gegenüber, Mädchen erlösen verwunschene Schlösser, Drachenmädchen retten Dörfer, Drachen werden zu Jungen, Mädchen heilen die Herzen ihrer Eltern.

Der Glückskater findet nach Hause und Patrizia freut sich mit Alexander und Anita über einen Arbeitstag, der endet, wie das Schicksal es vorherbestimmt hat. Ein Hoch auf Vincent den Wunderbaren.

The truth is you can get anything you want, but first what you ultimately need is a new way of goal setting that will guide you to work toward success in flow and harmony. It's about setting goals that align with our business ambitions and our personal growth needs. Just like yin and yang, we need both elements to create harmony in life. This book is for you: ambitious woman who wants to become successful, but you want to do it the right way.

Bob Hope's monologue for The Pepsodent Show was the result of his hiring from his own pocket - he had an extravagant salary from the sponsor - of a team of eight writers to write top-notch jokes and skits. His comic timing turned him into a sensation. The show was so popular that it had its pick of the best of show business stars. Everyone wanted in. Now it's time to cut the talk and get ready for laughs. It’s time for Bob Hope and his guests.

„Die einzige Liebe, die ich je gekannt habe, ist die, die mich krank macht – krank vor Sehnsucht, vor Lust, vor Kummer. Die Art von Liebe, die Narben und gebrochene Herzen hinterlässt.” Trotz der enormen Anziehung steht die Beziehung zwischen Tobias und Cecelia auf unstetem Grund. Tobias tut sich schwer damit Nähe zuzulassen, Cecelia kämpft wiederum damit, Tobias nach allem, was passiert ist, zu vertrauen. Was sie nicht weiß: Tobias hat gute Gründe für sein Verhalten und diese liegen weit in der Vergangenheit verborgen.

Remember the '70s? Way back then, IT was a mainframe that sat in some room and only a few people had a key. Flash forward a decade, and IT was a limited set of systems irrelevant to the vast majority of employees and customers. But today, all of the sudden, technology belongs to everyone. Because of the suddenness of this revolution in technology adoption, most IT organizations have not had enough time to evolve into a "comfortable integration" with the rest of the company.

Deep in the heart of an Australian forest, where golden sunlight filters through the trees, lives Renny, a regent honeyeater with feathers as dazzling as the morning sun. But Renny has a problem—he cannot sing. All the other birds have their own beautiful songs. The bellbirds chime like tiny silver bells, the kookaburras fill the air with laughter, and the wise old lyrebird can copy any sound he hears. But no matter how hard Renny tries, his song is missing.

This uplifting debut novel from Cornwall based writer, Liz Hurley, is sure to put a smile on your face. Ariana Byrne knows how to survive. After becoming a guardian to her four little sisters after their parents died when she was only eighteen, she had to grow up quickly. Now shes in her twenties, stuck in a loveless marriage to Greg, trying to make ends meet for her young twins, William and Leo.

One of the best demonstrations of loving ourselves is the action of completing things we tell ourselves we will. We all love to get to the end—the completing of a project, the submitting of a proposal, our email in-box, cleaning out the garage, etc.

Clementine’s swapped a London flat for a Scottish castle - but will she get her fairytale ending? After discovering they had inherited an enormous fortune, as well as the titles of 'Lady’, the lives of the five Hiverton sisters have never been the same. While oldest sister Ariana settles in Norfolk, fashion designer Clementine heads to the Scottish Highlands to investigate their newly inherited castle. Not bad for a girl brought up in poverty in a tiny house in East London.

One phone call will change everything and have Rachael running toward the very place Sara had been so desperate to escape. Colin Fulton was happy to live his life in the small town of Victory. That was, until Rachael came barreling into his town, bringing with her someone that he thought he would never see again. With the past haunting them, and the future uncertain, will they learn to trust again and find love and happiness? Or will the memories of the past be too much to overcome?

Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranean that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan's masterly fifth novel, Monument Maker, an epic romance of eternal summer and a descent, into history, into the horrors of the past; a novel with a sweep and range that runs from the siege of Khartoum and the conquest of Africa in the 19th century through the Second World War and up to the present day.