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The dashing heir of a New England shipping magnate, Barnabas Collins captures the heart of the exquisite, young Angelique amidst the sensual beauty of Martinique, her island home. But Angelique's brief happiness is doomed when Barnabas deserts her and becomes engaged to another. With this one betrayal, Barnabas unleashes an evil that will torment him for all time.

From the Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of A Boy Called Hope and The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair. Mabel has a suitcase full of worries - it turned up just after her dad disappeared and before her mum started dating Gavin. She worries about big things and little things and shoves them into her suitcase until it’s so full it might explode....

To lark is to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of course, of mudlarking, but there is also beachlarking, fieldlarking or even simply exploring your own home with fresh eyes. In this field guide, Lara teaches us how to lark for ourselves. There are charts, tips and lists throughout to help identify finds. From tide tables for mudlarkers to a flint guide for fieldlarkers, this book is richly informative. Like a journal, it invites you to interact - to make notes and record finds along the way.

Being a grown-up isn't easy. Whether you're graduating from college, starting a career, trying to gain financial independence, or dealing with the ups and downs of relationships, adulthood can be more than a little overwhelming. The truth is that being an adult is more than just paying your bills, buying groceries, or fixing a leaky faucet. It's also about developing healthy emotional skills when you are confronted with adult life challenges.

Creativity is a gift shared by all, yet most of us have been led to believe that if we are not starving artists, musicians, or writers, then creative thinking is not something we are capable of. This just isn't true and to prove it I've brought together some of the best methods to trigger and retain that creative spark within.

Ken Fisher questions authority. He challenges the conventional wisdom of investing, overturns glib theories with hard facts, and blows up complacent beliefs about money and markets. But the authority he challenges most of all is his own - because challenging yourself, Fisher says, is the key to successful investing.

A seemingly perfect world held an even more unlikely killer... Julie Keown had a great job, financial security, and a perfect husband who was attending Harvard Business School. But after Julie suddenly died, and doctors discovered she’d been poisoned with the main ingredient in antifreeze, her parents began to suspect that her husband, James, was not so perfect. This blow-by-blow account shows how investigators and state police unraveled James Keown’s chilling web of deceit.

In Amberlough City, out of the ashes of revolution, a traitor returns, a political campaign comes to a roaring head, and the people demand justice for crimes past. As a nation struggles to rebuild, who can escape retribution? Amnesty is a smart, decadent, heart-pounding conclusion to Lara Elena Donnelly’s widely praised glam spy trilogy that will have listeners enthralled until the very end.

Du spuerst, dass etwas nicht mehr stimmt. Nicht dramatisch. Nicht ploetzlich. Aber deutlich genug, um es nicht laenger zu uebergehen. Dein Glueck beginnt — mit dem naechsten Schritt ist kein Ratgeber. Es sagt dir nicht, was du tun sollst. Es erklaert dir nicht, wie Glueck funktioniert. Dieses Buch begleitet dich durch innere Klaerung, Reibung und Ausrichtung — mit Sprache, die trifft, nicht beruhigt. Es laedt dich ein, ehrlich hinzusehen: auf das, was dich traegt, und auf das, was dich bindet, obwohl es vertraut ist. Hier geht es nicht um Optimierung. Nicht um Motivation.

Hosted by Lara Portelli, award-winning author, menopause and divorce mentor, and midlife rebel with a mic, this show is raw, real, and radically honest. It’s for those who’ve hit 40+ and decided they’re done playing small, done people-pleasing, and done following the damn rules.On Midlife Unplugged, we rip off the masks and speak truth. From body changes to identity crises, breakups to reinventions, hot flashes to bold career pivots... nothing is off limits.We have bodacious, unapologetic, purpose-driven guests who are ready to share their story with unfiltered honesty. If you’ve ...

J'ai blessé la femme que j'aime, et maintenant elle n'est plus là. Avery Ross. Ma plus grande faiblesse. Mon obsession nous a réunis. Mes mensonges nous ont séparés. Maintenant, elle est plus forte que jamais. Mais je vois la douleur dans ses yeux. Durant 100 jours et 100 nuits, nous avions tout. Jusqu'à ce que je fasse tout voler en éclats. La vérité pourrait nous guérir tous les deux.

Historia de un reencuentro 38 años después

Por la autora de Romper el círculo. Colleen Hoover, un fenómeno imparable. Nunca me mintió. No rompió ninguna promesa, porque nunca me hizo ninguna. Cuando Tate Collins conoce al piloto Miles Archer, no cree que sea amor a primera vista. Ni siquiera irían tan lejos como para considerarse amigos. Lo único que Tate y Miles tienen en común es una innegable atracción mutua. Una vez que sus deseos salen a la luz, se dan cuenta de que tienen el acuerdo perfecto. Él no quiere amor, ella no tiene tiempo para el amor, así que solo queda el sexo.

How much would you risk to save one child? Leslie Matthews travels to India with her husband on a business trip, never expecting it will turn her life upside-down. During a trip to the zoo, she meets Raveena, an orphan desperate for someone to save her from a harrowing fate. Leslie tries to rescue Raveena from a sordid, exploitative underworld, but powerful and brutal men hold the girl and don’t intend to let anyone take her. Leslie tumbles into a terrifying underworld of systemic abuse she knows nothing about. But she won't stop until Raveena is safe, regardless of the cost.

Helicopter parent Kelly Birkby’s overactive imagination has her constantly on guard against threats to her young family - killer bees, the impending tsunami, roaming rabid dogs. But when her wallet is stolen and her beloved Southern California beach town becomes the target of an actual crime spree, she takes it upon herself to fight back by enlisting the most formidable force she knows: the moms of the town.

Twin sisters Kelsey and Michelle Maxfield look identical -- but they couldn't be more different. Kelsey is the captain of the dance team and loves her cute college boyfriend, Davis. Michelle is a free-spirited artist and flits from one guy to the next, the latest a soldier recently deployed to...

In Lara Parker's Wolf Moon Rising, when a portrait is lost that has maintained Quentin Collins' youthful appearance for over a century - and has also kept his werewolf curse at bay - Quentin begins to dread the full moon. Meanwhile David, the 16-year-old heir to the Collins fortune, has fallen in love with Jacqueline, a young girl living at the Old House who is the reincarnation of Angelique. David and Jacqueline are swept back in time to the prohibition era of the '20s, where David uncovers the dark secrets of the Collins family history.

In The Salem Branch, Barnabas Collins, the vampire hero of the series, has recently become a human again through the efforts of his devoted descendent, Dr. Julia Hoffman, and is living in current day Collinsport, Maine, trying to adjust to normal life. Although engaged to marry Dr. Hoffman, he falls in love with a mysterious woman named Antoinette who has bought the ruins of "the old house" on the Collins estate and is restoring it while living with a band of hippies in the woods.

“In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks,” said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative. The 15 stories of Animal Wife are each about girls and women who cross this threshold seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from their own minds.

Er gibt verlorenen Seelen eine zweite Chance – doch wer rettet ihn, wenn die Vergangenheit zurückkehrt? Falko Bruckner ist in ganz Deutschland bekannt für das, was wenige sonst können: Er versteht Hunde, die andere längst aufgegeben haben. Mit Geduld, Herz und einem feinen Gespür verwandelt er Angst in Vertrauen. Seine besondere Gabe ist kein Zufall – denn auch Falko trägt eine Geschichte in sich, die Narben hinterlassen hat. Missbrauch, Einsamkeit und Verrat – seine Kindheit war von Dunkelheit geprägt. Nur durch die Liebe zu den Tieren fand er den Weg ins Leben zurück.