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Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have accompanied her dear friend Ivy Brandon on a trip to Pompeii. When they uncover a corpse and the police dismiss the murder as the work of local gangsters, Emily launches an investigation of her own. She seems to be aided by the archaeologists excavating the ruins, including a moody painter, the enigmatic site director, and a free-thinking American capable of sparring with even the Duke of Bainbridge. But each of them has secrets hiding among the ruins.

Raw, real, and relatable, this book is your guide to navigating life's fires. Bianca Olthoff is here to show that our struggles and hardships may be the fire that refines us instead of destroys us, brings us hope instead of despair, and leads us right into the arms of a God who loves us. Play...

Elizabeth thought she'd planned for everything. Her son's seizure disorder meant constant routines, strict safeguards, unbreakable structure. But one brief stop at a gas station shatters her fragile world. In a heartbeat, her car is hijacked—with Timothy still inside. She throws herself into the moving car, but that's only the beginning of the nightmare. As hours stretch into days, they're held captive in a remote house—cut off from everyone. No phone. No medication. Elizabeth must keep her son alive while navigating the mind of the man holding them captive, and her own spiraling fear.

Worn down by the loss of her husband and bills she can't keep up with, Cynthia agrees to homeschool two teenage girls. One is a sweetheart. The other unsettles her. At first, she blames her unease on nerves, on guilt, on the pressure of raising her young daughter alone. But something about the second girl isn't right. The way she watches. The stories that don't add up. The way even the dog keeps his distance. Then a man from the past reappears—someone with ties to terrible things. And suddenly, Cynthia's fragile home doesn't feel safe anymore.

While war and revolution continue to ravage Europe, Dorothy Peto embraces her new role at Scotland Yard as she and several detectives investigate a series of jewel thefts. Then Dorothy is tasked with assisting the inscrutable Inspector Derwent and the charming Colonel Cartier to find a missing French aristocrat. Their enquiries take them to a country house in Yorkshire, that’s been converted to a hospital for wounded soldiers and was the last place the Frenchman visited. However, the more questions they ask, the more questions they have.

Inspired by the remarkable life of Dorothy Peto, the Metropolitan Police’s first female superintendent. In 1914, the idea of a female police officer is dismissed as absurd, but to a small group of determined women, not impossible.

To avenge his mother's mistreatment at the hands of her upper-crust employer, self-made real estate tycoon Marcus Pearson needs entree into their exclusive world. When DC socialite Pamela Harrington comes to him for help, Marcus realizes the golden admission ticket he's been seeking has suddenly fallen into his lap.

Born during the Cuban revolution in 1959, Yocandra learns that for a woman to survive in the world of communist machismo, she must use all her assets - her body, her wits, and most importantly, her ability to transform disillusionment into wonder.

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved...

Across cultures and time, human beings have always moved through four essential seasons: beginnings, emotions, challenges, and responsibility. These aren’t abstract ideas. They’re the lived realities that shape every decision, every relationship, every failure, and every breakthrough.

London, 1814. Octavius Everard, der Duke of Excess, gibt sich jeder denkbaren Ausschweifung hin, um den Schmerz zu betäuben, der ihn – besonders zu Weihnachten – quält. Lady Temperance ist auf der Flucht. Sie muss sich verstecken. Bis sie volljährig wird. Denn ihre Stiefmutter droht ihr mit einer Zwangsheirat. Oder der Irrenanstalt. In ihrer neuen Position fühlt sie sich endlich sicher. Doch während sie den Kindern die Wunder der Wissenschaft zeigt und dem Duke die Magie der Weihnachtszeit, erwacht in ihr eine Sehnsucht.

Die Wechseljahre-Beraterin Ellen Cornely-Peeters nimmt uns mit an den Start in eine spannende zweite Lebenshälfte, erklärt mit Augenzwinkern, was körperlich und seelisch in uns vorgeht, und macht nicht zuletzt viel Mut. Die Wechseljahre sind nicht nur die Zeit möglicher Hitzewallungen und Gefühlsausbrüche, sondern auch und vor allem die Zeit, eigene Wünsche und Bedürfnisse zu erkennen und anzuerkennen. Die Zeit, bisher unerfüllte Lebensträume Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK “Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably a...

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved...

Ich habe ein Geheimnis. Ich habe ein Herz gestohlen, oder besser gesagt einen Ehevertrag. Ich durfte beides nicht besitzen, anschauen oder auch nur in Erwägung ziehen. Aber es war zum Greifen nah, also habe ich es genommen. Ein großer Fehler. Ronan Astor ist ein Adliger in dieser Welt. Ein arroganter Spieler. Ein herzloser Bastard. Ein teuflischer Prinz. Jetzt ist er darauf aus, mich zu vernichten. Was er nicht weiß, ist, dass ich auch darauf aus bin, ihn zu vernichten. Mein Name ist Teal Van Doren, und ich bin der Ort, an dem Prinzen sterben.

Alimentarse de forma correcta es muy complicado, más aún teniendo en cuenta que vivimos rodeados de mitos y pequeños engaños relacionados con la nutrición que lo convierten en una tarea más ardua si cabe. En Mi dieta cojea, Aitor Sánchez nos demostró que desmontar estos mitos no es tan difícil y que dejar de comer tan mal como lo hacemos es posible. Pero ¿cómo? En este nuevo libro, el nutricionista de referencia nos propone diez sencillos pasos para recuperar el control y conseguir que nuestra dieta deje por fin de cojear.

An der Sicuro Academy halten Russen und Italiener Abstand voneinander - sie sind schließlich erbitterte Feinde. Umso schockierter ist Polina Aminoff, als ihr Bruder verkündet, dass sie Dante Accardi heiraten soll, den Erben der italienischen Accardi-Familie. Dante, bekannt als Frauenheld, ist genauso unglücklich über die Verlobung wie Polina. Doch sein Vater hat klargemacht: Es ist seine Pflicht gegenüber der Familie.

En Mi dieta cojea, Aitor Sánchez desmonta muchos de los mitos relacionados con la alimentación y nos explica qué verdades y mentiras se esconden detrás de muchas creencias que suelen provenir de la falta de información rigurosa, la manipulación de los mensajes publicitarios por parte de la industria alimentaria e incluso de los dogmas sociales. El principal objetivo es que el lector pueda desarrollar una conciencia crítica y profundizar en el aprendizaje de los principales conceptos de lo que debe ser una alimentación saludable.

Ricky’s life takes a wild turn when he discovers a magical animal preserve hiding in the heart of Manhattan. When he learns that his mother isn’t dead after all, and that she may even be trapped there, he summons the courage go. And suddenly, he’s not just an ordinary foster kid anymore; he’s a denizen student learning to channel powers he barely understands, powers he must learn to master—and soon—because the denizen world is anything but safe.

Nascere sulle rive dell’Arno è un segno distintivo, ma lo è ancor di più decidere di morirvi dopo anni vissuti di là dall’oceano. Nella camera 409 la finestra è spalancata su piazza del Duomo e sulla cupola di Brunelleschi, dentro, ormai stanca, aspetta di morire Oriana Fallaci. Natura ribelle e carattere focoso, degna rappresentante, come tutti i grandi, insieme a Montanelli e Malaparte, della categoria degli acci: fiorentini sarcastici, irritabili, gelosi, gente che punge.