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Dylan Read, the legendary country pop star, has spent fifteen years learning to craft the perfect good girl image. But Dylan is privately haunted by the loss of her best friend Kelsey, who went missing the year before Dylan’s meteoric rise to fame. When Kelsey’s body is found at the bottom of a New England lake where they grew up, Dylan is drawn back to her hometown where she must revisit their ill-fated teenage friendship and reckon with secrets that have stayed hidden for decades…

Nora Berend uncovers how el Cid has been transformed across the centuries, confronting the gulf between truth and legend and examining how a military adventurer became a hero to people on opposite ends of the political spectrum. The story of the Cid forces us to confront what makes us human. What is it about this man that appeals to us? And why do we transform the most unsuitable people into heroes?

Die Vergessenen Sieben hatten zueinander gefunden, um einen Krieg zu verhindern, doch nun musste jeder von ihnen sich seinem eigenen Kampf stellen. Ihre Herzen blieben miteinander verbunden und erst wenn jedes von ihnen aufhörte, zu schlagen, wäre alles verloren. Als das Mondmädchen sein Licht bei Tag erstrahlen ließ, weckte es den Hass der Sonne, die daraufhin drohte, die Erde zu verbrennen. Es gab nur einen Weg, um sie aufzuhalten. Sonne und Mond mussten einander an dem einzigen Ort begegnen, an dem dies möglich war: unterhalb des Horizonts.

Originally published in 1928, The Well of Loneliness follows the life of Stephen Gordon, a girl born to parents who wished for a boy in late Victorian England. Through Stephen, Hall explores love, loneliness, and the struggle for self-acceptance in the face of rejection.

Lisa, ein kleiner Kaiserpinguin aus einem schwedischen Zoo, wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher als Tänzerin zu werden. Deshalb macht sie sich auf die Suche nach dem Schwanensee. Tiere, wie z.B. eine singende Elchkuh und eine steppende Robbe leisten tatkräftig Hilfe. Doch ein hinterhältiger Waldtroll und Lisas eigene Unsicherheit stehen der Erfüllung ihres Wunsches im Weg.

It’s been fifteen years since Gem’s eight-year-old daughter Sara-Jane went missing, snatched with her best friend Abby right outside their school. A frantic search united the community at first, but after Abby was found and brought home, single mother Gem’s dogged persistence only led to accusations that she was stirring up class tensions. Even that she was somehow involved.

Join Sophie Pavelle on a low-carbon journey around Britain in search of ten animals and habitats threatened by climate change in the 21st century. Like many of her generation, Sophie Pavelle is determined to demand action on climate change. In her hilarious and thought-provoking first audiobook, she describes the trips she took to see ten rare native species: species that could disappear by 2050 and be forgotten by the end of the century if their habitats continue to decline.

Ich brauche Credits und ich brauche sie schnell. Deshalb antworte ich auf eine ominöse Anzeige, die eine großzügige Entlohnung für einfache Arbeit bietet. Für die gebotene Summe Credits wäre ich bereit, so ziemlich alles zu tun. Deshalb stimme ich sofort zu, als mich ein reicher und mächtiger Cyborg bittet, auf einen Eisplaneten zu fliegen und seinen Sohn davon zu überzeugen, wieder nach Hause zu kommen. Das kann ja nicht so schwer sein, oder?

The surprise of a second pregnancy, so soon after the birth of her first son, plunged Rosie into a despair that spiralled into deep depression. Terrified at the prospect of adding another child into her already precariously balanced life, Rosie was compelled to find a new way of living. She found herself instinctively drawn to the local parks and scraps of communal green spaces in her local south-east London neighbourhood, and to therapy via tending a hidden garden deep within the city.

Part memoir, poetry, dream visions, and short story and infused with spells, The Book of Revelations is an intimate, complex, and major investigation into the essence of our purpose; a human being's journey of detachment from institutionalization leading to sacred sovereignty. Written and woven with the true eye of a keen observer, the 70 stories are an alchemy of soul, imagination, nature, and parallel worlds. They rainbow arch the beauty and gifts open to us at any given time, whether we are ready to receive them or not.

Thanksgiving...the sexiest time of the year...not! Thanksgiving needs a marketing do-over. It should be the sexiest time of the year when you consider that we get four full days off from work, too much good food and drink, football, left-overs, binge-watching, and the intoxicating rush of shopping, either in the flesh or online, for presents for others and yourself. And maybe even a trip back home to rekindle old flames. In these stories you’ll find some bonafide Thanksgiving smut, but this is mostly a collection of hot spanking stories.

Ana Kaminski is pushed through the iron gates of Auschwitz beside her frightened young friend Ester Pasternak. As they reach the front of the line, Ana steps forward and quietly declares herself a midwife--and Ester her assistant. Their arms are tattooed and they’re ordered to the maternity hut. Holding an innocent newborn baby, Ana knows the fate of so many are in her hands and vows to do everything she can to save them.

After renowned London fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled decades ago. She arrives with nothing but the clothes she stands in, at a loss as to how to rebuild her business from a quaint country village. Before long, Cressida’s spirit and ambition galvanises the village group into action, and they find themselves mending wedding dresses not only for local brides, but for brides across the country.

Mike and Beth didn't know each other existed before the night of the meteor shower. A melancholy film producer and a house sitter barely scraping by—chance made them neighbors, a bottle of champagne brought them together, and a shared need for human connection sparked something more. After a drunken and desperate one-night stand, the two strangers awake to discover a surprise astronomical event has left widespread destruction in its wake. But the cosmic lightshow was only part of something much bigger, and far more terrifying.

When a Navy vessel comes across a yacht in distress in the middle of the vast Indian Ocean, Captain Danial Tengku orders his ship to rush to its aid. On board the yacht is a British couple: a horribly injured man, Jake, and his traumatized wife, Virginie, who breathlessly confesses, “It’s all my fault. I killed them.” Trembling with fear, she reveals their shocking story to Danial.

After renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the London Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled decades ago. Praying that her niece and nephew will be more hospitable than her brother had been, she arrives with nothing but the clothes she stands in, at a loss as to how to rebuild her business while staying in a quaint country village.

Dort zwischen der Gischt entdeckte ich ein bleiches weibliches Gesicht. Die Sirene hatte leuchtende Augen, so grün wie Algen. Ihr Haar war rot wie Blut. Es floss in sanften Wellen über ihren Körper, der nackt war, soweit ich es erkennen konnte. Sie war eine Schönheit und es fiel mir leicht, zu verstehen, warum Männer ihr und ihrem Gesang verfielen. Doch wenn man genau hinsah, konnte man erkennen, dass sie spitze Zähne in ihrem Mund trug. Zähne, die zum Töten gemacht waren. An ihrem Hals hatte sie Kiemen wie ein Fisch. Sicher war ihr Körper kalt wie der Tod.

Düster-romantische historische Fantasy in Sizilien – der Auftakt der gefeierten Kingdom of the Wicked-Reihe jetzt auf Deutsch! Als die junge Hexe Emilia ihre Zwillingsschwester Vittoria ermordet vorfindet, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Zutiefst schockiert will sie Rache üben – koste es, was es wolle. Selbst wenn sie dafür verbotene, dunkle Magie einsetzen muss, die sie in die Gefahr bringt, von Hexenjägern enttarnt zu werden.

Rosalindes Opa behauptet, er kenne ihre Gedanken im Kopf. Also übt die Erstklässlerin vor dem Spiegel, geheime Gedanken zu denken und dabei ganz unauffällig auszuschauen. Es funktioniert: Opa erkennt Rosalinde nicht wieder! Aber auch sonst hat Rosalinde geheime Gedanken. Wenn sie ihre Oma beim Schwindeln erwischt, zum Beispiel, oder wenn sie sich ausmalt, sie würde von einem Löwen gefressen. Solche wilden Geschichten erfindet Rosalinde nur, wenn sie böse mit ihren Eltern ist. Sollen sie doch zusehen, wie sie ohne sie zurechtkommen.

We are in a period of change. We need to think and act differently. The new world of work is significantly more digitized and decentralized than before—a transformation accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. We need to orient ourselves differently to be successful, shifting from transactional to human-centric management, mindsets, and methods to deal with the faster pace of business developments, continuing uncertainties, more complex issues, and an increase in multidimensional projects.