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More (More, #1) | After a series of explosive encounters with two men, a heartbroken loner breaks all of his rules for love. If you're going to break the rules, might as well break them big. An M/M/M gay romance.
For fifteen years Luke Moore has lived by three rules: stay off his father's radar, never spend more than a single night with any man, and never fall in love again. But one night of explosive sex and two men he can't get out of his head have Luke breaking every one of his rules. Richard and Matthew push him past all his boundaries--both sexually and personally--and now he's no longer hiding from his senator father. He's taking him on. And he isn't just falling for one man. He's falling for two. If you're going to break the rules, might as well break them big.
But Luke's father has his reasons for hating how his son lives, and he'll do whatever he can and use all his power to keep Luke away from Richard and Matthew.
Can this threesome find a way to make their unconventional relationship last with the world around them trying to pull them apart? And will Luke be able to keep breaking his rules for Richard and Matthew, or will he head back to his old way of life just when his new lovers want to pull him closer? | en |
The Truth about Islam | The Truth about Islam is indeed 4000 years overdue. Since about the time, religions started to become a point of focus in the management of man's chaotic behavior. Yet again, the truths their early masters tried to communicate were lost in man's struggles for material and social power, more divisions are being formed and conflicts seem to be ever intensifying. Somewhere, the point is missed. This book goes straight to the roots of such great unnaturalness in man's behavior. Presenting methods and exercises that have been introduced by some of the greatest men to have lived, and sadly, whose records in history have been almost wiped out. | en |
Engel in schwarzem Leder | Lack und Leder auf nackter Haut: Was Zoe zur Kostumparty beim zehnjahrigen Klassentreffen tragt, ist einfach verboten aufregend! Das findet auch ein Mann, der sie mit Blicken auszieht und heiss kusst - wahrend Zoe ratselt, wer hinter der Fantasy-Maske steckt ... | de |
Sandosenang Sapatos | The father of Karina and Susie is a shoemaker. But only Karina gets to wear the shoes that he makes. "Sorry, Bunso, you will never know how it feels like to wear the beautiful shoes our Tatay makes..." Karina whispers to her sister. Why doesn't their father make shoes for Susie? Receiving Unang Gantimpala, Maikling Kathang Pambata for the 2001 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Sandosenang Sapatos is the heartwarming story of a father's incomparable love for his disabled daughter. For Ages 8 and up. | en |
Junkyard | Man the machines and help clean up the junkyard in this rousing robot story that encourages community building.
The yard has junk! Stacks and heaps and piles of junk as far as the eye can see. But the Munching Machine robots are on the job--it's time to get cleaning! And after a whole lot of CRUNCHING, CHEWING, CHOMPING, SLURPING, and SWEEPING, what's next? Time to get BUILDING, DIGGING, PLANTING, and DECORATING the new park for everyone to enjoy!
Fun, rhyming text paired with irresistible robots and radiant results make this an engaging read-aloud that will inspire clean-up projects of all sizes. | en |
Fire in the Hole: Stories | In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever" (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they're now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in "Karen Makes Out," once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In "When the Women Come Out to Dance," Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage.
These nine stories are the great Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best. | en |
The Grownup | A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson, doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.
The Grownup, which originally appeared as "What Do You Do?" in George R.R. Martin's Roguesanthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world's most original and skilled voices in fiction. | en |
Neptune's Brood | The year is AD 7000. The human species is extinct--for the fourth time--due to its fragile nature.
Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She's on a journey to the water-world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, suspects that there's more to Krina's search than meets the eye.
He's correct: Krina and Ana each possess half of the fabled Atlantis Carnet, a lost financial instrument of unbelievable value--capable of bringing down entire civilizations. Krina doesn't know that Count Rudi suspects her motives, so she accepts his offer to get her to Shin-Tethys in exchange for an introduction to Ana.
And what neither of them suspects is that a ruthless body-double assassin has stalked Krina across the galaxy, ready to take the Carnet once it is whole--and leave no witnesses alive to tell the tale... | en |
Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1) | When professional mercenary Deviana Morris took the security guard job aboard the Glorious Fool, all she wanted was a fast route into the Devastators --- the elite league of armored fighters entrusted with the most important duty on her home planet of Paradox. But this security job isn't just twelve-hour patrols, armor-polishing, and whiskey. The supposedly-cursed Captain Caldswell keeps sending Devi and her partner into unimaginably dangerous situations. Ren, the captain's daughter, is a kind of weird that Devi has never experienced before. And to top it off, there's the insufferably sexy cook, Rupert Chekov, who is far more than what he seems -- possibly even far more than human. | en |
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Who Are You? What Do You Want? | An innovative yet practical new approach to reaching goals and attaining success.
This book offers a direct link to understanding one's own motivations and goals, and guides readers through a self-exploratory process that begins with four simple questions:
* Who are you and what do you want?
* Where are you and why are you here?
* What will you do and how will you do it?
* Who are your allies and how can they help?
Based on the authors? decades of work as executive coaches and leadership trainers, the insights, reallife anecdotes, and exercises in "Who Are You and What Do You Want?" allow readers to shape their own unique life plan, tailored to their own needs and to gain clarity about their purpose, passions, and values. | en |
Shadows of the Past | Alva cannot remember anything, not even the death of her baby in childbirth, and is horrified that her estranged husband Conte Luca Mazareeze should accuse her of trying to commit suicide. She cannot believe herself capable of such an act. Little by little, memories trip into her mind and it is only when she becomes the target of a murderer that she realizes she knows something that someone is afraid of her remembering. When she finally recalls what happened in the past she knows that life for her will never be the same again. | en |
NPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions: Stories That Take You Away... | Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet Museum ("Velveteria") in Portland, Oregon. A 13-foot Styrofoam scale model of Stonehenge. The Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas . . . or is it in Darwin, Minnesota?
Roadside attractions are the staples of the American road trip. Many are slowly disappearing from our highways and byways. Are they culture or kitsch? Are their creators artists or innovators? Listeners are invited along for the ride to decide for themselves. | en |
Alīna. Likteņa celtā un likteņa gremdētā | 2008.gada rakstnieces rokas nonaca kadas sievietes dienasgramatas, kas piezimes un fotografijas dokumenteja vinas dzivi 88 gadu garuma. Apjomigais dzivesstasts tika salidzinats ar arhivos un laikrakstos atrodamo informaciju un tapa romans "Alina. Liktena celta un liktena gremdeta". Tas ir dramatisks vestijums par skaistas un talantigas sievietes dzivi gandriz visa 20.gadsimta garuma, ietverot Latvijas brivvalsts laiku, skaistos radosa darba un milestibas piesatinatos jaunibas gadus Belgija, padomju totalitaras sistemas nezeligos liclocus un dzivi Latvija pec Atmodas. | Undefined |
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir | From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll.
Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney. The band was a key part of the early riot- grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest, known for their prodigious guitar shredding and their leftist lyrics against war, traditionalism, and gender roles.
UNTITLED MEMOIR is the deeply personal and revealing narrative of Brownstein's life in music, from ardent fan to pioneering female guitarist to comedic performer and luminary in the independent rock world. Though Brownstein struggled against the music industry's sexist double standards, by 2006 she was the only woman to earn a spot on Rolling Stonereaders' list of the "25 Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time." This book intimately captures what it feels like to be a young woman in a rock-and-roll band, from her days at the dawn of the underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s through today. | en |
Last Chance Charlie | Charlie Corcoran is the best thing about twenty-five-year old Zach Prentiss's life. Sure, they've never met. Charlie's never seen Zach from the neck up, but because of Charlie, for a few hours Zach can forget about his sick father, his falling grades, and his dwindling clientele who don't like that he's a rentboy who ages. With Charlie, he talks online about comics, cars, and movies. Then a new client arrives. It's Charlie wanting sex tips... for a date with Zach. Zach goes through with the appointment, convinced it's over if Charlie recognizes him. However, he doesn't have long to nurse his broken heart or worry about Charlie's before Charlie is back, wanting to take him out, introduce him to Mom, and treat him like he's decent. | en |
20th Century Boys, Libro 15: ¡Viva la Expo! (20th Century Boys, #15) | ?Ha muerto realmente "Amigo"? ?Desaparecera su legado? ?A que nuevas amenazas debera enfrentarse el mundo? En otro impresionante giro argumental, el autor vuelve a ponernos tras la pista de las senales que llevan al Apocalipsis, esta vez de la mano de un cura catolico. Y hay una nueva fecha para tal evento: el ano 2015. Continua el nuevo thriller de Naoki Urasawa, el creador de Monster, en Biblioteca Pachinco. | es |
Rihanna: The Unauthorized Biography | Going behind the gossip columns, the true story of a singer who has worked hard, reinventing herself along the way, to become a household name and one of the biggest artists on the planet
Rihanna has sold more than 25 million albums and won numerous awards, including five Grammys. At the same time she has become an object of fascination for celebrity magazines internationally thanks to her tumultuous personal life. This intimate biography follows her life story, with details of her father's drug addiction and her parents' turbulent marriage, how she was taken to the United States at just 16 years of age to be launched as a solo star, how she shot to fame seemingly overnight, and, of course, her dramatic personal life, including the controversial Chris Brown saga. | en |
The Temptation of Savannah O'Neill | A family's bad reputation is tough to shake off. Just ask Savannah O'Neill. Despite her straitlaced job as a librarian, despite her living a private life, the O'Neill family wildness still sparks town gossip. And the arrival of Matt Woods--sexy handyman and complete stranger--isn't helping.Watching him work makes Savannah long to take a trip into indulgence. That's so not a good idea--she's been there before and still hears the rumors. But Matt is much too delicious for this O'Neill to resist. It's a shame there's more to Matt than being good with his hands. Because when his true reasons for seeking her out are revealed, he could become another affair Savannah lives to regret. | en |
Bayou Moon (The Edge, #2) | Cerise Mar and her clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands. When her parents vanish, her clan's long-time rivals are suspect. But all is not as it seems.
Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge-and Cerise's life. | en |
Fear the Darkness | A breathtakingly original thriller from the most exciting new voice in American crime fiction.
Brigid Quinn has been shot at, stabbed in the spleen with a nail file and used as serial-killer bait. But she's always been able to trust her instincts and her FBI training to help her out of danger.
Now, retired from the Bureau and investigating the tragic death of a neighbour's teenage son, Brigid starts to suffer unexplained bouts of paranoia, hallucination and memory loss.
And for the first time in her life, she feels vulnerable.
With a mass poisoning at the church, a dead man in town and a grieving family convinced their son's death wasn't an accident, Brigid needs to put the pieces together - fast.
Because evil has entered her life once more, and it's much closer than she thinks . . . | en |
The Shadow Queen (The Black Jewels #7) | The national bestselling Black Jewels saga continues
Theran Grayhaven is the last of his line, desperate to restore the land of Dena Nehele. But first he needs to find a Queen who remembers the Blood's code of honor and lives by the Old Ways.
Languishing in the Shadow Realm, Lady Cassidy is a Queen without a court. But when she is chosen to rule Dena Nehele, she must convince bitter men to serve once again. | en |
Beyond Denial (Beyond, #2.5) | Free online read (or Kindle file download) of a deleted scene from , featuring Ace and Jared.
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DABWAHA is a yearly event run by popular blogs Dear Author and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books where readers fill out brackets pitting beloved books against one another and then engage in a couple weeks of all-out warfare as they try to encourage people to vote in the best interests of their bracket-or in the worst interests of the brackets of people in the lead.
In 2013, Beyond Shame was one of the 2012 finalists pitted against some of our personal favorites in the Paranormal and Speculative Romance subgenres. In the tradition of bribery and mayhem, we offered to provide a deleted scene featuring Ace and his friend Jared at the O'Kane party held for the Sector Three recruits, as seen in Beyond Control.
The chances of our plucky little self-pub novel surviving round one were always tiny, but we planned to share the story either way. So for all of you who voted, or didn't, or just want to read about Ace being dirty and in denial...enjoy! | en |
Nasty Women | With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever for women to share their experiences. We must hold the truth to account in the midst of sensationalism and international political turmoil. Nasty Women is a collection of essays, interviews and accounts on what it is to be a woman in the 21st century.
People, politics, pressure, punk - From working class experience to racial divides in Trump's America, being a child of immigrants, to sexual assault, Brexit, pregnancy, contraception, identity, family, finding a voice online, role models and more, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Zeba Talkhani, Chitra Ramaswamy are just a few of the incredible women who share their experience here.
Keep telling your stories, and tell them loud. | en |
The Recipe Box | Grace D'Angelo is a woman at her wit's end, trying to create a life from broken pieces. Recently divorced from her high school sweetheart, she is trying to make a new life for herself but her 14-year old daughter, Emma - resentful about being uprooted from her hometown and friends - is giving Grace a very hard time, skipping school and hanging with the wrong crowd. On top of all that, Grace's best friend Leeza is at the heartbreaking end stages of breast cancer back in their rural hometown of New London.
When Leeza dies, Grace feels it is a bittersweet wake-up call that you don't get a second chance at life. Determined to get her life back on track and help her daughter do so as well, Grace and Emma return to New London for the summer, along with Grace's best friend, Ken. There, Grace works on reconciling with her own mother with whom she's been estranged over a secret that has haunted Grace her whole life. And when someone from Grace's past shows up at Leeza's funeral, Grace must confront a secret of her own. Over the summer, Grace re-discovers the healing power of cooking, comes to terms with her past, and connects with friends old and new, proving that not only can go home again, sometimes that's exactly where you belong.
Accessible, hugely entertaining, and featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, The Recipe Box is a novel that celebrates mothers, daughters, and friendships and features Sandra Lee's deliciously original recipes - a book that will nourish readers' appetites on many levels. | en |
Books and Characters French & English | This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. | en |
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續．星守犬 | Sheng Ming Ji Jiang Jie Shu De Lao Ba Yu Ai Quan HappyDe Gu Shi ,Qi Shi Huan Mei Shuo Wan .
Shi Guang Hui Dao HappyBei Jian Zou De Na Yi Ke --
Xiang Zi Li ,Huan You Ling Yi Zhi Yan Yan Yi Xi De Xiao Gou ,Bei Yi Wei Du Ju Lao Tai Tai Shou Liu .
Er Ba Zou Lao Ba Qian Bao ,Qian Wang Bei Hai Dao Xun Qin De Shao Nian Zhe Nan ,Zai Lu Tu Zhong Dai Zou Deng Dai Zhu Ren Chu Xian De Ba Ge Quan .
Yan Shi De Lao Tai Tai Yu Ji Mo Tao Jia Shao Nian ,Yin Wei Gou Gou Men De Pei Ban Yu Shou Hou ,Zhong Xin Zhao Hui Sheng Ming Zhong De Xing Fu Shi Guang .
[Zhe Yi Ben <>Ke Yi Shuo ,Shi Wo Zai Du Guo Na Liang Qian Duo Pian Hui Ying Hou ,Bao Zhu Gei Du Zhe {Hui Xin } De Xin Qing Suo Wan Cheng De Zuo Pin . Xie Xie Ni Men Gei Wo Na Mo Duo Wen Nuan De Gu Li ,Xi Wang He Da Jia Fen Xiang Yi Ge Gan Xiang . Qin Shen Gan Shou Dao {You Mou Ge Ren Zheng Xu Yao Wo } ......Nei Xin Xiang Zhu {You Mou Ge Ren Zheng Zai Deng Hou Wo } ......Zhe Huo Xu Jiu Shi Ren Sheng Zhong Zui Da De Xing Fu Liao . ]
--Cun Shang Chong | sw |
Romancing the Duke (Castles Ever After, #1) | In the first in Tessa Dare's captivating Castles Ever After series, a mysterious fortress is the setting for an unlikely love . . .
As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. The storybooks offered endless possibilities.
And as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off. One by one by one.
Ugly duckling turned swan?
Abducted by handsome highwayman?
Rescued from drudgery by charming prince?
No, no, and... Heh.
Now Izzy's given up yearning for romance. She'll settle for a roof over her head. What fairy tales are left over for an impoverished twenty-six year-old woman who's never even been kissed?
This one. | en |
Fair Game | A good looking girl, a hard-cop and a special stranger... somebody's setting somebody's up for a killing...
On Sunday afternoon Clare Randell's biggest concern was whether she was really ready to get married. Then she stopped to help a passing stranger pick up the papers he'd dropped from his briefcase. On Wednesday a bomb had destroyed her apartment and she was in hospital. But the nightmare was only just beginning.
Somebody was trying to kill Clare Randell. And it would suit the police nicely to let him try again... | en |
The Art Whisperer (Alix London #3) | When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will follow. So she's understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur's eye spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting at Palm Springs's Brethwaite Museum--her current employer.
Alix is already under fire, the object of a vicious online smear campaign. Now the Brethwaite's despicable senior curator, obsessed with the "maximization of monetized eyeballs," angrily refuses to decommission the celebrated Pollock piece. But it's only when a hooded intruder attacks Alix in her hotel room that the real trouble begins. And when FBI Special Agent Ted Ellesworth--with whom Alix had inadvertently, but thoroughly, botched a budding relationship just a year prior--turns up to investigate the Pollock, Alix knows she's about to have her hands full.
In her third mystery, Alix London must see through mirages in the desert to uncover the knotted history of the painting--and save herself in the process. | en |
Moonraker (James Bond, #3) | The club where James Bond is asked to settle the dispute over ungentlemanly behaviour is embarrassed. The accused is the unimpeachable Sir Hugo Drax, head of the multi-million-pound Moonraker missile programme on which Britain's future depends. | en |
The Four Million | O. Henry is the knight of the shop-girl and the waitress; of the wandering, homeless tramp; of poverty-stricken young married folk; of hundreds of lonely human beings who live within the dirty, gloomy wall of two-dollar-a-week boarding house rooms - of the great mass of humanity not included in the "four hundred", the everyday men and women of New York's East Side.
The Four Millioncontains O. Henry's best and most characteristic work: the famous Gift of the Magi,the moving story of a young couple who sacrifice their most prized possessions to buy Christmas presents for each other; Soapy,the brilliant tale of a tramp who desperately attempts to break the law in order to be sent to prison so that he will have a home for the winter months; An Unfinished Story,which is a stern reproval of the employer who underpays his shop-girls - and many others. Unforgettable stories - humorous, poignant, penetrating - by "the most widely discussed and most popular short story writer of his generation."
(from the back cover) | en |
The Thing: Idol of Millions | Join Ben Grimm and his pals as they clobber their way through the Marvel Universe! Spinning out of events from 'Fantastic Four', the idol of millions is now worth billions - but will big bucks make a Rockefeller out of this rocky fella? | en |
When the Duke Was Wicked (Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James, #1) | They are England's most eligible bachelors, with the most scandalous reputations. But for the right woman, even an unrepentant rogue may mend his ways...
Lady Grace Mabry's ample inheritance has made it impossible for her to tell whether a suitor is in love with her--or enamored of her riches. Who better to distinguish beau from blackguard than her notorious childhood friend, the Duke of Lovingdon?
After losing his beloved wife Juliette, Lovingdon has spent ten years on pleasure. He can help Grace find a proper match, being familiar with ploys of scoundrels, and how to distinguish honest emotions from false. But lessons lead to torrid passion and Grace becomes ensnared in another man's nefarious marriage plot, | en |
Kept from You (Tear Asunder, #4) | A sexy second-chance romance from New York TimesBestselling Author Nashoda Rose.Can be read as a standalone.
A first kiss that changed everything.
Killian Kane.
He was the most feared guy in high-school.
Guarded. Angry. A fighter.
But when I caught him watching me with his captivating green eyes I saw something more. Something protective and kind.
He warned me to stay away from him.
I did.
Until I didn't and he kissed me. A knee weakening, body tingling kiss that left me breathless. And scared the hell out of me.
And then...
He warned me never to come near him again or next time he wouldn't let me go.
That was eleven years ago.
We aren't teenagers anymore. He has probably forgotten me. He's a famous rock star now. I'm a dance instructor with a broken dream and desperate for a job.
So, when we cross paths again I don't expect him to remember me.
He does.
And his warning eleven years ago? I'm about to find out exactly what that meant. | en |
Duncton Tales (Book of Silence, #1) | A century after the great days of moledom described in the great Chronicles, Privet, a lonely female pilgrim from the north, arrives in fabled Duncton Wood. Only old Stour, Master of the Library, realizes the importance of her quest. For Privet seeks an answer to moledom's final mystery: where and what is the Book of Silence, whose scribe nomole knows, whose content none can guess, whose existence many still doubt? Decades of harmony have passed since the brave moles of Duncton saved moledom's peaceful Stone followers from the disciples of the evil Word. But now all is not well. Their system has grown sleepy, while moledom is dangerously complacent about the spread of zealots from Caer Caradoc. Led by the sinister Thripp of Blagrove Slide, the Newborns believe that any other way than theirs to the Stone's Silence is blasphemy and deserves death. As the Caradocian moles gain power, shy Privet, aided by Stour and inspired by the strange and inarticulate Rooster, finds herself the agent of change and renewal in Duncton Wood. | en |
Duncton Rising (Book of Silence, #2) | This is the second book in The Book of Silence, the second of the Duncton Trilogies...
As Privet, scholar and scribemole and her adopted son Whillan escape from Duncton Wood in search of the Book of Silence, the Newborn Inquisitors seek to take the system over. Only old Stour, Master Librarian, and the timid aide Pumpkin, can defend Duncton and the precious Books of Moledom against the Newborn moles. But time is running out as Privet journeys in search of the lost and last book. To find it she and her friends must go to Caer Caradoc, centre of the Newborns' power and face Thripp himself. There, too, she must reveal the secrets of her past and give up all hope of reconciliation with the only mole she had ever truly loved: Rooster, Master of the Delve. But it may be too little, too late for Duncton Wood itself as its brave moles struggle against the Newborns' oppression, with only their faith, the Stone and their hope in Privet to sustain them. | en |
The Storyteller | A good girl.
A bad boy.
A fairy tale that's true.
A truth that is no fairy tale.
It begins the day Anna finds the child's doll on the floor of the student lounge. When it's claimed by Abel, the school drug dealer, Anna becomes determined to learn more about this mysterious boy with the military haircut and deep blue eyes. She follows him after school and discovers a secret: Abel is caring for his six-year-old sister, Micha, alone. Anna listens in as he tells her a fairy tale, the story of a little orphan queen pursued by hunters across the oceans for the treasure she carries: her pure, diamond heart.
It's a story with parallels to reality. Social services and Micha's abusive father could take her from Abel if they discover the truth.
Despite friend's warnings, Anna is drawn to Abel and Micha, and falls under the spell of the story of the little queen and her desperate voyage.
But when people Abel has woven into his tale turns up dead, it's Anna whose heart is in danger. Is she in love with a killer? And has she set out on a journey from which there is no return? | en |
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (Peter Nimble, #1) | Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyesis the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery. One fateful afternoon, he steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdasher--a box that contains three pairs of magical eyes. When he tries the first pair, he is instantly transported to a hidden island where he is presented with a special quest: to travel to the dangerous Vanished Kingdom and rescue a people in need. Along with his loyal sidekick--a knight who has been turned into an unfortunate combination of horse and cat--and the magic eyes, he embarks on an unforgettable, swashbuckling adventure to discover his true destiny. | en |
How to Live Forever | We all want to live forever, but we shouldn't. We're not supposed to. Ironically, if we could literally live every single day that time and space have left, our lives would be almost meaningless. It's the end of lives that cause them to matter.
But your life, short as it is -- and perhaps because it's short -- can have more meaning and more effect on other people than you can possibly imagine... if you chose to let it.
The end of your life is not the end. Not unless you let it be, through your actions and inactions during the time you're alive.
The end of your life -- thanks to the turbulence you leave behind you in the stream of time -- is the beginning. | en |
Toad Triumphant | This stunning sequel follows the further adventures of four of the most beloved characters in English literature: loyal Mole, resourceful Water Rat, stern but wise Badger, and of course, capricious, irresistible Toad. In this new tale, the comfortable bachelor world of the River Bank is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a formidable female character who seems to win Toad's heart. Recognizing the familiar danger signals, his long-suffering companions must do all that they can to save the infatuated Toad from himself. Enriched once again by the delightful illustrations of Patrick Benson, Toad Triumphant is another captivating tale for audiences and imaginations everywhere. | en |
Als der Tag begann | Oft traurig und doch voller Witz und Lebensmut -- eine wahre Geschichte vom Erwachsenwerden und Uberleben
Schon als kleines Kind weiss Liz Murray, was es heisst, am Existenzminimum zu leben. Armut und Hunger bestimmen den Alltag ihrer Familie. Doch obwohl die Hippie-Eltern drogenabhangig sind, erleben Liz und ihre Schwester Lisa auch Momente der Geborgenheit. Das Gluck ist allerdings nur von kurzer Dauer. Mit funfzehn ist Liz obdachlos und geht nicht mehr zur Schule. Erst als ihre Mutter an Aids stirbt, wird Liz klar, dass sie so nicht enden will. | de |
The Phantom Limb | Isaac is the new kid in town. His mother, Vera, is in the hospital with a mysterious illness, and the only person left to care for Isaac is his distant grandfather. Friendless and often alone, Isaac loses himself in his collection of optical illusions, including a strange mirror box that he finds in his new house, left behind by the previous tenants. Designed for amputees, it creates the illusion of a second limb.
Lonely Isaac wishes someone would reach out to him, and then someone does--a phantom limb within the mirror box! It signs to Isaac about a growing danger: someone who has murdered before and is out to get Vera next. The only way Isaac can solve the mystery and save his mother is with the help of the mirror box. But can he trust the phantom limb? | en |
Sürgün (Drizzt Efsanesi, #2) | Yeryuzunde yasayanlarin asla bilemeyecegi kadar dehset ve tehlikelerle dolu Karanlikalti'nin labirent dehlizleri, orada yolculuk etme cesareti gosteren herkese meydan okuyor. Drizzt Do'Urden ozgurluge giden bu yolculukta, buyulu kedisi Guenhwyar ve diger yol arkadaslari ile birlikte acimasiz bir savasa girisiyor. Bu bir yolculuk hikayesi. Unutulmus Diyarlar'da, gelecege dogru bir yolculugun, Drizzt Do'Urden'in yolculugunun hikayesi... | tr |
Reel Life Starring Us | Rockwood Hills Junior High is known for the close-knit cliques that rule the school. When arty new girl Dina gets the opportunity to do a video project with queen bee Chelsea, she thinks this is her ticket to a great new social life. But Chelsea has bigger problems than Dina can imagine: her father has lost his job, and her family is teetering on the brink. Without knowing it, Dina might just get caught in Chelsea's free fall.
Filled with honest truths about status and self-confidence, as well as the bubbly, infectious voice Lisa Greenwald mastered in her breakout, My Life in Pink & Green, this book is sure to charm tween readers everywhere. | en |
The Wind in the Willows | The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle. | en |
Football Stars of 1969 | Inside profiles of today's greatest players- from the locker rooms
to the playing fields. | en |
Αναβίωση | Se mia mikre pole tes Neas Agglias, stis arkhes tes dekaetias tou '60, mia skia pephtei pano s' ena mikro agori pou paizei me ta stratiotakia tou. O Tzeimi Morton sekonei to kephali kai antikrizei enan entuposiako antra, ton kainourio ephemerio. Mazi me ten omorphe gunaika tou, o kharismatikos aidesimotatos Tsarls Tzeikomps tha ginei antikeimeno latreias apo tous enorites tou. Mekhri te stigme pou tha khtupesei e tragodia...
Polla khronia argotera, otan o Tzeimi xanasunanta ton Tzeikomps, einai pia enas periplanomenos kitharistas, ethismenos sten eroine, restos kai apegnosmenos sta trianta pente tou. Alla ki o Tzeikomps den einai pia o idios anthropos. To palio tous desimo metatrepetai se mia sumphonia pio tromere ki ap' o,ti mporei na mekhaneutei o idios o diabolos -kai o Tzeimi anakaluptei pos e lexe <>mporei na ekhei pollapla noemata.
Ena plousio, bathia tromaktiko muthistorema, me to phrikiastikotero isos telos pou egrapse pote o Kingk, gia ton ethismo, te threskeia, te mousike kai to ti mporei na mas perimenei sten apenanti okhthe. Ena aristourgema, ste megale paradose tes amerikanikes logotekhnias tou Khothorn, tou Poe kai tou Melbil. | sw |
Prince Of Lost Places | After a tragedy at her son's school, a young Ohio mother decides not to take any chances. Late one night, she kidnaps her son from under her husband's nose and takes him to live-hidden, isolated, and safe-in a cave on the Rio Grande...day by day moving closer to a startling love, a terrible choice, and the revelation of a devastating secret. | en |
Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia | From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive. | en |
D.Gray-man, Vol. 16: Blood & Chains | Lenalee is determined to confront a Level 4 Akuma that's out to kill Komui, but her only chance is to reclaim her Innocence and synchronize with it. The Level 4 is not inclined to wait around and pursues its mission even against the best efforts of Lavi and Kanda. It's left to Allen to hold the line, but it soon becomes obvious he has no hope of doing it all by himself! | en |
Red Rising (Red Rising, #1) | 16 hours 12 minutes
" I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. " That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them." " I live for you," I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. " Then you must live for more." Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow-- and Reds like him-- are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity' s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society' s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. | en |
Древний. Война (Древний #3) | <>
"Voina" - tret'ia kniga fantasticheskoi sagi "Drevnii" Sergeia Tarmasheva, prodolzhenie romanov "Katastrofa" i "Korporatsiia".
Glavnyi geroi eposa, ofitser-spetsnazovets Trinadtsatyi, vnov' vstupaet v bor'bu za budushchee Chelovechestva. Ostatki Korporatsii okonchatel'no razgromleny. No dolgozhdannyi mir tak i ne prishel v Solnechnuiu sistemu. Sodruzhestvo Liudei okazyvaetsia vtianuto v Voinu Prishedshikh Posle, glupoe i krovavoe sopernichestvo za pravo priznaniia Velichaishimi tsivilizatsiiami... | pl |
Salt & Stone (Fire & Flood, #2) | How far would you go to survive?
In FIRE & FLOOD, Tella Holloway faced a dangerous trek through the jungle and a terrifying march across the desert, all to remain a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed for a chance at obtaining the Cure for her brother. She can't stop - and in SALT & STONE, Tella will have to face the unseen dangers of the ocean, the breathless cold of a mountain, and twisted new rules in the race.
But what if the danger is deeper than that? How do you know who to trust when everyone's keeping secrets? What do you do when the person you'd relied on most suddenly isn't there for support? How do you weigh one life against another?
The race is coming to an end, and Tella is running out of time, resources, and strength. At the beginning of the race there were one hundred twenty-two Contenders. As Tella and her remaining friends start the fourth and final part of the race, just forty-one are left . . . and only one can win.
Victoria Scott's stunning thriller will leave readers' hearts racing! | en |
Snowed Under and Other Christmas Confusions | When I woke up on the day before Christmas, the snow had just started to fall.
"Out of bed, sleepyhead!" called my mother. "We're going to have to work our tails off to get ready for Christmas tomorrow."
Serge Bloch, the witty author and illustrator of Butterflies in My Stomach, Reach for the Stars, and You Are What You Eat, brings his readers a touch of happy holiday spirit.
Everyone's a little snowed under preparing for Christmas: a storm is brewing, and there's fear Santa might get stuck at the North Pole. But all it takes is a little decking the halls and trimming the tree to have everyone lighting up with joy.
Bloch's humor and unique art--which combines photographs and charming line drawings--help make Christmas very merry, indeed. | en |
Winston 500 | All the thrills and excitement of stock car racing come to life in this colorful new series about six championship races. Readers will learn about each race's history, the track it is raced on, how winning cars are built, what it takes to be a champion driver, and much more. Action photographs by noted NASCAR photographers Cameras In Action provide a nearly firsthand experience of what it's like to circle the track at 200 miles per hour! | en |
The Long Result | When racial hatred turns to murderous menace . . . First a rocket ship loses its engines on take-off and is destroyed. On board - an important extra-terrestrial visitor. Next someone slams into the sealed vehicle used for transporting aliens around in the lethal atmosphere of Earth. Then the vital controlled environment for the Tau Cetian delegation is sabotaged. Oxygen leaks in, and the aliens are half burnt alive. Even if it means brutal murder, The Stars Are For Man League is determined to shatter the harmony between Earth and civilizations on other planets - and to keep mankind supreme among the alien life forms. Only one man can stop them - a man who unknowingly nurses a viper in his bosom . . . First published in 1965. | en |
On a Rogue Planet(The Phoenix Adventures #3) | A sexy, deadly cyborg + a sassy salvage mechanic = a fast, action-packed space adventure
Unlucky-in-love salvage mechanic, Malin Phoenix, didn't intend to get caught up in a coup and kidnapped by a sexy cyborg. But she finds herself swept into an adventure to help the deadly, emotionless CenSec, Xander Saros, retrieve an ancient Terran artifact and save his planet.
Soon she's racing across uncharted space and is magnetically drawn to the cyborg whose strong arms and muscled body ignite a desire that burns brighter than a supernova. But Mal can never let herself forget that she can't fall in love with a cyborg who can never love her back.
The crowning glory of the Centax Security program, Xander is heavily enhanced, his emotions dampened to nothing to allow him to be the most efficient, lethal killer in the galaxy. As he and Malin hunt for the remnant of the galaxy's first computer, the Antikythera Mechanism, their quest leads them into the lair of a dangerous technomancer. But Xander can't identify his greatest threat--the enemy or the fascinating woman who's making him feel.
Note to readers:This adventure contains a lot of action (think starship battles, sci-fi pit fighting and very big robots), cool offsiders (some sexy deep space explorers and dashing treasure hunting brothers) and a steamy romance (lots of sexy times between a sassy salvage mechanic and a sexy cyborg). This is treasure hunting sci-fi style. So if you like it fast, and fun, and sexy, this is for you!
Includes preview of Book 5 of the Phoenix Adventures, Beyond Galaxy's Edge. | en |
Only One | A novel counting book, centered around a county fair and featuring delightful illustrations, shows how single things can combine to make something unique, new and utterly wondrous. | en |
Bound in Shadows (Shadows Trilogy, #3) | Alternate Cover Edition B004I8WN96
With his power crushed, Terrin is forced to take drastic measures to regain his sons and the power they possess. But he has an ally inside Espen's house who works to further his plans. Skade's son courts redemption to try to save his mother's life, and the vampire dreams a dream that might save them all--or damn them to failure if they do not succeed. This is the conclusion of the Shadows Trilogy. | en |
Gyvenimas po gyvenimo | Sudauzytas veidrodelis ant krutines, isplestas is ausies auskarelis - savotiska zudiko vizitine kortele.
Kas nuzude dvi garbaus amziaus moteris - kamuojamas niuriu Viazemskiu gimines legendu maniakas ar rafinuotas jo imitatorius? Visos versijos galiausiai baigiasi aklagatviu. Verslininkas, kurio planams tie nusikaltimai kelia gresme, nutare kreiptis pagalbos i privatu detektyva. Taip Anastasija Kamenskaja atsidure provincijos mieste Tomiline.
Taip taip, milicijos atsargos pulkininke Kamenskaja dabar darbuojasi privacioje sekliu agenturoje, ir pastarasis tyrimas - jos debiutas siuose baruose. Dabar uz jos nugaros nestovi galinga ir itakinga zinyba, ir tai kazkaip neiprasta. Bet kaip ir anksciau reikalingas Nastios mokejimas sneketis ir klausytis, sisteminti faktus ir intuityviai (o tai ir yra jos, kaip sekles, talento virsune) pasirinkti tinkama tyrimo krypti. Zodziu, atidaryti visas kelyje pasitaikiusias duris. Vienoje uz ju slepiasi tiesa. O juk ji jokioms permainoms nepavaldi. | Undefined |
Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation | In this lively introduction, J. Nelson Kraybill shows how the book of Revelation was understood by its original readers and what it means for Christians today. Kraybill places Revelation in its first-century context, opening a window into the political, economic, and social realities of the early church. His fresh interpretation highlights Revelation's liturgical structure and directs readers' attentions to twenty-first-century issues of empire, worship, and allegiance, showing how John's apocalypse is relevant to the spiritual life of believers today. The book includes maps, timelines, photos, a glossary, discussion questions, and stories of modern Christians who live out John's vision of a New Jerusalem. | en |
Treasure Island: A Story of the Spanish Main (Barnes & Noble Classics) | A mysterious seaman hides at a country inn; cut-throats raid a sleepy English village; suddenly, young Jim Hawkins becomes the owner of a map leading to a lost tropical island and a fortune in stolen gold. Three adventures--Jim, Squire Trelawney, and Dr. Livesey--set out to find the treasure. -- But they trust the one they should most fear, Long John Silver. Charming, brave ruthless, murderous, Silver fills the squire's ship with pirates. And on the desolate, fever-infested island, the quest for gold becomes a deadly war of hide and seek. Desperate defenders against merciless killers battling over a cursed treasure won with blood, buried with blood, sought with blood. Incredible wealth that Jim and his friends can only claim... | en |
Bored in the Breakroom | A compilation of microfiction and short stories about the lives of academics and young professionals.
The print version contains 17 more stories not published in the free e-book version. | en |
The Man on the Peak | She loved the man she had divorced
Suzanne hadn't planned to meet her ex-husband, Raoul de Brecourt, in Hong Kong. She'd gone there for a holiday. But there was no escaping Raoul's overpowering presence.
From the start their marriage had been a mistake--for the wrong reasons. She had fought against his arrogance and his devilish charm. And he had treated her like a spoiled child.
Now, when it was too late, she realized she loved him. Worse, she had to watch him court the charming Sylvana Lapport! | en |
The Pity Party: 8th Grade in the Life of Me, Cass | In its paperback debut, the sequel to Alison Pollet's NOBODY WAS HERE follows quick-witted Cass Levin, through the rugged terrain of 8th grade at New York City's Elston Prep.
When eighth grade begins, Cass feels like the entire school is out to get her. She's stuck in classes without her closest friends Penelope and Tillie to keep her company. And as if that weren't bad enough, this is the year that students take an extended field trip to Elston Prep's nature retreat in the countryside.
Cass confronts her problems with spirited resilience, and she forges an unexpected friendship with Rod Punkin, the school's biggest behavior problem. When Rod goes missing, Cass embarks on a secret rescue mission in this funny, witty, and utterly moving story about being thirteen. | en |
Safe by His Side (Colby Agency #1) | No one could find special agent Jack Raine if he didn't want to be found. So who was the beautiful amnesiac on his doorstep, and how had she gotten to his hideaway? When a killer soon followed, Jack suspected a trap - so he took the lady and ran..."Kate" couldn't remember her own name, but she wanted the strong and silent Jack Raine the moment she saw him. Even as a slow heat burned between them, Kate knew she risked falling for this stranger who'd saved her life - a man her flashes of memory suggested she might have been sent to capture... | en |
The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion, #1) | Classic Crime from the Golden Age, the first in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling's favourite Golden Age author.
George Abbershaw is set for a social weekend at Black Dudley manor, hosted by Wyatt Petrie and his elderly uncle Colonel Combe, who enjoys the company of Bright Young Things. With Meggie Oliphant in attendance, George looks forward to the chance of getting closer to the girl he's set his heart on. But when murder spoils the party, the group soon find out that not only is there a killer in their midst, but the house is under the control of notorious criminals. Trapped and at their mercy, George must find a way to thwart their diabolical plans while getting himself and Meggie out alive.
Luckily for Abbershaw, among the guests is Albert Campion - a garrulous and affable party-crasher with a great knack for solving mysteries and interrogating suspects.
The Crime at Black Dudley, first published in 1929, is the first novel to introduce Margery Allingham's amiable and much loved sleuth - Albert Campion. | en |
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum | Investigative reporter Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of the 23rd Century surroundings while working for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY. | en |
Stress Less and Enjoy Each Day: 10 Principles to Help You Reduce Tension and Enjoy More Peace | Take a deep breath--less stress is just around the corner!
Do you feel like your stress levels are off the charts? We hurry through life from one place to the next, one task to the next, focused on conquering the next obstacle, making the next deal, running the next errand--and feeling like we'll never have enough time to do it all. The truth is, we have all the time in the world . . . if we just realize we can choose whether to live panicked or peaceful, stressed or calm.
Learn how to slow down long enough to see through the clutter . . . and to choose less stress. David Zerfoss offers a new perspective on how to approach life differently and gain the balance you desire. Learn to rely on the One who calms each storm and can help you find calm in every day. Motivational stories, quotes, and questions for reflection will guide you down that pathway and into a life of less stress. | en |
是-ZE- かみのほん [ZE - Kami no Hon] | Chao Ren Qi Lian Zai {Shi --ZE--} no, Xian Zai Ru Shou Kun Nan naQuan Yuan sabisukomitsukupepa, sainHui Can Jia Zhe henopurezentopepa,
Dian Pu Xian Ding Gou Ru Zhe Te Dian pepanadoniMiao kiXia rosaretaPeng Da nasupinohukomitsukuwoShou Lu !
shikamoXin Gui de26pezinoMiao kiXia roshimoShou Lu !!
Xuan Jian xBing Jian mo, Zhang Yi xA Sha Li mo, Shou Ye xLong Cheng morabushinMan Zai noYi Ce !!
Featuring events such as Genma being immature and making Ryuusei drink more than he can handle, Himi begging Genma until his anger subdues, Asari teasing Shoui, and Waki trepassing into Raizou's bedroom. This volume contains spin-offs of the -ZE- series. Most of these were created for autograph events and freebies during purchases. There's also a 26-page compilation of never before seen new material! No matter where you open it, this is a -ZE- full of love scenes! | Undefined |
Totally Awesome, Super-Cool Bible Stories as Drawn by Nerdy Ned | Join Ned as he draws--and learns--his way through the Bible!
Combining International Children's Bible(r) text with funny illustrations, this Bible storybook brings to life the most popular Bible stories with a humorous but respectful twist. Our narrator Ned will guide late elementary and middle-grade kids through the Bible--keeping them smiling the entire time. Even reluctant readers will engage with the Bible stories and come away with newfound Bible knowledge and clarity.
These funny sketches will grab kids' attention--and keep it--as they see their favorite Bible stories relate to their lives in a whole new way!
Meets national education standards. | en |
Lychee Light Club | The Lychee Light Club is considered Usamaru Furuya's breakthrough work. Originally designed as an experiemental project Lychee's themes of youthful rebellion and deus ex machina destruction, and attractive designs eventually won over a new generation of readers and critics, leading the way for Furuya to take on his many recent high profile properties.
In an abandoned warehouse, a band of nine students have assembled to plot out a new future. Their "leader" Zera is determined to cleanse his community of the ugly and cowardly. Having taken command of a band of young men to build him a god-like machine capable of changing the world. This machine, named "Lychee," will give them what they've been searching for...a beauty of the finest quality.
A surreal yet touching horror comedy Furuya's Lychee Light Club that mixes elements of French Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol and with modern day pop culture tropes and is set in modern day Tokyo. Shocking, sexy and innovative, the Lychee Light Clubis at the pinnacle of modern day Japanese seinenmanga (adult comics). | en |
Tales of Pain and Wonder | Included in this collection are 21 short stories by the award-winning author of Silk. Caitlin R. Kiernan has added a new voice to the world of horror and supernatural writing. Her stories consistently make it into The Years Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Her writing is unique, thought provoking, and leads you to places that you fear, yet find fascinating. | en |
The Flower Hunter: William Bartram, America's First Naturalist | Of John Bartram's nine children, it is William who best loves nature and wants to follow in his father's footsteps. William dreams of accompanying his father as he explores the wilderness of colonial America as botanist to the King of England in search of plant specimens. Using journals, maps, and her own vibrant paintings, Deborah Kogan Ray tells the captivating story of Billy's first trip to the Catskill Mountains and his further adventures as an adult, including a long, perilous journey into the remote wilderness.
A bibliography, biographical notes, and list of plant discoveries complete this remarkable book about America's first naturalist. | en |
Sleepless Fate | Should a person have to put their life on hold for another? Another, they planned to spend the rest of their life with? Another who has been in a coma for the past two years?
Brielle Elliot has spent the past two years at the side of her comatose fiance Keaton. Life is moving on around Brielle, but she has been dedicated to Keaton until Patrick comes into her life.
Patrick is the COO of his step-dad's company, he is rich, good looking, and his silky his voice alone makes panties drop. He has also been infatuated with Brielle since first meeting her in Business School. It seems as if fate has brought these two back together, but others have their own idea of how their story should end. | en |
Midnight Rescue (Killer Instincts, #1) | Dangerous. Ruthless. Savage. And she's the good guy.
Abby Sinclair had a desperate childhood until she was rescued and adopted by a retired army ranger who molded her into a master of self-defense. Now, she's a cunning and fearless assassin thrust into assignment after dangerous assignment, using everything she has-nerve, resilience, strength, sex-to come out on top. Her only rule: trust no one.
Abby's latest assignment is in Columbia: go undercover and snuff out a dangerous arms dealer active in the underground sex trade. But when Abby purposely blows her cover in a last-ditch attempt to free the helpless victims, deadly mercenary Kane Woodland is recruited as back-up. His mission: get Abby out of that hell hole.
The last thing Kane expects is to feel a primal attraction for Abby. But when she convinces him to join her on her perilous mission, their newfound passion could put the lives of their whole team at risk. | en |
Grace Happens Here: You Are Standing Where Grace is Happening | A wonderful message about God's grace and how to apply it to every aspect of your life.
Max Lucado looks at grace from all directions and reveals that no matter which way you look at it, God's grace is always there, ready to do wonders in your life. This beautiful gift book is filled with powerful quotes, Scripture, and stories that will transform your heart and mind with a deeper understanding of God's healing grace. The message gently and eloquently encourages you to accept completely His grace and forgiveness as well as extend the same blessing toward others.
"When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eye-popping big heartedness happens. Receiving grace today? Liberality is in the forecast for tomorrow. When you meet a bountiful person, you are standing where grace is happening." | en |
The Alchemists of Kush | Two Sudanese "Lost Boys."
Both fathers murdered during civil war.
Both mothers forced into exile through lands where the only law was violence.
To survive, they became ruthless loners and child soldiers, before finding mystic mentors who transformed them to create their destinies.
One, known to the streets as the Supreme Raptor.
The other, known to the Greeks as Horus, son of Osiris.
Separated by seven thousand years, and connected by immortal truth.
Both born in fire
Both baptised in blood
Both brutalised by the wicked
Both elevated by mystic madmen
Both sworn to transform the world
And themselves
By the power... of Alchemy.
A re-imagining of an ancient myth, and the invocation of a modern, urban reality, The Alchemists of Kush is the first novel to explore the lives of Somali and Sudanese youth in North America. Written by the award-winning maverick novelist Minister Faust, who's increasingly described as one of the finest voices of his generation, The Alchemists of Kush is a visionary novel that will anger, shock, profoundly move, and even transform its readers. | en |
The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources | From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion--a crisis that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water and arable land. With all of the planet's easily accessible resource deposits rapidly approaching exhaustion, the desperate hunt for supplies has become a frenzy of extreme exploration, as governments and corporations rush to stake their claim in areas previously considered too dangerous and remote. The Race for What's Lefttakes us from the Arctic to war zones to deep ocean floors, from a Russian submarine planting the country's flag on the North Pole seabed to the large-scale buying up of African farmland by Saudi Arabia, China, and other food-importing nations.
As Klare explains, this invasion of the final frontiers carries grave consequences. With resource extraction growing more complex, the environmental risks are becoming increasingly severe; the Deepwater Horizondisaster is only a preview of the dangers to come. At the same time, the intense search for dwindling supplies is igniting new border disputes, raising the likelihood of military confrontation. Inevitably, if the scouring of the globe continues on its present path, many key resources that modern industry relies upon will disappear completely. The only way out, Klare argues, is to alter our consumption patterns altogether--a crucial task that will be the greatest challenge of the coming century. | en |
Collide (Collide, #1) | Sherry has always known there was something out there. She's eighteen, works for a tabloid newspaper in Chicago and has a brother, Danny who is a lazy mooch. They live a pretty normal dull life with hippie parents and a normal existence. Then the moon dissapears and people start to go missing only to reappear later, but different. Sherry has an abusive ex-boyfriend who shows up and claims to be one of these beings that have been showing up around the world. He's no longer the same person in that body. He tells her he has come to protect her and her brother and takes her underground, against her will to save her, where they meet others like them. She begins to unravel the truth about Merrick, about what he's really doing here, about the way he looks at her, about the crazy dangerous world they live in. Can he convince her that he's here to help? Will she like what she finds when she opens up to the truth? Will he be the one to love her when everyone else has failed her? Will he be able to protect her? | en |
The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D.'s Christmas Carol | " 'Twas the night before Christmas and all over the house nothing was stirring ... except Veronika making eggnog in the kitchen."
So begins Agent Ward, The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D.'s strangest case yet.
Coming to the aid of an old ... well someone he used to know anyway ... Ward finds himself facing the demons of Christmas Past, Present and Future in a fight to save his life and those of the people he loves.
These are Christmas spirits of another kind.
The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D.'s Christmas Carol is a festive short story featuring many characters from the Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. novel series. | en |
Il verde mi dona | Finche giungla non ci separi!
"Sara una splendida avventura, vedrai!" e la frase con cui Liliana, detta Lilly, si sente proporre dal direttore della rivista di viaggi per cui lavora di volare in Africa - lei che non e mai stata inviata nemmeno nella regione accanto! - per realizzare un reportage sulle tracce di un popolo antico che soffre per un'inspiegabile carestia. Lilly e una ragazza di citta, abituata agli happy hour con La Ro, a vacanze di relax nei villaggi turistici e a scrivere al massimo la cronaca di tranquille gite fuori porta. Ma non puo rifiutare quella che sembra a tutti gli effetti l'occasione della vita! Cosi accetta la sfida, e senza quasi accorgersene si trova catapultata in una delle zone piu verdi e selvagge del mondo, dove le sue amate decollete devono lasciare il posto agli scarponcini da trekking, e dove la sua curiosita di giornalista finira col cacciarla in grossi guai... Ma tra colori e magia, antiche leggende, peripezie rocambolesche e soprattutto dopo l'inaspettato incontro con Lorenzo, naturalista del WWF, Lilly scoprira che anche una foresta piena di insidie e pericoli puo rivelarsi una giungla d'amore.
L'autrice di "Un tramonto ancora" torna con un romanzo divertente e originale, un centrifugato energizzante alla clorofilla per cuori inguaribilmente romantici a qualsiasi latitudine. | it |
Pretty When You Cry (Stripped, #3) | A new dark romance novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderlust and Prisoner...
I came from a place of dirt floors and holy scriptures. They told me the world outside was full of sin, and the first night I escape, I find out it's true. Ivan saves me, but he does more than that. He takes me. He makes me his own girl.
My conditioning runs too deep. Ivan sees what I am.
That's the thing about showing a mouse to a cat. He wants to play. And it's terrifying, even for me. Because the only thing darker than my past is his. | en |
The Afrikaans | "Blending modern day piracy and the high seas with international and government intrigue and deception, Pirog has crafted yet another novel that is chock full of WTF moments that will have you skipping sleep and possibly meals just to find out what happens next. It's a real page turner, that's for sure. If I could give it more than five stars, I would." --Todd Barselow
"Where there is a ship, there are pirates." --Greek Proverb
"They should have picked a different ship." --Thomas Prescott
Intimate in scale, but grandly outfitted, the luxury cruise liner 'The Afrikaans' hosts no more than 208 pampered guests, among them; former FBI contract agent Thomas Prescott. When the ship is overtaken by African pirates who are demanding the U.S. send AIDS relief to a small Zulu village in South Africa, it is up to Prescott to keep the 400 hostages alive. As the U.S. tries to figure out how to combat the terrorists' plot from the outside, World Health Organization doctor Gina Brady, undertakes the impossible task of rescuing three children from the secluded village. As the deadline draws near, Prescott and Brady must race against the clock to discover the truth; is it AIDS relief the pirates seek or a two billion dollar ransom from one of the richest men in the world. Or could the implications be so profound, and the stakes so high, a war hangs in the balance. Taut, riveting, with a plot snatched from the headlines of tomorrow, THE AFRIKAANS will leave you begging for more. | en |
There Will Be Phlogiston (Prosperity, #5) | An instructive story in which vice receives its just reward.
Inspired by true and scandalous tales of the Gaslight aristocracy, we present the most moral and improving tale of Lady Rosamond Wolfram.
Weep, reader, for the plight of our heroine as she descends into piteous ruin in the clutches of the notorious Phlogiston Baron, Anstruther Jones. Witness the horrors of feminine rebellion when this headstrong young lady defies her father, breaks an advantageous engagement, and slips into depravity with a social inferior. Before the last page is turned, you will have seen our heroine molested by carnival folk, snubbed at a dance, and drawn into a sinful menage a trois by an unrepentant sodomite, the wicked and licentious Lord Mercury.
Reader, take heed. No aspect of our unfortunate heroine's life, adventures, or conduct is at all admirable, desirable, exciting, thrilling, glamorous, or filled with heady passion and gay romance. | en |
Lizard Music | When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little-known invasion from outer space. | en |
Lust4Life | (This novel contains some Scottish dialect/slang, strong violence and language in parts and a couple of graphic sex scenes.)
If you knew you had only a short time left to live on this planet, to really live, what would you do with that precious time?
A young man with terminal cancer decides to live out his dreams and wild fantasies. But even when he finds love and a new lease on life along the way, it fails to stop his new adventurous ways from spiraling into an unstoppable train wreck of carnage and revenge against his childhood abuser.
A dark, sexy, black-humorous tale of sex, violence, the male psyche and an unstoppable whirlwind adventure of finding love in the least likely place. | en |
Solo a un passo da te | Max e un duro. E il ragazzo piu desiderato, popolare e bello della scuola ed e il miglior giocatore della squadra di football.
Odia Annie, quell'antipatica e secchiona ragazza capace di farlo sentire in colpa con un solo sguardo di disgusto e disapprovazione, sempre coinvolta in stupide attivita extra scolastiche.
Insomma, tra i due e odio a prima (s)vista ed entrambi preferiscono evitarsi. Fino a quando, in seguito a un atto di puro vandalismo, Max non si ritrova a dover scontare la sua punizione in una delle tante attivita di Annie. E ben presto scoprira che quella ragazza di stupido ha poco o niente.
Notera il suo coraggio, la sua simpatia, la sua bellezza - spesso nascosta da maglioni troppo larghi - e si trovera costretto a cambiare opinione.
Un progetto di clownterapia e un bambino senza capelli e dal volto pallido insegneranno loro cosa significa vivere.
Una storia d'amore che per Annie e un continuo alternarsi di emozioni contrastanti: Max si fa amare e un attimo dopo odiare, prima le insegna a fare l'amore e poi le dice di vederla solo come un'amica. Ed Annie e confusa, forse distrutta.
Ma lei non sa che Max custodisce un terribile segreto. Un segreto troppo grande, che non puo essere condiviso. | it |
The Tree | There is a river flowing near me, and I?ve watched that river change and grow. For eight hundred years I have lived here, through the wind, the fire, and the snow. This powerful song of an ancient Douglas fir celebrates the age-old cycle of life in the Pacific Rain Forest, revealing the interconnectedness of all things. From the gentle whisper of owls' wings to the haunting echo of a lone wolf 's cry, each scene resonates with the beauty and sacredness of nature. But when bulldozers invade the forest, the tree senses its impending destruction and asks, Who will house the owl? And who will hold that river's shore? And who will take refuge in my shadow, if my shadow falls no more? A stunningly illustrated book, The Tree sounds an urgent call to preserve our fragile environment, reminding each of us that hope for a brighter future lies in our own hands. ?I love this book!? Pete Seeger, musician and songwriter | en |
Karl Jaspers: From Selfhood to Being | This book traces the work of German philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) from his origins as a young psychiatrist up to his maturity as an existentialist philosopher. The critique of Jaspers's thought follows his attempts to grant meaning to the human search for self-understanding. It reveals the difficulties and frustrations entailed in this search. The book reveals to the reader Jaspers's handling of these difficulties through constituting a philosophical relation toward the Being existing beyond the individual: other people, the world, and transcendence. In this book, the author conducts an ongoing dialog with existing research into Jaspers's work, and proposes her own new reading. As well as critiquing the existing interpretations, the author uncovers the challenges Jaspers's character has presented the readers. Unlike most scholars, who generally ignored Jaspers's early writings, dealing with psychiatry and psychology, this book suggests a philosophical reading of these writings. This exposes the unity of the world from which Jaspers created, first as a psychiatrist and later as a philosopher. This reading shows Jaspers's work as an ambitious attempt to formulate an original perception of the two basic themes that have interested philosophy and human thought throughout the ages: Selfhood and Being. | en |
Minhas Irmãs, as Santas: memórias espirituais | Por quinze anos, Colleen Carroll Campbell empreendeu uma busca para entender o sentido da sua vida e da sua identidade a luz da fe crista e do feminismo contemporaneo. Desencadeada em meio a arrependimentos pos-festa num quarto em Milwaukee (EUA), essa busca a leva das piscinas de Lourdes e das ruinas de Auschwitz ao Salao Oval e ao Palacio Papal. Ao longo do caminho, ela confronta dilemas inescapaveis para a sua geracao: a confusao surgida com o caos sexual da cultura do <>, a tensao entre os desejos conflitantes por sucesso profissional e por um amor comprometido, a ambivalencia entre exigencias do matrimonio e da maternidade, a angustia por um amado pai que entra na demencia e pela sua propria infertilidade. Insatisfeita com as respostas prontas oferecidas tanto pelos feminismos seculares quanto pelas criticas antifeministas, ela encontra graca e inspiracao na amizade inesperada com seis santas mulheres: Teresa de Avila, Teresa de Lisieux, Faustina Kowalska, Edith Stein, Madre Teresa de Calcuta e Maria de Nazare. Suas vidas e escritos falam aos seus anseios mais profundos, guiam-na durante as suas mais duras decisoes, e a conduzem a repensar quase tudo o que ela achava que sabia a respeito do que significa ser uma mulher livre. | pt |
La acabadora | Siguiendo una costumbre sarda cuyos origenes se pierden en el tiempo, una anciana y una nina se unen a traves del sagrado vinculo de la adopcion del alma. Estamos en Soreni, un pequeno pueblo de Cerdena, en los anos cincuenta. Bonaria Urrai, la modista del lugar, mujer de antigua belleza y perenne soledad, ha adoptado a Maria, cuarta hija de una familia humilde que la descuida. Asi pues, la vida de la nina, ahora fill'e anima --<>-- de la tia Bonaria, se transforma por completo, y a su fina percepcion no escapa el aura de misterio que envuelve a su nueva madre: los largos silencios, las extranas salidas nocturnas y la sombra de temor que enciende los ojos de quienes se cruzan en su camino. Y aunque Maria crece feliz y amada junto a Bonaria, en realidad ignora una verdad que todos conocen: ademas de coser vestidos, su madre de alma es la mujer que reconforta a quienes se acercan al final del camino. Cuando llega la hora, es a ella, la acabadora, a quien buscan para proporcionar a los moribundos una muerte piadosa, el supremo gesto de amor de la ultima madre.
Galardonada con el Premio Campiello, el de mayor prestigio de Italia, La acabadora aborda el eterno tema del fin de nuestra existencia desde una perspectiva unica: la de una comunidad que, desde tiempos ancestrales, ha sabido enfrentar ese ultimo paso de forma colectiva y desprovista de tabues y falsos pudores. Con la maternidad como simbolo de lo que nos da la vida y nos entrega tambien al mas alla, esta inquietante novela recrea un universo atavico que, de alguna manera, sigue presente hasta nuestros dias. | es |
Irvin Cobb at His Best | Compilation of the Kentucky humorist's best comic stories and short books. Includes Speaking of Operations-; Eating in Two or Three Languages; The Life of the Party; A Plea for Old Cap Collier; One Third Off; and The Young Nuts of America. | en |
Stone Gods, Wooden Elephants | Lured to an ancient lost Khmer city in the jungle, which contains a fantastic cache of ancient bronze and stone carvings, Harry and Aloysius devise a plan to smuggle the massive cultural treasures across international borders and into the lucrative world art market. But all does not go well as the smugglers encounter shady characters and violence. | en |
Draconomicon: The Book of Dragons | The Book of Dragons
This title takes a comprehensive look at the dragons of the D&Dworld from a variety of perspectives. It includes information on playing dragons and dragon-like creatures, how to run a dragon in a fight, and how to both fight dragons and work with them as allies.
There are statistics on dragons of every type and at every age category, in addition to examples of lairs, hoards, and dragon minions. There are new rules, feats, spells, prestige classes, magic items, and other materials associated specifically with interaction with dragons including illustrated lairs and rules for creating treasure hoards. The book itself is designed in a prestige format, with heavy use of art throughout and constructed of premium materials.
To use this supplement, aDungeon Masteralso needs thePlayer's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual. A player needs only the Player's Handbook. | en |
Madigan Mine | Alex doesn't know what he wants to do, how to connect with people or what's good for him. He drifts his way through dead-end jobs and fumbled relationships, unable to find a way out of the rut his life has become. Then he runs into Madigan Sargood and everything changes.
A ray of light shining from an almost-forgotten past, Madigan is beautiful and impulsive, enigmatic and passionate beyond measure. This is what it means to live, Alex realises, and to love. Never mind that she can be somewhat possessive. Never mind that his best friend thinks there's something wrong with her, something dangerous even. Never mind that the creepy band of misfits she attracts have all but taken over his home. Madigan fills Alex's life with significance; he will put up with anything to be with her.
Until, without any warning, she kills herself.
Now Alex can't seem to get her out of his head, and his world - along with his sanity - begins to disintegrate. Black outs and missing time, conversations he can't recall, people he can't remember. Is this the product of a diseased and lovesick mind, or can Madigan really be trying to communicate with him?
When the past threatens to obliterate the future, Alex is forced to take action. To save himself and those he loves, he must discover the sinister reason why Madigan took her own life - and why she won't lie still in her grave. | en |
La espada del destino | La vida de un brujo cazador de monstruos no es facil. Tan pronto puede uno tener que meterse hasta el cuello en un estercolero para eliminar a la bestia carronera que amenaza la ciudad, intentado no atrapar una infeccion incurable, como se puede encontrar unido a la caceria de uno de los ultimos dragones, en la que la cuestion no es si los cazadores conseguiran matar a la pobre bestia, sino que pasara cuando tengan que repartirse el botin. Magos, principes, estarostas, voievodas, druidas, vexlings, driadas, juglares y criaturas de todo pelaje pueblan esta tierra, enzarzados en conflictos de supervivencia, codicia y amor, y entre ellos avanza, solitario, el brujo Geralt de Rivia.Andrzej Sapkowski es el gran renovador de la literatura fantastica de nuestros tiempos, un genio del lenguaje y la caracterizacion cuya prosa ya ha hechizado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. | es |
Allontanarsi (La saga dei Cazalet, #4) | E il 1945 e la guerra e finita. Il momento tanto atteso e sognato dai Cazalet per anni e finalmente arrivato. Eppure, l'eccitazione di fronte alla notizia che le armi sono state deposte e ormai sopita, e l'Inghilterra e ancora paralizzata nella morsa della privazione. Mentre l'impero si disgrega, a Home Place i Cazalet si apprestano a trascorrere quello che ha tutto il sapore dell'ultimo Natale insieme: il sapore malinconico del tempo che passa. I bambini sono ormai cresciuti, le ragazze si sono fatte donne, e gli adulti cominciano a invecchiare.
La lunga convivenza forzata e finita e la liberta obbliga a prendere delle decisioni: dovrebbe essere un momento felice, ma la guerra ha lasciato una ferita profonda, e ricominciare non e facile. Il futuro e incerto e una patina triste ammanta le giornate. Per ognuno e giunto il momento di prendere la propria strada, e inevitabilmente cio portera i membri della famiglia ad allontanarsi l'uno dall'altro. In questo riassetto difficoltoso, gli amori faticano piu di tutti: le coppie che erano state divise dalla guerra stanno lottando per rimettere insieme i pezzi, mentre per quelle che la guerra aveva tenuto insieme forse e ora di ammettere il proprio fallimento. Ma nelle ultime pagine comincia a soffiare un vento nuovo: ce ne accorgeremo nel finale a sorpresa, che riaccendera la speranza... | it |