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Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

Persephone, daughter of the harvest, has spent her life in a gilded cage—protected, controlled, and underestimated by the gods of Olympus. But when she steps into the Underworld, she discovers a realm unlike the stories: dangerous, complex… and alive. And its ruler is nothing like the monster she was warned about. Hades is quiet with power, shadow and flame, a king who commands fear but offers no lies. He does not ask Persephone to stay.

Non tutte le storie iniziano con un’idea.Alcune iniziano con una decisione.Decidere di rischiare.Decidere di guidare.Decidere di non chiedere il permesso ‘Queens’ è il podcast dedicato alle donne imprenditrici e alle loro imprese.Donne che costruiscono aziende, prendono colpi, fanno scelte scomode.Qui non celebriamo simboli.Analizziamo leadership, potere e risultati.Perché una regina non si racconta.Questo è ‘Queens’.

An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty The Queen, tracing the events of a reign that now spans seven decades, and evaluating her achievement as a practitioner of monarchy across the entirety of her reign. For millions of people, both in Britain and across the world, Elizabeth II...

Meet Arae: The smallest Viking in the village, with fire in her hair and a kingdom in her head. In this gentle, imaginative guided meditation for kids, listeners join Arae on a journey across a great lake, through an island of echoing stones, and into a truth she's always carried but never had words for: size is merely a suggestion.

The Harrington family has settled into a new home in Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill district, but things aren’t going well. Adrian doesn’t fit in at her new school. Because she easily gets such good grades, the other students torment her and call her “Adrian Einstein.” When she makes...

Enemies-to-more. Forced proximity. A queen who rules by magic and the one man she can’t disarm. Mandzee Hamartano didn’t ask to be queen. She didn’t ask for the peace treaty that’s turned half her city against her, the mage tournament that’s about to put her life on the line, or the envoy from Armonguard who’s moved into her palace and refuses to leave. She certainly didn’t ask to fall for him. Lovell Dunn is King Gidon’s royal envoy, tasked with one job: shadow the queen, keep the treaty, and report back.

The top 10 Sunday Times bestseller NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Who killed the Mayor? It’s up to the Marlow Murder Club to find out … Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies suddenly during a Town Council meeting. When traces of aconite—also known as the queen of poisons—are found in his...

After a merciless winter, spring has sprung in 1880 Stockholm, and the city awaits the arrival of the SS Vega, the first ship to have sailed the Northeast Passage. Life is busy at the orphanage, but twelve-year-old Mika quickly notices that the older orphans are up to something—and it doesn’t look good. When Constable Hoff approaches her with information about thefts around the city, Mika becomes even more concerned about what the other kids are up to—and what they might be planning for the Vega celebration.

Triumph and tragedy, love and loss, murder and malice in the lives of five fifteenth-century queens The fifteenth century was a turbulent age: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses dominated the lives of people both inside and out of the royal courts. Joan...

In a kingdom of shadows and ruin, I dared to love a cursed king. We've come to Irridain Court in disguise, clinging to a final thread of hope: a talisman that can break the curse before it kills Lore. Without it, he dies. No more stolen nights. No more whispered vows. No more us. The talisman...

At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town's first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip.

Casteel Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the staggering revelations. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable.

Queen of Her Own Heart is a spiritual transformation memoir. Kalia Bethany shares her journey of growth as she researched the work of many scholars and spiritual channels who have written about Mary Magdalene. She dispels misinformation, lies, and slander in Christian dogma. Bethany asserts that the Magdalene was the wife of Jesus and mother of three children, as well as a Master Spiritual Teacher. She interweaves her own healing and transformative journey as she pondered an alternative version of the "real" Mary Magdalene, other than what history has told us.

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States. Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in 1838 through the reigns of her forebears to her own turbulent time as Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.  

The price of love is loss. We all pay it eventually In every life Some moments are too painful to be endured. Some moments will break you if you let them. And yet I cant afford to let anything break me, because we have one chance to win this war. One chance to create a better life for everyone...

Trick I - The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear - each as dead as the other. Trick II - From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of 12 feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back - a feat utterly impossible to perform yet brazenly and undeniably done.

Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal - but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene...

American travel writer Poke Rafferty has seen - and survived - some of the worst Bangkok has to offer. But now, finally married to his longtime love, Rose, and raising the young daughter, Miaow, they adopted from the streets, Poke believes his life is stable at last. Then a nightmare figure from Rose's time as a Patpong dancer barges into their world, threatening their peace, their love, their home, their lives.

Growing up in the hives, Cricket has always had a million questions. Why are trees forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? And the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: Why is Cricket immune to Queen Wasp's powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the HiveWings, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, Cricket has to hide, terrified of being discovered. Now she's hiding again, wanted for stealing the Book of Clearsight along with her new SilkWing friends, Blue and Swordtail, and the fierce LeafWing, Sundew.