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Climbing the coldest mountain in North America, Leslie and the team of mountaineers will attempt to summit Mt. Denali. They’ll face minus 40 degree temperatures, unpredictable weather, and dangerous glacier crevasses. Will they make it, or will they find their grave on the mountain?

Thanks to a hair-raising rescue by James Woods in the first book of the Do Not Assume trilogy, Nicoleta has stayed ahead of her genetic history. But now, she and James must think about more than themselves. Smuggling Nicoleta's half-siblings out of Romania and into the United States isn't going to be easy, but the innocent must be protected and hidden from those who would want to use them.

Der 'Schmetterlingskiller', wie der Serienmörder von der Polizei getauft wurde, entführt Frauen. Bei seinen Übergriffen trägt er eine Babymaske und hinterlässt keine beweiskräftigen Spuren. Mit einem scharfen Gegenstand ritzt er seinen Opfern Schmetterlinge in die Haut ihrer Rücken und legt ihre Leichen zwischen Mülltonnen ab. Karl Breuer sucht erneut Rat bei Doktor Hornoff und dessen Zwillingsbruder. Die Suche führt die Ermittler in eine Sackgasse, doch dann begeht der Mörder einen frappierenden Fehler - er weicht von seinem Plan ab.

Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer and Julie, schoolfriends from very different backgrounds. As they grow into the world of the seventies and eighties, the lives of the three best friends are changed forever by two young men, Robin and Jack, and a tragedy which engulfs them all.

Diego thought he had it all: money, fame, a life of luxury and a beautiful wife. Then, at the pinnacle of international stardom, his world comes crashing down when his wife suddenly leaves him. Desperate for answers, Diego meets Nessie, a high-spirited backpacker, and is presented with an opportunity to walk along the only road he has ever been happy on.

After exploding the Santiago Cartel building and killing every member, Layla feels on top of the world with her new divas and new man by her side. She feels unstoppable, and knowing she was now the last of the original Teflon Divas; with Iris and Tess presumed dead from the explosion. Layla and her divas are trying to get as far as they can from New York City. A new life in San Francisco is on the horizon, but when unexpected plans happen they have to split up.

Mia Strauss is trying to be a good mother. She’s worked hard to build a stable life since losing her memory at 18 when an assailant pushed her from the third-story landing of her parents’ gold coast mansion. But lately, Mia is losing control and feels she’s being watched wherever she goes. She is taking more and more of her prescription drugs to quiet the rising panic and anxiety. But when her husband, Alexander, comes home to find her face down on their living room floor, she’s at risk of losing her girls.

Shu Yan is done being sold—first by her parents, and then by the owner of the brothel where she has been a serving girl. Now a runaway with a price on her head, she has to choose: the dangers of being a young girl alone in the world, or the dangers of accompanying a legendary swordsman bent on revenge?

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the lives of nine of its residents—the town doctor, a young expectant mother, and seven infants. So, when journalist Finn Hardwick is assigned the story as part of a national thirtieth anniversary memorial service, he arrives at the town ready to interview its residents, thinking they’ll be ready to share and eager to make headlines. He isn’t prepared for the resistance. Or for what appears to be a collective unwillingness to answer his questions.

« Je veux faire ce que je veux. Je veux jouer la pantomime, même la comédie. » Précédemment parus dans divers journaux, ces textes de nature diverse – confidences, dialogues, textes courts, scénettes, poèmes en prose – ont été écrits lorsque Colette se sépare de son premier époux, Willy, et tombe amoureuse de Mathilde de Morny, dite Missy. C’est également l’époque où Colette monte sur scène et devient mime, des choix de vie osés au début du 20e siècle.

Colbie Jones has worked hard to design a pain-free life. So when she catches her boyfriend cheating, it doesn’t hurt that much. But when Colbie receives a call that her estranged father, Emmett, has been badly injured, she realizes it’s time to pack her bags and finally face him—and that’s going to hurt.

Schottland, 1314: In den Highlands tobt ein erbitterter Krieg zwischen den Engländern und den Clans um die schottische Unabhängigkeit. Als die Lage sich zuspitzt, beschließt die mutige Kriegerin Enja, die zur Assassinin ausgebildet wurde, für die Schotten zu kämpfen – an der Seite des Clanführers James Douglas. Am Tag der großen Schlacht fällt der König der Schotten eine schwerwiegende Entscheidung: Enja soll sich als Frau vom Kampfgeschehen fernhalten. Doch als sie in den Reihen ihrer Feinde jemanden erkennt, dem sie vor Jahren Rache geschworen hat, weiß sie: Dies ist ihre einzige Chance.

She was taken against her will. On her fifteenth birthday, trafficking victim Affi Smith goes for a run and never returns. With a new identity and secure home in the Scottish Highlands, she was supposed to be safe. She escaped once. With personal ties to Affi’s case, DS Max Craigie joins the investigation. When he discovers other trafficking victims have disappeared in exactly the same circumstances, he knows one thing for certain – there’s a leak somewhere within law-enforcement.

À la pointe sud de la Nouvelle-Zélande, dans la région isolée des Catlins, au cœur d'une nature sauvage, vivent Autumn et sa fille Milly. Sur ce dernier bastion de terre avant l'océan Austral et le pôle Sud, elles gèrent le camping Mutunga o te ao, « le bout du monde » en maori. Autumn et Milly forment un duo inséparable, jusqu'au jour où débarque Flore, une jeune parisienne en quête de rédemption.

Brought to you by Penguin. A young woman's extraordinary journey of self-discovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world. I used to believe the world had been created for me; every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as...

Artist and photographer Mikky dos Santos is brilliant, but rebellious. After a personal catastrophe in New York, she insists on going to Greece to authenticate a priceless 900-year-old Torah, where she makes a promise to return it to the Jewish museum in Rhodes.

Modern-day pirates took more than Jori Virtanen’s friends: they stole his face. Not only does the 24-year-old former model have to confront months of reconstructive surgery, he discovers his previous life was as superficial as his looks.

Jenny steckt in einer schwierigen Beziehung und lieber heute als morgen möchte sie sich von ihrem Lebensgefährten trennen. Doch das ist komplizierter als gedacht... Da kommt die Zeitungsannonce gerade recht: Drei Männer suchen eine Reisebegleitung, um ihren traumatisierten Freund aus seiner Erstarrung zu befreien.

The loss of a "nuclear" bomb off Puerto Rico during WWII brings strange consequences to a stressed community in Washington State decades later. In the Skagit River Valley, gateway to the pristine Pacific Northwest wilderness, vegetation, birds, and people are inexplicitly dying.

Middlemarch is a novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. It first appeared in eight installments in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite comic elements, Middlemarch uses realism to encompass historical events.