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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart - he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone - but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods.

In a postapocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. A woman who has survived the annihilation of her village and a terrible rape by an enemy general wanders into the desert, hoping to die. Instead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the colour of sand. Gripped by the certainty that her daughter is different - special - she names her Onyesonwu, which means 'who fears death?' in an ancient language.

As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, Vivienne Margaux, the powerful head of a major New York theater company has no time for her. She does have one friend - Michael - but no one can see him except her. When Jane is in her 30s, working for her mother's company, she is just as alone as she was as a child. Then she finds Michael again - handsome and just the same as she remembers him, only now he's not imaginary.

On the night her father dies, Arlyn is certain that the man she is meant to be with will walk into her life, but fate seems to be playing a trick when John Moody knocks on her door to ask for directions. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief.

On the night her father dies, Arlyn - a dreamy believer in destiny and love - is certain the man she is meant to be with will walk into her life. But fate seems to be playing a trick when cool, practical, and deliberate John Moody knocks on her door to ask for directions. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of Manhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound, all in a search for family and identity.

In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice - save the woman he loves or everyone else? - while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of.

1942 - Japanese bombs rain down in Darwin, Australia. Motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger’s daughter, turns to the road, seeking the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. As they journey from the vine forests to Australia’s wild and magical monsoon lands, they will encounter grave danger and discover true love.

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will be, will be.” However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder.

Band 1Er ist mein Schicksal. Er ist mein Verderben. Er ist mein Untergang. Breanna glaubt fest daran, dass Vampire nur in Geschichten existieren, bis sie von dem unverschämt attraktiven Vampir Coldan entführt wird. Sein Clan braucht sie im Kampf gegen den unsterblichen Vampirkönig, denn ihr einzigartiges Blut ist eine mächtige Waffe. Breanna gerät zwischen die Fronten und muss nicht nur um ihr Leben, sondern auch um ihr Herz kämpfen, denn Coldan übt eine verbotene Faszination auf sie aus.Gefährlich heiß. Übernatürlich romantisch. Der Auftakt der Vampir-Romantasy-Dilogie.

When twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa loses her grandmother, enigmatic and distant proprietor of the Hwawoldang, she decides to respect her wishes by keeping the store going for at least another month, between the hours of 10pm and midnight. She has never learnt to make the traditional desserts herself, and hopes to learn more about her grandmother in the process. On her very first day at work, she is soon interrupted by one of her grandmother’s most regular visitors, who hints that Hwawoldang is no ordinary pastry shop, and its customers not entirely alive…

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm.

What do you do when something magical happens...in your own backyard? Linda and Earl are a happy couple. Although married for many years, they have never had children. Still, they are content being together, and watching reruns of "I Love Lucy" keeps them close. That, and a magical garden that never seems to grow what they plant. One day Earl finds a set of infant toes in the loam. He and Linda plant them and watch in amazement as the garden produces an enormous baby.

Im Wettlauf mit der Zeit begibt sich Daria auf die Suche nach dem sagenumwobenen Schwert Caliburn. Nach den zutiefst erschütternden Ereignissen vor einigen Wochen hat sich Darias Leben drastisch verändert, aber dieses Mal hat sie sich bewusst dazu entschieden. Die ihr vom Rat des Ordens auferlegte Strafe gibt ihr die Möglichkeit, sich auf die Suche nach der einzigen Waffe zu begeben, die ihrem Erzfeind gefährlich werden kann. Doch das mächtige Verbotene Artefakt war nicht umsonst ein ganzes Jahrtausend unauffindbar, denn nur, wer sich würdig erweist, wird Caliburn finden.

Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a call—there is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and he’s asking for her. This man isn’t the Ba Qianze remembers: he is much older, more fragile, and worst of all, haunted by a half-forgotten prophecy.

Was würdest Du tun, wenn Dir Deine Tochter anvertraut, dass sie magische Kräfte hat? Für Alice, eine talentierte Malerin und liebevolle Mutter, ist die Antwort klar: Sie wird ihre Tochter mit allen Mitteln beschützen. Als ihre Tochter ein Stipendium für ein mysteriöses Elite-Internat erhält, ahnt Alice noch nicht, dass sie beide Teil einer uralten Prophezeiung sind. In einer Welt, in der Engel unerkannt unter uns leben und vergessene Märchen mehr Wahrheit enthalten als gedacht, muss sich Alice ihrer Bestimmung stellen.

Ava Adams is known as The Storyteller, using hypnotism to draw long-buried memories from the lost and the lonely. When her heart is shattered by a broken engagement, she vows to leave her gift behind, unable to bear the pain of others. Damien Carter is running from disaster when he finds himself staring at an old advertisement with Ava’s face on it. The promise that her gift can help unlock his past draws him to her. As dark forces conspire to break them, can they reach beyond the prison of their memories to find redemption together?

Sucesso de vendas na Espanha e fenômeno literário, Cupim é um romance de terror feminista, duro, poético e visceral, carregado de rezas, maldições, anjos e santos. Layla Martínez cria uma narrativa poderosa em que a raiva e o rancor crescem como um cupinzeiro diante da injustiça social. Todas as casas guardam a história daqueles que as habitaram. As paredes dessa construção perdida no meio do nada falam de vozes que surgem sob as camas, de santas que aparecem no teto da cozinha, de desaparecimentos que nunca se esclarecem.

Scarlett Fernsby holds the world record for shortest relationships. Mostly thanks to overprotective parents and an interfering brother, every attempt at dating has been a disaster. When her whole family is out of town for six glorious months, she knows it's time to find love. What she didn't count on was Wade Hendrix. Her older brother's best friend. He's even worse than her brother. He's soon crashing every date of hers, and Scarlett's beginning to wonder if he's made it his life's mission to annoy her. Wade is a firefighter with a hero complex; she doesn't want to be his pity problem.

Iris Ellington isn't looking for love. Not even a little bit. With a long list of failed relationships behind her, she's decided to reinvent herself as a person who doesn't fall head over heels on the first date. New town. New job. New Iris. But someone—or something—has other plans. When her neighbor's newspaper lands in front of her door, Iris has no choice but to return it. And when she does, she comes face to face with a ridiculously handsome but very grumpy chef who all but slams the door in her face.

Beckett McCarthy's beloved Gran always taught him to find magic in mundane, everyday things. But since she died, he no longer feels any magic. In fact, he feels nothing at all. So, when he has an opportunity to spend a summer abroad in Serendipity Springs, he's expecting little more than a change in scenery. Until Keeley Roberts—quite literally—falls into his life. From their first chaotic encounter in a stuck elevator, Beckett and Keeley can't seem to stay apart. Not that Becks is complaining.