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Alexandra Hill is enjoying the last bit of summer in her beautiful city, her thoughts on her last year of high school. When she wakes up one morning and finds herself reliving the same day again, though no one else notices, she hopes it is deja vu, but as the day happens again, she knows better. Something is very wrong. On her own, she tries to investigate, and finds a beautiful man with wings who will change her view about her entire world and send her on a journey with others just like her.

Knocked off her feet after 20 years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her family to move to Stehekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. She yearned for the quiet and respite of this community of 85 residents accessible only by boat, float plane, or hiking. Stehekin means the way through, and Hiking Naked chronicles Graville's journey through questions about work and calling. Ultimately, in the solitude bestowed by pines, firs, and mountain trails, she regained her spiritual footing and found her own way through.

Die ersten Herbststürme jagen über Cornwalls Küste, und DI Collin Brown ist in melancholischer Stimmung. Seine Frau ist für mehrere Wochen verreist, er und die Kinder sind auf sich allein gestellt. Ausgerechnet jetzt wird er mit einem beunruhigenden Fall konfrontiert: Die sechzehnjährige Carla Wellington ist verschwunden. Collin versucht, das Mädchen mithilfe von Hundertschaften und Freiwilligen zu finden, doch nach einigen Tagen fehlt immer noch jede Spur.

DCI Collin Brown glaubt es an diesem heißen Sommertag lediglich mit einem außergewöhnlichen Unfall zu tun zu haben: Ein Laster ist in ein Nebengebäude des seit Jahren leer stehenden Gutshauses Woodland gekracht. Doch aus der Routineangelegenheit entwickelt sich schnell ein brisanter Mordfall - nach Bergung des Lasters wird das Skelett eines Säuglings in dem stark beschädigten Gebäude gefunden, mit zertrümmertem Schädel.

Amy Sedaris meets Woody Allen in an uproarious memoir of self discovery. In her critically acclaimed memoir Dork Whore, Iris Bahr finally lost her virginity in the summer between high school and Brown University. In this book, she’s ready for love a year later - but not much wiser. Through all of her uproarious capers, she tries to reconcile her craving for mindblowing sex with her desire for a meaningful relationship - all in an attempt to become an adult. Sort of.

Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, "the French rat". That at least is how Harriet sees things, even if it’s Claude who has just asked Harriet to leave his Greenwich Village apartment. Well, one way or another she has no intention of leaving. To the contrary, she will stay and exact revenge - or would have if Claude had not had her unceremoniously evicted. Still, though moved out, Harriet is not about to move on. Not in any way. Girlfriends circle around to patronize and advise, but Harriet only takes offense, and it’s easy to understand why.

Fresh out of the Israeli Army, 20-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow in the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: She is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity. Dork Whore is a fresh and funny memoir about a young woman whose quirky personality and embarrassing neuroses always seem to get in the way of her getting what she wants.

Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money, why some of their shows were huge hits and others flopped, and much more. From Flo Ziegfeld and David Merrick, from Joseph Papp, from Cameron Mackintosh, from today’s up-and-coming new generation of producers - here are priceless words of wisdom.

How come nobody ever sees Miranda Ogilvy - except one smoking-hot neighbor and one stone cold killer? The tiny village called “Minokee” (Seminole for “alligators all over the place”) is chock full of mysteries like that, and like: Who is the hunky neighbor, Shepard Krausse, how in heck did he find the invisible Miranda, and why does such a nice guy have such deadly enemies? Who killed Miranda’s Aunt Phyllis? Is Shepard’s guide dog, Dave, really the smartest guy in town? Why does old Miz Cleary keep a loaded rifle beside her front porch rocking chair?

In 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was tortured and killed by four teenage girls, led by Melinda Loveless. Caught in a lesbian love triangle, the four girls would torture the young Shanda and burn her alive. The case would shock the picture-sque town in southern Indiana and make national headlines, making an entire nation ask, "why"?

There's a Ghost in this Machine is all about uncovering and bringing to light the untold history of Sonoma County, California from the early history of the Gravenstein Apple industry to the history of the destruction and resurrection of one of California's largest watersheds the Laguna de Santa Rosa.

Executives and professionals speak different languages, as disparate as Swahili and Greek. Agendas, vocabularies, and cultural conditioning destroy meaningful communication between them. This book exposes selling myths and profit-killing gaps between illusion and reality.

Joanna's marriage contract with Carter had been laid out when they were tiny cubs. It was the Pack tradition. Joanna was grateful that her chosen mate was be a high ranking wolf, but she wished that she could keep more of her own identity instead of being expected to conform to become Carter's perfect partner. Then Joanna kidnapped by a rival wolfpack. They hold her for ransom until their alpha leader begins to fall for Joanna himself.

Most individuals want to be successful in their lifetime. This audiobook offers a plan to becoming successful and reaching one's goals.

Shirley Wolf and Cindy Collier met in a juvenile detention center and had known each other for only a few hours when they decided to escape and randomly kill a stranger. They would go to a senior condominium center in Auburn, California, where they would seek an elderly victim. They would find one in the 85-year-old Anna Brackett. They entered her home under the ruse that they needed to use the phone to call their parents.

If fate suddenly made you more beautiful that you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare? The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only...

Eve Duncan’s mission in life is to bring closure to the families who have experienced the agony of a missing child. As a forensic sculptor, she is able to piece together bones, create a face, and match a name to a child who would have otherwise gone unidentified. Eve is brilliant, driven, and tormented - because her own daughter, Bonnie, was taken from her years ago. Now, with the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, a startling piece of evidence is uncovered in the quest to find Bonnie, leading to a connection that had been all but buried....

In der Bucht eines kleinen Küstenortes in Cornwall werden innerhalb kurzer Zeit ein toter Hund und die Leiche eines Mannes angespült, beide grausam verstümmelt. Der Mordfall bringt die Welt des friedlichen Dorfes empfindlich ins Wanken und verlangt Detective Inspector Collin Brown alles ab. Seine geliebte Bildhauerei und auch seine Familie kommen jetzt zu kurz.

Eve Duncan unwittingly walks into an obsessive killer’s trap—and enters into a deadly game that awakens her own darkest nightmares—in this “expertly plotted, eminently entertaining novel” (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. “Stunning and...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Countdown returns with a knock-out suspense thriller that pits a mother and son against a killer who's the stuff of nightmares. If you close your eyes, he’ll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation’s top...