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Um den Geheimnissen ihrer Herkunft nachzuspüren und zu sich selbst zu finden, kehrt die junge Tierärztin Claire in die Wildnis Australiens auf die Farm ihrer Familie zurück. Die Reise in die Vergangenheit konfrontiert sie mit dem bewegten Schicksal ihrer couragierten Mutter Ellie, die auch dann an der Liebe ihres Lebens festhielt, als ihr Verlobter Joe im Zweiten Weltkrieg vermisst wird.

Die kleine Kitty kommt in einem Wandertheater auf die Welt, mit dem ihre Eltern in Australien von Stadt zu Stadt ziehen. Erst die Wirtschaftskrise zwingt die Künstlerfamilie zum Aufgeben. Als Dimitri, ein begüterter Hotelier, der Familie ein Heim bietet, glaubt das Mädchen, endlich ein Zuhause gefunden zu haben. Doch damit bahnt sich eine Katastrophe an, die Mutter und Tochter erneut zum Aufbruch zwingt. Bis aus Kitty ein gefeierter Bühnenstar wird, muss sie noch viele Schicksalsschläge meistern.

The Covenant describes the multiple suicide attempts of the author, and the events that built up to this. It is a transparent unveiling of a world of childhood molestation and rape, and the aftermath of these. It is a journey from chaos and pain to salvation and hope.

Even if she must sell herself in marriage to the highest bidder, Lady Laura Middleton is determined to provide her daughter a home and protector. But when Queen Eleanor presents her cousin with four suitors, among them is one who believes Laura betrayed him 10 years past. Despite her attempts to discourage his pursuit, he is determined to have her for the dowry needed to save his lands.

Olive Kennedy doesn't believe in fairy tales. In a desperate attempt to earn income, fairy world therapist Olive Kennedy resorts to finding clients at the Texas Renaissance Festival. When she discovers the corpse of her client's husband discarded in her booth, she realizes that earning her next paycheck is the least of her worries. Even worse, Olive learns the murderer may be a magical monster from the fairy realm.

As her body lay dying, her spirit began to travel A Second Chance at Heaven is an unforgettable account of one young woman’s encounter with the Lord of Life. A visceral account of one woman’s journey to hell and back An ideal resource for parents looking to help a teen struggling with...

Kinna has a pixie she can't train and a head full of doubts. Her worst fears come true when she fails the tournament entrance test. She flees her clan in disgrace, inexplicably drawn to a Mirage, a rare dragon she has no business training. Ayden is cursed. Anyone he touches turns to ash before his eyes. He hides among the dragon clan with the only creatures he cannot hurt. When Kinna frees his favorite dragon, his world turns upside down.

When the fairy realm faces a new, terrifying threat from a goblin Spellweaver, Olive Kennedy leaves her home in Houston to travel through the most dangerous places in Faythander in order to confront him. While there, she learns that history is a muddled subject, especially when elves are involved. Her only comfort comes from Kull, her Viking warrior sidekick - who somehow negates her bad fortune. Yet how long can their relationship last when his past is brought to light? Olive will be tested beyond anything she has endured so far, as the secrets of Faythander's sordid and bloody past are exposed - one that could irrevocably alter the future and destroy the lives of everyone she loves.

Carrie Stewart is a dedicated horsewoman. She runs a successful breeding and training program. She is a good friend, a good sister and a favorite aunt, but she has been burned by love. Carrie has never gotten over her first love, roper Chance Ryan. When Carrie takes her 10-year-old nephew, Tyler, to the All American Quarter Horse Congress, fate pushes Chance back into her life.

Ed and Kim experience unexpected consequences when they try to reunite their adopted daughter with her Native American heritage. The couple decides to take turns splitting their time between their Seattle condo and the second home they've built on the Montana prairie so Kaitlyn can get to know her birthplace.

Allie Navarro har været på sommerlejr for kodenørder. På lejren har hun lavet venskabsappen Click'd, som matcher de brugere, der har mest til fælles, og sender dem ud på en sjov skattejagt for at finde hinanden. Efter kun én dag bliver appen et hit, og alle på skolen taler om den. Men Allie er nervøs.

Eloise ist der Stolz ihres Mannes Edward. Dennoch behandelt der Kommandant der englischen Armee seine schöne, kluge Frau mit der gleichen Härte wie seine Truppen, die er unerbittlich gegen die Ureinwohner Australiens treibt. Als Edward zunehmend dem Rum verfällt, verbietet Eloise sich aus Loyalität, ihn zu verlassen. Erst der tragische Tod ihres Sohnes gibt ihr die Kraft dazu. Nun ist Eloise frei für einen Mann, der sie innig verehrt und seit Jahren über sie wacht.

Marcus and Theron are two lovers bound by an eternal and unshakable bond. As a series of catastrophic events nearly destroys their world, the two along with a chosen few become Emissaries destined, over the course of 13,000 years and through many reincarnations, to lead humanity into an era of peace and prosperity as foretold by the Elders of their race. But the forces of evil have taken possession of one man, Helghul, who relentlessly pursues Marcus and Theron through time, determined to destroy them and ruin all hope for salvation.

Just as fake medium Eleanor Wilde begins falling for Nicholas Hartford III and his endearing family, she's summoned to a remote Scottish castle where an unusual assignment to locate a haunted trove of treasure threatens Eleanor's budding romance, her livelihood...and her life!

After her Click'd catastrophe, Allie Navarro is determined to redeem herself. So when the class gets an assignment to create a mobile game from recycled code, Allie pairs up with Courtney, her best friend from CodeGirls camp, to create the perfect app: Swap'd. Kids buy, sell, and trade stuff at school all the time. Candy. Clothes. Video games. Slime. Why not make a fiercely competitive, totally anonymous, beat-the-clock game out of it? Once Swap'd is in full-swing, Allie is certain that it's the answer to all her problems.

Selling mystical elixirs and tantalizing tonics is a pretty good way for a fake medium to earn a living. Or at least it's Ellie's main source of income - until a villager turns up dead. The cause? Murder by poisoning. And though Ellie's concoctions don't include anything worthy of a skull and crossbones, suddenly she's the prime suspect. Her only recourse is to find the culprit who did do away with Sarah Blackthorne. No one liked the mean old battle-ax. But did anyone hate her enough to kill her?

Ellie has an ailing sister to care for and working as a ghost hunter who doesn't believe in ghosts helps cover the bills. On her latest job, though, she may be in for some genuine scares. The skeptical, reserved, and very rich Nicholas Hartford III has flown her all the way to his family's ancestral estate in England - supposedly haunted by a phantom named Xavier. Something is causing the flashes of light, mysterious accidents and other apparent pranks in the chilly, eerie castle. His mother is sure that Xavier is real, and he's willing to employ Ellie if she can get to the bottom of it.

Tamara Ghandour, author, podcaster, keynote speaker and founder of innovation training company LaunchStreet, used to believe that innovation was the domain of a select few, exclusive to certain industries or relegated to a specific job role. But, as Tamara discovered in her 25 years of work and research, everybody has the capacity to innovate. It's a person's unique innovation style, which can be assessed and channelled, that can transform inertia into innovation.

Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie with Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness. In The Way of the Whore, Mira, an introverted Jewish girl obsessed with Jean Genet, allows herself to be seduced by the sex industry, determined to find meaning in her tormented relationships with cruel men.

On a mangy beach in Key West, 16-year-old Myra meets Elijah, a Tanzanian musician twice her age. Trapped on a Spring Break family vacation, Myra longs to lose her virginity to Elijah, and is shocked to learn he lives with Gayl, a secretive, violent woman with a strange power over him. When Myra and her splitting-up family return home, she falls in with a pot-smoking anarchist crowd. But when Gayl and Elijah follow her north, she walks willingly into their world, engaging in more and more abject sexual games. As Myra enters unfamiliar worlds of sex, porn, race, and class, she explores territories unknown in herself.