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Set in the harsh desert of the Australian outback, Time Is the Longest Distance is a moral story of immorality in a place where "night comes on like a door slamming shut". Lilly, a 45-year-old New Yorker, is persuaded by her newly-found father, Cameron, to take on the Canning Stock Route, the most difficult outback track in the country. Crossing the dead heart of the Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, she is joined by her half-brother, Grant, and his twenty-something daughter, Jen.

Naomi and I are best friends. School runs, dog walks, a shoulder to cry on over a glass of wine - we’re inseparable. But now my husband has walked out, I need her more than ever. I know she will help me pick up the pieces. Because she knows about the lie I told to protect her. She knows how much I’ve sacrificed for this friendship. And she’d never let anyone hurt me. Would she?

Rescued by the US Air Force, Jim, Staci, and Lou are thrust into another agonizing situation. No one finds it easy to be under adult supervision after being on their own for so long, but without the support of the family, can the teens come to terms with the tragedies that have befallen their families and themselves? How will they cope with what is to come? What will happen to the new addition to their group? Uncertainty is all around, but surely God didn't bring them this far together just to separate them all now.

Shipwrecked on the remote volcanic island of Agrihan and with one of them severely injured, Lou Benson and Jim and Staci Kirk have to find their way to civilization. Joined by orphan Ailsa Cudby, who has been living with a local village since her parents died, they set off past the volcano in search of an abandoned US Air Force base.

Lia Wilder, a barista with a flair for inventing specialty coffee, always enjoys the annual Battle of the Flowers parade held each summer in Headley Cross. All the local businesses get involved in the competition and build a float made entirely of flowers and colored lights. Lia has a not-so-secret crush on the local Christian DJ, Jordan Tanner, so when first prize of the Miss Battle title is a date with Jordan, Lia is railroaded into entering the contest.

I have always loved the Cotswolds. I think I loved them even before I found them, in that half-formed ideal one has of where to put down roots. Somewhere peaceful, green, where the road meanders between drystone walls and from town to town, and a strip of blue bursts from brook to river and back again. For eight years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for Cotswold Life about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir she brings together all of those stories - and more - for the first time.

Earth is nothing like Romy expected. A disappointing fact made clear far too many times. Over the last year and a half, her world has shattered again and again, along with her sanity, and now Knot 27 is split in two with no sign of reconciliation. There is no end in sight. When the leader of their rebel movement steps down, the man Romy loves takes over the role of commander-general. They are outnumbered. They are outgunned. Not only are the Mandate Membersas deprived of humanity as ever, butanother lethal player has taken the field.

Vor einem Jahr hat sich Caroline Johnson das Leben genommen, genau wie ihr Mann nur wenige Monate zuvor. Ihre Tochter Anna leidet schwer unter dem Verlust, fragt sich wieder und wieder, was die Eltern in den Tod getrieben hat. Besonders seit sie selbst Mutter geworden ist, quält die Ungewissheit sie mehr denn je. Sie beginnt nachzuforschen, stößt schnell auf Lügen und Ungereimtheiten. Dann aber spürt Anna, dass jemand sie beobachtet, ihr nachstellt. Schon bald muss sie lernen: Manche Dinge sollte man besser ruhen lassen.

When Jim and Staci Kirk's parents go missing, he decides to search for them himself. Unbeknownst to him, his sister and their best friend, Lou, stow away to join him. It seems so simple on paper, sail from England to the Philippines and find the Kirks. But a hurricane named Erika and a relentless shark conspire against them to make the voyage one of the most perilous trips the teenagers have ever lived. Can they endure the danger? Will they find the Kirks alive or does God have another idea in mind?

Vystopia is the normal response any feeling human being should have after discovering the nature and extent of society’s systematized animal abuse. It’s fueled by the trancelike collusion of non-vegans with a dystopian world they’ve not yet realized they’re part of. Best-selling author Clare Mann, a vegan psychologist, communications trainer, and existential psychotherapist, not only validates the vegan’s experience but rejects medical labels that claim such anguish is abnormal.

When a body is pulled from the dank and dangerous fens on the outskirts of town, everybody assumes it was a tragic accident. But Detective Tara Thorpe, newly joined and determined to prove herself, suspects there’s more to the story. Tara is desperate to investigate further, but her supervisor Patrick Wilkins has other ideas. He would rather die than let this ambitious upstart show him up - even if it means some digging in Tara’s secret past to keep her under his thumb.

Former US Army Captain Mia Starr has built a new life for herself in Denver, far away from camel spiders and sand - and the terrible secrets of her first deployment to Iraq. She isn't looking for a relationship, especially not with an intrusive photojournalist. Joaquin Ramirez might be sexy, but in her experience, photojournalists only want to make a buck off other people's suffering. Still, the universe must have a sick sense of humor because it keeps throwing her together with Joaquin, making the desire she feels for him harder and harder to resist.

Can true love be their crowning glory? Olivia Charlton is a princess who believes in love - not a high priority in a royal family hung up on tradition and duty. Meanwhile, village sweetheart Rosie Perkins has no time for affairs of the heart - she's just struggling to keep her cafe and life afloat. When Olivia heads to Cornwall to escape her royal duties for a few weeks, the two meet and sparks fly. But can a cafe owner and a princess truly end up with their own happily ever after when all the odds are stacked against them?

Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray are finally united after waiting over a century to be together, but they become aware a dark threat is looming over a child of the Shadow Market: a lost Herondale, from a line of Herondales who have used the Market to hide from their fellow Nephilim. Now is the time for the lost Herondale to be discovered. Jem and Tessa have to find him before his enemies can.

La oscuridad ha regresado al mundo de los Cazadores de sombras. Mientras el caos y la destrucción los amenazan, Clary, Jace, Simon, y sus amigos deben unirse para luchar contra el mayor enemigo al que se han enfrentado jamás los nefilim: el hermano de Clary, Sebastian. En la lucha por intentar derrotarlo se perderán vidas, se sacrificarán amores, y el mundo entero cambiará en el sexto volumen de la saga Cazadores de sombras.

Jace es ahora un sirviente del mal, vinculado a Sebastian por toda la eternidad. Solo un pequeño grupo de cazadores de sombras cree posible su salvación. Para conseguirlo, deben desafiar al Cónclave, y actuar sin Clary, porque ella está jugando a un juego muy peligroso por su propia cuenta y riesgo. Si pierde, el precio que deberá pagar no consiste tan solo en entregar su vida, sino también el alma de Jace. Clary está dispuesta a hacer lo que sea por Jace, pero ¿puede seguir confiando en él? ¿O lo ha perdido para siempre? ¿El precio es demasiado alto, incluso para el amor?

Alguien está dando muerte a los cazadores de sombras del círculo de Valentine, y eso vuelve a enemistarlos con los subterráneos. Solo Simon, ahora convertido en vampiro, podrá evitar el enfrentamiento. Mientras, Clary y Jace descubrirán un misterio que los llevará a fortalecer su relación o... a destruirla para siempre. Amor, sangre, traición, venganza... Los peligros nunca habían sido tan grandes antes de esta cuarta entrega de la exitosa serie de Cassandra Clare, que retoma la historia donde la dejó Ciudad de Cristal.

Archaeologist Dr. Lou Fitzgerald is used to unexpected happenings, and they don't usually faze her. After surviving a childhood disability and dealing with an unfair boss, Lou has learned the art of rolling with the punches. But when she arrives at Dark Lake, what was supposed to be a simple archaeological dig is beyond even her wildest imaginations.

¿Debería Tessa Gray sentirse feliz? ¿Acaso no se sienten así todas las novias? Prometida a Jem, sigue recordando las palabras de Will declarándole su amor. Pero los planes de Mortmain, que necesita a la chica para acabar con los Cazadores de Sombras, ¿cambiarán el destino de Tessa? Si la única manera de salvar el mundo fuera destruyendo a quien más ama, ¿lo haría?

Tessa Gray está dispuesta a encontrar a su hermano. Para ello, se dirige a Londres, donde será raptada por una organización secreta llamada el Club Pandemonium, y rescatada por los Cazadores de Sombras. Pronto, Tessa verá su corazón dividido entre Jem, cuya frágil belleza oculta un oscuro secreto, y Will, cuya hiriente ironía y cambios de humor constantes la mantienen a distancia, mientras los tres intentan salvar... el mundo.