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Fishadella, the fishcake, is special. She lives in Fishville with her father, lazy brother Jared, and all the other fishcake families. Whether it’s discovering a new friend or finding a mother, everyday is an exciting adventure for Fishadella, the amazing, fearless fishcake.

Med ett temperament lika otämjt som landskapet i Wyoming är affärsmannen Trent Sinclair inte den förlåtande typen precis. Och han har inte förlåtit Bryn Matthews och hennes lögner sedan den där dagen för sex år sedan då han vände henne ryggen eftersom hon påstått att hans bror gjort henne gravid. Nu är Trents bror död och Bryn har kommit tillbaka... med ett barn som tveklöst är en Sinclair. Det råder inte heller några tvivel om den starka passion som sjuder mellan Bryn och honom.

Sie muss verrückt sein! Zwei Mal hat Fiona sich schon von Hartley Tarleton zu einer gemeinsamen Nacht verführen lassen, und zwei Mal ist er danach ohne ein Wort aus ihrem Leben verschwunden. Jetzt steht der sexy Bad Boy wieder vor ihrer Tür. Sie sollte es eigentlich besser wissen - doch seine dunklen Augen und dieses unwiderstehliche Lächeln... Schon entfacht Hartley heftige Begierde in ihr. Unwiderstehlich fühlt sie sich zu ihm hingezogen. Doch soll sie es wirklich riskieren, noch einmal von ihm verletzt zu werden?

Eine Zweckehe! Darum bittet Reeder Jonathan Tarleton seine Assistentin Lisette, als er erfährt, dass er nur noch ein Jahr zu leben hat. Denn Lisette ist nicht nur brillant, sie ist auch die Einzige, der er bedingungslos vertraut. Deshalb soll sie für ihn die Geschäfte weiterführen und das Familienunternehmen retten. In den Flitterwochen auf Antigua merkt Jonathan: Er begehrt Lisette schon seit langer Zeit. Sie verbringen Stunden heißer Lust miteinander - doch dann entdeckt er, dass Lisette etwas vor ihm verbirgt.

Per Lila Baxter il lavoro è la cosa più importante, e neppure per James Kavanagh, l'uomo ideale sotto ogni aspetto, rinuncerebbe alla propria carriera. Fino al giorno in cui si trova costretta ad accudire una neonata. Chiedere aiuto all'ex fidanzato è l'ultima cosa che vorrebbe, ma Lila non sa nulla di bambini, mentre James, cresciuto con tanti fratelli, sembra avere un talento naturale. Così si ritrovano sotto lo stesso tetto, come una vera famiglia. E inevitabilmente la passione che hanno fatto di tutto per ignorare esplode più dirompente che mai!

La vérité a souvent un goût amer. Nous ne savons comment accepter nos histoires. Faut-il s'en tenir aux faits et dire la vérité ? Cet ouvrage monumental si richement documenté est précieux, il nous tire de l'oubli et du silence. Que savons-nous de l'esclavage au Canada ? Que savons-nous de la répression exercée sur les femmes et les hommes noirs ? Que savons-nous du racisme systémique ? Que savons-nous de la détresse des Autochtones, des sans-papiers, des personnes réfugiées ? Enfin fort peu...

Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society. Through the imagination and creativity of science-fiction movies, Maynard introduces listeners to the profound capabilities presented by new and emerging technologies, and the complex personal and societal challenges they present.

A collection of chilling stories from the leading writers in horror and suspense, exploring elusive urban legends. Join Michael Monelo, one of the creators of the Blair Witch Project, and TV writer/director veteran, Nick Braccia, on a journey through urban horror and suspense. Explore the world...

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-Blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms, and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides listeners with the first comprehensive account of nearly 400 years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions.

On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of 32 years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet. Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body of Bob Seaman - a successful auto industry engineer, softball coach and passionate collector of vintage Mustangs - in the back of the family's Ford Explorer.

Are you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension-antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions.

By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent, and to honor his hero, Wyatt Earp, he would carry his gun belt on the flight. The obstacles to Ellsworth’s ambition were numerous: He didn’t like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn’t navigate. Consequently, he hired the experienced Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins to organize the expedition on his behalf.

Maynard Webb has always been the go-to guy when Silicon Valley companies have thorny problems. Whether revamping eBay's crashing servers (transforming their technology weaknesses into a competitive strength) or investing in emerging technology start-ups, Webb brings strategic and operational savvy to every issue and venture. In his first book, Webb brings this same focus to tackle outdated models of work, created a century ago, which no longer sync up with either individual or employers' needs.

Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless jobs continue to ship overseas, and the retail sector faces the worst slump in decades, cries of "Buy American" have grown louder and louder.

Over the course of 14 billion years, humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. Entertaining and profound, Future Rising by Dr Andrew Maynard, provides a highly original perspective on our relationship with the future. Written to be easy to pick up and hard to stop listening to, Future Rising starts at the big bang and traces a pathway along the emergence of intelligent life, through what makes humans uniquely capable of creating different futures, to the profound responsibilities that this comes with.

The minute the school bus carrying Nate Chance and his little sister, Junie, pulls up in front of his family’s farmhouse, Nate can tell something’s terribly wrong: Somehow his father has been wounded by a gunshot. Nate sees him stagger across the yard, then watches as the police take him...

The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning—and the true price—of friendship. Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet...

The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters returns with a haunting novel of sisterhood, sacrifice, and suspense I was always looking for excitement, until I found some . . . Summer, 1979. A dry, hot Northern California school vacation stretches before Rachel and...

“Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith “Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.”...

In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family—from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that...