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An NPR best book of the year and recommended by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, Zibby Mag, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and Katie Couric Media! ""A summer read with bite.”—NPR Disgraced model-writer Bianca Bridge can’t stand hotshot makeup maven Obadiah Cortland. And he lets her know the feeling...

For weeks, she’s been working on a prototype enlarging ray. Her entire lab thinks they are weeks from getting it working, but she’s been sabotaging progress at every turn. At night, she fixes the machine and plugs in her working code. It feels so good to grow. But on a night when everyone should be gone, she discovers there are two people still in the lab. She’s already zapped herself, and with 10 minutes remaining until she starts to grow, she knows she’ll need to come clean.

The story begins in the wonderful '80s, a time filled with great music, alcohol, cruising, and sex. She was 15 years younger than he was. Although he had a problem with the age difference, she never did. Married three times, twice to the same woman and barely escaped a third round with her. This is a story about the multiple marriages. She also married two other men between these marriages and had an affair with Jim during both. Call it magnetism, a strange attraction, or plain old stupidity; you be the judge.

Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It’s part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn’t enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything—and everyone—she loves. Anita Blake is engaged to Jean-Claude, the...

Der Apotheker Duncan ist einem Herzinfarkt nahe. In seinem ganzen Berufsleben ist dem gewissenhaften Mann nie auch nur der kleinste Fehler unterlaufen. Doch an diesem Tag geschieht das Unvorstellbare - er verwechselt die Päckchen zweier Kunden, deren Adressen er nicht kennt. Eines der Päckchen enthält das todbringende Gift Arsen. Völlig aufgelöst spricht er bei Sherlock Holmes vor. Aber wie sollen Holmes und Watson den irrtümlichen Käufer des Arsens in der anonymen Großstadt London finden? Holmes weiß, gelingt es ihm nicht, dann wird eine ahnungslose Frau qualvoll sterben.

An impassioned veteran embarks back in time on a long-suffering military experience and the unexpected transition thereafter through the eyes of a meek and humble woman. She must come to embrace the life she now lives in sickness and health in remarkable ways through everything surrounding her. By the time it came for her to have a military medical evaluation, she really wasn’t feeling up to it, given the extent of how she felt that entire month. After the doctors did their evaluation and sent off the report, she waited for the final decision.

Blood is thicker than oil—until murder threatens everything. Fenway Stevenson swore she'd never go back to Estancia. But after losing her mother and her job in one devastating week, she's left with no options and forced to ask her estranged father for help. That means returning to the coastal California town where he wields near-absolute power as the head of the region's largest oil company—and where Fenway is viewed as an outsider at best, and a political pawn at worst.

Alexis Valdés narra con profunda ternura sobre el niño que fue y logra reflejar no solo los años más duros de su vida, sino transportar al lector a la Cuba de su infancia y adolescencia, con sus problemas, sus carencias, su dolor, pero también con una alegría de vivir y la esperanza de que algún día todo será mejor.

Nina is innocent when it comes to men. At 21, she’s never really dated, and ever since she started working for Mr Beck, she feels an undeniable attraction towards this super-hot older man, but she can’t bring herself to tell him. But when Mr Beck visits the kitchen for a midnight snack, he instead finds another kind of tasty morsel. But can he resist the temptation?

Clarissa is in debt, but after seeing an advert for nude models of any age, she dares to attend a trial session. What will the photographer say about her naked form? And does he say it to all the girls? Regardless, it’s a risk Clarissa feels is worth taking - as long as the money is there. Of course, if she enjoys it then that’s just a bonus.

In this story, 19-year-old orphan Marie visits the photographic studio of Monsieur Zee. But it is not the photographer whose initial interest is piqued by the beautiful, fresh-faced young girl, rather it is his assistant, Celeste. Perhaps it is she who holds the key to the secrets that can be found in the cabinet of Monsieur Zee.

A vicar’s wife is worried when a film she made 30 years ago comes back to haunt her. Why now? And is it possible her now comfortable world might fall apart after all these years?

In this story, Connie and Clara decide to pay a visit to Clive, the photographer, when they realise they’re out of money and it’s time to pay the rent. Clive knows how the girls can make the money they need and more, but can Connie convince Clara to go through with it? After all, she’s never had her picture taken - clothes on or off.

A fierce blizzard is raging as Babes finds herself abandoned in the woods by her father's new girlfriend. Lost in the darkness, she stumbles upon the enticing cottage of the voluptuous Thrift Store Lady. All is not as it seems though, as she strips to bathe in the house's warm and scented interior - especially when a virile young buck called Wolfgang appears on the scene.

It’s the 1960s at a British seaside resort where Cindy walks the promenade each day in her Snappy Snaps blazer and creased white flannels, her trusty Rolleiflex camera slung around her neck. But behind the sunny façade there lurks a darker side to her nature, as Cindy desperately seeks her muse and wrestles with her own sexuality - two conundrums that might be resolved when she meets a voluptuous Venus at the far end of the beach.

La salud no es cualquier cosa. Nuestro cuerpo es la estructura que nos sostiene toda la vida, pero hacemos poco para darle mantenimiento. Con nuestro cuerpo trabajamos, caminamos, resolvemos problemas, pensamos, nos reímos y hacemos todo. Hay que aprender a escucharlo, a darle lo que necesita y a cuidarlo para que nos funcione mejor. Cuidar nuestro cuerpo es una muestra de amor propio.

Inmitten des ecuadorianischen Dschungels trifft der schwedische Extremsportler Mikael mit seinem Team auf einen verwahrlosten Straßenhund - ausgemergelt und mit Wunden übersät: Arthur. Der Hund weicht ihm nicht mehr von der Seite und folgt ihm selbst durch knietiefen Matsch und im Kayak. Nach 650 km durch die Wildnis Ecuadors steht nicht mehr das Gewinnen des Rennens im Vordergrund sondern das neue Teammitglied heil nach Hause zu bringen.

A curse looms over the small village of Salem. Sassy and headstrong Lucinda fights against the court as she tries to stop the unjust persecutions. While on a journey of self-discovery, she soon realizes that not everything is as it seems to be. Will she accept her heritage or will she sacrifice it all for love? Loyal rationalist Isaac attempts to make sense of the chaos happening around him. Following his heart has led him down a path of conflict. Does he remain loyal to his family and betray the one he loves? Or will he go against his duty and fight for the woman who holds his heart?

Magic hangs thick in the air of New Orleans. Self-proclaimed skeptic and career woman Lexie Cohle fights against her family's heritage. Being married to her work as an artifacts specialist leaves her little room to explore the gifts her Aunt Tilly claims she has. With her dreams intensifying, it becomes difficult to ignore her aunt and these gifts. This has Lexie questioning all she knows and believes. Will Lexie unravel the truth in time to save herself and those she loves, or will she succumb to the same fate that has cursed her existence?

Alexis Black persevered through her mother’s death and her father’s imprisonment. And after escaping a long and abusive relationship, the college junior promised her foster parents not to date for at least a year. But when she meets an incoming freshman on the first day of their scholarship program, she feels the world melt away, as though it were only the two of them in the room.