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Just before summer begins, 13-year-old Ali finds an old photograph. She recognizes the two children in it; one’s her mother, the other her aunt Dulcie - but who is the third person, the one who’s been torn out of the picture? Ali will have two months to figure it out, since she’s spending the summer with her aunt and her cousin in the same house her mom and aunt used to visit when they were kids. Then Ali meets Sissy. Sissy is mean, spiteful, and determined to ruin Ali’s summer. Sissy also has a secret. Could it have something to do with the old photo? Ali is dying to find out - though, if she’s not careful, that may be exactly what happens to her.

From her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story she has carried in silence—one marked by love, loss, and a devastating truth that reshaped her life forever. Orphaned young and raised in emotional distance, she is reunited with her father only to face a revelation so profound it fractures their bond and drives him toward irreversible despair.

When Brea Cass, a young mother, is awakened in the night by the news that her loving husband, Paul, has been shot during a robbery, she is stunned. When she finally emerges from the fog of her life, it dawns on her that something is amiss in the way her husband died. As Brea searches for answers, she discovers things she never knew... and things she's not sure she wants to know.

A woman’s unexpected return to her isolated family estate puts her in a killer’s path in this shocking suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton. After seventeen years away, public defender Raine Hale returns to her family’s crumbling Virginia estate when her...

Mary Shelley's heart-breaking modern myth of obsession, pride and the need for love, dramatised for BBC Radio, starring Jamie Parker. Frankenstein was written by a teenager and the story has all the energy and emotional intensity of this time of life. It's a thrilling, horrifying adventure...

For fans of Nikesha Elise Williams and ReShonda Tate, a drama-filled novel set during the Roaring ʼ20s and World War II from award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe. An abandoned young woman longing for family confronts betrayal, abuse—and a dream marriage that is the most...

A raw and honest look at life inside a cult. The early 1970s were a turbulent time in the US. Anti-war protesters took to the streets, young people dropped out of university or jobs, and drug use spread.

Travis und seine Schwester Corey verbringen den Sommer im Gasthaus ihrer Großmutter in Vermont. Seit Jahren halten sich Gerüchte, dass es dort spukt. Für jeden Streich zu haben, beschließen die beiden, selbst ein wenig nachzuhelfen – und lösen damit mehr aus, als ihnen lieb ist. Sie...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. **Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus** — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 Gothic masterpiece, widely regarded as the first science fiction novel. Robert Walton, an Arctic explorer, rescues the emaciated scientist Victor Frankenstein, who...

Peanut butter and chocolate. Cheese and wine. Sex and rock n' roll. History is full of great pairings. Get ready for your new favorite: Lesbians and Space! Join a host of intrepid explorers heading to the outer reaches of the galaxy, exploring planets, space stations, strange new worlds and interesting aliens. Launch into stories that span the cosmos, covering Space Opera, Xenobiology, Space Stations, Adventure, and Spaceships!

Special Agent Dr. Autumn Trent genießt es, an Aiden Parrishs Seite aufzuwachen, als der romantische Sonntagmorgen vom Anruf eines Freundes gestört wird. Dessen Nichte ist in einem Bilderbuchstädtchen in Connecticut verschwunden … zusammen mit zwei weiteren Jugendlichen. Der Fall ist so verwirrend wie beunruhigend. Die Jugendlichen sind alle gute Schüler aus bestem Haus und stehen vor dem Abschlussjahr der Highschool.

Resourced and under-resourced communities, the role of community and economic development in poverty reduction, understanding the root causes of poverty, creating equity and upward mobility out of poverty, and much more are examined in this groundbreaking book that emphasizes the role that poverty reduction plays in economic development and the role that economic development plays in poverty reduction. The book was written by Mary Cacioppi, an aha! Process consultant and founder and CEO of Bridges to Prosperity Northern Illinois.

In this stunning debut short story collection, Mary Jones uses her distinctive voice to examine the painful and sometimes surreal ways we say goodbye. The stories—which range from tender and heartbreaking to unsettling and darkly funny—are connected by the central theme of letting go.

In our own time, when the dark threat of a dystopian world is not an alien or avoidable concept, The Last Man (1826) is revealed as a trailblazing novel. With a truly global view, Mary Shelley’s futuristic romain à clef–containing portraits of her husband Percy (Adrian), Lord Byron (Raymond) and several others–spearheaded the apocalyptic genre for an intimidated 19th-century readership that rejected her ‘diseased imagination’ and ‘polluted taste’.

A curated compendium of poetry and prose from the award-winning poet Mary Oliver, including the book-length masterpiece The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know, andessays from Long Life—with a foreword by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie...

All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Some whisper of a tragic love affair. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke's eye - and she was the only female in the room who wasn't even trying.

Young. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent's most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself...until one night of shocking intimacy erupts in a scandal that could make Gervase's vengeance all the sweeter.

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Who wants to vacation next to a volcano? Jack and Annie are about to find out when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the days of the Roman Empire. They arrive in...

In the world of investing, the name Warren Buffett is synonymous with success and prosperity—now you can learn how Warren Buffett did it and how you can, too. Building from the ground up, Buffett chose wisely and picked his stocks with care, in turn amassing the huge fortune for which he is...

Growing up with four unruly brothers has made Freyja Bedwyn far bolder than most society ladies. From feisty manner to long, tumbling hair, Lady Freyja is pure fire - a woman who seeks both adventure and freedom. Adventure soon finds her on a visit to Bath, when a handsome stranger bursts into Freyja's room and entreats her to hide him. His name is Joshua Moore, Marquess of Hallmere, a man with a hell-raising reputation of his own who is quickly intrigued by the independent beauty.