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Joan Lennon é uma menina de 10 anos com um dom surpreendente: ela é capaz de lembrar, com exatidão de detalhes, tudo que aconteceu com ela. Sabe quantas vezes a mãe disse “sempre dá certo” nos últimos seis meses, lembra dos dias e dos motivos para ter chorado, mas compreende também que nem todos têm essa capacidade. A maioria das pessoas, ela sabe, esquece as coisas, mas Joan não quer ser esquecida pelos outros.

Garotas estão desaparecendo por todo o país, e, aparentemente, não há qualquer ligação entre os desaparecimentos. Cabe à recém-formada equipe de análise do Dr. Tony Hill ir atrás de pistas que estabeleçam padrões ou conexões. Mas, após um subordinado surgir com uma hipótese, um dos membros da equipe aparece morto, e a questão se torna pessoal.

Corre el año 1732 en Gotemburgo, Suecia, y Jess Van Sandt sabe muy bien que el suyo es un mundo de hombres. Convencida de que su padrastro le está escamoteando la herencia que es suya por derecho, se decide a impedirlo. Y la solución se presenta en forma de un escocés muy atractivo, Killian Kinross, que ha sido él mismo desheredado por su abuelo. En un intento de recuperar su fortuna, le propone un matrimonio de conveniencia.

Jeanette Winterson, una dintre cele mai inventive și mai îndrăznețe voci narative contemporane, ne propune în acest volum 12 povestiri și 12 rețete îmbietoare pentru cele 12 zile ale Crăciunului.

Viaţa mea nu chiar perfectă este povestea lui Katie Brenner, o tînără promiţătoare, care locuieşte în Londra, aflată la primul ei job important. Cînd Katie crede că lucrurile merg din ce în ce mai bine, se trezeşte concediată de Demeter, şefa bătrînă şi arţăgoasă. Neştiind încotro s-o apuce, Katie se întoarce la ţară, în Somerset, unde locuiesc părinţii ei, cu visurile spulberate şi îşi face o profesiune de credinţă din încercarea de a-şi ajuta tatăl cu mica lui afacere, o fermă aproape falimentară.

Fixie e genul de fată care intră în casa cuiva şi nu se poate abţine să îndrepte tabloul strîmb de pe perete–şi, dacă tot e aici, de ce să nu aranjeze şi cărţile în ordine alfabetică sau condimentele în funcţie de ţara de origine? Ce‑i drept, uneori exagerează, iar alteori rezolvă probleme şi pentru ceilalţi–mai ales pentru sora ei Nicole sau fratele său Jake. Ăsta-i cusurul ei, trebuie să îndrepte lucrurile.

Garrett Carter knew the moment he saw her years prior that she was the one. His one, however, had a fiancé. And she was rich. She also lived out of state. So what other option did he have but to let her go? Years later, he sees her again at her worst. Her husband-to-be has stranded her on a hiking trail with a head wound, convinced she’s faking her blindness. Garrett takes one look at the injured Bindi Howe and knows there’s no way she’s faking it.

The occasionally magic, always superstitious town of Prior’s End is famous for three things: Whimsical charm at the annual Fall Festival. The legend of the wishing well hidden in a forest bristling with secrets. And Nova Marwood’s missing hiker father. Every year without him, it gets easier to pretend Nova doesn’t believe in myth and magic. Easier to pretend she’s doing okay. Easier to pretend she doesn’t have a secret crush on the girl she fake-hates. Kiara Mistry is the luckiest girl in town and the thief of every crush Nova had her heart set on first. In theory, Nova should resent Kiara.

Loneliness is overwhelming in its intensity. There are times you think you can cope, that you can make it despite the hollow feeling in your chest. Then there are the times when you realize you can’t breathe through the pain of loss. When Gable Buchanan Carter walks into Athena’s life, it’s like a light is switched on inside her chest. Suddenly she can breathe. But just as much as she wants him, Gable just as much wants nothing to do with her.

Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about the local community… Everything except why another family, the Reedbarrows, now live in her ancestral home, Foster's Mill. When Christopher, a man from 'down south', arrives and begins asking questions about the Mill that no one has dared to ask for generations, secrets begin to surface, and Liz may finally find the answers she's been looking for. And perhaps, at last, Liz and her father will be able to return to their family home.

Don’t date your son’s ex. Especially when she’s supposedly the town’s good girl. But the sweet, shy librarian isn’t a good girl at all. She can’t be, because she wants me—the local lumberjack, and my … wood. I’m her ex’s dad but she says she doesn’t want guys her age. Or a relationship. She wants a fling. And since I’m leaving Hunter Valley in a few days, I’ll definitely indulge her.

With Milo stuck in the past, Katrina and Bellamy must join forces to find the pirate lord Bastian Drake who may hold the key to turning back the clock—or at least a clue to the legendary sea goddess who can. But it won't be easy with Katrina's mother slowly discovering her siren side and showing up in Constantine unexpectedly.

Legendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-gone-wrong from the best of the best in crime fiction. Spine-chilling and gripping, these tales will grip you with their devious narrators and crafty twists.

They broke me, stole my will to live. I survived. I'm put back together from the pieces they took and now surviving is no longer enough. Love is not enough. There's a darkness growing in me that demands vengeance.

F--k me for choosing the wrong sister. Atlas Carter was a protector. He was a police officer, had spent years in the Air Force, spent his entire teen years as a volunteer firefighter. Being a protector was in his blood. It was his dream. So when a woman was in a dangerous situation, it was his every instinct to protect her. To shield her. To watch over her. Only, that woman had played him. She’d set him up.

Being a twin is great. What isn’t great is having the hots for the same woman your twin does. Been there, done that, have the t-shirt. Since Auden Carter made that mistake in his teens, he’d promised himself never to do that to his brother again. Hence why he’s tried so hard to stay away from Maven, the sexy bakery owner that seems to have been put on this planet to tempt him. After months of watching his brother never make a move, Auden’s had enough.

Nighteyes has been trapped inside the Emerald Veil for two years. After an attempt to use her gryphons to assassinate the king, the pridelord closed off all communication with outsiders. Two years have passed, and now gryphlets are dying left and right from a disease that the rest of the world may already have a cure for. Along the jungle’s edge, a single starling has been tasked with stopping the silver-eyed from infecting the rest of the jungle.

Beyond the walls, we are hunted and imprisoned. If our blood is silk to these monsters, then we are the silkworms, trapped in our gilded cage, crushed beneath their imperial boot, easily replaced. We survive one day at a time, knowing it may be our last.

Ein gefährlicher Psychopath will Rache: Gnadenlos spannender Thriller von Bestseller-Autorin Val McDermid! Bisher galt das Hochsicherheitsgefängnis als absolut ausbruchsicher. Doch nach zwölf Jahren Haft gelingt Jacko Vance, einem perfiden Mädchenmörder, durch eine raffinierte, lange geplante Täuschung die Flucht. Jacko ist besessen von einem einzigen Gedanken: gnadenlose Rache – an allen, die ihn hinter Schloss und Riegel gebracht haben.

A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions–a healer, a weaver, and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her–because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth. As the net closes in, what unfurls is a tale of passion, forced marriage, bloody massacre, and the harsh realities of medieval Scotland. At the heart of it is one strong, charismatic woman.