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from the start, Eve finds herself in a sticky situation. Famous guest artist Nena Field is a complete nightmare, painting everyone in a bad light. So when Eve finds her body in Blind-Eye Wood, there’s no shortage of suspects. But who could have hated her enough to take her life? Was it the curiously over-qualified cook, the secretive manager, or the chatty receptionist, mysteriously missing at the time of the murder? Determined to find the killer and save Simon’s business, Eve sets to work sketching out a theory of the crime.

Brody Webb has earned a reputation as a pretty boy who would gladly give you the shirt off his back. In spite of his good looks and big heart, Brody's devotion to the family farm lost him his ambitious wife. When the city girl who bought his uncle's bookshop forms an instant connection with his kids, Brody is smitten despite himself. But he fights tooth and nail not to show it. After all, what would an interesting young woman like Sarah want with a small-town farmer so boring he couldn't even hang onto the mother of his two beloved children?

Aerial performer Zita has dedicated ten years of her life to one thing and one thing alone: vengeance. Armed with an iron blade, she must take to the silks and give the performance of a lifetime to kill the notorious Prince of Monsters—the fae prince responsible for her sister's death. But when Zita's plan fails, she finds herself imprisoned and sentenced to be the prince's "pet" as punishment for her crime. With cruelty as sharp as his claws, Sepher is everything Zita expected from her enemy. Yet he's also patient and obsessive, particularly when it comes to his "pet's" punishment.

For 95 per cent of history, humans were hunter gatherers. In our cranium is kit that was formed hundreds of thousands of years ago. Back then we would have met a few hundred people in a life-time; today it's countless thousands. Back then we were only required to care about what directly affected us; now the news plugs our emotions into the agonies of the world. Little wonder that so many of us are tired, wired, stressed and depressed. Paleo Life shows a different way, guided by the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers past and present.

En la familia de Clara existe una leyenda: una maldición acecha la vida de todos sus miembros. Cuando decide indagar sobre el origen desconocido de esta oscura herencia, se embarca en una búsqueda que le llevará hasta el siglo XVIII y la historia de su antepasada, la IX Duquesa de Osuna. Ensombrecida por la muerte de varios de sus hijos, la duquesa se refugia en el diseño de su jardín a las afueras de la capital: El Capricho. Además, encargará a Goya seis de sus cuadros más oscuros, que expondrá en sus dependencias privadas.

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases. Recognizing the increasing stressors in the role including the impact of the environment in which doctors work, the book examines some of the key emotional drivers for this unhappiness among doctors at work—shame, stigma, suffering, and sacrifice—and offers practical steps to emotional and physical recovery.

All is well at the North Pole until the baby reindeer go missing! Father Yule must confront the villainous Gnome King. Arthur finds himself trapped with a school bully in a terrifying dungeon belonging to Yule’s evil twin, Krampus. Charlotte makes friends with a fairy queen, ice witch, and princess, all possessing ninja precision fighting skills with magical powers. Can they help rescue her brother and save the day?

At sixteen, Eva meets Jamie by chance. She lives in middle-class south Brooklyn; he comes from the super rich of upper Manhattan. She’s observant, cautious, often insecure; he’s curious, bold, full of mysteries. These two questers are drawn together in a strange and profound friendship, tested by forces larger than themselves. As Eva follows a path of conventional achievement—a prestigious degree, a classic romance, the start of an ambitious career—Jamie seeks out more radical experiments in finding himself.

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.

Amongst the cobbled streets and misty alleyways of Shelwich, magic rises and falls with the Tide. When the Tide is out, the magic ebbs to a low murmur. When the Tide is in, the magic is high - and Tide-blessings are at their strongest. For most people, the Tide-blessing they are born with is nothing more than a simple party trick: eyes that change colour, or the ability to recite a poem backwards. Some, though, are blessed with more powerful gifts. Telepathy. Flight. Or, in the case of Ista Flit, being able to transform to look like someone else. Anyone else.

Eine neue epische Saga aus der Feder einer der besten Fantasy-Autorinnen unserer Zeit: Cassandra Clare! Der Auftakt einer Trilogie. Kel war ein Straßenkind ohne Eltern, ein Niemand ohne Zukunft. Doch dann wurde er zum Schwertfänger – zum Doppelgänger des königlichen Erben von Castellan, Prinz Conor Aurelian. Kel wuchs mit Conor auf, sie sind wie Brüder, doch ein Schwertfänger hat nur einen Zweck: statt des Thronfolgers zu sterben. Ein vereiteltes Attentat führt Kel mit der Heilerin Lin an den Hof des gefürchteten Lumpensammlers, den Herrscher über Castellans Unterwelt.

Parece que Cordelia Carstairs finalmente tem tudo o que sempre quis. Ela está noiva de James Herondale, por quem sempre foi apaixonada, e construiu uma nova vida em Londres na companhia de sua melhor amiga Lucie Herondale e os amigos inseparáveis de seu noivo, os Ladrões Alegres. Também está prestes a reencontrar seu pai e, acima de tudo, tem junto de si Cortana, sua lendária espada. Mas a verdade pode ser muito mais sombria do que aparenta. O casamento dos dois é uma mentira, arranjado para proteger a reputação de Cordelia.

Thrown together when their plane conks out and a blizzard rolls in, Morgan Scott and her childhood friend Ali Bradford are on a mission to make it from Glasgow to Devon in time for Christmas. The catch? Roads and trains are up the spout, Morgan’s patience is running low, and Ali has had a secret crush on Morgan since forever. But she can keep a lid on over two decades of unrequited love. Particularly when they keep having to share a bed. Absolutely no problem at all.

When it comes to happiness, grumpy Sheriff Cal Cassidy is an officer in need of assistance. But he's not ready for it to come in the form of his son's pretty new preschool teacher. Sure, she's kind, and she's patient, and she smells like cinnamon cookies, but her head is too far in the clouds to ever see eye to eye with a down-to-earth man like him. It will take a holiday miracle for Angel Cabrera to get through to her favorite student's father. In spite of his challenges, little Justin Cassidy is an absolute ray of sunshine. On the other hand, Justin's dad is a storm cloud in a sheriff's hat.

Lydia imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food rationing and The Blitz. She does not expect to find a failed actor addicted to shoplifting, a woman who's been hiding from a mysterious and very chequered past, and a prolific yarn-bomber. After a tragic accident means the council threatens to sell the community centre, the Social Club, aided by their friends in the nursery next door and a geriatric orphaned mongrel, set out to save it.

In misty Shelwich, magic rises and falls with the tides, everyone is born with a magical gift, and people have started to...disappear. Rumor has it they are snatched by monsters, but Ista Flit doesn't want to believe it. Not when her own father is missing. As she scours the city, searching for clues, a notorious thief finds her. Ista has a rare talent: she's a face-changer, able to take on the appearance of anyone she's seen, and Alexo could use a girl with her skill. Ista could use Alexo's help in her search—if only she could trust him.

Siga o Irmão Zachariah e veja, no contexto das negociações sombrias do Mercado das Sombras e suas celebrações festivas, o primeiro romance de Anna Lightwood, o grande pecado de Matthew Fairchild e Tessa Gray se envolver em uma guerra mundial. Valentim Morgenstern compra uma alma no Mercado e a alma de um jovem Jace Wayland encontra um porto seguro. No mercado está escondido um herdeiro perdido e um fantasma amado, e ninguém pode te salvar depois que negociarem seu coração. Nem mesmo o Irmão Zachariah.

Taking on the responsibilities that come with being Lady Lyndhurst, Stella is eager to embrace yuletide traditions in the Edwardian English countryside and use her strong social influence for good. Her world becomes so consumed with starting a horse farm charity for the holidays that she barely notices the usual oddities attached to her upper crust lifestyle. At least, not until items vanish from her bedroom and maligned housekeeper, Mrs. Nelson, becomes seriously ill—only to be found dead in the cold on Mistletoe Lane.

My roots run deep in Christmas Town, and there isn’t any place I’d rather be. When you live here, you’re family. Even a devastating heartbreak hasn’t stopped me from hoping for a family of my own someday. When a mysterious stranger inherits the keys to our kingdom, it threatens to take the jingle out of our bells. Christian is mysterious, charming, and I want to show him the spirit our town has to offer. But it will take a Christmas miracle to convince him that our town is worth saving.

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis.