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I'm Mackenzie Wellesley, and I've spent my life avoiding the spotlight. But that was four million hits ago... Blame it on that grade school ballet recital, when I tripped and pulled the curtain down, only to reveal my father kissing my dance instructor. At Smith High, I'm doing a pretty good job of being the awkward freshman people only notice when they need help with homework. Until I send a burly football player flying with my massive backpack, and make a disastrous - not to mention unwelcome - attempt at CPR.

Melanie Morris knows she shouldn't keep flirting with her best friend's brother, Dylan Wellesley, even though the last thing she feels is "sisterly" around the cute soon-to-be freshman. But attending prom with somebody else might mean losing him for good… Isobel Peters accepts the fact that she's a huge geek, but she never expected renowned player, Spencer King, would want to get his hands on…her reputation. What begins as a bargain could turn into something real - or a Notable disaster!

When a shipowner is found dead, tied to a bed in one of Reykjavik's smartest hotels, sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the city police force sees no evidence of foul play but still suspects things are not as cut-and-dried as they seem. And as she investigates the shipowner's untimely - and embarrassing - demise, she stumbles across a discreet bondage society whose members are being systematically exploited and blackmailed.

Snowed in with a couple of psychopaths for the winter.... When two small-time crooks rob Reykjavik's premier drugs dealer, hoping for a quick escape to the sun, their plans start to unravel after their getaway driver fails to show. Tensions mount between the pair and the two women they have grabbed as hostages when they find themselves holed up upcountry in an isolated hotel that has been mothballed for the season.

Spending Christmas vacation on a cruise with her two cousins from hell isn't Holly's idea of a good time. And when, in a moment of seasick-fueled desperation, she lurches into an open suite - she's greeted with an eyeful of pepper spray. The culprit? A gorgeous guy calling himself Nick. But when Holly goes to make her exit, she gets the shock of her life: a corridor crammed with screaming teenage fans. Because Nick just happens to be Dominic Wyatt, drummer for ReadySet - one of the hottest bands in America.

The discovery of a corpse washed up on a beach in an Icelandic backwater sparks a series of events that propels the village of Hvalvik's police sergeant Gunnhildur into deep waters. Although under pressure to deal with the matter quickly, she is suspicious that the man's death was no accident and once she has identified the body, sets about investigating his final hours. The case takes Gunnhildur away from her village and into a cosmopolitan world of shady deals, government corruption and violence.

Detective Gunnhildur sets to investigate two seemingly separate cases, but uncovers some disturbing links. Top class crime writing set in Icleand. Following her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases - the first in tracking down an escaped convict who's keen to settle old scores, and the other, the murder of a TV fitness presenter in her city centre apartment.

It's not easy being best friends with a celebrity...I'm invisible at my high school and I'm fine with it. It's kind of inevitable with a name like Jane Smith. But when the school newspaper staff insisted that I write a cover story, I decided to find out just how much scandal one geeky girl could uncover.

A successful housebreaker who leaves no traces and no clues as he strips Reykjavík homes of their valuables has been a thorn in the police's side for months. But when one night the thief breaks into the wrong house, he finds himself caught in a trap as the stakes are raised far beyond anything he could have imagined.

Mansfield Mansion seemed the perfect home for Debbie and her two boys. Debbie wanted a fresh start after her divorce, and the beautiful mansion in the country seemed the perfect place for her family to start over. But the beauty of the mansion soon becomes overrun with terrifying evil that soon takes over their lives. Deadly visions appear, terrifying Debbie and the boys. Noises from beyond the grave have horrifying consequences, and physical altercations with an unknown entity have deadly results. For no one knows the horrific and deadly past that Mansfield Mansion holds, but Debbie and her family will soon find out. Can they leave Mansfield Mansion before they fall victim to the mansion's gruesome past?

The signal arrives from deepest space. Landon Walker–Earth's radical expert in communication–refuses to believe that it's a warning. Called back to headquarters in Brazil, he reluctantly teams up with other top scientists to decode the message. At the same time, shamans in primitive societies around the world seem to know what the signal means. But they're all dying for their effort. Decoding the signal may lead Landon to the same fate. And then the signal targets Landon's baby daughter, and suddenly its message becomes crystal clear. He must act to save her–and all of Earth.

Landon Walker's to-do list:  

1. Free his daughter from alien control
2. Prove his ex-wife is not an eco-terrorist
3. Keep the earth from becoming an alien battlefield
4. Join the first manned mission to another star system

Nothing on the list can be checked off without visiting a secret shaman site in the mountains of Patagonia. Prelude to Proxima is the second book in the Centauri Series by Rebecca S. W. Bates. 

The benefits of a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree can be massive: fast-track career advancement, a big fat wage packet, the whole high-flying top-notch executive lifestyle. But studying for an MBA isn't something to decide to do lightly - it's a big investment to take a year or more out of your career path or commit endless weekends to a part-time version, and for many the cost of either of these options is prohibitive.

Whether you're running a four-man window cleaning business or a one-woman consultancy or you are responsible for the EMEA quarterly target, this book is for you. Selling is the one and only key to surviving bad times and prospering in the upturn. Here's the very best on sales strategy and tactics.

A brooding, suspenseful novel of sensuality and vengeance, set amid the fields and villages of 19th century England. Bella Ford, jilted by her unscrupulous lover, plans revenge that ends in a catastrophic act of violence. Narrated by the star of the 1995 Merchant Ivory Productions motion picture Feast of July, Embeth Davidtz.

Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder - and must flee for her life. Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father, branded a traitor long ago. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world, she also must face the truth about the forces she has always denied or disdained as superstition - powers that suddenly stir within her.

What happens when Cinderfella, of the Planet Jetsonia, meets Princess Esmerelda of the planet Earth?

Experience the marvel and splendor of ancient Greek fables with this audiobook, including the stories of Pandora's box, Jason's search for the Golden Fleece, Orpheus' attempt to rescue Eurydice from the underworld, and Icarus' ill-fated flight. The myths of Hercules, Prometheus, and "The Golden Touch" are also included.

St. Doyle Seminary sits majestically on a hill, housing holy men who are preparing themselves for the priesthood in the Catholic Church. Widower Ben is the seminary's cook, having come to the seminary for peace and solitude to try to cope with his wife's death. But the seminary holds a very grisly past that Ben is not aware of. Horrifying visions appear, knives go flying through the air at him, agonizing noises haunt him night and day. 

Poetry is an act of contrition. It's the art of looking at life in a painfully honest way. Poetry uses metaphors to capture life's intricate complications where plain, obvious and straightforward language fails. This book explores those metaphors like the tax collector. Your difficult relationship is like an invisible tax collector taking its cut from your mental health bank account. Your stress is a mental health tax collector. Your fear of engaging with loss, pain, addiction, denial is your tax collector and it will keep collecting and collecting until you do something about it.