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That Kerry's birthday falls on the most romantic day of the year sucks. That she's set up on a date with both an angel and a demon sucks worse. But she's about to discover that being trapped between good and evil makes for one hell of a good time. Mike and Cal, angel and demon, are reluctant business partners. To help them get along, Cupid sends a mediator called Kerry, but rather than working on a truce, the guys are soon locked in a different battle, this time over Kerry's smoking curves.

Teagan Cross, college senior, rebel, and wiseass extraordinaire, goes from princess to pauper in a single phone call. Overnight, her life of privilege becomes one of survival. She's not going to fall apart, though. She's a rebel and she's strong...determined to live life on her own terms...and nothing's going to stop her from getting things done. But when a twist of fate brings her to the doorstep of a different kind of Rebel, she's forced to figure out when something's worth fighting for and when something's worth letting go.

Dr. Renee Phillips is convinced that Cleopatra, the last of Egypt's pharaohs, was spirited away from Egypt and sailed to the Americas. She has evidence that her remains may be buried deep in an uncharted area of the Amazon jungle. With tremendous conviction and knowledge, she convinces Sage and Court Southerland to document her exploration into the dangerous unknown. The two explorers pack up Jake and Kinga and fly to the airport closest to the jungle, then set out on a boat to reach Renee's location.

Ali and Flynn were high school sweethearts. Eager to see the world and leave behind their small Georgia hometown, they'd planned for an exciting new life together after they finished school. But on graduation day, only one of them hit the road. Eight years down that road, an unexpected loss brings Flynn home again. He's a big-shot photojournalist, and he's made most of his dreams reality. But he's done it alone. Is it too late for his biggest dream to come true?

College student Kelly has just been through a break up over not being able to repress her desires any more. She has a desire for a doctor, and she can't contain it any longer. Moping one Friday evening her sorority sisters convince her to come out to the hottest club in town, Neon, where it's Doctors and Nurses night....and each entrant will receive a ticket which matches them with another club goer!

Pioneering director J. J. Abrams has delivered an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek into darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding - or two! - in Charleston's fabled Lowcountry. A centuries-old church, an avenue of ancient oaks dripping moss, a storied ballroom, a sand dune at sunset.... Yet when a stranger arrives, a long-held family secret could silence the bells ringing for the Muir sisters. Scandals surface, family bonds are questioned, and promises are broken and renewed.

Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times best-selling author of the Lowcountry Summer series, returns to her beloved Beach House series with the highly anticipated follow-up to Beach House Memories and The Beach House!

Cara Rutledge returns to her Southern home on the idyllic Isle of Palms. Everything is comfortingly the same, yet each detail is rife with painful memories. Only through reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love, career, and hope for the future.

Månringen är den andra delen i Solstenen-trilogin! Dan har återförenats med sin bror Jakob – men Jakob är utsvulten och nedbruten efter en lång tids fångenskap. Han liknar inte den bror Dan minns, men deras band är ännu starkt. Mot en felaktig mordanklagelse och en hård omvärld kämpar bröderna Dan och Jakob för en ljusare morgondag, på flykt undan den mäktige Strandriddaren. Med första boken i trilogin om Dan och Jakob, Solstenen, vann Maj Bylock första pris i Rabén & Sjögrens jubileumstävling 1983.

"Ogni mattina Anita si accomoda alla Olivetti e digita digita digita. Le storie che deve trascrivere sono belle. Anita coi personaggi entra subito in confidenza. Tempo due racconti e le sembra di conoscerli da una vita. In ogni storia il protagonista di turno si ritrova in un agguato, in una sparatoria, in una rissa. E Anita ormai lo sa che il personaggio ne uscirà intero, o perlomeno con buone prospettive di ripresa, perché sono racconti seriali, giusto? Mica lo fai crepare, il protagonista che deve tornare ancora e ancora, ci arriverebbe anche un cretino."

Tutti gli anni, dal sette dicembre al sette gennaio, Palermo è in preda al demone del gioco: aristocratici, borghesi e modesti cittadini, giovani, vecchi e bambini sono vittime della medesima febbre. Sul tavolo verde si impegnano esigui risparmi o ricchi patrimoni nell'irrinunciabile rito collettivo delle feste invernali. Marò Pajno sta attraversando un periodo difficile, e il freddo che sente dentro non è legato solo alla pioggia che affligge senza sosta la città.

As far as 10-year-old Miller McClellan is concerned, it's the worst Christmas ever. His father's shrimp boat is docked, his mother is working two jobs, and with finances strained, Miller is told, they can't afford the dog he desperately wants. "Your brother's return from war is our family's gift," his parents tell him. But when Taylor returns with PTSD, family strains darken the holidays. Then Taylor's service dog arrives - a large black Labrador/Great Dane named Thor. His brother even got the dog!

In a family that has everything, one tends to forget that some things are beyond even their control. After fate sends the family an unmistakable message, Christopher suddenly finds himself on the receiving end of a financial avalanche, yet fully incapable of managing or even understanding the full magnitude of it. In a world beset with vipers and jackals, he would be as helpless as a sheep led to slaughter in handling the family’s substantial financial assets.

Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life in the green and pleasant county of Staffordshire. She'd love to finally master the rules of croquet, acquire a decent boyfriend and make some commission as an estate agent. All that might have to wait, though, because there are zombies rising from their graves, vampires sneaking out of their coffins and a murder to solve. And it's all made rather more complicated by the fact that she's the one raising all the zombies.

Seventeen-year-old Lulu Li has her last summer before college all planned out. But her plans go awry when she learns that Kite Xu, her old next-door neighbor and childhood friend, will be returning home from South Korea.

If Grace is being honest, she knows her choices skate past questionable and probably into destructive. But her heart is broken and the guy who broke it—her ex Josh—keeps hinting at a reunion. So when her best friends, Tiff and Camille, suggest they take a girls trip to help her get over her heartache, Grace doesn’t hesitate to recommend Cancún. She just doesn’t mention that Josh also happens to be there.

Wer war sie wirklich? Alice Schwarzers hervorragendes Porträt bringt uns den Weltstar und vor allem den Menschen Romy Schneider nahe und zeigt, warum ausgerechnet sie zum Idol für Millionen Menschen werden konnte. Die authentische und sehr ergreifende Lebensbeschreibung, gelesen von hervorragenden Schauspielern.

My life is a friggin’ fairytale - just not the kind any single girl would ever want to star in. Like any good heroine, I have challenges to face. Getting my son to wear pants is one; dealing with my snooze-fest of a job is another. Then there’s the Beast, my freeloading brother who’s worn a permanent dent in the couch at my new place. And no fairytale would be complete without a smoking-hot prince, of course. Too bad he’s a complete ass. My instincts scream at me to steer clear of Nate Murphy.

Over the course of three years, Alice Oswald recorded conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates in Dart a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea.