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CEO Michelle Hastings has foolishly promoted a kind, clueless activist to her full-time staff. Now, on top of fighting her inconvenient feelings, Michelle must hide the evil they do. Eden Lawless relishes her new job, the hot boss who gives her butterflies, and her eccentric workmates who tell weird jokes about their day. Blackmail? Hacking? Doxing? Hilarious! But what if it's not a joke? Would that mean Eden has to fight the boss she's falling for?

In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan's extended essay also called "The Nature of Desert Nature" reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads.

Have you lost the ability to focus on what really matters because your home, your schedule, and your mind are cluttered with the insignificant? Do you long for a deeper relationship with God that isn't crowded out by the unholy mess you've accumulated? Then this book is exactly what you need.

Angela soon realizes that her dream home needs more than a little TLC—this is a full-scale renovation that will stretch her patience (and budget) to the limit. Follow Angela’s journey as she restores her home to its former glory and heals her heart in the process. Along the way, you’ll experience all the charm and romance of Tuscany—leisurely meals with new friends, quirky and lovable locals, exquisite art and architecture, and the beauty and splendor of the Mediterranean.

Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony—colonial institutions that imposed order by enforcing Catholicism, cultural and religious boundaries, and prevailing race and gender hierarchies. The city was also simmering with illegal activity, from contraband trade to prostitution to heretical religious practices. Nicole von Germeten's research uncovers scandalous stories drawn from archival research in Inquisition cases, criminal records, wills, and other legal documents.

When the heavenly council member Soal, representing the Holy Trifecta, amplifies their network of warriors across the universe, an unsuspecting group of college students finds themselves invited into a secret society. The secret society offers them the allure of powers and the answers to some of life’s enigmatic questions. This leads to four students - Blaine, Josephine, George, and Rose - being thrust into the midst of an ancient conflict.

THE following audio is intended to place before the listener in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works.

Auf der Suche nach seinem Platz im Leben stolpert Konrad Georg Brichtner am Duhner Strand in Cuxhaven über eine Leiche. Das Opfer sitzt im Auto und hält einen mysteriösen Gegenstand in der Hand – eine Petrischale mit Nährboden für Bakterien. Das Bizarre: Die Bakterien wachsen in Form einer numerischen Reihenfolge. Was hat es mit diesen Zahlen auf sich? Ein Code vielleicht?

El síndrome del copiloto es una adaptación del Best-Seller Mujeres que compran flores de Vanessa Montfort, y heredera del espíritu de El viejo y el mar, La Odisea y Cinco horas con Mario. Parte de su éxito se debe a haber puesto nombre a un síndrome heredado contra el que la, actualmente, la generación de mujeres que vive bajo la presión de la perfección está luchando. Marina, una mujer sola en medio del Mediterráneo, se encuentra sobre el Peter Pan, el velero de Óscar – su amor fallecido -, sobre el que no sabe navegar. Ésta deberá cumplir con el último deseo de éste: cruzar el Estrecho y arrojar sus cenizas en Tánger.

"Si ya estaba desconcertada, no fue nada en comparación con lo perpleja que se quedó tras abrir el paquete. Dentro de la gran caja marrón había un montón de regalitos de distintos colores. Todos estaban envueltos con papel de regalo de Navidad y un lazo rojo. Con cada lazo había un papelito con un número escrito. Jessica rebuscó en el interior de la caja durante un rato y encontró un sobre blanco que decía: «léeme». Se le aceleró el corazón cuando abrió el sobre y lo leyó."

In November 1989, Emily Patterson receives a red envelope in her mailbox. It's a letter from Mark who declares his love for her and says he's coming for her if he makes it home alive. But who is Mark? There is no return address and the postmark is 1968. The letters continue to turn up in her mailbox and she wonders if someone is playing a cruel joke.

Vik Island weight-loss group Losers Club is on the mainland for the Police Scotland Bravery Awards and, even better, they're staying in a posh hotel. Diet sheets have been abandoned and Gordon's dungarees are straining at the seams, so what could be nicer than a gentle stroll up Bennachie to offset all those breakfast sausages? When the Losers stumble upon the body of a young woman on the hillside, they quickly become entangled in a web of deceit surrounding local road protestors.

She used to be someone else, but now she’s arrived in Vegas, where she can start again. It won’t do to let the past leak in. It’s the Sixties now. She’s going to become Joan. She makes a list: Buy a new dress (fitted, floral). Dye her hair (dark). Curl it. Buy red lipstick. Buy cigarettes and a lighter, too: Joan, she decides, is a smoker. There’s no need to dwell on why she’s here, what went before. She is just moving forward, one foot in front of the other, becoming that new person. Joan.

A naïve activist is hired by a corporate villain but doesn't realize it. Cue one awkward farce, a twisty puzzle, and the slowest of slow burns in this opposites-attract, ice queen romance. Nine years ago, aloof, icy Michelle Hastings chose career over love. She's now living with that choice as she rules a secret corporation catering to the rich and powerful. Enter Eden Lawless. The guileless activist finds it a bit weird being employed by a mystery organization to bring down a corrupt mayor. But, hey, she's up for a challenge. Much harder is getting her beautiful new boss out of her head.

In the country called One, dollmakers are vital members of the community. An artisan’s doll is the height of society’s accomplishments, while a guard’s doll is the only thing standing between the people of One and the Shod: vicious, cobbled monstrosities that will tear apart any structure—living or dead, inanimate or otherwise—to add to their horde. Apprentice Shean of Pearl is a brilliant dollmaker. With her clever dolls, she intends to outsmart and destroy the Shod, once and for all—a destiny she’s worked her whole life toward accomplishing.

I am the spirit of the flower; I am sustained upon the waters of truth, and my life is formed of the breath of the heavens, which is love.

La celebració literària d'una generació de dones que són un referent vital. Premi Sant Jordi 2022. Què somiava ser la teva mare? Fos el que fos, segurament va haver de quedar al tinter. A les protagonistes d'aquesta novel·la, nascudes durant la dictadura, no els deixen desplegar el seu talent. Però elles planten cara i no s'acoquinen davant de res ni ningú. I amb sororitat i alegria, defugen la gàbia domèstica, mantenen la pulsió artística, s'atreveixen al més impensable per l'amor d'un fill, lideren les lluites veïnals, descobreixen el feminisme i pugen en aquells xàrters a Londres per ser mestresses del seu destí.

Charity va ser “portada de la Muntanya” quan era petita. No conserva cap record de la seva vida anterior, a banda dels rumors vagues de la gent de North Dormer, un poble allunyat i perdut de tot i de tothom. L’arribada de Lucius Harney, un jove arquitecte de la ciutat, un tediós dia d’estiu, descobrirà a Charity la il·lusió de l’amor i del desig, així com una realitat diferent a la que sempre havia viscut. Tot i aixo, la promesa del somni es veurà molt aviat frustrada pel pes inevitable de la realitat i les seves vicissituds.

Tras el fenómeno editorial de Por si las voces vuelven, Ángel Martín regresa a las librerías con un libro íntimo e impactante —pero no exento de humor— sobre todo aquello que le ayudó a rehacerse y mantener la cordura, tras superar su brote psicótico. Desde que sufrí un brote psicótico y me ingresaron dos semanas en un psiquiátrico por escuchar voces que no podía controlar, presto una atención milimétrica a cualquier cosa que suceda dentro de mi cabeza.

Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. And then... nothing. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident, a crash in the snow. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there's nothing she can do but wait.