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Weird. Creepy. Frumpy. Boyish. At the young age of 29, reluctant necromancer Esper Jones is an outcast, labeled “the old witch on the hill” and avoided by all sane residents of the tiny village of Hellsfork Michigan. And that’s just fine with her. Dealing with people has all the appeal of poking her own eyes out. But Esper’s quiet world is upset when a strange, beautiful man named Toma blows into town and destroys the walls Esper has carefully built around herself.

When people see Zachary Williams they see a billionaire entrepreneur who changed the face of an entire industry, but without love and family it's worthless to him. Lonely and frustrated with the dating scene, he remembers an agreement he made with his best friend when they were in their teens. Zach searches out Addison and offers her the deal of a lifetime. When Addison hears from her childhood friend and he invokes a pact they made as teenagers, she thinks he’s joking.

Overnight, a shiny new business opens on Chancey, Georgia’s Main Street, with a manager straight from New York City, who doesn’t find the South charming, at all. Carolina’s bookstore is also opening on Main Street. If she can keep Patty’s mind on books instead of a new romance. Then, when a secret wedding catches everyone off guard, a springtime tornado in Chancey just seems like icing on the cake. (Wedding cake, that is.) Trains still run by Crossings, the B and B for rail road enthusiasts. Ruby still sells coffee and muffins. And kids still get out of school for the summer.

When a surrogate mother pretends the pregnancy has miscarried and bears a daughter, to whom does the child belong? To her runaway birth mother or her deceived father and his wife? Scout, born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement, is kept by her biological mother, Joanie, who has deliberately deceived both the clinic and Scout's intended parents by claiming to have had a miscarriage. When this deception comes to light 10 years later, a compelling moral dilemma unfolds.

Raena Barren was born with a secret: Of all the magic users in the kingdom of Soma, she is the only one who can hide her power. As a child, she used this magic to help her survive on the streets - until she saved the life of a strange boy called Jorr Portent. He rewarded her with a job in the castle of Soma - and Raena spent the next ten years falling in love with him. But while Raena’s life as a servant is sheltered, Jorr’s world is one of spies and assassins. When Raena comes of age, their paths will diverge forever...unless Raena can earn a place by his side.

Minnie and her sister, Clara, spinsters both, live in a dilapidated country house in the middle of a housing estate, built when their father sold off the family's land. Now in their 70s, their days follow a well-established routine: long gone are the garden parties, the tennis lessons and their suffocating strict mother. Gone, too, is any mention of what happened when Minnie was 16 and the secret the family buried in the grounds of their estate. Over the course of the summer, both begin to tell their stories....

Journalistin Maren soll in New York den berühmten Zuckerbäcker Bob Halliwell interviewen. Keine leichte Aufgabe, denn Journalisten sind dem New Yorker ein Dorn im Auge. Maren zeigt vollen Körpereinsatz und kann den Zuckerbäcker schließlich mit ihrem Charme und ihren weiblichen Reizen um den Finger wickeln. Auch Bob Halliwell kann Maren von seinen Fähigkeiten überzeugen und beschert ihr nicht nur kulinarische Höhepunkte.

Sam Wentworth grew up with nothing. She’s worked tirelessly just to get through college and earn her first monster. Bankrupt and exhausted, she sets her sights on fame and fortune in Maiyamon arenas. Instead, Sam’s caught between battling the rampaging elemental creatures abandoned by their owners and standing up to a toxic group intent on ending the game forever. With her flame fox cub, Finn, at her side, Sam sets out to build a team capable of protecting both innocent people’s lives and the creatures she loves. That’s the easy part.

Riley Griggs verbringt jeden Sommer mit ihrer Familie auf der wunderschönen Insel Belle Isle. Aber dieses Jahr ist alles beängstigend anders: Ihr Ehemann Wendell kommt nicht wie verabredet mit der Fähre an, ihr Haus wurde von der Bank gepfändet und ihre Konten gesperrt. Riley wendet sich hilfesuchend an ihre Freundinnen auf der Insel, doch diese haben alle mit ihren eigenen Problemen zu tun. So macht sich Riley allein auf die Suche nach Wendell.

Kay Hutchison had a successful career, a beautiful home, and a loving husband until the day she woke up and said, "I'm leaving." Why on Earth did she walk away from it all and turn to a host of weird and wonderful treatments in search of answers to a question she couldn't even articulate? Part memoir, part guide, this is Kay's journey of self discovery as she faces up to her darkest moments via homeopathy, astrology, silent retreats, and reiki, whilst also dabbling in past-life regression, sonic therapy, shamanic retreats, and many more along the way.

When Monica is offered a three-month placement in LA, she knows that for the sake of her career she must accept it - even though it means leaving behind nine-year-old Ruby, toddler Luca and her husband, Daniel. She hires Ursula as a housekeeper and nanny during her absence, although the older woman is oddly reluctant to agree to a childcare position. What is the dark secret in Ursula's past which has left her so closed off and reserved? Will her growing attachment to Ruby bring it to the surface?

This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, and wrote her out of the will.

Die Ehe von Profisportler Gavin steckt in der Krise. Genau genommen ist sie sogar vorbei, wenn es nach seiner Frau Thea geht. Und das darf nicht sein. Thea ist die Liebe seines Lebens! Und er versteht, verdammt noch mal, nicht, was überhaupt passiert ist. Eigentlich müsste SIE sich bei IHM entschuldigen! Gavin ist ratlos und verzweifelt - bis einer seiner Freunde ihn mit zu einem Treffen nimmt. Einem Treffen des Secret Book Club. Hier lesen und diskutieren Männer heimlich Liebesromane, um ihre Frauen besser zu verstehen. Gavin hält das für Schwachsinn.

This book is a modern spin of old Arabic poetry from the Middle Ages. Kayes and Lyla are well-known names in the Arabic culture who caused wars because of their innocent love.

After years of harsh monsoon seasons, a forest on the river island of Majuli is in danger of being slowly washed away. Jadav is determined to save the forest he loves. This is the true story of how one young boy dedicated his life to creating and cultivating an expansive forest that continues to grow to this day. In a world impacted by climate change, Jadav Payeng’s inspirational story shows how one person’s contributions can make a difference in helping to save our environment.

Lost for more than 60 years and overflowing with political and sexual intrigue, Thieves Fall Out provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of Gore Vidal in his formative years. By turns mischievous and deadly serious, Vidal tells the story of a man caught up in events bigger than he is, a down-on-his-luck American hired to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo at a time when revolution is brewing and heads are about to roll.

In a church in Battersea, Mary-Margaret O'Reilly sees blood on her hands and believes she has witnessed a miracle. The consequences are both profound and devastating - not just for her but for others, too: Father Diamond, the parish priest, struggling with his own faith. Stella, adrift in her marriage and aching for her ten-year old son, away at boarding school. Alice, counting the days until her soldier son comes home. And Mary-Margaret's mother, imprisoned in a tower block with nothing but her thoughts for company.

Gesa does not have a pride. Only male gryphons need a whole harem of lovers to stroke their egos. But when a fortune-telling fox from the county fair and a captive mute sea-dweller turn to Gesa for help, she can’t turn them away. Sometimes, being a creature of valor and loyalty is a pain in the ass.

Billy is only nine years old. But he's already learned that when your mum dies, you get your own social worker. He's also learned that once you are 10, the odds of finding a family to adopt you don't look so good. That's the part he wasn't supposed to overhear. Miriam Riley is up against a deadline to give Billy the 'forever family' that every child deserves. Determined to cut through red tape, she finds three very different couples who might fit the bill, though prospective parents come with issues of their own.

Carolina knew moving teenagers from the Atlanta suburbs to a small Georgia mountain town was a horrible idea. She knew opening a B&B was an even worse plan. Oncoming headlights aren’t only aimed at her family, the town of Chancey is being set up for a collision that could change everything. And as that unfolds, Carolina’s husband Jackson is smack dab in the middle of it all, his hand on the throttle, going full steam ahead.