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Marion and her two friends leave their private school to begin new lives. Marion is determined to be a success and become wealthy, not realizing what she will have to give up to win her goal and that it all may end up being just "fairy gold".

Eve, Justin, Susie and Ed have been friends since they were 18. Now in their 30s, the four are still as close as ever, Thursday pub quiz night is still sacred and Eve is still secretly in love with Ed. Maybe Eve should have moved on by now, but she can’t stop thinking about what could have been. And she knows Ed sometimes thinks about it, too. Then one night, in an instant, all their lives change forever. And, as Eve learns she didn’t know her friends as well as she thought, she also discovers she isn’t the only person keeping secrets.

In 1930, the Ohio Penitentiary caught fire shortly after inmates had returned to their locked cells after supper. In less than an hour, 320 men succumbed to fire and smoke in what remains the deadliest prison disaster in United States history.

MacKenzie Harper did the impossible. She recovered her stolen mates and a host of wolves, taken, tortured, and turned by the mad Loup haunting them all. But in saving her mates and all the other wolves, she falls. As the last omega, her loss would devastate more than just her mates. Ranier, Preston, Jarret, and Anton will move heaven and earth to save their mate. It’s been a long time since the brothers were allowed to live as wolves. Old instincts war with old habits, and prickly personalities threaten to turn the swamp into an even more dangerous environment than it already is.

Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, and the lasting effects of cultural trauma. Of the roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066, around 5,000 were able to escape incarceration beforehand by fleeing inland.

Ana Wicker’s life turns upside down, when her parents inform her, they intend to divorce. Ana thinks the answer is to run away, but in doing so, she finds herself transported to the strange world of Eperidium. There, she meets Frey, Felix, and Clomtrop, three magical children known in their world as Scions. They explain to Ana that the only person who can help her return home has disappeared without a trace.

As the wife of Don Massimo Torricelli, one of the most dangerous Mafia bosses in Sicily, Laura’s life is a roller coaster. She is often at risk, the potential target of Massimo’s unscrupulous enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the powerful man. And when Laura is seriously injured in an attack, pregnant and fighting to survive, Massimo faces the toughest decision of his life. What will his life be without Laura? Will he be able to raise their child alone? What will the fate of his family be, and whose 365 days may come to a close?

A father and his family find sanctuary in their old family homestead, hidden deep in the forest during an EMP crisis. Cody Russell leaves the city with his family and heads to his father’s old homestead, concealed deep in the woods. For Russell, the only thing worse than failing to reach sanctuary is the failure to protect his family in this dangerous post-EMP world.

Unlike most of Peacock's novels, The Misfortunes of Elphin has a distinct plot, built around the adventures of prominent figures of Arthurian legend, like Taliesin, the bard, the princes Elphin, and Seithenyn and King Arthur himself. The drama comes to a satisfactory resolution when Arthur's wife, Gwenyvar, who has been kidnapped by the ambitious King Melvas, is restored to her husband, after some skilful negotiation by Seithenyn and a cunning abbot.

Luke Trevors, a PI with the ability to see the dead, walks between the worlds of the living and the dead alone. Shunned by both, Luke must dig deep for the resolve to finish a case that ended in bloodshed the year prior. But until Luke learns to control his demons, he’s unsure if this time around will be any different.

The war between Almacia and the Empire of Kolakolvia is in its hundredth year. Casualties grow on both sides as the conflict leaves no corner of the world untouched. Illarion Glaskov’s quiet life on the fringes of the empire is thrown into chaos when an impossible tragedy strikes his village. When he is conscripted into the Tsarist military, he is sent to serve in The Wall - an elite regiment that pilots suits of armor made from the husks of dead golems.

The Eradication of Vice saga continues. Flogged by his depraved wife and mother-in-law, and subjected to excruciating sexual torment by the traditionalist faction of the British Women's Association for the Eradication of Vice, Archie Duntisbourne joins his anarchist comrades in a daring raid on the Association’s secret laboratory in Wiveliscombe. Professor Reich, the Association’s chief scientist, reveals a dark secret...but can he be believed, or is his confession the product of a deranged mind?

haBITS provides you with an opportunity to be in control of your habits. In the same way that bits are the basic unit of computer memory, haBITS are regular practices or routines that are not only small and easy to do, but are also the basic unit of logical power. Habits are a component of the system that is based on compound growth. Most software codes involve sequence, selection, and repetition.

When a former colleague is implicated in his neighbor’s demise, Sheridan Hendley returns to Cold Creek to prove his innocence. Annoying as Max can be, she can’t imagine the quirky professor is capable of murder. Unfortunately, not everyone shares her opinion. Of course, it doesn’t help that Max threatened his neighbor in a public place soon before the man was murdered. Or that the victim’s drug shipments had a habit of turning up on Max’s doorstep. Only as Sheridan asks more questions, she again puts a target on her back.

Lana Atakisieva ist Polizeioberkommissarin in einem der anspruchsvollsten Abschnitte Deutschlands und fährt Streife in Berlin-Neukölln. Bewegend erzählt die Polizistin von ihrer Lebens- und Familiengeschichte, aber auch von dem, was Polizeiarbeit für sie persönlich bedeutet. Wie der Alltag auf Streife aussieht, warum der Zusammenhalt der Kolleginnen und Kollegen so wichtig ist und was es heißt, als eingewanderte Frau in Deutschland Fuß zu fassen.

It was Lucia night and Bella had just arrived by train at Enköping station when a car pulled up in front of her. In the driver's seat sat Lottie with Daniel next to her and Ollie in the back seat. Bella jumped in next to Ollie and they drove off towards the house to join the others. They were approaching thirty but when they were together it was as if no time had passed since they studied theatre together as twentysomethings. This time they had gathered to have a party at the city's retirement homes. They would all stay in one big house, and it wasn't long before the familiar atmosphere set in.

With all the misinformation, myths, and misconceptions from "experts" and countless books and guides available online about scoliosis, it can be easy to get lost and confused in the thousands of suggested treatments, options, and plans. In this fifth edition, not only will you discover the unvarnished truth about scoliosis, but you will also digest verified facts with unquestionable accuracy, which will help you to completely demystify the preconceived notions that proper spinal alignment is inaccessible without surgery.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's six novels: 1984; Animal Farm; Burmese Days; Coming Up For Air; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; and A Clergyman's Daughter.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest pieces of literature that dates to around the Third Dynasty of Ur in early Sumerian times, approximately 2150-2000 BC. The Epic is a poem that was preserved in Cuneiform on clay tablets and translated to eventually be what we read in current times. The tale is about the King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, and his adventures with his companion Enkidu, who was sent to calm the tyrant King. But this is not that story.

Best-selling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan present an elegant, international anthology of erotica that explores the diverse spectrum of desire, written by winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN Awards, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Edgar Award, and more. There are stories of sexual obsession and sexual love, of domination and submission. There’s revenge sex, unrequited sex, funny sex, tortured sex, fairy tale sex, and even sex in the afterlife.