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Linda Conrads ist ihren Fans und der Presse ein Rätsel. Sie veröffentlicht Jahr für Jahr Bücher, die zu Bestsellern werden, lebt aber völlig zurückgezogen. Seit gut elf Jahren hat sie keinen Fuß mehr über die Schwelle ihres Hauses gesetzt. Die Medien spekulieren über eine mysteriöse Krankheit, doch den wahren Grund kennt niemand außer Linda selbst: Sie wird von einer schrecklichen Erinnerung gequält, denn vor vielen Jahren hat sie ihre jüngere Schwester Anna ermordet aufgefunden - und den Mörder flüchten sehen.

Er ist eine Bedrohung. Keiner will ihr glauben. Vor sieben Jahren ist der reiche Geschäftsmann Philipp Petersen während einer Südamerikareise spurlos verschwunden. Seither zieht seine Frau Sarah den gemeinsamen Sohn alleine groß. Doch dann erhält Sarah wie aus heiterem Himmel die Nachricht, dass Philipp am Leben ist. Seine Rückkehr löst ein gewaltiges Medieninteresse aus. Sarah hat zwiespältige Gefühle: Was wird werden? Gibt es noch eine gemeinsame Zukunft?

Irland im Jahre 1848. Die Große Hungersnot, auch "An Gorta Mór" genannt, hat die grüne und umkämpfte Insel fest im Griff. Täglich sterben tausende Menschen, ganze Landstriche sind entvölkert. Männer verlassen ihre Familien oder bringen sich um, weil sie das Leid nicht länger mehr mitansehen können. Frauen verkaufen ihre Körper, für ein schimmeliges Stück Brot oder einen fauligen Apfel. Auch Caitlin O'Leary weiß nicht mehr, wie sie ihren Mann und ihre Kinder ernähren soll.

Er ist eine Bedrohung. Keiner will ihr glauben. Vor sieben Jahren ist der reiche Geschäftsmann Philipp Petersen während einer Südamerikareise spurlos verschwunden. Seither zieht seine Frau Sarah den gemeinsamen Sohn alleine groß. Doch dann erhält Sarah wie aus heiterem Himmel die Nachricht, dass Philipp am Leben ist. Seine Rückkehr löst ein gewaltiges Medieninteresse aus. Sarah hat zwiespältige Gefühle: Was wird werden? Gibt es noch eine gemeinsame Zukunft?

Lillys Welt steht Kopf. Ein Schritt vor, zwei zurück... dabei war sie der Erfüllung ihrer Träume so nah. Doch in der Anderswelt gibt es nicht nur Schwarz und Weiß. Nicht nur Gut und Böse. Nichts ist, wie es scheint, und als ein neuer Feind das politische Schlachtfeld betritt, glaubt sie sich vorbereitet. Doch wieder einmal kommt alles anders, als gedacht.

Spain, 1959. Slim Hawks Hayward likes to think she doesn’t get jealous. But when her dear friend Lauren “Betty” Bacall learns that Papa Hemingway has come to watch the bullfights and insists that Slim make introductions, she can’t help feeling protective. Slim has known Papa for years. He always makes her feel like the most beautiful woman in the room—even when his wife is standing right beside him. Truth be told, Slim could have learned to love him all those years ago, in the streets of Havana or the mountains of the American West.

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a nineteenth century icon and inspiration—and whose most daunting limitation became her greatest strength.

Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends - the alluring socialite Swans Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances, Babe has it all. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman - a woman desperately longing for true love and connection.

Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the founders and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability.

How do trees make sweet maple syrup? Follow each step in the food production cycle - from planting sugar maple trees to pouring syrup on pancakes - in this fascinating book!

Shame left Sass behind to chase his dream of rockstar status. While on the road, she moves on and he is left with regrets not knowing Sass is in her own personal hell. There are many events that happen in this book that are all connected to one another. A tragedy brings the entire group of friends together and Sass and Shame's paths cross again. They both have been living with a great amount of regret for their past actions and wish they could start off where they left off, but they can't.

The guys of major rock band Thick as Thieves come together in this novella to say goodbye to a beloved friend. Noah will reach an all-time high of anguish, sorrow, and pain, and none of the group, even Carrie, know if he will survive. Saying goodbye may prove too much for Noah, but, with TAT at his side, he might pull through.

This is the final encore of Thick as Thieves. The final good-bye is given through the eyes of Shame, Cal and Noah as all their worlds have changed for the better, the special, and the unexpected.

The summer before her final year at UW, Carrie agrees to a date with her long-time crush, who happens to be her brother Noah's best friend Chad Blake. The tattooed and sexy-as-sin front man for rock band Thick as Thieves and the crowned King of Gig Harbor's bad boys, Chad is a known for a good time, great music, killer tats, and a sweet goodbye the morning after...as long as the girl knows the score. Everything he is, is everything Noah wants her far away from.

My name is Noah Beckett, and this is my story. There will be moments I disgust you; I will undoubtedly break your heart. I am a master of making ugly even worse, but I can bring out beauty in the worst of all things. I do not judge, I would have answered to a bullet a long time ago if I did. You may not like my choices or the things I say and the way I live, but you will respect it because I have earned it.

On the morning of August 15, 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin flew the last combat mission of World War II out of Iwo Jima. Today, Captain Yellin is a sharp, engaging, 93-year-old veteran whose story is brought to life by best-selling author Don Brown.

In the spring of 1958, Jenny Winter embarks on a two-month adventure to one of the most enchanting places on earth, a quaint village in England's magical Lake District. With a new camera and an eye for capturing the beauty others miss, she can't wait to explore the heathery fells and mystical waters. Adrian Kemp, a handsome and enigmatic local, makes the sightseeing even more beguiling - and he's about to invite Jenny into one of the area's most enduring legends.

Skylar Reid is shaken when Sasha, the little girl she babysits, is kidnapped. She's scared that the weird dreams she's been having about Sasha are real - and even more afraid that Sasha is already dead. When a mysterious girl with extreme butt-kicking abilities roars into town on a motorcycle and starts stalking Skylar, things get even weirder. Supergirl Dana tells Sky that she also has abilities, that a hormone in their blood makes them stronger, faster, smarter...

Skylar is a girl with extraordinary power - a girl with a mission to use her Greater-Than gifts to stop the makers of Destiny from getting people hooked on their deadly drug. But Sky is still mastering her new abilities, and her first mission to destroy a Destiny lab leaves her best friend addicted to the drug. For a few days Cal will be able to walk again - until it kills him. Time is running out for Sky to save the world without sacrificing her friends - to become truly Greater-Than.

Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12 and a half years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father's death, however, she's been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother Diane's floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job as an English professor, not to mention coparenting a little brother who hogs all the therapy money. Luckily Aris has a plan. Following the advice laid out in Write a Novel in Thirty Days!, she sets out to pen a best seller using her charmingly dysfunctional family as material.