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I’m used to demons and voodoo. What I was not prepared for was my life turning into a fairytale, complete with the Wicked Step Mother. My awful step mother is the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. She’s always hated me for being a Succubus. It just got a hundred times worse after my father died mysteriously. I inherited the family company, but I can’t remove her as VP because she’s made the entire board into her zombies.

Dead Reckoning is the story of Mia Stevens experiences in the Army after completing Special Forces training. On her first mission, one of her operators is killed. When she leads her platoon back into Iraq, she is shot and severely wounded. Allen’s son, JR is kidnapped by Russians who are trying to intimidate Allen into divulging classified information. Edde Franklin, a Committee operator is assigned to assassinate a corrupt Congressman.

Alicia, una recién casada, rubia y angelical, se enferma de influenza y permanece varios días en cama. Sin embargo, nunca logra reponerse del todo, y cada mañana amanece más débil.

Una mujer pide prestado un collar de brillantes a una amiga adinerada, el cual luce en una elegante fiesta a la que concurre con su esposo. Sin embargo, cuando regresa a casa, ocurre un percance que transformará su vida en toda una tragedia.

A modo de experimento científico, un hombre le solicita a su amigo moribundo Ernest Valdemar, que le permita hipnotizarlo mientras transita hacia la otra vida. Valdemar acepta, y el proceso es observado atentamente por el estudioso y por los médicos que atienden al enfermo.

Una golondrina rezagada, descansa en la hermosa estatua del Príncipe Feliz. El Príncipe está muy triste, porque desde allí puede ver el sufrimiento de su pueblo, y le pide ayuda a la pequeña ave para llevar consuelo a los necesitados.

Una mañana, tras despertar, un hombre se lleva las manos a la cabeza y se da cuenta que ésta ha desaparecido. Angustiado y perplejo, comienza a buscarla por toda la ciudad.

Los esposos White reciben de visita al sargento Morris, quien les muestra una pata de mono que, según creencias de la India, concede tres deseos. Cuando iba a tirar el amuleto al fuego, el dueño de casa se lo compra. Esa noche, por jugar, la señora White pide un deseo. A partir de ese momento, la vida de esta familia da un importante punto de giro.

Un joven minero, apodado el Cabeza de Cobre, por su cabello rojizo, acepta trabajar en un pique peligroso al que nadie desea bajar, con el fin de no perder su trabajo.

By the acclaimed royal biographer and commentator Robert Hardman, Charles III is a brilliant and intimate portrait of the new monarch that draws on unrivalled access to the Royal Family, their close friends and staff, plus previously unseen papers from the Royal Archives.

He got a fake fiancée to avoid an arranged marriage...except she turns out to be his arranged wife after all. Ambitious, driven and independent, billionaire Huxley Lasker refuses to marry the vapid bride his family has chosen to further their legal dynasty. Instead, he asks Grace Lain, a hot one-night stand from a few weeks earlier, to be his fake fiancée. But Grace turns out to be the arranged wife—and their one-night stand has left her pregnant.

The rules were simple. Ditch my past for a fresh start in Finn River. Keep my head down, work hard, and stay out of trouble. But trouble has a name: Kirilee St. Claire. She’s sweet and feisty, with legs for days and a wicked stubborn streak that turns my crank. She’s also my new boss’s daughter, wealthy, educated, and way out of my league. And…engaged to a jerk.

Lady Sybil Fallow, heartbroken after four stillbirths and desperate to provide her husband with an heir, secretly adopts a baby girl, Charlotte, from a destitute family. However, the deception does little to heal her fractured marriage with Lord Irvin Fallow.

We live in a world where trans lives are now mainstream and many forms of nonbinary and gender-diverse identities exist. This is also a world in which some people have some very strong views about how other people identify and how those people should be treated. If you happen to be someone who is running - or is thinking of setting up - a group, programme or event for women (or for a specific group of people for whom gender may be a defining feature) then you need to have an understanding of some of these issues so that you can lead with integrity.

His parents dead, his home destroyed, and now held captive by the same man, Hadrin, the son of the Hagian King and a Princess of Windfall, must escape and unite the clans of Hydleguard to protect the world from Dracaius' plans to raise the demon lord. Gifted with the power of the Stone of Wind, Hadrin must team with Thadean, conjurer and manipulator of fire and a powerful archer, and Donora, commander of the army of Frostfort and the protector of the ice stone to battle the forces of the Underworld.

It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California's John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts's account of that hike.

An easy to digest, honest and personal account of the life of a surgeon and the effect that it has on his wife and family. The listener is taken behind the scenes as fascinating patient stories are used to illustrate what the job entails and the pressures and emotions that result; the child with life-threatening injuries or the patient needing end of life care. Incidents of medical malpractice, sexism and other problems encountered within the NHS are also related, again exemplified by authentic clinical stories.

Il Navy SEAL Trevor “Hawk” Hawkins è in missione per vendicare la morte del suo compagno di squadra quando si schianta contro un’auto durante una bufera di neve. Olivia Grayson stava fuggendo dal suo stesso matrimonio, ma dopo l’incidente fatica a ricordare qualsiasi cosa.

Jerusalén, siglo I. Con tan solo nueve años, Jacob quedó marcado por aquella mirada. El niño, primogénito del líder de los zelotes, no pudo evitar ser testigo y sufrir la pasión y el padecimiento de Jesús de Nazaret. Ya han pasado cuarenta años y los tiempos de los milagros resuenan en la lejanía. Esta es la historia de un niño que fue testigo de cómo un hombre lo cambió todo. Pero sobre todo, esta es, en todas sus vertientes, una historia sobre la FE.

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