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Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her parents gone, it falls to her to support her grandfather, Morris, and younger sister, Joan. Times are tough, largely due to the hardships of war, and Livvy knows that she will struggle to keep her family safe with the meagre pay most jobs would afford her. When US soldiers are stationed nearby, Livvy decides to take advantage of the opportunity to make some easy and, along with her best friend Vera, begins selling herself on the streets.

It's a destiny thrown upon her too soon, and one she's not even sure she wants. After killing her uncle, Hyde, and capturing his rebels, Trinity must repair relations between Humans and Angorians. She must find a way to ease their fears and assure them that Angorians will not cause them harm.

Sports Day is approaching, and Violet dreams of keeping up with her friends in a track and field race, despite her need to use forearm crutches. She then discovers a purple handcycle. Will Violet be victorious? This book not only teaches about adaptive equipment, it also exemplifies perseverance and the kindness involved in accommodating all our friends with different needs.

Abi is distraught when her ex-husband Alex takes their twelve-year-old daughter, Chloe to spend the summer with his glamorous fiancée Marisa and her parents at their home on the beautiful Italian island of Procida. Persuaded by her best friend to book a holiday at the island's Hotel Paradiso, Abi finally meets the woman she's been avoiding for so long. Will the two women's strained relationship survive the summer?

Der zehnte Fall für Christiane Franks Kultduo Oda Wagner und Christine Cordes. Der Wilhelmshavener Unternehmer Matthias Meinhardt wird tot aufgefunden. Von mehreren Schüssen getroffen und nach dem Tod mit Tritten malträtiert. Zunächst vermuten die Ermittlerinnen Oda Wagner und Christine Cordes einen Raubüberfall. Doch im Umfeld des Toten finden sich ebenfalls zahlreiche Verdächtige. Meinhardts Unternehmen war insolvent, und auch seine schwangere Geliebte hätte ein Motiv gehabt. Dann jedoch nimmt der Fall eine verstörende Wendung.

Der neunte Fall für Oda Wagner und Christine Cordes. In Wilhelmshaven verbrennt ein Psychiater in seiner Praxis, auf Wangerooge wird der Inselarzt tot auf dem Friedhof gefunden, und auf Norderney liegt ein Pneumologe erstochen im Strandkorb. Zunächst scheint die Spur ins Drogenmilieu zu führen. Doch dann müssen Oda Wagner und Christine Cordes erkennen, dass ihnen der Täter näher ist, als ihnen lieb sein kann.

Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would have beaten by now. She wants to be a writer but can't finish a first draft; she romanticizes her childhood but won’t speak to her mother; she has never been in a serious relationship but yearns to be one half of a couple that DIYs together at the weekends.

Stürmisch, rau und voller Inselflair - der neue Fall für das Kultteam Oda und Christine. Flitterwochen auf Wangerooge hatte sich Kriminaloberkommissarin Christine Delvental – ehemals Cordes – anders vorgestellt: Am Strand wird ein Hotelgast erschlagen aufgefunden. Der Tote gehörte zu einem Filmteam, das einen Bericht über Plastikmüll in den Meeren drehte. Musste er sterben, weil er ein Verhältnis mit der Freundin des Kameramannes hatte? Christine und ihre Kollegin Oda Wagner geraten in einen Sog aus Lügen, Eitelkeit und Gewalt.

Open the Writers of the Future and be carried away by stories—and illustrations—that will make you think, make you laugh, and make you see the world in ways you never imagined. Twelve captivating tales from the best new writers of the year as selected by Writers of the Future Contest judges accompanied by three more from L. Ron Hubbard, Nancy Kress, S.M. Stirling.

No one sees me. Behind my brother, I’m a ghost, managing the family business that he claims to run. But I’m tired of second fiddle. I’m tired of pretending. I’m going to take what’s mine.

Here to Stay is a collection of honest, searing, and evocative poems interspersed with short personal narratives. Deeply intimate, these works explore how to exist in the space between the familiar and the unknown, between the safety of silence and the desire to share. Highlighting the significant insights of undocumented poets, this brilliant compendium challenges misconceptions of what it means to live and write as an undocumented person in modern America.

I'm done juggling dead-end jobs and deadbeat boyfriends. It's time to nail down my goal of owning a hotel—and fix my friendship with my ex-best friend, Jack Colson. He's a big-shot investor, and I'm going to need one. Nailing him barely crosses my mind. I might actually get my life in order, especially if I snag the deep (and deeply weird) discount for staying an entire weekend at my dream property. It's hard not to fall in love with the place.

The Bargainer . . . Just like the fae of legend, Jonas Moen makes advantageous deals no desperate soul can turn away. A talented trickster, he's amassed such great wealth he's rumored to have more gold than the king himself. But there's one thing he's yet to acquire: a fae lord's title. Born a commoner, he continues to be denied entry to the best the Lunar Court has to offer. If he can secure the hand of a titled woman, he'll finally have it all. But first, he'll need to find a lady desperate enough to ignore his humble parentage and his wicked character.

An einem nebligen Novembertag entdeckt ein Spaziergänger am Ende der Schleuseninsel die Leiche des jungen Oberleutnants zur See Fabian Baumann. Unfall oder Mord? Die beiden Oberkommissarinnen Oda Wagner und Christine Cordes betreten ermittlungstechnisch Neuland: das Marinearsenal und die Fregatte "Jever". Lang gehütete Familiengeheimnisse und eine verschworene Soldatengemeinschaft erschweren die Ermittlung. Und noch während sie den Fall untersuchen, kommt ein zweites Besatzungsmitglied ums Leben.

As Valentine’s Day approaches, Rider and Rayleighn plan a night to remember before they say I do! With help from their friends in the Mystic Venom MC, Cupid is sure to hit his mark.

What if the person lying to you is your husband, the man who claims to love you more than anything in the world? Isolated in his remote Scottish ancestral home on the pretext that you are psychologically fragile and recovering from a breakdown, this home has become a prison. As the days slip by in a haze of confusion and a cocktail of drugs administered by a loyal housekeeper, you begin to piece together the fragments of your life and stumble on a terrifying secret.

A young black girl disappears from Cincinnati’s West End. No witnesses, no leads. Two days later, a white girl the same age is snatched from Hyde Park Square. Cincinnati’s mayor receives a letter brutally stating: “Find the black girl and we’ll return the white girl.” The fuse lit, two female detectives race to uncover the kidnappers. Hope dwindles as time accumulates, and passes, without resolution. Cincinnati PD and the FBI form an uneasy alliance while battling the city’s racial stereotypes and stigmas.

There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school—you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School’s queen bee, violates the school’s dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better as long as she remembers the first rule of punk: be yourself.

Durch Zufall entdeckt Till Lorentzen in der Schaltzentrale der Nordsee-Raffinerie Wilhelmshaven, dass das System von außen kurzfristig fremdbestimmt wird. Kurze Zeit später ist er tot. Ein Unfall? Hauptkommissarin Oda Wagner muss die Ermittlungen zunächst ohne Kollegin Christine Cordes beginnen, doch auch die wird auf ihrer Urlaubsinsel Langeoog mit in den Fall hineingezogen.

For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours twelve years ago when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since. Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job - at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s 80th birthday party - and Kat has figured out a way to tag along with her mother. .