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"I absolutely adore this book...love story begins slow—like a delicious lowcountry boil—but heats up to the perfect ending." --Kathleen Y’Barbo, bestselling author of The Black Midnight A heartwarming Avon debut of love, forgiveness, and new beginnings set in the beautiful South Carolina...

Social justice work is more crucial than ever, but it can be physically and emotionally draining. Longtime activist Denise Collazo offers three keys to help Latinas keep their focus, morale, and energy high. Doing the work of social change is hard. Waking up every day to take on the biggest challenges of our time can be overwhelming, and sometimes progress is hard to see. She understands that Latina and all women of color activists do their best work when they are thriving, not simply surviving.

What has been forgotten can destroy you and everything you hold dear. Daisko Nori learns that lesson first hand as he goes about fulfilling his duty as an imperial bodyguard. Nori is sent to the city of Jadai to protect the youngest daughter of the Empress. What starts off as an easy, boring assignment will quickly escalate to an epic quest, filled with terrible monsters, questionable characters, and a race against time.

Basado en una experiencia real, este libro es el enternecedor relato de la relación entre una joven y una anciana india con extraordinarios poderes y conocimiento, que la recibe en calidad de aprendiz. A medida que progresan las lecciones esotéricas van poniéndose de manifiesto las facultades que el ser humano puede desarrollar.

Remy's hope to rid her territory of a vampire invasion backfires when she gets captured outside of the vampire's new home. Though she hoped to escape, Xavier, the head of the den, had other thoughts. Tempted by the sweet delicacy that was fairy blood, he kept her.

Einzigartig turbulent und auf ungewöhnliche Weise wunderbar normal - so würde Autorin, Creatorin und Karma-Expertin Carmen Kroll (carmushka) ihr Leben beschreiben, wenn sie es in einer Zeile zusammenfassen müsste. Da sie aber direkt ein ganzes Buch zur Verfügung hat, nimmt sie die Hörer*innen Kapitel für Kapitel mit in ihr Universum und erzählt, wie sie sich seit ihrer Kindheit Herzenswünsche erfüllt: Von der großen Liebe über die Traumkarriere bis hin zum sich unendlich drehenden Karma-Kreislauf.

This is not a love story. Unconditional is a story about love. When Chris and his father Phil decide to spend a long weekend break in Bilbao, their relationship is stretched to the limit. All because of a woman. Chris learns the hard way how actions have consequences. Phil also learns that it takes unexpected blows to put love to the test.

Eunice "Bug" Smoot was 13 years old when her grandfather put her soul up as collateral on his dream car -- a classic 1958 Cadillac Biarritz. Now, five years later, Papa C is dead and buried, and Bug is trying to make it on her own by delivering pizzas and staying one step ahead of her landlord. And then the repo man arrives

Von wegen niedlich! Die kleine Elfe hat es schwer, seit sie durch einen Zauber gezwungen ist, immer die Wahrheit zu sagen. Weil diese oft unangenehm ist, hat die Wahr-Elfe keine Freunde. Bis sie eines Tages einem riesigen Troll begegnet, der sie wutentbrannt aus dem Reich der fantastischen Wesen in die Menschenwelt befördert. Dort landet die Elfe bei Aada, die den Kopf voller Sorgen hat. Auch zu ihr muss die Wahr-Elfe ehrlich sein, aber sie kann ihr Mut machen.

Eat this, not that. Enjoy all foods in moderation. Love yourself. Lose weight. These are just a few of the contradictory messages many of us face every day. No wonder we've never felt more confused about what to eat, how our bodies "should" look, and what it means to be "healthy." Through personal narratives, clinical examples, extant research, as well as expert and stakeholder insights, The New Food Fight offers an incisive guide to the complex and increasingly polarized fields of eating disorders and weight management.

Endlich steht der Advent an, und die Online-Omi freut sich auf eine gemütliche Zeit mit Gänsebraten, "Sissi" und allem, was dazugehört. Aber wie immer kommt es anders. Kaum brennt die erste Kerze auf dem Kranz, geht alles drunter und drüber. Stromausfall, kein fließendes Wasser – und dann versucht Tochter Kirsten auch noch, mit der Deutschen Bahn anzureisen! Nie hätte Renate gedacht, dass am Ende die ganze Hausgemeinschaft in ihrer Wohnstube sitzen und zusammen Weihnachten feiern würde. Es wird ein ganz besonderes Fest, das kann man wohl sagen. Aber das alles erzählt Ihnen Renate am besten selbst!

Carmen Aguirre was six-year-old when she and her family fled to Canada following General Augusto Pinochet’s violent 1973 coup in Chile. She was only eleven-years-old when her mother and stepfather joined the resistance movement and returned to South America, taking Carmen and her sister went with them. As their mother and stepfather set up a safe house for resistance members in La Paz, Bolivia, the girls' own double lives began. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria.

Evolutionaries are people who lead companies, systems, industries, communities, and even nations through transformative change. You can find Evolutionaries hidden inside organizations - often their role is on the periphery. They are the people in the Research and Development Department, the innovation labs, the skunk works, but there are other times when they are more central. We believe that time is now.

For Annie Sakdavong, engineering is more than a passion—it's an escape. Trained from birth to be a "sword maiden"—a bodyguard bride pledged to a wealthy merchant—she defies her family by apprenticing herself to Issa Obasi, a brilliant Igbo engineer ostracized from his homeland for his inability to use his people's ikè, or rune magic. Together, they pursue revolutionary research to merge forbidden magic with steam power. But their work attracts the wrong attention.

A finales del siglo xix, la joven Elba y su hermano se ven obligados a huir de su aldea gallega y realizar una larguísima travesía hacia Filipinas. Allí su destino quedará inexorablemente enlazado con el de un rico negociante chino que ha hecho su fortuna con el comercio de la canela.

An introvert to the core, Aria Scott spends her days in the shadow of her more popular sister, Sophia Scott. The twins are drastically different, and Aria harbors deep-seated anger with Sophia that began their freshman year of high school and simmered well into senior year. When Aria receives a postcard from a mysterious author named X on her birthday, she finds herself slowly coming out of her shell and learning there is much more to life than hiding in the shadows of the past. With the help of X, Aria goes on a journey that changes her life forever.

This delightful little story tells of a young girl's time with her grandmother as she relates the legend of how the mischievous little white fox with all his grand adventures going over, under and through became the red fox we know today. How the Fox Got His Color may well become an all time children's classic and a perfect audiobook for the young listener.

Pssst... Guten Tag! Hier spricht Renate Bergmann. Entschuldigen'se, wenn ich flüstere, aber man weiß ja nie, wo die Gangster überall stecken. Bitte kontrollieren Sie, ob Sie auch die Haustür abgeschlossen haben, bevor Sie weiterlesen! Es ist im Grunde ein Wunder und nur der Tatsache zu verdanken, dass ich so aufmerksam und regelmäßig "Aktendeckel XY" gucke, dass ich hier sitzen und Ihnen berichten kann. Fast hätte mich nämlich so ein Raudi um meine paar Kröten gebracht, und dann wäre ich im Armenhaus gelandet bei Wasser und Brot und ohne Klappcomputer! Ich sage nur: "Enkeltrick", wenn'se verstehen, was ich meine.

My name is Ryder Carter, future heir of Realm Five, Minato. I was destined to do great things, to walk alongside my fellow star knights, as we desperately searched for the woman who would lead our galaxy to salvation. My spirit and I had failed her once, unable to prevent the chain of events and challenges she'd faced for 16 cycles. Then, we finally found her - alive. 

From Romance Writers of America comes a never-before-published collection of tales that showcases the breadth and complexity of the world's most popular genre of fiction!