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After rescuing her brother from the caverns of a vampire coven and helping to cure her mother of a vampire bite, Leesa Nyland hopes she's done dealing with all things supernatural. All she wants to do now is enjoy college life - and to figure out how to kiss her vampire hunter boyfriend without his magical fire burning her to a crisp. She doesn't think that's too much to ask. So she's not too happy when she begins dreaming of rotting bodies emerging from their graves, and she likes it even less when the terrifying dreams begin to come true.

Lisa Robbins has only one mission - return her UNUSED wedding gown to the bridal shop, except the clerk says no. So what's a girl to do? Peter Crawford is Dallas's most sought after unattached bachelor, after Pembrooke Hastings. Once Lisa Robbins dumps Pembrooke, why not go after confirmed bachelor number two? Certainly, Peter is all too willing to go along with the deal since he's dying to learn how Lisa Robbins hooked Pembrooke into a marriage proposal in the first place and why she left him standing at the altar.

A renaissance festival is a place where fantasy meets reality. It is a place where magic exists, and people are transported into a world that existed hundreds of years ago. Festival actress Sammie Hallows loves everything about the festival. She often dreams about what it would be like to have lived in the Tudor Age. Until the day she and her best friend are transported back to 1586. Then, Sammie dreams about getting back to 2012. And getting back there alive.

With such an increased emphasis on health and nutrition, which comes on the heels of the rising obesity epidemic, many people are researching ways to look and feel good. In fact, there are hundreds of different products out there, all claiming to help you lose weight, strengthen your hair and nails, better your complexion, boost your immune system and mental strength.

Dalee didn't grow up in a religious family. In fact, the last time Kerri went to church, she only attended for the cool door prizes and food served at Vacation Bible School. But when her wealthy roommate, Stephanie, gets engaged, Kerri's finds that her only hope for financial survival is an editing job at a Dallas area mega-church. While waiting for her interview, Kerri makes a quick, desperate decision to meet Christ - in the ladies' room, of all places - so she can fulfill every aspect of the stated criteria for employment.

April is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in the remains of Las Vegas one year after the outbreak. She has become a ferocious vampire killer and after her family is abducted, she goes searching for them. What she finds is a new breed of vampire, unlike any she has seen before. Unsure of whom she can trust, she discovers that her view of the world is not as black and white as she once thought, and she's willing to bend the rules to rescue her family.

Liberty Thomas is a young girl who, for most of her life, has been abused by her parents and two neighborhood kids who enjoy picking on her. The only ones who show her love are her aunt, Rosemary, and a boy she meets in the woods one day. With God's and their help, love, and encouragement, she stays strong throughout the eight years of torture. She proves that she can rise above her circumstances and come out stronger than before.

Eighteen-year old Lexie Woods was sent in a cruise to Bahamas to celebrate her brother's 25th birthday. The cruise ship wrecked and went underwater fast; separating Lexie and her brother Billy forever. Lexie found herself inside one of the three life boats that were tied together. The twenty four survivors were taken to the shores of a beautiful island, and they all felt lucky to have found such paradise. To their horror, they soon learned it was a “Werewolf Island” and the fight for survival began!

In the coffee-growing highlands of Ethiopia, an Italian scientist on a plant-collecting expedition discovers a local medicine man dispensing an apparent cure for AIDS. As the medicine man’s teenage daughter reveals the plants behind the cure, their lives become irrevocably intertwined. Through These Veins weaves together the dramatically different worlds of traditional healing, U.S. government funded AIDS research, and the pharmaceutical industry in an intensely personal, fast-paced tale of scientific intrigue and love, with both devastating and hopeful effect.

Jennifer Rosner’s revelatory memoir explores family, silence, and what it means to be heard. When her daughters are born deaf, Rosner is stunned. Then she discovers a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern Europe. Traveling back in time, she imagines her silent relatives, who showed surprising creativity in dealing with a world that preferred to ignore them.

I H.C. Andersens kunsteventyr "Tommelise" møder vi først en barnløs kvinde, der så inderligt ønsker sig et barn, at hun opsøger en heks for at få hjælp. Heksen giver kvinden et korn, som hun skal passe godt på. Kornet spirer og bliver til en smuk blomst. En dag åbner blomstens knop sig og ud kommer pigen Tommelise, der er så lille, at hun kan sejle på en åkande og sove i en nøddeskal. Mange ønsker at eje den lille og fine Tommelise, men hun er, på trods af sin størrelse, et væsen med ret til at være sig selv, og den ret må hun kæmpe for på sin videre færd i livet.

24 reformramte danskere skriver om deres møde med beskæftigelsessystemet og om de konsekvenser, mødet har haft for deres hverdag, deres familie og deres liv i det hele taget. Bogen er en samling af meget personlige beretninger af mennesker, der føler sig klemt i arbejdsmarkedssystemet. Om magtesløshed, kampen mod systemet og oplevelsen af ikke at blive hørt og få den rette hjælp. Forsidefoto: Eric Ward, Unsplash Næstehjælperne, Jobcentrets Ofre og Alternativet er gået sammen om at bringe en række fortællinger fra det danske kontanthjælpssystem og de mennesker, der lever i det.

1948. Lorsque Françoise, 17 ans, douée pour les études, se voit refuser la possibilité de suivre son cours classique pour accéder à l’université, elle se rebelle. Lasse d’une vie choisie par ses parents, elle succombe aux avances de Léopold Daumais, un intrigant célibataire de 35 ans. D’abord destinée à défier sa mère, cette relation se transforme pourtant en un amour passionné. Puis, survient la grande demande. C’est là que tout se gâte.

Hélène s'est difficilement remise du décès d'Étienne et, depuis cette épreuve, elle a renoncé à l'amour. Elle est donc la première surprise d'éprouver une attirance envers Gabriel Delisle, un client qui la consulte pour une cause de divorce. Question d'éthique professionnelle, Hélène et Gabriel choisissent d'attendre la fin des procédures pour laisser libre cours à leur amour naissant. Mais le jour où ils peuvent enfin vivre leur idylle, voilà qu'un terrible obstacle les sépare et jette une ombre sur leur nouvelle relation.

"Il y a dans son regard de la compassion, celle des chevaux qui voient les pauvres hommes aller d'une comédie à l'autre." Ils s'appellent Zingaro, Chaparro, Lautrec, Le Caravage... L'un fut sauvé in extremis de l'abattoir, un autre légué par un torero en déroute, un autre encore, racheté pour une poignée de pesetas à un maquignon véreux. Ces chevaux ont marqué la vie de Bartabas, célèbre fondateur du théâtre Zingaro. Grâce à leur complicité naturelle, il est devenu un écuyer d'exception, réalisant des prouesses qu'aucun artiste n'avait accomplies avant lui.

America and much of the world are deeply divided over identity, equality, and history. Renewal is Anne-Marie Slaughter’s candid and deeply personal account of how her own odyssey opened the door to an important new understanding of how we as individuals, organizations, and nations can move backward and forward at the same time, facing the past and embracing a new future.

Ce livre audio est LE guide pour toutes les femmes imparfaites (c'est-à-dire grosso-modo pour toutes les femmes*). Vous y apprendrez notamment comment garder votre dignité quand vous êtes complètement bourrée, qui sont ces filles qui ne mangent qu'une salade par jour, les questions qu'il ne faut pas poser à un homme si vous ne voulez pas entendre la réponse, ou ce qu'il faut faire de toute urgence si votre mec veut s'acheter des Crocs.* Il peut également être lu par les hommes qui n'ont pas peur de découvrir ce que les filles se racontent entre elles dès qu'ils ont le dos tourné.

The Highland Games have arrived just outside Apple Station, Virginia, bringing bagpipes, kilts, and a tide of tartan-clad tourists to the cozy small town. Advice columnist Olivia Penn is ready for a weekend of fun now that her life has finally settled into a quiet, steady rhythm. But when a local turns up dead in one of the town’s most iconic homes, a cryptic message from a friend draws her into a tangled mystery.

Desperately lacking the funds to treat her brother’s illness, Sophie decides to seek employment in the Duke of Windston. While sheltered, Sophie is loyal and hardworking, but when her brother’s life is in danger she decides to abandon her morality. What she never expected was to find the Duke’s secret, and in turn to be engulfed in a sinister legacy that threatened all she held dear. Was he her enemy or her ally?

Meet Christy. She's all about Palouse. She was born in the town of Palouse, in the Palouse region of Washington State. Her family name is Palus, and her father is a descendant of the Palouse tribe. Watered down to a few drops. Still, it's something she is proud of. If someone had told her that she will become a predatory lender, betray her best friend, fall in love with a thief, and help her bosses bust up the bank she works for, she would have laughed out loud.