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Among the Dine/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh. While the context is different, it nonetheless reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, stand-alone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice.

Förtidspensionerade läkarsekreteraren Anne-Maj Mortensen bor i den danska småstaden Nykøbing Själland. Där tillbringar hon en stor del av sin tid tillsammans med dottern Iben, barnbarnet Didi och taxen Mortensen den tredje. Varje fredag volonterar hon på den lokala loppisen, liksom många andra pensionärer i området. Men när en av volontärerna, en äldre herre vid namn Helmer, plötsligt avlider börjar saker hända i den lilla staden.

Becca Hartson should be used to moody men by now. She grew up with four overprotective older brothers, after all. But nothing could prepare her for the hostility she encounters from her new boss—the annoyingly gorgeous Daniel Carter. Sure, his first impression of her was bad. She was in the arms of his brother, crying into his shirt. But the whole situation was purely platonic and Daniel knows that. It doesn't stop him from scowling at her every time they work together. Or from sending her heart into a crazy spin. But if she wants to keep this job, she'll have to grin and bear it.

One of Canada’s most acclaimed horror writers, Gemma Files presents a mosaic of interconnected stories about interconnected families. After fleeing Scotland, five clans settled in the fictional town of Dourvale in northern Ontario. Known as the Five-Family Coven, they are the descendants of witches and witch-children, none of whom were spared persecution in their native country. Now shamans, spellcasters, singers, and thieves, the members of the Devize, Druir, Glouwer, Roke, and Rusk families survive by trading their occult powers and talents.

Mehr als jedes vierte Kind in Schule, Kita und Krippe ist (hoch)sensibel. Sie haben es besonders schwer, sich zurechtzufinden, und durch die Pandemie ist ihr Leidensdruck weiter gewachsen. Ihre Eltern leiden mit, sind ratlos und frustriert. Häufig leidet auch ihre Beziehung zum Kind. Kathrin Borghoff, Mutter eines hochsensiblen Kindes und selbst hochsensibel, hilft Eltern, die Stärken ihrer (hoch)sensiblen Kinder in Schule und Kita zu fördern und Probleme aufzufangen bzw. gar nicht erst entstehen zu lassen. Denn Eltern und Kinder haben viel mehr Möglichkeiten zur Mitgestaltung als sie denken.

Football has always been Cam Hartson's life. When he's forced to retire following an injury, he slinks back to his small home town, planning to lie low and lick his wounds. Until he meets Mia Devlin. The beautiful single mom of two tearaway boys has no interest in love. She's too busy trying to find a job and keep a roof over her family's heads to worry about relationships. Even if every time Cam looks at her it sends her heart into a spin. She knows she shouldn't like him. He's too ambitious, too confident. But when he offers to be her rebound guy, she finds herself agreeing.

One of Instagram's loudest and most loved voices, Charlotte Greedy had a rocky start in life. Now with her partner H, her two sons and her fur babies to contend with, every day is a joyful new lesson in learning to love herself again. Honest and hilarious, You Do You shares Charlotte's real-life experiences and the lessons she's learnt along the way to inspire you to begin your own journey of self-love, confidence and help you build the life you truly deserve.

A Lot Like Forever is the third installment in the Blue Moon Bay series by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Snow. Contains mature themes.

Con "Appuntamento mortale", Maria Masella intesse le fila di una vicenda ingarbugliatissima, che rischia di rivelarsi fatale sia per Teresa Maritano che per il vicequestore Marco Ardini. Siamo in pieno agosto, a Genova, e Teresa non è più in contatto da mesi con l’ex compagno di avventure. Paola, la bambina che aveva avuto in affido temporaneo, è stata data in adozione. Alla notizia dell’omicidio dei nuovi genitori, nonché della scomparsa di Paola, Teresa si ritrova per fortuna ad avere un alibi di ferro.

The Williamson family sets out on a road trip to reach their family for the holidays. When a near accident forces them off the road, they meet a man who befriends the father. He tells him of this motel not too far up the street, in case they need a place to wait out the approaching snowstorm. When the family is forced to find a place to stay, that motel seems to be their only option. Everything seems normal at first, but the longer they stay, the more sinister things become, until the family is forced to fight for their lives. Will they make it through? Will they survive the snowstorm?

Logan Hartson. Successful restaurateur. Smooth, suave, and sophisticated—a demon in a designer suit. Courtney Roberts. Small town with a big heart. Cut off jeans and dusty ponytails. A farm girl through and through. They're from different worlds. But from the moment their lives collide on a dirt track, the chemistry is off the charts. For a few stolen nights, everything is perfect. And then they say goodbye. She never thought she'd see him again. But nature has other plans. The serious kind. Now she just has to tell him the truth.

Gift, Rache und ein geheimer Frauenbund. Im London des 18. Jahrhunderts raunen sich Frauen hinter vorgehaltener Hand zu, dass es einen Ausweg aus besonders gewalttätigen Ehen gebe: Eine junge Apothekerin rettet sie mit tödlichen Arzneien aus der Not, eine versteckt übermittelte Nachricht genügt. Doch was, wenn aus der Retterin die Gejagte wird? Knapp 200 Jahre später stößt die Historikerin Caroline Parcewell auf die außergewöhnliche Geschichte der giftmischenden Apothekerin und setzt damit unerwartete Ereignisse in Gang – nicht nur ihr eigenes Leben wird nicht mehr dasselbe sein.

It was love at first bite, in the third book of Lynsay Sands bestselling Argeneau Vampire series. “[Sands’s] trademark humor and genuine characters…keep her series fresh and her readers hooked.” —Publishers Weekly SWM - ""Lucern."" Successful biographer of family, books recently...

National bestselling author Lynsay Sands offers a taste of tempation in the fourth book of the Argeneau Vampire Series. “Take a bite into fresh, fun vampire comedy…read Lynsay Sands.” —Carly Phillips Nobody does vampire romance quite like Lynsay Sands! Tall, Dark & Hungry is the fourth...

At the height of the Reign of Terror, executions were a daily occurrence. Any members of the French aristocracy merely suspected of treason could be sentenced to death by the tribunal. There was no hope of justice or mercy, or even a fair trial. Only the Scarlet Pimpernel could rescue them from their fate and bring them to safety at the coast of England. With each rescue, the public prosecutor would find a paper with the image of a little red flower, a scarlet pimpernel.

Moira Martingale’s comprehensive study, Cannibal Killers: The Impossible Monsters, was originally written in 1993, when the Internet was in its infancy, when few homes had computers and when the character Hannibal Lecter from the book and movie The Silence of the Lambs was regarded as an entirely fictional character, with no real-world counterparts or inspirations. The book demonstrated that this was an erroneous assumption.

Nobody expects to meet the love of their life on their first day at school, but from the moment Tanner Hartson set his eyes on Savannah Butler, she stole his breath away. She was beautiful, wild and free. And though her life was hard, she made everything feel easy. As they grew up, they were best friends. Then sweethearts. And finally lovers. Until he broke her heart in the worst way. They haven't spoken for the last ten years. But now she's returned to their small home town and he can't fight the intense attraction that keeps pulling them together.

Vid nio års ålder har Karins livsdröm redan tagit form: hon vill bli astronaut och ge sig ut i rymden. Tjugofem år senare jobbar hon som robotingenjör på ett företag som samarbetar med både NASA och ESA. Hon är nära – men inte tillräckligt nära. Kommer tillfället någonsin att dyka upp? När den europeiska rymdorganisationen plötsligt går ut med att de behöver tre nya astronauter tvekar Karin inte en sekund. Ivrigt påhejad av bästa vännen Emil och sin familj påbörjar hon den långa och svåra ansökningsprocessen.

Is a week of passion enough to warrant changing my life forever? He was the most beautiful man I’d ever seen. An enigmatic French businessman with red hair, blue eyes, and an intensity that stirred something deep inside me that hadn’t yet been awoken. I wanted him instantly. And for some reason, he seemed to want me too. Only, he wasn’t mine to have. He was older, wiser, and infinitely richer, with a sophisticated girlfriend back home and no time for a holiday affair.

Seven days was all it took for my life to change irrevocably. It shouldn’t have been possible to fall in love with a man I barely knew while on holiday, but I fell so hard I was still seeing stars when I made my way to New York City to begin my new life. Armed with a newfound confidence in myself, I was ready to distract myself from Sinclair by tackling the new challenges that awaited me in the city, reuniting with my estranged family, and launching my career as an artist in earnest.