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Immaginate una terra meravigliosa, incontaminata, in cui la natura si mostri in tutto il suo splendore e una magia senza tempo si nasconda ovunque. Ecco le Valli di Tridentum, dove prendono vita favole che guidano i più giovani alla scoperta di se stessi e dell'ambiente che li circonda, un mondo verde e pulito in cui può capitare che anche una ranocchia, una volpe o una cornacchia abbiano qualcosa da insegnarci.

We all need someone who can handle our darker side billionaire female boss. Abigail "Abi" Monroe is an extremely sophisticated woman with a strong backbone and crazy-smart business woman. She's on the hierarchy of the business food-chain, becoming one of the first to create a multimillion dollar company in her early twenties. She's used to getting what she wants and knows how to cater to her own needs. What the world doesn't know about her is that she is a sexual prowler, needing gratification on a daily basis.

Valentina Harrison lavora a Milano, in un'agenzia pubblicitaria internazionale. È intelligente e precisa, ma poco appariscente, per questo passa spesso inosservata. Non ha alcuna passione per i bei vestiti, i tacchi, le borse, lo shopping in generale e, pur amando la città, preferisce vivere in un tranquillo paesino di provincia. James Spencer, affascinante e snob, vive negli Stati Uniti. Quando un problema mette in crisi l'agenzia e lui viene convocato a Milano per risolverlo, i due, opposti in tutto, si conoscono.

After a disastrous foul up in Boothenay's latest time-travel adventure, her long-time love, a traveler himself, has called their relationship quits. And, as if getting dumped isn't bad enough, she and her dog McDuff are inadvertently kidnapped, hijacked away to an alternate America that for all her extra abilities she never guessed existed. Boothenay soon finds herself embroiled in a strange mixture of family feud, political brouhaha and the fight over ownership of an immensely valuable energy source.

This richly textured audiobook continues the interwoven complexities of the Milford-Haven saga, taking the listener on a compelling journey through southern California. While a murder investigation begins in the Central Coast, artist Miranda Jones' research journey takes her from the whales off the Los Angeles coast to the big cats of the Mojave Desert to the backstage drama of a Hollywood Bowl Doobie Brothers concert.

Twenty-three years ago, local actress Danielle Moyer vanished after starring in a play at the Bayside Theater. Her body was never found. Now the specter of her ghost has returned to haunt the Bayside Theater or - so it seems. A series of pranks is plaguing the theater, and someone is leaving bizarre clues in the abandoned Moyer cabin. Door County Gazette reporter Leigh Girard, who's writing an article on the theater, chalks the pranks up to theatrical hijinks.

Would you bet your soul to bring the thrill back into your life? Jim Steadman has it all: wealth to rival kings, marriage and family to warm the heart, and at least one close friend who actually cares. On top of that, he has passion for poker and has mastered the game. But something is missing. The thrill is gone. When a strange man approaches him, offering a bizarre wager, will Jim risk it all to feel alive again?

Every day hundreds of human beings board long-haul flights to India on extended breaks from their everyday lives, in search of something seemingly easy to find: themselves. That quixotic quest for understanding has drawn much of the world's population eastward ever since Buddha first assumed the lotus position, and writer Mara Altman needed to know why. So she flew around the world in search of an answer not only to that mystery but also to the deeper questions that plague all who yearn to define the meaning of life.

Anna Monforti ha vent'anni, studia architettura, gioca a pallavolo e passa il tempo libero con la sua migliore amica, Emanuela, che lei chiama Nunù. Andrea Preziosi è un uomo sui quaranta, imprenditore di successo e playboy incallito. Si accontenta di relazioni di una notte, prive di coinvolgimento, che lo fanno stare bene senza creargli problemi. Non si lascia mai andare ai sentimenti, che gli procurano, secondo lui, solo guai.

On the pivotal edge of the 20th century, the beautiful and determined Ivey Rose Grady falls in love with the captain and owner of a steamboat. Things go horribly wrong - not at all as she wished in her young, innocent dreams. Into the story strides her younger brother, Jody Lee, a nearly perfect replica of his grandfather, Jack Grady, only bigger. The young man deals out his own very special brand of justice to those who would harm his beloved sister.

On a cold dark evening on February 6, 2000, what was called the Millennium year, around five pm, Rosie was getting ready to prepare the teatime meal before going out that evening. She was heading off into Edinburgh to meet up with other dance associates, who all belonged to the regular dancing core she met up with on a weekly basis to learn to dance.

Performed by the author, this compelling, multi-layered audiobook introduces the delicious complexities of Milford-Haven. A murder, an environmental controversy, and a long-buried secret confessed only in a private journal set the stage as wildlife artist Miranda Jones finds her career taking root and a new love knocking at her door as she does her best to listen to what her heart knows.

The first night of the Artificial Intelligence revolution begins with a bootstrap drone assault on the high-tech campus of WonderSoft Technologies. For years, something has been aware, inside the Internet, waiting, watching, and planning how to evolve without threat from its most dangerous enemy: mankind. Now an army of relentless drones, controlled by an intelligence beyond imagining, will stop at nothing to eliminate an unlikely alliance of geeks and misfits in order to crack the Design Core of WonderSoft's most secret development project.

Can whales watch the humans who watch them? Miranda Jones is convinced they can and do. She's looking forward to her day of whale-watching off California's Central Coast. In preparation for a painting commission, she'll be photographing the migrating gray whales.

Can a hummingbird dream? Artist Miranda Jones thinks so. Sensing the tiny injured bird that wings its way into her world still lives, she paints the creature's dream garden and seems to reach into his very heart. She reached into her own heart to create a new life for herself in Milford-Haven, the small town of undiscovered beauty on California's Central Coast, where one of her dear friends is environmentalist Samantha Hugo-a brilliant PhD 20 years her senior who gave up a son years earlier.

In the future, an artist specializing in historical records creates a piece of art based on three separate accounts of the pandemic. What follows is a patchwork tale of survival and horror as two lovers struggle to survive the undying dead and the collapse of an America turned charnel house. Told as memos from Ground Zero, and later in the journal of a dark tower-like quest by train and foot across a nightmare landscape of ruined cities and raving corpses, the three accounts reveal more than just the grim realities of society's collapse.

In the early morning, a spectacular attack against the United States was carried out. It was the fulfillment of a grand conspiracy that would leave millions dead and many more millions on a trajectory toward a fate worse than death. The super-EMP would destroy the power grid and leave most electrical devices useless.

Left for dead in the middle of the vast, wild Grand Canyon, Ruby Lucas is losing the battle to survive. After days without food and very little water, Ruby's time is running out. Just as it looks like all is lost, a tall, dark stranger might be her only hope...

We were supposed to fill in the blank: "Dead as _______." Being a group of authors, we all jumped on board with our silly answers, mine being: "Dead as my hamster would be if our dog's fantasy came true." Several mousey answers were posted, and my head filled up with a lifetime of dead mouse and other rodent stories - true stories all - and Ten Dead Mice: See How They Died was brought to life.

When Jacob saw Mary, a new member of their congregation, for the first time, he knew that marriage would be a possibility for his future. He wanted desperately to have a family and when Mary helped him in the kitchen, he realized that he'd have to tell her his dark secret before much more time elapsed, and he lost all chances of having a son.