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She'd always been off-limits...and I'd never wanted her more. Gorgeous, loyal, poised, and all grown up. Riya Guliani had been a thorn in my side since we were kids, it seemed not much had changed. Except for the fact she was known in influential circles as "the fixer", and she was back in NYC to clean up a mess. Mine. Who cared that I was a little reckless? I hadn't turned my father's million-dollar company into a billion-dollar empire by doing what was expected of me. But sometimes the unexpected was exactly what we needed. And I needed her in a way I never saw coming....

She “became famous, finally, to herself,” Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flenniken’s first collection, the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Here “a little voice sings / from the back of the auditorium / of my throat. Aren’t all of us / waiting to be discovered?” The poet’s answer is sometimes grave, sometimes comic, but always tuned to the incidental music of daily life.

Coraline, ihre neue Liebe Ron, ein College-Baseball-Spieler, Eugene, ihr bester Freund, und die anstrengende Ashley fahren gemeinsam Richtung Florida, um dort ihre Semesterferien zu verbringen. Doch mitten im Great Smoky Mountains Nationalpark streikt plötzlich der Wagen. Die vier Studenten sind gezwungen, in einem einsam gelegenen Haus zu übernachten. Als Coraline bei einer Séance Botschaften aus dem Jenseits empfängt, die vor Ron warnen, wandelt sich die Nacht in den Bergen zu einer mörderischen Odyssee.

While traversing the universe in pursuit of adventure, profit, and pleasure, the characters in these stories are prone to explore the bodies of the neighboring life forms they meet as much as the planetary bodies. Greta Bowles explores just a few possible encounters and interactions between different species as they interact. The stories involve smuggling, marauding space pirates who enslave their captives, and official trade missions to other worlds.

Do you think of alcoholism as a mental illness or a choice? My name is Vanessa and I am an alcoholic. This is my story about how alcoholism affected my life and the truth about how I was treated during my deepest moments of despair. This is not just a happily-ever-after story, although the end result is recovery. It’s a truthful account of the decade I lost through drinking, the ridiculous situations I got myself into, and the judgement I received from all and how it still affects my life now, years into sobriety.

Matt und Daisy, ein Gaunerpärchen, brechen in das falsche Haus ein, werden überwältigt und finden sich kurz darauf in einem dunklen Kellerloch wieder, in dem schon andere Gefangene auf den Tod warten. Der Hauseigentümer, Ebenezer Hart, hat einen unstillbaren Durst nach Rache an den Kriminellen der Stadt. Die einzige Chance, die er seinen Gefangenen einräumt: Sie haben die Wahl zwischen zwei furchtbaren Alternativen, entweder sie rauben einer ihnen nahestehenden Person die Augen, oder sie verlieren ihr Leben.

Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.

My name's Isadora, and I'm a interplanetary smuggler. When Bernie and I got talked into ditching a package in a passing sun, we took it for the money. Of course en route, Bernie had to see what was in it. That's how the hitchhikers got loose. I'm not quite sure what they are, but they slip inside and take a ride. A pretty wild one. They control the sexual chemistry of the host, and they like it to be in high gear - randy and ready - constantly. Having them in control turns ordinary sex into something truly mind blowing.

Landing their ship on the planet Rodeo while screwing their brains out was probably a bad idea, but Zelda and Rollo aren’t sure they wouldn’t do it again. Now the ship needs fixing and the cargo is trashed. When Zelda heads off to see what sort of barter she can work out she finds that some negotiations require a bareback approach to her back door. And just for fun, the trader tosses in a closer-than-close encounter with wazzies. The fuzzy little demons join in the fun and change her views on what double penetration can be.

Adda Karpe and Iridian Nassir have escaped the murderous AI that was trapping them on Barbary Station and earned themselves a place on Captain Sloane's fabled pirate crew. And now that they've arrived at Vesta, Sloane's home base, they can finally start making a living stealing from well-off megacorporations. Unfortunately, the political situation has deteriorated in Captain Sloane's absence. Adda and Iridian find themselves trapped in a contract with Oxia Corp., one of the very megacorporations they'd hoped to prey on, forced to rob and intimidate targets.

Tämä Charles Dickensin klassikko on ollut erottamaton osa brittiläistä jouluperinnettä jo 150 vuoden ajan. Kertomus on oikeastaan kummitustarina, mutta positiivisessa mielessä: haamut saapuvat antamaan opetuksen sydämettömälle kitupiikille ja rahanlainaajalle Ebenezer Scroogelle. On jouluaatto, kun Scrooge saa vierailijan edesmenneen liikekumppaninsa Jacob Marleyn kärsivästä haamusta sekä kolmesta hengestä, jotka edustavat menneisyyden, nykyisyyden ja tulevaisuuden jouluja. Näin alkaa oppitunti anteliaisuudesta ja inhimillisyydestä, jotka kuuluvat joulun todelliseen henkeen.

Hanni und Nanni war gestern - hier kommen die Trabbel-Drillinge. Als eineiiger Drilling auf die Welt zu kommen, ist wie im Lotto zu gewinnen - die Wahrscheinlichkeit liegt bei 1:200 Millionen. Dieses große Los haben Franka, Vicky und Bella gezogen. Sie sind berühmt. Doch seit ihre Mutter Babs die drei in einem Kaff versteckt, heißt es Glamour adé. Denn Babs' Bio-Hotel läuft nicht, und die Drillinge müssen sich mit verirrten Schafen, Omas Instagram-Träumen und unmöglichen Stiefvätern herumschlagen.

Once upon a time, a girl saved my life. I was p*ss-drunk, high as a kite, and about to jump from a bridge. She stopped me. I told her to f--k off. Exactly how all great love stories start. A year later, I met her again. Sober this time, after yet another stint in rehab. She’s still pretty, still a spitfire, still lights up a room when she walks in. And she doesn’t realize I’m the guy from the bridge. Frankie doesn’t know anything about me or my past. She doesn’t know I’m a former rock star or an ex-junkie. She doesn’t know that two years ago, someone died and it was my fault.

Things are going to get...complicated. This is book 2 (the final book) of the Complicated Hearts Duet. Book 1 must be listened to first.

Alusta se oli ainoastaan liiketoiminnan sopimus. Varia sai valtavan summan rahaa ja upeat vaatteet, jotka hän käyttäisi Ranskassa Sir Edwardin hemmoteltu poian Ianin "morsiamena". Ianille järjestelmä oli tuskin siedettävää, sillä se merkitsi hänen upean tyttöystävänsä Lareenin jättämistä. Varialle se oli jännittävä seikkailu, vaikka hänen oli käytettävä miehen, jonka hän ei koskaan naimisi, sormusta.

Lara ei kuulunut palvelijoihiin, eikä herrasväkeen. Kotiopettajattarena, hän oli helppo saalis asunnon miespuolisille vieraille. Mutta Lara ei ollut puolustuskyvytön. Herra Magor oli todellakin ottanut hänen huoneen avaimen, joten hän ei voisi lukita ovensa - mutta hän odotti oven takana ladatun revolverin kanssa. Kukaan ei voinut auttaa häntä - kaikkein vähiten kyyninen ja kyllästynyt markiisi Keyston, joka kuitenkin sai hänen sydämen lyömään nopeammin.

Nerita kieltäytyy jäädä riippuvaiseksi sukulaistensa hyväntekeväisyyteen isän, syöksynyt perikatoon epäonnistuneella spekuloinnilla, tehtyä itsemurhan. Esiintymällä kotiopettajattarena hän saa työtä markiisi Wychbolds kotitalouksessa. Pian hän kuitenkin huomaa että upea talo kätkee salaisuuden - salaisuus, joka ehkä voi selittää miksi markiisi osoittamaa enemmän kiinnostusta uuteen kotiopettajattareen, kuin omaan poikaansa.

Breslin - I was in love with Asher Holden the moment I saw him. Then he hurt me. He wrecked me. He ruined me. I spent three years putting myself together - fixing what he broke. Asher - I finally know who I am. I own it, I embrace it...I'm no longer afraid. Landon - My life was all mapped out. I knew exactly what direction I was heading in. Then I meet her. And him. Now, my heart is split right down the middle.

In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood & Other Stories brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn, love and hurt.

Dear Agony, You've been my shadow, following me through childhood - filling my days and nights with terror and uncertainty. You cleverly disguised yourself as some form of pain or suffering as I grew into a young woman. We were unwavering companions...until I severed our ties. I traded homelessness on the streets of New Orleans for a luxurious bed covered by the finest linens. I traded Dumpster diving for dinner in the finest restaurants. I traded myself to a stranger - Bastien Pascal.