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L'université était censée être ma chance de surmonter mon complexe de vilain petit canard et de déployer mes ailes. Au lieu de cela, je me suis retrouvée dans une sororité pleine de filles odieuses. J'ai déjà du mal à m'intégrer, alors quand mes soeurs Kappa Chi me lancent le défi, je ne peux pas dire non. Le défi : séduire la nouvelle recrue de l'équipe de hockey. Le mec le plus sexy de la classe. Conor Edwards est un habitué des soirées de Greek Row... et des lits de la sororité.

From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.

What really happens to children's baby teeth after the tooth fairy takes them? Discover a joyful answer in Hi Tooth Fairy: The Magic of Flutterville—a heartwarming book for kids ages 4 to 8. Every night, girl tooth fairies journey to the human world to collect lost teeth. Back in the magical town of Flutterville, those teeth are cleaned, transformed into sparkling glitter powder, and used to power cozy homes, delightful shops, and exciting adventures.

A Devotional Unlike Any Other — Helping Kids Face Real Feelings with Real Faith! Most devotionals for kids offer quick Bible verses and surface-level encouragement. Faith Over Feelings goes deeper — helping boys and girls ages 8–12 tackle real emotions like fear, sadness, anger, anxiety, and doubt while building a strong, lasting relationship with God and Jesus.

Gather round as today’s most diabolically clever authors twist simple moments into otherworldly horrors. An empty baby stroller. A scratching underneath the bed. A farmhouse in the moonlight. With an unnerving sense of the macabre, these stories transform our greatest fears into bone-chilling realities.

Nathan and Owen Go on an adventure to play in a river and have fun as brothers.

All aboard for an unforgettable journey through the history, power, and future of trains! From the first steam engines that changed the world to today’s high-speed bullet trains and futuristic maglevs, The Big Questions: What Are Trains? takes young listeners on a thrilling adventure through time.

Lara Wesson ist stolz und voller Vorfreude, als sie zu einer geheimen Sondereinheit von Scotland Yard versetzt wird: Der DIA. Ihr neuer Partner im Job, Chief Inspector Fionn Byrne, scheint hingegen nicht begeistert von der jungen Kollegin. Während sie ins malerische Cornwall reisen, um ihren ersten gemeinsamen Fall zu lösen, kommt es schnell zu Konflikten zwischen der taffen, lockeren Lara und dem sehr britischen und stets bestens gekleideten Fionn.

Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the centerpiece of a controversial television docuseries that followed her disappearance in real time. But is it possible that everyone missed the biggest secret of all?

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Die Archäologin Brenda Logan macht einen seltsamen Fund, der sie in größte Gefahr bringt. Ein undurchsichtiger Professor, der nichts Gutes im Schilde führt, will mit ihrer Hilfe das magische Amulett an sich bringen, um unvorstellbare Macht zu erlangen. Doch das Geheimnis des Amuletts ist unergründlich. Eine böse Überraschung wartet nicht nur auf den Professor.

Sewing for Hope Foundation was seeking help from all the students at Everyone Is Welcome Academy, to create greeting cards for all the sick children at the local children’s hospital. She broadcast that she needed at least 10 students to volunteer to take the greeting cards to the children at children’s hospital and help the nurses in distributing the greeting cards to the sick children.

A week after winter had finally settled in for bear mountain. A winter weather advisory was broadcasted over all the television stations for all the bears residing in bear mountain. The advisory was a warning to the community of bears that a massive winter blast was heading toward bear mountain within 48 hours and all the bears of bear mountain were warned to seek shelter, and to remain inside before the winter blast would sweep through bear mountain.

It is a great story about a little boy named Issac who is curious about life, and he has a lot of questions to ask his mother, Sarah. He questions her about issues and fears that concern him.

This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. Soon, the US government - and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church - must come to terms with what they're too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world. With heightened strength and beauty and a steady diet of fresh blood, these changed people, or "Gloamings", rapidly rise to prominence in all aspects of modern society.

Stop the presses! One hundred thousand dollar reward offered for the return of George Harley Rockham! That’s more than enough to turn Shanghai newspaperman Jimmy Vance’s head. Throw in the gorgeous dame who’s offering the reward - Rockham’s daughter Virginia - and he might lose his head altogether. Fast-talking Vance jumps at the chance...the money...and the girl. But as Jimmy quickly discovers, there are several billion reasons to watch his back. Because that’s how much Rockham is worth.

Ganz einfach und entspannt Französisch lernen mit den Musiksprachkursen von The Grooves. Die Pop & Jazz Grooves Travelling...

Arlene Alda's own Bronx memories were a jumping-off point from which to reminisce with a nun, a police officer, an urban planner, and with Carl Reiner, Colin Powell, Maira Kalman, and many other leading artists, athletes, scientists and entrepreneurs - experiences spanning six decades. Alda then arranged these pieces of the past, the mornings on the Grand Concourse and afternoons in the halls of Bronx Science, into one great collective story, a film-like portrait of the Bronx - and of America.

The Werewolf phenomenon is as old as the history of mankind. Across the world and across cultural boundaries, there are countless tales of half man, half wolf. Known in various civilizations as the wild man beast of the woods, the tales are often terrifying. So terrifying that medieval man went in search of them to slaughter and virtually wiped them out.

Wrongfully accused, Spar has been condemned to suffer the brutality of the guards and the conditions on Devil’s Island. But they haven’t broken his will, and now, escaping, he has one mission in life: revenge. Spar’s out to kill the man who put him into the devil’s hands. But he’ll have to take on a gallery of rogues who are as treacherous as the waters of the Caribbean.