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Von außen betrachtet schien meine Ehe perfekt zu sein. Die Leute beneideten mich. Sie wollten so leben und sein wie ich. Mrs. Alejandra Gambino. Ehefrau von Dino Gambino. Tochter von Eduardo Castillo. Geachtet. Geliebt. Mafia-Legende. Sie hatten aber keine Ahnung von den Schrecken, die hinter verschlossenen Türen lauerten. Sie wussten nicht, dass ich den tiefsten Abgrund erreicht hatte, den ein Mensch nur erreichen kann. Und dann trat Julius Carter in mein Leben.

"The Uttermost Farthing" is a mystery by R. Austin Freeman. Excerpt: Humphrey Challoner was a great savant spoiled by untimely wealth. When I knew him he had lapsed into a mere dilettante; at least, so I thought at the time, though subsequent revelations showed him in a rather different light. He had some reputation as a criminal anthropologist and had formerly been well known as a comparative anatomist, but when I made his acquaintance, he seemed to be occupied chiefly in making endless additions to the specimens in his private museum.

Graduation seems like it was just yesterday and the summer is slipping away, but Abby agrees to babysit for her father's boss on Friday night. She would rather not, but the money is good and it is just a one-time arrangement. Abby is used to getting a lot of attention and enjoys seeing men respond to her youth and beauty, but she could not have prepared herself for Mr. Edwards. He has a confidence about him like no one she has ever met, and even when he talks down to her, she finds herself craving more!

Whether you want to explore remote beaches and mountain lochs, improve your confidence in open water, refine your swimming technique, or have a race or long-distance swim challenge coming up, How to Wild Swim offers the perfect practical foundation to help you find your perfect adventure and achieve your goal. This body conditioning sport is praised for not only making us stronger and healthier but also happier too. Expert swimmer Ella Foote offers the ultimate guide to mastering the practicalities and techniques and answers your most frequently asked questions.

Evie doesn’t have a choice. One day she’s an ordinary 17-year-old, grieving for her mother. The next, she’s a Shield, the result of a decades-old experiment gone wrong, bound by DNA to defend her best friend from an unknown killer. The threat could come at home, at school, anywhere. All Evie knows is that it will be a fight to the death. And then there’s Jamie. Irresistible. Off-limits.

Anastasia knew three things in her life, that she was always hungry, usually cold, and was trapped in the middle of a huge woodland in a small village called Wolford. No one could make a living in the village because they were landlocked - surrounded by the Liya Kingdom whose rich landowners forbid the poor villagers from hunting and gathering food on the kingdom’s land. Grateful for the unexpected harvest, and nervous about the strange sounds she kept hearing, Anastasia was about to head home with her treasures.

Follow the young Prince Fritz—later Friedrich III—of Prussia and his wife, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Vicky, (parents of Kaiser Wilhelm II) through their courtship and the joys and struggles of their first four years of marriage. Fritz and Vicky dream of a peaceful united Germany, but Fritz's uncle Karl has his own dreams of power.

Following her mother’s death, Dr Helena Popovic puts her medical training and beliefs to the test when she becomes the carer for her elderly father, who has encroaching dementia. A passionate medical practitioner and international speaker, Helena finds herself living out everything she preached.

While trying to prevent her friend from a scandal Sophia Turlington becomes entangled in her own. As she waits for her friend in a brothel, a duke mistakes her for a harlot. When he requests an arrangement, Sophia decides to explore the passion he awakens in her soul. Her only stipulations for the affair are a mask, one week, and he must never discover her true identity. Can Sophia give him her heart and walk away as if their time never affected her?

Woher rührt nur dieses sinnliche Prickeln, wenn der attraktive Earl of Hawthorne sie ansieht? Hals über Kopf verliert die junge Gouvernante Elena ihr Herz. Sie gibt sich dem Earl hin, mit Leib und Seele. Zart wie die ersten Frühlingsblumen erblüht ihre Liebe zueinander. Aber ihre Beziehung wird niemals eine Zukunft haben: Denn Elena hütet ein dunkles Geheimnis, das der Earl auf keinen Fall aufdecken darf!

"The Upas Tree" by Florence Louisa Barclay is a thrilling novel which describes the spiritual growth of a man, who realizes his selfishness. Excerpt: Ronald West had swung off his horse a few moments before; thrown the bridle to a waiting groom, and made his way round to her stirrup. Then he had laid his hand upon Silverheels' mane, and looking up into his wife's glowing, handsome face, he had said: "May I come to your room for a talk, Helen? I have something very important to tell you."

Richard, a young man from Europe, and Kop, a young woman from Thailand, meet on a fateful encounter in Phuket, Thailand, while they are both on vacation. Nobody could have seen the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 coming, and when it does, it throws a whole new set of challenges into the mix for Richard and Kop. In January 2020, Thailand was the first country outside of China to have Covid cases, and after that, nobody could have imagined what Covid would become in the months that followed.

Visions have been a part of Jade Hamilton's life since she was 10, but this time her visions have put her in the middle of a murder. This latest episode has Jade struggling to keep six-year-old Emmie Linderhoff safe from the killer, as well as, keeping herself out of jail for kidnapping. Certain her only chance is to run, Jade goes into hiding

"The Lady from Nowhere" is a detective novel by Fergus Hume. Excerpt from the book: On the night of July 24th, in the year 1896, between the hours of eleven and twelve, Grangebury, a little-known suburb of London, was wrapped in slumber. The lamps were then extinguished by order of an economical municipality, the few lights still twinkling from the upper windows of various houses disappeared, and the little town lay under moon and stars as silent and almost as lonely as the spell-bound cities in eastern fables.

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days later Alison’s naked body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men, employees at the resort, are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the time line against it, and the men are soon released. It’s national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved, but for Claire’s family there is only the sad return home to broken lives.

Are bedtime battles becoming a nightly struggle? Dive into the magical world of Bedtime Stories For Boys, an enchanting bedtime story collection curated by bestselling author Ella Swan.

Lleva a tus pequeños de viaje a una tierra llena de arco iris resplandecientes y suaves brisas, donde los unicornios bailan graciosamente bajo el cielo iluminado por la luna.Mientras las estrellas titilan, únete a los bonitos unicornios y a sus mágicos amigos en sus encantadoras aventuras: ¡desde explorar praderas secretas hasta resolver enigmas y conocer caprichosas criaturas, estas cautivadoras historias encenderán la imaginación de los más pequeños y los llevarán a un profundo y reparador sueño!

"A Happy Boy" by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson is a Norwegian peasant tale. Excerpt: "What makes you cry?" "Oh, my goat - my goat!" "Why, where is the goat?" asked the mother, glancing up at the roof. "It will never come back any more," said the boy. "Dear me! how can that be?" Oyvind would not confess at once. "Has the fox carried it off?" "Oh, I wish it were the fox!" "You must have lost your senses!" cried the mother. "What has become of the goat?" "Oh - oh - oh! I was so unlucky. I sold it for a twisted bun!"

Die Schulen von heute entscheiden darüber, wie unsere Welt morgen aussieht, und ob unsere Kinder gut durch schwierige Zeiten kommen. Künstliche Intelligenz wird immer mehr Aufgaben übernehmen, zahlreiche Jobs werden wegfallen, andere neu entstehen. Verena Friederike Hasel widmet sich der Frage, was und wie Kinder im 21. Jahrhundert lernen sollten. Sie fährt an Orte in Finnland und Deutschland, wo die Zukunft schon begonnen hat.

Als die Studentin Taylor in einem alternativen Universum voller magischer Kreaturen aufwacht, ist sie mehr als nur ein wenig überrascht. Und gerade als es nicht mehr schräger werden kann, beansprucht der schroffe und gut aussehende Feenkönig sie als seine Gefährtin. Ähm, was? Aber König Leander ist entschlossen, zu beweisen, dass sie vom Schicksal füreinander bestimmt sind, und weigert sich, Taylor gehen zu lassen. Angesichts der Gefahren, die in diesem fremden Land lauern, ist sein Schutz vielleicht gar nicht so schlecht. Und dieser brütende Blick und der perfekte Körper?