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Sister Joan heads to the serene shores of Loch Morag for a spiritual retreat in a cave up a steep hill. She’s hoping for peace and quiet, but she soon finds trouble. Six years ago, the womanizing husband of the local store-owner disappeared. Then the minister’s wife died of an overdose. Was it an accident or suicide? Then, after a sudden storm, a body surfaces in the loch. What’s going on? The grumpy villagers don’t want to talk about it. Sister Joan must abandon her solitude to search for the killer and unearth the truth.

Velma is charm itself, especially when she's being inexact with the truth. Now she wants Bea, widowed owner of the Abbot Agency, to check up on her stepson Philip - he's somehow acquired a valuable picture last seen in the flat of an elderly lady who's been murdered. Maggie, Bea's assistant, moves into a flat in Philip's building, to investigate. However, Rafael a professional art thief who aims never to leave his victims alive, is also after the picture.

When Ellie Quicke's friend, Felicity, witnesses a Pitbull savage a young mother in the park, she goes into shock and calls on Ellie for help. Ellie's enquiries indicate that the dog and its owner are strangers to the neighbourhood, but soon there are other attacks...and after each one, the dog vanishes.

Este nudo que fui (inextricable de cóleras, traiciones, esperanzas, vislumbres repentinos, abandonos, hambres, gritos de miedo y desamparo y alegría fulgiendo en las tinieblas y palabras y amor y amor y amores) lo cortarán los años. Rosario Castellanos.

When Mother Dorothy's godmother dies of a heart attack and leaves all her money to the convent, Sister Joan is uneasy. While on visiting duty at the hospital, she makes some tacit enquiries. Things don't seem quite right. The nursing staff are always away from their posts at crucial times. The surly young doctor seems very out of sorts. Then a little girl goes missing. Sister Joan knows there's something truly sinister going on. She teams up with Detective Sergeant Mill, but can they get to the bottom of things before tragedy strikes?

Would you like to learn about daily life in ancient Rome, but find conventional history books a bit boring? Would you like a more entertaining way to learn about Roman history, from the Republic to the Empire? We have a look at Roman sanitation, medicine, education, wine, sex, bathing, dining, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health from an accessible, non-academic perspective in this book, as well as looking at some of the perils or downsides in these advances in civilization. We discuss the developments in these aspects of daily life.

Know your food allergies with three simple elimination diet steps! Complete with tasty and helpful meal plans you can follow to take the guesswork out of what you can eat while on the diet plan! If you've never heard of the process of elimination O Diet, don't worry, you will soon. It's quickly gaining attention as the most effective way to identify the everyday foods in your diet that may be causing trouble.

The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well with her marriage. And Bea Abbot has already clashed with Dilys's husband, the bullying Benton, when she refuses to help him rescue his ailing company. But matters are about to turn a great deal worse when Dilys tries to commit suicide. Or does she?

Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn't have the same rights as others - as wrong as 5+5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women could only be teachers or nurses - as wrong as 10-5=3. And she proved everyone wrong by zooming ahead of her classmates, starting college at 15, and eventually joining NASA, where her calculations helped pioneer America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon!

Julie has had a very tough month, and as far as she’s concerned a drink at the bar is just necessary. One glass of wine turns into three, and before she can really deal with it, a handsome knight in shining armor comes to her rescue.

You will discover the science behind chakra healing, including Ida Naadi, Pingla Naadi, and Sushumna Naadi. This book helps you understand chakra imbalances, and how to balance and heal yourself. It provides many useful chakra meditation tips....

Flora Violeta LeFevre, aka Flora "la Fresca" (so called because she tells it like it is, occasionally to her parents' chagrin) can always count on her best friend Clara Ocampo Londra to turn anything-from a day at the skate park to dreaded Saturday Spanish school ­into an exciting adventure. But amidst Flora's personal nightmare that is her sister Maylin's never-ending dress try-ons and dance practices for her upcoming quinceañera, news breaks that Clara's moving, and Flora doesn't know how she'll survive without her.

In their own words, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project.

Office sex stories always bring hot fantasies to mind, and this collection of workplace sex erotica has all the fantasies you want. If you’re looking for rough office sex, reluctant office sex, first anal office sex, office sex gangbangs, or office sex domination, click the "Buy" button right away! This red-hot collection will have you reeling!

Rachel Brighton isn't your average civil servant. She's a sexual ambassador for the human race. It's not a bad job, if you don't mind prudes calling you a "star slut". The year is 2030 and the aliens have landed, but they don't want to rule the planet. They want to woo it. An insidious plague has rendered human women the last fertile females in the galaxy, and transformed Earth into its number one mating destination. After rounding up the male population, the aliens make a deal with the new female-led government: Teach us how to make love to human women and we'll return your men.

Ellie's friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths which might or might not be suicide. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady with dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery. At the same time, the project to turn the quirky, turreted Pryce House into a hotel is dogged by problems and suspicion falls on the difficult twelve-year-old boy Mikey who Ellie has taken in.

This is a true and touching story of one Chinese woman's search for home. It is also an inspiring book about human yearning for a better life. To escape poverty, Flora Li fought her way through the education system and became one of the few women to get into the prestigious Hong Kong University. When the Japanese invaded, she fled to unoccupied China, where she met her future husband, the son of China's finance minister (later deputy prime minister). She thought she had found the ideal husband, but soon discovered that he suffered from emotional disorders caused by family conflicts and the ...

Verónica Mengual y A S Lefebre continúan con su proyecto literario de época victoriana para crear una nueva historia que conjugará amor, seducción y humor a raudales. Después de la tormenta suele llegar la calma. Eso es lo que las gemelas Robinson han oído siempre en boca de sus hermanas mayores. Y no debe ser verdad, porque la desgracia de la que se salvaron las cuatro, tras la muerte de sus padres y la desaparición de su hermano mayor, sí fue como una terrible tempestad, pero la calma nunca llegó. Delila Robinson es demasiado temperamental. Su gemela, Blair, es mucho peor que ...

In this futanari double feature, authors Ashley Berry and Veronica Sloan take you between the sheets and beyond the stars. Prepare yourself for two erotic adventures that are out of this world!

¿Qué ocurre cuando dos amigos deciden intercambiarse a sus hermanas con un acuerdo de por medio? Lord Latimer, Gordon Brown, siempre se ha sentido marginado por la sociedad a causa de su aspecto desgarbado y descuidado, a pesar de ser un barón. Solo gracias a su amistad con lord Beauford, Nicholas Williams, ha conseguido ser aceptado, aunque siga sintiéndose inferior al ser su amigo un duque. Su niñez no fue fácil, pero con el paso de los años trató de mejorar su físico.