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Adaira only wanted a hot hookup. One night of unbridled passion before she left California to start her new job in Scotland. Life—loved throwing obstacles in her path, screwing with her well-laid plans. When Adaira's hookup, turns out to be a blood relative to her sister's fiancé, things got complicated. However, nothing compares to learning Mr. Hot and Nasty, who gave her a night of lovemaking she'll never forget—is a Selkie. A mythological creature straight out of her grandmother's fairy tales; only the stories never mentioned Selkies scorching sexual appetite. Duncan's holiday to ...

Bailey Sheppard had loved Nick Heart for as long as she could remember. They had been best friends in school and graduated to a friends-with-benefits arrangement after she left for university. His once-a-month visits, when she would have him all to herself for the weekend, were the highlight of her life. And then he told her he was getting married. Bailey needed Nick in her life. She wanted to be the one he married and lived happily ever after with. So she hatched a plan to stop the wedding and steal the groom. And then she met Hunter.

When Rachel discovers a Twitter message arranging a romantic liaison, she assumes her husband is having an affair and follows him. What she witnesses is so much worse: a hit-and-run using his car. Meanwhile, Rachel’s friend and business partner Suzie is increasingly worried about her fiancé, who’s not been in touch for days. When Suzie learns of huge debts racked up in her name, she fears he has run out on her, but then the threatening calls start, and she thinks something terrible has happened.

Wondering Who You Are braids the story of Sonya and Richard's relationship and those memories he could no longer conjure together with his fateful days in the hospital and through a marriage no longer grounded on decades of shared experience.

Eingesperrt im Klassenzimmer. Matheklausur! Plötzlich dringt eine maskierte Person ins Klassenzimmer ein und diktiert mit geladener Pistole Aufgaben, die erbarmungslos die Geheimnisse aller an die Oberfläche zerren. Arroganz, Diebstähle, blinder Opportunismus, Lügen - hinter sorgsam gepflegten Fassaden tun sich persönliche Abgründe auf. Fiona ringt fassungslos mit ihrer Handlungsunfähigkeit, Mark verspürt Genugtuung, und Herr Filler schwankt zwischen Aggression und Passivität.

Gwen, second of the 12 princesses of Ituria, has given up on happy endings. After a neighboring kingdom's heir stole her heart and then disappeared four years ago, she buried her heartache and vowed to serve her sisters. Her most recent mission: to arrange a match with her sister Hazel and the lost heir's youngest brother.

Princess Melantha is done with court life. After suffering humiliation at her sister's wedding, she's determined to find her place outside palace walls and far away from fickle princes. Hearing rumors of a curse breakable only by a red-haired girl, she says goodbye to her eleven sisters and sets out on her own. But events don't unfold as planned, and she is caught up in a grueling journey through a distant kingdom with friends both old and new in a race for survival.

Award-winning travel writer Lea Lane shares travel memories and travel tips with passionate travelers, travel experts, and savvy locals around the world. She has traveled to over 100 countries. Is the author of nine books, a blogger at forbes.com, and contributor to dozens of guidebooks. Smart. Fun!

QuickRead.com presents a summary of Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan: The perfect book for learning why saying phrases like I don’t know and tell me more is important for turning the wheels of life and coping with the stresses of everyday life.

Lillian is devastated. Her goal of owning an apothecary in Wylder, Wyoming is dashed. Her family has promised her in wedlock by proxy, and she hopes her spouse is a reasonable man. Can they forge a compromise about the shop, as well as their marriage?

In today’s era, we have experienced an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo as we see a rise in cults, gurus, irrational panics, and moral confusion. According to Francis Wheen, this mumbo-jumbo has conquered the world and created a society full of superstition, relativism, and emotional hysteria. We see this in Middle Eastern fundamentalism, the rise of lotteries, astrology and mysticism, poststructuralism, and the Third Way.

Hi! This is Heaven-Lea of The Liminal Gateways. The Fertile Void is an opportunity to talk about the challenges of healing, stepping onto the destined path and how to work though the trials of coming into alignment. We can expect Guided Journeys, Personal stories, Tools for healing, and so much more. The Fertile Void is the space between nothing and something, what was and what will be, and the space between breathes. The fertile void is everything and nothing, pure potential. Just talking to my friends and keeping you updated on my journey. If it helps you, I'm honored. Support this podcast: ...

Jane Fonda, Sexsymbol, Aktivistin, Schauspielerin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Artist, author, and Texas Renaissance man, Tom Lea was a widely acclaimed man of many talents. His triumphant New York Times best-selling novel The Brave Bulls is considered a classic of Southwestern literature. Here, listeners are invited to explore the fascinating, visually evocative world of Mexican bullfighting in all its brutal glory.

In ihrer Kindheit in einem Schweizer Bergdorf vereinte sie, nirgends dazuzugehören, nun aber scheinen sie Anschluss gefunden zu haben: Charlie in der Modewelt, Rona im Silicon Valley. Als die beiden wieder zusammenfinden, erstehen neben schönen Erinnerungen an ihre Zeit in der Eiskunstlaufhalle auch die Gespenster der Vergangenheit wieder auf. Während intensiver Nächte, zerstörerischer Gespräche und alberner Abenteuer versucht Rona, ihre Freundschaft zu Charlie, aber auch sich selbst vor seinem manchmal allzu hellen Strahlen zu retten.

Lise Meitner, Atomphysikerin und Pionierin der Kernspaltung: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

What does it mean to be a millennial in this chaotic world? Beyond Snapchat and Tinder, the consumerist culture we’ve inherited, and quarter-life crises, can a millennial aspire to more? Alison Lea Sher argues, yes, we can! Packing herself up in an RV, Sher embarks on a road trip, interviewing 150 of her millennial peers as they begin their adult lives. From kids heading straight to Wall Street after college, to those sleeping on it, Sher asks: “Who are you; what should you do; and how can you step into your destiny as a stakeholder in society?”

Brigitte Bardot, französisches Sexsymbol und Filmlegende: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Growing up under that moon, Tahira promised her childhood friend, Zareen, that tackling the crisis would overcome the national divisions that separated them. Tahira is now a biologist for a corporation constructing experimental towers, which force the spores, known as "riebeckites", to germinate into harmless colonies. Rumors of riebeckite colonies taking sinister flesh-eating forms among the ghettoized Iranian communities are dismissed as propaganda invented by those opposed to Azeri occupation.

When single mum Ruth has a brief fling with Rob, she's mortified to discover that he lied to her. He lied to her, because he's married. Worse still, he's the husband of Janine, head of the PTA at the primary school where Ruth works as secretary, and when the truth of their fling is discovered, Ruth suddenly has a lot of enemies at the school gates. Threatening texts begin to arrive, rumours abound and the staff room becomes hostile.