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Life in her traditional Mennonite community is peaceful, if a little dull, for 12-year-old Beth who dreams of being an artist. She goes to school, helps with the cooking and cleaning at home, and works with her parents at the local farmer’s market. One Saturday, however, excitement shows up in the form of a determined lawyer from New York City who insists she needs a family cookie recipe to win a multi-million-dollar lawsuit.

Possession is an addiction. Sydney's spent years burying her past and building a better life for herself and her young son. A respectable marketing job, a house with reclaimed and sustainable furniture, and a boyfriend who loves her son and accepts her, flaws and all. But when she opens her front door, and a masked intruder knocks her briefly unconscious, everything begins to unravel. She wakes in the hospital and tells a harrowing story of escape. Of dashing out a broken window. Of running into her neighbors' yard and calling the police.

When Elsinore Cosgrove escapes a ballroom in search of adventure, she has no idea it will lead to a hasty marriage. The youngest daughter of a duke, all she wants is to make her own choices. Now she's engaged to an infuriating, handsome Scottish baron who doesn't even know her name! Using all her feminine wiles, along with advice gleaned from a training guide for hunting hounds, Elsinore is determined to mold her baron into the husband she wants.

When Jane’s lover, Tom, returns from the navy to find her unhappily married to his betrayer, Jane is caught in an impossible situation. Still reeling from the loss of her mother at the hands of the witchfinder, Jane has no choice but to continue her dangerous work as a healer while keeping her young daughter safe. But as Tom searches for a way for him and Jane to be together, the witchfinder is still at large. Filled with vengeance, the witchfinder will stop at nothing in his quest to rid England of the scourge of witchcraft.

Deux familles sans histoires. Un lien indéfectible. Une journée qui va tout changer. Francis Gleeson et Brian Stanhope, jeunes recrues de la police de New York, sont aussi voisins à Gillam, petite ville de banlieue. Ce qui se passe chez eux à huit clos - la solitude de Lena, l'épouse de Francis, et l'instabilité d'Anne, la femme de Brian - prépare le terrain pour la tragédie à venir. Nés à six mois d'intervalle, Kate et Peter, leurs enfants respectifs, tissent au fil du temps une amitié profonde, annonciatrice de l'amour qui les unira à l'âge adulte.

Depuis son enfance, Riley ne vit que pour la moto. Cascadeuse professionnelle et présidente du club des Valkyries, elle est celle sur qui tout le monde peut compter. Mise au défi par ses amies de séduire Alex Virtanen, un policier de Toronto qui hait les motards au plus haut point, celle qui pensait tout contrôler va se retrouver prise à son propre piège. Et si un mensonge de trop bouleversait leurs vies ?

Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their White feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves. In The Trouble with White Women, Schuller brings to life the 200-year counter-history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against White feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice.

Throughout the 1960s and '70s, Abbie Hoffman crisscrossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America - some illegal and all radical. Causing scandals with its advice on how to Survive!, Fight!, and Liberate! in the “prison that is Amerika”, Steal This Book is a revolutionary's manual to running a guerilla movement, as well as getting free food, housing, transportation, medical care, and more.

Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand.

Hörspiel über die Osterbotschaft, eingebettet in das alltäglichen Leben der Menschen. Der Lehrer Elis hat Osterferien. Er spricht mit seiner Verlobten und seiner Mutter über den Frühling, das bevorstehende Osterfest und das traurige Schicksal seiner Familie. Ein hörenswerter schwedischer Klassiker aus dem Jahr 1947.

Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job - working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney - and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert. But when a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River, barely alive, things in the office take a personal turn. The police believe the woman’s assailant is local photographer Gavin Spenser, but the case quickly flounders as the evidence wears thin. It seems Gavin saw this investigation coming - and no one can imagine how carefully he has prepared.

Thirty-four years ago, when they were in their 20s, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave their lives in New York City and move to Christine’s ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland. In the decades that followed, the pair dedicated themselves to writing, gardening and living a life that followed the rhythms of the Earth.

A brother competes for gaming glory while his twin sister exposes the dark side of the Communist government on her underground blog; a worker at a government call centre is alarmed one day to find herself speaking to a former lover; a delicious new fruit arrives at the neighbourhood market, and the locals find it starts to affect their lives in ways they could never have imagined; and a young woman's dreams of making it big in Shanghai are stalled when she finds herself working as a florist.

Lorsque Emma Montana intègre le petit lycée de Lylarock pour son passage en terminale, elle n'aspire qu'à deux choses : la paix et la normalité. Cependant, c'était sans compter sur sa rencontre avec Jace Scott, jeune motard ténébreux au regard de braise. Son surnom ? Jace One Time. Très loin des contes de fées, ce brise cœurs en puissance a la particularité de n'accorder qu'une seule nuit à ses conquêtes, tout comme tous ceux qui vivent au sein de la Réserve amérindienne nichée au cœur de la forêt. Ce garçon n'est pas pour elle, Emma l'a bien compris.

Emma a percé le mystère de la Réserve, mais elle est loin d'être tirée d'affaire. Alors qu'elle tente de s'approprier toutes ces fulgurantes révélations, un nouveau nom fait trembler le Clan et se répand sur toutes les lèvres. Erik Nielsen. Qui est ce terrible Alpha sanguinaire ? Quel est son lien avec Jace ? Plongez à nouveau avec Emma au cœur de la forêt de Lylarock, mais prenez garde, le danger vous guette plus que jamais.

A story of small-town intrigue that begins with a large sum of money being entrusted and then mysteriously disappearing. The novel was extremely popular and one of Bennett's greatest successes.

The Power of God...Today is the inspiring story of how God stepped into the lives of a mother and daughter through Dr. Issam and Kathy Nemeh. Christine and her daughter Emily had sought out Dr. Nemeh for medical reasons. God used their willingness to surrender and believe that a miracle was possible for them by not only delivering the healing they sought, but also delivered with it a more meaningful gift - the gift of a deeper faith.

Jane Chandler is an apprentice healer. From childhood, she and her mother have used herbs to cure the sick. But Jane will soon learn that her sheltered life in a small village is not safe from the troubles of the wider world. From his father's beatings to his uncle's raging sermons, John Sharpe is beset by bad fortune. Fighting through personal tragedy, he finds his purpose: to become a witchfinder and save innocents from the scourge of witchcraft. Widdershins tells the story of the women who were persecuted and the men who condemned them.

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.

Young, driven Carrie had always been confident of who she was and what her perfect life would look like. Until she wasn’t. Fleeing from egregious roommates, she finds herself living with a group of complicated women from three separate generations. The four strangers are brought together under one roof by a no-nonsense elderly widow named Hazel, who believes they were sent to her by her late husband. After uncovering disturbing realities about the career she had always dreamed of, Carrie's future is anything but clear.