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This has been an epic, trashy week. I’m studying to take the bar exam, and my best friend is getting married soon. As much as I hate it, my friends and I take her out for a bachelorette party. There’s a live band playing, and the lead singer just drips cocky attitude. With his rudeness and coarse language, it takes everything in me not to clock him the way that my father taught me when I was a little girl. And then, when I don’t think that my week could get any worse, he shows up at the law firm the next day…and he’s my new client.

Six years on, Ellie finds herself in a new city amid unfamiliar surroundings. But can she really run away from her problems? While bringing up a young child with a handsome new man by her side, Ellie’s new life looks to be seemingly the one she always wanted. But not everything is as it seems. For there is more than paper covering the cracks beneath. While Ellie’s life may seem perfect, new surroundings bring fresh challenges for her to overcome. How will she cope with being so far away from home? And can she truly escape the tragedy of her past?

En Los silencios que habito, el autor entrelaza varias historias en las que se habla sobre la manera en la que los sentimientos de las parejas van cambiando, lo que provoca que el estatus de los vínculos amorosos se modifiquen.

Ariane has found refuge in Illinois, and now plans her rightful return to vampire society. She must stay in control while hiding in nature, while foes old and new converge on her territory.

Cómo la policía nos pone en peligro y por qué necesitamos encontrar una alternativa. En los últimos años se ha producido una explosión de protesta contra la brutalidad y la represión policial, sobre todo en Ferguson, Misuri, donde estallaron quejas de larga data en violentas manifestaciones tras el asesinato policial de Michael Brown. Entre activistas, periodistas y políticos, la conversación sobre cómo responder y mejorar la policía se ha centrado en la rendición de cuentas, la diversidad, la capacitación y las relaciones comunitarias.

En Tangus, una de las universidades más elitistas del mundo, todo gira en torno a un trío irresistible: los hermanos Cash. Son vacilones y astutos, pero insoportablemente atractivos y poderosos.

The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. Then, when Goody turns sixteen, her father is murdered in the night by men he thought were friends. To find justice in a lawless land, Goody must enter the cut-throat world of her father's killers. With her beloved brother Francis, she joins a rival gang of smugglers. Facing high seas and desperate villains, she also discovers something else: an existence without constraints or expectations, a taste for danger that makes her blood run fast.

Endlich darf Druan bren Anargh den Pfad des Wolfes beschreiten - und wird von seinem Odûn ins Rudel aufgenommen: Von nun an ist er ein echter Wolfstierkrieger. Doch viel Zeit, das zu feiern, hat er nicht, denn sein Dorf wird nachts überraschend von Untoten angegriffen. Die Gjalsker sind ratlos: Zürnen ihnen die Götter? Oder reicht der Einfluss der finsteren Eishexe aus dem Land des Ewigen Eises schon bis zu ihnen? Sie beschließen, Marthai um Rat zu fragen. Die uralte Zauberin wohnt einsam irgendwo in den Donnerzacken, und es heißt, sie wisse mehr über das Böse als irgendein anderer Gjalsker.

Enslaved by a mute-race of cruel dictators, Razvan learns their touch-language and works as a translator in order to survive. But war is on the horizon and his quiet life is about to get noisy. Linguistic subterfuge in a city under siege. Razvan must decide which side to fight on, who can be trusted, and what truly deserves to be saved.

To live among wolves, first you must become one… An unmissable new spy thriller from best-selling master of the genre, Alex Gerlis. War is coming to Europe. British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic relations quickly unravelling, this pack of spies soon comes into their own: the horse-loving German at home in Berlin's underground; the young American sports journalist; the mysterious Luftwaffe officer; the Japanese diplomat and the most unlikely one of all... the SS officer's wife.

"Je ne vous ai pas demandé qui vous étiez. Mais quoi. Quel genre littéraire ?" Voilà comment Max, 33 ans, est accueilli dans un bâtiment froid et austère avant de comprendre qu'il vient de mourir dans un accident de voiture. Il n'est ni au Paradis, ni au Purgatoire, mais à l'Inspiratoire où les morts doivent choisir un genre littéraire afin d'inspirer un auteur sur terre. Ils sont ainsi réincarnés en personnages de roman. Sous le choc de sa mort brutale, Max a plus de questions que de réponses. Il est, ce que l'on appelle, un "Indécis".

A heartbroken heartthrob. A fugitive fiance. Sparks fly when Julia flees...right into Colton. He had me at hello. Months later, I’m fleeing the state with an engagement ring on my finger. John isn’t the one. What looks good on paper is ugly behind closed doors. My sister Liz doesn’t know about John, but she takes me in, with problems of her own. The night I help tend bar with Liz is when I meet Colton. Liz warns me about him. Says that he’s a hardened man. And he looks it, too. With his smouldering eyes and square shoulders, he’s a force to be reckoned with.

Running for her life from the Nazis, Monique, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, escapes through the streets of Paris, searching for a place to hide. In a dark basement deep within the city, Philip, a man of the Resistance, offers her a deal in order to save her life by changing her identity. In return, she needs to provide information about the Germans by becoming acquainted with them.

Jeder verbirgt ein Geheimnis. Aber manche töten dafür. London 1880. Leo Stanhope, Assistent der Gerichtsmedizin, macht eine merkwürdige Entdeckung: In der Jackentasche eines in der Themse ertrunkenen Mannes findet er eine Ale-Flasche, in die das Wort "Mercy" eingeritzt ist. Kurz darauf landet eine zweite Leiche aus der Themse auf seinem Tisch, deren Anblick Leos Leben gewaltsam aus der Bahn wirft: Es ist Maria, seine große Liebe. Und sie wurde ermordet. Bald fällt der Verdacht auf ihn, also macht er sich selbst auf die Jagd nach dem Mörder.

Greatest Hits of My Childhood Trauma is the story of a boy fighting to exist in a world that would rather throw him away. A memoir of growing up gay in '90s Middle America, this shocking tale of a failed attempt at conversion therapy will make you laugh, cry, and want to burn everything to the ground. Known as "The Filthiest Gay Rapper Alive," the debut foray into the literary world of Alex Dark (better known as MC Crumbsnatcher) is not to be missed.

Men are changing. They are redefining what it is to be "strong", and are more open to understanding their emotions and reaching out for help. But stigma still abounds. The Changing Man aims to explore issues affecting men’s emotional health and well-being and provide tried and tested tools to ensure no man suffers in silence again.

Firestorm is down – the assassin for hire website that had the world by its throat, gone. Alek Konstantin, king of the underworld, is in hiding. But while the world celebrates, Winter is bracing for what must surely follow. All the world’s cut-throats, assassins and thugs are unemployed, roaming the globe without a leader - and nature abhors a vacuum. Something’s not right, and it’s not only that Winter’s body is in pieces. A boy held captive. An attempted assassination. Thirty men gunned down in rural South Wales.

Ariane has finally adjusted to her new life as a vampire, hidden away from her kin in the Georgian countryside. She can now set her eyes on her next pursuit: her return to society as a rightful, free entity. However, regaining her freedom will not be easy. Beyond the issues of cutthroat vampire politics, the protection of her territory will also bring surprising challenges.

Brothers. Emperors. Deadly enemies... An unputdownable novel of intrigue and combat in Ancient Rome. Emperor Severus is on his deathbed. His sons Geta and Caracalla, feuding in Britannia, are readying for a devastating power struggle. Silus, now a centurion in the Arcani, the secrete network of spies and assassins, is thrown into the maelstrom. Back in Ancient Rome, plots breed in the stinking alleys. Everyone might be an enemy. Everyone a traitor. As an Imperial Assassin, Silus’ loyalty will be tested to breaking point.

A desolate wasteland. A mission gone wrong. An impossible goal. Roman scout, Silus, is deep behind enemy lines in Caledonia. As he spies on a raiding party, he is abruptly discovered by an enemy chief and his son. Mounting a one-man ambush, everything quickly goes wrong and Silus must run for his life, the head of the enemy leader in his hands. Little does he know the price he will pay... As Silus is inducted into the Arcani, an elite faction of assassins and spies, he must return to Caledonia and risk everything in the service of his Caesar.