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When the body of a vulnerable teenage girl is found on a remote farm in the Maryland hills, Private Investigator Lucy Kendall knows her past has come back to haunt her. Lucy’s sister died when she was a young girl, and the dead teenager looks exactly like her—her dark hair dyed blonde, her wrists slashed.

It’s been twenty years since Leigh found the murdered body of her twelve-year-old brother, Troy. Her father was arrested for the crime, but she never accepted that he did it. Her hunt for the real killer almost cost her everything. Now working for the FBI, Leigh is called back to New Hampshire when a series of copycat crimes are committed. Only the killer has left a very specific calling card, a plastic army figurine, the same as the one she found on Troy’s body, and carved into its base: Leigh’s name.

Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women.

Life has not been easy for 15-year old Lou Thomas. In the last few years, her once happy family has been whittled down to just herself and her unreliable older sister Charlotte. It's been a daily struggle to make it through. And it's about to get worse. Because Lou's abilities—enhanced strength, speed, and healing—have just awakened. While Lou may not understand what is happening to her, another group does. And they won't let anyone get in the way of gathering their new recruit.

Christina Rice offers the first biography of the actress and activist perhaps most well-known for her role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Despite the fact that her movie career was stalled for nearly a decade, Jane Russell's filmography is respectable. She worked with some of Hollywood's most talented directors—including Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Nicholas Ray, and Josef von Sternberg—and held her own alongside costars such as Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, Vincent Price, and Bob Hope.

A gorgeously illustrated collection of essays written by today’s queer heroes - featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. The Queer Bible is a celebration of LGBTQ+ history and culture, edited by model, performer, and GQ contributing editor Jack Guinness.

Maggie’s heart pounds as she clutches the autopsy report. What she’s reading is impossible. Yesterday, a woman died in a fire. But her remains belong to someone who died twenty years ago. When the body of Ruby Anderson is found in a burnt-out trailer, Chief Maggie Riley is called to solve the biggest case Coyote Cove has ever seen. Ruby supposedly drowned on a kayaking trip twenty years ago—how could she have been alive today? For years there have been whispers about how Ruby died.

Esta obra ha sido el gran desafío de la biblioteca aeronáutica. Encontrar al forma de explicar las maniobras básicas que componen el curso de piloto privado de avión, ha resultado todo un éxito. En este audiolibro aprenderás todos los conceptos iniciales para dar tus primeros pasos aeronáuticos. Cada maniobra de vuelo, cada paso, desde principio a final. Todo lo que necesitas aprender para iniciar tu curso de piloto privado de avión, o bien, para comenzar a vivir la aviación desde otro punto, como protagonista.

Chloe Robinson is determined to be more spontaneous, exciting, and fun—whatever that means. Her resolve is put to the test when she learns her twin sister has arranged for them to return to their junior year at Brighton University with a road trip across the country with their best friend, Cooper, and the one person Chloe works to avoid at all costs: Tyler Banks.

History isn’t always written to glorify the victors. Sometimes, it’s written to conceal the truth. In this novel’s depiction of alternate history military fiction, Sparta still exists today as a technologically advanced, secret civilization dedicated to protecting humankind. When smallpox is genetically engineered into a bioweapon, Alessa—a warrior in the Spartan military—is sent to collect evidence regarding its origin. After being violently attacked, she awakens with no memory to a world infected with the very virus she had been sent to prevent.

Lexa’s life has been a fight but now an alpha from her past has offered her protection and safety with the help of two others. For her daughter’s safety, she will pay their price. Lexa’s debut as an omega was traumatic and left her scarred. She has spent the five years since fighting to keep her adopted daughter and keep her sanity.

As the last female blood mage, many would kill to claim the power surging through her veins. For years Leila has hidden. Who she is. Where she came from. What she can do. But the long-lost Princess refuses to run forever. Those she loves lied to her. Betrayed her for a greater good. Even in her absence, she's being used as a pawn in political power plays.

Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it’s cracked up to be? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is getting left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights aren’t so advanced? Combining intrepid journalism with her own personal experience, Amelia Abraham searches for the answers to these urgent challenges, as well as the broader question of what it means to be queer in 2019.

Captured by a monster, I was set free by a ruthless enforcer. Now, my worst nightmare is back, unrelenting in his pursuit—until my avenging protector roars back into my life. Invading my solace and sanctuary in a world that wants to tear me apart.

The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos.

Pete Riley is a stay-at-home dad; his partner, Maddie, works in advertising. After Pete drops two-year-old Theo off at nursery one morning, he's politely accosted by a man who looks just like Theo. The man, Miles Lambert, breaks the devastating news that Theo is in fact not Pete's son, but his - the two babies got mixed up at hospital and Miles and his wife, Lucy, now have the Rileys' son at home. They've already carried out DNA testing to prove it.

Adrian West and Agent Nick Harper travel to London to assist Scotland Yard in its investigation of stolen artifacts linked to a legendary king. Yet, when they find themselves trailed by a mysterious pursuer, Adrian realizes the stolen artifacts are connected to a deadly, real-life weapon—and an ancient brotherhood intent on finding it.

En una sociedad que a menudo malinterpreta o simplifica en exceso el TDAH, este libro es un faro de esperanza. Mendoza no solo entiende lo que significa vivir con TDAH, sino que también aporta sabiduría, empatía y experiencia. Entiende las experiencias únicas de los adolescentes con TDAH: sus fortalezas, sus desafíos y el potencial que llevan dentro.

Delaney McPhearson has been pulled from one crisis to the next since Samyaza's death. Trying to put out each fire as they pop up, while simultaneously trying to tamp down public fears about the Fallen, she is stretched impossibly thin. And that's part of the plan: keep Laney so busy, that she doesn't realize what her government is up to until it is too late.

When I made a deal with the prince of the Underworld, I knew a lot of things could go wrong. But I never imagined it would be imprisoned-in-the-underworld wrong. My only goals were to escape and resist the blazing chemistry between me and the dark prince. After he discovers I’m more than just a mere human who’s had a streak of bad luck, my escape becomes a game of survival. I’m warding off assassination attempts and caught in the crossfire of a ruthless political battle.