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Most 12-year-olds would be excited to fly to Austria to see their dad for the summer, but Becca is not most 12-year-olds. Suffering from severe anxiety, she fears that the metal detectors at the airport will give her cancer and the long international flight will leave her with blood clots. Luckily, she's packed her Doomsday Journal, the one thing that always seems to help. By writing down her fears and what to do if the worst happens, Becca can get by without (many) panic attacks.

High school senior, Addie, never expected her unique 'gift' to lead her to a missing student, but when it does she's thrown into the middle of a dangerous drug war. Now, she's forced to work with a gorgeous (and completely off limits) detective to discover the truth before it kills them both. Their reluctant alliance will reveal more than either could have anticipated as Addie's ability leads them to a dangerous showdown and a shocking betrayal. Hidden Lies It's been over a year since Addie Michaels and Jake Kincaid met under less than ideal circumstances. They both think life has settled ...

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"Anche le donne sanno essere eroiche." Per la ventenne Frances "Frankie" McGrath, studentessa di infermieristica, questa frase è una rivelazione. Cresciuta nell'idilliaco mondo assolato della California del sud e protetta dai suoi genitori di idee conservatrici, si è sempre vantata di fare la cosa giusta, di essere una brava ragazza. Ma è il 1966, il mondo sta cambiando, e Frankie si ritrova all'improvviso a immaginare un futuro diverso, così, quando suo fratello parte per il Vietnam, lei decide di arruolarsi nel Corpo infermieristico dell'esercito.

Rory Calhoun is a teen popstar with perfect teeth and messy hair who’s inspiring first crushes all over the globe. Millie Jackson is just one of the millions of fans who love him—but that doesn't mean her heart doesn't break for him every single day in this laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story.

He shouldn’t have even been on this trip with me. None of my stepfathers had paid any attention to me before, and I definitely wasn’t looking for a father figure now. Especially not from my fourth stepfather, another in a long line of boy toys for my wealthy, powerful mother. Garrett was thirty six and sexy as hell and all kinds of temptation for a 19-year-old with my kinds of problems. And he was divorcing my mother. Then, right as I was about to connect with a more suitable man, he revealed something about himself that changed everything for me. Our desire for each other was ...

Logan Black, former Marine and bodyguard for the Seattle Wolf Pack, hates weddings and has no plan to walk the path to matrimonial misery. But when he's hired to protect a hot-to-trot wedding planner with a werewolf stalker, he's forced to put his feelings aside. Not such an easy task when the damsel can turn him on with a single smoldering glance.

My life was set. In five months I would be engaged to a man I didn’t love. In fifteen months I would marry someone who didn’t love me. It was a carefully calculated script thought out by those who had the most to gain. The same people who thought happiness came from money. Everything was going according to plan until I met Hayden Foster. Now, I have to find a way to escape this life - my prison.

Since becoming Moonstruck on her eighteenth birthday, Wren Nightingale has found herself thrust into a world filled with deception, danger, and murder. Uncovering that their magick was fractured and limited when the original Moonstruck ritual was broken by Selene, Wren is determined to find a way to restore it. But the Elementals are split into two factions—some want the ritual completed and their freedom—and others are so terrified of change that they’re willing to end Wren before she can reach the center of the island where the ritual Selene ruined can be completed.

When Emily Emerson is made redundant from her reporting job, she finds herself completely adrift. Then, one day, she receives a beautiful painting of her grandmother standing at the edge of a sugarcane field under a violet sky, and a handwritten note saying, 'He never stopped loving her' . . . Emily begins to dig and soon uncovers a trail leading her to the POW internment camps of 1940s Florida, where German prisoners worked for American farmers - and sometimes fell in love with American women. But how does this all connect to the painting?

Paris, 1939. Elise and Juliette are certain nothing can come between them. So, when war breaks out and Elise is forced to flee, she entrusts Juliette with her daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend's bookstore reduced to rubble - and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to Mathilde in those last terrible moments?

Within this book, Kaufman offers a collection of highly personal stories that illustrate how a wealth of wisdom may come from the most unusual and unlikely sources. The resiliency and clarity found from typically unheard voices speak of universal truths that may often be lost in the shuffle, yet are no less vital to a well-aligned life.

More people suffer from a lack of self-compassion than many of us would like to admit. Always putting others above themselves, people who fail to give themselves enough love and value can easily feel emotionally drained, tired, and unhappy. In this complete guide, we’re sharing all the information you need to know to help you climb out of that seemingly bottomless pit to achieve a greater sense of self-worth and importance to fuel an eagerness to love yourself more.

Author Kristin Giese proves she can deliver a laugh as effortlessly as she can a lesson in Another Hysterical Female. This book features a collection of mostly funny stories from Kristin’s life to fix us, the author included. Her approach is somewhat of a modern-day Mary Poppins - minus the fact that Mary never pulled a vibrator out of her carpetbag. Kristin’s brand of humor is the exact spoonful of sugar we need to help our heartache go down. Another Hysterical Female comes across like an exploration in what it is to be a woman today.

Zoey is finally home where she belongs, safe with her Guardian Warrior, Stark, by her side, and preparing to face off against Neferet – which would be a whole lot easier if the High Counsel saw the ex-High Priestess for what she really is. Kalona has released his hold on Rephaim, and, through Nyx's gift of a human form, Rephaim and Stevie Rae are finally able to be together – if he can truly walk the path of the Goddess and stay free of his father's shadow…

Sommeren 1973 er ved at gå på hæld, da Kate Mularkey og Tully Hart møder hinanden. På overfladen er de hinandens modsætninger, men et stærkt venskab vokser frem, og snart er de to uadskillelige. De næste tre årtier er de hinandens faste holdepunkt i tilværelsen. Sammen kan de klare alt. Men bedst som de tror, at de har været det hele igennem, river én fatal beslutning dem fra hinanden og sætter både deres mod og venskab på en umulig prøve.

A Monstrous Mistake On Halloween night, the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred and the monsters have come out to play. Meanwhile, our human leading ladies are ready to celebrate the holiday in style - with some hot men in costumes. The only problem? They haven’t yet noticed that the fur and fangs on their sexy men are entirely real. Will mistaken identity lead to love, or have these women made a monstrous mistake? Reasons why it’s not my fault demons got summoned to my sister’s Halloween party: 1. I told Agnes not to use our grandmother’s cauldron as a drinks cooler, no ...

A groundbreaking study of a contentious practice that has become popular among the nouveaux riches, The Golden Passport takes listeners from the details of the application process to the geopolitical hydraulics of the citizenship industry. It's a business that thrives on uncertainty and imbalances of power between big, globalized economies and tiny states desperate for investment. In between are the fascinating stories of buyers, brokers, and sellers, all ready to profit from the citizenship trade.

Where do we go when we dream? Since the beginning of time, people have argued the meaning of dreams. Are they symbolic visions that hold great meaning and personal significance? Are they portals into other worlds? Or are they just a series of random events our mind shows us when we fall asleep? Whatever the case, this much is true—the mind can be a scary place to venture, even for a few hours. Never Wake is an anthology of dream horror, bringing you several mind-bending tales of nightmares, hallucinations, and phantasmagoria from some of the hottest talent in horror fiction.

Unmated werewolves don't normally live past 300 years old...and billionaire Jack MacGrath is cutting it close. Sure, he has almost everything - the respect of his peers, a mansion in San Francisco, a private jet, and fast cars. But without a mate, Jack's in trouble. Then he sees her. Gorgeous, proud...and his enemy.