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American medieval history professor Dotsy Lamb and her best friend, Lettie Osgood, are working an archaeological dig in the Scottish Highlands on the grounds of Dunlaggan Castle when murder strikes. The victim is genial, well-liked graduate student Froggy Quale, the on-site pollen and spore expert. His roommate, the dig's media man, is the prime suspect, but Dotsy, quite fond of both boys, is convinced otherwise.

In the magical world, bullets build empires. Spells hold them together. Madison Mosby will need a hell of a lot of both to survive against rival kingpins, unless her sister kills her first. Despite locating the coveted Moonmilk recipe, Madison Mosby cannot rest. Rebuilding the Rose Widow's empire is harder than she ever imagined. And when her new enemies discover her operation, Madison must use her wits and courage to fight for everything she holds dear.

Megan senses trouble coming and is twisting her Claddagh ring on her finger again. Two new guests arrive to upset her neighbor by opening a shop next to his gallery. Things are not as they seem and it will take help from an unexpected source to help her and find out who is passing counterfeit money is Salem.

Twelve years ago, Jameson Parish spent a summer at her best friend Dancie Duvall's estate of Blue Chimneys. At first, it was all Jameson hoped for, including a passionate romance with Callen Marsh, the local bachelor that every woman seemed to have in her sights. When Dancie died in a suspicious fall off a footbridge, Callen was suddenly nowhere to be found, and Jameson left for college amid rumors linking her to Dancie's death. Now she returns to Blue Chimneys, hoping to clear her name and put her lingering feelings for Callen to rest.

Hours before the opening of her career counseling practice, Gilda Greco discovers the body of golden girl, Carrie Ann Godfrey, neatly arranged in the dumpster outside Gilda’s office. Gilda’s life and budding career are stalled as Detective Carlo Fantin, her former high school crush, conducts the investigation. When three more dead blondes turn up, all brutally strangled and deposited near Gilda’s favorite haunts, she is pegged as a prime suspect for the murders.

Scythia and the team return to the Nationalist Enforcement Bureau Station to face oversight review for the aftermath of their first mission. In an attempt to not anger the powers that be, the team thinks its best to lay low and stay out of trouble.

When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her - but thanks to the anonymity provided by the Internet, the police tell her there's nothing they can do. Her friends are sure it's someone's idea of a joke, but when Megan is murdered in a vicious attack, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced that the online threats are more than just empty words.

Ellanora: The Rose of Panoptia is a spin-off of the Urtu 313 series that tells the thrilling story of how the Royal Galactic Consortium put down the Lucifer Rebellion across 37 worlds in an amazing four years! Experience the rise of the Dominion and Guardians and the heroic efforts of humans like Ellanora Rose, along with brave Celestials, and the outstanding Marshals of Melcor who brought them down.

While vacationing in Jamaica, trying to get over a broken heart, Chyna Daniels runs into island native Nelson Portis. On a physical level, Nelson satisfies all of Chyna's wants and needs to help her forget the breakup, but Nelson wants much more. Will Chyna give Nelson the one thing he wants the most? Her Heart.

It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books conveniently left most of them out. Whoops! To rectify this situation, Eliza Reilly is setting out to revive the forgotten stories of the badass sheilas of Australian history. Chain yourself to pub counters with the determined Merle Thornton, fight for Indigenous rights alongside Faith Bandler and lure forlorn sailors with swimmer-slash-mermaid Annette Kellerman.

Winter has crippled the nation of Riyen and Hawthorne has made moves to take over the city for his own mysterious purposes. When Rodge and Janelle arrive in Angapo they find that war has broken out. With Anissa missing and no way to contact her, they will have to formulate their own plan to get back to Riyen and stop Hawthorne.

Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island where she grew up to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for. A loving, exuberant character, who believes herself to be happy, she has forgotten a hidden part of her spirit - the part represented by the beautiful, vibrant and legendary mermaid carved on a chair in the island's monastery.

Effektives Sprachenlernen mit Unterhaltungswert! Compact Sprachwelten Hörbücher sind der ideale Begleiter zu Ihrer Sprachenlektüre und helfen Ihnen dabei, Wortschatz und Aussprache gezielt zu verbessern. Die vier Kurzgeschichten entführen Sie in englischsprachige Länder und bringen Ihnen Land und Leute näher. Die Muttersprachlichen Sprecher sorgen für ein authentisches Hörerlebnis, passend zu Ihrem Sprachniveau. Italienisch - Niveau B1. Zur Geschichte: Kann eine einzige Begegnung unser Leben verändern? Lässt sich ein Mordfall aufklären, ohne vor die Tür zu gehen?

Otto and Raya from Coy Wolf reunite in this spicy romantic short. Raya’s plans for a fun visit with Sequoia are dashed when turmoil in Langsmith forces her into close quarters with the shifter of her dreams. Otto wants nothing more than to make Raya his, once and for all. He just needs to make sure his bear doesn’t force the issue too soon and scare the skittish Raya away for good.

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media and have consulted with editors of major business and general-interest publications and with the deans of several schools of journalism in order to find the 30 best business stories from the past 12 months. Among the articles selected: Ken Auletta on Herb Allen's CEO retreat, from The New Yorker; Diane Brady on Martha Stewart, from Business Week; and Steve Silberman on creating a borderless global cyber-marketplace, from Wired.

On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.

Allison Crawford is a nose-to-the-grindstone college student committed to getting her degree and staying out of trouble. Grayson Chase is a Hollywood bad boy committed to his career. Their worlds collide when Allison’s roommate talks her into signing on as an extra in a movie being filmed on campus. When he meets the lovely college student, Grayson is immediately intrigued, but Allison has no interest in a life of celebrity. Sure, Chase is hot - okay, incredibly sexy - but he’s so not for her. So why can’t she get him out of her head?

Marcia is only twelve years old the first time she is sent to the orphanage with her older sister, Cynthia. With their father in a POW camp in Singapore, her mother is struggling to cope and hands them over to the nuns to be 'orphans of the living' - a harsh term for those children with living parents, whose families have abandoned them.

The bombs are raining down on Liverpool but seven year old feisty Alice Lacey and her two best friends Bob and Matty, have disobeyed their parents and decided to go up to Everton Hill and watch the sky set on fire. Ten years later the three are still friends and Bob is now Alice’s sweetheart. He would marry her tomorrow but Alice has ambitions to better herself and when she finally leaves the factory to work as a secretary for Hedley and Worboys’ architects she dreams of a brighter future and having some small part in rebuilding Liverpool.

A psychological thriller that will have you losing sleep at night. K.D. Bloodworth draws you into the horrifying side of online dating.