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When Elspeth loses everything in one night for the crime of being born an elf, she wants vengeance. Forced to resort to banditry in order to survive, her forest becomes a safe haven for others dismissed by the Empire. But becoming the Bandit Queen isn't enough to compensate for the castle she lost—only the royal palace will do. To become the Empress, though, she first needs to save the Sacred Prince.

Forty-eight stories of brave sparrows, wilds winds, and how to live in times of climate change. A prize-winning book by the natural storyteller Georgiana Keable, sharing long experience with children in the forests and snows of Norway. Meet the girl who became a fish, married a bear, and had a tree as her mum and dad. Meet the boy who tried to stop the wind, fetched fire from the center of the earth on the back of a bird, and whose father was the river.

Alice Allevi è una giovane specializzanda in medicina legale. Ha ancora tanto da imparare e sa di essere un po' distratta. Ma di una cosa è sicura: ama il suo lavoro. E anche se i suoi superiori non la ritengono tagliata per quel mestiere, Alice resiste a tutto. Fino all'omicidio. Per un medico legale, un sopralluogo sulla scena del crimine è lavoro quotidiano. Ma non questa volta. Quando Alice entra in quel lussuoso appartamento romano e vede il cadavere della ragazza disteso ai suoi piedi, capisce che quello non sarà un caso come gli altri. Perché stavolta conosce la vittima.

Set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales, and peopled with sharp-edged, luminously drawn characters, The Hiding Place is the story of Frankie Gauci, his wife Mary, and their six daughters and about Frankie's betrayal, gambling away his family's livelihood and eventually the family itself. Written in magical language buoyed by grace, it is a mesmerizing exploration of how family, like fire, can shift suddenly from something that provides light and warmth to a dangerous conflagration, sparing no one in its path.

In the aftermath of a deadly and mysterious plague that causes the female sex to temporarily lapse into violent, near-indestructible monsters, small bands of survivors inhabit the skeleton of a ruined civilization. Uriah, a young man haunted by addiction and the weight of the post-apocalyptic world, clings to his one source of sanity – his girlfriend Evynn. But every second spent with her puts him in grave danger. Unable to control her monstrous frenzies – and the zombie-like state it puts her in afterwards – she’s terrified by the thought that she’ll harm the man she loves.

Entrando nel crepuscolo della propria vita, un astrofisico di fama mondiale si pone una domanda: cosa vorrei che sapessero i miei nipoti dell'Universo in cui continueranno ad abitare quando io non ci sarò più? Nasce così questo dialogo immaginario tra un vecchio e un bambino che in una notte, seduti su comode sdraio, osservano il cielo. Attendendo le stelle cadenti, l'anziano scienziato risponde agli interrogativi sempre più incalzanti del giovane: di che materia sono fatte le stelle? Come si alimenta il sole? Cosa significa che l'Universo è in espansione? Siamo soli nell'Universo?

Massage is a form of physical communication, a touch of love, of caring. Touch nourishes the body and the soul. Sensual massage begins with learning to touch yourself. Appreciate touching the things around you. Learn to relax. Let go and enjoy. Get below your mind and into your senses. In this program we will cover preparing for a massage, back massage, and front massage. Learn the secrets of sensual loving touch that will leave you and your partner invigorated.

Ognuno di noi ha dei segreti. Solo uno è inconfessabile. Si dice che ciascuno di noi, nel corso della propria vita, accumuli in media tredici segreti. Di questi, cinque sono davvero inconfessabili. Lena ne ha soltanto uno, ma si fa sentire dentro come se ne valesse mille. Per quanto si sforzi di dimenticarlo, è inevitabile per lei ripensarci mentre dal traghetto scorge l'isola di Levura, meta del suo viaggio. Levura, dove ha passato le estati indimenticabili della sua giovinezza. Dove non rimette piede da quando aveva quindici anni.

For more than 500 years, the story of Joan of Arc has been an inspiration and a mystery. The least likely of heroines, a peasant girl with no education and no prospects, Joan turned herself into the legendary Maid of Orleans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following a voice she knew was God's, she led an army to victory in battle and crowned the king of France, only to be captured by her English enemies and burned at the stake as a heretic, all by the age of 19.

Six months after concert pianist Aslyn Jericho survives an attack at the hands of an obsessed fan, she is still trying to resume a normal life, despite the paralyzing fears that have stolen her ability to play and perform. Enter her gorgeous and mysterious neighbor with news that threatens to send her spiraling back into her nightmares. Her stalker has returned. And he wants Aslyn.

Alice Allevi ha imparato a resistere a tutto, o quasi. Da brava allieva, resiste alle pressioni dei superiori, che le hanno affidato la supervisione di una specializzanda... proprio a lei, che fatica a supervisionare se stessa! E lo dimostra anche la sua tortuosa vita sentimentale. Alice, infatti, soffre ancora della sindrome da cuore in sospeso che la tiene in bilico tra Arthur, diventato l'Innominabile dopo troppe sofferenze, e Claudio, il medico legale più rampante dell'istituto, bello e incorreggibile.

Eccentric hippie, Onyx Sharp, is the maid of honor in her best friend’s wedding. But she's not happy about having to spend so much time with the best man, Taylor. Not only does she distrust men, but being around him annoys her. The last thing she expects is for him to kiss her impulsively at a party before the wedding. And the main problem is, she wants him to kiss her one more time, but she’s not sure she can let her heart trust again.

No one gets under Jackson Cooper’s skin like fellow ranch owner Cricket Maxfield. Now, as they face off at a charity poker game, the stakes get personal. Jackson finds himself on the losing end… And paying up means being the ranch hand at Cricket’s beck and call. In close quarters, tempers flare—and the fire between them ignites into a passion that won’t be ignored…

Mi chiamo Alice Allevi e ho un grande amore: la medicina legale. Il più classico degli amori non corrisposti, purtroppo. Ho imparato a fare le autopsie senza combinare troppi guai, anche se la morte ha ancora tanti segreti per me. Ma nessun segreto dura per sempre. Tuttavia, il segreto che nascondeva il grande scrittore Konrad Azais, anziano ed eccentrico, è davvero impenetrabile. E quella che doveva essere una semplice perizia su di lui si è trasformata in un'indagine su un suicidio sospetto. Soltanto Clara, la nipote quindicenne di Konrad, sa la verità.

When coffee shop owner Josie Sparks spots her ex boyfriend picking out a Christmas tree with a new girl, she does the unexpected. She grabs his roommate, Noah, and lays a kiss on him right in front of her ex. The new girlfriend assumes they’re dating, and Josie and Noah decide to go with it.

Left for dead in the middle of the vast, wild Grand Canyon, Ruby Lucas is losing the battle to survive. After days without food and very little water, Ruby's time is running out. Just as it looks like all is lost, a tall, dark stranger might be her only hope...

Tutto avrebbe pensato, ma non di fare la paleopatologa dopo la laurea in medicina. Non di vivere a Verona, così distante da Messina, la sua casa. Non di avere una figlia piccola a carico, la buffa Flora. Non di rintracciare il padre della suddetta figlia dopo svariati anni, di scoprirlo affascinante come quando l'aveva conosciuto e di vederlo perfetto con Flora. Non di scoprire di provare ancora qualcosa per il suddetto padre. Non di poter vantare una discreta collezione di situazioni ed esperienze imbarazzanti. La vita di Costanza Macallè può dirsi, insomma, abbastanza travagliata.

Elspeth has performed her greatest heist yet: stealing the Sacred Prince from the capital just as a release of dark magic turned its citizens against him. That was the easy part. Now she has to safely deliver the reluctant refugee across the province to her camp where he believes the Bandit King will bargain with his army to help Otello reclaim his stolen throne. Except, she is the Bandit King, and that bargain is a marriage arrangement.

Allie has sworn off dating. Which is unfortunate, because the cute guy at the grocery store has finally struck up a conversation, and shy and sweet Ben is even more adorable than he looks. When an ex shows up trying to rekindle the flame at the same time her mother tries to set her up with a neighbor, Allie ropes Ben into being her fake boyfriend to get everyone off her back. Ben has been in love with the stranger at the grocery store for months despite never speaking to her.

Unemploymentville.com creator and author Anne Emerick has interviewed career coaches, entrepreneurs, and everyday people to explore their own stories of bouncing back from a personal unemployment crisis. And now, Emerick shows you how to use insights from their tales to forge your own path to success. Out-of-Work to Making Money: 21 Comeback Stories Every Job Hunter Should Hear shares strategies and compelling true stories from people in all walks of life who worked their way from jobless to financially secure.