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'This is every woman’s dream revenge plot come to life.' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Are you on a date that doesn’t feel right? Can’t shake that creepy guy at the bar? Worried you’re being followed home? Message M. After one too many terrifying encounters, Millie Masters sets up a...

In VOLUME 9 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, ‘Homefront/Women At War’, we will take an often-overlooked view of the story of World War II. You will visit with the people on the homefront, from schoolkids navigating growing up during the Great Depression and the War, to the women on the factory floor and the armed services, newly independent but having to fight for their rights and later, their jobs, laying the seeds of societal change for the future.

Drei junge Frauen. Ein Schwur. Wie stark ist eine Freundschaft? Sie glaubten, die Welt stünde ihnen offen: Die drei Freundinnen Elli, Margot und Käthe werden mit Beginn der NS-Zeit mit der Schule fertig. Im malerischen Tal der Eifel, in dem sie zu Hause sind, muss die Jüdin Margot bald um ihr Leben und das ihrer Familie fürchten. Käthe wird zur überzeugten Nationalsozialistin. Die Halbwaise Elli muss sich entscheiden.

Caroline McAlister, college professor and lifelong skeptic, is reeling from the loss of her father and her marriage. Her once promising career has come to a standstill. When her father bequeaths the family cabin to her, it comes with a ghost who haunted her childhood. When she discovers a century-old journal in the attic, she awakens the voice of Carson Quinn. The journal reveals Carson's love for the same hollow that enthralled Caroline growing up. A little sleuthing uncovers rumors that the kind, curious boy in the journal grew up to murder his brother. 

C’est le Festival de la Nuit à Hollow Cove, des festivités annuelles pour célébrer le monde paranormal qui s’étendent sur cinq soirs consécutifs et regroupent une multitude de personnages puissants parmi nos cercles de sorcellerie. Il y a juste un petit problème. Quelqu’un est retrouvé mort. Et je suis accusée du meurtre.

This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have had on mystery novels and their authors. With their deadly plants, razor-sharp shears, shady corners, and ready-made burial sites, gardens make an ideal scene for the perfect murder. But the...

New York City, 1932: Eva Le Gallienne is trying to save her theatre company from the jaws of the Depression by mounting an innovative new production of Alice in Wonderland. She agrees to give a radio interview for the sake of publicity, but while revisiting the moments that shaped her career...

In ten years, do you want to be paying for money mistakes you’re making today? I assume your answer is “No way!” That’s why I’ve written my second book, Retirement by Design, for you. As the title says, this book will help you design your current and future financial reality so that your future self will bring out champagne and toast you!

Der faszinierende biografische Roman von Bestseller-Autorin Charlotte Roth erzählt von der großen, dramatischen Liebesgeschichte zwischen der Revolutionärin Rosa Luxemburg und Leo Jogiches. Rosa Luxemburg: Vordenkerin, Freiheitskämpferin und leidenschaftlich Liebende. Warschau, 1889. Von klein auf träumt das Mädchen Rosa von einer besseren, gerechteren Welt und ist entschlossen, dafür zu kämpfen. Sie ist erst siebzehn, als sie mutterseelenallein vor der Miliz des Zaren in die Schweiz fliehen muss.

Awakening from a dark defeat, Faythe discovers a greater threat to the life she took back. Staggering truths will challenge her and reveal that some bonds were forged to defy. With the battle lost, the war has just begun, and as an enemy is captured, it soon becomes clear a storm can be tamed but never bottled.

Oh, what fun it is to die! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he’s less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this family on the rocks will have to fight for their lives against a legendary killer because Candy Cain is slashing through the snow with a very long naughty list.

Alors voilà, j’ai des ennuis. De gros ennuis. Je suis fauchée. Pire encore, mon copain vient de me larguer après cinq ans. Que me reste-t-il à faire ? Emménager avec mes trois tantes excentriques dans leur maison de famille, le Manoir Davenport. C’est un endroit charmant, sauf que cette immense ferme adore dévorer les hommes. Oui, vous avez bien lu.

Social media is replete with images of 'perfection'. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough. Try too hard and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’, don't try hard enough and you're slacking. Rosalind Gill challenges polarized perspectives that see young women as either passive victims of social media or as savvy digital natives. She argues the real picture is far more ambivalent.

On the surface, she appears to have it all. If only the facade matched reality… With one year left at the International School in London, Fleur Marceaux is struggling to graduate, her love life is a mess and she can’t stop thinking about Max, her ex-boyfriend’s best friend. But all that...

Told by four women whose stories nest together, She Never Told Me About the Ocean is an epic about a rite of passage that all humans undergo and none remember: birth. Eighteen-year-old Sage has been mothering her mother for as long as she can remember and as she arrives on the shores of adulthood, she learns a secret: before she was born, she had an older brother who drowned.

Amira Brindonu has won. The man she loves has been freed from his curse, and her mother’s people have chosen to ally with their cause. Even as Amira and Daindreth celebrate victory and Thadred grows in his power as a sorcerer, trouble stirs on the horizon. Not everyone is ready to recognize the rightful heir. Vesha’s reign brought the empire peace and prosperity. Many lords and barons must be convinced if they are to swear allegiance to Daindreth. Meanwhile, Vesha seeks out greater power. In a desperate effort to protect the empire, she will make yet another deal with a fallen goddess.

Könnte Dich das interessieren? Erlebe mit Victoria und ihren tierischen Freunden atemberaubende Abenteuer im Zauberwald. Die kindgerechte Erzählweise entführen junge Hörerinnen und Hörer in eine faszinierende Welt voller Wunder und Magie. Tauche in eine zauberhafte Welt voller Abenteuer und Magie ein! "Der magische Schlüsselbund und seine tierischen Freunde: Ein geheimnisvoller Fund" ist ein fesselndes Kinderbuch, das junge Hörerinnen und Hörer ab 8 Jahren in eine aufregende Geschichte entführt.

Liverpool 1940. Viele schwierige Situationen hat Viv in ihrem Leben schon gemeistert. Bereits als Teenager wurde sie schwanger; ihre Tochter Maggie zog sie allein und unter der Fuchtel ihrer missbilligenden Eltern auf. All dies ist jedoch nichts verglichen mit der Entscheidung, die sie nun, am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs, treffen muss: Soll sie der Evakuierung ihrer heißgeliebten Tochter zustimmen? Das kleine Mädchen in die Obhut fremder Leute geben? In der festen Hoffnung, sie bald wieder in die Arme schließen zu können, schickt sie Maggie aufs Land.

A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream, her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation—the intricate system of taboos—that undergirded Southern society.

Basada en un famoso cuento de hadas e inspirada en el realismo mágico, la picaresca y el teatro bufo, el dinamismo de la obra es acentuado por el texto en verso, la vibrante coreografía y la variedad de estilos de las 19 canciones y climas originales. Deliciosamente erótica, apasionadamente romántica y ridículamente divertida, la historia se desarrolla a partir del relato del Bufón, quien nos lleva a vivir la aventura de la Princesa, las peripecias del pícaro Sapo y las desventuras de los Príncipes en su afán de libertad, placer, amor, honor, poder, odio y venganza.