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Is love possible in the Viagra generation? Divorced for 30 years, Anny has given up on love and concentrates on her career. She is looking for controversy and hopes that her column will bring her fame and fortune. On a date, Anny meets and interviews Marv Rothstein, a handsome, 75-year-old, emotionally unavailable diamond dealer. Anny is attracted to Marv, and they become involved in a torrid affair. But very soon, Anny discovers that the elusive Marv is a serial dater prowling the singles sites for younger women.

Libby Sawyer and her father return from summer vacation to find another family living in their home. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family all the way from Romania to stake a decades-old claim on their house, and he has no plans to leave. As a contentious legal battle drags on, Libby finds herself drawn to Michael and his mysterious past. But she’ll soon have to choose between her family and a man with decidedly unclear intentions.

This is the tale of Demon Copperhead: our hero. A boy with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-coloured hair, bucket-loads of charm and a talent or two the world is yet to discover. Born to a teenaged single mother in a single wide trailer, life is not set fair for Demon as he escorts us on this, his journey through the modern perils of foster care, athletic success and addiction, the dizzying highs of true love, and the crushing losses that can accompany it.

In her compelling and intimate portrait, presidential historian Barbara A. Perry captures Rose Kennedy’s essential contributions to the incomparable Kennedy dynasty. This biography - the first to draw on an invaluable cache of Rose’s newly released diaries and letters - unearths the complexities behind the impeccable persona she showed the world. The woman who emerges is a fascinating character: savvy about her family’s reputation and resilient enough to persevere through the unfathomable tragedies that befell her.

On a hot summer’s day in 1880 the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt’s house in Hampshire. It is her seventeenth birthday and no one remembers it except for Thomas, the gardener’s boy. Later she is driven to Winchester and has an unpleasant encounter with two raucous gentlemen in the local tavern before going on to fit her first ball gown that her aunt has given her the money for just before she died. But who is the lovely masked woman she glimpses in the mirror at the dressmakers, a glorious vision clad in rose-pink silk?

India, 1922. In Panikhat, 50 miles from Calcutta, the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and always in March. All the deaths are bizarre and seem accidental. The only link between them is the small red roses that mysteriously appear on the women’s graves on the anniversaries of their deaths. The first victim perished in a fire, the second was bitten by a cobra, another was thrown off her horse into a ravine, while the fourth drowned.

Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them! Rose is rich and pretty, and she suspects many of these suitors are more interested in her wealth than her dreams. But she is determined to live her own life and find her own love, despite the many plans of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Louisa May Alcott wrote this delightful sequel to Eight Cousins at the request of her many fans.

The future stretches out in front of Sarah Dobbs like the pure blue Texas sky. Leaving the past behind in Philadelphia, mail-order-bride Sarah arrives in San Antonio ready to greet her groom, Austin Canfield, a man she has never met but whose letters have won her heart from afar. But there is one problem - he has died. And Sarah cannot go back East.

Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third instalment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where he's being held for murder.

In this second thrilling instalment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what's inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.

Lizbeth Rose is awaiting the arrival of her sister Felicia and her husband's younger brother Eli in Texoma. Both needed to leave the seat of the Holy Russian Empire in San Diego after Felicia's burgeoning wizardly power in death magic became the reason for kidnapping and assassination attempts from her mother's family of high-powered wizards in Mexico. Yet bad news has travelled ahead of them, as Eli is called back to San Diego, taking Peter along with him, splitting them apart in more ways than one as their enemies' plans for revenge come to fruition.

From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination. These moving accounts of the first decade of the civil rights movement are a tribute to the people, black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and the struggle they endured.

The Great War is over, but Marabel's father still has not come home. Soon to graduate from her mother's School for White-Blouse Professions in London, Marabel misses him dearly. Otherwise her ambition is to become a country postmistress, where she need not deal with other people. Then the King sends her on a quest. Her mother gives her a magic heirloom and Marabel—dragging her 10-year-old brother Thomas with her—flies through time and space to retrieve the soldier who won the Great War's greatest medal. She is to bring him to a royal celebration at Stonehenge—in only two weeks!

When Allison Mack's boyfriend and his family are killed in a car wreck, she suspects that her life will never be the same. She knows it for sure when her dead boyfriend comes to visit her on her sixteenth birthday. He warns her to beware of Under Places and then disappears again, only to reappear later. Is she losing her mind, or is something supernatural going on? Ally finds out something startling about her own family. They are all in terrible danger, and she might be the only one who can save them...

Mission in der Tiefsee. Ein neuer Auftrag für die Tierflüsterer: Die Wesen im Nachtblauen Meer brauchen ihre Hilfe. Chuck, Coco, Paul, Enisa, Amy und Mohit lernen Segeln und Tauchen. In der neuen Umgebung beweisen sie Mut und Geschick: Sie schwimmen mit Haien, retten Schildkröten und treffen in der dunklen Tiefe auf fantastische Meerwesen, die sie in eine andere Welt entführen. Doch die Tierflüsterer sind nicht die einzigen Besucher unter Wasser.

Hörst du das Flüstern? - Komm mit auf eine Reise ins Unbekannte! Whisperworld! Jedes Kind hat schon von diesem Land gehört - es liegt am Ende der Welt, unberührt und ungestört. Dort leben vom Aussterben bedrohte Tierarten und geheimnisvolle Fabelwesen. Fünf Kinder wurden von Doktor Noa auserwählt und beginnen ein neues Leben als Tierflüsterer. In Whisperworld lernen Coco, Chuck, Amy, Mohit und Paul den Umgang mit den Tieren, Fabelwesen und der Natur.

In einem Land am Ende der Welt... Whisperworld! Jedes Kind hat schon von diesem Land gehört – es liegt am Ende der Welt, unberührt und ungestört. Dort leben vom Aussterben bedrohte Tierarten und geheimnisvolle Fabelwesen. Die angehenden Tierflüsterer Amy, Chuck, Mohit, Paul und Coco fliehen überstürzt aus dem Deepwood. Eine Karte von Whisperworld wurde gestohlen und verrät ihren Aufenthaltsort. Ihr neues Ziel: die Wüste Sablo Diablo. Dort lernen sie ein neues Teammitglied kennen und stoßen auf ein Rätsel. Der große Salzsee ist fast ausgetrocknet.

A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim's fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes unit to help investigate, can't shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this apparent crime of passion. In the depths of an icy winter, Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde - both haunted by their time in Iraq - descend into the world of a savage gang of rail riders.

Freddy hat sich gut auf der Geisterschule eingelebt und freut sich auf das große Spektakel: das Blutrote Schulfest! Alle Schüler basteln sich die wildesten Kostüme. Und auch die große Schlacht um den Schlamm-Pokal wirft ihre Schatten voraus. Es scheint jedoch, als wolle der fiese Mr Midget den Wettbewerb sabotieren! Freddy und seine Freunde müssen seine Machenschaften aufdecken, bevor es zu spät ist. Denn Mr Midget setzt sogar Blutsauger gegen die Menschenschüler ein und bringt sie so in ernste Gefahr.

Becky und Hugo haben den verzauberten Schlüssel zur magischen Welt gefunden. Doch bevor sie ihre Reise dorthin antreten, taucht in Glimmerias Kristallkugel eine uralte Prophezeiung auf, die offenbar Becky gilt. Nachdem sich die Freund*innen in die magische Welt des Buches der Bücher hineingelesen haben, begegnen ihnen dort viele fantastische Wesen. Noch immer hält die böse Königin Glimmeria und die Buxies im Verlies gefangen. Aber sie scheint sich vor der uralten Prophezeiung zu fürchten.