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Twice I’ve been kidnapped by the fae. First were the monsters who ripped me from everything I knew and threw me in a cage. Next came the men who rescued me and offered me a safe haven. But my saviors and my former captors have something in common. A decades-old curse holds all the Seelie fae in its grasp, turning them into savage, mindless beasts with the rise of the full moon. Something in my blood cures that rage like nothing else they’ve found. I didn’t expect to find love among the fae...but I can’t deny the feelings growing inside me.

I can still hear the gunshot. Still see the blank look on Sloan’s face as he pulled the trigger. Those images beat against the inside of my skull, drowning out everything else. I can’t let my dad’s death be for nothing. No matter what it takes, I’ll make my keepers pay. The man who took everything from me. The man who shared his secret with me. The man who made me think he cared about me.

Deep in the Himalayas, the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. Agatha Farlingham is introduced to a family of motherless yetis and devotes her life to their upbringing. She teaches them to talk, tells them stories and insists on polite manners. But as time passes, tourists and yeti-hunters arrive in to the mountains. Agatha knows that there is one place where they would be protected - at her home in England. So begins a hugely entertaining road trip half way across the world...

Taoist arts master Eva Wong introduces listeners to the powerful traditional system of fengshui. It is not simply a list of directives for arranging interiors for good luck—it is the art of reading the patterns of the universe and living in harmony with the environment. Whether you are buying, renting, or renovating a home—or you want to change the atmosphere and energy of the home you are in—Wong will teach you to identify and work with the possibilities and limitations of your space.

My whole life, I’ve been groomed as American royalty, raised to be the perfect daughter of the wealthy elite. On my 16th birthday, my father bought me an Aston Martin. And on my 17th birthday, the Feds took everything away. With my father in prison for fraud and nothing left to our name, my mom and I are forced to move to a tiny house across town, and I transfer to Slateview Public. The only problem is, nearly everyone at my new school has reason to despise my family name. They want to see a princess brought low, and they’ll do whatever it takes to make me fall.

This book provides you with all the knowledge and strategies you can use to prevent, control, and lower high blood pressure - from adopting healthy lifestyle modifications and understanding dietary requirements, to using natural remedies!

The Company of Light had already made my sh*t list before they kidnapped one of my monstrous lovers. Now? I’m ready to send the whole lot of them up in flames. Especially when it turns out they may have damaged my demon sweetheart beyond repair. Trouble is, those flames aren’t playing nice. After its taste of freedom, my inner fire seems intent on having a full-on scorch party, and that includes burning me up while I’m burning down the baddies. If I’m going to get a handle on the dangerous power within me, I need to understand where it - and I - came from.

I'm the girl you'll never see coming. Blink and you're dead - another target checked off my list. But one night, everything in my carefully ordered existence falls apart. A bloodbath and a car crash later, I find myself in the grasp of four gorgeous, intimidating men. Are my captors cops, like they claim, or something far more sinister? They sure know how to bend the law. And seeing how skillfully they handle a gun or a knife, I can't help wondering what their hands would feel like all over me.

Dive into a world in which the ancient gods of Greece still rule in modern times. Thanatos meets 17-year-old Therese while she's in a coma hovering between the realm of the dead and the realm of dreams. A lucid dreamer, she takes control of her dream and kisses him, unaware that he is Death. It was his first kiss. No one, in his long existence, has ever wanted to kiss Death. After Therese awakens from her coma, Thanatos is desperate to find her. He makes a deal with Hades and goes to the Upperworld as a mortal to pursue her and to see where it might lead.

Drei Leichen auf einem abgelegenen Hof und ein tödliches Geheimnis... Ein mysteriöser Dreifachmord auf einem Bauernhof versetzt die Bewohner eines holsteinischen Dorfes in Angst. Für Pia Korittki, neue Kommissarin bei der Lübecker Mordkommission, soll dieser Fall zur Bewährungsprobe werden. Als während der Ermittlungen ein sechzehnjähriges Mädchen spurlos verschwindet, wird die Zeit knapp. Und Pia erkennt, dass sich hinter der Fassade ländlicher Wohlanständigkeit abgrundtiefer Hass und verbotene Leidenschaften verbergen.

The wealthy, powerful Snæberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set amongst the dark lava flows of Iceland’s remote Snæfellsnes peninsula. Petra Snæberg, a successful interior designer, is anxious about the event, and her troubled teenage daughter, Lea, whose social-media presence has attracted the wrong kind of followers. As the weather deteriorates and the alcohol flows, one of the guests disappears, and it becomes clear that there is a prowler lurking in the dark. But is the real danger inside...within the family itself?

The Brandenburgers were Hitler's Special Forces, a band of mainly foreign German nationals who used disguise and fluency in other languages to complete daring missions into enemy territory. Overshadowed by stories of their Allied equivalents, their history has largely been ignored. First published in 1984, de Giampietro's highly-personal and eloquent memoir is a vivid account of his experiences. In astonishing detail, he delves into the reality of life in the unit from everyday concerns and politics to training and involvement in Brandenburg missions.

Ein tödlicher Reitunfall, der keiner war; ein Skelett ohne Kopf - und rätselhafte Grablichter. Ein Fall für Pia Korittki. Bei Probebohrungen für die geplante Umgehungsstraße stößt man auf ein Skelett ohne Kopf. Im Dorf scheint niemand den Toten zu kennen, der mehr als ein Vierteljahrhundert in seinem flachen Erdgrab ruhte. Dann stellt sich der tödliche Reitunfall einer Journalistin im nahe gelegenen Wald als heimtückisch geplanter Mord heraus. Kommissarin Pia Korittki und ihr Team ermitteln mal wieder auf dem Land.

Lady Jaqueline Peabody is extremely vexed. Her nemesis, the Duke of Stone, has just ruined her life by matching her sister with a perfect gentleman. Except the gentleman in question has little in the way of income. With the family fortune in tatters, it means Jacqueline is tasked with marrying well—and must bid adieu to her dreams of a lovely spinsterhood with her pianoforte.

All Lady Victoria Kirby wants is to dig in the dirt, take notations, and record history, thank you very much. Bumbling through ballrooms and getting disdained by the ton for her less than ideal looks, on the other hand, is the last thing she wants. But her reckless father has a different idea for her future when he puts up the ultimate ante - her hand in marriage - and loses. Over her dead body.

In Fairview Heights, there’s one rule everyone knows: Don’t cross the Black Rose gang. Not if you want to live. My father broke that rule. Now, he owes the notorious Black Roses a favor, and to make sure he pays up, they’re taking me as collateral. Until Dad completes whatever job they gave him, three gang members will be my keepers. Sloan, Rory, and Levi. The boss’s son. The man with a secret. The flame from my past.

Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiance have begun to track her down.

Ein rätselhafter Mord an der Ostseeküste und ein nie geklärter Todesfall in einem Mädchenerziehungsheim... Bei einem Orientierungslauf an der Ostseeküste wird einer der Läufer aus dem Hinterhalt erschossen. War das Opfer nur zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort, oder steckt ein persönliches Motiv dahinter? Die Spur führt Pia Korittki zu einem ehemaligen Mädchenerziehungsheim, in dem vor vielen Jahren ein angeblicher "Selbstmord" nie ganz aufgeklärt wurde. Haben neben alten Freundschaften auch alte Feindschaften überdauert?

Ein blutiger Mord, dessen Aufklärung Pia Korittki an ihre Grenzen führt. In einer Hotelsuite in Umbrien wird eine junge Frau bestialisch ermordet aufgefunden. Die Spuren weisen nach Lübeck, wo die Tote vor Kurzem in eine hoch angesehene Familie eingeheiratet hat. War ihr Reisebegleiter tatsächlich ihr Ehemann? Kommissarin Pia Korittki ermittelt in Deutschland und Italien und stößt auf ein schier unglaubliches Motiv. Aber dann nimmt der Fall auch für sie selbst eine dramatische Wendung... Der fünfte Teil der erfolgreichen Krimi-Reihe von Bestsellerautorin Eva Almstädt!

The small community of Akranes is devastated after a young man dies in a mysterious house fire. When Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case. For the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.