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I’d lived on a starship long enough to value the small sounds the Fox made: the whoosh of air through vents, the bone-deep growl of lift engines, and the reassuring almost-whine that meant not only gravity, but that we were moving through subspace under power. Sound meant we were safe and all was well. Silence meant the opposite....

The stage is set for a possibly cataclysmic confrontation in non-space-and the Speaker for the Clan Council and her human mate are about to find themselves in the heart of the conflict.

The first book in Julie Czerneda's acclaimed Web Shifters series made the Nebula preliminary nomination list in 1998. Changing Vision continues the story of Esen, the last survivor of an alien race with the ability to assume the form of any creature. Now Esen must break her species' rule of non-interference - to keep interspecies tension from escalating into all-out war.

Ein irakischer Flüchtling fesselt seine Sachbearbeiterin in der Ausländerbehörde und schlägt zu. Nach einer nicht enden wollenden Zeit des Wartens in deutschen Asylunterkünften soll er abgeschoben werden. Er ist voller Wut und hat nur einen Wunsch: dass ihm endlich jemand zuhört. Und so...

This debut science fiction novel is the story of Sira--a woman on the run from the law, from her own people, and from an unknown figure determined to use her for his own ends. Her memory taken from her by a stasis block, she must stay free long enough to regain both her identity and the full use of her telepathic powers. The price of failure may not only be the loss of her own future, but that of her entire race.

They are the last survivors of their race, beings who live on and communicate through energy, who are capable of assuming the shape of any other species. When their youngest member is assigned to a world considered safe to explore, she is captured by the natives. To escape, she must violate the most important rule of her kind, and reveal the existence of her species to a fellow prisoner - a human being. Now her race is in danger of extinction, for even if the human does not betray her, the Enemy who has long searched for her people may finally discover their location.

Anne Loveday, a surgeon's daughter, is determined to live a single, useful life. To escape her matchmaking stepmother, she accepts an invitation from an old friend to return to Painswick, the place where she and her sister spent many happy summers until that last, fateful year. Soon after arriving, Anne is asked to serve as sickroom nurse to Lady Celia, who forbade her nephew to marry Anne's sister years before. Pushing aside resentments, Anne moves into Painswick Court, a shadowy old house rumored to be haunted. 

Once upon a time, a historical romance author created a family . . . But not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (not to mention an overweight corgi) plus an irrepressible matriarch who's a match for any of them . . . These are...

Sheila's life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-30s, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her neighbor's Skype calls, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows. Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory. Her only friends are her mysterious, slovenly neighbor Vinnie and his daughter Torrey, a quirky 12-year-old coping with a recent tragedy. When her grandmother Rosamond dies, Sheila inherits a box of secret love letters from Harold C. Carr - a man who is not her grandfather.

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One of History’s Most Sacred Treasures. . . An Age-Old Secret Conspiracy. . . Now the Truth Is Revealed. . . . Marco Valoni, chief of Italy’s Art Crimes Department, is convinced that a fire in the Cathedral of Turin that leaves a strangely mutilated, unidentifiable body on the scene was no...

Claves para conocer y comprender las estrategias del gigante asiático y adaptarlas a nuestro modelo para enriquecer nuestras sociedades. El mundo que conocíamos ha cambiado. Para enfrentarnos a su complejidad necesitamos nuevas perspectivas. Sin China no se puede comprender un siglo XXI en el...

Does dating feel like an endless maze with no way out? Find your person with this actionable, compassionate guide that will help you break free from the traps of modern dating and change your approach to love. As creators and hosts of the hit dating podcast Dateable, Julie Krafchick and Yue Xu...

Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, hermetic, spiritual, and Tarot-related references in many of Plath’s poems Based on more than 15 years of research, including analysis of Plath’s unpublished personal writings from the Plath archives at Indiana University Examines the...

Brought to you by Penguin. What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embraced end-of-life care and prepared for the end of our lives with hope and acceptance? In this empathetic and knowledgeable guide, TikTok star Julie McFadden – known...

Tout se joue avant 2 ans se veut d’abord et avant tout un ouvrage d’initiation et de vulgarisation aux 1000 premiers jours, où l’on s’attarde aux connaissances qui nous permettront de construire les piliers de la santé physique et mentale de demain, c’est construire un départ juste et une société prospère pour chaque enfant.

Brought to you by Penguin. World-renowned relationships experts, Dr John Gottman and Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman, bring decades of their ground-breaking research on the science of love to the urgent and timely topic of conflict. Conflict is the number one reason that couples seek help and...

Willkommen auf der Ravenhall Academy. Mit allem hätte Lilly Campbell gerechnet, aber nicht damit, dass sie eine Hexe ist: Von ihrer Grandma erfährt sie, dass uralte Magie in ihr schlummert – und um diese zu trainieren, soll sie die Ravenhall Academy besuchen. Zwischen Hexensprüchen, mystischen Legenden und sagenumwobenen Wesen muss sich Lilly nun in dieser neuen Welt zurechtfinden. Dabei gerät sie immer wieder mit dem leider viel zu attraktiven Jason aneinander, der ihr nicht mehr aus dem Kopf gehen will. Aber schon bald wird klar, dass auf Ravenhall nicht alles so ist, wie es scheint.

Un soir où il neigeait, le Gruffalo ronflait. L'enfant du Gruffalo dans son coin s'ennuyait. Elle n'avait pas peur du tout et quitta la caverne à petits pas de loup...

Sometimes you find love in the most unexpected of places... This is not one of those times. Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one...