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Getting caught in the middle of a jewelry heist was not on Charlotte Silva's plans for the day. Nor was being taken hostage with sexy lawyer, Andrew Thayer. Lucky for Charlotte, the ex-soldier helps her escape but not without consequences. Drew Thayer has one job to do. Hide out in a remote Vermont cabin protecting the pampered heiress from killer jewel thieves hot on their trail. But Charlotte isn't the spoiled princess she projects, and the desire she inspires shocks him.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is the easy part. Boston cop, Keith Cho, discovers coming to grips with his partner’s death requires a different sort of medicine. He’ll start a cross country road trip with seeing his partner’s sister, Samantha Bates. Sam can’t hide the injuries or the backpack she’s hauling as she hikes away from town. Fleeing from her abusive ex-boyfriend is key. When she and Keith reconnect on a back country road, he insists she come with him.

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Kari O’Driscoll was taught that strength and stoicism were one and the same. She was also taught that a girl’s job was to take care of everyone else. For decades, she believed these ideas, doing everything she could to try and keep the remaining parts of her family together, systematically anticipating disaster and fixing catastrophes one by one. Truth Has a Different Shape is one woman’s meditation on how societal and familial expectations of mothering influenced her sense of self and purpose, as well as her ideas about caretaking.

Alles, wovon ich je geträumt hatte, könnte mein sein. Alles, was ich dafür tun muss, ist Ja zu sagen. Ja zu dieser Lüge. Ja zu diesem Mann. Ellie Cox kann ihr Glück kaum fassen, als sie auf der Fashion Week in Mailand kurzfristig als Stylistin für Sänger Roan engagiert wird. Einmal zum festen Stylist:innen-Team eines Brand Ambassadors zu gehören, war schon immer ihr großer Traum. Nur Caleb Lee, der verschlossene (und viel zu attraktive) Manager des Teams, ist wenig begeistert von Ellie und dem Chaos, das durch sie entsteht.

Ein letztes Mal frei sein! In einem exklusiven Nachtclub in London will Prinzessin Cressida sich von ihrem Leben fern aller höfischen Verpflichtungen verabschieden. Denn auf Drängen ihres Vaters heiratet sie Scheich Khalil von Zayyar, wird Königin in dem fernen Wüstenreich: ein royaler Geschäftsdeal ohne Liebe. Aber ausgerechnet an diesem Abend im Club begegnet die schüchterne Cressida einem Mann, der ein verbotenes Verlangen in ihr weckt. Erst tanzt er mit ihr, dann küsst er sie sinnlich. Sie ahnt nicht, wer dieser feurige Fremde ist.

A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2024 A blend of mindset science, original research, and cultural insights for cultivating a positive “wintertime mindset,” to vanquish winter blues and find joy and comfort in dark times year-round. Do you dread the end of Daylight Saving Time and...

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybrook. When a mysterious accident befalls a member of the all-star high school football team, the town's deadly history stands to repeat itself—and the price of discovering the truth is higher than...

This essential audiobook is a rallying cry for women to recognize and reject the ways social media is being weaponized against us — and instead wield it to empower ourselves. In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is...

Mörderisches Sylt. Sylt 1923. Kriminalinspektor Niklas Asmus wird auf die Insel versetzt. Dort empfängt man ihn nicht gerade mit offenen Armen. Und ein Hort des Friedens scheint Sylt auch nicht zu sein. An dem Tod eines Landstreichers zeigt sich die örtliche Polizei allerdings wenig interessiert, und als auf einer Werft ein Anschlag verübt wird, beginnt lediglich Asmus Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dann jedoch findet man einen Toten an Sylts wichtigstem Bauwerk - an dem umstrittenen Damm, der die Insel mit dem Festland verbinden soll.

Der Tote von Sylt. Vogelkojen zum Zweck des Entenfangs zu betreiben lohnt sich im Jahr 1924 nicht mehr: Die Zahl der einfliegenden Enten hat rapide abgenommen. Niklas Asmus, zum Schutzmann auf Sylt degradiert, und seine Verlobte Ose kämpfen im Stillen um ihren Erhalt. Als sie einen Toten in einem Abendanzug in einer der Fallen entdecken, begreifen sie, dass selbst die Vogelkojen das Interesse von skrupellosen Investoren gefunden haben.

Some relationships haunt you forever... "I inhaled this in one obsessive gulp."—Laura Steven, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates Maya has always belonged to Alana. After four years of dating, and on the precipice of graduating high school, Maya has been too terrified to...

A manual for every woman who wants to stop endless negative self-talk, create unshakable confidence, and jump-start a life of joy and power. It all begins with your thoughts. I never look good in tight skirts. I can’t ask for a raise or my boss will think I’m greedy. I’m getting too old to...

Now including a new afterword! An instant New York Times bestseller from award-winning journalist Kara Swisher, Burn Book is a “highly readable…bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking” (Booklist, starred review) account of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change...

Trapped in the nightmare of Miami’s illicit underworld, Meg O’Hara has no choice but work for a high-stakes criminal to repay a debt. Freedom is a pipe dream, until FBI agent Christopher Shaunessy offers her a way out. It won’t be easy, especially playing the role of lover to the charismatic agent. Getting the goods on her boss could mean her life, a risk she’ll take to be rid of the rat’s vulgar advances.

FBI agent Jack Holland courted a death wish falling for Callie Lansing. Her friendship with Angelo Cabrini, son of a New Jersey mob boss, was not what it seemed. But Angelo’s death at the hands of Jack, even in self-defense, had disastrous consequences: Jack, now a wanted man and Callie, raising their son alone.

Scott Holland’s mill renovation project can’t succeed without Heather Silva’s backing. But the memory of his one-night stand with the business heiress won’t leave him alone, no matter how much trouble it causes. And, just as predicted, that trouble starts the minute they ink the deal.

Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland—the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that remote island in the Middle Ages. These are tales of blood feuds, of dangerous women and people who are compelled to kill the ones they love the most. The sagas are among the greatest stories ever written, but the identity of their authors is largely unknown. Together, Fidler and Gíslason travel across Iceland, to the places where the sagas unfolded a thousand years ago.

Zwischen uns waren noch immer ganze Galaxien aus glitzernden Sternen, die meine Welt in ein glimmendes Licht tauchten. Drei Jahre ist es her, dass Jade Hyun-Joon zum letzten Mal gesehen hat. Drei Jahre, in denen sie versucht hat, ihn und ihre gemeinsame Zeit zu vergessen. Doch Südkorea lässt sie nicht mehr los, und sie kehrt für einen Job am Kunstinstitut zurück nach Seoul. Aber gerade als sie glaubt, endlich loslassen und noch einmal von vorn anfangen zu können, hat das Schicksal ganz andere Pläne mit ihr.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In “one of the most important athlete memoirs of its generation” (Kate Fagan, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running. Kara Goucher...

Cobalt Red is the searing first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt.