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Kevin Peterson siente que ha perdido demasiado en la vida. Siendo el hermano mediano, Clarise, su madre, se ha centrado un poco menos en él y tal vez por ello, Kevin ha estado siempre buscando atención. Una noche, bajo las estrellas, encuentra en el mágico lago termal que pertenece a su familia a la señorita Loretta Simons. ¡Y ella está desnuda haciendo una promesa a la luna llena! Kevin no recuerda haber visto nunca a una mujer tan sensual, tan perfectamente formada como ella. De pie, con la vista fija en esa sirena que nada bajo el amparo de los rayos de luna, olvida que ellos fueron enemigos declarados.

Acción, intriga y sorpresas en la nueva historia de estos soldados destinados a enamorarse. Lady Olivia entró en un apasionante juego de espías sin haberlo esperado. Dos hombres pusieron sus atenciones sobre ella y solo uno debía ser considerado para enamorarse. Trató de ser fría, calculadora… No lo consiguió y perdió su corazón por el camino. El desengaño fue duro y cruel, y no tiene tiempo que perder porque no debe arriesgar lo que más quiere en este mundo. Así que en sus planes no entra el amor, solo se dejará guiar por la protección y el coraje para acabar con el villano que amenaza a su familia.

Harvey Peterson es el hijo menor de una americana con demasiado carácter. La antigua condesa de Lancaster, Clarise, está segura de que algo ha hecho mal con Harvey. En especial cuando se presenta ante su puerta la joven hija del vicario apuntando a su pequeño como el padre del bebé que pronto nacerá.

Apodada «la bruja de hielo», Amanda Baker era la sencilla hija de un baronet que siempre se había dado aires de grandeza. Acusada de arribista, la sociedad trató de apartarla desde su incursión. Lejos de amedrentarse, Amanda, convirtió su sublime belleza en una bendición y se hizo un hueco en las filas londinenses, pues consiguió casarse con un hombre con título y llegó a ser condesa.

Mental wellness issues are at an all-time high, and most quick-fixes fail to provide a long-term solution. While billions of dollars are spent annually on feel-better products, most exclusively target the brain and come with a slew of damaging side effects. Mental Fitness outlines the groundbreaking research on the gut-brain-heart axis to improve mood, thinking, and energy through nutrition, mindset, and movements.

Ruben is a successful salesman. Roz hates her boring admin job. Ruben owns his own home. Roz still lives with her nasty mum and dad. One is a serial killer, the other desperate to learn the trade. When high-school misfits Ruben Jones and Roz Smith's paths cross later in life, they see something in the other no one else has and they team up to form a friendship based on the one thing they have in common – murder.

A newborn dragon is forced to come to terms with his reality: his body is not made of flesh and blood—but of ice cream. No fate is worse than being a failure before birth. His future holds endless troubles and dangers—wild animals, greedy humans, and ancient secrets. What can a small mutated hatchling do? He must grow stronger.

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him. Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and is so turned off by her bad performance that he rejects her.

I’m not being paranoid. It’s all there in the crossword clues…in black and white. There’s no doubt the threat is real. Today, the answers spell out my murder. Is Nathan, my estranged crossword-setter husband, really planning to kill me? Or is it someone closer to home? I check the door is bolted, slither to the ground, and count down the seconds to noon. There’s nothing left to do, and no one I can call.

Mangoshi lives with her mum and dad in a village near the forest. When her mum becomes ill, Mangoshi knows only one thing can help her - a special flower that grows deep in the forest. The little girl needs all her courage when she sets out alone to find and bring back the flower and all her kindness to overpower the dangers she encounters on the quest.

All is quiet in the seaside town of Bywater-by-Sea - that is until a meteorite falls to earth, landing in the middle of the Field Craft troop's camp. Now it's not just Tom with strange powers: Trouble-maker Jacob can set things on fire and sensible Eric has the power to put them out. What's more, the excavation has uncovered a glittering rock, and the dust is making Bywater-by-Sea even more eccentric than usual.

We live in an age when things that would once have seemed miraculous are starting to seem mundane - even if they still sometimes bring with them profound implications... In The Weightless World, Anthony Trevelyan weaves a story of deep-rooted humanity, jam-packed with unforgettable characters - and, at its core, an account of friendship, love and loss which will touch your heart.

Just when Inspector Daniel Jouma believes calm has returned to Mombasa, all hell breaks loose. Bodies are piling up in the morgue and Jouma's new boss wants answers. Meanwhile, Jake Moore faces up to the might of Kenya's most ruthless - and dangerous - property developer. Then a chilling secret, long thought to be buried, brings the crime-busting duo together once again.

Torn from his father and a loving sister, the young student Zuba is imprisoned for a crime he has not even thought about committing. His misfortune: to live in a world where corruption is rife and honest and law-abiding people are crushed by the wheels of a blind, unscrupulous bureaucracy. What seems at first to be an irksome judiciary misunderstanding gradually becomes a journey through the hell of Nigerian prisons.

Charlie will do anything to keep Beverly away from drugs and on the straight and narrow. So his arrangement with Lennie Slaughter seems to be the ideal solution: Charlie robs the houses, and with the proceeds, Lennie makes sure Beverly has the best treatment money can buy. But at what cost?

One unforgettable night in 1785, in a theatre in Drury Lane, the heady alchemy of love and murder suddenly fuses the lives of Mimosina Dolcezza, a Venetian actress, and Valentine Greatrakes, prince of London's medical underworld. The Remedy is a ravishing love story that seamlessly weaves fiction with historical fact in rich and detailed prose.

Welcome back to Mighty High, the school for superheroes. Stan and his friends are so busy preparing for their heroes exams and having flying lessons that no one seems to realise that Miles has been abducted by aliens! Can fully-fledged superhero Captain Courageous lend a hand or will their fates be decided by a piece of bionic bubble gum?

Ex-Flying Squad cop Jake Moore's career was cut short by a bullet; ten years on, he runs a game fishing business that is about to go to the wall. But old habits die hard, and when cerebral Mombasa detective Daniel Jouma - seemingly the only good policeman in a city where corruption is king -...

He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective, and some people take this more literally than others. For example, the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy yet shadowy client. And so begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all....

Matt Hunter lost his faith a long time ago. Formerly a minister, now a professor of sociology, he’s writing a book that debunks the Christian faith while assisting the police with religiously motivated crimes. On holiday with his family in Oxfordshire, Matt finds himself on edge in a seemingly idyllic village, but when a local girl goes missing, he's caught up in an investigation that brings memories to the surface he would prefer to stay buried deep…He must draw on his theological knowledge to catch the killer.