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Lily Connor has focused all her energy into becoming a successful wedding planner, and after five years, she's on the precipice of taking on more responsibility at Southerland Wedding Company. When the chance finally presents itself, it comes with a complication she couldn't have dreamt up in her worst nightmares. With the bride and groom away for a month, Lily needs to work with the bride's best friend, Bennett Burke, a woman she never thought she'd see again.

Three… Two… One… BOO! Isla Walsh is a prankster, and her favorite person to pull one over on has to be her principal, Andry Murphey. But Isla isn't all fun and games, and her sixth-grade students will attest to that. Behind every prank Isla plays hides a secret she hasn't shared since she...

Sarah Brennan is a hockey player in the new professional women's league, but it's her mind she wants to exercise when she enrolls in a university class on Irish literature. Professor Claire Joyce is no fan of pro athletes, especially after a failed marriage to one. Unfortunately her ten-year-old daughter adores hockey, and her idol happens to be none other than Sarah Brennan. Falling in love with someone who barely tolerates sports and athletes finally forces Sarah, at thirty-six, to admit that her career is in overtime, and to consider what life might look like after hockey.

Zoey McCarren goes by many labels: keyboard player, fashion industry darling—but she is not a lesbian. As the only not-queer woman in the infamously queer band, The Shrikes, she spends an exhausting amount of time resisting that title. In fact, she's spent so much time being the not-lesbian that it would be a cliche if she ever did find herself attracted to a woman. Luckily, she's too busy focusing on her career to date at all.

Domino Rush can't write a song. Every time she tries, nothing comes out. Her band, The Shrikes, had a hugely successful first album, but writing the follow up is way too much pressure. Adding to the pressure? Her entire band is depending on her. But Domino has never been one for responsibility. So, instead of writing, she surfs, drinks, and finds pretty women to keep her company.

Die DDR in den 1970-er-Jahren. Edgar W., 17, einst Musterschüler und Sohn einer systemtreuen Abteilungsleiterin, steigt aus. Er schmeißt die Lehre, geht nach Berlin, um Maler zu werden, verliebt sich heftig in die bereits verlobte Kindergärtnerin Charlie - und kommt schließlich in einer Berliner Gartenlaube durch einen Stromschlag ums Leben. Witzig, traurig und regimekritisch wird die Story abwechselnd aus Edgars posthumer Perspektive und der Befragung seiner engsten Hinterbliebenen erzählt.

Un editore rifiuta il romanzo di uno scrittore: niente di male, se editore e scrittore non fossero anche amici per la pelle e testimoni di nozze dei rispettivi matrimoni; un esordiente viene tenuto a battesimo da un importante critico letterario: tutto bene, se l’esordiente non frequentasse l’ex moglie del critico; una scrittrice di Romanzi rosa va a letto con il suo agente letterario: ammissibile, se scrittrice e agente non si incontrassero a colazione proprio con il marito di lei, un onesto lavoratore nel ramo della fibra ottica senza alcuna propensione per l’arte.

Stiamo attraversando un periodo storico che è contraddistinto da una grande quantità di cambiamenti che avvengono in tempi molto brevi, due bambini su tre fra quelli che ora iniziano la scuola primaria, faranno in futuro un lavoro che oggi non esiste. La marcia dell’intelligenza artificiale sta avvenendo con un’accelerazione impetuosa. Che fine farà il lavoro degli esseri umani? Lasceremo tutto ai robot? Il processo tecnologico dà le vertigini, in un Pianeta sempre più sterile e sovrappopolato. INDUSTRY 4.0, la quarta rivoluzione industriale, il cambio dei paradigmi.

When immaculate CEO Cassandra Wynter is blindsided by the fiery and fearless Nadine James at a high-profile media event, the tension between them is electric. Cassandra, known for her control and icy demeanor, can't stand how Nadine's boldness challenges her carefully built empire. But after a heated exchange, they're thrust into close quarters with more than just business on the line. As rivalry turns to something far more personal, can these two driven women resist the pull of their undeniable chemistry?

Life under a microscope is stifling for anyone, but for Grace Easton, the world's most recognizable pop superstar who has both feet firmly cemented in the closet, it's particularly hellish. After walking away from the love of her life five years ago because she wasn't ready to come out, she's become a master of smiling for the cameras that hound her every step to hide the fact that she's miserable.

Working as a chef aboard a private yacht might not seem like a vacation for most people, but to Lauren Murphy, a highly-regarded sous chef at a top New York restaurant, the opportunity to spend seventeen days in the Virgin Islands, sailing from one tropical location to the next, while having complete freedom to create her own menus is a dream come true. Enter Grey Wells, the owner and captain of the Veritas, and the most complicated person Lauren has ever met.

A company buy-out. An arch nemesis returns. A crush that never went away. Wil thought she had the world ahead of her—eight years of experience in her job, her temper under control and working for her, and a manager who understood her. All Wil's fears tumble out when her best friend's stepmom...

Ellie Beckett's life is simple and uncomplicated; she's on track to become a leading expert in biomedical engineering, she has a pub where she feels comfortable enough to hang out multiple times a week, and so what if she doesn't have time for . . . people? She doesn't need or want them. Until she meets Mia Sharpe. As it turns out, maybe Ellie does want at least one person.

Jess Miller is a focused, driven high school senior whose only goal is to get into the strict Christian college that her late mother attended. But when another student gets picked for early admission instead of her, she can see her dream slipping away. With only two months left until winter break, Jess gets one final chance to prove herself to the board of admissions by doing a volunteer project at the local rehab center. 

Emerson Riis has a job she loves, friends she considers family, and her goofy malamute Sasha for company. As far as she's concerned, life in the small town of Mystic is pretty much perfect. Enter Mari Davenport, a Hollywood screenwriter with a dozen blockbusters to her name, who arrives in a car that is completely unfit for the north woods of Minnesota.

On the surface, Victoria Jackson is the American Dream personified: from a troubled childhood and unfinished high school education, she overcame immeasurable odds to create a cosmetics empire valued at more than half a billion dollars. Married to Bill Guthy — self-made principal of infomercial...

In When the Goddess Wakes, the final book of the Ring-Sworn trilogy, Howard Andrew Jones returns to the five realms of the Dendressi to conclude his heroic, adventure-filled epic fantasy trilogy. The Naor hordes have been driven from the walls, but the Dendressi forces are scattered and...

“A fast-paced adventure combined with an engrossing mystery, all set in a unique and original fantasy world. I can't wait to find out what happens next!” ―Martha Wells, Hugo-award winning author In this sequel to For the Killing of Kings, Howard Andrew Jones returns to the Nine Realms of...

Howard Andrew Jones' powerful world-building brings this epic fantasy to life in For The Killing of Kings, the first book of his new adventure-filled trilogy. Their peace was a fragile thing, but it had endured for seven years, mostly because the people of Darassus and the king of the Naor...

Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door that countless others walked through. No other musician has better embodied the 'nothing-to-hide' rawness of punk, nor has any other done more to nurture a place in society for misfits of every stripe.