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She’s chasing gold. He’s chasing forgiveness. The Winter Olympics heat up as two comeback stories collide. Quinn Albright was America’s figure skating darling until a humiliating Olympic performance splashed her across every headline. Now she’s back, stronger than ever, ready to claim...

It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who’s run away...

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Max doesn't see wraiths . . . but he does. After a near-death experience with the plague, memories of Max's mere and pere haunt him. He can't sleep, can't rest. When his aunt Serafina dies, he must come face-to-face with the truth—and the family—he's been avoiding for years. Meanwhile in Letum Wood, the sisterwitches are struggling. After Mam's death years before, tension has driven them apart. Only hard work, sacrifice, and vulnerable determination can pull them back together. Unfortunately, Sanna's worst nightmare comes to pass. Poachers from the Southern Network have taken Luteis.

Remy Dauphin is ready to start over. But starting over isn't as easy as he thought. When he returns home from working abroad, problems abound. His older brother, Claude, is a drunk lech. His parents are aging rapidly, and there's a question of inheritance, employment, and old wounds. Not to mention the insistent grimoire hounding him for attention. Disaster strikes, and Remy's world grinds to a halt. He's left standing in the ashes with one thing: a magical manor. New love, new family, and new life await Remy. Wildrose is the answer, but no good magic stands alone.

Maximillion Sinclair is certain of exactly one thing: he wants to tell Isadora how much she means to him. Execution is not as simple as desire. Can he overcome the battles in his own mind to convey his deepest adoration? War between witches and dragons appears inevitable—unless Sanna can get rid of an infamous and sneaky black market witch named Casandra. When Casandra elevates her efforts against dragons to endanger one Sanna loves, all the safety she's created begins to crumble. Taxes, Wildrose, and Maximillion keep Isadora racing from one thing to the next. Everything is fine.

Isadora has harbored a secret dream for years: she longs to work for the education office. Finally, her wish has manifested. Sort of. Intrigue at the castle sets Isadora and her Watcher magic on an expected path. Sanna's new friend, Damien, isn't what she expected. When they're forced to work together to save the forest and mountain dragons from starvation, Sanna has her own lessons to learn about what she really wants. Max is growing older, but that doesn't mean he's ready to retire. Right? He needs a break, not to forsake his career. Then again, maybe the High Priestess is right.

When Council Member hopeful Ronald Torkelson attacks Isadora and all Watchers, she decides it's time to take a stand. Unfortunately, not everything is what it seems with Ronald, she finds herself in over her head. Meanwhile, Maximillion struggles to find convincing proof against Ronald, nor any hint as to who he is behind the mask. When Isadora is taken hostage, he has to rely on those he loves to help him find his wife. Sanna is more than ready to have her own space, but she didn't realize that home building had so many options—and required so much currency!

Isadora Spence knows one thing for certain: she loves Maximillion Sinclair. When Max sweeps her to Wildrose Manor as his wife, she quickly realizes that not all is as it seems. She's forced to ask the most frightening question of all: Is love enough? When Isadora requests three months to decide whether to stay handfasted, Max immediately agrees. He adores Isadora, but saying the words isn't easy. His admittance would require something he's not ready to give. If he doesn't tell her that he loves her, will Isadora stay?

After years of struggle and heartbreak, Isadora Sinclair straps firm walls around her heart. She can endure no more. When a mystery illness falls on the Central Network, she stops using the paths and falls to work. Ambassador Maximillion has his hands full. Not only are witches dying left and right, but Network leaders are hiding in fear. Saving the Central Network is up to him, a Potionmaker named Toni, and his adopted son Ean. Can he keep himself healthy to save his witches?

If there's one thing that could draw Sanna into the dangerous dark heart of Letum Wood, a dragon is that thing. Sanna and her dragons take their lives into their hands and trail a mystery into the deepest recesses of the forest. What they find is not what any of them expected. Greater explorations require Sanna to part from her favorite beasts and head into the unknown alone. Meanwhile, Almorran magic presents to Isadora in a rather unexpected form, requiring Caroline, Baylee, Isadora, and the magical detection team to join together and discover what to expect next.

Charlie has always brought magic and mayhem to Maximillion's life, but when Torr is taken captive by a rival Western Network tribes, things are about to get even more exciting for the two beloved brothers. Meanwhile, the long-lost sea dragon Mushi whisks Sanna to the Eastern Network, embroiling her in the war between sea dragons and mermaids. Can Sanna assist the sea dragon's survival? Or will her interference create more problems? When Isadora receives The Complete History of Watcher and Defender magic, she can't wait to sit down and read.

Maximillion Sinclair isn't pleased about the threat burned into sand dunes along the Borderlands, but he's even less pleased with who wrote them. When a nemesis from years ago threatens the Central Network again, he's ready to keep his beloved home from utter destruction. Isadora is prepared to have a child. Anytime now would be great, in fact. From midwives to crib placement, she's ready to go. Until life sends a twist her way she didn't expect. Meanwhile, Sanna is blissfully happy taking care of a new baby dragon.

Sanna Spence can cast spells, chop vegetables, and manage herself, thank you very much. Well, for the most part. After months of magical training and practice, she thinks she's ready to live on her own as a blind witch in Letum Wood. When she realizes she's not there yet, it's time to do something big. Live in the Network. With her mentor Gilbert at her side, what could go wrong? Her sister, Isadora Sinclair, is determined to find a job. How hard could it be? Seamstress, baker, librarian. There has to be something in the Central Network she can do.

Paris, 1940. With its cheerful, pink-painted walls, St Agnes Orphanage is the only place that Lucie has ever felt truly safe. Fleeing the German occupation of Paris broke her heart, so when she is separated from her sisters on the road, she makes the terrifying decision to return. The orphanage is unrecognisable – the walls painted stark white, the ivy and wisteria that once clambered over them cruelly destroyed. Lucie's heart stops when she sees the red and black Nazi flags hanging from the windows. She'd dreamt of the warmth of St Agnes every night, but her home has new owners.

It's Christmas time in New York City! The city is adorned in all its glitter and glory. The air is filled with the electric excitement that only this time of the year can bring. Meet Katie Slade, a lovely & savvy native New Yorker frustrated full-time employee, determined entrepreneur, who thinks she has just met the man of her dreams. Meet Mr. GQ, the successful business hottie that sweeps Katie off her feet. He's a spiritually grounded, self-made man, who is sophisticated, handsome and very generous.

Aristotle "Aris" Thibodeau is 12 and a half years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father's death, however, she's been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother Diane's floundering love life and dubious commitment to her job as an English professor, not to mention coparenting a little brother who hogs all the therapy money. Luckily Aris has a plan. Following the advice laid out in Write a Novel in Thirty Days!, she sets out to pen a best seller using her charmingly dysfunctional family as material.

The 1000 essential Russian words. The russian language is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and the largest native language in Europe, with 144 million speakers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers and the seventh by total number of speakers. Around 270 million people are learning russian at school as a second language. How to learn a language differently? Today, language learning is revolutionized: you do not have to go to traditional language classes anymore. Our learning method: a selection of hundreds of phrases and essential words.

Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

You're never too young to start! In Escape the Rat Race, you’ll find out: How "working to learn, not to earn" paves the way to money-making opportunities. The basics of making money by creating assets. How to make money work hard for you, so that you don't have to work so hard for money.