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Graduate student Wendy Zemansky was hoping for a normal semester at an isolated university in upstate New York. Since coming off disability and starting medication for bipolar disorder, Wendy longs to feel like a “real” functioning adult, a respected colleague in her writing program. But when her roommate goes missing, Wendy plunges into an investigation that is roadblocked by vainglorious professors, specious doctors, and dubious friends.

Interplanetary trade can be sexy. Our Commerce Union needed their Feelinite; the leaders of this planet wanted our help and were willing to trade for it. Fortunately, their leaders are all women, and they needed my help in dealing with their males. That's something I know about, both as a marine and a woman. Seeing how these guys are extremely well-hung, it's an assignment I can throw myself into with some enthusiasm.

Lindie Wyse thinks an arranged marriage is the only way to preserve a future for herself and her unborn child. Josiah Plank is certain he’ll never love again, but he needs someone to care for his deaf eight-year-old daughter, Hannah. The two take on their arrangement tentatively at first but soon realize they are each in for more than they imagined.

V. C. Andrews and the secret life of girls.

Es ist der 1. Dezember, bald ist Weihnachten und Conni freut sich schon sehr auf das Fest. Doch bis dahin gibt es noch jede Menge zu tun: die Krippe aufstellen, den Adventskranz binden, Stiefel putzen, den Wunschzettel schreiben, am Barbaratag Zweige schneiden und aufstellen... Jeder Dezembertag ist etwas ganz Besonderes für Conni! Aber warum verhalten sich Anna und Billi so komisch? Und wo, verflixt noch mal, hat sich eigentlich der kleine Engel aus der Krippe versteckt.

Muscle weakness has left Grace Wagler with a broken body - and her childhood best friend has left her with a broken heart. She can hold her own in the timber camp (and do everything else the other women in Badger Creek can do), but in an Amish district where women outnumber men three to one, marriage is an unlikely prospect for a girl with bad legs. Ben Eicher just arrived in Michigan from Pinecraft, Florida. When his most recent shenanigans proved too much for his daed’s patience, Ben was sent to the Upper Peninsula to work in the lumber camp.

Die Fortsetzung des Weltbestsellers Letters of Note! Shaun Usher hat erneut in den Archiven der Welt recherchiert und unglaubliche Briefe ans Tageslicht befördert: Ergreifende Liebesbriefe, hochkomische Korrespondenzen oder auch völlig skurrile Schriftstücke. Mit Briefen von Slyvia Plath, Eric Idle, Jane Austen, Kathrine Mansfield, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thomposon, J.K. Rowling, Raymond Chandler, Lionel Feuchtwanger, Richard Burton, Noel Coward, Marge Simpson, David Bowie.

When my sister and her husband die tragically in a car accident I become an insta-father, inheriting my three-year-old niece overnight. The problem is I'm a Spanish billionaire. Business, luxury, and caviar company is all I know. What am I supposed to do with a little girl? My answer, it seems, comes in the form of one very blonde and curvaceous Australian. She's a live-in nanny with a sterling track-record and the ability to work magic with kids. She's exactly what Amalia needs.

In 1997, Eve Foster’s daughter, Kelsey, runs away to New Mexico and vanishes without a trace. Eve is convinced that she’s the victim of a serial killer who’s been hunting women in the region, but Kelsey’s body is never found. Years later, Eve dies, leaving everything to her adopted twin daughters. The majority of the wealthy estate in Vermont goes to Lisa, the “good daughter,” while Connie inherits only a small stipend and a property in New Mexico. Connie arrives in New Mexico to find a small dilapidated red house in the desert and the home’s mysterious caretaker.

A struggling actress' life gets turned upside down when she witnesses the burial of an urn in her yard. She gets entangled with the "dead girl", a Latina health guru, and her criminal antics from Miami to New York to LA.

Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband, Leo, and their five-year-old son, Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where.

A billionaire playboy and the most eligible bachelor in the city, Axel thought he had it all… until he met Chastity. When their paths cross, all bets are off. It’s an instant attraction. Chastity is young, sweet, sassy, and refreshingly curvaceous. Her drive and honesty intrigue him, and he soon finds that one taste will never be enough. But life’s a bitch, and Chastity is his best friend’s daughter.

For Joel and Stella, it’s the trip they’ve been dreaming about. Fresh air, quiet time in the woods, and no work to distract them from each other. Being a new couple, they don’t waste any time with their first full weekend away together. But their perfect getaway turns into a nightmare when an accident occurs and they find a dead woman lying outside their cabin. Clearly, they have to call the police, but what Joel reveals to Stella makes her understand there’s no way they can get the authorities involved.

When the university calls and asks Rosemary to fill in for a fellow history professor who didn’t show up to work, she would never dream that she’s just about to stumble into investigating a sinister mystery—or that the case will take her, along with Jack, Charlie, and Seth, to the outskirts of town where the Forgotten Village, a relic of Colonial America, still haunts the woods.

Actress and voiceover artist Samantha Matthews offers - in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times best-selling author (and Matthews' cousin once removed) David Shields - a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history.

My life’s pointless. I was going to Penn before my parents got divorced and stopped paying my tuition. Now I’m back at Big-Mart. The only positive in my life is Charlotte, my hot girlfriend. Although, if I’m being honest, it’s not going so well.

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she's a Loyalist sympathizer who betrayed her husband to the British-quite a tidy way to end her disastrous marriage, the village gossips whisper.

Rosemary Grey, who’s just getting settled into the charming town of Paperwick, Connecticut, is looking forward to the holiday season. She’ll be moving into her snug cottage at Jack and Charlie’s farm—so she’ll have her best friends right next door, and she’s loving her new job as a history professor at Paperwick University. The fact that she sees the shy Professor Seth McGuire on campus might have a little something to do with the smile on her face and the spring in her step. But Rosemary soon discovers that the cozy, tucked-away village, has a longstanding mystery in its midst.

Space pirates are bad news, right? But what if they are smoking hot and you find out that any physical contact sets your body on fire - and theirs too? Sal and Donna think the blue males who boarded their ship are the hottest things they've ever seen. Until they showed up their cargo ship was as much fun as a woman's prison. But pirates are bad news, right? So they probably ought to stop them. Somehow.

A heart-wrenching story about a poor little girl forced to sell matches on Christmas Eve. As she stumbles barefooted into a cold and lonely alley, she is enchanted by visions of Christmas wonders and her beloved grandmother long passed. "The Little Match Girl" is a tale that makes us all grateful for what we have this holiday season.