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The second book in the bestselling dark dystopian fantasy series from hugely popular dark romance author Nicci Harris, where Dahlia, a young woman raised as a “lace girl,” meant to soothe the brutal men who go to war, but when her best friend dies giving birth, she finds herself on the run...

"Cody Davis is gonna make a sinner out of me." Yes, I know exactly who he is. The wounded soldier at the end of Willow Street. Intimidating. Devastatingly handsome. Muscular body chiseled from stone. Deep dark eyes that dare you to come near. Attitude for days. And I just became his caregiver. Everyone warned me to stay away from him - including my father, the respected minister of our small town of Spruce. But clearly, I'm too stubborn to heed good advice, especially when Cody Davis is as frustratingly attractive - and persistent - as they come.

The seventh of Joan Grant's Far Memory novels, So Moses Was Born, is set in Egypt, in the time just before the birth of Moses. The story is a familiar one: Found in the bulrushes, Moses's upbringing in the court of Egypt gave him the influence and power to set the Israelites free. Joan Grant enlarges the picture by depicting the events that led up to the discovery of the baby Moses, convincingly portraying the man she believed was his father, Ramoses II, through the words of his reclusive half-brother Nebunefer.

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

Esta novela ha pasado de ser la breve historia de una joven coreana a convertirse en un terremoto que ha sacudido a las mujeres de medio mundo. Kim Ji-young (que lleva el nombre más común entre las mujeres coreanas nacidas en 1982) es aparentemente una mujer como cualquier otra, con una juventud sin pena ni gloria, siempre a la sombra.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the 18th Century and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Karriere ist Dating im Anzug. Nach seinem Studium hören die Herausforderungen für Bo Martens nicht auf. Bei der Frage, wie es beruflich weitergeht, hilft ihm der exzentrische Topmanager Dr. Thomas Meermann aufs Pferd, indem er ihn mit zahlreichen voll- oder teilumfänglich hohlen Business-Weisheiten versorgt. Als Bo sich unsterblich in seine Zahnärztin verliebt, quält ihn die Frage, wie ein überdurchschnittlich durchschnittlicher Typ wie er Erfolg bei einer solchen Traumfrau haben könnte.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Methine er en dygtig husmor, for hun har tjent på grev Schimmelmanns Lindenborg, hvor hun har lært finere husholdning. Nu er hun gift med en gårdejer i Himmerland, året er 1914, og alt er, som det skal være. Men så kommer datteren Ebba til verden, og alting ændrer sig. Ebba er smuk, men hun har svært ved at lære og er lang tid om tingene. I landsbyen er der dem, der siger, at Ebba er skifting og burde anbringes på et asyl. Merete Justs roman, "Lysets børn", er inspireret af hendes egen slægts historie fra 1914 og frem til det nye årtusinde.

Conceived out of wedlock and "born of sin," Jacob Dewitt suffers deeply at the hands of his resentful stepfather. In the midst of family chaos, Jacob is shipped off to boarding school. Years later, when the school expels him, he believes he can't go back home. As a young man alone on the streets of Pittsburgh, Jacob lies about his age and assumes a new identity. Intelligent and ambitious, he soon gets recruited by the city's crime organization. Yearning for acceptance, Jacob embraces his new family.

Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic 18-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig.

In an inspiring story of the Jewish struggle against their own demise, Jacob, a writer on assignment whose wife succumbs to psychosis, finds not only the ruins of what was once a theatre in the Jewish ghetto, but also a tonic for his own despair. For the Nazi commandant, the destruction of the ghetto is not enough. The entire Jewish people must perish, if only symbolically. To that end, he blackmails the leaders of the Jewish community to write, perform, and attend a play depicting Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac.

Nytårsaften 1997 tilbringer fire voksne søskende i deres barndomshjem i Skjern. Deres mor ligger i terminalfase på samme lokale sygehus, hvor deres far døde dagen før. Med udgangspunkt i disse dage skildrer Elisabeth Gjerluff Nielsen sin barndom i 60’erne og perspektiverer til voksenlivet i København, hvor hun med smerte må erkende, at de ’store børn’ trods fælles opvækst synes på vej væk fra hinanden, så langt, at det er vanskeligt, måske umuligt at nå selv fremstrakte hænder.

At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we've never encountered before: Through Rabbit's inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification.

Secrets haunt Adam Broadford’s extraordinary life. The ugly divisions of race, religion, and politics in the early '60s and '70s Africa gnaws at him. Beauty and brutality are constantly at odds. Happiness and sadness are locked in a dance. And so much is his fault. But against a richly depicted backdrop with deeply resonating characters, there are gifts, wisdom, and murder.

Under Anden Verdenskrig tages en jødisk mand til fange, idet han forsøger at flygte over grænsen til Schweiz. Tredive år senere opsøger den jødiske mand, der har overlevet Auschwitz, nu konen til dén bondemand, der for mange år siden pågreb ham og udleverede ham til nazisterne. Gennem deres samtaler oprulles en gribende historie, der blandt andet afslører sandheden om det barn, som bondens kone fødte ni måneder efter flygtningen var blevet pågrebet. En søn, der hele sit liv har søgt efter sin sande identitet.

The novel is set in Los Angeles and follows a tenacious inner-city teen who is eventually a victim of many of the social evils that plague children in many low-income neighborhoods. In his once-happy family, he experienced love and grief, as well as violence, betrayal, and separation. His father's death, through a series of terrible events, becomes his breaking point, forcing him into homelessness and dangerous street life.