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I didn’t do it. I never betrayed my friend. Last year, I was kidnapped along with presidential candidate’s daughter Lindsay Bosworth, forced to help her assailants, my mother implicated in one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I've been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that doesn’t matter. Once you’re tried by the media, you’re guilty as sin. The truth doesn’t get the public’s attention. But shame? Shame sells. And everyone assumes you’re tainted.

Leah Carrollton had dreams of meeting—and marrying—the perfect man. Then a scandalous affair ended in abandonment, and she left London rather than face her disgrace. With no one to turn to, Leah ran away to the country. Abruptly Devon Marshall, Viscount Huxhold, strides into her life...

Some might see the lessons in Odoyevsky's short and charming life manual for children old-fashioned and outdated. Some might even bristle at certain suggestions. However, we would like to urge our listeners to look beyond the somewhat antiquated rhetoric and consider these lessons as they were intended - guidelines for bringing up intelligent, well-educated, considerate, and industrious future spouses, parents, and, most importantly, engineers of the future world.

Uncomplicated People is another masterfully written, bittersweet tale by Maria Krestovskaya - an everyday tragedy of love lost and dreams wasted on the altar of solid and secure mediocrity.

Elizabeth Tudor has chosen never to marry. The man she loves, Robin Dudley, has lost his wife in mysterious circumstances. Knowing that were she to marry him, it would lead to his destruction and hers, Elizabeth has made up her mind... But Robin does not know this yet. Afraid to lose her favourite, Elizabeth has told Robin there may be hope. As times goes on, Robin attempts persuasion, pressure and trickery to take his place beside her on the throne of England. And it is not only with her beloved that Elizabeth is having problems...

I don't do boyfriends. Or dating. Or random hookups. Not when fictional men do it so much better, and not when my heart has been through the wringer. So when retired MMA fighter Matt Haywood crashes into my life, I'm not impressed. Quite the opposite actually. I avoid him at all costs. At least, I try. 

I can’t take the pining anymore, so I quit - on the same night we’re trapped in a storm at my family’s inn. It could have been awkward. But instead…maybe Will isn’t so clueless, after all....

Cress ha solo sedici anni e per gran parte della sua vita ha vissuto prigioniera o, come preferisce dire lei, "damigella in difficoltà" su un satellite in orbita nello spazio, dove gli unici contatti con l'esterno sono avvenuti tramite Internet. Ed è proprio attraverso la Rete che viene contattata dalla Rampion, la nave spaziale del capitano Carswell Thorne, sulla quale viaggiano anche Cinder, Scarlet e Wolf.

When Stella McKenzie is summoned to meet her Great Aunt Bess, her grandmother's sister, on the occasion of that lady's 100th birthday, she keeps the appointment with a great deal of trepidation. All her life she has been told about this mysterious lady, to whom her grandmother has not spoken since the First World War. She has been told that she is mean and spiteful, that she wrecked the engagement of her sister to the man she loved out of spite and jealousy.

Sometimes the only way forward is to go back home… Jessica Steele just received the worst early birthday present ever—her husband of almost thirty years has left her without a word. Now adrift and running out of options, Jess takes her teenage daughter, Glory, back to the Florida Keys. Jess...

Questi medici coraggiosi e sprezzanti del pericolo sono pronti a mettere le loro vite, e i loro cuori, in prima linea. L'infermiera di Pronto Soccorso Samantha Braithwaite ha imparato a proprie spese che gli unici limiti in grado di fermarla sono quelli che impone a se stessa. Per questo, collaborare col dottor Blake Cooper rappresenta la più grossa sfida che abbia mai affrontato: lui e la sua squadra lavorano in stato di costante emergenza, costringendola a fare i conti con le proprie paure.

It all started in Vegas. Now, I know what you're thinking.... What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in the city of sin. Normally, I'd be inclined to agree. Until Lincoln Moore walks into my life. On paper, we mix as well as oil and water. He's confident. Commanding. Successful. Master of his universe. I'm a hot mess, barely holding on as I struggle to balance my job, finally finishing college, and keeping my mother sober. But when the lights go out, nothing else matters. Until I learn the truth of who Lincoln Moore actually is.

Mr. Alistair Price, heir to the elderly Viscount Melton, arrived in London with his eight younger siblings in tow. He is charged with keeping his family name above reproach until the season starts and his sister, Miss Adeline Price, is presented to society - though that proves far more difficult than Alistair ever expected when he discovers his rebellious sister climbing down the side of their townhouse and scurrying off to Whitechapel for an archery tournament.

April – die Zeit der Osterfeiertage, die in großen Teilen Spaniens im Zeichen der Prozessionen stehen. Der Vorsitzende einer Laienbruderschaft aus Jerez de la Frontera erzählt in "ECOS Spanisch lernen Audio" vom Innenleben dieser Cofradías, die mit ihren feierlichen Umzügen die Karwoche prägen. Dazu gibt es wie immer Dialoge und Übungen zu Hörverständnis und Wortschatz, und das alles auf drei unterschiedlichen Sprachniveaus: für Einsteiger, Fortgeschrittene und "Profis".

Suave. Urbane. Cultured. And deadly. They call him Paladin, and this lean, quiet man in black brings his gun to bear for whoever can pay his fee (and meet his standards). His business card says it all: Have Gun, Will Travel! John Dehner brings Old San Francisco's righteous pistolero to life in this new collection of 20 classic radio adventures. Ben Wright co-stars as Hey Boy, with Virginia Gregg as Miss Wong.

Peste jumătate de secol de istorie a Rusiei e panoramată în acest roman vast, bogat în evenimente, în care evoluează doctorul Kukoțki și familia sa. Dincolo de inefabilul dar al povestitului etalat cu strălucire de Ludmila Ulițkaia, importante sunt problemele etice – mai ales...

London, 1605: A new king sits upon the throne of England, but not everyone is pleased with this Protestant monarch. A group of conspirators scheme to overthrow him and restore Catholic rule; by igniting an explosion directly beneath Parliament! For their plot to succeed, these traitors need the perfect assassin; a man named Guy Fawkes.

Alenushka's Tales is a series of whimsical stories inspired by careful observation and great love of nature, written by Dmitrey Mamin-Sibiryak for his daughter Alena (Alenushka).

Only a few months earlier, the young woman now known as Jane Smith had lived a life of luxury and privilege as the ruler of a small Balkan kingdom. She lived a life of glittering balls, the finest furnishings, the most handsome men, the most exquisite of foods. Her only friends were four bearded old men who served as her cabinet, and worshiped the ground she walked on. Then the Germans had marched in, and she and her four councilors barely escaped with their lives.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own. "The Witch is classic NDiaye. Taut, spellbinding and strange...