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Annie has been sad for so long that she's forgotten how to be any other way. She's trudging miserably through every day, sheer determination keeping her going. Until she meets Polly. Polly is everything that Annie is not. She's colourful, joyful, happy. Because if recent events have taught Polly anything, it's that your time is too short to waste a single day. 

Basilio DiLustro. Charming. Deadly. A monster dressed in a three-piece-suit. Wynter Star. Realist with the most romantic of hearts, hiding it all under her ice princess fame. The two were never meant to cross paths. When they do, worlds collide and volcanoes erupt. Basilio makes her feel everything when she’s with him. Protected. Loved. Desired. Every monster has a weakness. She’s his. His obsession. His addiction. His only salvation.

Read by actress Ruth Jones, Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for listeners young and old. In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants'...

For years, the monsters who killed my family have held me in a cage. Brutalized and half-starved. Only kept alive so they can steal my blood. Until one evening when four eerily gorgeous men break me out of my prison. They offer me a safe haven under their protection. A soft bed, delicious food, and all I need to heal. I'm not used to this kindness—or the desires their smoldering eyes and strong hands stir in my body and my heart. But these fearsome men aren't really men. Like my captors, they're fae who can shift into wolves.

Spring, 1922. Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess who’s given up her duties to follow her heart and work backstage at the Viennese opera. She keeps her true identity a well-guarded secret, but when a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa’s two lives collide - and in escaping her inheritance, she finds her destiny....

The Speakmans have helped countless clients ditch the self-doubt and move on from their social anxieties and self-esteem issues. In Everyday Confidence, the best-selling authors tackle common confidence saboteurs from old behavioural patterns to negative people and toxic situations. In every case, they remind you that you have more power than you think: confidence is an inside job.

Rupert, the young Earl of Westerholme, returns home from the war - and Anna, a housemaid, falls hopelessly in love with him. But they can never be together - Rupert is engaged to the snobbish and awful Muriel. And anyway, Anna is only a servant. Or so everybody thinks.

As the second-born princess of a kingdom conquered by a brutal empire, I'm nothing but a pawn. Little do I expect my parents to arrange my marriage to the most powerful bachelor of all: the son of the emperor himself. But when I arrive at the imperial palace, I discover I must compete for my betrothed—vying with the court noblewomen in a series of humiliating trials to prove our devotion. Those who fail will be executed. For the sake of my country, I'll risk my life to win my husband—this sadistic man who applauds the torment and flaunts his lovers.

Presents in-depth teachings and channeled wisdom from the six star nations--the Pleiades, Sirius, Andromeda, Centaurus, Epsilon Eridani, and Lyra Reading about your cosmic lineage will trigger the awakening of ancient memories of your star origin and activate your spiritual DNA ...

I thought I was ordinary Rory Franco: college student, artist, and over-protected daughter. Then, mages barge into my family’s home, murder my parents, and whisk me off to a university known as Villain Academy. It turns out I’m Persephone Bloodstone, the long lost heir to one of the five royal families of dark magic. I’m destined to learn how to manipulate the world with fear—and to stand beside the four other scions: the scorching-hot, arrogant young men who rule this school. The four of them crush anyone who doesn’t kowtow.

Heckie is determined not to be just a witch. With the help of local wizards and a little boy, she sets about putting the world to rights. But then she falls under the spell of smarming, charming Mr Knapsack and all her good work is nearly undone.

Du sehnst dich nach Veränderung – doch in deinem Leben bewegt sich nichts. Du lebst nicht die Beziehung, die du dir wünschst. Du hast nicht den Job, den du gerne hättest. Du fühlst dich nicht in deiner Kraft. Dabei trägst du alles in dir, um deine Ziele und Träume zu verwirklichen. Was dir im Weg steht, sind nicht die äußeren Widerstände – es sind deine Überzeugungen. Und die kannst du ändern, dann verändert sich dein Leben.

When Lois Grover glimpses a boy standing in the window of Beacon of Hope, she alerts the other members of the Twilight Society that another ghost has arrived. As the members of the Twilight Society investigate, they uncover a chilling connection to one of America’s most haunting unsolved...

Der Pastor in Estherwieck wird tot im Watt aufgefunden. Die Polizei geht von einem Verbrechen aus. Als eine frühere Freundin des Pastors als vermisst gemeldet wird, gerät Niklas John unter Verdacht. Als deren sterbliche Überreste in der Nähe einer alten Marinekapelle gefunden werden und Niklas den Verdacht nicht ausräumen kann, bittet er Fentje Jacobsen als Anwältin um Hilfe. Können die beiden gemeinsam den wahren Mörder finden?

My people say a woman's worth is in her womb. They spit on me, throw rocks, burn everything I hold dear. "Cursed," they call me. Then he saves me. Theron. A monstrous Cerberus from the Blighted Lands. Death follows in his footsteps, but he looks at me and doesn't see something broken. "Mate," he decides. This massive beast could crush a man's skull with his bare hands, but his claws touch me with infinite gentleness. His hellfire doesn't burn me. Under his protection, I'm not defective.

When I find my fiancé cheating on me, I make the mistake of turning to the one man who wants to destroy my ex more than I do… his brother. Once upon a time I was torn between the two of them. Dean Graham laid his heart on the line and asked me to choose him, but I couldn't for reasons he can never find out about. He left town and I haven't seen him since. Now I'm at his mercy in the heart of Vegas and he's nothing like the rancher I remember. He's Jaded. Cold. A Twisted King. He's a permanent fixture at his MC's strip club, and he's spent more years behind bars recently than free from them.

Se suponía que este compromiso era falso... Y, sin embargo, aquí estoy, volviéndome loca por mi prometido de mentira. Beau Eaton es el príncipe del pueblo, un héroe militar tan atractivo como atormentado. Yo, en cambio, soy la camarera invisible, la chica tímida con el apellido equivocado. Todo ha empezado con una apuesta. Él no se cree que la gente me juzgue por mi apellido, así que me ha ofrecido el suyo para demostrar que tiene razón. Lo que ocurre a puerta cerrada ya no parece fingido, sino real. Muy real.

Trabajar de niñera para el padre soltero más gruñón del mundo debería haber sido pan comido. Cade Eaton es trece años mayor que yo y apenas me presta atención. Hasta que una noche me meto en el jacuzzi con él y decidimos jugar a verdad o atrevimiento. Es todo un cascarrabias y un poco rudo, pero resulta que los rancheros fornidos y malhablados son mi debilidad. Sin embargo, cuando estamos a solas, muestra un lado más tierno, y estoy empezando a darme cuenta de que su carácter de tío duro no es más que una fachada.

Theo ist so wütend! Er brüllt wild und laut – und plötzlich steht er nicht mehr in seinem Kinderzimmer, sondern mitten im Dschungel! Theo tobt wie ein wilder Löwe, Roooaaarrr!, und wird dabei immer wütender: Wie soll er jetzt nach Hause finden, raus aus dem Gefühle-Dschungel? Zusammen mit seinem Begleiter, dem netten Papagei, macht Theo sich auf den Weg. Vielleicht kann ihnen die ängstliche kleine Maus ja weiterhelfen? Der lustige Affe? Oder das traurige Krokodil? Gemeinsam finden die Freunde sicher einen Weg aus dem Dschungel!

Elefant und Maus haben ein Problem: Sie finden bei der Elefantenherde einfach kein Gehör! Was kann eine Maus also tun, wenn ihre Stimme so fiepsig-piepsig ist, dass sie in der Savanne einfach untergeht? Und wie ist das wiederum beim Elefanten – der zwar schon ziemlich groß ist, sich jedoch nicht traut, richtig laut zu werden? Wie gut, dass die beiden einander haben und sich gegenseitig beim Lautwerden helfen können!