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The planet is ravaged by violent storms and failing crops and much of the world is now uninhabitable. Amidst a world of hungry and desperate people, the Department of Environmental Justice have been tasked with finding and executing those who have denied climate change.

Der große neue Roman der preisgekrönten Autorin Nino Haratischwili. Das letzte Jahrhundert neigt sich dem Ende entgegen und in Georgien werden die Stimmen, die eine Ablösung vom ehemals allmächtigen Riesen fordern, lauter. In dieser Zeit wachsen vier unterschiedliche Mädchen - Dina, Ira, Nene und Qeto - in Tiblisi auf. Sie erleben die erste große Liebe, die mit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes aufbrandende Gewalt und Knappheit - und die Gespaltenheit einer jungen Demokratie in Aufruhr, die einen Keil in ihre Familien treibt.

Deine Traumreise führt Dich zu einer transsexuellen Frau. Sie ist eine echte Schönheit, mit weicher Haut und perfekten weiblichen Rundungen...

"Sonya Lalli's savvy novel puts relationships in all of their forms--family, friends, and romance--on even footing as a young woman works to find happiness."--Shelf Awareness Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want--and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister...

La realizzazione dell’interpretazione dei versi dell’Inferno di Dante Alighieri è nata grazie alla passione per la Letteratura Italiana da parte di vari attori che hanno fatto da corollario, facendosi corpo, voce, riso, pianto e preghiera di tutti i personaggi della Divina Commedia.

Jak ha un solo obiettivo nella vita: spezzare la maledizione, o morire provandoci. Per anni, le streghe hanno aspettato la loro salvezza, un modo per ritrovare la magia, perduta quando la maledizione è stata lanciata. Jak, un ragazzo nato con dei poteri che le streghe non possiedono più da un secolo, è il loro profetizzato salvatore, l'unico che può uccidere la creatura, spezzare la maledizione e restituire la magia alla sua congrega.

For the survival of his clan, Jack Fialko needs to mate with a witch of equal power before the end of the solstice. He finds the perfect woman, except for one serious flaw. She has no idea how to engage in the dangerous magical foreplay - the duel for sexual equality. The task of training her in two days seems insurmountable, especially while other warriors are trying to kidnap her. Zoe is a warrior-healer hybrid. The trouble is, she has no idea what that means.

A haunting and incendiary tale about a woman who moves with her fiancé to a small town to try to mend their fractured relationship, but finds herself having strange visions, and stranger attractions, to the ghost of the previous owner... Tina knows that her six-year relationship with her...

FACING THE LION is the autobiographical account of a young girl's faith and courage. In the years immediately preceding World War II, Simone Arnold is a young girl who delights in life – her doting parents, her loving aunts and uncles, and her grandparents at their mountain farm in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. As Simone grows into her preteen years, her parents turn from the Catholic Church and become devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simone, too, embraces the faith. The Nazi party (the "Lion") takes over Alsace-Lorraine, and Simone's schools become Nazi propaganda machines.

Viele Jahre sind vergangen, seit Helena Beaumont als junge Frau einen wunderbaren Sommer auf Zypern verbracht und dort ihre erste große Liebe erlebt hat. Nun kehrt sie zurück in das schöne alte Haus, um dort mit ihrer Familie die Ferien zu verbringen. Unbeschwerte Tage sollen es werden, verträumte Stunden am Meer und lange Nächte auf der Terrasse, doch schon bei ihrer Ankunft empfindet Helena ein vages Unbehagen. Sie allein weiß, dass die Idylle bedroht ist - denn es gibt Ereignisse in ihrer Vergangenheit, die sie ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern stets eisern verschwiegen hat. Als sie dann plötzlich ihrer Jugendliebe gegenübersteht, ahnt sie, dass dies erst der Anfang einer harten Bewährungsprobe für sie alle ist.

Stranded together in a snowstorm, a take-charge alpha and a tough-minded midwife will either work out their differences in a steamy collision or blow up both their worlds!

Lola's life is about to become unrecognisable. So is Lola. Everything used to be comfortable. She lived in a big house with her family, where her biggest problems were arguing with her little brother or being told she couldn't have a new phone. But as one disaster follows another, the threads of her home and family begin to unravel. Cut off from everything she has known before, Lola must find a new way to survive. Now, an ordinary girl must become extraordinary.

Socialite Lucinda Oliver planned a lavish celebration for her fortieth birthday - a weekend escape at an Irish coastal town with her sister Stella and her closest friends. The weekend was to end with a blow-out party and a special announcement, one Lucinda had been dropping hints about for weeks. But before Lucinda could reveal her secret, she went missing. And now, six months later, her car has been found submerged in the Atlantic Ocean.

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer and social theorist. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy," including The Second Sex, published in 1949, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. The following is from a 1976 interview (in English).

Corruption runs rampant even in a not-so-distant future where the biggest lottery is rigged so that the only winners are rich and white. In a world that has been ravaged by a destructive alien attack, an opportunity for a lifetime of riches in exchange for serving as consort to one of the alien defenders is indeed a great prize. Down on her luck, Karma will be the first Black consort, despite believing that being an alien's whore is only slightly better than being one for humans.

Rowan Summerwaite has unfinished business in the latest installment of the thrilling Goddess with a Blade series by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Dane. Rowan Summerwaite is many things. She knows how to land a punch but has learned there’s more than one way to solve a problem. She...

Reagan is a dedicated nurse who's seen it all, but nothing prepared her for a suffocating co-parenting relationship with a man who symbolizes everything she despises. She finds herself haunted by the consequences of her choices and burdened by the struggles of maintaining a facade of happiness while concealing her inner turmoil. However, a chance encounter with a gunshot victim during her shift opens Reagan's eyes to the possibility of liberation from her oppressive reality.

Sieben Exfreunde. Sieben vertane Chancen. Wer war der Richtige? Esther hat einen tollen Freundeskreis, einen interessanten Job, aber kurz vor ihrem dreißigsten Geburtstag gerät sie in eine tiefe Krise. Denn jedes Date ist ein Reinfall. Einzig ihre beiden Freundinnen wissen Abhilfe: Sich schon tagsüber mit reichlich Roséwein betrinken. Dabei stoßen sie auf eine alte Cosmow, Bibel aller Frauen, in der steht: Jede Frau führt im Leben sieben Arten von Beziehungen, und nur eine davon ist die große Liebe. Esther ist schockiert: Sie hat all diese Beziehungen geführt und ihre Chance verpasst.

Drei starke Frauen in bewegten Zeiten: Band 2 der großen Familiensaga rund um den Aufstieg einer Hamburger Kaffeedynastie vor dem Hintergrund der deutschen Geschichte zwischen 1889 und 1989. Hamburg 1929: Anders als ihre Mutter Maria hat Cläre Behmer zunächst kein großes Interesse am Kaffeekontor der Familie. Sie will lieber studieren und ihren eigenen Weg gehen, was ihrem Verlobten missfällt, hofft er doch, durch die Heirat mit Cläre "Behmer & Söhne" übernehmen zu können.

I'm a Royal Bastard through and through. Being prez has been my life, and seeing anything other than the club isn't on my to-do list. To my surprise, a sexy diamond appears out of the blue, and I can't seem to stay away or keep my hands to myself. The perfect gem is mine; I know it, and so does she. I'll do whatever I have to so I can keep her.