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Charles Preston Carmichael is the most infuriating man I've ever met. I want to sock the golden boy of college hockey right in the mouth. He enjoys telling me everything I'm messing up—publicly. And since he's my roommate for the next year, I can't avoid him. Yet there's something about him that makes me watch him. Something dark. A secret I want to uncover. When he returns from a weekend away, broken and haunted, I can't keep my distance anymore. He needs someone, and I'll be damned if it's not me.

Home. Bratva is my home, my sanctuary from the past, the only place where a killing machine like me belongs. Sometimes, my demons come rushing back, and I feel out of control, full of rage, close to losing myself completely. Until a broken, injured woman stumbles onto my path, awakening my protective instincts and sending my demons to sleep. Keeping her prisoner is my only option. If she leaves, my darkness will resurface, and there will be no escaping it this time.

Why do I feel stuck? How can I become more creative? What can I do to improve my relationships? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you’re not alone. On Hidden Brain, we help you understand your own mind — and the minds of the people around you. (We're routinely rated the #1 science podcast in the United States.) Hosted by veteran science journalist Shankar Vedantam.

When a 19-year-old boy, Jamie Mills, is found hanging from a tree in a local park, his death is ruled a suicide. Detective Kim Stone’s instincts tell her something isn’t right—but it’s not her investigation, and her temporary replacement is too busy waiting for the next big case to be asking the right questions.

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter...

Of all the Legiones Astartes, the White Scars of Jaghatai Khan remain the most enigmatic and elusive. Born of a civilisation that prizes honour, speed and fearsome loyalty, their allegiance has yet remained unclear even as the galaxy is torn apart by Horus's treachery, and both sides have apparently counted them among their potential allies in the war to come.

Er ist unberechenbar, begehrt, draufgängerisch - und geheimnisvoll. Sie ist schüchtern, perfektionistisch - und will ihn um jeden Preis. Hat ihre Liebe eine Chance? Eine gefühlvolle Romance der Bestsellerautorin über einen Bad Boy und ein Girl next Door. Ein Neuanfang im alten Leben – nichts wünscht sich Hazel Evans mehr, als sie von ihrem Auslandssemester aus Portugal zurück nach New York kommt. Sie ist klug, anständig und studiert an der NYU. Das einzige, was in ihrem Leben für Aufregung sorgt, sind die High-Society-Veranstaltungen, zu denen ihre beste Freundin Grace sie regelmäßig mitschleppt.

"The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry" is from the September 03, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

Harlow steht mit einem Bein im Gefängnis – denn um ihrem kleinen Bruder eine lebensrettende OP zu ermöglichen, hat sie ein milliardenschweres Bankkonto gehackt. Doch unerwartet bietet ihr der Leiter des Lakestone Campus in Seattle ein Stipendium und Sozialstunden an. Neu an der Uni hält Harlow ihre Vergangenheit geheim. Auch vor dem Literaturstudenten Zack, der aufgrund eines Gendefekts nicht sprechen kann. Aber nicht nur er kommt Harlow immer näher, sondern auch ihr ehemaliges Hackernetzwerk.