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Schon in ihrer Kindheit hat Harper ihre Liebe zur Sportfotografie entdeckt. Jahrelang hat sie nur ihren Bruder auf der Crossmaschine vor der Kamera gehabt, doch nach ihrem Collegeabschluss will sie ihre Leidenschaft zum Beruf machen. Diesem Ziel kommt sie einen riesigen Schritt näher, als sie im Social-Media-Team der Toronto Ice Wolves einen Job ergattert. Alles könnte perfekt sein, wäre da nicht dieser eine Eishockeyspieler mit dem viel zu großen Ego … Aiden liebt Eishockey und Frauen. Bis auf die Art, die ihm das Leben schwer macht – und Harper versucht sogar, es ihm zur Hölle zu machen!

Brooke Parker never expected to find herself in the tiny town of Juniper Falls, Minnesota. Of course, she also never expected to lose her dad. Or for her mom to lose herself. Brooke feels like she's losing it . . . until she finds Juniper Falls hockey. Juniper Falls girls' hockey, that is. Jake Hammond, current prince of Juniper Falls, captain of the hockey team, and player with the best chance of scoring it big, is on top of the world. Until one hazing ritual gone wrong lands him injured, finding himself enjoying his "punishment" as assistant coach for the girls' team.

Captain of his team, the privileged son of a hockey legend, Connor Kennedy is the league’s golden boy. And the one player who can always get under my skin. Our rivalry has been building for years, and when we’re forced to room together as Olympic teammates, I can feel the tension between us reach boiling point. The world might see me as hockey’s most feared enforcer, Alaska’s angriest export, but in our room each night after practice, I can’t maintain my facade.

I've been in love with Jordan Mitchell since the moment I saw him. He's smart, handsome, and even funny when he feels like it. He excels at everything; whatever he touches turns to gold. He can't do anything wrong. When our parents got married and merged our broken families, I suddenly had a rival I could never compete with. And a heart-throb I could never be with. And I hate him for it. He doesn't even see me. Until one summer break . . . We're alone in our parents' mountain house. All we do is swim, sunbathe, and fight. And I'd rather be kissing him.

Holly Johansson knows she's living in a fantasy world, but she's trying to be realistic. Like, she knows becoming a bestselling author isn't going to happen overnight, so she will need to get a day job now that she has graduated from college. Just like she knows her brother's best friend, hockey superstar Matt Rhinelander, would never, ever return her feelings.

Malia befindet sich im letzten Jahr der Highschool. Sie ist bereit, nach ihrem Abschluss ihr altes Leben hinter sich zu lassen und aus dem Schatten ihres erfolgreichen Bruders hinauszutreten. Bevor sie am College neu anfängt, will sie noch eine Sache erledigen – ihre Jungfräulichkeit loswerden. Die Erfahrungen mit Jungs in ihrem Alter waren bis jetzt alles andere als erfreulich, deshalb bittet sie einen Freund ihres Bruders, die Aufgabe zu übernehmen. Liam ist der Kapitän der Toronto Ice Wolves und hat nur ein Ziel: das Team in diesem Jahr zur Meisterschaft zu führen.

Jimmy Benge is excited to celebrate his thirteenth birthday with an ice fishing adventure in northern Minnesota. He's even allowed to invite his best friend, Ryan, to spend winter break at the family’s lakeside home. The two boys learn a lot about ice fishing and catch a few panfish but decide to fish for something bigger: Northern pike, the alpha predators of the lake.

Mina is a talented figure skater, but she's looking forward to trying a new challenge—pairs skating! Mina has second thoughts, though, when she starts practicing with Luke, a shy boy who she doesn’t know well. Can the pair overcome their trust issues and become a successful pairs skating team?

Princess Lina is loving groundling school. Her magic is still under wraps, she hangs out with BFF Claudia every day, and soon their class is taking a field trip to see penguins at the city aquarium! Up in the sky, Lina's Granddad has decided to invite her mischievous cousin Jack Frost to give Lina extra tutorials in Winterheart magic. But when Jack tags along with Lina to school, his tricks wreak havoc on the big field trip. Can Lina keep her cool and save the day?

Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.

Mein Leben ist wie eine große Party. Ich bin ein bisschen laut und manche finden mich zu direkt, aber mit mir hast du eine gute Zeit. Außer du heißt Demi Harrison. Dann tust du so, als wäre ich der Teufel persönlich. Was keinen Sinn ergibt, denn bei den letzten Winterspielen habe ich deine Welt gerockt.

My life is not turning out like I thought it would. My mom’s arthritis has gotten so bad that I had to move in with her. I’m making ends meet by giving ice skating lessons at the arena in Maple Falls. I’d be in serious trouble had the Harts not given me that job. Which makes it impossible to say no when they ask me to let Troy’s obnoxious billionaire brother stay in the cabin on my mom’s property during the charity hockey event they’re running.

As the first light of dawn creeps in, the steady beep of a monitor becomes my anchor. When that beeping fades away, I'm thrust into a world where the North Star has lost its brilliance. It's scattered into a thousand glittering fragments, and nobody knows how to mend it. But how am I supposed to find my way back without the light of my guiding star? And how can I help North rediscover his own light?

Why does it make sense to Ethiopian runners to get up at three a.m. to run up and down a hill? Who would choose to train on almost impossibly steep and rocky terrain, in hyena territory? And how come Ethiopian men hold six of the top 10 fastest marathon times ever? Michael Crawley spent 15 months in Ethiopia training alongside (and sometimes a fair way behind) runners at all levels of the sport, from night watchmen hoping to change their lives to world-class marathon runners, in order to answer these questions.

In the kingdom of Frostopia, mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda have come to the aid of Maritza Mist, a famous water witch who supplies magic spells to the underwater kingdoms. Two notoriously bad mermaids have escaped from Viper View prison and stolen Maritza's map that shows the locations of 12 magical objects. When brought together, these objects will create the most powerful water witch the world has ever known. Beattie, Mimi and Zelda set off to travel the underwater kingdoms to stop them.