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Your family doesn’t need better people. It needs a better system. When Noah Dyer’s oldest son stopped speaking to him, the silence lasted seven years. They’re talking again now, though the relationship is still rebuilding. Out of that experience came The New American Family Code, a...

So hatte ich mir mein Wochenende ganz bestimmt nicht vorgestellt: Mein Freund vergisst mich und fährt ohne mich zu einer Geburtstagsfeier, zu der ich eigentlich gar nicht will. Zum Glück ist wenigstens sein Stiefvater zuvorkommend genug und bringt mich zu dem abgelegenen See mitten im Wald, wo die Party stattfindet. Als ich meinen Freund dort endlich finde, hat er offenbar auch vergessen, dass er eigentlich eine Freundin hat. Kaum habe ich es endlich hierhin geschafft, will ich wieder nach Hause.

It all started with a small lie. Then a few more small lies. And suddenly… I’m falling for three men in a small town that was never supposed to matter. I didn’t mean to stay in Springfield. I was supposed to keep driving—keep running. But when my car broke down, and I was offered a job...

Luzifer ist hier. Und er ist stinksauer. Luzifer ist ganze fünf Tage zu früh auf der Akademie der Unterwelt aufgetaucht. Natürlich hatte Cole hinsichtlich seines Zeitplans gelogen. Was jedoch nicht gelogen war, ist, dass er eine Geheimwaffe hat – und was sie beinhaltet, hat keiner von uns sehen kommen. Olivia ist meine beste Freundin und ihre Vergangenheit beinahe so düster wie meine. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt.

Ich war auf dem Weg der Wiedergutmachung. Nur hatte ich nicht damit gerechnet, dass ein schief gelaufener Ritt mir keine andere Wahl lassen würde, als ihn um Hilfe zu bitten. Zeke Rainer. Raine. Der schroffe, tätowierte Cowboy, der von Geheimnissen umgeben ist. Wir waren schon immer...

Lesters Jubiläumsparty versinkt dank einer verrückten Erfindung von Onkel Mischmasch im absoluten Chaos. Um das Fest zu retten, bittet Moley sein magisches Buch Mauli um Hilfe. Doch der Zauber geht gründlich schief: Mauli verhaspelt sich und schickt Moley, Dotty und den entsetzten Lester prompt auf eine unfreiwillige Zeitreise direkt in die Vergangenheit von Maulwurfhausen.

I'm a fixer. A lover. Always searching for the right fit. And I come up empty every time. My desires are unusual. I don't feel whole until I'm in the middle, holding it all together. Which makes having a romantic relationship really difficult. Until them. Two people. An unraveling marriage. Love on the rocks. And they want me. To put them back together again. Problem is, once they're fixed, where does that leave me? I sure as hell hope I stick like glue.

Sammy Dee is a mid-level Long Island mafioso in witness protection. Didier Onyekachukwu was the corrupt minister of finance of the former Upper Volta. Both men find themselves in middle age, living in the Southern California version of genteel poverty in a down-market condo complex called Paradise Gardens. Enter Marcy Gray, a "mature" actress barely getting by on a meager SAG pension.

A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks on a bitter cold New Year's Eve, when most people are having a party inside where it’s warm and are eating good food. She must earn money for her starving family, but no one buys her matchsticks. So she uses the matches to get warm and has an incredible experience on the last evening of the year.

As a young boy, the author took part in collecting specimens for his father. Fifty years later, he was asked to join a team from the same institution studying the state of sea life in the Bahamian waters where he grew up, as measured against his father’s benchmark. The first of the sea changes presented in this eloquent book stems from climate change and is the drastic transformation of ocean life due to global warming - but there are more.

Mill's autobiography deals primarily with the life of the mind - but it is a mind which ranks as one of the most remarkable and significant of the nineteenth century. The book memorably depicts the emergence of a brilliant child prodigy, the product of an extraordinary education which both hastened his development and brought him to the brink of suicide by the age of 21.

For Navy SEAL Tye Callahan, Strong, California is a debt of honor and temporary detour in his military career. He's fought hard in Afghanistan and he won't stop until the battle is won. When an ambush he should have prevented kills one of his teammates, however, Tye steps up and steps in to fill the fallen man's obligations. One summer in Strong fighting fires with the smoke jumper team. One fiancée to look out for and get back on her feet.

All the experts agree: The 21st century belongs to China. Given America's looming insolvency and the possibility of the collapse of the US dollar, who can doubt that China is poised to take over the role of economic superpower? Written by political economist and leading financial journalist James Gorrie, this audiobook offers a highly controversial, contrarian view of contemporary China. Drawing upon a wealth of historical and up-to-the-minute data, Gorrie makes a strong case that China, itself, is on the verge of an economic crisis of epic proportions.

Millionaire Carl Whitfield has set his sights on small-town Chef Camila Torres, but she won't have him until he can prove he means to settle in Chance Creek for good. He's spent the last three years searching for the perfect ranch. She's spent the last three years keeping him at arms' length. Now, Carl will do anything to secure a spread - including siding with the Coopers in their ages-old feud with the Turners, a move that could make his dreams come true - or destroy them for good. 

As the successful owner of multiple railroad lines, Diana Barton is all too accustomed to fending off suitors seeking to stake their claim on her wealth. In order to keep the wolves at bay, Diana has contrived the perfect plan: appeal to the most notorious rake in London, the Baron Lord Bryant, to ruin her reputation and scare off the worst of the time wasters. The ruse will be no hardship - she’s secretly been fascinated by the man for years.

She was my first love. She was my first hate. The very sun in my world tried to burn me alive with her lies and cruelty. Until I dimmed her light for good.... Or so I thought. Now she’s back. Cracked. Broken. Lost. And for the first time in a long time, I feel free. Free from our past. Free from my present that suffocates me. Free to destroy her future. Her misery is my music. Thrilling. Invigorating. Intoxicating. For so long, all I’ve done is hate her. So why do I love her?

William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Ray's innocence. This myth-shattering expose is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Pepper's original best-selling and critically-acclaimed book of the same name, with 26 years of additional research included. The result reveals dramatic new details of the night of the murder, the trial, and why Ray was chosen to take the fall for an evil conspiracy.

This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica to the medieval Jewish legend of the Golem and Ambrose Bierce’s tale of a chess-playing robot, the idea of what robots are—and who creates them—can be drastically different.

Relationships are a thing of the past for Eva Montgomery. Her current motto? You can’t spell “manipulative” without man. But Eva has needs, and a one-night-stand at her best friend’s wedding is the perfect way to kick off her new approach to singledom. Then a job opportunity puts her in the same city with the guy she can’t forget....

I know her as the unconscious girl I found bleeding out on the locker room floor. I got her help. I saved her life. The next time I see her, she makes it clear she wants nothing to do with me. Too bad. I didn't go through the trouble of saving her life just for her to throw it away again. She doesn't know it yet but I'm about to be her new best friend.