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Libby Sawyer and her father return from summer vacation to find another family living in their home. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family all the way from Romania to stake a decades-old claim on their house, and he has no plans to leave. As a contentious legal battle drags on, Libby finds herself drawn to Michael and his mysterious past. But she’ll soon have to choose between her family and a man with decidedly unclear intentions.

In her compelling and intimate portrait, presidential historian Barbara A. Perry captures Rose Kennedy’s essential contributions to the incomparable Kennedy dynasty. This biography - the first to draw on an invaluable cache of Rose’s newly released diaries and letters - unearths the complexities behind the impeccable persona she showed the world. The woman who emerges is a fascinating character: savvy about her family’s reputation and resilient enough to persevere through the unfathomable tragedies that befell her.

The Great War is over, but Marabel's father still has not come home. Soon to graduate from her mother's School for White-Blouse Professions in London, Marabel misses him dearly. Otherwise her ambition is to become a country postmistress, where she need not deal with other people. Then the King sends her on a quest. Her mother gives her a magic heirloom and Marabel—dragging her 10-year-old brother Thomas with her—flies through time and space to retrieve the soldier who won the Great War's greatest medal. She is to bring him to a royal celebration at Stonehenge—in only two weeks!

Matchmaking comes as easily to Victoria Lesser as breathing. Then two of the couples she has brought together decide to turn the tables, and set up a match for her with a treasure-seeking professor who's sailing to Costa Rica. Usually fearless, the intrepid Victoria gets cold feet, and talks her niece, Shaye, into coming with her. The professor shows a little caution, too - he's brought along his nephew, Noah. As the four of them head for their exotic destination, sparks fly between Shaye and Noah.

A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim's fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes unit to help investigate, can't shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this apparent crime of passion. In the depths of an icy winter, Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde - both haunted by their time in Iraq - descend into the world of a savage gang of rail riders.

From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination. These moving accounts of the first decade of the civil rights movement are a tribute to the people, black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and the struggle they endured.

Mission in der Tiefsee. Ein neuer Auftrag für die Tierflüsterer: Die Wesen im Nachtblauen Meer brauchen ihre Hilfe. Chuck, Coco, Paul, Enisa, Amy und Mohit lernen Segeln und Tauchen. In der neuen Umgebung beweisen sie Mut und Geschick: Sie schwimmen mit Haien, retten Schildkröten und treffen in der dunklen Tiefe auf fantastische Meerwesen, die sie in eine andere Welt entführen. Doch die Tierflüsterer sind nicht die einzigen Besucher unter Wasser.

When Allison Mack's boyfriend and his family are killed in a car wreck, she suspects that her life will never be the same. She knows it for sure when her dead boyfriend comes to visit her on her sixteenth birthday. He warns her to beware of Under Places and then disappears again, only to reappear later. Is she losing her mind, or is something supernatural going on? Ally finds out something startling about her own family. They are all in terrible danger, and she might be the only one who can save them...

Is love possible in the Viagra generation? Divorced for 30 years, Anny has given up on love and concentrates on her career. She is looking for controversy and hopes that her column will bring her fame and fortune. On a date, Anny meets and interviews Marv Rothstein, a handsome, 75-year-old, emotionally unavailable diamond dealer. Anny is attracted to Marv, and they become involved in a torrid affair. But very soon, Anny discovers that the elusive Marv is a serial dater prowling the singles sites for younger women.

India, 1922. In Panikhat, 50 miles from Calcutta, the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and always in March. All the deaths are bizarre and seem accidental. The only link between them is the small red roses that mysteriously appear on the women’s graves on the anniversaries of their deaths. The first victim perished in a fire, the second was bitten by a cobra, another was thrown off her horse into a ravine, while the fourth drowned.

Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them! Rose is rich and pretty, and she suspects many of these suitors are more interested in her wealth than her dreams. But she is determined to live her own life and find her own love, despite the many plans of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Louisa May Alcott wrote this delightful sequel to Eight Cousins at the request of her many fans.

In einem Land am Ende der Welt... Whisperworld! Jedes Kind hat schon von diesem Land gehört – es liegt am Ende der Welt, unberührt und ungestört. Dort leben vom Aussterben bedrohte Tierarten und geheimnisvolle Fabelwesen. Die angehenden Tierflüsterer Amy, Chuck, Mohit, Paul und Coco fliehen überstürzt aus dem Deepwood. Eine Karte von Whisperworld wurde gestohlen und verrät ihren Aufenthaltsort. Ihr neues Ziel: die Wüste Sablo Diablo. Dort lernen sie ein neues Teammitglied kennen und stoßen auf ein Rätsel. Der große Salzsee ist fast ausgetrocknet.

Hörst du das Flüstern? - Komm mit auf eine Reise ins Unbekannte! Whisperworld! Jedes Kind hat schon von diesem Land gehört - es liegt am Ende der Welt, unberührt und ungestört. Dort leben vom Aussterben bedrohte Tierarten und geheimnisvolle Fabelwesen. Fünf Kinder wurden von Doktor Noa auserwählt und beginnen ein neues Leben als Tierflüsterer. In Whisperworld lernen Coco, Chuck, Amy, Mohit und Paul den Umgang mit den Tieren, Fabelwesen und der Natur.

Award-winning storyteller Barbara McBride-Smith breathes life (albeit a wizened Texan version) into the old Greek myths. With her incurable Texas drawl, she spins the Greek myths as you've never heard them before, rendering them 99% more fun while retaining 100% of their original insights into the crooked ways of the human heart and the no less crooked ways of the ancient Greek gods.

On a hot summer’s day in 1880 the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt’s house in Hampshire. It is her seventeenth birthday and no one remembers it except for Thomas, the gardener’s boy. Later she is driven to Winchester and has an unpleasant encounter with two raucous gentlemen in the local tavern before going on to fit her first ball gown that her aunt has given her the money for just before she died. But who is the lovely masked woman she glimpses in the mirror at the dressmakers, a glorious vision clad in rose-pink silk?

Freddy hat sich gut auf der Geisterschule eingelebt und freut sich auf das große Spektakel: das Blutrote Schulfest! Alle Schüler basteln sich die wildesten Kostüme. Und auch die große Schlacht um den Schlamm-Pokal wirft ihre Schatten voraus. Es scheint jedoch, als wolle der fiese Mr Midget den Wettbewerb sabotieren! Freddy und seine Freunde müssen seine Machenschaften aufdecken, bevor es zu spät ist. Denn Mr Midget setzt sogar Blutsauger gegen die Menschenschüler ein und bringt sie so in ernste Gefahr.

It was late autumn, 1850, in the little farming town of Cideville, France. Seeking revenge for the jailing of his coven leader, a male witch named Thorel cast a hex upon two boys who lived with Father Jean Lariat, the parish priest. Immediately strange noises began in Lariat's parsonage. What followed was history's only known trial where a witch was the plaintiff, not the defendant.

Becky und ihre Freunde trauen ihren Augen kaum: Alle magischen Wesen in der Bücherwelt sind in einen tiefen Schlaf versunken! Wer steckt nur hinter dieser schwarzen Magie? Schnell fällt der Verdacht auf die dreizehnte Fee, die vor vielen Jahren schon den Dornröschenschlaf heraufbeschworen hat. Becky, Hugo und Ben brauchen dringend Verbündete, um sie aufzuhalten. Sollten sie die Fee nicht überlisten können, droht der magischen Welt ein ewiger Schlaf...

Es ist Zeit für die Abreise der Königin, nachdem Becky nun auch ihre Geschichte niedergeschrieben hat. Als Dank möchte die Königin Becky, Hugo und Ben einen Wunsch erfüllen. Doch da erscheint in Glimmerias Kristallkugel das Bild von Mo, dem Jungen auf dem fliegenden Teppich. Er wurde von Prinz Alvar aus dem Nordland und dessen fiesen Gehilfen gefangen genommen, denn sie haben einen gefährlichen Pakt geschlossen. Mo schafft es, sich in die reale Welt hineinzulesen.

Becky und Hugo haben den verzauberten Schlüssel zur magischen Welt gefunden. Doch bevor sie ihre Reise dorthin antreten, taucht in Glimmerias Kristallkugel eine uralte Prophezeiung auf, die offenbar Becky gilt. Nachdem sich die Freund*innen in die magische Welt des Buches der Bücher hineingelesen haben, begegnen ihnen dort viele fantastische Wesen. Noch immer hält die böse Königin Glimmeria und die Buxies im Verlies gefangen. Aber sie scheint sich vor der uralten Prophezeiung zu fürchten.