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Domesticity and creativity wrestle in these hilariously skewed tales of postmodern family life.

True love, like a rose in amber, lasts forever...Sunny Eagle is sent to Brighton, England, to live with her great aunt. After growing up on a reservation with her white mother and Apache father, Sunny must adhere to Britain's protocol and rules while coping with an overbearing aunt and a missing sibling. Captain Rafe Cavendish vowed never to fall in love, again. Yet twice, when Sunny finds herself in danger, he comes to her rescue and saves her life. Can he keep his distance from this beautiful, caring woman, or will he lose his heart and have it broken a second time?

Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge gathers together in one place a remarkable collection of leaders who share insights on faith and leadership. Well-grounded in research, this reflective and practical book shows how Christian leaders - no matter the setting - put into place The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership: Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart.

Quirk and Moth have avoided killing each other long enough to solve another case. They decide on a local job next, and take up the search for a missing scientist. How could Quirk know this new mystery put them on a headlong collision course with his troubled past, a plethora of personal issues, and a hoard of genetic hybrid creatures with an appetite for anything that moves? When their client dies in mysterious circumstances, law enforcement pursues the dysfunctional duo all the way to a research lab in frozen Yellowknife.

Dem schottischen Dorfpolizisten Hamish Macbeth stinkt's gewaltig. Ein unheimlicher, selbsternannter Gypsy hat einen rostigen Van einfach mitten in Lochdubh abgestellt. Hamish kann den Ärger bereits förmlich riechen - und liegt wieder mal genau richtig. Medikamente verschwinden aus der Arztpraxis, Geld kommt abhanden, ehemals freundliche Nachbarn verhalten sich plötzlich so gar nicht mehr nachbarschaftlich, und die Lage eskaliert! Hamish hat alle Hände voll zu tun.

Hallucination ou fantasme ? C'est la question que se pose Agatha Raisin lorsque, au détour d'une route, surgit devant elle un homme dans le plus simple appareil. Paniqué, il dit avoir aperçu un cadavre... Pourtant, une fois sur place, nulle trace du corps. Si la police crie au canular, Agatha est persuadée que le nudiste dit vrai.

The blood of werewolves runs with the fierce, wild magic of the earth. For millennia, that's what's kept us safe, let us shed our human skins, and run as beasts. Now, it's the siren song that calls our enemies. I'm the girl known as White Wolf, the alpha female for a new pack - a super pack - a combination of my wolves and the wolves governed by the seven alpha males I've chosen as my mates. Together, we represent and protect every werewolf in North America. Together, we represent the most highly desired prey on the continent.

London is everything I should stay away from. Sweet, perfect, and my best friend’s girl. She’s also pregnant with his kid. A kid who will never know its dad - because of me. She spends her life fixing things...and I spend mine breaking them. The woman has this whole messed-up theory that she can heal me, but I’m not just damaged, I’m irreparably broken. And my love for her won’t just burn her this time, it could destroy us both.

Love doesn't hurt. Expectations do. Those words were scribbled on the outside of her English binder, but I knew even then that they may as well have been tattooed on the fragments of her heart. My girl was broken, damaged, and yet I loved her. Foolishly, I'd thought I'd be able to banish her darkness, but I'd only chased it away for a few moments in the sun. I was too damn young to understand the demons she was fighting. But I'd soon be faced with my own darkness. Instead of me healing her, she would break me.

Rangers take their promises seriously, and when a squad with the 75th Rangers makes a solemn vow to their gravely wounded platoon sergeant, they will move heaven and earth to honor it. When the political structure of the US shifts, the former Rangers will have to go to great lengths to keep their vow.

Im abgelegenen schottischen Fischerdorf Stoyre ist etwas im Gange. Die Einwohner verhalten sich irgendwie äußerst ... merkwürdig. Bei einem Routinebesuch findet Dorfpolizist Hamish Macbeth den Pub leer vor, während die Kirche unerwartet voll ist - und die Atmosphäre durchdrungen von Angst. Dann wird ein Ferienhaus durch eine Explosion dem Erdboden gleichgemacht, was die Einheimischen als "höhere Gewalt" bezeichnen. Hamish hat da allerdings eine andere Theorie. Mit Hilfe der scharfsinnigen Journalistin Elspeth Grant gibt er alles, um der Wahrheit auf die Spur zu kommen.

Delve into the darkness and discover the world of your nightmares. Eighteen terrifying tales of what lurks behind the veil. A make-belief monster becomes all too real, a mother's hate doesn't stop at death, a late-night work call becomes a fight between life and death, a urban legend becomes all too real. Filled with supernatural and paranormal thrills and chills. These are not your mother's bedtime stories. You have been warned.

The complete Holly Hills Christmas series in one must-listen collection. This bundle includes Books 1-3: Holiday's Cookies, Celeste's Secret, and Bethany's Crush.

Once again, HellBound Books Publishing brings you an outstanding collection of horror, dark, slippery things, and supernatural terror - all from the very best up and coming minds in the genre.

Sa dernière enquête a mené un homme innocent à la potence... Autant dire que le détective Sydney Grice n'est plus vraiment en odeur de sainteté à Londres. Boudé par ses clients, le "plus grand détective de tout l'empire britannique" dépérit. March Middelton, son excentrique acolyte du "sexe faible", commence à sérieusement s'inquiéter. Jusqu'à ce qu'un individu, membre de l'effrayant "Club du dernier survivant", fasse appel aux services de Sydney... et ait l'impudence de passer de vie à trépas dans son salon !

Allies and enemies wear the same skins: witches, demons, faeries, vampires...werewolves. It's impossible to tell what's hiding beneath the carefully crafted facades, the sinful slashes of smiling lips. Magic died in our people long ago; today, it blinks sleepy eyes and wakes up. Ancient gods raise their heads, spirits once thought to be whispers of myth, urge us to fight. They give us the power to defend ourselves from those who would take our magic as their own.

The Breakup Breakthrough provides clear strategies based upon research to help you heal and move on faster. Dr. C. M. Sense, with his years of experience working with individuals who struggle to overcome romantic grief, gives a guide to getting over your ex in a thought-provoking and easy-to-follow book. Breakthrough the heartache and stop doing things that aren’t helping you heal. It’s time to move on and breakthrough the breakup.

Although C. M. Kornbluth died an untimely death at age 34, in his short career he managed to write dozens of short stories and a number of novels, often collaborating with other writers. The five stories in this collection are all his own, and show a writer at the height of his powers.

Brynn of Haversey has some ghostly problems, but luckily she has six potential lovers to make it all a bit easier....

These days we are living longer than ever, yet we're more run down, anxious, overweight, exhausted, stressed out, depressed, and all-around more unwell than ever before. The quantity of the days we live is up, but the quality of those days is down. Way down. What if there were a simple, everyday way to change this? What if a healthy life were easily within your grasp - body, mind, and spirit? The good news is that it is!