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Five months there. Five months back. And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space. Denali is one hell of a trip. But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony. Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured. But Denali holds another prize beyond their wildest dreams. Can Sass hold her fractious crew together, get the goods, and meet her launch window home?

Pirates, slavers, and deviants! Captain Sass Collier leads her motley crew across the treacherous rings of gas giant Pono, seeking a cure for the steady decline of Mahina Colony. Tantalizing clues point to Sagamore, Mahina’s sister moon. To get there, Sass needs to upgrade her decrepit skyship. Her crew of would-be heroes need to earn their space legs. And ex-cop Sass is probably the wrong person for the job. But no one else is willing to try. Only the deranged denizens of the rings can enable them to reach Sagamore. The social rejects in orbit prove as dangerous as the asteroids.

Captain Sass Collier got her crew to Denali. Can she bring them home again? Marooned 35 million miles from their home moon. Not enough fuel to reach orbit again, let alone Mahina. The locals seem friendly. But the planet Denali itself is hostile, from volcanoes to microbes. Thrive has 6 months until their launch window opens–and closes.

An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive. Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them. The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.

Five months there. Five months back. And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space. Denali is one hell of a trip. But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony. Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured. But Denali holds another prize beyond their wildest dreams. Can Sass hold her fractious crew together, get the goods, and meet her launch window home?

Nuria recuerda con nostalgia sus noches frente a la hoguera en Peguerinos con su abuelo Mateo, cuando solo era una niña y escuchaba embobada las fábulas e historias de miedo que él le contaba junto al fuego, en particular, la del ladrón de voces.

Es el verano de 1936, y la isla de Creta brilla bajo el sol y el mar Egeo. Allí, en sus playas, dos jóvenes descubrirán el amor. Eleni ha viajado a Creta toda su vida. Viene de Inglaterra a pasar los soleados veranos con su abuelo en su idílica villa junto al mar. Cuando llega en 1936, cree que las largas y calurosas semanas que se avecinan serán como muchas otras. Pero ese año también llega a la isla un joven alemán llamado Otto. Y así comienza un verano de romance: el mar, el sol, el tomillo fresco, la alegría y la música deberían durar para siempre.

An eighteen-year-old leaves his home in Philadelphia to get away from a drug-addicted mother and her abusive partner, as well as to track down the man he thought was his deadbeat dad. His bus trip across the country and adventures in San Francisco bring answers and unexpected discoveries for him—a young woman and fresh insights about his parents.

"Jag förstår inte riktigt", säger han och tvingar mig närmre för att visa mera handgripligen. Under hela yogapasset har jag hållit distansen men nu sveps jag in i hans feromoner och karisma. Han tar min hand och lägger den på sitt eget ben, på utsidan av hans lår intill hans rumpa för att jag ska förtydliga, visa var han ska vara slappna av och vilken muskel som ska sträckas ut. En svindlande stund tror jag han ska lägga min hand på insidan av sitt välformade lår, men istället lyckas han smeka mig över båda brösten. Mina olydiga bröstvårtor lystrar till naturens rop och hårdnar."

From Why-ning to Winning will transform your life. Cindy will lead you through the healing questions. She's been there herself. Her child was sick and almost died. She was once contemplating suicide. You'll hear her moving story and be inspired to overcome your own challenges.

Estranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin when her sister calls with bad news. Their mother is ill, and has only a few months to live. Confused and conflicted, Natasha returns to the home she fled many years before. But her father, an evangelical Christian, has not changed – he is still the domineering yet magnetic man she ran from, and her sisters and mother are still in his thrall. One night, her father makes an astonishing announcement – he has received a message from God that his wife is to be healed, and they must hold a party to celebrate.

Hell has entered the solar system, a behemoth that will decimate the planet—and its inhabitants. But there is hope for humanity if they can get enough people off-planet to start over. However, sabotage puts a dent in those plans. Cindy-lu is tasked with finding a way to help repair their only means of evacuation, and to ensure she can get the job done, they've assigned her a guardian angel.

At six years old, Myla was sent to a family her father and mother had chosen for her when they knew their time on earth was almost up. What they were unaware of was what they thought would be her safe haven would become her living hell. Kai has been watching Myla from afar since he took over the family business from his father and inherited the responsibility of keeping her safe. When word gets back to Kai that Myla is not only in danger but also that his assets are being compromised, he immediately jumps into action and does the only thing that can be done at the time: marry her.

After her latest relationship ends in yet another disaster, newspaper writer Alexandra Kenner turns to her best friend and commitment-phobic contractor Mack Douglas for support, only to discover that he could just be her Mr. Right.

No Handmaiden has ever been returned to a patron and no patron has ever been granted a second chance for absolute solace, but when Eamon's petition to the Mothers-in-Service is accepted, Tenacity goes back to Dugal House to confront the man who broke her heart and changed her life forever. Eamon wants only the opportunity to prove himself worthy of not only Tenacity's service and the blessings of the Order, but also the chance to gain what he so foolishly cast aside those many years ago—her love.

En semesterresa tillsammans med dig och dina jobbarkompisar med respektive. Det var inget jag riktigt såg fram emot. Jag hade hellre rest på tu man hand med dig för att verkligen kunna ta tillvara på varje barnledig dag. Jag himlar lite med ögonen när jag tänker på att jag måste dela min tid med dig med ett helt gäng av dina jobbarkompisar och deras präktiga fruar. Men jag blir överraskad på flera sätt och vi lyckas hetta upp både våra och de andras semesterdagar.

With his facility for languages and gift for diplomacy, Thomas Pearce is perfectly suited for his recent position in the Foreign Office. Or so he imagines until he receives his first assignment. Instead of a safe consular post in a friendly country, Thomas is going to France to rescue Sabine Rousseau, the illegitimate daughter of Britain's premiere. Sabine and Thomas must make their escape, and it won't be easy. Her uncle considers her a ticket to curry favor with Napoleon and won't let her disappear without a fight. To avoid detection, the couple must pretend to be amorous newlyweds.

My studies in theology didn't prepare me to deal with angels from outer space. They're real. They fly. And in their elevated arrogance, they don't think they need anyone's help. So, imagine my surprise when the shy but hunky Zakai asks for my assistance in locating Noah's ark. Apparently, it's not just a religious myth. The massive ship did exist, and it looks like humanity might need it if they're going to survive an incoming invasion. As we work to uncover the mystery, we're stymied by opposing forces doing everything they can to stop us.

An agent of Arkane, the British agency tasked with protecting the world from supernatural crises, Morgan knows that giving up the staff could spell the end of all things. Now, the Crone has taken dozens of staff members, visitors—even children—hostage at the British Museum, demanding that Morgan turn over the staff.

"De Madrid al cielo" sagen die Madrileños, aber warum nicht in die nähere Umgebung der spanischen Hauptstadt? ECOS Spanisch lernen Audio besucht den Klosterpalast El Escorial, Cervantes' Geburtsstadt Alcalá de Henares, die Residenz Aranjuez und empfiehlt den Ort Valdemorillo an der Ruta Imperial. Die Umgebung von Madrid dient als Aufhänger für den Sprachteil, wie immer auf drei Schwierigkeitsstufen, mit den Unterschieden zwischen "durar" und "tardar", zwischen "acabar de" und "dejar de" sowie mit Wortschatz zu Stadt und Architektur.