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Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you’d find in the pages of a glossy magazine: A beautiful 14-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes’ home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family appears to have been abducted, with only a pile of their cell phones and electronic devices remaining. No witnesses, no ransom demands, no motive. Just a perfect little family, gone.

It’s been said that at the core of every legend lies a seed of truth. For four American tourists vacationing in Greece, this is a lesson learned the hard way. When the group sets out to find a subterranean pool that’s rumored to be the one by which the demi-god Narcissus once wasted away in self-obsession, what started as a fun excursion quickly escalates into a full-blown nightmare.

Depuis son déménagement, Marianne Bellehumeur arrive mal à composer avec la tournure que prend sa vie d'adolescente. Loin de ses best friends, elle a de la difficulté à s'adapter à son nouveau milieu. Son intégration à l'école secondaire est particulièrement ardue. Un sourire échangé avec un séduisant garçon le matin de la rentrée viendra changer quelque peu la donne.

After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn’t dare tell Gavin why she’s really come back. Then she discovers old journals hidden in a lava cave—confessions of another woman who needed to disappear.

At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, the army’s chief of staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II—the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the lines between truth and fiction, the best defense was for American troops to bring the truth into focus by writing it down.

June 6, 1944. Allied forces hit the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Among the countless lives shattered are those of five spirited women with starkly different lives. As the war reaches its tipping point, each of the women fight for the survival of themselves, their countries, and their way of life during one of the most pivotal days in history. Now, during the most perilous hours of their lives, all five women must summon courage they never knew they had as they confront the dangers of war alongside treacherous family secrets, heartbreak, and the ability to trust themselves.

In the grand finale of the epic Deathstalker saga, Lewis Deathstalker and his beloved Jesamine are compelled to embrace the full might of their extraordinary new powers. The Empire and rebel forces must forge an uneasy alliance to battle a common enemy: the demonic Uber-espers, a conflict that leads to a startling revelation as to their origin. The deposed King Douglas finally confronts the usurper Finn Durandal face-to-face. And Owen Deathstalker’s quest to halt the onslaught of the monstrous Terror reaches its dramatic conclusion.

Inmitten der 1950er Jahre, den Zeiten des Aufbruchs, eröffnet Luise Dahlmann ein kleines Lebensmittelgeschäft in Starnberg, in der Nähe von München. Dort gibt es alles, was das Herz begehrt: Obst und Gemüse, Frischwaren, Nylonstrümpfe, buttrigen Kuchen, Schokolade... und jede Menge Klatsch und Tratsch. Drei Frauen kreuzen dabei immer wieder Luises Weg und werden schließlich ihre Freundinnen: Annabel von Thaler, die neidische Arztgattin von nebenan, die junge Helga Knaup aus München und Marie Wagner, geflohen aus Schlesien.

Pittsburgh police officer Kate O'Hern is on the trail of a killer targeting cops. Only problem, he's already killed her once. Trauma surgeon Joshua Lightner saved Kate's life, only to have her awaken suffering from an unexpected side effect: visions of other people's deaths. As a doctor, he refuses to believe in "psychic mumbo-jumbo", but as a man, he can't deny his feelings for Kate. When the killer targets them both, are they living on Borrowed Time?

Von ihrem geliebten Vater Volker, einem Lehrer, hat Susanne gelernt, an den Sozialismus zu glauben. Ohne je das Vertrauen in die Menschheit zu verlieren, hat er gegen das Naziregime gekämpft - und wurde vor den Augen seiner sechzehnjährigen Tochter kurz vor Kriegsende erschossen. Nie hat Susanne dieses Erlebnis vergessen, dass sie für ihr Leben geprägt hat... Um das Vermächtnis des Vaters zu erfüllen, widmet sich Susanne von ganzem Herzen dem Aufbau eines besseren Deutschland. Erst als sie den lebenslustigen Koch Kelmi kennen- und liebenlernt, beginnt sie allmählich zu begreifen, was um sie herum passiert.

"Das Niedrigste wird aus den Leuten herausgeholt, nicht das Anständige." Diese einfache und eindringliche Warnung vor einer Rhetorik der Extreme richtete die 90-jährige Holocaust-Überlebende Gertrude Pressburger im österreichischen Präsidentschaftswahlkampf in Form einer Web-Videobotschaft an die Wähler und warnte damit vor der Wahl des FPÖ-Kandidaten. Das Video wurde mehrere Millionen mal geteilt - und Frau Pressburger damit in Österreich zur "Ikone derer, die den Parolen der Rechten etwas entgegensetzen wollen" (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Jetzt hat sie ihre Lebensgeschichte im Gespräch mit der jungen Journalistin Marlene Groihofer aufgezeichnet.

When magic meets mundane, sparks fly: These are exciting times in Archers Beach, Maine! An unprecedented Early Season has united townies and carnies in an effort expand into a 12-month resort, recapturing the town's former glory. Kate Archer, owner-operator of the vintage wooden carousel, is caught up in the excitement - and is quite possibly the cause of it. Because Kate leads a double life, as carny, and as Guardian of the land.

When the ghost of a murder victim appears in Last Chance Books, middle-aged bookstore owner, Willa Chance, must find the ghost's killer or risk being haunted with its unwanted advice forever. Too bad the ghost suffers from amnesia and only has a few scant clues as to the identity of the killer. That's okay, though, because Willa has a pretty good idea who did it...until her investigation turns up additional suspects with curious motives.

Welcome to Archers Beach in the Changing Land, the last and least of the Six Worlds, where magic works, sometimes, and the Guardian husbands the vitality of the land and everyone on it - earth spirit and plain human alike. Kate Archer, Guardian and carousel-keeper, has been busy making some changes of her own, notably beginning a romantic relationship with Borgan, the Guardian of the Gulf of Maine, Kate's opposite number, and, some would say, her natural mate.

Catherine Ling is one of the CIA's most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and now, nine years later, he has astonishingly been returned to her. Catherine vows never to fail him again.

Heading off on holiday or a business trip? Looking for a language safety net to get yourself out of sticky situations? Fed up not knowing how to order a drink or a meal? Join Elisabeth Smith and her student Andy for an in-flight Italian lesson as they head off abroad. This course is fast, fun and easy. There’s no grammar or writing practice. Instead it focuses on practical spoken Italian so you can communicate with ease. Learn the 50 most essential words and phrases - just what you need to be understood and enjoy your trip.

Dans le dernier tome de la série Marianne Bellehumeur, l'auteure Lucille Bisson amène son héroïne au centre de différents événements qui marqueront sa vie d'adolescente. À coeur ouvert, nous transporte dans le quotidien souvent explosif de cette adolescente à la fois colorée et très attachante qui ne finit pas de nous surprendre.

De retour d’Argentine, Caroline tente de regagner l’estime des Suédois. En effet, la relation naissante entre Jeremy, qui est un des leurs, et la jeune Émeraude semble mal en point depuis le procès de Logan. Les deux Gemme ne sont pas au bout de leur peine : tout se met en travers de leur route, à commencer par le dangereux et mystérieux criminel qui souhaite toujours s’emparer de l’aleph de Caroline. Puis, l’arrivée au pays du promis de la jeune fille vient causer d’énormes complications entre les deux Halv, mettant leur amour à l’épreuve.

Caroline se relève tranquillement des évènements bouleversants qui ont eu lieu au bal de Noël et elle essaie de reprendre le cours normal de son existence. Mais sa nouvelle vie d'Émeraude prend une tournure à laquelle elle ne s'attendait pas. Le comportement cordial de Jeremy et sa soudaine gentillesse à son égard sont étranges. Ce n'est que lorsque Caroline découvre enfin l'identité du fantôme de ses dessins qu'elle réalise que son arrivée à Rivière-du-Loup n'avait rien d'un hasard.

Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed.