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Hardy is a journalist who enjoys doing her pieces on the more risque events, but the masked man is someone you don't want to draw attention to.

Inghilterra, 1758. Henry Evesham è un uomo in missione. Nel suo ruolo di Lord Luogotenente, è incaricato di investigare sul vizio che infesta la città di Londra, dai bassifondi ai ceti nobili, per estirparlo. Sono soprattutto i piaceri della carne a preoccuparlo, come quelli in cui si indulge nel club di Charlotte Street. Henry vi è stato diverse volte, per la sua inchiesta, ed è rimasto colpito dalla quieta bellezza di Alice Hull, assistente della padrona del club. Quando scopre che la giovane deve tornare nel Somerset per un'emergenza familiare, si offre di accompagnarla.

When Mel's mother passes away, she and her husband are tasked with sorting her estate. The affair is long and tedious, but when she and her husband, Jamie, discover Mel's inherited property in West Virginia, they have no idea that life would drop them right in the middle of those lonely hills.

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual liberation. All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations.

We seem to be living in a fractionalized world where many things are vying for our attention. How can we choose? What groups do we join? What do we value and why? Where do we put our attention? What has meaning? Drastic changes are taking place in our families, communities, organizations, and the world. What will guide us?

From the moment RB star Cambria Harding walks into Miles Woodson’s Atlanta recording studio, he knows there’ll be trouble. She’s as fiery as he is reserved, and she gets under his skin like no woman ever has. The impassioned artist forces Miles out of his comfort zone, saying this spark is just a pleasurable distraction. But the heat of their “limited engagement” makes them wonder if opposites can do more than just attract …

After losing everything, Katie Wilk is starting life over in Columbia, Minnesota, with a new career—giving up cryptanalysis in favor of teaching school—and a canine companion, Maverick, a black Labrador retriever. But on one of their first outings, Katie and Maverick discover a dead body in a nearby marshland. Doctor Pete Erickson enters her life. As the county coroner, he’s one of the first on the scene; as the doctor that day in the ER, he’s the one who stitches up Katie’s head; as the son of the police chief, Pete is also in on the investigation.

In Rydor, royals rule monsters with artifacts and their people with fear. The poor pay for protection, but the ones higher on the pedestal are the true predators. Those not born with titles can only hope that criminals like the Phantom Thieves might save them in their moments of need. No one knows the names or faces of the thieves, but they do know how much the royals despise the monster hunters. When Calderi guards finally capture one of the thieves, the other will prove again nothing will stop her from finding him and that she will grant no mercy to any that stand in her way.

Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past. Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life.

Strange signals pulse from an icy planet in a remote star system. Enter Lilline Renault, GAM-OPs secret agent extraordinaire. To ordinary citizens she's Keely Larkin, an adventure company guide with a flair for the daring and a penchant for writing trite poetry. When a terrifying link between high-tech entertainment and ancient cosmic forces rises, Lilline leaps into action. Verses flow as she rockets through space, dons cunning disguises, and infiltrates enemy territory with an arsenal of secret gadgets.

As Christian parents, our deep longing is for our children to love Jesus, not just know about Him. Pray with Me illustrates that intentional prayer practices can guide our children toward an authentic relationship with God during their pre-K through tween years. This go-to for parents will also be a valuable discipleship resource for ministry leaders in guiding children and families to know Jesus and connect with God through powerful personal prayer.

In small towns between the North Carolina Piedmont and the coast, the best scenery is often in the sky. On flat sweeps of red clay and scrub pine, the days move monotonously, safely, but above, in the blink of an eye, dangerous clouds can boil out of all four corners of the sky. The flat slow land starts to shiver and anything can happen. In such a storm, on Annie Peregrine’s seventh birthday, her father gave her the airplane and minutes later drove out of her life.

Sins of the past infringe on the events of the present. A young woman unwittingly becomes the center of an immortal struggle, one born of obsession, love, and vengeance. With innocent lives on the line, reality itself may well fracture. And it all comes down to the decisions of a girl hundreds of years in her grave…and her modern incarnation caught up in the Tragedy of Lorna.

Doctor Trustumbarger’s library looks like an old cabin. Nancy and Craig enter, and then Nancy hands Doctor Trustumbarger a list of questions: Can women be preachers? Can women teach men in Sunday school? Do wives have to take orders from their husbands? Can women wear jewelry? Did Eve’s curse apply to all women? Are men and women the same spiritually? Doctor Trustumbarger smiles and nods, for he knows that the answers to Nancy’s questions will both comfort and inspire her. Then Craig also hands Doctor Trustumbarger a list of questions.

Songwriter Eden Voss had the perfect man—sexy, charming, talented and hers. Until record executive Blaine Woodson broke her heart to save his fledging label. Now music’s bad boy is back, begging for her songwriting skills in his studio … and her lovemaking skills after hours. Eden vows to keep things strictly business this time. But there is nothing professional about the heat still between them …

A mysterious girl, a mysterious sleeping spell, a mysterious car crash, and now, Emlyn's missing. It's up to Stella to lead the Storytellers on a mission to save their friend and leader. With Camilla and Ginger taking over Americana in the process, there are many secrets to be revealed.

Against this backdrop of Mafia turf wars, local gang battles, and political power-plays in the mayoral election, the bodies begin stacking up. An unlikely assassin arrives fresh from Naples after killing a top member of the Camorra to avenge the murder of her family.

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Avere quattro fratelli maggiori non sempre è un vantaggio. Nina Hadley per tutta la vita si è sentita amata e protetta dalla sua grande e rumorosa famiglia, ma ormai non è più una bambina, e non ne può più di avere costantemente accanto qualcuno che le dice cosa fare. Per questo, quando riceve una straordinaria offerta di lavoro a Parigi, non ci pensa due volte e accetta con entusiasmo! Per i successivi mesi dovrà aiutare a gestire un corso per pasticceri. Praticamente il lavoro dei suoi sogni.

Horrace reveals to Emlyn the real world is in danger and she now has to go back. Emlyn knows that now she can't go alone and takes Stella, Bob, Mystic, and Sarah with her. But the journey is long as the spell takes them to multiple realms. Not only that, they must find the missing tiles hidden in the seven wonders of the world to send Camilla back before it's too late.