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Have you ever witnessed 200 dancers in gold-lamé trousers invade a Los Angeles department store? Or maybe 300 nude cyclists riding down Paris' Champs-Elysees? Or perhaps you've received a text message inviting you to an impromptu 500-person pillow fight in London's Piccadilly Circus?

If you answered yes to any of the above, chances are you've unwittingly been exposed to the contemporary but curious cultural phenomenon of the flash mob.

Noah Hansen is the 19-year-old son of the Chief of Police. He risks his life daily with a combination of drug use and dangerous sexual encounters. He is chaotic and impulsive, constantly placing himself in harm's way just to get an adrenaline rush. He has maps of trauma that he keeps hidden and secrets he has never shared. Instead of facing his issues, he buries them.

In one life, Carys is an assistant mythology professor in Northern California. In the Shadowlands, she’s a dragon rider with close ties to royals, fae, and powerful magic wielders. It’s not just differing worlds that Carys must navigate but the love of two very different men who wear the same beloved face. When the Anglian king dies, Carys returns to the Shadowlands where a brittle peace accord threatens to crumble. As war looms and old gods begin to wake, Carys will have to choose between the two men vying for her heart and the two worlds that promise very different destinies.

The monsters already own my body…but do they want my heart? Left to die in a monstrous land, I’m saved by the monster I least expect. He hates me, but he loves what my body can do for him. I shouldn’t want to keep him. I shouldn’t want to keep all of them. I’m just their plaything, after all. But, one by one, they find their way into my heart. Even as the world falls apart around me, I realize that I’ve become just as obsessed with my monsters as they are with me.

Two years after the worldwide pandemic, there is no law, no communications, no state lines, and no safety. The few who survived came out stronger, each with a unique power. Except for Cora. Powerless and alone after escaping two abusive men, she doesn’t expect to live long. But at least she’s free. Judge is the leader, and he protects what’s his with brutal justice. When he finds Cora, the first woman he and his men have seen since The Fever, he rules that she will stay with them...and be shared by them.

The North Yorkshire moors are always a magical place, but they’re particularly enchanting at the holidays…especially if one gets to travel back in time to a Victorian Christmas. For Bronwyn Dale, it is the stuff of dreams. Fancy-dress balls, quirky small-town traditions, even that classic one-horse open sleigh, complete with jingle bells. There’s just the tiny problem of the Butterfly Effect. How does a time-traveler make a difference without disrupting the future forever?

Johnny Decker, #12. Star quarterback for the Boston Tomcats. Two-time Super Bowl MVP...a decade ago. Nickname: "Decker the Panty Wrecker". When we lose our beloved team owner, his estranged daughter inherits the Tomcats. I don’t know which is worse—the fact that she’s a finance nerd from New York who knows less than nothing about football...or that I mistook her for a secretary when we first met. She’s stubborn, uptight, infuriating, looks way too good in a skirt, and she’s wrong about absolutely everything—from pizza to how to run my team.

Stoned and porn-addicted surfer Baxter Kent is terrified of women and anxious to make things work with a sex robot. Acid junkie Arden Coover has a useless philosophy degree and a doomed relationship he believes might save him. His younger sister Tess is considering, or resisting, a convenient but loveless marriage to a wealthy, narcissistic novelist. Ryland Richter, an alcoholic insurance executive with too much money and too few scruples, is seeking toxic solace in the arms of a dangerously unhinged subordinate.

Returning to Mating Season was supposed to be a blessing, especially for an Omega in my position. I've always been drawn to powerful Alphas and the show has plenty to offer. Last season, the pickings were slim. I should be overjoyed to be here again. But that was before I ran into them. Sinfully...

How did an accomplished Southern businesswoman, wife, and mother end up living on California’s Central Coast, working for a stubborn winemaker, newly divorced, and wrestling with sudden psychic powers? Megan Carpenter asks herself that same question nearly every day. Thank goodness she has the two best friends in the world. With Katherine and Toni at her side, Megan is determined to keep her plans on track, even when an unexpected theft at the winery threatens the new business she’s building.

Adrift during the summer after she finishes college, a young woman takes a holiday with her mother in the rugged Australian coastal town of Sailor's Beach. As she searches for something, anything, to anchor her in the face of an uncertain future, Jude arrives. Jude, an older man who offers her the stability she craves. Jude, who will change everything. Many years later, as questions about past and present gain a new urgency, she looks back on the summer that shaped her and the woman she yearned to become.

I’m a hot-headed pro hockey player with a reputation for two things: reckless fights on the ice and a taste for older women off of it. But this time I might just be in over my head with an older single mom.

Three stories of human women finding love among their alien Ragoru triads, set in a dystopian version of Earth. This box set includes: Red, White, and Huntress.

They’ll do anything to protect her...as long as they never learn her secret. I’m Officer Essie Shaw, and I shouldn’t exist. If anyone finds out their friendly neighborhood beat cop is a nephilim - public enemy number one - I’ll be imprisoned. Or worse, dissected. I survive by keeping my head down and my barely there magic under wraps. But when I lose a fight with a strange, smoke-like wraith, I’m confronted with my worst nightmare.

Discover a world of under water adventure with Smiley Shark, Fidgety Fish and other fun ocean characters. Smiley Shark may be the biggest fish in the ocean, but he’s also the friendliest and the funniest - and by far the smiliest! Join in on the adventures of Smiley Shark and his ocean-dwelling friends. Full of colourful and fun stories, sure to bring a smile to story-time, this is the perfect audio collection for any three- to six-year-old who loves sea creatures, sharks and silliness.

Im Hörspiel Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse wird das zarte Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen mit der fantasievollen Musik von Maurice Ravel umwoben. Im Königsschloss sucht ein Königspaar eine echte Prinzessin. Als in einer regnerischen Nacht ein junges Mädchen anklopft, wird sie mit einer winzigen Erbse unter vielen Matratzen auf die Probe gestellt. Die ruhige und musikalische Kindergeschichte ist pädagogisch wertvoll und vermittelt kindgerecht Wissen und Werte wie Freundschaft, Mut und Selbstvertrauen.

It was November 25, 1947.The place was the Hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Eric Johnson, was meeting with 48 film industry executives representing the major studios. The outcome was the joint release of a statement saying the Hollywood studios would not employ Communists. But it did not end there.

È ricco di personaggi ambigui questo sorprendente audiobook della grandissima Agatha Christie: ci sono l'amico fedele, l'amico innamorato, la sorella sfregiata, la governante che odia gli uomini, la bellissima amante Elsa Greer. Gravitano tutti attorno a Caroline - la moglie tradita - e Amyas, il marito fedifrago. Il loro matrimonio travagliato si concluderà con una tragedia. In questo romanzo, del 1942, la Christie ha realizzato uno dei suoi più interessanti esercizi di bravura, costruendo un meccanismo tanto intricato quanto perfetto, dove tutto è diverso da quella che sembra.

One woman, two men, a fierce attraction and a danger that could destroy them all.... Olivia Holloway’s life has never been easy. On her own at 16, she’s fought to survive ever since. When she finds herself in a dangerous situation that even she can’t handle, she has to break down and ask for help. She reluctantly seeks it by showing up at her estranged brother’s law firm. However, it’s not her brother, Trey, who steps in, it’s the firm’s private investigator, Elliot Stone and his husband, Grant Lane.

Former special forces operator Ryder has never backed down from an assignment, and he’ll be damned if he lets a blonde-haired, smart-mouthed, pain in the a** destroy that record. She’s going to get her life together even if he has to drag her kicking and screaming to do so, and he’s not opposed to using a firm hand to yank her from the darkness back into the light. MC born and bred, Kelsea is on a one-way path to rock-bottom. She has no desire to be "saved", especially not by a bossy former Army Ranger with deep green eyes and a sexy Southern twang.