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Estela isn't supposed to find love. As a slave to the Giant King, Estela's life is an endless torment. Her sole hope is to escape with her half-brother and find refuge among the elves. Teo, the Troll King, is desperate. His people are dying, and he's running out of options. When the giants come for diamonds, Teo's crystal sings. The slave is the king's mate, and with her comes a solution to save his people. Even after the king steals her from her masters, Estela's one desire is to flee.

Sie hat alles gehabt und alles verloren: Sekunden der Unachtsamkeit kosten ihre einzige Tochter das Leben. Tief sieht Linda in den Abgrund und wäre beinahe gefallen, doch da sind hauchfeine Fäden, die sie halten – die Hündin Kaja, die steten Handgriffe im Garten, das Mitgefühl für andere. Wie viel Kraft in ihr steckt, ahnt sie erst, als sie zurückfindet in einen Alltag und zu sich selbst.

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A woman on the run. An island of secrets. A love to defy all odds... From the bestselling author of WATCH OVER ME, Daniela Sacerdoti's new novel is a romantic, heartrending, epic story that will sweep you away to the beautiful, mysterious island of Seal. If you love the novels of Rosanna Ley...

She befriended the one woman she was never supposed to meet. Now she's the key suspect in her disappearance. For fans of The Perfect Mother and The Wife Between Us comes a gripping psychological suspense debut about two strangers, one incredible connection, and the steep price of obsession. Lana...

Twenty-year-old Annie arrives on the Sicilian island of Galatea carrying nothing but grief for the father she just lost in her heart and the weight of the mystery she just inherited on her shoulders. All she knows about her grandmother is that she died in a concentration camp during World War Two. But when handsome local fisherman Salvo’s sea-blue eyes sparkle at the sight of the delicate gold band around her wrist, Annie knows she’s come to the right place.

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martinez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. 

With the exciting sport of fencing steadily becoming more mainstream in the UK and US and around the world, parents are spending thousands each year to help and encourage their children to train and excel in this unique Olympic sport. Fencing can be a mysterious world to the uninitiated, and parents and young fencers will have many questions about the sport, the fencer's potential, and the do's and don'ts. From Last to First aims to answer all these questions and many more.

Ultimul roman al lui Aldous Huxley, Insula, este povestea societății palaneze ideale. Creată de mai bine de 100 de ani, prin dorința celor doi fondatori ai săi de a reuni tot ce era mai bun în lumile cunoscute, Pala modernă este clădită pe știință și tehnologie făcute pentru om, pe...

I know her as the unconscious girl I found bleeding out on the locker room floor. I got her help. I saved her life. The next time I see her, she makes it clear she wants nothing to do with me. Too bad. I didn't go through the trouble of saving her life just for her to throw it away again. She doesn't know it yet but I'm about to be her new best friend.

When you've forgotten how to live, help can arrive in mysterious ways.... Successful artist Isabel Ramsay has never come to terms with the tragic death of her mother. Haunted by what happened, Isabel finds her own life spiraling out of control until, one winter's day, she gives up, unable to bear the pain of living any longer. Yet somehow she wakes up, remembering a vision of a mysterious woman who has saved her.

Gabriel Herrera saved my life. He picked up all my broken pieces and tried to put me back together again. But life doesn't work that way. So, I did what I had to do. I lied through my teeth. Then he suggests we casually hook up. It's a bad idea, right? F--k it. It's fine.

The lawyer’s call is shocking: Charly’s best friend from childhood has taken her own life and left a decree that Charly care for her two-year-old daughter. Returning to her childhood home on the coast of England, another nasty surprise awaits: Two more of Charly’s friends have mysteriously died. As suspicious incidents in Charly’s little house on the coast pile up, she investigates. She soon discovers that all the deaths were, in fact, brutal murders.

Nella primavera 1944 Anna Banti ha quasi ultimato il suo racconto biografico dedicato all'artista seicentesca Artemisia Gentileschi, ma in agosto il manoscritto va distrutto nei bombardamenti tedeschi su Firenze. Con "ostinazione accorata" la scrittrice torna allora al suo personaggio, "pittrice valentissima" ma soprattutto "una delle prime donne che sostennero colle parole e colle opere il diritto al lavoro congeniale e a una parità di spirito fra i due sessi".

Have you ever wondered how life began or how the universe will end? Things Scientists Don't Know Yet explores science’s biggest unsolved mysteries, taking listeners on an exciting voyage through space, the animal kingdom, and even the human body. From whether aliens exist to why we get hiccups...

Melisa needs a new life for herself and her family. And she finds just that in a troll named Ra'Sa. He's tall, strong, serious, and unattached. And yet, he doesn't fall for her attempts to seduce him. Frustrated, she gives up and crafts a new plan: make herself indispensable. So far, Ra'Sa is unimpressed with the weak, helpless creatures he escorts across the land. The one with long, silky black hair and a red gown is intriguing, but his crystal doesn't sing, meaning she's not his mate. Thus, it doesn't matter that she's clever. And beautiful. And strangely hard to stop watching.

Dominique Price wants me. My body. My mind. My soul. And he can have me—behind closed doors and away from prying eyes. As long as he helps me forget my pain, and promises to stay the hell away from my heart, I'll be his. And for a short while, he'll be mine. But we're playing a dangerous game. One whose rules are swiftly being ignored. I want him. Need him. Might even be addicted to him. Only, happily ever after was never in the cards for us. And it looks like I'm the idiot who forgot that.

John Peter Sloan, "il più efficace insegnante di inglese mai apparso nel nostro Paese", ha scelto Audible per diffondere in esclusiva il suo primo corso di livello intermedio. Si tratta di una vera full immersion, di ben 27 episodi da 20 minuti da ascoltare in totale comodità e mobilità. All'interno di ogni lezione, si sviluppa un tema di conversazione, diviso in due parti e declinato in diverse rubriche: Pearls (parole nuove, come perle preziose), False Friends (parole di cui non fidarsi), Pronunciation (tutti i segreti della dizione), USA (il vocabolario british e quello "yankee" a confronto).

Sie heißen Paula, Judith, Brida, Malika und Jorinde. Sie kennen sich, weil das Schicksal ihre Lebenslinien überkreuzt. Als Kinder und Jugendliche erlebten sie den Fall der Mauer, und wo vorher Grenzen und Beschränkungen waren, ist nun die Freiheit. Doch Freiheit, müssen sie erkennen, ist nur eine andere Form von Zwang: der Zwang zu wählen. Fünf Frauen, die das Leben aus dem Vollen schöpfen. Fünf Frauen, die das Leben beugt, aber keinesfalls bricht.

Ever since her twin sister returned to the family home, Bianca has felt more lost than ever. For the first time in her life, she's not the only one taking care of her family. But her newfound freedom makes it impossible to stop thinking about Lorenzo. She has loved him since they met beneath a tree between their houses as children, but a long-seated family feud means they can never be together. Determined to distract herself from her heartache, Bianca is delighted when she runs into a childhood friend, Brando, who secures her a job at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.