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In her 11 months as alpha, Tara Whelan has maintained tradition in every way except one. Stand above all other wolves? Check. Produce a plan to keep her pack afloat? Glitter factory a go. The part about choosing a temporary consort and popping out an heir, though? Well, she's taking that requirement down to the wire.

This extraordinary first collection of short stories covers the landscape of dysfunctional childhood, urban angst, and human disconnection with a wit and insight that keep you riveted. The characters here have rich and imaginative interior lives, but grave difficulty relating to the outside world.

When livestock deaths point to the paranormal, stripper-turned-scientist Sienna must reconsider what is real to protect both wolves and humans from attack.

I'm Pet, alpha's daughter and commander-in-training for a pack beset by long-concealed secrets. Amid the turmoil, I'm inexplicably drawn to an enigmatic wolf shifter assigned to assess my suitability for leadership. Can I navigate the treacherous waters of attraction and responsibility while unveiling the traitor lurking in our midst?

Die Neuerzählung einer chinesischen Legende: Shelley Parker-Chan zeichnet den Aufstieg Zhu Yuanzhangs nach, jenes armen Bauern, der einst die Mongolenherrschaft stürzte und die Ming-Dynastie gründete. Ein Dorf im staubigen Flachland, geplagt von einer Hungersnot. Ein Seher offenbart zwei Kindern ihre Zukunft: Den Jungen erwartet ein bedeutendes Schicksal, das Mädchen dagegen – nichts. Im Jahr 1345 steht China unter der brutalen Herrschaft der Mongolen. Plünderer ziehen durch das Land und überfallen die armen Bauern. Auch ins Dorf der Kinder kommen sie und machen die beiden zu Waisen.

Local Star is a polyamorous space opera with a fast-paced, action-packed adventure that's sure to punch you in the feels. It follows guttergirl Triz as she saves her hub from invaders from the Cyberbionautic Alliance, all the while negotiating her rekindled romance with Kalo, her ex who's returned from battle and won't stop hanging around the wrenchworks.

Empathy-squashing drugs have sent shifter society into a tailspin. Only one person is innocuous enough to infiltrate the culprit's pack: Ember Wilder-Young, packless wolf and expert baker. Unfortunately, cupcakes alone aren't sufficient to soften her new employer's heart. Instead, Ember is faced with an impossible dilemma. Will she risk the lives of shifters everywhere by rejecting her boss's offer of pharmaceutical initiation into the pack? Or will she imbibe the very drugs she's been sent to wipe out and lose her own humanity? Find out in this conclusion to the Wolf Legacy quartet.

Are you ready for an adventure? Our Kids Chinese Zodiac Book takes you on a journey to learn about the 12 zodiac animals and their fascinating qualities. Join us in discovering the mysteries of Chinese astrology! Have you ever come across the zodiac signs or horoscopes in the daily papers? I'm sure you have! Well, did you know that not only do we have 12 zodiac signs, but there is also a Chinese system based on moon cycles? Yep, that's right! Every year, there are 12 moon cycles and each cycle is represented by a special animal that signifies a Zodiac sign. And guess what? The Chinese New ...

Alile Rubidari is denied asylum in Britain. To avoid being deported to Africa, she ventures into the shady world of illegal au pairs. But when she comes to care for little Charlotte Rose, small clues reveal the child may be her own. Without family, money, or legal status, Alile has no means to fight for her daughter.... Desperate to create a family, Fiona Rose goes on a journey to single motherhood. But when she learns her adopted daughter may be stolen, she must learn the true meaning of family before she has to account for her role in international child abduction.

Troy Duncan has just two worries on his mind: how he is going to give his two young children and fiancé a Christmas they deserve and whether his job at a struggling restaurant will last through the winter. As he leaves work early on another slow night, he runs into something that changes his life forever. Cleveland Police Officer Marc Baldwin has been on the job for more than two decades, risking his life every day to keep the city streets safe for others. One cold night in December, he gets a routine call to break up drug activity, but what happens there is anything but routine.

Cleveland lawyer Casey Cort lost more than her job when she crossed the wrong political family; she lost her idealism. Casey’s scraped together a career as a solo practitioner, which has offered her more than one opportunity for redemption…but it also threatened her life. In this thrilling, gritty realistic series by former criminal lawyer Aime Austin, listeners will experience stories ripped from the headlines. This bundle includes Disgraced, Unarmed, and Kidnapped from the Casey Cort series of legal thrillers.

Die Rückkehr der Tierwandler Teil 3. Auf der Suche nach weiteren Erben folgen Simon Thorn und seine Freunde der Nachricht des mysteriösen "X" in die afrikanische Serengeti. Dort sind jedoch nicht alle begeistert über die Ankunft von Simon und schon bald weiß er nicht mehr, wem er vertrauen kann. Als immer wieder Erben plötzlich spurlos verschwinden, geht Simon ein hohes Risiko ein. Ein Risiko, das womöglich tödlich enden kann... Der spannende dritte Band der neuen ANIMOX-Bestseller-Serie packend erzählt von Peter Kaempfe.

Stuck at a dead-end job with three children and an inconsiderate live-in boyfriend, life is anything but sweet for self-proclaimed black sheep and underachiever, Shequita Stafford. Following an altercation at work, Shequita is forced to return to her hometown of Travilah, Maryland. Shequita soon discovers that her successful siblings and business-oriented parents aren't as perfect as she'd always perceived them to be.

Shark Alarm! Einfach abenteuerlich, was Simon und seine Freunde erleben. Diesmal führt es sie in die Tiefen des Pazifischen Ozeans, in die Stadt der Haie! Hier suchen sie unter großen Gefahren das zweite Stück der mächtigen Waffe des Bestienkönigs, und sie finden deren wahren Ursprung und den Grund für ihre Zerstörung. Simon bekommt Zweifel: Ist es wirklich richtig, die Teile wieder zusammenzufügen? Oder bringt er sich und die ganze Welt von Animox damit in allergrößte Gefahr?

Young, beautiful, and a hopeless romantic, Justine Graham is careless when it comes to the dating game. Desperate for love, Justine soon finds out the hard way about the importance of self-love in this short tale by Bien-Aime Wenda.

Die Tierwandler sind zurück! Der 12-jährige Simon steckt mittendrin im Kampf der Tierreiche. Gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden jagt er der verschollenen Waffe des Bestienkönigs nach. Als sie in eine Sackgasse geraten, müssen sie die gefürchtete Herrscherin des Insektenreichs um Hilfe bitten: die Schwarze Witwenkönigin. Als Gegenleistung fordert sie, ihre entführte Tochter zu retten. Simon willigt ein und erkennt bald, dass Nolan, der Erbe des Bestienkönigs, in höchster Gefahr schwebt.

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

We've all been there: used, lied to, or cheated on. But what do you do when enough is enough? You don't cry, you get even! Bien-Aime Wenda presents a compilation of stories of the scorned, including a hopeless romantic, the token nice guy, a submissive wife, the celebrity couple, the hood chick, a mayor's wife, and more. Each refuse to wait on karma but instead decide to seek justice on their own terms.

Hochspannung pur! Nachdem Simon Thorn und seine Freund*innen die Abenteuer in der afrikanischen Serengeti gemeistert haben, wartet schon die nächste Aufgabe auf sie: Diesmal geht es nach Südamerika, wo die Kinder sich in den Tiefen des Regenwaldes den unterschiedlichsten Gefahren stellen müssen. Im Amazonasgebiet treffen sie auch auf den nächsten Erben, der ihnen feindlich gegenübersteht.