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Sometime in her 20s, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, "What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?" While her parents had fled Guatemala more than three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return - to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way.

A terrorist on the run hides in a brothel. Desperate for respite after evading authorities for days, he hires a prostitute even though he has lived his life as a chaste man. The well-off idealistic young man and the poor woman doing what she can to survive clash but also inspire each other in this dark tale of failed dreams.

Leonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who grants him freedom, a place to live, and a servant - Cassia, a scribe - to look after him. But the benefactor is only so generous - Leonidas must pay his own way and Cassia’s, which means hiring himself out. The sharp-witted Cassia quickly lands him a post as a bodyguard, escorting a retired senator to Ostia.

Leonidas is coerced into a dice game at his local popina, with a stranger who turns out to not be such a stranger after all. His presence puts all around him in danger, and Leonidas struggles to keep the man’s identity secret.

AD 63. Leonidas’s former trainer, Aemil, asks him to look into the disappearances of gladiators from his ludus. Leonidas and Cassia investigate, and soon uncover gruesome murders involving some of the wealthiest citizens of Rome. Leonidas pits his skills against an unknown killer who hunts gladiators from the back lanes of the Subura to prestigious villas atop Rome’s hills. He and Cassia must succeed in uncovering the murderer’s identity before Nero grows impatient and makes Leonidas pay for the chaos the killer has rained down upon his city.

Caught in the crosshairs of gang violence, a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US border in this “engrossing” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult novel from the author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. For seventeen-year-old Maya, trashion is her...

En esta colección de relatos, podrás conocer a fondo a los cuatro hermanos Hawthorne. Estas historias de amor y pérdida, poder, acertijos y secretos a vida o muerte que demuestran que cuando un Hawthorne quiere a alguien, no hay vuelta atrás.

“A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story.” —Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires Everywhere First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill...

This is the story of one brave dog's journey home. Rascal is nearly home. He's desperate to find his owner Joel again - but then he's caught and trapped in an animal shelter! Time is running out for Rascal... can he and Joel find each other before it's too late? Chris Cooper is the pen name of Paul Shipton, who grew up in Manchester and went to university in Cambridge. He spent several years teaching English as a foreign language and lived in Istanbul for a year. Paul then moved into publishing, working on science activity books and primary school English materials. He published his first book, "Zargon Zoo" in 1991.

On the remote Pacific island of Kalawe, where myths whisper of a tide that steals memories, Detective Mara Kade is called to solve the disappearance of reclusive artist Lila Voss. As Mara sifts through cryptic sketches, hidden letters, and a locket bearing her own initials, she uncovers a chilling truth: Lila’s vanishing is tied to Mara’s own amnesia, a past erased a decade ago. With the island’s secretive council closing in, Mara must unravel the mystery of her former self, a journalist named Mara Kane, and a lost love named Lea, whose fate may hold the key to everything.

A high school girl who finds love in somebody she never imagine. Being confused because she never felt that way before, she tries to find an explanation to her emotions. Everything started to fall into place by itself, everything around herself was giving her the answers she was looking for about her emotions. She has dreams just like every high school girl out there, but also, she faces problems that arise in a everyday life. Will she find happiness? What was that feeling that she never experienced before? This is a romance story with a lot of surprises.

Willow ist eine Hexe – das ist jedoch nichts Ungewöhnliches in dem kleinen Städtchen Pleasant Grove, in dem es vor Magiebegabten nur so wimmelt. Als ihr ein sprechender schwarzer Kater über den Weg läuft, der ihr mitteilt, ein verfluchter Dämon zu sein und sie um ihre Hilfe bittet, wittert Willow ihre Chance, mehr Pepp in ihren Alltag zu bringen. Mithilfe von Mondschein, Kräutern und dem richtigen Zauberspruch kann sie Damien wieder in seine menschliche Gestalt verwandeln – und kann ihren Augen nicht trauen, was für ein ansehnliches Exemplar eines Mannes da vor ihr steht.

Trouver un bon colocataire par le biais d'une petite annonce n'est pas aussi facile que ça en a l'air. Je commençais à perdre espoir. Jusqu'à ce que l'on frappe à ma porte et que Dieu réponde à mes prières. Sauf... euh... mauvaise prière, Dieu. J'ai demandé au Grand Dieu de me trouver un homme incroyablement beau plus d'une fois... mais pas comme colocataire. Declan Tate m'a convaincu de l'interviewer quand même. Bien qu'il soit amusant et charismatique, je n'aurais pas été à l'aise en vivant avec un homme, alors j'ai refusé à regret.

Was ist heißer als ein sexy Milliardär? Ein sexy Milliardär mit Haustieren! Ruby Scott ist verzweifelt: Nachdem ein mysteriöser Typ sie auf einer Party erst küsst und ihr dann mitten ins Gesicht hustet, wird sie so krank, dass sie ein wichtiges Casting vermasselt. Dabei braucht sie dringend einen Job. Das Angebot, sich um die Haustiere des reichen Hotelbesitzers Bancroft Mills zu kümmern, kommt ihr da gerade recht. Doch sie ahnt nicht, dass Bane kein Geringerer ist als der Typ von der Party ... Teil 1 der Mills-Brüder-Reihe von New-York-Times-Bestseller-Autorin Helena Hunting.

London 1912: Ist der verurteilte Mörder Charles Linkworth in Wahrheit unschuldig? Nach dessen Hinrichtung wird der zuständige Gefängnisarzt von Erscheinungen gepeinigt, die er sich nicht erklären kann. Schnell wird klar, dass der Verbrecher gar nicht so tot ist, wie es den Anschein hatte - und dass er noch eine Rechnung im Diesseits zu begleichen wünscht.

On January 6, 2021, insurgents stormed the U.S. Capitol, an act of domestic terror without parallel in American history, designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. In a resolution six months later, the House of Representatives called it "one of the darkest days of our democracy," and established a special committee to investigate how and why the attack happened. Celadon Books, in collaboration with The New Yorker, presents the committee's final report, the definitive account of January 6th and what led up to it.

Fifteen amazing authors. Fifteen tales with “cemetery plots”. Welcome to the 2021 Capitol Crimes Anthology. A cadre of superlative judges selected the best of the best to put in this audiobook. With a foreword by best-selling author Catriona McPherson, delve into the creative minds of Capitol Crimes members. The setting: Northern California. The theme: that place we all finally must visit, the cemetery. The plots and characters are as diverse as the authors. And their stories will touch your spirit where adventure and fear intersect.

The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their...