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Graduate student Katelyn Gunn is headed for her first day of assistant teaching when she is almost hit by a car. The nervous and inexperienced Kate is shocked to realize that it isn’t the near-death experience that has her heart racing, but the sinfully sexy man behind the wheel. Adam Kinkade is ultra-wealthy, devastatingly handsome, and the most powerful distribution mogul in Chicago - he is also the first man who ignites emotions inside of her other than fear. Adam is a man used to getting what he wants. And he wants Katelyn - naked and often.

Arguably, at the time of her father's death, the point at which she was married, she'd felt entitled to just-about-nothing. Her mother had told her she was to be married. To whom. Under what "terms". And so she was.

He likes the very back booth in the diner, walls on two sides, both of us on the same bench, me in the corner. At 29, almost five years younger than I am, he likes me to - he requires me to - call him Daddy; he calls me his Dirty Little Girl. This is insane; or depraved; or sick; or...all of the above. And here we sit. I surrendered my panties before we left the apartment, just a block away - a simple transaction, nothing terribly new or different for us. He requested; I rolled my eyes. I complied; he something between smiled and smirked.

Brielle Reyes may not have post-college life planned out like some of her friends do, but she figures she'll work for her mother's home cleaning service while job hunting. It'll work out as long as she doesn't fall in love. Her last relationship was a disaster and she has no idea where she'll be in a few weeks, let alone the rest of her life. Since the only guy in her age range she sees now on a regular basis is cantankerous if handsome client Archer Ward, she probably won't have a hard time sticking to that vow. Probably.

For the captains of industry ? men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford ? the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, it is a time of big struggles, with adults and children alike working 12 to 14 hours a day under extreme, dangerous conditions.

Willkommen bei den Cookes, einer scheinbar völlig normalen Familie: Vater, Mutter, die pausenlos plappernde Rosemary, ihr großer Bruder Lowell und ihre ungestüme Schwester Fern. In Kindertagen ist Fern Rosemarys engste Gefährtin, ihre zweite Hälfte. Doch als sie fünf Jahre alt ist, verschwindet Fern spurlos. Ein Ereignis, das alles verändert: Rosemary verstummt und die Familie zerfällt.

Die Crime-Sensation aus UK: Das exzentrische Ermittler-Team Jackman und Evans ermittelt wieder. Der Polizist Carter McLean ist der einzige Überlebende eines Flugzeugabsturzes, bei dem seine vier besten Freunde starben. Geplagt von Schuldgefühlen, beschließt er, für jeden der Toten eine offene Rechnung zu begleichen: So verschwand eineinhalb Jahre vor dem tragischen Unfall die Frau eines der Vier spurlos. Alles, was von ihr blieb, war ein Zimmer voller Blut.

"Spitzenspannung von der Meisterin." BRIGITTE Als Psychotherapeutin mit eigener verkorkster Familiengeschichte glaubt Robin, alle menschlichen Abgründe zu kennen. Doch dann erhält sie eines Tages einen Anruf, der sie völlig aus der Fassung bringt: Jemand habe brutal auf ihren Vater, seine...

Bailey Carpenter ist eine erfolgreiche Privatermittlerin in Miami, und sie ist es gewohnt, die Dinge unter Kontrolle zu haben. Das ändert sich schlagartig, als sie eines Nachts von einem Unbekannten brutal überfallen wird und nur knapp dem Tod entkommt. Von da an quälen Bailey Panikattacken und Albträume, sie ist besessen von dem Gedanken, verfolgt zu werden, und zieht sich völlig in sich zurück. Doch dann entdeckt sie eines Tages, dass ihr Nachbar im Hochhaus gegenüber sie beobachtet.

JOY FIELDING at her BEST: BAILEY CARPENTER ermittelt Bailey Carpenter ist eine erfolgreiche Privatermittlerin in Miami, und sie ist es gewohnt, die Dinge unter Kontrolle zu haben. Das ändert sich schlagartig, als sie eines Nachts von einem Unbekannten brutal überfallen wird und nur knapp dem...

GEFÜHL, verbunden mit KNISTERNDER SPANNUNG Auch das schönste Luxushaus kann nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass Valerie Rowes Leben aus den Fugen geraten ist: Nach langer Ehe ist ihr Mann Evan im Begriff, sie wegen einer jüngeren Frau zu verlassen, und zudem droht ihr ihre pubertierende...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.

Galanta is only one step away from successfully releasing Santanas. The faeries must either stop her or hope that their allies stand strong in the coming storm. While they seek her out, they are forced to cement old allegiances and create new ones. With this in mind, Orion offers himself as a groom to the treacherous night faeries, asking only that Aethan go in his stead to choose his bride. Meanwhile, Galanta's spell means that while Izzy now remembers Aethan, he has no memory of her.

It's been thirteen years since the Dark Years ended. Thirteen years since the mad War Faery responsible was imprisoned in stone. Now, with goblin attacks on the rise, it seems Galanta, the Goblin Queen, is intent on returning the land to chaos and terror. Isadora Scrumpleton is trying not to think about the Dark Years. She's just been chosen by her "familiar", found out she's half faery, and discovered she's dating the second-in-line to the Faery Throne. That's enough for one teenage witch to handle. But when goblins attack her village, Izzy is forced into action....

The seventh book in the addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman. After many tumultuous years spent grappling with the past, Jenny Hooper might have expected her latter years to be the best of her life, and they are - until tragedy strikes. Left floundering in...

When Jenny Morrison fled Woody Creek for a new life in Melbourne she left behind a dysfunctional family, a town of small-minded gossips, and, most tragically, a newborn baby. Mustering all her strength, she resolved to put her past behind her, reclaim her identity, and pursue her dream of becoming a famous singer.... Yet just months later she is back - wiser and with an expensive new wardrobe - but with a second child growing in her belly.

Early one Sunday, the town of Molliston wakes to the news that a young bride is dead. The year is 1929. The Great War with Germany has been fought and won, but at an immense cost to the small community. Death is too familiar here. So many sons were lost. So many daughters would never be wives; so many grandchildren would never be born. Racial hatred is like a bushfire in the belly of some. And the dead girl is found only yards from the property of old Joe Reichenberg, a German..

Biltmore House, a palatial mansion being built by the Vanderbilts, American “royalty,” is in its final stages of construction in North Carolina. The country’s grandest example of privilege, it symbolizes the aspirations of its owner and the dreams of a girl, just as driven, who lives in its shadow. Kerry MacGregor’s future is derailed when, after two years in college in New York City, family obligations call her home to the beautiful Appalachians. 

We Are the Change We Seek is a collection of Barack Obama's 26 greatest addresses: beginning with his 2002 speech opposing the Iraq War and closing with his final speech before the United Nations in September 2016. As president, Obama's words had the power to move the country, and often the world, as few presidents before him.

Early one morning, Times-Picayune crime reporter Nola Cespedes goes for her regular run in Audubon Park. Instead, Nola finds herself at the scene of a crime when she discovers a dead body. Worse, Nola recognizes the victim: Judith Taffner, her former journalism professor at Tulane. Not convinced Dr. Taffner's murder was the random work of a psychopath, Nola takes it upon herself to investigate.