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Nora Cooper is about to get her shot at 'the big time.' The Paradise Bay Resort is hosting the World Bartending Championships and she's been asked to lead the hospitality team. If all goes well, she'll be getting the promotion she's been working toward for years. There's only one problem—billionaire Theo Rojas, the major sponsor of the event, who seems determined to make Nora's life a living hell.

Lady Holme—a person, a place, an idyllic setting—the home of Lord and Lady Hazlett. It is also a nightmare haunt of dangerous secrets, both ancient and modern. It's the autumn of 1920 in beautiful southern Hampshire, and the year is fading away. As leaves begin to fall over the landscape, one of the Hazlett party is mercilessly also made to fall, dropping like a leaf before its time. There's no doubt it's murder; it can be nothing else. Why, though? And where will this tragedy lead?

Princess Giselle is excited to be leading her first royal delegation—until everything goes wrong before they even reach their destination. With her rank and authority stripped away and her people scattered, she’s left with nothing but a gaggle of geese. Giselle is determined to prove herself a true princess—in action as well as in name. But to do so she must uncover a conspiracy that threatens far more than her own future. With her life in danger and only a talking horse and an irritable goose boy at her side, she needs assistance.

Britain is in shambles, as it recovers from the cataclysm of WWI. Although the war has ended, it takes effort to preserve the peace against hidden enemies striving to undermine or replace the government. There is a desperate need for recruits to fight this invisible war. Sophie Burgoyne can trace her lineage back to the ancient French kings and dukes of twelve centuries ago.A long pedigree doesn't help her when she only has a few pounds in the bank. Sophie knows she must take action, or she and her father, the vicar of Havering-under-Lyme, will face the horrors of genteel impoverishment.

Kali has always dreamed of adventure, but she never expected to find it in the company of a talking cat. Puss definitely has an agenda, but he isn’t sharing it with her. All she knows is that he wants a miller’s child to accompany him across the Great Desert to the mysterious lands beyond. Kali doesn’t mean to let her opportunity go, even if she doesn’t understand the purposes of the mysterious creature at her side. But when she encounters thieves and misadventure, she realizes something bigger is underway.

Daria has spent her whole life caring for others. So when she's rescued by traveling merchants while fleeing for her life, she's more than happy to work for them in return for her safety. But danger follows her, as does Prince Percy.

Cassie knows she was made for more than a life buried away in her uncle's remote forest estate. Eager to meet the great spymaster, Aurora, she jumps at the chance to travel to her distant kingdom. But meeting Aurora isn't enough - Cassie wants to prove her worth.

Exiled from her old life as the daughter of a vizier, Zaria still grieves the lost friends of her childhood. She’s grown accustomed to her new role as a servant, though—up until the day she stumbles on the fabled lost cave of treasures. The wealth inside is enough to transform anyone’s life, but Zaria isn’t the first to find it. A gang of cutthroat thieves got there first, and their behavior makes Zaria question everything she sees. With an unknown enchantment at work, and forty criminals desperate to protect their hoard, she doesn’t want anything to do with the gold.

Tatiana, a half-demon/half-human, was orphaned as a child by a horrific war between the demon and human kingdoms. A human Duke took her in, but only so that he could take advantage of her special skill: Tatiana can speak Shadowtongue, the native language of demons, unspeakable by anyone devoid of demon blood. Despite the abuse she receives from the Duke's family, she works hard as an interpreter between the kingdoms, in hopes of maintaining peace and winning her family's affection.

We all encounter problems and challenges on a daily basis, ranging from small things—traffic, losing your keys, or running late—to much bigger issues—job insecurity, health issues, and relationship struggles. What should a believer in Christ do in the face of such adversities? Authors Lewis and Sarah Allen propose that while the world may teach us one way to approach challenges, there is a better way—complete dependence on Christ and pursuit of wise living.

We think we know cultural appropriation when we see it. Blackface or Native American headdresses as Halloween costumes—these clearly give offense. But what about Cardi B posing as the Hindu goddess Durga in a Reebok ad, AA's twelve-step invocation of God, or the earnest namaste you utter at the end of yoga class? Liz Bucar unpacks the ethical dilemmas of a messy form of cultural appropriation: the borrowing of religious doctrines, rituals, and dress for political, economic, and therapeutic reasons.

If you can't trust your father and you can't trust the police, who can you trust? Sue Hearn is planting a herb garden on the site of her grandfather's old greenhouse. She's spent the morning digging up all sorts of odds and ends already. But she doesn't expect this grisly find. A skull. Could it...

TWO SHIPS IN THE NIGHT. ANOTHER DEAD BODY. NO SAFE HARBOUR. A wave lifts the stern of the boat, rigging groans in protest and a crash comes from down below, as the wails of the cargo rise above the howl of the storm. It's a wild Christmas Day on the rugged Northern Irish coast. But there's no...

A MESMERIZING BREAK-OUT CRIME THRILLER FULL OF BREATHTAKING TWISTS. Nic always hated clubbing. She only went out that night because she'd promised a friend. She wakes up, naked and bound in an abandoned cottage in the middle of nowhere. Dappled light comes in through a dirty window. Her body is...

Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan, scientist, and global women's activist Elena Lagadinova—Kristen Ghodsee tells the story of the personal challenges faced by earlier generations of radicals.

Who doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous answers to that question in his essay "On the Shortness of Life"—a work that has more to teach us today than ever before.

Er du koldblodig og har nerver af stål, så læs den næste bog i serien med Tobias og Simone. Oliver gemmer sig bag den mørke bil. Tre mænd kommer op fra kælderen. To af dem bærer en stor kasse. Den sætter de ind i bilen. Hvad er der i kassen? Serien Koldt blod: 1. De forsvundne børn 2. Den gale professor 3. Den store zombie 4. Du er død, Tobias 5. På flugt 6. Det 3. træ 7. Stop bombe-manden 8. Fanget i ilden 9. Hypnose-mordet 10. Døden i vandet 11. Dræberhunde 12. I sidste sekund 13. GPS-jagten 14. De kom om natten 15.

Anna og Buller vil gå en tur. De skal i banken for at veksle Annas småpenge. Men turen går ikke helt som planlagt. En mand i sort tøj løber ind i dem ude foran banken. Han taber en pose penge, og pludselig kommer der rød røg ud af posen. Det kan kun betyde, at manden er én ting: En bankrøver! Letlæsningsserie om Anna og hendes hund, Buller, og deres mange sjove eventyr. Per Østergaard, født 1950, produktiv dansk børnebogsforfatter. Uddannet lærer fra Århus Seminarium i 1975.

Buller er Annas hund. Anna vil træne med Buller. Han skal lære at hente en pind. Det går godt til at starte med, lige indtil Buller pludselig løber ind i skoven. Letlæsningsserie om Anna og hendes hund, Buller, og deres mange sjove eventyr (og udfordringer) sammen. Per Østergaard, født 1950, produktiv dansk børnebogsforfatter. Uddannet lærer fra Århus Seminarium i 1975. Blev efter et par år ved Statens Åndssvageforsorg ansat som lærer på Bakkeskolen i Hørning, primært som specialunderviser.

Der skal være skolefest og 6. B glæder sig. De har fået lov til at overnatte på skolen bagefter. Gunse og Morten glæder sig særlig meget, de har nemlig kigget efter hinanden i lang tid. Desværre har Gunses mor købt en kjole, selvom Gunse kun går i bukser. Morten er ved at gå i baglås over, hvad han skal sige. Klassens eneste kærestepar, Anna og Sebastian, glæder sig også, men et lille uheld til festen er lige ved at ødelægge det hele. Handlingen foregår i 6. B.