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You want your games to be many things: creative. Innovative. Playable. Fun. If you're a designer, add "published" to that list. The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design gives you an insider's view on how to make a game that people will want to play again and again. Author Mike Selinker has invited some of the world's most talented and experienced game designers to share their secrets on game conception, design, development, and presentation. In these minutes, you'll learn about storyboarding, balancing, prototyping, and playtesting from the best in the business.

Lisa Jackson is a surprising cheerleader for the joys of running. Formerly a committed fitness-phobe, she became a marathon runner at 31 and ran her first 56-mile ultramarathon at the age of 41. Unlike many runners, Lisa's not afraid to finish last. In fact, she's now done so in 25 of the 100-plus marathons she's completed so far.

Lisa and her husband Graham's hilarious trip saw them buying snacks from "voodoo vendors" in Taiwan, almost drowning off a Philippine beach, stumbling across "death porn" in Thailand and meeting The Bogeyman in a Pushkar restaurant. While abroad they contracted a serious case of travel seekness - an irresistible urge to go in search of places to be, people to see and strange stuff to eat - which compelled them to do World Heritage Shites in Egypt, evade Guinness-swigging swingers in a Dublin pub and fly to Cuba with a suspected terrorist.

Would you risk being arrested by Iran’s secret police or subject yourself to a "torture massage" in North Korea just so you could say you’d survived to tell the tale? And would you even want to share a crude-oil bath with a retired croc hunter in Azerbaijan? Or pull a golden ring from a turd? Graham and his wife Lisa have done all of these things. Travel Agents - the warm and witty follow-up to the best-selling Travel Seekness - continues the unforgettable story of Lisa and Graham’s hilarious and often hair-raising escapades around the world.

Lucy Champagne was sent to St. Cecilia’s after her movie-star mother was brutally attacked by her sleazy boyfriend, Ray Watkins. Lucy’s damning testimony landed Ray a 25-year sentence. But now, Ray is free. And he’s going to find Lucy and make her pay, no matter how far and how fast she runs....

Open your heart to the holidays with these stories of unexpected love from best-selling authors Lisa Jackson, Maisey Yates, Stacy Finz, and Nicole Helm.

Is hiding the identity of her child’s father worth risking her life? Randi McCafferty seems to think so, but investigator Kurt Striker is hell-bent on changing her mind. Hired by her well-meaning but overbearing brothers to keep Randi and her son safe, Kurt knows the only way to eliminate the danger is to reveal Randi’s darkest secret…any way he can. Yet when protection leads to desire, will Randi and Kurt’s explosive affair leave them vulnerable to the threats whispering in the shadows?

Twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston accidentally shot and killed her brother in a teenage game that went horribly wrong. Today, Rachel is moving on and trying to put the guilt of what happened behind her. But then she receives a text on the anniversary of her brother's death: I forgive you. This text is the first of many, all seemingly from beyond the grave, and at the same time she is receiving midnight phone calls from a blocked number. Are these happenings malicious? Are they genuinely forgiving? Is she in danger? Or is Rachel just being paranoid?

London Danvers was kidnapped as a child from her wealthy family. Over the years, many women have claimed to be her, trying to lay claim to the long-lost heiress's inheritance. Among them is Adria Nash, who has arrived in Oregon claiming to be London - but, unlike the others, she's different: she knows personal details only London could have known. And there is someone who does believe her - who is watching her every move, waiting to see how she runs, how she screams, and how she dies....

Der Todesschrei ihrer Mutter klingt Abby noch immer in den Ohren, auch wenn es schon zwanzig Jahre her ist, seit diese in den Tod sprang. Ihre düsteren Erinnerungen erhalten neue Nahrung, als eine unheimliche Mordserie New Orleans erschüttert. Denn alle Morde stehen in einer seltsamen Verbindung zu jener Nervenheilanstalt, in der Abbys Mutter ihrem Leben ein Ende setzte. Dort, versteckt in den Kellergewölben, hat sich der Killer sein Reich geschaffen. Er will die Sünden der Vergangenheit rächen – und Abby wird zur Zielscheibe seines Wahns …

Sarah McAdams needs a fresh start. So she's come home to the shores of Oregon's wild Columbia river, to renovate the old Victorian mansion where she grew up. Her daughters, Jade and Gracie, aren't impressed by the run-down property, and as soon as they pull up the isolated drive, Sarah too is beset by uneasy memories - of her cold, distant mother, of the half-sister who vanished without a trace, and of a long-ago night when Sarah was found outside, feverish and delirious.

Sheriff Dan Grayson wird vor seinem Haus in den Bergen von Montana aus einem Hinterhalt niedergeschossen. Während er in Lebensgefahr schwebt, ermitteln die Detectives Regan Pescoli und Selena Alvarez unter Hochdruck, doch der Kreis der Verdächtigen ist groß – Spuren dagegen gibt es keine. Da taucht die Leiche einer Richterin auf, mit einer einzigen, treffsicher platzierten Kugel im Kopf.

Young love — that was what Nadine and Hayden had. The kind of love that captures the soul and never dies. That is, until Hayden’s father swindled Nadine’s family, and they didn’t see each other for thirteen years. When his father suddenly dies, Hayden returns home to the family’s lakeside mansion — and to his first love. But Nadine and her two young sons aren’t quite ready to trust again. Soon Hayden is left trying to work through mistrust and misinformation to gain the love of the girl no amount of money could make him forget….

In the photograph, three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows - and the vow of secrecy they take. Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they've tried to leave their shared past behind, each has the feeling that someone is lurking in the shadows.

Eine elitäre Highschool-Clique, ein tödlicher Unfall – und 15 Jahre später gibt es erneut Tote ... Wer hat es auf die ehemaligen Schülerinnen und Schüler des gemeinsamen Highschool-Jahrgangs abgesehen? "Last Girl Standing – Wer wird überleben?" ist ein temporeicher, mitreißender Thriller von den Schwestern und Erfolgsautorinnen Lisa Jackson und Nancy Bush! In der Schule waren sie als die Fantastischen Fünf bekannt – eine Mädchen-Clique, so bewundert wie gefürchtet. Ihre gemeinsame Zeit endete jäh, als eine von ihnen bei der Abschlussparty ums Leben kam.

HE’S A BAD BOY - Famous criminal defense attorney Jackson Moore thought he had left his bad-boy past behind him - but his childhood sweetheart had different plans for him. HE'S JUST A COWBOY - For six agonizing years Heather Tremont Leonetti tried to make a lie of the breathless summer when rodeo rider Turner Brooks broke her innocence and branded her heart. But now only the truth could save her most precious, cherished memento.

Es sollte nur Spaß sein: ein harmloses Ballerspiel mit Platzpatronen. Doch als die 17-jährige Rachel auf ihren Halbbruder Luke schießt, wird dieser von einer tödlichen Kugel getroffen. Zwar berichten zwei Mädchen später von einem Schuss, der nicht aus Rachels Pistole gekommen sei, doch der Fall kann nie ganz aufgeklärt werden. 20 Jahre später fühlt sich Rachel noch immer schuldig, und letztlich ist an diesem Trauma auch die Ehe mit ihrer großen Liebe, Detective Cade Ryder, zerbrochen.

When Thorne McCafferty rushes home to the family ranch, he is thinking only about whether his sister Randi will survive the car wreck that has put her in the hospital. He never expects that Randi’s E.R. doctor will be Nicole Stevenson.Nicole has never forgotten the teenage passion she shared with Thorne… or the sting of his unexplained rejection. Now she’s all grown up—but he still affects her in the very same way. Will they both be able to move beyond their pasts for a second chance at a happy ending?

Nach einem bösen Streit mit ihrem schwerreichen, notorisch untreuen Freund James Cahill will Megan Travers nur noch weg von dessen Ranch in den Cascade Mountains. Trotz eines heftigen Schneesturms macht sie sich auf den Weg zu ihrer Schwester, doch dort kommt sie nie an. Als die Detectives Brett Rivers und Wynonna Mendoza James befragen wollen, finden sie ihn mit einer Kopfverletzung im Krankenhaus vor. James sagt aus, er könne sich an nichts erinnern, weder an Megan noch an seine zahlreichen Affären.

When Thorne McCafferty rushes home to the family ranch, he is thinking only about whether his sister Randi will survive the car wreck that has put her in the hospital. He never expects that Randi's E.R. doctor will be Nicole Stevenson. Nicole has never forgotten the teenage passion she shared with Thorne...or the sting of his unexplained rejection. Now she's all grown up - but he still affects her in the very same way. Will they both be able to move beyond their pasts for a second chance at a happy ending?