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I H.C. Andersens kunsteventyr "Tommelise" møder vi først en barnløs kvinde, der så inderligt ønsker sig et barn, at hun opsøger en heks for at få hjælp. Heksen giver kvinden et korn, som hun skal passe godt på. Kornet spirer og bliver til en smuk blomst. En dag åbner blomstens knop sig og ud kommer pigen Tommelise, der er så lille, at hun kan sejle på en åkande og sove i en nøddeskal. Mange ønsker at eje den lille og fine Tommelise, men hun er, på trods af sin størrelse, et væsen med ret til at være sig selv, og den ret må hun kæmpe for på sin videre færd i livet.

1948. Lorsque Françoise, 17 ans, douée pour les études, se voit refuser la possibilité de suivre son cours classique pour accéder à l’université, elle se rebelle. Lasse d’une vie choisie par ses parents, elle succombe aux avances de Léopold Daumais, un intrigant célibataire de 35 ans. D’abord destinée à défier sa mère, cette relation se transforme pourtant en un amour passionné. Puis, survient la grande demande. C’est là que tout se gâte.

"Il y a dans son regard de la compassion, celle des chevaux qui voient les pauvres hommes aller d'une comédie à l'autre." Ils s'appellent Zingaro, Chaparro, Lautrec, Le Caravage... L'un fut sauvé in extremis de l'abattoir, un autre légué par un torero en déroute, un autre encore, racheté pour une poignée de pesetas à un maquignon véreux. Ces chevaux ont marqué la vie de Bartabas, célèbre fondateur du théâtre Zingaro. Grâce à leur complicité naturelle, il est devenu un écuyer d'exception, réalisant des prouesses qu'aucun artiste n'avait accomplies avant lui.

Local legend says Trinity Row is the house that won't die. Local legend isn't wrong. Sixteen-year-old Ivy Black and her mom have moved in for a quick renovation to make an easy buck. Then it will be on to the next rundown, abandoned eyesore. Simple. Move. Fix. Sell. Run...When Ivy finds out that the friends she thought she made and the things she thought she's seen aren't exactly what she believed, she goes on a mission to free her mother from the snare of Trinity Row and the evil spirit controlling it. Except, after a trip to Trinity Row, you'll never want to go home again.

Sixteen-year-old Ivy Black and her mom have moved in to Trinity Row for a quick renovation to make an easy buck. Then it will be on to the next rundown, abandoned eyesore. Simple: Move. Fix. Sell. Run. For the last three years, Ivy and her mom have run far away from their past. That's the thing about Trinity Row, though. It doesn't let the past die.

The evil Necromancer is growing in strength - soon he will have broken the seal between the world of the living and the world of the dead, unleashing his army of walking dead upon the world. Can Leesa, Rave, and Dominic stop him before it's too late?

After an unexpected breakup with her longtime girlfriend, Cate has been picking up the pieces and starting her new life as a tour guide for a travel company. Semana Santa (Holy Week) in Mexico is a time of celebration, spring break, Carnival, and the remembrance of Jesus entering Jerusalem. It is also Cate's last training under supervision before she officially goes out on her own.

Miss Emma Baxter stowed away in a carriage in order to escape her uncle and the baron he's bent on forcing her to marry. The last thing she expected was to find herself with the Duke of Radcliffe, Aaron St. John, and his ten year old daughter, Lady Sophia. Now she faces an entirely different danger.

Despite being thrown from her home and stripped of her place in society at a young age, Madame Marce Davenport is proud of what she's accomplished with her family and the notoriously scandalous Craven House. Except it's all built on a lie. When an arrogant duke strode into her home years ago, offering her a way to keep the brothel open, she agreed to his game of deception. But now that her siblings have found their happiness, Marce can finally live the life she's always wanted.

Heartless is the fifth book in the Blue Fire Saga. It continues the story of Leesa and Rave, along with Dominic, Cali, and other favorite Blue Fire Saga characters. Heartless also introduces a new kind of supernatural enemy - xenorians. They are members of an ancient sect that believes all magic eventually turns to evil and so must be stamped out before that can happen. That's definitely not good news for Leesa and her magical companions.

Quiet, reserved Lady Ophelia Fletcher always has her nose stuck in a book; hence why she didn't witness the death of her friend the fateful night of her passing. Now, she writes the Mayfair Confidential column to expose unsavory men as a way of making amends for not backing her other friend's claims of murder. When a handsome stranger arrives to meet with her father, Ophelia is helpless to keep from investigating the dashing lord.

Teaming up with a handsome shifter named Ephrem, the banished Princess Lilliana must find her stolen Ardent talisman before a sinister enemy uses it against both rival wolf pack strongholds. Thrown onto a path neither of them expected, they stumble across a third cell of supernatural shifters lurking in the city's Outlands, where tensions mount. These new strangers want nothing more than to disrupt the two royal strongholds, the ArcKnights and the MarkTiers, and reignite a long-forgotten feud from decades past.

After years spent following her husband as he fought against Napoleon's troops, Lady Lettie Hughes returns to London a widow to take her rightful place among the ton as the daughter of an earl. Her parents and friends expect her to enter the marriage market and secure the match she should have pursued in her debut season. But Lettie is not the same innocent girl she was before Waterloo. Nightmares of the battlefield plague her, and she doesn't see a place for herself in society anymore.

After rescuing her brother from the clutches of vampire coven in Breathless, Leesa was hoping to return to her normal, boring life. Trying to figure out how to kiss Rave without his magical fire burning her to a crisp is all the adventure she wants. But in addition to hungry vampires, there are evil wizards and a necromancer who must be stopped, and it turns out Leesa may be the key to defeating them.

Voici le monde merveilleux de deux petites princesses, Mely et Bela. Leur papa est le puissant Roi du Royaume des Fraises Bleues. Un endroit fantastique où tout le monde vit dans des fraises bleues. Avec "Mely et Bela" les petits lecteurs vont découvrir le monde merveilleux de deux petites princesses qui se font de nouveaux amis dans chaque épisode et qui apprennent ensemble tout sur l'amitié, les bonnes manières, la bonne attitude et le bon sens, avec amusement et tout en vivant des aventures bien mystérieuses.

As the first days of the end of humanity tumble across the city of Las Vegas in the form of an overwhelming viral infection, turning almost everyone into vampire-like creatures, April Tate will find out what it really means to survive. What does it take to make it out alive in a place where everything is but a withered echo of its former self and death does not come willingly?

After liberating County #203 LEOs from the influence of the ARES broadcast, Rachel must face her demons and take her place within the Unrestricted Forces. But when Uh-Kuh is conquered by a feral group of humans the Unrestricted call The Rats, Rachel is dead set on rescuing her mother and friends.

The workings of heaven are shrouded in mystery and myth, leaving us to only theorize as to what awaits us when we pass. There are those among us, however, that are special cases. These are good people who have committed a horrendous crime, such as murder. What makes their cases special, however, is the fact that by committing these egregious acts, one could argue that they have made the world a better place.

Facing a terminal diagnosis, Cora Shaw's only hope is a dangerous procedure offered by the mysterious billionaire Dorian Thorne. But she soon discovers that the cure comes at a terrible price: she is now eternally bound to an immortal vampire, her mind and body forever subject to his will.

Cora Shaw will do anything to live. Diagnosed with a terminal condition in her senior year of college, she is given a choice to call hospice or seek out a mysterious man who promises an impossible - and insanely dangerous - cure.