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A snobbish magic academy? Check. A commitment phobic boyfriend? Check. A deadly prophecy? Check. Yeah, I’m totally screwed. I’ve escaped a psychotic, serial killer, but studying at London’s supernatural academy might very well push me over the edge. Not only does my rigorous training end regularly in me losing consciousness, the snobbish elite can’t stand me and makes my life hell. My love life is a mess too. I thought Gavin and I were dating, but now that he teamed up on a mission with his charming ex, I have no clue where we stand.

A dark artifact. A run against time. A deadly demonic power. I’ve decimated my uncle’s generals, but not his will. In his desperation to rule the supernaturals, my uncle will go to any lengths to obtain power, even if it means claiming the dark lord’s legacy and putting our world in danger. Three hundred years ago, when the dark lord was defeated, the Phoenix emblem broke into two pieces. Now, my uncle is set on finding both emblem parts and uniting them, no matter how great the damage. If he succeeds, a great evil will be unleashed, and everyone I care about will die.

Passenger 19C is the story of Margo Siple's experience on the crippled aircraft, her survival, and the aftermath that changed her life, as well as other significant events that happened to her before and after the airline crash in which the adversity she faced challenged her and her faith numerous times.

As the crown princess of Austria, I’m expected to act primly and find a husband, not unleash a curse. Yet that is exactly what happened when I touched a be-spelled nutcracker. Now I must find the magical nut Crackatook, or I will turn into a wooden doll. My father locks me up in the castle, not understanding that I need to be the one to break the curse. Yet with the help of Philip, my best friend and royal guard, I’m able to sneak out. Soon, Philip and I are off to lands filled with mythical creatures, sneaky traps, and complicated riddles.

Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times, Lucy retaliates. But when the fallout is far worse than she meant it to be, she gets sent to Manhattan to serve as a full-time companion to the eccentric Edith Fox. Edith is glamorous and mysterious - nothing like Lucy expected. Though Edith’s world of hidden gardens and afternoon teas is beguiling, there’s one other thing about her that makes her unlike anyone Lucy has ever met...she thinks someone is trying to kill her.

Women who turn to the teachings of yoga during pregnancy have a secret—they feel great and avoid many of the issues that plague expecting mothers. With Yoga Mama, Yoga Baby, Margo Bachman brings you a complete month-by-month series of guided meditations, breathwork practices, and sound and asana exercises to support mothers from conception to birth and early postpartum.

The podcast that takes a look back at musicians, singers, songwriters, producers, composers and artists who are no longer with us.

One Sunday in 2001 ear, nose and throat specialist Dr Peter Friedland received an unexpected call from Nelson Mandela’s personal physician. The former president was struggling to hear. Could Peter visit him at home? Friedland discovered that Mandela was using antiquated hearing aids and was struggling to maintain them. Soon he became a regular visitor to Mandela’s home in Houghton where he experienced the elderly statesman, in the frailty of old age, away from the crowds. He was full of stories and always bearing a lesson.

When my brother Hansel disappears after being last seen in the company of a mysterious beauty, alarm bells rings in my head. When I discover that the traveling beauty is a wicked witch who kidnaps humans and steals their willpowers, I know I have to rescue Hansel. I venture into the lair of the witch, the Black Forest, swearing I’ll either leave with my brother or die trying.

At 17 years old, I’m not ready to marry, and yet that’s what I must do as the crown princess of Austria. But getting to know the foreign princes visiting my kingdom becomes the least of my worries when I touch a bespelled nutcracker and unleash a deadly curse. I have 12 days to feed the nutcracker the magical nut Crackatook. If I fail, my soul will become trapped inside the toy for all eternity, and my body will turn to wood....

My vampire master rejecting me was only the beginning of my adventure. Afraid of being sold to a sadistic vampire, I’m shocked when instead a mysterious Summer Court fae takes me to the faeland where I’m expected to develop my magic abilities and serve the ruthless Summer Court king. To ensure my loyalty, the king has his High Commandeer Nathan keep an eye on me. Nathan is equal parts unbending and fascinating, his blind support of the king admirable and terrifying.

Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her PhD, then swank faculty parties where she'll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer. But those plans disintegrate when she walks in on a vampire sucking the blood from her fiancé, Greg. Horrified, she screams and runs - not away from the vampire, but toward it, brandishing a wooden letter opener.

In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture. Michael Jackson: provocateur, icon, enigma. Who was he really? And how does his spectacular rise, his catastrophic fall, reflect upon those who made him, those who broke him and those who loved him?

Uno de los grandes problemas que ha traído consigo la proliferación de discursos en las redes sociales es que pareciéramos vivir en un mundo en el que todos hablan y nadie escucha. El torrente de información que circula frente a nuestros ojos cada día, sea verdadera o falsa, cohíbe la posibilidad para sopesar el contexto, el trasfondo y las implicaciones de aquello que leemos.

There are a million ways to end up in the Alien Bride Lottery, but it takes only one. Every unmarried female human over the age of 21 gets entered once a year. You can also accept extra entries for legal infractions—instead of paying a parking fine, for example, you can request an extra entry. Lots of women do that. I mean, why not? The chances are astronomical that your name will get chosen to be one of the hundred or so women who get shipped off to space every year.

This collection of unabridged, spectacular steampunk speculations includes several classics of the genre. These tales will sweep you away with their amazing automata, daring dirigibles, grinding gears, and scintillating steam as days gone by are infused with tech. In "Smoke City," by Christopher Barzak, a woman comes to terms with the loss of her family to the child labor mills of the city. A doctor tries to cope with a strange plague terrorizing the citizens of London in Jeffrey Ford's "Dr. Lash Remembers."

Revered as a symbol of fertility, sexuality, purity and childhood, beloved as a children’s pet and widely represented in the myths, art and collectibles of almost every culture, the rabbit is one of the most popular animals known to humans. Ironically, it has also been one of the most misunderstood and abused. Indeed, the rabbit is the only animal that our culture adores as a pet, idolizes as a storybook hero and slaughters for commercial purposes.

On remote Rollrock Island, the sea-witch Misskaella discovers she can draw a girl from the heart of a seal. So, for a price, any man might buy himself a bride—an irresistibly enchanting sea-wife. But what cost will be borne by the people of Rollrock—the men, the women, the children—once Misskaella sets her heart on doing such a thing?

Destruction is upon us. The faelands are going dark. Soon, they’ll become uninhabitable. Only if the Summer and Winter Court unite can the apocalypse be prevented. With the Queen of the Winter Court trapped in the wastelands, and the King of the Summer Court becoming unstable, it’s up to me to steal the Summer Court crown and deliver it to the wastelands so that we can heal the faelands. My path won’t be easy. Death whispers in my ear, ready to claim me should I make one wrong step. But to keep my people safe, I’ll do whatever it takes! Join me on my lethal adventure!

I thought I'd escaped being given to an alien warrior. I was wrong. I was one hour away from washing out of the Alien Bride Games. None of the Khanavai warriors had chosen me, and I was scheduled on the next shuttle off the filming station. Then, a bright red alien passed me in a hallway—and the next thing I knew, we were all over each other. Bad enough that my name had been drawn in the Bride Lottery. Now, even though they're supposedly over, I'm back in the Games. And not the usual ones, either—a whole new set of challenges, just for me. Guess it'll make for good television back home.