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Mousy and shy to the point of agoraphobic, Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner, Teddy, does the interviewing and the public schmoozing. But Em’s dependence on Teddy runs deeper than just the job - Teddy is her bridge to the world and the main source of love in her life. So when Teddy dies in a car accident, Em is devastated, alone in a world that she doesn’t understand. The only way that she can honor his memory and cope with his loss is to finish the interviews for their current book....

Now available in audio, originally published in Women on the Case, an anthology of 26 original stories by the best women in crime writing, a short story featuring Linda Barnes’ feisty, red-headed, ex-cop Private Investigator, Carlotta Carlyle. Carlotta can’t stay away when she’s offered a beautiful piece of classic blues history - the guitar of blues and gospel legend Reverend Gary Davis - in return for finding and stopping the uncomfortable advances of a blues-singing rock star’s stalker.

Now available in audio, the Anthony Award-winning short story that started it all. In Lucky Penny, award-winning author Linda Barnes introduces the red-headed, jazz-loving, cab-driving Bostonian and Private Investigator Carlotta Carlyle. As Carlotta lounges in her cab one night while waiting for a fare, the part-time cabbie is accosted and robbed at gun point. When she is unable to get any assistance from the police, Carlotta sets out on her own to recover the stolen goods and bring the perp to justice.

Earth, the fantasy - the place where mankind originated, the storied vista of green, rolling hills and unblemished mountains and fields of amber grain waving in a light breeze. Earth, the reality - a junk world, a dirty, dangerous, rundown planet filled with detention camps, flop houses, taverns, human body parts factories, mobsters' palaces, and a lawless immigrant community of aliens and humans on the run.

Wal is a dreamer. He dreams of escaping from his parents by sailing away on a raft. His friend Billy is a bit more practical: he thinks a raft would be great fun for day-trips in the sheltered waters of the local inlet. Together the boys build the raft and sail it. They make visits to an island, they explore the nearby mangrove swamps, they sail among the wild sea birds. One day they save a trapped dolphin. On another day they nearly collide with a millionaire's yacht. But Wal still dreams of escape, and one dark night he sets sail into the teeth of a growing storm.

Poor Jack Wong is a clueless cadet at the Unified Space Academy when his pod is stranded on a planet of disgusting aliens. All he wants to do, other than escape, is to fulfill his proud duty to advance Earth Culture's Primary Heuristic: "Wherever possible, find the weak spot in an alien civilization and interfere as much as possible for the benefit of humanity." It's the Human's Burden! But everything comes unstuck, made worse by his irritating Machiavellian AI. And that's just the start of Jack's troubles in space and time....

Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The 25 stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love and sex alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace with parents, and contemplating plastic surgery. The tales are true, the confessions candid, and the humor infectious.

In Hustling God, Craig Barnes invites hard-running, stressed-out, burned-out people to simply stop. Stop running—long enough to realize we’re lost. Stop—and encounter the God who has climbed down the ladder from heaven to earth to find us. Stop—so we can at last receive all the blessing that, in Jesus Christ, God was dying to give us.

Lilah knows the rules better than anyone, but between her newfound visions, an absolutely fatal attraction to a boy who isn't real, and the threat of a supernatural enemy with a sting deadlier than any Queen Bee, it's going to take everything she has to stay on top at Emory. And to prove once and for all that - highlights and high heels aside - those who make the rules are the only ones who can break them.

Tony Webster og hans klike var tre. Adrian Finn blev den fjerde. Skolen var en ren drengeskole. Sultne efter sex og bøger styrede de gennem gymnasietiden sammen udvekslede følelser jokes sladder og viden. Måske var Adrian mere seriøs end de andre; han var helt sikkert klogere. Men de fire lovede hinanden venskab for livet og skiltes. Studierne kalder. Tony bliver kæreste med Veronica. Vi er i tresserne. Den seksuelle revolution har ingen rigtig oplevet. Som Tony konstaterer: De fleste mennesker oplevede først tresserne i halvfjerdserne.

Papegøjen i denne romans titel er en udstoppet fugl som den store franske forfatter Gustave Flaubert havde stående foran sig på sit skrivebord da han i 1870 erne skrev historien om en gammel tjenestepige. Hun lod sin højt elskede papegøje udstoppe da den var død og endte med at tro at den var Helligånden. Denne fugl spiller en afgørende rolle for romanens hovedperson. Geoffrey Braithwaite er pensioneret læge med et livsprojekt: Han vil vide alt om den store franske forfatter Gustave Flauberts liv.

Året er 1936. Komponisten Dmitrij Sjostakovitj er 30 år. Han har valgt at blive i Sovjetunionen, men frygter i stigende grad for sit liv. Stalin er nemlig begyndt at interessere sig for den unge komponists værker og har udtalt sig kritisk om hans seneste opera. Sjostakovitj er overbevist om, at han vil blive sendt til Sibirien eller simpelthen skudt på stedet. Han må overveje, hvad hans muligheder er, men i stedet begynder hans egen historie at melde sig i tankerne: Hans forældre, forskellige kvinder, hans hustru, hans datter - de er nu alle i fare sammen med ham.

Völlig unerwartet taucht eine Fremde auf der Seebestattung von Maries Vater auf, zu dem sie selbst in den letzten Jahren kaum noch Kontakt hatte. Niemand scheint sie zu kennen. Es gibt nur einen Hinweis zu dieser Frau, und der führt nach Norderney. Mit zwiespältigen Gefühlen, aber festentschlossen das Geheimnis zu lüften, das Marie hinter dem Erscheinen dieser Frau vermutet, fährt sie von Hooksiel aus auf die beschauliche Nordseeinsel. Und wirklich: Zwischen Dünen und Meer lernt Marie ihren Vater hier noch einmal neu kennen.

"Bring meine Kette zurück zu meiner großen Liebe, nach Juist!" Nur wenige Stunden vor ihrem Tod hat Caros Patientin ihr dieses Versprechen abgenommen. Nun steht Caro auf dem Klinikflur, der ihr alltäglicher Arbeitsplatz ist, und hält Elfriedes kunstvoll gearbeitete Perlenkette in den Händen.

Die erste Liebe hat lebenslange Konsequenzen, aber davon hat Paul im Alter von neunzehn keine Ahnung. Mit neunzehn ist er stolz, dass seine Liebe zur verheirateten, fast dreißig Jahre älteren Susan die gesellschaftlichen Konventionen sprengt. Er ist sich ganz sicher, in Susan die Frau fürs Leben gefunden zu haben, alles andere ist nebensächlich. Erst mit zunehmendem Alter wird Paul klar, dass die Anforderungen, die die Liebe an ihn stellt, größer sind, als er es jemals für möglich gehalten hätte.

A complete resource to help women with diabetes understand their unique experiences and opportunities, A Woman's Guide to Diabetes offers frank discussions about the issues that women with all types of diabetes face, both personally and with family and friends. New topics are introduced and explored through the personal journeys and experiences of authors Brandy Barnes and Natalie Strand, two successful and down-to-earth women who were both diagnosed with diabetes during their teenage years.

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Tired of watching her friends become ruined by the scoundrels of the ton, Sidney Hartridge devises an experiment to reveal their antics. Her plan is to lure three gentlemen to kiss her and see how they would protect her honor. When her research leads her into her own inappropriate scandal, her father agrees to a wedding offer from one of her subjects. As her fiancé blackmails her into a marriage she doesn’t desire, her research becomes exposed. Can Sidney avoid her own scandal with the one she most desires to kiss?

When Breaks the Maelstrom is a buffet of multinational intergalactic short stories that tend to mask genre lines. The stories defy convention because they are fantastical and interlude into the lives of men, women, children, and otherworldly beings. Some events cannot be explained, except we accept the supernatural. When we can break through the natural world's barrier, it is then that we can see other possibilities. We can suggest that myths, phenomena, and legends may be familiar with reality. It's an insight into situations we all may have faced at one time or another. Since all...

Te damos la bienvenida al Gran Juego, una competición deslumbrante que te cambiará la vida. Organizada por la multimillonaria Avery Grambs y los cuatro célebres hermanos Hawthorne, la competición ofrece fama y riquezas a los siete afortunados jugadores de esta edición. Cuando les llevan a una isla privada con todos los lujos imaginables y unos cuantos acertijos a resolver, Lyra, Gigi y Rohan tendrán que hacer todo lo que puedan para superar a sus rivales y ganar un juego que solo los más inteligentes pueden conquistar.