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April's father, a psychology professor, has had a breakdown and has landed in the Alta Vista State Hospital. Her stepmother, Claire, is just waiting for him to get out so she can leave on a trip to Italy - a trip April is worried Claire won't come back from. She needs Claire, at least until she finishes high school. She needs her not just as a companion but as a worldly woman who can tell April about men and their desires…men far different from her boyfriend, Stuart.

Rosja znalazla sposób, by znów realizowac imperialne marzenia. Rozwiazaniem jej problemów ekonomicznych ma byc ekspansja na terenach Arktyki i aneksja dwudziestu pieciu procent swiatowych zlóz ropy. Kurs poteznych lodolamaczy atomowych „Jamal” i „Rassija” staje sie kursem zdeterminowanego panstwa. Blyskawicznie rosna bazy wojskowe i porty na syberyjskich wybrzezach, wzmocniona zostaje potezna Flota Pólnocna.

How Lincoln Learned to Read tells the American story from a fresh and unique perspective: how do we learn what we need to know? Beginning with Benjamin Franklin and ending with Elvis Presley, author Daniel Wolff creates a series of intimate, interlocking profiles of notable Americans that track the nations developing notion of what it means to get a good education.

What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. In this engrossing cultural history of heaven, Catherine Wolff delves into how people and cultures have defined heaven over the centuries. She describes how different faiths and religions have framed it, how the sense of heaven has evolved, and how nonreligious influences have affected it.

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in 20th-century America - woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.

When Joe Reed was a teenager, he fell so deeply in love with Mary Claude Moore that his parents threatened to send him away. Decades later, he's living a normal life with his wife and their two children; yet in the thirty years since he's last seen Mary Claude, he hasn't stopped thinking of her. With recent news of her in hand, Joe begins to understand the reasons for which he has never stopped loving her - and just how pivotal that time in his life had been.

Lying stiffly in their separate beds, a husband and his wife are woken in the middle of the night to the sound of their fighting neighbors. There are three of them - a man, a woman, and a young child. With their blasting stereos, violent interludes, and steamy make-up sessions, the wife has had enough. The husband, however, is preoccupied with other thoughts - sex, movies, and humanity's capacity to adapt and change.

Gilbert saw Mary Ann first, but the second time he sees her she is dancing with his best friend, Rafe. The three of them begin hanging out all the time, driving around in the car Rafe got as a present for getting into Yale. But when Rafe goes out of town, Gilbert and Mary Ann keep the tradition going, seeing movies and going on drives...in Rafe's car no less.

García, the wealthy, swaggering son of a foreign dictator, invites two lower-class boys from his boarding school to have dinnerin New York along with his Spanish-speaking stepmother, Linda. When the groupdecides to go to a kitschy, unpretentious Swedish smorgasbord rather than a fine restaurant, García refuses to leave the limousine, still angry with Linda after an argument over money. Linda proves to be more than the young men had anticipated, and she has more influence over them during their brief encounter than they will ever know.

John didn't want a dog. He wasn't ready, he said. Grace, on the other hand, did want a dog, and when she brought Victor home from the pound, John made sure Grace knew it was her dog, her responsibility. But when Grace dies, John is left with just Victor and his grief, and he learns a new level of devotion.

We were all cursed. I recalled my mother once telling me that our days were doomed, that our future was forfeited and she was sorry she had brought so many of us to this world, to live a short life with no hopes of a happy ending. She birthed four girls, as have most of the other women in the family. Always girls. Only the female gender could be born from our bodies.

Can you imagine if the United States didn’t have freedom of religion and one religion controlled the country? Would it be Christianity, Islam, or Judaism? In R.P. Wolff’s fifth book, a paranormal thriller in a dystopian world. Materism, the worship of the Gods of the Sun, Land, and Sea, has taken over the United States as the only religion. Maters brand the foreheads of infidels with the first letter of the infidel’s religion, so they can’t ever escape their initial religious identity.

While on a crowded bus near the Vatican, a man named Mallon - visiting Italy on business - feels someone reaching into his pockets, searching for his wallet. He elbows the pickpocket, seriously injuring the man. Driven by his guilty conscience, Mallon finds himself peering in on the life of an unfamiliar culture and learning more about the world than he ever could have imagined.

Burke, a San Francisco lawyer, is defending a woman who has been disabled by a botched surgery. His client has a personal connection to Burke, and the trial happens to be taking place in his Ohio hometown, a place ravaged by fallen industries and greedy corporations. While taking a deposition from a particularly difficult witness, Burke calls for a break and takes a walk around the neighborhood where he grew up. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman sets in motion a series of events that Burke could never have foreseen - and is unlikely to forget.

In this short story by the masterful Tobias Wolff, a teenage boy learns the joys - and struggles - of adult life.

Eager for independence and adult-like freedom, a teenage boy takes a summer job baling hay on a rural farm. Savoring the farm wife’s attention and the extra change in his pocket, the boy feels like a grown man. The fellow hands give him a sense of camaraderie - Clemson, a fastidious boy who attends the same high school; Eduardo, a talkative Mexican seasonal worker; and Miguel, a quiet man and Eduardo’s brother.

Le spin-off d'Assoiffés, qui nous plonge au coeur d'une école pour créatures fantastiques rebelles ! Dans la plupart des écoles, il s'agit d'être le meilleur. À la Calder Academy, il faut être le pire ! C'est l'endroit où vont les êtres paranormaux rebelles, ceux qui enfreignent les règles et perdent le contrôle. Et quand les jeunes en question sont des vampires, des loups-garous et des sorcières, ça devient carrément effrayant ! Je le sais parce que je suis piégée ici. Pour mon plus grand malheur, ma mère se trouve être la directrice de l'académie.

Le dixième tome de la série évènement Assoiffés ! Une nouvelle menace gronde au moment même où le Cercle s'effondre. Cela fait trois mois que Grace et ses amis ont éliminé Cyrus. Mais cette période de calme était trop belle pour durer. Le groupe d'amis n'a pas d'autre choix que de retourner dans le Royaume des Ombres pour conclure un accord avec la Reine qui a bien failli les tuer. Une fois de plus, la vie de chacun est en jeu et Grace en porte la responsabilité.

"Männer", stänkerte Netti, "denen kommst du nur bei, indem du eine klare Ansage machst …"Die Frau am Strand von Neuharlingersiel ist tot, ihre kleine Tochter verschwunden. Das alles ist sechzehn Jahre her und der Täter wurde nie überführt.Emely Petersen, Inhaberin des Café Kluntje am Hafen und eifrige Hobbydetektivin, fängt an, in der Vergangenheit der ermordeten jungen Mutter herumzustochern. Emely ist frustriert und nahe daran aufzugeben, weil sich kein weiterer Anhaltspunkt auftut.

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El gran desenlace de la Serie Crave. Ya forma parte de ti. Han pasado tres meses desde que mis amigos y yo derrotamos a Cyrus. Tres meses en los que mi mayor temor ha sido lo que vendrá después... Debería haber sabido que esto era demasiado bueno para durar, y ahora todo se está rompiendo en mil pedazos.