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The Blackthorn Mystery ByDarryl MartelWhen Margaret Redfern, a sharp-witted former schoolteacher, visits her old friend Eleanor Middleton at Blackthorn Vicarage, she expects a peaceful stay. Instead, she finds herself tangled in the murder of a powerful and widely disliked magistrate, Colonel Ambrose Ashford. With the police baffled and the vicarage steeped in secrets, Margaret must untangle a web of deceit, false confessions, and buried pasts before the killer strikes again.

Lost at sea . . . with your one-night standLexi is looking for no-strings-attached fun.Zeke is looking for love.Neither of them were looking for a one-night stand to become their one and only lifeline.But when they wake up after an unforgettable night together, the houseboat they stayed on has been swept out to sea. Theres no signal, no steering and no sign of rescue.And as the waves pick up and supplies run low, Zeke and Lexi realise theres much more on the line than their new relationship.*This Paperback Edition Has Exclusive Content*Everyone has fallen for Swept AwayI adored it, it was so romanticMarian KeyesFeels like a brand new version of romance . . . I drowned happily in this book Jodi PicoultAn adventure-packed love story and a romance unlike anything Ive read beforeStylistI adore Beth OLearys books. I never want them to end reader reviewMy book of the year, my book of the decade. The best romcom I have ever read Gillian McAllisterWhat a powerful book reader reviewA heartfelt must-readHeatCouldnt put it down! reader reviewCompletely original, so romantic, funny, fresh and deeply heartfelt Lindsey KelkGuaranteed to make you smile reader reviewGorgeous characters and brilliantly originalThe SunHigh concept, high stakes reader reviewThis love story will capture you hook, line and sinker Lucy ClarkeA beautiful, gripping love story with a twist reader reviewMy new favourite Beth OLeary Paige ToonTotal escapism reader reviewNo words. Im speechless Lizzie Damilola BlackburnIts a must-buy reader reviewWhat a concept, what a novel! I absolutely raced through this bold and beautiful story Lia LouisA gorgeous love story reader reviewPerfect for fans of Emily Henry Sarah Morgan

Lyzzie é uma mulher romântica, que enfrenta o pior momento de sua vida vivendo em uma cidade onde seu passado a consome, com um emprego sem grandes perspectivas e o medo de não conseguir seguir em f

"Hacked Childhood" offers a critical, well-researched, and deeply insightful look at the impact of social media on the cognitive and emotional development of children as young as three years old. In a world saturated with digital devices and algorithm-driven behavior, this book explores how platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Kids are reshaping attention spans, language skills, empathy, self-esteem, and social interaction. With a balance of scientific rigor and humanistic sensitivity, this book examines how these attention-grabbing, addictive technologies disrupt natural learning, play, and emotional bonding. Drawing from neuroscience, education, case studies, and parental experience, the author paints an alarming picture of generations building their identities through digital validation, replacing human connection with emojis and likes. Far from technophobic, this book is a timely call for parents, educators, and policymakers to rethink the childhood were shaping. With practical strategies and actionable solutions, Hacked Childhood is an essential guide for navigating parenting in the digital era and safeguarding childrens healthy development.

Look Both Ways meets Seedfolks in this masterful novel from two titans of kid lit that follows a diverse cast of young people whose lives intersect in surprising and hilarious ways over the course of a summer day.Heres whats so cool about the beach. Kids are everywhere! Kids you know, kids you want to know. Wandering from one blanket to another, from one family to another. Somebodys mom reads a fat summer novel. Somebodys dad snores with an iPad on his chest. Babies cry. Girls laugh. Frisbee players whoop! Kites in the perfect blue sky. Some kids bodysurf. Some dont even like the water. They build sand cities for their friends and sand jails for the grown-ups, and when the tide comes in everything gets washed away. Theres the other world, where all kids hear is tomorrow, next week, next year. And then theres the beach, where everything is right now!Why cant every day be a day at the beach?From two-time Newbery honoree Gary D. Schmidt and two-time PEN Award winner Ron Koertge comes a moving and often laugh-out-loud funny coming of age middle grade novel about family, friendship, and belonging, told from multiple perspectives by a group of kids spending a day at the beach. These thoughtful vignettes, each a slice of life, brilliantly weave together an irresistible tale of tween conflict and connections.One beach. One day. A dozen different stories.Interconnected Stories: Watch as a lost phone, a Frisbee toss, and a sand castle contest bring a whole cast of kids together in surprising and hilarious ways. Friendship and Belonging: From finding a new friend to standing up to a bully, discover the small moments of courage that make you feel like you belong. Funny and Heartwarming: A masterful tale thats often laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, capturing the feeling that at the beach, everything is right now. Perfect Summer Read: Told in thoughtful vignettes, this is the ideal book for young readers to dive into on a warm day, whether theyre by the water or just dreaming of it.

Perfect for fans of Mason Deaver and Becky Albertalli, this tender, raucous novel follows a rule-following, perfectionist teen who starts an underground GSA club at her conservative Catholic high school, from the acclaimed author of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens.Cassie Perera is a star student in St. Lukes junior class. But the new school year brings an unwelcome surprisethe return to St. Lukes of Cassies former friend, Ben, who left a few years ago after a homophobic bullying incident Cassie knows she didnt do enough to prevent.Still harboring guilt from her inaction, Cassie decides, in her usual, overzealous way, to team up with the neighboring public school to found an underground Gender and Sexuality Allianceas a complicated strategy for making things up to Ben. Secretly, Cassie is also tempted by the possibility of opening up about her own sexuality for the first time.As Cassies new friends urge her out of her comfort zone, she unlocks a kind of joy and freedom shes never felt beforeeven as she struggles to balance these experiences with her typical tightrope of being the perfect daughter, student, and Catholic.Cassies perfectly curated life unravels into turmoil, but can she embrace the mess enough to piece together something new?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Past Lives in this emotional, gripping story of two childhood friends navigating the fallout of one erasing their memory of the other, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Dustin Thao. Now in paperback!Seventeen-year-old Yena Bae is spending the summer in Busan, South Korea, working at her moms memory-erasing clinic. She feels lost and disconnected from people, something shes felt ever since her best friend, Lucas, moved away four years ago without a word, leaving her in limbo.Eighteen-year-old Lucas Pak is also in Busan for the summer, visiting his grandpa, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimers disease. But he isnt just here for a regular visithes determined to get his beloved grandpa into the new study running at the clinic, a trial program seeking to restore lost memories.When Yena runs into Lucas again, shes shocked to see him and even more shocked to discover that he doesnt remember a thing about her. Hes completely erased her from his memories, and she has no idea why.As the two reconnect, they unravel the mystery and heartache of what happened between them all those years agoand must now reckon with whether they can forge a new beginning together.

Legend says there was once a labyrinth where the city of Sangarie now stands. Each year on the Night of Shadows the populace stays inside while gateways to the labyrinth appear in the streets, and shadows wait to devour the brave, or the foolish. Gray was both, and it still haunts him.He deals with his nightmares through sarcasm and overconfidence, and has risen in the ranks of the criminal guild to wrangle the most unruly district in the city: Old Town. He cheats at dice, drinks too much, and flirts as naturally as he breathes. When he finds the body of a fellow guild member, rumors spread that hes the killer and he does what he does bestignores authority and tries to handle it himself.His investigations leave him on the run from both the guild and the guards, and hes blackmailed into one last heist. One that will plunge him into the bowels of urban legend and force him to face his own traumatic past. The citys future depends on the wit and bluster of the greatest thief ever to run across its rooftops, but can he survive the labyrinth a second time?

Healing Your Money Wounds: 24 Days to Financial Freedom & AbundanceDo you feel like money slips through your fingers no matter how hard you try? Have you ever wondered why financial success seems easy for some but feels like an uphill battle for you? Healing Your Money Wounds: 24 Days is your step-by-step guide to transforming your relationship with moneyone powerful shift at a time.This book isnt just about budgeting or savingits about breaking free from subconscious money blocks, healing financial trauma, and reprogramming your mindset for lasting wealth. Whether you struggle with scarcity mentality, guilt around spending, over-giving, or feeling unworthy of abundance, this 24-day journey will help you: Identify & release deep-rooted money wounds holding you back Reprogram your beliefs about wealth, success, and financial ease Let go of guilt and shame around money mistakes Set powerful money boundaries and stop over-giving Manifest financial abundance in a way that aligns with your purposeEach day includes a transformative lesson, reflection exercises, and practical next steps to help you take immediate action. Youll discover how to shift from struggling to thriving, replace fear with confidence, and create a new money storyone where financial success flows naturally to you.If youre ready to break the cycle of financial lack and step into true abundance, this book will be your guide. Your financial healing starts today.

In guten wie in schlechten Zeiten, das hat Seth seiner groen Liebe Jesse bei ihrer Hochzeit versprochen.Nach elf Jahren Beziehung scheinen die schlechten Zeiten zu uberwiegen. Dabei hatten Jesse und Seth doch groe Plane fur ihr gemeinsames Leben! Aber um sich das Haus, in das Jesse sich unsterblich verschossen hat, uberhaupt leisten zu konnen, schlittert Seth mit Doppelschichten im Sanitatsdienst langsam in den Burnout, wahrend sich Jesses Gedanken nur noch um die Adoption eines Kindes drehen. Allerdings gestaltet sich diese schwieriger, als sie gedacht hatten, und Seth muss bestandig gegen Jesses Vorwurfe ankampfen, er wurde jeden Versuch, ein Kind zu bekommen, sabotieren. Dabei will er doch nur das Beste fur Jesse, auch wenn der es nicht sehen kann. Seth halt Jesses neuen, besten Freund Nick fur die treibende Kraft hinter der Kluft, die sich immer weiter zwischen ihnen auftut. Denn Nick ist sich fur nichts zu schade, um Seth ausstechen zu konnen, und Jesse scheint ihm jedes Wort zu glauben. Als Nick sich auch noch schamlos in die Zukunftsplane der beiden einmischt, wird Seth zu Entscheidungen gezwungen, die er nie hatte treffen wollen. Und naturlich ist auch sein langjahriger Kumpel und ehemaliger Liebhaber Mark wieder mit von der Partie, der es nicht lassen kann, Seths Misere fur seine eigenen Zwecke zu nutzen.Nach Unerreichbar nah bietet der zweite Band um Seth und Jesse mit viel Eifersucht, Liebe und Enttauschung eine dra-matische Fortsetzung fur alle, die ihren Glauben an die groe Liebe nicht aufgeben wollen.

Um Cântico de Natal (1843) é talvez o mais dickensiano dos contos.É que só Charles Dickens poderia, a propósito do Natal, criar personagens como Scrooge, o pequeno Tim, e os três Espíritos do Natal P

O último volume da saga Duna, de Frank Herbert.O planeta desértico Arrakis — conhecido como Duna — foi destruído. Os restos do Velho Império foram consumidos pelo violento culto matriarcal das Honrad

No quinto volume da saga Duna, Leto Atreides, Imperador Deus de Duna, está morto. Nos mil e quinhentos anos desde a sua morte, o Império desmoronou-se. Com a grande Dispersão, milhões abandonaram a c

When my boyfriend, Brad, invites me for a weekend at his older brothers countryside mansion, he unexpectedly has to return to work, leaving me alone with his irresistibly attractive brother, Jack.Left by myself in the mansion with Jack, I cant help but explore. However, when Jack discovers me watching him in the shower, he decides I deserve to be punished and takes pleasure in teaching me a lesson!With every intense touch, will I forget all about Brad, or will this forbidden encounter be too much for me to handle?This steamy, erotic standalone story features a dominant alpha male and a submissive young woman who cant resist succumbing to the pleasures of a forbidden affair with the one man she knows she shouldnt desire.

Born with a shard of ice for a heart, supernatural circus performer Tryxan is doomed to a loveless, unfeeling life. They tour Australia with their troupe, resigned to their cold existence, until an opportunity arises: participate in a magic show that will either cure their shard or kill them.But the show does neither. Instead of plunging to death or salvation, Tryxan is dragged through a portal to another world, where they meet a prince who longs to dance but is cursed to never step foot in a ballroom.Tryxan teaches the prince to dance in secret, and together, they find a peace neither thought they could have. But the magic in the princes world is dangerous, and if Tryxan cant solve the princes curse, theyll lose not only their newfound feelings, but possibly the love of their life.Another Worlds Stars is a portal fantasy romance with secret dancing and winter solstice vibes. It is a prequel to the Cursed Princes, a series of quick romantasy reads with angsty happy endings, and is best read first.

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Youll always be my favorite what if ...Callum FitzroyAll semester Ive tried to keep my identity as a partying billionaires son a secret. Then I met the girl of my dreams, and I realized it was time to do the right thing for once. I was ready to come clean. Too bad Anya accidentally got the truth before I could explain. Now she knows that Im a liar and she wants nothing to do with me. Worse, with the truth getting out, the media is starting to chase the story not just the truth about my identity, but the truth about my forbidden affair with my teacher.Somehow, I have to do the impossible: stop the media from breaking the story and find a way to get Anya to forgive me for everything Ive put her through. All my life Ive been able to buy my way out of trouble, but with a girl like Anya, theres no amount of money thats going to buy her forgiveness. Wealth isnt going to win her over, which means that for the first time in my life, Ill have to earn something on my own merits. All I have to do is show Anya that taking a chance on me is worth it. Anya BartonAll my life Ive followed the rules. Until I met Callum. The hot bad boy who turned out to be my student. Sneaking around and having a secret affair with a student is against the rules, but when I finally tell the truth to my supervisors, everything backfires. I lose my job as a TA, the media is hounding me for the story, and worst of all Callum isnt who he said he was. I thought that owning up to my mistakes would give me and Callum a clean slate. A chance at a relationship. Then, I found out hes been lying to me all semester. He isnt a working-class student down on his luck. Hes heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.Now, I dont know if I can believe anyone or anything. Not Callum, and not my own heart. Because as much as I still long to be with him, the truth is, I fell for a guy who doesnt exist. My head tells me to be sensible. Meanwhile my heart tells me that Ill never meet a guy like him. On paper, this wealthy, privileged billionaires son isnt the one for me, and yet, I dont know how I can possibly let him go. A Campus Romance Series The Lecture The Syllabus The Thesis

Find the sacred in the ordinary.From sunrise to sunset, the noise of the world threatens to drown out Gods voice. Surrender the fear and anxiety this commotion brings by centering your thoughts on the Lord.With Whispers of the Spirit, embark on a journey into prayer that brings you closer to the heart of God. In this forty-day liturgical devotional, Dr. Drew Dickens will teach you how to build an intentional prayer habit and explore the wonders of Gods Word in the stillness created. Each day will help youclear your mind with guided meditations, enter into the story of Scripture, foster a deeper relationship with the Divine, and thrive in the blessings of gratitude and peace. Whether your day brings joy or hardship, listen for Gods whispers as he speaks to your soul.

Ignite a spirit of passionate prayer. The book of Psalms stands as a rich tapestry of lamentation, praise, and wisdom. These ancient songs and prayers offer words for every season of your life and every cry of your heart, propelling you into Gods Word and his presence. Prayers on Fire for Women offers 365 daily prayers and prompts inspired by the book of Psalms, inviting you to run to your Father with your pleas, worries, and thanksgiving. Featuring Scripture from The Passion Translation, this book will transform your prayer life and warm your soul with the fire of Gods majesty and strength. Experience Gods love as you pour out your heart to him.

Sweeten your life with Gods love.Pour yourself a tall glass of iced tea and revive your world-weary spirit. Sweet Tea and Thee invites you to step away from the busyness of your everyday routines and cultivate a lifestyle of peace and joy.With southern charm and biblical insight that will bless your heart, award-winning author Linda Kozar shares the perfect brew of inspirational quotes, scriptural truth, daily guidance, and homespun humor. This 90-day devotional will help yourefresh your soul, fortify your hope, nurture your faith, and treasure Gods truth in your heart. Sit back, sip your sweet tea, and soak in the wisdom that comes from reading Gods Word.