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A woman in a mans world.An enemy she never saw coming.Police officer Kate Murphy thought shed left her tumultuous past behind when she married Matt, but nothing could be further from the truth.As problems and deceptions pile up both at home and at work, a disturbingly high number of animal deaths begin to spread in and around Boston. Kate will have to unravel a web of lies and connect the dots to solve the case and regain control over her life.If you like dramatic police procedurals with characters who grow and become stronger as the story progresses, then youll love this fast-paced yet emotional mystery.Buy your copy today.WARNING: This book deals with sensitive subject matters that may upset some readers, such as animal cruelty, miscarriage, and abortion.

A girl with magical powers trying to protect a prince who always runs into trouble.Selunia hides her magical skills and disguises as a mere soldier of the Arid Kingdom in order to help Prince Soris. But what happens when unexpected attackers get in her way? And what will the Prince do after finding out her true identity?Update: enjoy a re-edited version!A world where old principles and the latest military technology co-exist, and magic has yet to be discovered.Selunia is a nineteen-year-old girl who was born in a community of people with supernatural powers. However, her powers have failed to be awakened. Nobody wants her there anymore.Her mother has a vision about her future. She insists on sending the girl to the nearby Arid Kingdom, and become Prince Soris protector.Selunias mother believes that this will help the girl find her hidden powers; but the Arid Kingdom has no knowledge of magic.Will it all be in vain?Soris is the prince of the Arid Kingdom and struggles to recover from the injuries left by a long war. He wishes for peace but that never seems to be possible. Even the people close to him are causing him trouble.He will soon find out that a new war is about to begin and, this time, his opponents are something unusual.Will Selunia succeed to help him and find her own powers? Editorial Review"A Captivating and Powerful Story That Will Put You On the Edge of Your Seat and Leave You Wanting More.Selunia is a young girl with special powers, at least through the help of her crystal gloves. She is sent from her home at the White Castle to the nearby Arid Kingdom. Once there, she quickly finds herself the sole protector of the kingdom. But will she be able to triumph over the powerful and numerous enemy that threatens them all?Tina does a remarkable job at using multiple points of view without confusing the reader or losing the focus of the story. Her writing style is easy to follow and flows well. There is no heavy use of profanity and no intense romantic scenes which makes this a great book for all ages. The characters of the story are well-developed, and the action and suspense made for a quick, fun read. The story kept me intrigued from beginning to end. Silvens shows much promise as an author. I hope to see more from her in the future and am anxious to see how she will further develop this story in the series." Elizaveta KatrinovaTina Silvens is an author dedicated to the fantasy genre. Although she has been writing since school days, her first book was published in 2017. The Mysterious Soldier Part I is the first book in the Arid Kingdom series, a story she kept working on for more than 10 years before finally reaching out into the world of published books.The story of the Arid Kingdom revolves around the complicated and mysterious lives of the main characters: Selunia and Soris.Although Silvens has other fantasy books in store, waiting to be written and published, she will be focusing mainly on the Arid Kingdom series.

From the author of the Malone Mystery series comes a smart, sassy, sexy new P.I., T. J. OSullivan. Hailing originally from New Zealand, T. J. has the accent and lots of attitude.When Los Angeles P.I. T. J. OSullivan is sent to Honolulu by her boss to track down a clients missing daughter, it seems like a simple missing person case. OSullivan is excited by the prospect of mixing a little business with some pleasure on the beaches of Waikiki. But the case turns out to be anything but routine. In fact, it becomes a regular mares nest of extortion, betrayal, and murder.Only after arriving in Hawaii does T. J. learn from the client his daughter didnt actually go missing. Instead, she has been abducted and is being held for ransom. To make matters worse, while T. J. tries to get a lead on the daughter, she has to fend off the sexual advances of her predatory client. The client gets murdered, and T. J. gets framed. Now she must solve at least one murder to prove her own innocence, resolve a criminal conspiracy involving her dead clients own family, and save herself from the clutches of some serious bad guys.

Aterrorizado com a ideia da morte, um homem deixa-se contaminar pelo vampirismo de forma a prolongar a sua vida indefinidamente. Porém, quando as legiões do Céu e do Inferno se enfrentam na derradeir

Terrorized by the thought of death, a man lets himself be contaminated by vampirism as a way to prolong his life indefinitely. However, when Hell and Heavens legions face each other in the ultimate battle, he remains the last human being on Earth. Will he let himself be dragged peacefully into one of the afterlife kingdoms?

Céu, Purgatório e Inferno, os três reinos do pós-morte. Agentes de cada um deles tentam manipular os Homens, levando-os a fazer coisas que normalmente não fariam, para influenciar o seu destino final

Heaven, Purgatory and Hell, the three realms of the afterlife. Agents from each side try to manipulate Man, making it do things it wouldnt normally do, to influence its final destination. All to get more souls and gain an advantage in the Eternal War.I cant accept it. It isnt fair for the place of eternal rest (or torment) of a person to be determined by what a third party led it to do. And I fight to prevent it.An old local legend makes me suspect that the angels of Viana do Castelo are not splitting the souls of the newly dead as mandated by law. This is the story of my attempt to discover and stop them.

Being a stripper in Vegas meant that all of Simones nights usually blended together in a haze of neon. Until that 1 Night when a tall, drunk stranger wandered in needing help, and Simone uncharacteristically agreed to do it.Cal thought a trip to Vegas with his buddies for a Bachelor Party would be a blast, but things didnt go as planned, and that 1 Night turned into something that changed his life, and his marriage, forever.1 Night is a prequel to 8 Weeks, which is book 1 in the Time for Love Series.

Tired of the abuse his mother endures, at the hands of her boyfriend, a boy gets a gun. After learning to point and shoot he meets his nemesis face-to-face for the final showdown."Sixty-three percent of young men between the ages of 11 and 20 serving time for homicide are in prison for killing their mothers abuser." (SOURCE: KDVA.org, Myths of Domestic Violence: 2008)

One day I was be-bopping along jamming to the music in my head while wondering if my thighs could handle grabbing a cupcake on the way home. The next thing I knew, my entire world crashed and burned.I used to wake up at night in a sweat, crying because Id dreamt that my husband was cheating on me, or that he hated me, and resented my kids. Hed always hold me close and tell me it was all just a dream, that he loved me and our family and that hed never let me go.He was a f*cking liar.Now I spend my days taking photos of scum just like him, trying to be a champion for others being taken advantage of by the losers in our town, and my nights being a single mom to my beautiful twins.Ive got great friends who have my back, and a sexy, mysterious motorcycle man who keeps showing up when I need him. Maybe things are starting to look up, and one things for sure... Theres always room for cupcakes.WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS FOUL LANGUAGE, SEX, SOME VIOLENCE, AND SHENANIGANS. IF NONE OF THAT BOTHERS YOU, GRAB A CUPCAKE AND READ ON!

Un tempo avevo paura del buio.Con la sua oscurita imperscrutabile, credevo che fra le ombre danzanti della notte si nascondessero i peggiori mostri che la mente possa immaginare.Un tempo avevo una famiglia.Una madre, un padre, e a tratti, persino degli amici. Una casa in cui stare e qualcuno con cui vivere, a dispetto delle situazioni. Un sorriso di genuino affetto.Un tempo avevo un nome.Ma il nome non ha importanza. Non piu. Non il mio. Non da quando e successo. Non da quando me lha cambiato.Parli con qualcuno, Billy? Una voce divertita, folle e instabile. È la sua.No, Zio. Non voglio che mi scopra. Arrivo. Non ancora.Non so per quanto ancora questa storia continuera, poiche il tempo ormai e solo un concetto insignificante per me. Cambia di giorno in giorno, e i giorni neppure ci sono piu. È solo la relativita dellinsensatezza. Solo la verita. Solo la follia.Solo, la Dimensione.

Mi aveva rapita. Il pallore della sua pelle, lo sguardo leggermente malinconico, mi ricordavano qualcosa che non sapevo definire.Per questo motivo, quando lo vidi li, fermo nel mezzo del pontile,mi sentii in imbarazzo, perche a sua insaputa io lo avevo osservato per ore e sapevo cose che sfuggivano anche a lui stesso.Per Regina, specializzata in dermatologia, la pelle porta i segni del modo in cui le persone reagiscono alla vita, e una mappa del loro mondo interiore. Quando incontra Lawrence, ne studia la pelle e deduce di aver trovato la sua anima gemella, ma lamore deve a volte affrontare prove terribili prima di trovare la propria strada.

There was an old bamboo cutter called Také Tori. He was an honest old man, very poor and hard-working, and he lived with his good old wife in a cottage on the hills. Children they had none, and little comfort in their old age, poor souls.Take Tori rose early upon a summer morning, and went forth to cut bamboos as was his wont, for he sold them for a fair price in the town, and thus he gained his humble living.Up the steep hillside he went, and came to the bamboo grove quite wearied out. He took his blue tenegui and wiped his forehead, Alack for my old bones! he said. I am not so young as I once was, nor the good wife either, and theres no chick nor child to help us in our old age, mores the pity. He sighed as he got to work, poor Take Tori.Soon he saw a bright light shining among the green stems of the bamboos.

The Saga of Erik the Red is thought to have been composed before 1265AD on the Norse exploration of North-America. The saga also details the events that led to Erik the Reds banishment to Greenland and Leif Ericsons preaching of Christianity as well as his discovery of Vinland (America) after his longship was blown off course. By geographical details, this place is thought to be present-day Newfoundland, and was probably the first European discovery of the American mainland, some five centuries before Christopher Columbuss arrival in the Antilles.The saga also chronicles the life and expedition of Thorfinn Karlsefni and his wife Gudrid, characters also seen in the Greenland saga.This translation is made from the version of the Saga printed in Dr. Gudbrand Vigfussons Icelandic Prose Reader.NOTE: It may be mentioned here that Carl Christian Rafn and the other Danish scholars who edited this elaborate work have concluded that Kjalarnes is the modern Cape Cod, Straumsfjordr is Buzzards Bay, Straumsey is Marthas Vineyard, and Hop is on the shores of Mount Haup Bay, into which the river Taunton flows.=============KEYWORDS: Saga of Eirik the Red, Eric the Red, Leif Ericson, banishment, Greenland, Vinland, longship, storm, off course, Newfoundland, discovery, America, Norse, Viking, mainland, preach, Christianity, Christopher Columbus, Antilles, Vifil, Gudrid, grandfather, Iceland, parentage, emigrate, father, Thorbjorn, family, Thorstein, son of Eirik the Red, Karlsefni, expedition, Fate, Thorhall, Sportsman, second winter, Hop, Dealings, Skrlingar, Skroelingar, Skroelinger, fights, Return, Straumsfjord, slay, Thorvald, One-footer, hero, Heroic, magnanimity, magnanimous, Bjarni, descendants, Mount Haup Bay, Taunton, river, Kjalarnes, Cape Cod, Buzzards Bay, Straumsey, Marthas Vineyard, grapes,

Charlotte popped the hatch and grabbed a couple baskets, began filling them with tuna. A cry sounded from somewhere near the back of the store which Red recognized instantly. Charlotte and he exchanged glances. You hear that, Corbin? he shouted.Corbin was but a tiny figure at the end of the aisle. Yeah, asshole. I heard it. Lets go.Whats the matter, Supercop? Afraid of something that might fight you back? Give her a minute.Charlotte exchanged her baskets for empty ones and rushed down the aisle.The call sounded again and yet another responded, this one from the front of the store. Those are raptors, Michelangelo. Shes got about sixty seconds before I come down there and take that Jeep with or without you.Where did theycome from? said Charlotte, piling cans into her baskets.Probably filed in after us, said Red, or slipped through a back door we missed.They can appear out of nowhere, asshole, hollered Corbin. Ive seen one materialize right where a man was standing. Another call echoed throughout the store and he aimed his rifle into the dark. Want to know what happened?No! shouted Charlotte. She scrambled for the Jeep with her baskets laden with cans.Corbin began backing toward them. It fused with the poor bastardbecame sort of a man-dinosaur hybrid, just a jumbled mess of flesh with eyeballs in all the wrong places and their organs mixed together, like a casserole. Fortunately, it didnt live veryThere was a tumult of cascading cans and jars which clattered and broke against the floor as a velociraptor leapt atop the shelves between them, and he instantly raised his gun and opened fire.

Canne al vento e un romanzo di Grazia Deledda. Uscito a puntate su LIllustrazione Italiana, dal 12 gennaio al 27 aprile 1913, dopo qualche mese fu pubblicato in volume, presso leditore Treves di Milano. Il titolo dellopera piu famosa della scrittrice sarda (Premio Nobel per la letteratura, 1926) allude al tema profondo della fragilita umana e del dolore dellesistenza; in questa direzione mobilita le riflessioni e le fantasie di un eroe protagonista, come un primitivo, un semplice, assai simile al pastore errante dellAsia leopardiano o a uno degli umili manzoniani. Il rapporto di similitudine tra la condizione delle canne e la vita degli uomini, celebrato nel titolo del romanzo, proviene da unopera (Elias Portolu) del 1903: Uomini siamo, Elias, uomini fragili come canne, pensaci bene. Al di sopra di noi ce una forza che non possiamo vincere.Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda nota semplicemente come Grazia Deledda (Nuoro, 27 settembre 1871 Roma, 15 agosto 1936) e stata una scrittrice italiana, vincitrice del Premio Nobel per la letteratura 1926.È stata la prima donna italiana a ricevere questo premio.

Un racconto di terra e di spazi aperti, che parla di ecologia e di valori come la generosita e laltruismo, con i quali si puo cercare di ricostruire un mondo migliore. Questo racconto, Claudio Piras Moreno lo ha scritto sulla base di una partita fittizia al gioco omonimo da lui stesso ideato. Sia il gioco, che questo racconto, lautore spera possano valere da esempio e da stimolo a non arrendersi mai.

A paranormal romance thriller that revolves around a pair of unlikely partners in their quest for truth, justice, and a pint of blood.There are those who hunt the night, and then theres Liz Stokes. Shes a normal woman with an abnormal roommate until he up and gets himself murdered. Now shes inherited his unique ring and an even more unique business partner, and the world of the paranormal is sprung on her like a surprise birthday party nobody wants. Together the pair find out that they dont like each other. A lot. The catch? They cant kill each other or the survivor will die, too.Now Liz has to navigate this new and frightening world while dealing with her equally new and frightening companion. Its a mad chase with mad scientists, men in black, and cop werewolves who want to take more than a bite out of crime.

Trixie Lyal stumbles upon the scoop of a lifetime when her move to a new town takes a detour into the paranormal world of Apple Hollow. She winds up at the local diner where she meets a handsome local by the name of Orion. Cupid stings her heart but not the headlines as strange happenings stir her curiosity.A quick investigation leads to a long road where she becomes her own headline, and a werewolf. Mob-rule forces her to join the ranks of the towns residents and her babysitter turns out to be her own handsome Orion. Unfortunately for him, she has plans to escape her scoop and fly the coop. To do that, though, shell have to survive the coming wild days of were-people, and her own insatiable lust for a certain devilishly handsome wolf.

Di ritorno a Canazei, Anna tutto immagina tranne che dovra aiutare i genitori con la loro attivita, lalbergo di famiglia. Stufa di non avere un attimo di riposo, non ha idea di quello che laspetta. Lincontro con Mark, aitante pilota dellaeronautica danese, sara in grado di sconvolgerle i sensi e mettere in discussione tutto cio in cui credeva. Dal canto suo, anche Mark, in riposo forzato, prova qualcosa per la ragazza che prepara le colazioni e che sembra diversa da qualsiasi altra lui abbia mai conosciuto. Lei lo sfida, lo sconvolge, e questo incrina la sua convinzione di non volersi legare a nessuno. Tra situazioni divertenti e buffe, i due protagonisti di questa storia si ritroveranno a provare sensazioni uniche, che solo lamore, quello vero, puo dare, a dimostrazione che un sentimento come questo, non si cerca, non si trova, ma semplicemente accade e, quando succede, puo sbaragliare qualsiasi tipo di piano, arrivando a far sentire due persone in cima al mondo.Prequel di Puzzle di cuori, vincitore del Kobo Contest, distribuito anche in tutte le librerie Mondadori