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Thirty-five years ago, Genevieve Ryland stepped off the stage of her high school graduation and disappeared without a trace. For years her mother searched for her, hitting dead end after dead end. Now that she’s on her deathbed, her other daughter has asked me to find out what happened to her sister. Before her mother passes. It’s like opening a time capsule buried in 1985 when neon shirts, scrunchies, and big hair were all the rage.

In this unique book, one of football’s greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to offer an honest assessment on one of its final remaining taboos: mental health. The most difficult position in football? Being a goalkeeper. That’s what they say, right? You must be mad to stand between those posts and bat away shots and crosses all game long. Neville Southall should know. He was the goalkeeper for one of the best teams of the 1980s and became an icon of the game during his 20-year career between the sticks.

Cape Cod, Massachussetts. Harlow Smith est fière de la librairie qu'elle tient avec son grand-père, et de l'ambiance cosy qu'elle a réussi à y créer. Une cheminée, un petit café, beaucoup d'alcôves aménagées en coins lecture ainsi qu'un jardin fleuri font le succès de sa boutique. Célibataire, elle mène une vie tranquille jusqu'au jour où Matthew fait irruption dans la librairie. Car ce dernier n'est autre que l'enfant qu'elle a décidé de placer à l'adoption dix-huit ans plus tôt, sans en parler à personne...

À bien des égards, Nona semble être une personne ordinaire. Elle vit avec sa famille, va à l'école du quartier et n'aime rien tant que les longues balades sur la plage. Mais Nona n'est pas une jeune fille comme les autres : six mois plus tôt, elle s'est réveillée dans le corps d'une étrangère et elle a peur de devoir le rendre.

Every day usually starts out the same for me. A little snuggle time with my pups, and maybe my husband if he’s not already out of bed, a cup of coffee, and a chat with my dead mother. Of course, one in which she participates. Because I can see dead people. The rest of the day is always a surprise. This time though, my first ghostly interaction of the day wasn’t with my mom. It was with my best friend’s ex-husband. Seems the guy who cheated on my bestie and knocked up the woman in the process has met his fate.

For Ayla St. John, growing up thinking you’re human but suddenly turning into a werewolf without any warning came as quite a shock. But once she embraces her new existence, she begins to roll with it. Once she meets swoon-worthy football star, Ryder, she begins to realize life isn’t so bad, despite her monthly inconvenience—until a terrible tragedy devastates Ayla’s family.

As a young teenager, Maggie Thatcher’s lifestyle left much to be desired; her low self-esteem and rebellious attitude were her signature characteristics. After getting into her fair share of trouble, Maggie found herself sentenced to community service hours at Wells Valley Cove and Retirement Center in Wells, Maine, where she was introduced to a young man who forever changed her life. Now Maggie is a successful career woman who has everything she has ever wanted. Everything, that is, except the one man she desires.

Olympia Heartwood is running the family empire, and she works long days and lives at The Heartwood Inn, making her entire life about her job. Which is just fine with her, because the last man she was involved with was married. When the truth came out, her heart shattered, and she's never been the same. And men? She can't trust them. Doesn't need them. Chet Christopher took the heat for something that wasn't his fault, lost his prestigious job at the country's largest luxury hotel chain, and has been living in his car for a few weeks.

Teaming up with a handsome shifter named Ephrem, the banished Princess Lilliana must find her stolen Ardent talisman before a sinister enemy uses it against both rival wolf pack strongholds. Thrown onto a path neither of them expected, they stumble across a third cell of supernatural shifters lurking in the city's Outlands, where tensions mount. These new strangers want nothing more than to disrupt the two royal strongholds, the ArcKnights and the MarkTiers, and reignite a long-forgotten feud from decades past.

The workings of heaven are shrouded in mystery and myth, leaving us to only theorize as to what awaits us when we pass. There are those among us, however, that are special cases. These are good people who have committed a horrendous crime, such as murder. What makes their cases special, however, is the fact that by committing these egregious acts, one could argue that they have made the world a better place.

Honora Blanche Favre has it all: beauty, brains, friends, family, and riches. Until one day life slaps her down. Hard. She becomes a pariah, a loser overnight; even her parents are ashamed of her. Napoleon Bonaparte’s revolutionary system of education, created more than 100 years before Honora was born, makes her into a failure at the tender age of 18. She is powerless to change it. The belle femme is exiled forever from the only thing she has ever worked for–her education and going to a prestigious university, as all her friends are doing.

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Lady Josephine Watkins never meant to shoot the duke of Constantan. Driven by guilt and determined to see him well, she refuses to leave his side. She could not have guessed the devilish duke would capture her heart. Devon Mowbray, duke of Constantan, came to Favershame Abbey out of curiosity. He never intended on the headstrong beauty sticking him with her arrow and stealing his heart in the process. Despite the magic burning between them, a dangerous secret leaves Devon no choice but to push Josie away.

Volume 2 of 5 starts with Dr. Strangewayes who was pressed into service under Captain Kidd. Meanwhile, Atia Crisp becomes a barmaid at the Swiftsure Tavern and learns the inner workings of the city. A secret union takes place while pirate Bleedin Art heads the battle against the French, and the townspeople celebrate a Merry Port Royal Christmas.

What does a psychic medium do when her best friend’s daughter has been accused of murder? Enlists the help of her own dead mother to find the true killer. Of course, even if Angela didn’t ask for Fran’s help, Fran would give it anyway.

Twenty-two-year-old Phoenix Brown is the property of the Society: an evil faction under the umbrella of the Illuminati. Her sole purpose is hunting and eliminating vampires—a duty she relishes doing. When Phoenix follows a lead of an infestation in a small Louisiana town, she partners up with an unlikely ally, the alluring Damián de Soto—a centuries-old vampire. But she can barely tolerate him. He is incorrigible, vain, a flirt, and can't keep his hands to himself. But the huntress swallows her pride and realizes she needs his help to solve the town's increasing murders.

Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an influential man. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Springora, now in her 40s and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her story. Consent is the story of her stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Springora’s memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a 13-year-old girl to become involved with a 50-year-old man.

A smart, funny political satire. It is written as if a future woman president published what she wanted to say, before she becomes president. A look at politics through a different, and definitely provocative, lens. As a woman she has a lot to say about the insanity of war as a solution to anything in this century, much less labeling and drugging children instead of making schools exciting for young lives. A fast, furious, sometimes deep listen.

You’ve felt the feeling before — the one where you feel lost in the world, where you believe that everyone else has a place but yourself. You often ask yourself, “What is my mission?” or “What is my purpose?” as you are wandering through your life. You might have tried to go to a fortune teller, but most of what he or she said sounded like nonsense to you.

Taryn Cornick believes her sister, Bea, was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when Taryn's problems really begin. Because the police suspect Taryn's involvement in the death. Worse, others have their eyes on Taryn - those in a faraway place who know what Taryn's family have been carefully hiding in their vast library. The Absolute Book. They want it - and they want Taryn to help find it.