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Tressa Jayne Turner, known in her hometown as "Calamity Jayne" for her unconventional exploits, is the newest reporter at the Grandville Gazette. And after a whirlwind start to her new job, she's ready to enjoy the final weeks of summer at The Iowa State Fair. The homegrown good-time is Tressa's favorite time of year — donuts, funnel cakes, cotton candy, turkey legs. It's also her Uncle Frank's busiest. His ice cream stand is in a prime location, and he's poised to scoop the competition.

With matrimony barreling down on her, she needs a distraction, and she gets it in the form of a warning. Apparently, she’s on the hit list for a local dealer who is trying to move in on turf she’s responsible for cleaning up, and news that she could be marked for death has her fiancé Eliot Kane in a tailspin. She wants her happily ever after, and she’s determined nothing is going to stop her...not even death. Strap in and get ready, because Avery Shaw is taking no prisoners. Not this time.

Once upon a Christmas in a quaint and cozy town by the sea, bookstore owners Lou Prescott and Velma Crawford find themselves knee deep in shiny ornaments, strings of garland, and tangled bundles of Christmas tree lights. When full time employee Eden Halliwell introduces them to a teenager with a secret looking for a part time job, the newest merchants in Holiday Bay decide to hire her, which ultimately sets off a chain of events that will change everything.

Saying goodbye to my mother also meant saying goodbye to my life in Virginia. After reluctantly making a promise to my mom, I was California bound with the father who I haven't seen since I was four years old. I was miserable living under the same roof as my step-monster and the two step-bitches from hell. My only saving grace? Lucy Thornton, daughter to Demon's Wings' drummer, Jesse Thornton. Without her friendship - and her odd rocker family taking me in as one of their own - I was sure I would have lost my mind after the first week.

Gobiernos e instituciones de medio mundo llevan décadas intentando desestabilizar a Europa y los Estados Unidos, los únicos que les impiden tener un dominio absoluto del planeta. Los estados democráticos, por su lado, han intentado alienar a sus habitantes para que aceptaran las reglas de un neocapitalismo brutal por medio del miedo, el conformismo y el entretenimiento. El resultado: masas asustadas y alienadas que siguen consignas y dogmas. Después de esta pandemia vendrá algo peor: la radicalización de la sociedad y la política.

Tierra de Nadie transcurre a finales de agosto de 1937, en los días previos a la Batalla de Belchite de la guerra civil española, pero en absoluto se trata de una novela de guerra. Es una trepidante novela de aventuras repleta de humor, protagonizada por Alex Riley y su inseparable amigo, Joaquín Alcántara, quienes sin pretenderlo se verán envueltos en una temeraria misión de rescate bajo las mismas narices del ejército de Franco.

¿Por qué se creían los bolcheviques con derecho a imponer a todos su idea de sociedad y a asesinar a los que la rechazaban y incluso a los que no llegaban a hacerlo? Esta es la gran cuestión del siglo que el mundo lleva a cuestas desde que Lenin tomó el poder: ¿por qué los comunistas se creen legitimados para robar y matar en nombre de una utopía que apenas esconde su afán de poder ilimitado?

Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past. She’d come to find an explanation for the dreams that haunted her after the death of the cop who’d both rescued and raised her. And she’d come to identify the family she couldn’t remember, but knew in her heart she’d once belonged to.

Since the first day of high school, Simon and I have competed. Top grades? Simon wins. Better manners? Simon wins. Irresistible stare? Simon definitely wins. So when the bossy billionaire suggests an enemies with benefits arrangement, I dive in headfirst. No feelings. No strings. No falling in love. It's perfect...in theory. Only the Simon who shares my bed isn't cutthroat and arrogant.

Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party. House Party offers a delightful snapshot of diverse classmates getting ready to say goodbye to high school and hello to life’s next chapter—but not before they make their final night together one they’ll never forget!

Life is changing for Avery Shaw. She's searching for a house with her boyfriend Eliot so they can officially move in together. She's been gifted special passes to Macomb County's comic book convention - and she couldn't be more excited. She's also been put in charge of her most hated enemy at work, and the power is going straight to her head. When Eliot lets Avery visit the convention center early, the duo stumble across a dead body and Avery's happy week is thrown into turmoil.

Society now knows of the vampires that roam the world. The creatures of the night no longer hide from humans. Instead, they are attacking on the streets, in plain view, either killing them or turning them into one of their own.

Shalom Sefarad es, probablemente, la mejor novela escrita sobre la historia de la expulsión de los judíos sefardíes, de la terrible equivocación que cometieron los Reyes Católicos. Un libro cargado de sabiduría y erudición, que asombrará al oyente por su ritmo, passion, y belleza.

Ivy Morgan and Jack Harker are going camping...again. It’s meant to be a romantic vacation, a time when they can simply lay under the stars and enjoy one another before plans for their wedding begin in earnest. It doesn’t quite turn out that way. When Ivy’s brother Max invites himself along for the ride - along with his new girlfriend, who he’s trying to impress - Jack isn’t happy. Ivy, however, is curious enough about the woman who has stolen her brother’s heart - seemingly out of nowhere - to allow it. Because it’s Jack and Ivy, things don’t go smoothly.

Shelby Morris decided to buy the Bistro at Holiday Bay after receiving a huge inheritance from a woman she'd never met. She knows she'll need help, so she enlists the help of new chef and frequent guest to The Inn at Holiday Bay, Amy Hogan, as well as parttime waitress and longtime local Nikki Peyton. Together with the staff and regular customers that seemed to have come with the place, Shelby is certain she'll be able to create something special.

Denny Silver is just a normal college student living a not-so-normal life in the most haunted city in America. Sure, her lover is a ghost, but in Savannah, that's not what's unusual. What is strange is the influx of supernatural creatures roaming the streets looking to start trouble - with Denny specifically. To fight back against the wave of demons, she racks up one unusual companion after another - from ghosts to witches to demons. In her search for answers to her supernatural problem, Denny discovers that she is a born demon hunter.

This audiobook spotlights Dolly Parton, known for her beloved country songs, who has also sent over 150 million free books to children through her Imagination Library.

Like many Brits, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairy-tale chateau, complete with 45 rooms, seven outbuildings, 12 acres of land and its own moat. Throwing caution to the wind, Dick and Angel swapped their two-bedroom flat in East London for an abandoned and derelict castle in the heart of the Loire valley and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime with their two young children, Arthur and Dorothy.

Dana Campbell has spent the past seven years in self-imposed isolation for a crime she didn't commit. The danger is well in the past, but her panic attacks make it impossible to have a normal, healthy relationship with a man. Even her counselor has given up on her. She has to find someone she trusts to help her fight through the panic, or her seven-year ordeal will become a lifetime sentence. There's only one man she feels safe enough to ask.

Single mom Rachel Hunter has not one second to spare in her day between rearing two daughters, running a thriving goat farm, and keeping tabs on her eccentric brother. Not to mention an ex-husband who's in prison for murder and a local gang leader harassing her at every turn! Then a gorgeous, tattooed man crashes into her fence and she finds out exactly what it means to have her hands full.