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When a young girl is kidnapped, street-smart but damaged ex-cop California "Cal" Corwin is engaged to find and rescue her before murder raises the stakes. As a straightforward case takes unexpected twists, Cal must quell a growing fear that an anguished mother may never see her child again. With a shadowy crime lord lurking behind every unexpected clue, Cal struggles to tie up loose ends before evil claims its next victim.

L'autrice dell'anno. Vincitrice del Premio Bancarella. Autrice del bestseller "Ti prego lasciati odiare". Se è il caso editoriale dell'anno ci sarà un perché. Quale ragazza non sogna di sfondare nel proprio lavoro sfruttando la possibilità di trascorrere un anno all'estero? È proprio questa la grande opportunità che un giorno si presenta a Maddison: ma l'inaspettata promozione arriva sotto forma di un trasferimento dall'altra parte del mondo, in Corea del Sud!

Celeste la moglie di Babar aspetta un elefantino, ma non sa che invece saranno tre! E come saranno birichini questi piccoli elefantini!

When my best friend Jenny invited me on a trip to South Korea, the last thing I expected was to fall for someone. I’ve never left the small town I grew up in–an adventure this huge feels like more than I can handle. But freshly graduated from high school, I figure this is my last chance to dive into something totally carefree before my adult life begins.

Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature’s most important novelists, poets, and playwrights.

Ceony Twill, giovane e talentuosa allieva dell'accademia di magia Tagis Praff, sta finalmente per cominciare l'apprendistato che la legherà per tutta la vita all'elemento magico che ha sempre desiderato. Eppure, contrariamente a quanto sognava, il suo destino non sarà scritto nel metallo ma sulla carta.

Connect directly with your loved ones in the spirit world. Receive their help and guidance to assist you in very practical ways on a daily basis and prove their continued existence. This is designed to give you peace of mind, but more importantly to redirect your life with the aid of spirit in order to work towards greater success and happiness.

After a woman is found dead in Cal Corwin's car, and police detectives come knocking at her door, the case turns far more personal than it first seemed. As the ghosts of past cases rear their ugly heads, not only must she find out who murdered the victim, but why. Teasing the answers out soon reveals the disturbing question: Who is the hunter, and who hunted?

"Imparare e parlare francese": 300 parole e frasi essenziali, 140 espressioni comuni, i 100 verbi più comuni, le 1000 parole francesi essenziali. Il francese è una lingua ufficiale in 29 paesi in cinque diversi continenti. Il francese è la seconda lingua più studiata al mondo. Come imparare una lingua in modo diverso? Oggi l'apprendimento delle lingue si sta rivoluzionando: non devi più frequentare le lezioni di lingua tradizionale. Il nostro metodo di apprendimento: una selezione di centinaia di frasi e parole essenziali. Li ascolti, li ripeti e parli.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron e Ibrahim – Il Club dei delitti del giovedì – sono ancora scossi dal loro primo caso risolto e non vedono l’ora di godersi un po’ di pace e tranquillità nell’elegante residence per pensionati dove vivono. Ma l’imprevisto incombe... Elizabeth riceve la lettera di un ex collega dei Servizi Segreti che ha commesso un grosso errore e ha bisogno del suo aiuto. È stato accusato di aver rubato diamanti per milioni di sterline agli uomini sbagliati e per questo motivo è in fuga da un mafioso violento e vendicativo.

From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a sharp and poignant short story that follows a young medical student working in clinical research and grappling with the realities of a future in her chosen field.

L'ecofascismo è già una realtà. In Europa come negli Stati Uniti, l'estrema destra si appropria dei fondamentali dell'ecologia per giustificare i suoi discorsi politici identitari e nazionalisti. Chi sono gli ecofascisti? Quale relazione esiste tra la crisi climatica e l'ascesa dei nazionalismi? Questo libro ripercorre la lunga storia dell'ambientalismo di estrema destra e analizza i modi in cui tale movimento si sta adattando al mondo contemporaneo.

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you're, gasp... disabled? Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal is everywhere. But have you ever met a normal person? What do they look like? Where do they live? What do they eat for breakfast? And what the **** does normal mean anyway?

"Io e te siamo un errore", gli ripeto ancora, ma lui non si scompone. "E allora facciamo questo errore, al resto penseremo dopo", mi dice. E se quell'odio nascondesse amore? E se Lei provasse qualcosa per quell'arrogante e detestabile collega? E se dietro quel fare presuntuoso di Lui ci fosse altro? Jennifer e Ian si conoscono da sette anni e gli ultimi cinque li hanno passati a farsi la guerra. A capo di due team nella stessa banca d'affari londinese, tra di loro è da sempre scontro aperto e dichiarato.

Genevieve, a single mother, flies from New York to Port-au-Prince with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for fifteen-year-old Miles—a chance to learn about his family’s roots while coming to terms with his father’s departure—but it’s also an excuse for Genevieve to escape the city, where her life is dominated by her failed marriage and the daily pressures of raising Black children in America.

Of other numerous works of Clement, of which only a few stray fragments have been preserved, the chief are the eight books of The Hypotyposes, which consisted of expositions of all the books of Scripture. Of these we have a few undoubted fragments. The Adumbrations, or Commentaries on some of the Catholic Epistles, and The Selections from the Prophetic Scriptures, are compositions of the same character, as far as we can judge, as The Hypotyposes, and are supposed by some to have formed part of that work.

This is a true story of a girl growing up with a spiritual gift she does not fully understand. Written as a guide to her grandchildren, who also exhibit the Gift, this book seeks to help them understand what God had given them and what they are supposed to do with it. It exposes pitfalls and awkward problems involved with the Gift and it tells of the wonderful blessings that go along with it. Designed as a guide, the book also shares a lifetime of paranormal experiences.

Elle Chambers is Edinburgh's hardest working insurance investigator, and one who solves cases using unconventional means. Supernatural means. Elle is a witch - and a damn good one, too. Assigned back-to-back cases, Elle must first find a missing bad boy who might or might not be a werewolf. Next, a simple missing artwork case turns out to be not so simple. What Elle is about to discover will change her life forever...and open her heart to the possibility of love.

Internationally renowned actor Geraint Wyn Davies performs Dylan Thomas’ best-known and most beloved poems: “Fern Hill,” “Death Shall Have No Dominion,” and the eternal, “Do Not Go Gentle.” Also included are complete (and abridged) performances of the best selling "A Child’s Christmas in Wales" and "A Visit to Grandpa’s."

Ryker was raised in a foster care group home, and never gained the softer skills a family would have given him. Upon graduation he joined the military, providing him structure, meaning, and a great career of which he could be proud. After 12 years he has a life he is comfortable within, a team that he would die to protect and little else in his solitary existence.