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No one wanted Gracie to become the Queen - hell, Gracie didn’t want to be the Queen. She is, though, and people are just lining up to take shots at her. Some want her gone; some want what she has. And one of them is determined to destroy the entire game if he can’t get what he wants - which means that Gracie might just have to team up with the absolute last people she wants to: Dan and Dhruv. Her only consolation? They hate the idea, too.

Slime making is the hot activity right now, but more importantly, different types of slime expose your child to color combination, creativity, freedom of selection, possibility, and much more. This audiobook presents 25 do-it-yourself (DIY) slime-making recipes drawn by me that will make the process enjoyable and relatable for you.

Edie Eckhart is Excited with a capital E to start secondary school with her best friend Oscar - the fish to her chips, the bananas to her custard. But when she and Oscar are put into different tutor groups on their first day, Edie is devastated. Who will play secret hangman with her in class? Who will she eat sausage rolls with? But while she's plotting her reunion with Oscar, she accidentally gets cast as the lead in the school play.

The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologised. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown. Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the English branch of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the 19th century to the early years of the 21st.

Every family has a black sheep, and Bryant Miller, the youngest of the Miller brothers, is exactly that. Handsome, rich, and self-assured, he struck out on his own, defying all the rules and morals his family had raised him with. Flitting from party to party and chasing money and pleasure, Bryant thinks he’s content with his wealthy lifestyle. But as his brothers find love, he begins to wonder if maybe there’s more to life than partying and money. Then he runs into Keiko Albryte at his brother’s wedding...

I was born an ordinary girl with a tiny seed of sickness. As I got older, it grew bigger, manifesting into something sinister. Mama told me to lock it away and let it wither. I didn’t know how. So I hid it. Solitude became my closest companion. Solo, single, lonely. Until Declan. Until Ethan. They were drawn to my sickness like moths to a flame. With them, I was nurtured into something special. With them, I flourished in depths of decay and darkness.

Surrounded by mercenaries in the middle of a Serbian forest, there's only one way out. Kill or be killed is nothing new to a CIA officer, but I never thought I’d have to do it to protect an attempted mass murderer. We’d hoped Dr. Omarov could lead us to the group that paid him to create a lethal neurotoxin, but every revelation brings more questions than answers. There’s no telling how long we have before they get their hands on another weapon, and it’s going to take all our resources to stop them before they hurt anyone else. I usually live for the chase—throwing myself in front ...

Kronprinz Alek Salustri muss heiraten - ein altes Gesetz besagt, dass er sonst den Thron von Triscari nicht besteigen darf! Woher soll er eine zukünftige Königin nehmen, wo er der Liebe für immer abgeschworen hat? Nur eine harmlose Vernunftehe auf Zeit ist für ihn denkbar. Da scheint die Assistentin seiner Schwester, die unscheinbare Hester, genau die Richtige. Ein Fehler! Denn Hester entfesselt ein verhängnisvolles Verlangen nach Liebe in ihm.

I’m a baseball player with a habit of sleeping with the wrong women. I just never thought my best friend’s assistant would be one of them. Giving shy, inexperienced Naomi Silva the best orgasm of her life hadn’t been on my agenda. But fixing my own screwed up love life is. Unfortunately, my one night with Naomi has convinced her that I can be her bedroom guide - a dating guru to show her the ropes. I decide I’m game...as long as we keep our little arrangement a secret.

Will the creators of Metamorphosis Online and their infighting ruin the game for everyone? Over Gracie’s dead avatar. Others want to learn what is allowing Gracie’s team to jump in the ranks, and they’re willing to go to great and scuzzy lengths to figure it out. The group has decided to form a guild, but can they hold it together long enough to figure out a team tabard? Can Gracie hold her team together while her personal life is going nowhere? Will she accept her mom’s invite to join the family for her sister’s engagement?

Das neue Hörbuch der ARD Korrespondentin, WELTSPIEGEL Moderatorin und SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Natalie Amiri - eine Reise nach Afghanistan, 100 Tage nach der Machtübernahme durch die Taliban. Was bedeutet die Rückkehr der Taliban für die afghanische Bevölkerung? Welcher Zukunft sehen die Frauen des Landes entgegen? Natalie Amiri zieht eine erste Bilanz, blickt zurück auf die Geschichte des Landes, auf den Krieg gegen den Terror, der den Nahen Osten destabilisierte, und erklärt, warum die Modernisierung von oben zum Scheitern verurteilt war. Mit ihrem Hörbuch verleiht sie den Afghanen und Afghaninnen eine Stimme.

After years of searching, I have finally found my lost mate. She is a changeling in the human world, hiding her true identity. She must return to the Night Court with me, whether she wants to or not. Her fear is delicious, and I cannot wait to break her down, to make her my queen. The only thing I didn't anticipate is how I might grow to care for her. I am the Night King, though, and I will not be taken by a changeling. She is mine, and she will either accept that or die.

What if Augustine's Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire, temptation, and transformation differ from his? In this memoir, Natalie Carnes describes giving birth to a daughter and beginning a story of conversion strikingly unlike Augustine's - even as his journey becomes a surprising companion to her own. The challenges Carnes recounts will be familiar to many parents. She wonders what and how much she should ask her daughter to suffer in resisting racism, patriarchy, and injustice.

A surprise phone call from her late fiancé's family sends Vivien Lowry off on her next adventure. Struggling as a playwright, she moves to Italy both to reckon with her past and create a new future as a scriptwriter at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Here she encounters the greatest male bastion of them all, the Vatican. Vivien ends up entangled between the church and the censors, while romantically caught between two men: an enigmatic American film financier who is not who he says he is, and a socialist Italian prince and independent filmmaker who ends up under house arrest.

When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked", and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published.

Gillian Delaney's career is slowly tanking. As head photographer for Coyne Hotels, she used to love her job - but then her old boss's jock son took over, and it's all been downhill since. When Gillian is taken along on a company trip to scout out a new hotel location on an uninhabited island, she thinks it's going to be business as usual. That is, until she meets the boat captain who will take them there: a gorgeous and enigmatic woman named Ivy. The three-hour tour turns into a disaster when the boat is wrecked at sea.

When Megan wakes up in a hospital bed, her first question is: where's my baby? But her husband, her sister and her doctor say he doesn't exist. Megan's not in a maternity ward, she's in a psychiatric unit. Convinced that they're lying to her, Megan is determined to find out the truth. But how can you prove your baby exists when you can't trust your own memories?

1950. Bloomsbury Books on London’s Lamb’s Conduit Street has resisted change for 100 years, run by men and guided by the manager's unbreakable rules. But after the turmoil of war in Europe, the world is changing, and the women in the shop have plans. The brilliant and stylish Vivien Lowry, still grieving her fiancé who was killed in action, has a long list of grievances, the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the head of fiction. Loyal Grace Perkins is torn between duty and dreams of her own while struggling to support her family following her husband's breakdown.

Have you ever known people who became too involved in other people’s problems, who could not set limits, and who could not distinguish between their own feelings and the feelings of someone else? Could it be their high level of empathy, paired with an inability to guard against the dangers of that trait? In chapters on codependency and narcissistic abuse, Empath explores what can happen when empathy exists without boundaries, explains how to recognize when you’re in a toxic relationship, and provides suggestions for improving or exiting the relationship.

Today, I broke that vow. In my defense...I never thought I’d see him again. But when my first night in NYC doesn’t go as planned, I find myself walking into his tattoo shop, the memory of our lost romance still singed on my skin. Brett Jackson is trouble. And I know it. I follow all the rules. He breaks them.He’s forbidden - all wrong for me. I just wish crossing the line with him didn’t feel so right.