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Luego de unas tranquilas vacaciones de invierno junto a su familia, Lulú vuelve al colegio y nota que muchas cosas han cambiado a su alrededor: tiene dos compañeros nuevos y a nadie parece alegrarle su llegada, su amiga Luna ya no se ríe con sus chistes y está muy callada, y, además, por los pasillos circulan unos extraños rumores relacionados con una red social en la que Lulú no está registrada. ¿Será que tiene que hacerse una cuenta y enterarse de qué pasa?

The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted "parents" in Kansas. There, she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings and sexual abuse. Mail-Order Kid looks at the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her "real" mother.

The MacDonalds emigrate from Scotland after a family tragedy but cannot escape the youngest child's strange insights that threaten to expose her mother's secret past in the Scottish Highlands nor the father's dominance over his four daughters, whose often hilarious tactics, divert his wrath as they come of age during San Francisco's colorful 1960s.

Julie Keaton had everything - she had a new career in a new city and, more importantly, a bright future with fiance, Jason Sherman. That is, until the day she discovered that he had been killed in Afghanistan. In one moment, her life changed, as everything she'd hoped for died along with him. Years later and Julie still feels the aftershocks of Jason's death.

My hockey star boyfriend cheated on me with not one, but three puck bunnies. In. The. Same. Night. Hat Trick, motherpucker. I was mad, okay? Furious. I gave up the career of my dreams for him, and how did he repay me? I just wanted to make him hurt as much as he hurt me. So I slept with a couple hockey stars of my own. From a rival team. Oops. The best cure for a broken heart is an orgasm.

Spring, 1944. Working on an aeroplane production line for planes, Hildy believes she is doing her part for the war effort. But troubles at home with her overly protective mother make it harder for her to find happiness. Meanwhile, Cora is still reeling from the devastating loss of both her parents in the Blitz. Faced with homelessness and poverty, Cora and her friend, Belle, turn to the dark streets of Southampton to work on the game.

I was a prodigy. A grieving sister. A girl falling for him. I died, and now I’m reborn. Stronger. Deadlier. Angrier. I’m determined to punish those that turned me into a monster. The curse kept me alive, but at what cost? I’m at war with my nature. I refuse to ever accept my fate. Once a prodigy, now a curse. Once love, now hate.

TOUGHER THAN THE DEVIL BY A DAMN SIGHT His mother was a remnant of the Southern Creole Quadroon in the French Quarter. His father was heir to the Avondaire fortunes in northern Idaho. Can Randulet Thibodeaux split his time and loyalties between the sultry, strumming South, and the pious, pristine north? He discovers that he has been born under the same mysterious prophecy that richly blessed the lives of previous Avondaire generations, but he’s as improper in one place as the other. He was born in brackish water for a purpose! Balancing the peculiarities of the past, and the experiences ...

Hillary Broome begins team teaching an ethnic studies class with her friend, Professor Grover Zale, expecting to deepen her understanding of systemic discrimination. But another professor’s lessons stir violent tendencies in a student with criminal ties, leading to a series of hate crimes targeting Zale and Hillary. She’s survived other horrors, but nothing like the death she faces now.

In The Power of Privilege, June will empower those fortunate enough not to be ‘otherised’ by mainstream Western society to become effective allies against racism, both by understanding the roots of their privilege and the systemic societal inequities that perpetuates it.

Chynna has just arrived at college, and she's ready to start living life! She meets Mary, who is so funny and beautiful and Chynna's new dorm mate. Chynna is glad to get to know her, but Mary gets to know girls a little differently than Chynna, with a kiss, a touch, and more. Soon, Chynna's first sex in college is her first ever lesbian sex encounter…and it's so, so sweet.

Haley Chase is wild about the Fifties. From the cars to fashion, rock n’ roll, dining, and dancing, she wishes she may have experienced the innocent, mid-century decade. Immersing herself in reading, Haley romances her favorite books and ideas, imagining the fun of record hops and malt shops. What could be better than cruising Main in an incredible fleet of fins? She’s set to star in a dance review, titled The Fabulous Fifties. After dress rehearsal, Haley doesn’t have time to change out of her costume before going to Book Club. Dr. Lachele Simpson, the facilitator, observes Haley’s...

Behind the scenes in Silicon Valley, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) is a sought-after advisor to heads of companies and heads of state. On his podcast Masters of Scale, he sits down with an all-star list of visionary founders and leaders, digging into the surprising strategies that power their growth. In this book, he draws on their most riveting, revealing stories- as well his own experience as a founder and investor - to distil the counterintuitive secrets behind the most extraordinary success stories of our times.

Saylor Sanderson, quirky Seattle socialite, declares herself a "modern," and embarks on an Alaskan adventure to Anchorage, where she has secured a position at the Spruce Telephone Company. Can she acclimate to the crude wilderness surroundings of the new city, learn the rigors of switchboard technology, and immerse herself into the Switchboard Sisterhood of career women? Or, will her shoe-loving, shoe-shopping ways accidentally lead her to love?

Janina Reston is a language expert, translating fiendishly tricky Arabic and Asian mathematical and scientific texts. Words are her world. But she can’t find any to share with her husband Owen. Instead, she confides in a spider named Gladys (who may or may not be her deceased grandmother). She lives in an ordinary city suburb where extraordinary things happen. Lily’s husband dies in a strange accident with a milk bottle, while Fatima writes biographies of unknown people living seemingly inconsequential lives, and Zosia runs off to Delhi with an Asian Women’s Sewing Group.

It's your honeymoon and you're suddenly surrounded by men. Who would have thought you'd end up sleeping with man after man after man on your honeymoon??!! That's just one of the sexy slut wife stories you'll find in this collection of five hot wife erotica stories.

Ashlyn Zanotti has big plans for the summer. She's just spent a year at boarding school and can't wait to get home. But when Ashlyn's father is arrested for tax evasion and her mother enters a rehab facility for "exhaustion", a.k.a. depression, her life is turned upside down. The cherry on top? Ashlyn's father sends her to work with a cousin she doesn't even know at a rustic team-building retreat center in the middle of nowhere. A self-proclaimed "indoor girl", not even Ash's habit of leaving breadcrumb quotes - inspirational sayings she scribbles everywhere - can help her cope.

After five years of training, Joella Crawford is on her way to becoming El Camino's premiere interior designer. She never expects to meet the man of her dreams when she plows over handsome JD Neilson with her bicycle on a beautiful summer day in northern California. She can't leave the gorgeous guy lying on the ground with a bloody leg so she bandages his wounds. After he forgives her for running him down, she discovers an undeniable attraction to the successful young accountant with impeccable manners. When JD walks out of her life, she turns to her friend David Reyes. But no one can take ...

When Avery Archer, an 11-year-old boy, telephones Ken Driscoll, a young accountant, and pleads for help in escaping from his kidnappers, Ken thinks the boy is playing a sick prank. But after several daily calls, Ken truly believes the boy is in danger. When Ken contacts the local police for assistance, he learns Avery was abducted 67 years ago and eaten by alligators in a nearby lake. Were they just prank telephone calls in the middle of the night, or was it a desperate cry for help?

From a vivid portrait of her childhood in 1960s Detroit to her leadership of one of the world’s largest philanthropic institutions, La June shares her full-circle, American story—a coming-of-age journey where she gains a firsthand understanding of how systemic racism prevents our children and communities from thriving and learns about the transformative role healing can play in helping all of us transcend the legacy of racial inequity.