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From the USA Today bestselling author of Sunshine Beach, a story of four women trying to rebuild more than their lives... Before you can fix it up, you might have to tear it down... Embroiled in a battle to regain control of their renovation-turned-reality TV show, Do Over, Maddie, Avery, Nikki...

Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There, 17-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she's shocked when one of the figures - a teenage boy who doesn't seem to know what he is - jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants to return him to the factory, but before she can, a fire destroys the mysterious workshop.

Los Brazales de Duelo son las mentes de metal que antaño poseyó el lord Legislador. Casi nadie cree en su existencia, pero un investigador kandra regresa a Elendel con evidencias y una imagen que conmociona a Waxillium Landra: una fotografía de su hermana Telsin apresada por su tío, el líder de una siniestra organización conocida como el Grupo. Wax viaja al sur para investigar acompañado de Wayne, Marasi y MeLaan. Allí descubren que el Grupo ha encontrado los restos de un misterioso barco y tiene prisionero a un superviviente enmascarado.

He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective, and some people take this more literally than others. For example, the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy yet shadowy client. And so begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all....

With The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson surprised listeners with a New York Times best-selling spinoff of his Mistborn audiobooks, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. The trilogy's heroes are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. They are succeeded by wonderful new characters, chief among them Waxillium Ladrian, known as Wax, hereditary lord of House Ladrian.

An instant New York Times Bestseller! Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn’t been a week Ralph Macchio hasn’t heard friendly shouts of “Wax on, wax off” or “Sweep the leg!” Now, with Macchio reprising his role as...

It was only supposed to be a simple intelligence boost – a routine procedure to make the lovebot better company outside of the bedroom. And then something went wrong.

Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected - a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly 30-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack.

Can you keep a secret? Stella Batts has a lot of secrets to keep these days - there's the secret of what really happened to her little sister's pet fish, and there's the secret school project she's working on with her friend Lucy, and there's the secret on the second floor of her family's candy store. Actually, Stella doesn't know the candy store secret yet, because her dad won't tell her. Even though she's eight years old, and that's old enough to be trusted!

Twenty years ago Emma Michaels, Mackenzie Hayes, and Serena Stockton bonded over their New York City dreams. Then, each summer, they solidified their friendship by spending one week at the lake together, solving their problems over bottles of wine and gallons of ice cream. They kept the tradition for years, until jealousy, lies, and life's disappointments made them drift apart. It's been five years since Emma has seen her friends, an absence designed to keep them from discovering a long-ago betrayal. Now she's in desperate need of their support.

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the form of a tall headless man who gives them dark powers: they can steal people's happiness, they have performed unchristian acts, and they can cause pestilence or death. They are all in danger of the stake.

Women these days are experimenting more and more all in the name of beauty. There is a new craze going on where women are trying to make their vaginas more desirable. Normally this would just mean shaving the hair off or just trimming it so it looks manicured. Nowadays women are trying crazy things such as bleaching their vaginas to lighten up the skin and even decorating them. I like to keep everything neat and trimmed down there but women have even turned to waxing their vaginas. This is extremely painful and there is also a long period where the hair there needs to get long enough to be ...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the...

Han pasado trescientos años desde los acontecimientos narrados en la primera trilogía de la saga, y Scadrial se encuentra ahora cerca de la modernidad: ferrocarriles, canales, iluminación eléctrica y los primeros rascacielos invaden el planeta. Aunque la ciencia y la tecnología están alcanzando nuevos retos, la antigua magia de la alomancia continúa desempeñando un papel fundamental. En una zona conocida como los Áridos, existen herramientas cruciales para aquellos hombres y mujeres que intentan establecer el orden y la justicia.

La sociedad de Nacidos de la Bruma ha evolucionado en una fusión de magia y tecnología en la que la economía se expande, la democracia se enfrenta a la corrupción y la religión se convierte en una potencia cultural cada vez más influyente, con cuatro fes distintas enfrentadas por la captación de conversos. Esta sociedad tan animada y optimista, aunque todavía tambaleante, se enfrenta ahora a su primera amenaza de terrorismo, crímenes cuyo objetivo es fomentar el descontento de la clase trabajadora y avivar las llamas de los conflictos religiosos.

Été 1989 : Suzanne, dix ans, est fascinée par l'univers sulfureux du groupe de rock de son père. Quand sa mère se remarie, elle en profite pour le suivre dans une tournée qui s'annonce légendaire ! Mais la gloire a un prix : tandis que le groupe grimpe dans les classements, les rivalités internes mènent tout droit à un drame tragique. Depuis vingt-neuf ans, seul témoin de cette explosion de violence, Suzanne tente d'oublier. Elle a troqué la fureur de la scène contre une banlieue tranquille et une vie maritale rangée.

In this Audible Original, Ruby Wax hunts down her heroes - brain scientists - in the UK and across America, to learn more about what makes us tick: why we get stressed, how we feel pain, what makes us addicted - and has a lot of fun along the way. She faces death with Past Mortems author Carla Valentine, explores how video games affect our attention with gamification expert Gabe Zichermann, and discovers the benefits of vaginal smearing with Professor Tim Spector.

"A Cozy Fantasy Mystery (Hollow Wick Mysteries Book 2)" When an early snowstorm threatens Hollow Wick's beloved Frost Fair, candle maker Wren Baxter discovers that someone is using dark ice magic to drain the life from her community—and she's the only one who can stop them. Wren thought she'd found peace in the charming village of Hollow Wick, crafting protective candles and building friendships that feel like family. But when a supernatural blizzard traps the entire village and her friend Victoria is found mysteriously frozen to death, Wren realizes that ancient magical forces are ...

El futuro de Scadrial pende de un hilo en la conclusión de la segunda era. Waxillium Landra lleva años intentando dar caza a la organización conocida como el Grupo. Y cuando Marasi y Wayne encuentran un alijo de armas con destino a la ciudad exterior de Bilming, se abre ante ellos una nueva pista. Wax descubre un explosivo capaz de desatar una destrucción sin precedentes y comprende que el Grupo ya debe de tenerlo en su poder. Por si fuera poco, un kandra inmortal le revela que Bilming ha caído bajo la influencia de un nuevo dios, Trell.

Sandra thought she was just humoring her eccentric roommate with a night out at a wax museum. She didn’t expect the exhibits to feel so alive… or so wickedly tempting. Among the lifelike sculptures stands one man who steals her breath—the rugged, well-endowed Lumberjack whose smoldering gaze and carved-from-fantasy body awaken desires she can’t ignore. When fantasy melts into something far more real, Sandra must decide if she’s brave enough to step across the line between curiosity and surrender. A paranormal short story blending supernatural fantasy with the steamy—perfect for ...