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When her father is attacked under mysterious circumstances, 22-year-old Trini Duran must return home to Chavez Ravine, a neighborhood mostly abandoned after the government sent letters to residents demanding that they leave. Only 200 stubborn holdouts remain. While the Mexican American community fights to save their homes, they face a new threat that is even harder to combat than the politicians who want them gone.

Three complete, best-selling cozy mystery stories in one boxset! Includes Muffins and Coffins, Nuts and a Choking Corpse, and Orange Mousse and a Fatal Truce.

He's not supposed to love her.... Silas Davenne has wanted Hannah Valentine since the day he walked into her life six years ago. The problem? He promised her mother he'd protect her from his dangerous shifter life. And Silas Davenne never breaks a promise. Hannah Valentine is on a mission. She wants Silas Davenne. After years of sexual tension brewing between them, she's determined to either become his mate or move on for good. But after one tragic night, suddenly fate has other plans.

"La città che sale" è uno dei più noti lavori di Umberto Boccioni, artista poliedrico che visse agli inizi del secolo scorso e si dedicò tanto alla pittura quanto alla scultura (è sua l'opera che vediamo tutti i giorni sul retro delle monete da 20 centesimi: "Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio"). Personalità chiave delle avanguardie del Novecento, insieme a Marinetti e Balla, Boccioni dipingeva d'istinto, forme e figure in continuo movimento, braccate dalla frenesia della vita di tutti i giorni, in una società che stava passando in modo radicalmente e rapido dall'industrializzazione dell'Ottocento al secolo della modernità.

Gemma, la donna di cui Dante non scrisse mai. Che tempra deve aver avuto, questa fiorentina che nessuno ricorda? Sposa, per amore, un uomo sconsigliabile: non ricco, privo di potere politico e per di più poeta. Non si lascia sgomentare quando lui si trova sul fronte sbagliato, in una Firenze in cui la lotta aspra tra fazioni distrugge vite e patrimoni.

Saint Teresa later wrote of Saint John of the Cross: "I realized that he was a saint, and had always been a saint." Before her was a figure tiny in physical stature, as the world measures, but a towering giant in the eyes of the Lord. She recognized the same fire burning in him that raged inside of her. She was 52; he was 25. She, a nun twice his age! He, a young friar with a dream to become a Carthusian hermit.

Come back to the mountain with Frankie Love! Coming Home to the Mountain is a new filthy-sweet, high heat series by Frankie Love featuring rugged mountain men who fall hard, fast and forever. And with the women they love at their side, they choose to put family first.

Luc Riveaux has closed his heart. Some wounds run too deep. But when the gorgeous model from New Orleans starts sharing his bed, something shifts. She's the one person who has managed to break past his barriers. Now he has a choice to make: chase after her and claim her as his, or let her go forever.

When we talk of saints who have been maligned, misunderstood, and mistreated, no one deserves more a place in this book than venerable Pope Pius XII. We have learned late in life that the history passed down depends on the authors, not necessarily on the facts. We can remember in our lifetime, the escalator of our emotions and intellect, as a country ascended from enemy to friend and then descended, back again, from friend to enemy.

Martina es ligera como una pluma. Le encanta volar de un lado a otro de su cuarto rugiendo como si fuese una avioneta. De mayor quiere ser la mejor piloto del mundo mundial. Adriana es redondita como el punto de la i. Siempre sube los escalones de su casa de tres en cinco porque tiene prisa por abrazar a su queridísimo violín. Sabe que de mayor será una súper violinista.

Discover how Meghan Truman, Sandy Bay's latest resident and new bakery owner, navigates her way through three murder mysteries as she gets to know the quirky characters in her adopted hometown after failing to make a career as an actress in Hollywood. She's finally started a relationship with Jack Irvin, a detective, but will she find time to build a romance while she has to deal with betrayals, ungrateful staff, culture clashes, and murder? Three complete best-selling cozy mystery stories in one boxset!

Discover how Meghan Truman, Sandy Bay's latest resident and new bakery owner, navigates her way through three murder mysteries as she gets to know the quirky characters in her adopted hometown after failing to make a career as an actress in Hollywood. She's finally started a relationship with Jack Irvin, a detective, but will she find time to build a romance while she has to deal with betrayals, ungrateful staff, culture clashes and murder? Three complete best selling cozy mystery stories in one boxset!

Silla Nordvig e suo padre, Matthias, conducono una vita semplice, lavorando le terre dello Jarl di Skarstad, una piccola città del regno di Íseldur. Ma le cose stanno cambiando. L'oscurità e la violenza si insinuano nei villaggi, le accuse di stregoneria si moltiplicano, e i Klaernar - i guerrieri della regina - costringono i cittadini ad assistere alle esecuzioni che avvengono in pubblica piazza.

Shona Scott würde viel lieber in ihrem Garten werkeln, als sich mit Bräuten herumzuschlagen, die wegen Blumenarrangements hysterisch werden. Sie hat die Nase voll, steigt aus dem Hochzeitsgeschäft aus und renoviert ein kleines Häuschen auf ihrem Grundstück, das sie für Ferienvermietungen nutzt. Ohne die Hochzeiten, die ihren Kalender überfüllen, hat Shona endlich Zeit, sich ihrem neu entdeckten Talent zu widmen. Ein unerklärliches noch dazu.

Si te gusta la magia, te encantará Anna Kadabra ¿Y si las brujas fueran las buenas del cuento? ¡Una gran feria acaba de llegar a Moonville! Por desgracia, Anna y sus amigos están muy ocupados ahora que Oliver Dark ha entrado a formar parte de su club. La misteriosa magia negra del nuevo aprendiz no trae más que catástrofes. Anna cree conocer un medio para cambiar el color de sus poderes, pero… ¿cuál será el precio?

Tras su incursión en Gaua, Emma y Teo piensan que todo lo que han vivido en Gaua es solo una aventura para recordar. Pero lo que no saben es que se ha abierto una brecha entre los dos mundos, y que una parte de Ada, su prima pequeña, sigue siendo presa de Gaueko. Una historia llena de magia y fantasía en la cual incluso los más vulnerables pueden llegar a ser dioses.

Charity Edwards has never been a woman who liked to compromise—not at work, and definitely not in her personal life. So when TJ Callahan appears on the scene as their FBI liaison, she takes a chance on the slow talking Texan.

En la historia que le da nombre a esta colección de cuentos, la ligereza con la que se conduce Esmeralda —descubierta en poligamia— deja boquiabierto al agente del Ministerio Público, para quien resultan inconcebibles las razones de esta mujer que cautiva a todos con su natural desparpajo y su incuestionable amor por sus cinco maridos.

If only I'd never signed that contract. Or accepted the one I didn't. My husband doesn't trust me. Not that I can blame him. But he needs me, needs my image. I need his connections. And I have to find a way to convince him to set aside our differences. There's one way that always works. Even when we hate each other, our bodies betray us. The one place we've never disagreed is in bed.

When the opportunity to partner with a local business presents itself, Tracy is happy to grab it with both hands. She never bargained that the owner of the business would be her nemesis from high school. She’s shocked to find that her nemesis still has the same condescending behavior and great looks!