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Dr. Eleana Delgado’s first weeks in pediatrics are already a disaster. One mistake—leaving her tablet unlocked during an emergency—and her intimidating new boss, Maxine Girardot, humiliates her in front of the entire staff. Max is everything Eleana isn’t: controlled, disciplined, and infuriatingly strict. And she has zero patience for Eleana’s sunshine attitude. But when a supervisor position opens, the tension between them explodes. Max wants it. Eleana dares to challenge her for it. And suddenly, their rivalry turns into a war.

Prison is harsh enough, but as a foreigner ( farang) in a strange land, jail time is an even more horrifying reality. Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton is a collection of short stories chronicling T. M. Hoy’s descent into the harrowing world of Southeast Asian prison life. Through his eyes, listeners will experience the bizarre events of daily life in a Thai maximum security prison: feel the weight of the chains he wears; the stomachaches from lack of food; witness the murders, drug overdoses, torture, and unbridled cruelty that ensues.

Jack Bishop has been in self-imposed exile ever since the failed colonisation of New Eden. But when galactic chaos threatens the automata’s chances of ever being treated like equals, Jack has no choice but to follow the crew of the Adeona back into danger again. A decommissioned factory is mass-producing mechanical soldiers, and nobody knows why. Rogan and Tuner are sent to check. But what starts as a routine inspection soon evolves into a murderous conspiracy that threatens to fracture the Ministerium forever.

New nurse Elizabeth Fletcher is excited to be finally following the career of her dreams, even if it will only be for a few months. When she begins work at the Corrine Ann Pettrone Medical Center (CAPMED) in Chicago, she quickly realizes that she jumped in too deep. She loves the hospital environment, but things start to feel too real, too fast. Dating Chad Hawthorne, her wealthy boyfriend of five years, Liz always believed she could have love and a career. Yet, when she accepts Chad’s marriage proposal, all bets are off.

Protecting Her Heart is a story of two women who must be honest with each other and themselves if they truly want to risk everything and ignite the fire between them.

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization.

Fae Queen Athroxane got her revenge but risks it all again! I am a Fae Queen in love with a wolf shifter. My ill fate doesn’t stop there, as I am forced to marry the Wolf King to stop my foreboding destiny. My wolf lover does not accept my betrothal but any decisions to prevent it comes with unforeseen consequences that might not only cause my death but also his. Why did my father cast the curse on the Alpha Moon bloodline in the first place and put me in this much trouble before he died? Now, I have no answers. I knew the Fae hated the wolf shifters, but now that I will do anything to ...

She's already survived once. Can she do it again -- with her heart still intact? At eleven, Raina Michaelson beat leukemia--but the emotional scars never fully healed. Now, sixteen years later, she’s a rising ad exec, doing everything she can to outrun her past. But when the cancer returns, so does the fear, the anger, and the loneliness. Enter Meredith--Raina’s new nurse. Warm, steady, and annoyingly perceptive, Meredith is the only one who pushes past Raina’s walls. What begins with tension and sarcasm slowly turns into something deeper. Something dangerous. They both know the rules...

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” ( Booklist).

A nerdy farmer—and doctor with expertise in nutrition—provides insight into how best to prepare and savor vegetables while recounting his journey in building an organic vegetable farm and discovering the family that farmed the same land some 200 years ago.

Throughout fiction, there have always been heroes who have fallen from grace. Champions of honor, decency, and order who have become villains through some traumatic event or a deep personal flaw. Blackest Knights is a collection of 19 tales by some of independent fantasy's best authors that follow a collection of those heroes who fell to temptation. From tales of bloody-handed hypocrites to space pirates, you'll find some truly fascinating works within.

Il primo romanzo della saga di The Raven Cycle. Agli studenti della Aglionby Academy, conosciuti come Ragazzi Corvo, non manca nulla: soldi, bellezza, macchine costose. Gansey, però, è in cerca di qualcosa di più: Owen Glendower, un antico re gallese che, secondo le leggende, giace addormentato sotto una montagna. Nella sua ricerca è affiancato da Adam, che frequenta la scuola con una borsa di studio ed è pieno di risentimento verso l'ambiente privilegiato che lo circonda; da Ronan, un'anima selvaggia divisa tra rabbia e disperazione; e da Noah, tanto attento a cogliere i dettagli quanto taciturno.

Violet Archer has spent her life fighting Shadows. Now, she's married to their prince. There's just one problem for the Dark lord: His new bride is plotting to kill him.

War breaks out in Lacking. Just when I think things can't get any worse, an unexpected guest arrives, and I'm forced to make a choice between the life I've always wanted and a life I never knew I could have. I didn't know how strong I was until I met Grim. But am I strong enough? Permission is the third book in the USA Today best-selling Perversion Trilogy and the conclusion of Grim and Emma Jean's story.

Humanity teeters on the verge of extinction. Only the hours of darkness offer the survivors respite from the Sun’s deadly radiation. But despite the hardships, seventeen year old Lyra Ellsworth and her mother have carved a little life for themselves in a quiet camp hidden in the woods. So when raiders slaughter her friends and raze their home to the ground one terrible night, Lyra has no choice but to risk everything in search of sanctuary. Hunters stalk the forests. Ex-soldiers patrol the streets. Even nature itself has evolved to kill her.

An expert on elder justice maps the challenges of aging, how things go wrong, and presents powerful tools we can use to forge better long lives for ourselves, our families, and our communities. As tens of millions of Americans are living longer lives, longevity is creating challenges that cut...

Cast out by humanity yet burdened with a conscience, Sheni Dupont wouldn’t say he’s found his calling in space piracy. But in the cramped and rusty halls of the ship he shares with reptilian captain Gecki, starfish pilot Xotl and the weird green enigma known only as Alan, he may have found a home. So when a loan shark threatens to repossess their ship if they don’t pay back the credits they’ve borrowed, the crew of the Silver Hart are forced to take the only job going – stealing a crystal egg from a backwater planet on the brink of cosmic destruction.

Jack Bishop is a long way from home. With no way back to the Earth he once knew, Jack considers himself alone in the galaxy… that is, until he receives a distress call from his old Ark ship, the Final Dawn.

Get ready for the ultimate in cuckold fantasy entertainment. This collection contains 18 steamy stories with lots of heart-pounding hot-wife/cuckold erotic action.

भारत के सर्वोच्च साहित्यिक सम्मान माने जाने वाले ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित मलयालम के शीर्षस्थ लेखक और फ़िल्मकार एम.टी. वासुदेवन नायर की कहानियों का यह संचयन एक गहरा कलात्मक अनुभव और मानवीय सम्बन्धों की बारीकियों का अनूठा उत्खनन है. शीर्षक कहानी एक अध्यापक और उसके शिष्य के कई बरसों में फैले सम्बंध का एक मार्मिक चित्रण है.