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Inventor Henrietta Mason is retiring from airships and adventuring to return home to Philadelphia. Determined to erase all trails leading to her late father's duplicity, she dismantles his lab and removes all records of the Badlands gold. While in the city, she can't resist the lure of a charity gala but winds up regretting the whole experience. Well, everything except a heart-racing dance with a certain U.S. Marshal.

Dannie Marino is hiking with colleagues when a sudden blizzard separates her from her group. She's rescued by Lee, a dangerously sexy stranger who leads her to a remote cabin to weather the storm. When the night inevitably ends in an intense erotic encounter, Dannie is both shocked and liberated by her response. But being intimate means letting herself be vulnerable, which isn't her style. Lee tries to reach out to her, but she avoids any emotional entanglement by pushing him away.

After a brutal Civil War, America is a land divided. As commander of her nation's border guards, Ever is a warrior sworn to protect her country and her queen. When an airship attacks and kills the monarch, Ever must infiltrate enemy territory to bring home the heir to the throne, and the dirigible Dark Hawk is her fastest way to the Union.

Im Riff geht’s rund! Bunte Papageienfische, funkelnde Glitzerinen, der lustige Kugelfisch Elsi und viele andere Meeresbewohner bereiten sich auf die Unterwasser-Castingshow "Frutti di Mare" vor. Wer kann am besten singen und tanzen? In all dieser Aufregung wird plötzlich "Flapo", die Flaschenpost, angetrieben, die etwas Wichtiges zu sagen hat. Aber wer hat schon Lust, so einer alten Flasche zuzuhören? Ihre Performance ist äußerst dürftig - sie kann ja nicht einmal richtig schwimmen, geschweige denn tanzen.

Une bourse d'étude pour une prestigieuse école d'art de New York, voilà une opportunité inespérée de quitter la France et de m'offrir un nouveau départ ! Rien ne pourra me détourner de mon objectif : être la meilleure et surpasser la concurrence. Mais quand le beau Keith vient me demander de l'aide pour conquérir le cœur de sa meilleure amie, je ne peux pas lui dire non. Il est clair que ces deux-là sont fous l'un de l'autre. Qu'est-ce que j'ai à perdre, après tout ?

What could be better than a Fart with a heart? A Super Fart of course! Wafting around with his stinky best friend Burp, Fart couldn't be happier. But sometimes Burp wishes people wouldn't say, YUCK and GROSS and PEE-YEW . . . Could being smelly ever be a force for good? A super stinker of a tale...

The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity. In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand...

In a time when people believed flying was impossible, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier proved that the sky wasn’t the limit. When most thought horseback was the only way to race, Bertha and Karl Benz fired up their engines. From the invention of the bicycle and the passenger steam locomotive to the first liquid-fuel propelled rocket and industrial robot, inventors across the world have redefined travel. Informative and celebratory, this collective biography tells the story of the experiments, failures, and successes of visionaries who changed the way the world moves. 

Prague, 1943. Taken from her home in Prague, Hana Lederova finds herself imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt, where she is forced to endure appalling deprivation and the imminent threat of transportation to the east. When she attracts the attention of the Czech gendarme who becomes her guard, Hana reluctantly accepts his advances, hoping for the protection she so desperately needs. Sydney, 2010. Manipulated into a liaison with her married boss, Tessa knows she needs to end it, but how? 

Former social worker Elle Castillo is the host of a popular true-crime podcast that tackles cold cases of missing children in her hometown. After four seasons of successful investigations, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: the Countdown Killer, or TCK. Twenty years ago, TCK established a pattern of taking and ritualistically murdering girls, each a year younger than the last. No one’s ever known why - why he stopped abruptly with his 11-year-old victim, or why he followed the ritual at all.

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading - and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission. As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt - as myths merge with reality - both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love and what they fear.

Joe McKee – pillar of the Derry community – is dead. As arrangements are made for the traditional Irish wake, friends and family are left reeling at how cancer could have taken this much-loved man so soon. But grief is the last thing that Joe’s daughter Ciara and step-daughter Heidi feel. For they knew the real Joe – the man who was supposed to protect them and did anything but. As the mourners gather, the police do too, with doubt being cast over whether Joe’s death was due to natural causes.

Bianca St. Pierre has a problem. She's afraid of commitment. She's been trying to find her knight in shining armor. Instead, she winds up with a stalker. Bryson Thatcher just might be the solution. He's wanted Bianca since the moment that he saw her and now is finally his chance to get close to her and show her that they're meant to be together.

Adeline Monroe is ready for more. Her life has been on pause but not anymore. She wants to experience things. She wants a new routine. She wants to find her happily ever after. Lincoln Hook is ready for love. One look at Adeline and he’s hooked. He craves her spirit, enthusiasm, and love. Now he just needs to convince Adeline that they’re meant to be.

Berlin. Lena und Matthias, beide fünfzehn, verbindet viel. Beide haben keinen Vater, fühlen sich fehl am Platz, testen gemeinsam ihre Grenzen: Sie stehlen das Auto der Mutter, schwänzen die Schule und ziehen nachts um die Häuser. Kurz vor ihrem sechzehnten Geburtstag beschließt Lena, ihr Schicksal in die eigene Hand zu nehmen und ihren Vater zu besuchen. Heimlich kauft sie mit dem Geld ihrer Mutter für sich und Matthias Flugtickets nach New York. Doch am vermeintlichen Ziel ihrer Sehnsüchte beginnen die Schwierigkeiten erst richtig.

Twins Zac and Lu grew up on their mother’s stories of the Wildewoods, an imaginary land where mythical beasts roam free. These creatures fill the pages of Zac’s sketchbooks and inspire Lu’s love of animals, and on most days, they’re the only thing the twins have in common. When their mother dies, a heartbroken Lu and Zac are shipped off to England to spend the summer with relatives they’ve never met. But it doesn’t take the twins long to uncover the incredible secret tucked away in the forest behind their ancestral home.

The Genesis Faction has colonized a new world of primitive humans, attempting to hide from the intelligence-hunting aliens lurking between the stars. These newly primitive inhabitants of the Land of Eden are dubbed "neoprims". One neoprim per tribe every three generations is selected to join the world of advanced humans in the Land of Nod. Enter Zeta of the Scorpion Tail Tribe — a neoprim who must replay past experiences to piece together her fractured memory.

Ils ne m'auraient jamais embauchée s'ils savaient ce que j'avais fait. Mon passé. Sainte-Anne est un environnement strict, et après un an au poste convoité de directrice, je sais que je ne peux pas faire le moindre faux pas. Certains pensent que je ne mérite pas cette position. D'autres convoitent désespérément le poste. Et l'une de ces personnes veut me faire tomber. Qui que soit cette personne, elle connaît des choses à mon sujet. Des secrets que j'ai à peine confiés à quiconque. Et j'ai peur de ce qu'elle pourrait découvrir en creusant un peu plus.

Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction An accomplished story collection that is deeply rooted in the Tasmanian landscape and those moments in people's lives when everything changes. Set in southern Tasmania, the linked stories in Smokehouse bring into focus a small...

A short story magazine that assembles a thrilling new mix of stories from genres including horror, science-fiction, comedy, and suspense. Buried at the heart of every story in the magazine is a unique artifact, an object that has inspired our storytellers to create a big idea, an irresistible question, a new immersive world, or a sense of wonder. Unearth your next great story with Assemble Artifacts.