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The summer before her senior year had been a major disappointment for seventeen-year-old Eevee. Especially the bit at the end, when she had been dumped by her boyfriend of ten months. But her friends Maggie and Cam are a text away to help her pick up the pieces of her broken heart. In an effort to help distract Eevee from her woes, her parents give her a sealed envelope containing information about her adoption. Eevee is shocked when she finds a handwritten note from her birth mother claiming that Eevee is fae, and warning of danger if Eevee tries to uncover her true identity.

The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to freedom and fulfilment, especially for women, leads directly out of the kitchen. In this invigorating, revelatory book, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a space of infinite variety and infinite potential.

After the War of the Gods, Athena found herself a goddess without followers. Traversing the spirit world, she defends those who are lost between life and death. When she meets a young girl, Cordelia, Athena realizes that there is something special about her. Listening to her story gives her a renewed sense of purpose. There is wisdom in justice, and Athena will not abandon her cause simply because her followers have abandoned her.

Der Anfang vom Ende - das Ende vom Anfang. Während Noa alles versucht, um Zoyahs Leben zu schützen, rückt Ilios Armee immer näher. Doch eine letzte Begegnung bringt Noas Welt dazu, für immer zu zerfallen. Vereint in dem Traum eines Lebens, das bestimmt ist von falschen Entscheidungen und dem Beginn eines Krieges mit der eigenen Vergangenheit. Doch wenn das vergessene Leben der Schlüssel des Sieges ist, wird aus den Kämpfen der Zukunft eine Illusion.

1898, South Australia. At the gateway to the Flinders Ranges lies Kanyaka Station, once a thriving sheep and cattle property, now abandoned and in ruins. But a discovery in her late mother's papers draws recently widowed Marcella Ross out to its remote landscape in search of clues to the disappearance of her Uncle Luca, an Italian immigrant whose fate seems to have been bound up in that of his mysterious partner—also long-since vanished. When Marcella is accosted by a daunting stranger, she discovers he too is entangled in the secrets of the past.

By the time an agathos woman reaches twenty-five, she's supposed to be one thing, and one thing only: Bonded. I'm zero for four soul bonds, a disgrace to my family, and the black sheep of my community. It had me feeling reckless. Impulsive. Daring. In a moment of weakness, I let the darkness lurking inside of me rule, and it changed everything. I was supposed to embrace the light, but how could I fear the dark, when it brought me Riot?

Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation.

In The Art Therapy Way: A Self-Care Guide, you will discover how creativity can help you calm anxiety, destress, boost your mood, and more (even if you do not believe that you have a creative bone in your body). Inside you will find therapeutic art prompts, meditations, and process questions to help you tune in to your inner experience and connect with your heart, body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

Die Steuereintreiber in Hellas verbreiten Chaos und Gewalt. Torgo gerät unter Mordverdacht und wird angeklagt. Unterdessen spinnt Nif-Iritt weiter ihr Intrigennetz.

Der pensionierte Polizeihauptkommissar Phillip Leonhard wird im Aaper Wald Zeuge einer Bombenexplosion, bei der ein Mensch ums Leben kommt. Was zunächst wie der makabre Unfall eines unachtsamen Schatzsuchers aussieht, wirft nach und nach immer mehr Fragen auf, zumal die Polizei den Fall schon bald zu den Akten legt, obwohl das Opfer der stadtbekannte Bombenentschärfer Gert Weimeister war.

Life is good on their Pennsylvania Amish farm for newlyweds Vic and Eleanor Lapp—until the day Vic's youngest brother drowns in their pond and Vic turns to alcohol to numb the pain. Things get so bad that Vic loses his job and their marriage is coming apart. Eleanor is desperate to help her husband and writes letters to her friend, Doretta, living in Indiana, for advice. The trust Eleanor places in her friend and the gentle words she receives in return are a balm for even darker days to come.

Captain Michael LaGrange and Damina have been negotiating over their future together since the day they met. Both stubborn, both cautious, neither wants to make a decision either of them will regret. Desire and friendship build into a need they can't ignore any longer. Unfortunately, duty has to come first and they find themselves on a good will tour prior to the Prince's wedding.

Amerika in der nahen Zukunft. Nach außen hin führt die Familie Martin ein perfektes Leben, doch Investmentbanker David verprügelt seine Frau Chelsea regelmäßig bis zur Bewusstlosigkeit. Als sich ein mysteriöses Virus ausbreitet, das alle, die es infiziert, in einen exzessiven Gewaltrausch stürzt, sieht Chelsea ihre große Chance, sich und ihren beiden Töchtern ein neues Leben zu ermöglichen. Ein Leben in einer Welt, die sich am Ende radikal von unserer unterscheiden wird.

When Lady Sophia Parsons reads the notice in the window of the haberdashery at Devon’s Mill, she has no choice other than to answer the summons. She is expected. Indeed, Lord Albion Rayment will have no other, for Sophia’s family is deeply in his debt, and he has loved her from afar for years. But Lord Albion is no longer merely the suitor her father turned away.

The Seven-Fold World is protected by the Seal of the Seventh Son but nothing lasts forever. When the seal breaks, the immortal lords of ruin set forth to end the age in blood. But just as nothing lasts, no fate is certain. The seal might be restored. Only the seventh son of a seventh son may accomplish this mightiest of feats, which leaves a young man bereft of hope by the loss of all he loves to face the unbelievable truth that his is the greatest destiny of all.

Im Frühling des Jahres 1550 kehrt die schwangere "Lebenspflückerin" Hiske an der Seite ihres Mannes, des Arztes Jan Valkensteyn, nach Jever zurück. Ihre alte Freundin, die Duuvke Anneke Hollander, fürchtet um ihr Leben, weil sie Augenzeugin eines Mordes geworden ist. Kurz vor dem Eintreffen der beiden wird noch ein weiterer Mann tot aufgefunden. Besteht am Ende ein Zusammenhang zwischen den Morden und der beständig voranschreitenden Reformation? Das Jeverland ist schließlich dem katholischen Kaiser als burgundisches Lehen verpflichtet.

Frischer Wind in der Mulberry Lane. London 1958: Die Schrecken des Krieges verblassen und das Leben in der Mulberry Lane geht weiter. Peggys Zwillinge sind nun Teenager und planen schon ihr Leben nach der Schulzeit. Vor allem die zielstrebige Faye überrascht ihre Mutter mit neuen Plänen. Maureen, Shirleys Tochter, hat ihr Medizinstudium mittlerweile abgeschlossen und kehrt in die Mulberry Lane zurück. Endlich kann sie ihren Traum verwirklichen und als Ärztin den Ärmsten helfen. Doch inmitten all der Arbeit tritt auf einmal die Liebe in ihr Leben.

Liz deWitt ist Spitzenköchin in einem vegetarischen Restaurant in San Francisco. Täglicher Stress und immer neue Anforderungen verderben ihr jedoch zusehends die Passion fürs Kochen. Als ihr Onkel verunglückt und die beste Freundin Ceecee ihr das Angebot macht bei ihr ins Café einzusteigen, zögert Liz keine Sekunde. Doch das Leben im idyllischen Willow Springs ist viel aufregender als erwartet, besonders als sie dort auf Joe Mariani, den neuen Chief of Police, trifft. Joe ist waschechter New Yorker und erst seit kurzem in Willow Springs.

Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This book is a bold but approachable attempt to redefine historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”: the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop.

Max Czollek's De-Integrate! is a polemical, often humorous examination of Jewish life in contemporary Germany that speaks to the position of minorities the world over. Rooted in sociological theory, the book offers an engaging and approachable critique of Germany's much-lauded traditions of memory culture and Vergangenheitsbewältigung—its "successful" negotiation of its Nazi past.