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Lucinda is a witch in a alternative Victorian London, where being a witch is a death sentence. Her coven harnesses sensuality and passion to make magic, and that is a crime according to the Association of Magicians. Women with control of sex and magic are too dangerous to tolerate. So Lucinda and her coven live in secret. That is until she meets a young American magician, and their attraction cannot be denied, but they have always been taught such a thing can never be.

The Deacons of the Order are all that stand between the wicked spirits of the other side and the innocent citizens of the Empire. They are sworn to protect humanity, even when they cannot protect themselves. After the Razing of the Order, Sorcha Faris, one of the most powerful Deacons, is struggling to regain control of the runes she once wielded. The Deacons are needed more desperately than ever.

The Science of Menopause is an informative, practical, and engaging guide to understanding what happens to women's health from your 40s onwards. As we understand more each day about what hormone changes mean for women's long-term health, there is an urgent need for an evidence-based book that...

Sive, ancient goddess of the Fey, is busy watching her world die. Darkness creeps over the Fey world, and its once immortal people and creatures are fading away. As much as she despises humans, Sive knows that across the Veil that separates the worlds, power can be found. So enlisting the help of her trickster cousin Puck, she tracks down a mortal bard who may just offer hope. As they watch the child become a man, the brutal and destructive power grows stronger in Sive’s realm, threatening to spread across to the Veil between words.

Ianthe Liakos is a mermaid from a different dimension, and between that and now working as a PI in the corrupt climate of Washington, DC, she'd thought she'd seen it all. But when following a case leads down a trail of money that connects the murders of young political interns to a new paranormal threat, she realizes she must protect the next target.

Wolverine (Henning Baum), Black Widow (Maren Kroymann), Star-Lord (Tom Wlaschiha), Hawkeye (Mark Waschke) und Doctor Doom (Sylvester Groth) verbünden sich, um Valeria Richards (Kaya Marie Möller) aufzuhalten. Sie ist die intelligenteste Frau der Welt, unsterblich und unermesslich einsam. Nachdem sie in Südkalifornien einen Atomschlag überlebt hat und in den Besitz des realitätsverändernden Kosmischen Kubus gelangt ist, steht sie dort nun am Rande des Wahnsinns.

At 24, Philippa Moore is overweight, unhappily married, and still living in her hometown of Hobart, Tasmania. After a wake-up call in a department-store changing room, Phil suddenly realises that she is on the wrong path. With determination she starts to shed the kilos and makes a confronting discovery: She is in charge of her own life. Starting over again in Melbourne, she launches an award-winning health and fitness blog, Skinny Latte, and finds the courage to leave her marriage.

Born from Philippa Ballantine’s Patreon feed, these 15 stories span fantasy, horror, and science fiction. They explore the dark places of the human soul, the brightness of hope, and the void between worlds. A clone finds the welcoming voice of an alien. A small dragon learns the secrets of the past. The bodies of the dead dance in an ancient church.

"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is inspired by the real-life actions of James Brook, a British soldier who made himself Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo). In this short story, Kipling tells of two crook characters, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, through a third character, an Indian journalist, who is acquainted with the men. Their plan is simple: they will leave India and go to Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan, and set themselves up as kings there by force.

Written in a positive, uplifting and light-hearted style, with plenty of quotes from real women, The M Word shows you how to not just survive, but thrive through the menopause, letting you remain you.The menopause does not have to mean the end of your libido, of sex, of work or of feeling like who you used to be. The M Word is a complete one-stop guide to the peri-menopause and menopause, covering everything from understanding symptoms to managing relationships to which treatments really work.

They are the Awakened, a unique breed of people in a remote corner of the world. Faith is one of these gifted carriers of the Seraphim; and in return of her unconditional love, her Seraphim grants her powers of incredible potential. But not all carriers embrace their blessing. Jack loathes being an Awakened. He never asked for it, his Seraphim keeping him alive even in spite of his desire to die. Not even a great war could rid him of this curse.

The Science of Menopause is an informative, practical, and engaging guide to understanding what happens to women's health from your 40s onwards. Menopause is not just about hot flushes, and it isn't something to "sail through" or pretend it isn't happening. Featuring the latest research, The Science of Menopause tells you everything you need to know about what menopause is, the symptoms to watch out for, and the treatments that may be able to help.

The connection with the Fey realm was destroyed over five hundred years ago and with it went mystery and beauty. To fill that hole the mortal world developed cybernetic wonders and digital worlds. Magic is now just a fading memory. The English village of Penheram is an oasis of the past in a sea of modernity, a place where people go to escape. Ella failing in her writing career, is doing just that, and quite well too, until a shapeshifting thief with a hint of magic around him stumbles into her life.

In the parks of Coconut Grove you can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and "Everybody’s Talkin" is carried on the wind. Recapturing the dying '60s, peopled by the voices of her generation, Stephanie walks through pregnancy to pain, finding unexpected friends in unlikely places and a growing instinct for truth and generosity.

Lebt Lukas unter neuer Identität in Berlin? In der zweiten Staffel von Wunde Seelen sucht die Psychotherapeutin Hanna Krüger nach ihrem totgeglaubten Bruder. Denn um die Wunden der Vergangenheit zu heilen, muss Hanna die losen Fäden ihres Lebens wieder verknüpfen.

Hayley Sault, syndicated columnist of "Hayley's Comment", pursues an erotic entanglement with Karl, while she is reporting on a scientific experiment that will change reality. Kenn Brody deftly juggles romance, adult content, and hard science fiction in a brash new novel.

Johanna Ingridsdottir, a Danish Special Forces officer assigned to the Sirius Sled Patrol in the icy interior of Greenland discovers three bodies encased in ice at the terminus of the Jakobshavn Glacier. The man, woman and half-grown child are remarkably well-preserved. There has never been any human habitation on that remote glacier. Why are they there? Where did they come from? Aylina Tayu, a Goth polymath, discovers they have been in the ice for 75,000 years. Are they even human?

This program will show you in detail how to use your articles and content to gain higher search engine placement, draw targeted traffic to your Web site, and grow your mailing list. Then, leverage these contacts to generate bookings, consulting assignments, and further exposure. Learn from Philippa's latest insights and practical take-home techniques as she reveals the inside secrets of her #1 marketing strategy.

Meet Meg Monroe, the fixer. If you want to get rid of someone, you call Meg. (No, not like that - this would be a very different book!) Using her brilliant intuition, people-reading skills and with masterful manipulation, Meg befriends her mark and tells them what they want to hear, using it to convince them to see the error of their ways. She's never once found a case she can't handle - affairs, clingy former-friends, useless employees and exes that can't take the hint. But when a blast from the past turns up on Meg's doorstep, will she get caught in her own web of lies?

In fairy tales, the wolf's cry makes people shudder. They've been hunted, captured. But the wolf carries a wild magic - a magic that once restored a barren land. When wolves disappeared from Yellowstone Park in the 1930s, the ecosystem started to collapse. Enormous herds of elk swarmed the plains, bears starved, rabbit families shrunk and birds flew away to new homes. Plants vanished, trees withered and rivers meandered. Until in 1995, wolves returned to the park and everything began to change for the better. This is the story of their homecoming.