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In "Jodi K", by Jill Soloway, the award-winning writer/producer of Six Feet Under, a suburban teenager is a skeptical part of every high school make-out scene, but her heart is fixed on the middle-aged man next door.

Andrea Carter is turning sweet sixteen and life could not be better. School’s almost over for good, and there will be plenty of time to train the colt of her treasured horse, Taffy. Best of all, big brother Chad is giving Andi more responsibilities on the ranch she loves. Her first job is to teach city-slicker cousin Daniel how things work on the Circle C. There’s just one big problem: Daniel wants nothing to do with ranch life. Charming one minute and outrageously rude the next, he ignores common sense, defies authority, and proves a danger to everyone, including himself.

Andi quickly discovers that a cattle drive is a dirty, dangerous business with little sleep and the same food day after day. Between late nights, dust, mosquitoes, and an abrasive cowhand trying to win Andi’s attention, it is definitely not a holiday. Andi grimly determines she will stick it out. When a river crossing goes wrong and Chad is shot in a gunfight with suspicious men who have been shadowing the herd, Mitch the trail boss finds himself dangerously shorthanded.

"C'era una volta una bambina molto piccola, un po' distratta, una nonna e il lupo cattivo..." Produzione Istituto Barlumen. Regia: Gaetano Cappa

La perfida regina è gelosa della bellezza di Biancaneve e cerca in tutti i modi di sbarazzarsi di lei. Ma non sa che la fanciulla può contare su sette fedeli piccoli amici...

Mónica, Marcela, Aurora y Sandra son cuatro almas jóvenes y heridas cuando deciden irse a vivir juntas a un piso, pensando que así estarán más seguras frente a los tiempos airados que corren. Defienden una nueva revolución femenina, la del sentimiento, ya que en la realidad que viven solo oyen hablar de deseo, pero no de amor. Se han dado cuenta de que las mujeres quisieron prescindir del sentimiento a cambio de libertad, y así andan, recomponiendo continuamente el cuerpo y el alma ante los golpes de la vida.

Pendant une heure de conversation, des femmes et quelques hommes parlent de ce qu'il se passe dans leur chambre, mais aussi dans leur tête, leurs corps et le monde autour d'eux. Ce qui les excite et les anime. Ils et elles racontent les interdits parentaux, la découverte du porno, l'initiation aux pratiques SM, la religion, le sang, les fluides, le strip-tease, les normes de la masculinité, la sexualisation des femmes dès l'enfance, le plaisir, les sextoys, les mensonges sur le plaisir féminin et le plaisir masculin. Leurs vérités. L'une d'elles gagne de l'argent en montrant son corps nu et en faisant croire aux hommes qu'elle les aime.

Roman Quaedvlieg was always destined to make a mark. As a rookie policeman on the mean streets of Fortitude Valley in the dying days of the Moonlight State, his first arrest was Brisbane's most wanted escapee. Three decades later, he found himself navigating through the corridors of power in...

An Ice Road Through Hell starts when Mall Detective Richard "Milk" Zappella finds a file on his desk that reports a missing boy on Christmas Eve. When Milk meets Cook Ezio, who unwittingly has the only clues to the missing boy's location, they realize that in order to retrieve him by Christmas Day, they'll have to go to hell and back. Literally.

Andi Carter has gold fever! Someone near town has struck it rich. Now Andi can't stop wondering if there might be some of the glittery metal in the creeks on the Circle C ranch. Her brothers agree that she might find something that sparkles. But they laugh whenever they talk about it. Andi is determined - when she finds gold, she'll be the one laughing!

A la sala d'espera de la consulta de la seva metge, una dona espera el diagnosi definitiu. Sap que es mor. En aquella sala d'hospital, la protagonista rememora la joventut, l'amor, l'amistat, els desenganys, els somnis. Els records de tota una vida esdevindran una reflexió sobre el fet ineludible de la mort. Per més que neg uem aquest fet biològic, a tots ens atraparà en un moment o altre.

Im 22. Jahrhundert hat die Menschheit Raumstationen in der Unendlichkeit errichtet und erforscht das Sonnensystem - bemüht, im Weltall das zerbrechliche Gleichgewicht aufrechtzuerhalten, das auf der Erde zwischen den zwei Machtblöcken existiert: der "Union" und den "Republiken". Mark Brandis ist Testpilot für die neutrale Venus-Erde Gesellschaft für Astronautik (VEGA). Als Commander fliegt er die neuen Schiffe Hermes, Invictus und Explorator.

Once bound by his morals, John has been released from his chains. The sinner system will finally come to reveal its true potential in his hands. Together with his gift for chaos, it will forge his path to victory. One that will finally settle his grudges once and for all. One that will defend what matters most to him. For as much as a man changes, his priorities remain the same. Listen to this fourth issue of The Idle System to continue another chapter in John and Sarah’s story. One of adventure, revenge, and conspiracies.

Running away is never the answer. After escaping from the Rogue Sect, John and Sarah find something new about each other. They're both Siders. Their path of loneliness will now take a turn, finding new allies in the most unexpected of places. But good things come hand-in-hand with the bad. Elder Han and his son are not willing to give up their chase. Chris's obsession over possessing Sarah's body for himself is not to be taken lightly. Nor is his father's. Fight or flight, it's now their choice.

In this thought-provoking book, Father Ezra Sullivan provides the forgotten key to discovering the soul’s potential for greatness: heroic habits. A habit is what makes us into saints or sinners. Just as the body can become stronger through exercise and effort, or weaker through wounds or neglect, so the entire person can develop an almost permanent state of goodness or evil through habituation to virtue or vice. Habits both reveal and shape who you are; they speak about what you have been, and they predict what you will be.

They received a letter. They dismissed it as a prank, but as they soon will learn, you never...ever ignore a chain letter. Chain Letter is a spine-chilling horror-novella from international best-selling author Willow Rose.

Großmutter Throckmorton will das Benehmen ihrer Enkel unter ihrer Aufsicht nicht dulden und legt alle Hoffnung in die pädagogischen Fähigkeiten ihrer Nichte Nigella. Theo wird in ein langes Rüschenkleid mit Schleifen gesteckt. Bei dem Versuch, die Keilschrift im Tagebuch zu entziffern, wird Tinte auf dem Frühstückstisch verschüttet.

Nigella hat für Theo im Museum eine Geburtstagsfeier organisiert. Neville taucht auf, um Will zu seiner Zaubershow zu gratulieren und zeigt großes Interesse an seinen Tricks. Insbesondere am Pyramidion, was ihn in Theos Augen verdächtig macht. Will schöpft neuen Mut, mit seiner Zauberei weiterzumachen.

Theo, Henry, Safiya und Will rätseln, was Aapep jetzt vorhat. Theo glaubt, dass er, wie eine Batterie, seine Energie aufladen muss und dafür magische Artefakte benötigt. Deshalb lässt Aapep die Artefakte aus den Museen stehlen. Das seiner Magie beraubte Unsichtbarkeitsseil bestätigt ihre Vermutung.

Determined to restore order, Melany and her friends embark on a forbidden mission to find the Fates, coming face to face with a deadly new threat. After losing one of their own, they band together with others from the academy for a dangerous rescue, but they soon discover not everyone is an ally. Unfortunately, things go terribly wrong when Melany is labeled a murderer. To make matters worse, Death’s disappearance causes an unnatural war, putting at risk the lives of the humans they all swore to protect.