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They say mated dragonborns can hear each other. I never believed it. Not until I was trapped in an abandoned building, surrounded by flesh-eating monsters, terrified and alone. My body was failing, but my mind reached into the void, begging for someone to hear me. Then the door burst open. The man who came for me was the last person I ever expected—my enemy. Strong, fearless, and endlessly captivating, Tynan works for the people who imprisoned me, and I hate him even more because I can't stop staring whenever he shapeshifts.

Travelling home from a European holiday, Iris Carr ends up alone at the station after a quarrel with her friends. Struck by a mysterious assailant and waking up just in time to board the train which will take her on her journey to London, things seem to be looking up after a chance meeting with the affable Miss Froy. But when Iris passes out and reawakens, Miss Froy is nowhere to be found. The other passengers deny any knowledge of her existence and as the train speeds across Europe, Iris spirals deeper and deeper into a strange conspiracy.

A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village, replete with Tudor houses and quaint cottages. In her writer's mind she pictures the sordid truth beyond the veneer, a seemingly laughable proposition - until the coming of the letters. Anonymous letters from a poisoned pen, sowing discord and defaming everybody from the Rector to the 'queen of the village' Miss Decima Asprey. Naturally, where there is venom in the air and dark secrets are threatening to come to light, the shadow of death is not far behind.

Wie leben Frauen heute? Wie gehen sie um mit Schicksalsschlägen, dem gesellschaftlichen Wandel, dem Älterwerden, der Erschöpfung? Dies ist der Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme, in der die Frauen selbst zu Wort kommen. Frauen, die wütend sind, die alleinerziehend sind, die ihre Heimat verloren haben, ihre Eltern, ihre Nerven. Sie hatten Glück im Leben, sagen sie. Sie brauchen ihre Freundinnen mehr denn je, sagen sie.

When murder comes to a secluded island, the ghosts of the past will resurface. As a young boy, Fredrik Fröding survived one of Europe's worst ferry disasters. The tragedy haunts him, and decades later Fredrik refuses to give up hope that his brother Nikolas also lived. It's become an obsession...

He's watching me again. The dragonborn warrior—a stranger. What does he want from me? I search my memories, desperate to place that face… those dangerous eyes. But nothing comes. The councilors are losing patience. I'm running out of time. As the heiress to the Red Queen, I must name one of the clan leaders as my future husband. But all I can think about is him.

What becomes possible when leadership is anchored within, open to others, and connected across differences? BORDERLESS explores the human qualities, paradoxes, and courageous choices that shape leadership beyond borders. Hosted by four leadership practitioners – Lina, Duncan, Catherine, and Tatiana – each episode dives into what it means to lead from essence rather than ego, from abundance rather than scarcity, from service rather than survival, towards intergenerational equity. We call this Borderless-Centred Leadership. Season 1: Discovering Borderless-Centred Leadership.

A young woman struggles to finish her PhD on stars and galaxies. Instead, she obsessively tracks the experience of her own body, listening to its functions and rhythms, finally locating in its patterns the beginning of illness and instability. As she discovers the precarity of her self, she begins to turn her attention to the distant orbits of her family members, each moving away from the familial system and each so different in their experiences, but somehow made similar in their shared history of illness and trauma, both political and personal.

Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own. When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies and souls in their care - and that of the galactic diaspora - are in danger.

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There is, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no biography of Augustus Caesar - a most curious fact when one considers the extraordinary success of his career and the enormous importance of the work which he accomplished. Perhaps the reason of this apparent neglect may be found in the circumstance that his character is one of the most puzzling of antiquity. In this volume I have attempted to give a clear account of what Augustus achieved in the establishment of the Roman Empire, and at the same time to reveal the man, in so far as he reveals himself by his actions. - Summary Adapted from ...

Wuthering Heights is a haunting tale of obsessive passion and destructive revenge set against the bleak Yorkshire moors. The story follows the turbulent lives of Heathcliff, a brooding and vengeful foundling, and Catherine Earnshaw, whose deep, conflicted love sparks a relentless cycle of cruelty. Their turbulent relationship affects two generations, intertwining the fates of the Earnshaw and Linton families. Through raw emotions and bitter conflicts, Emily Brontë explores the destructive power of love, social class, and the relentless grip of revenge. Ultimately, tragedy and redemption ...

When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capable Pauline Marchrose is the successful applicant. This is good news for Sir Julian, the college director, who greatly admires her diligence and ability. Mark Easter, Sir Julian’s agent, feels admiration for her too, which rapidly becomes romantic attraction. But Mark already has a wife, albeit in name only. And Sir Julian’s wife, Lady Edna Rossiter, discovers that Pauline Marchrose is the same woman who jilted her cousin Clarence after he was ...

Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller's life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb.

When antibiotics started to fail the race to save humanity from deadly antibiotic resistant infections began. Science journalist Lina Zeldovich reveals the remarkable history of bacteriophages or 'phages', through the colourful lives of the British, French, Soviet and American scientists who discovered, developed and are now reviving this unique living medicine for seemingly incurable diseases.

When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon her return to England, she is forced to choose between free-spirited George and her more conventional fiancé, Cecil Vyse. The story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Schon als Kind war Morgan wild. So wild wie das Meer, das gegen die Klippen donnert, auf denen ihr Zuhause ruht: Tintagel Castle. Dort wähnte sich Morgan seit jeher in Sicherheit. Doch dann wurde ihr Vater in den Krieg berufen, und kehrte nie wieder. Stattdessen kam Großkönig Pendragon nach Tintagel - und mit ihm Merlin, der Zauberer.

Eingesperrt im Klassenzimmer. Matheklausur! Plötzlich dringt eine maskierte Person ins Klassenzimmer ein und diktiert mit geladener Pistole Aufgaben, die erbarmungslos die Geheimnisse aller an die Oberfläche zerren. Arroganz, Diebstähle, blinder Opportunismus, Lügen - hinter sorgsam gepflegten Fassaden tun sich persönliche Abgründe auf. Fiona ringt fassungslos mit ihrer Handlungsunfähigkeit, Mark verspürt Genugtuung, und Herr Filler schwankt zwischen Aggression und Passivität.

They came for me. Silhouettes of dragons blackened the sky. I wrapped my arms around myself, trying to choke back the panic rising in my chest. There's nowhere to run, no place to hide, no way to delay the inevitable. In his eyes, there was nothing but cold, unyielding determination. He's going to risk everything to protect me, and I can't let him.