Independently published jul 2016 (49 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Pete Patterson is having trouble at school; and so is every other pupil. The problem is bullying. But these are no ordinary bullies. They aren't stealing people's lunch money or anything; instead, they're trying to stop everybody from learning. Meanwhile, Pete discovers that a plastic, MP helmet, which was given to him by his auntie and has been lying, untouched at the bottom of a cupboard, gives him super powers when he puts it on. Now he might be able to stop the bullies.But why are these bullies trying to stop children being educated And what do they do at their mysterious Saturday school. McGillivray, Katie (illustratore).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - She took the camp counselor job to outrun her past.She didn't expect to collide with her future.Sixteen-year-old Nina thought spending the summer miles from home would finally silence the whispers about her family's scandal - and about the brother she refuses to talk about. Camp was supposed to be a clean break.Until her campers start revealing secrets no one outside her hometown could possibly know.As strange occurrences ripple through the cabins, Nina finds herself drawn to the one person who doesn't treat her like she's fragile - a reckless, magnetic counselor who lives for danger and seems determined to break through the walls she's built. Their connection is undeniable. Intense. Impossible to ignore.But the more Nina opens her heart, the more the truth begins to surface.Some of her campers aren't just intuitive.They're something more.And whatever power binds them to her past may also threaten her future - especially the fragile, blazing romance she never meant to risk.When a single night changes everything, Nina must choose: keep running from the truth, or embrace the magic awakening around her - and the boy who might be the key to surviving it.Drops of Sunshine is a sweeping YA paranormal adventure filled with first love, buried secrets, and a touch of dangerous magic. Perfect for readers who crave emotional stakes, mysterious powers, and a sweet romance that burns as bright as it heals. McCool, Daryl A. (illustratore).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Short Horror Tales omnibus featuring 3 chilling stories.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Short Horror Tales omnibus featuring 3 more chilling, bloody stories.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Mediterranean noir with a comic twist.' - Mainsail Books 'Joyful, uplifting, and tinged with bliss.' - Sun SentinelRoy Groves has led a colourful career in business, during which he battled with corporate politics, deception, and even vicious criminals. But now Roy has retired and he is looking forward to a quieter life. He and his wife, Donna, have bought an apartment in an exclusive development on Spain's Costa del Sol. He soon learns, however, that there are financial problems: the community is, in effect, bankrupt. Roy is persuaded to take on the role of president of the community, confident that, with his extensive business experience, he should easily be able to sort things out. It soon becomes clear, however, that nothing is as simple as it seems. As he tries to come up with a rescue plan, Roy discovers that a poorly-constructed retaining wall has begun to collapse, threatening the development with a landslide. And this is just the start. As the problems mount up, one after the other, Roy becomes entangled with an astonishingly diverse cast of characters: the devious building developer; the vengeful former President; the Russian prostitute, and her mafia minders; the deranged Middle-Eastern doctor; the devastatingly glamorous French girl who moves in next door; and many more. Horizontal Living is an illuminating insight into the shenanigans which pervade an ex-pat community abroad: sometimes hilarious, sometimes hard to believe, but sometimes darkly disturbing.Scroll up and grab a copy of Horizontal Living today.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Havana keeps secrets. Some are whispered behind closed doors; others remain buried for years, waiting for the moment when they can finally come to light.In The Secrets of Candela and Other Stories of Havana, award-winning author Betty Viamontes brings together stories of love and betrayal, loss and hope, hunger and survival, spanning different eras in a city transformed by the Revolution-and by the lives of those who remained behind.Through these pages move unforgettable characters: a woman whose beauty and ambition conceal secrets capable of destroying a family; young people willing to risk their lives at sea in search of freedom; an elderly woman who trades the roses from her garden for a little chicken to feed her family; and a widow who waits for hours beneath the scorching sun for a simple pizza, until the weight of everything she has lost finally catches up with her.Through their stories, Viamontes takes us inside the homes, streets, and neighborhoods of Havana, where scarcity exists alongside generosity, sorrow alongside humor, and despair alongside the stubborn determination to keep going. Here, too, are the small things that survive history's great upheavals: a shared meal, a memory, a song, a love, a friendship, or the dream of a different life.More than a collection of stories, The Secrets of Candela and Other Stories of Havana is an intimate portrait of a city and of generations of Cubans shaped by history, but never defined solely by it.A tribute to the human spirit in the face of adversity, this collection captures the soul of Havana-its beauty, its sorrow, its contradictions, and its unbreakable will to survive.'Betty Viamontes's stories are like Noah's Ark, gathering every 'specimen' to preserve for posterity the portrait of a people cast toward an uncertain destiny.'-Margarita Polo.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Running for his life was normal for Ru, just part of living in Hexal City.Running with Nthanda and uncovering a plot to destroy both Nthanda and Ru's long-lost family Not normal at all.Just meant Ru had to kick ass and fight for his future. And that the future might be brighter than Ru ever expected.Always providing he and Nthanda survived long enough to have a future together.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Nuestros actos automáticos son, en esencia, los que definen más del noventa por ciento del éxito de nuestro futuro. Felipe Montenegro, autor de Felicidad en Piloto Automático, devela algunos secretos ocultos detrás de la ciencia, la felicidad y el cerebro y nos enseña cómo conseguir configurar, mejorar y elegir nuestro propio destino, interiorizándonos en contenidos como: .- La fuerza que impide lograr lo que uno se propone: Cómo identificarla y vencerla.- Modificación del estado de piloto automático y su aplicación a nuestro favor.- Reconocimiento del poder interior, liberación del mismo de manos del inconsciente, y cómo empezar a usarlo en beneficio propio.- Construcción del hábito de la felicidad, transformando positivamente el crecimiento personal y el de nuestra familia.Felicidad en Piloto Automático es, finalmente, la evolución de la elección y la creación del concepto de 'Felicidad Inconsciente; no es cambiar la vida, es cambiar tu vida.' Los contenidos de neurociencia y motivación de este libro son reconocidos y respaldados aquí por dos respetadas personalidades, como son el dr. Manuel Fruns (Neurólogo y PhD en Neurobiología) y Gonzalo Iglesias (Ex Gerente General de Coca Cola Chile y México).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From a USA Today bestselling author!Good fences make good neighbors. especially if your neighbor is a goat.Eden Andrusek knows she should have fixed her fence last week. It's too bad her runaway goat makes a less-than-ideal first impression on her new neighbor, who turns out to be cute, brilliant. and a little uptight.Solar architect Jacob Riehl is furious when he returns outside to find a goat eating his presentation. As someone who likes everything in its place, he has little sympathy for a farm animal in the city or its tattooed owner, but there's something about the lovely Eden that captures his attention.What will it take to win over a man whose only pet was a goldfish And how long can Jacob and Eden go without addressing the goat in the room.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Basking in beaches, sunshine, old friendships, and the south coast summer breeze, this is the second book in Dianna's heartfelt romance series set in Cornwall, about loving big, living big, and trusting big. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith. Pippa knew her life had all but ended seven months ago, when she answered the phone call no one ever wants to receive: her husband had been in a fatal car accident. Left physically and mentally disabled, David now sits in a care home while she struggles to keep herself together as she brings up their three kids. And on top of the grief, there's the guilt. she should be there for him, too. One Christmas alone, one Valentine's, one spring, and now summer's nearly over. Can she face it all again Jimmy's known Pippa since before they were teens. Best friends with her younger brother and two years her junior, she's never had eyes for him, and when she fell in love with David, Jimmy finally accepted she would never be his. In fact, he swore off committed relationships altogether, for his path took him down a different route. No one needs to be burdened with the cross he chose to bear. But his torch for Pippa never went out. And maybe someone, somewhere, knows it, for words scribbled down and said out loud in a moment of desperation, might just be working their magic, about to shine a light on everything they could have . if they're prepared to take a leap of faith.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When the tourist showboat The Branson Beauty runs aground on an Ozark lake, new sheriff Hank Worth is responsible for getting all the passengers off safely, which he does-all save one. He finds a murder victim in the captain's dining room, a beloved local athlete who wasn't even supposed to be on the boat. Now Hank must unravel her movements and hunt down her killer while navigating the cutthroat politics and dark secrets of the small town that he now calls home. In her first Sheriff Hank Worth mystery, Claire Booth weaves together a riveting crime novel with her signature combination of empathy and wit.'Touches of sly humor add appeal to Booth's standout debut . . . Betrayals within the sheriff's department and issues left unresolved hint at much more to come in what promises to be a most engaging regional police series.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review)'Former crime reporter Booth imbues her fast-moving narrative, which celebrates its Ozarks setting, with humor and humanity. A promising debut.' - Booklist'Former crime reporter Booth's debut introduces an engaging cop with wonderful family appeal.' - Library Journal'Claire Booth hits the ground running in this debut novel set in the Missouri Ozarks. She writes with the assurance and clarity of a more seasoned pro.' - Edgar award-winning author Margaret Maron'This contemporary take on a locked-room puzzle is chilling, compelling and completely entertaining, and Claire Booth is a wonderful new voice in crime fiction.' - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony, & Macavity winner.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE BI BOOK AWARD 'Home is the structure you build when nowhere else will have you,' writes Ann Tweedy in this gutsy, no-nonsense collection of poems built on a precarious and often tender journey through homes no longer available to return to. The result is neither sadness nor nostalgia; it is hard, clean narrative of self-preservation and survival, fitted with unexpected joy. I feel such kinship with these poems, their testament to the strength and determination of women and men who struggle to build life anew, and to find home and happiness in a world of travail. What a blessed space this book is: a home for the wayward soul.>Ann Tweedy's first book is a brave and honest examination of liminality. In delicate lyrics she confesses to trespass, asking readers to question the boundaries between acts and identity, sexuality and family. The Body's Alphabet documents the poet's courage, living openly as a bisexual feminist. Although childhood logic taught her that 'home is the structure / you build when nowhere else will have you,' these beautiful poems knit and nest safe haven for a life spent gathering freedom.-Carol Guess, author of Doll Studies: Forensics What made me sit down and read The Body's Alphabet, cover to cover, in a single evening Perhaps it is the way that I know, in Ann Tweedy's poems, I will find the unvarnished truth, and a voice with 'the drowsed freedom to talk about anything.' And I know I will find that truth compassionately rendered, details delicately arranged like the flowers of the 'dutiful and stubborn' forsythia of which she writes. This is a book about finding homes for ourselves-homes for our adult selves, even as complex memories of our childhood homes still live inside us; homes for our bodies; homes in the natural world. Tweedy's vision is both hopeful and wise.-Katrina Vandenberg, author of Atlas and The Alphabet Not Unlike the World.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - HUNGER WILL BRING ANYTHING TO THE SURFACE .The Eskimo people of Greenland have grown tired of the damage being done to their country. Global warming from emissions that stem from the shipping lanes that run between Canada and Greenland has made people that live close to the coast sick. Cancer, asthma and as many as 5,000 deaths a year have been attributed to this pollution. A single cargo ship in one year burns more emissions than 50 million gasoline burning vehicles.When Akutak, a Greenlandic Shaman Eskimo, decides to take action against the things that are destroying his country, he uses the ancient arts and creates a tupilak and with it and conjures a curse. Designed in the form of an octopus, this Goliath is going to become Greenland's guardian and do everything within its power to stop the erosion of the ice sheet.But not everyone sees the Tupilak Octopus as a champion and they seek to destroy it. But the only way to destroy it is to conjure something more powerful and Akutak may be Greenland's most powerful shaman.This novelette is part of the Cli-Fi movement and contains stunning facts surrounding Greenland and the danger this beautiful country faces from big oil to overused shipping lanes. Akutak and his Tupilak Octopus has one message: leave Greenland alone! - Read this highly educational novel with a great fiction story intertwined within the startling facts.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Will humanity be the next race to be enslaved Held prisoner by a vicious alien whose race is determined to conquer the galaxy, Zack wakes to find that he is cut off from everything. Zack must figure out a way to escape his captors and a prison full of dangerous aliens to get back to his ship. Did his friends even know he was still alive Kaylan commands the Athena, Earth's most advanced spaceship. The crew is far from home and caught in an intergalactic war. The Boxans demand that they leave the star system, Xiiginn warships are hunting them, and the Athena is hopelessly outclassed. Kaylan must choose between leaving Zack to his fate or risk the lives of the crew for the slim chance of rescuing him. Kladomaor can't let the Humans fall into the hands of the Xiiginns. The Boxans have been at war with the Xiiginns for years and they were losing. The Humans might be the key to their salvation, but only if he can bring them before the High Council and convince them to protect Earth. Their stealth ship is no match for the Xiiginn warships hunting them and if he can't get the Humans to leave soon they would all be doomed. Star Alliance is the third book in an action packed space opera series. The crew of the Athena stands upon a precipice and their next action will affect Earth for generations to come.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Based on a Sioux myth, the past and the present collide when a shaman, a green-eyed wolf, and a ghost decide it's time to end a millennia-old curse. For Charley Winters love means loss and pain. She's spent the last five years struggling with her grief. Existing, not living, dreaming of the man she lost. Drawn to Saskatchewan, she travels west to take the job she's always wanted, a Transportation Technology teacher in a high school. This is her chance to prove that a female mechanic can do the job as well as a male one, but Mother Nature has a different idea as a string of vicious tornadoes work their way through the area. Since his near-death experience, Sergeant Bill Murdock of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has dreamed of a gorgeous woman, the fantasies so real that they leave him breathless. He's convinced she needs him as much as he needs her, but he has no idea where to find her. When he's called to Fort Qu'Appelle to get a statement from the Nakoda chief about the problems they've been having with bikers, the last thing he expects is to rescue the woman of his dreams. But getting her to accept him may not be as easy as he hopes. Can Charlie set aside her memories, release the man she loved, and find happiness in the arms of another. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Meg wanted a new challenge. She got the challenge of her life and lost her heart in the process. In this sizzling new adult romance, Meg is stuck in a rut both in her personal life and in her career. She is still confident that her fate would change if she is brave enough to make out-of-the-box choices. She chooses to test her luck in Paris, and she throws herself in the middle of the most challenging experience of her lifetime. Fate is capricious, though, and trouble lies ahead. She questions the status quo and consequently, her life is at stake. She finds her way and gets involved in a torrid love story, being romanced in Paris. The man who offers her an amazing love story is exactly the man she thought she couldn't ever have. As a customer said: 'I loved this book, the genuine love story intermingles beautifully in Meg's journey of discovery. Just my type of book!' If you love sizzling romance, then this is the book for you.…