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    A Shiver of Light (eBook, ePUB)
    I am Princess Meredith NicEssus. Legal name Meredith Gentry, because Princess looks so pretentious on a driver's license. I was the first faerie princess born on American soil, but I wouldn't be the only one for much longer... Merry Gentry, ex-private detective, now full-time princess, knew she was descended from fertility goddesses, but when she learned she was about to have triplets, she began to understand what that might mean. Infertility has plagued the high ranks of faerie for centuries. Now nobles of the both courts of faerie are coming to woo Merry and her men at their home in exile in the Western Lands of Los Angeles, because they will do anything to have offspring of their own. Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, is a more dangerous problem. He tried to seduce Merry, and failing that, raped her. He's using the human courts to sue for visitation rights, claiming that one of the children is his. And though Merry knows she was already pregnant when he took her, she can't prove it. To save herself and her babies from Taranis Merry will use the most dangerous powers in all of faerie: a god of death, a warrior known as the Darkness, The Killing Frost, and a king of nightmares. They are her lovers, and her dearest loves, and they will face down the might of the high courts of faerie - while trying to contain the war, to keep it from spreading to those innocent humans who are in very real danger of becoming collateral damage...
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    Tell Me Three Things
    A New York Times Bestseller What if the person you need the most is someone you've never met? Funny and romantic, this tug-at-your-heartstrings contemporary YA debut is perfect for readers of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart. Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that's what it feels like during her first week as a junior at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. It's been barely two years since her mother's death, and because her father eloped with a woman he met online, Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son. Just when she's thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help? In a leap of faith-or an act of complete desperation-Jessie begins to rely on SN, and SN quickly becomes her lifeline and closest ally. Jessie can't help wanting to meet SN in person. But are some mysteries better left unsolved? "Three Things about this novel: (1) I loved it. (2) No, really, I LOVED it. (3) I wish I could tell every teen to read it. Buxbaum's book sounds, reads, breathes, worries, and soars like real adolescents do." -Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time and Off the Page
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    Vengeful
    *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *2018 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION CATEGORY* *Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now* A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions-V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious. Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Great partnerships-now soured on the vine. But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she's gained the control she always sought-and will use her newfound power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She'll do whatever it takes, from taking over the mob to collecting her own sidekicks, and even leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. With Marcella's rise, new enmities create surprising opportunity-and the stage of Merit will once again be set for a final, terrible reckoning. "In Vengeful, V.E. Schwab is at the top of her game, with twisty action, oddball family pairings and unexpected antiheroes you can't help but root for." -Washington Post "Schwab's characters feel vital and real, never reduced to simple archetypes... In a genre that tends toward the flippant or pretentious, this is a rare superhero novel as epic and gripping as any classic comic. Schwab's tale of betrayal, self-hatred, and survival will resonate with superhero fans as well as readers who have never heard of Charles Xavier or Victor von Doom." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
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    I'd Rather Ingest Mistletoe Than Kiss You (Reindeer Run) (eBook, ePUB)
    When Mr. Spiritual walks into her life, she can't handle his self-righteous complex despite his best intentions to help her forgive and forget.After her brother dies in a car accident, Briana takes the stress and the trauma of losing him and finds relief in the arms of men. But this December, the time of year when her brother's death is the most painful, Briana is asked to run in the town's 5K race. She hopes to use the month of training as a distraction instead of hooking up with the next hottest guy.But her eye falls on Garrett. And Jace. Then she runs into Liam. Pretentious Liam, who seems to think he can help Briana make it through the month without succumbing to her sex addiction. Liam's desire to help Briana get over her trauma is complicated by his feelings for her, and Briana's desire to get over her trauma is complicated by her haunting anxiety. She's desperate to be in a lasting relationship, if only she can understand what real love is and conquer the anxiety that drives her from one guy to the next-one of those guys being Liam.Because Briana would rather ingest mistletoe than kiss Liam Bienkowski.I'd Rather Ingest Mistletoe Than Kiss You is a second chance, small-town, sweet Christmas romance in the Reindeer Run series, which can be read in any order! If you like a sassy heroine, an intuitive spiritual counselor, and loads of holiday fun, then you'll love this book by E.E. Everly.Grab your copy of I'd Rather Ingest Mistletoe Than Kiss You today!
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    Tell Me Three Things , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 534min
    A New York Times best sellerWhat if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met? Funny and romantic, this tug-at-your-heartstrings contemporary YA debut is perfect for listeners of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart. Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week as a junior at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. It’s been barely two years since her mother’s death, and because her father eloped with a woman he met online, Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help? In a leap of faith - or an act of complete desperation - Jessie begins to rely on SN, and SN quickly becomes her lifeline and closest ally. Jessie can’t help wanting to meet SN in person. But are some mysteries better left unsolved? “Three Things about this novel: (1) I loved it. (2) No, really, I LOVED it. (3) I wish I could tell every teen to read it. Buxbaum’s book sounds, reads, breathes, worries, and soars like real adolescents do.” (Jodi Picoult, New York Times best-selling author of Leaving Time and Off the Page) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jorjeana Marie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002000/bk_lili_002000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Right Stuff: Love in Brazen Bay, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 248min
    After being taken to the cleaners by her embezzling bigamist husband, socially awkward academic Tru Stanhope finds herself with one remaining asset: a dive bar in the podunk town of Brazen Bay. Well, half a bar. The other half is owned by the infuriatingly hot Nash McKendrick. He doesn't want to sell, and he really doesn't want his once-silent business partner to have anything to do with his one true love: the pub.Nash liked his solitary life just fine before highbrow and pretentious Tru brought trouble and her little yappy dog to darken his door. She may be an intellectual, but she knows nothing about the real world and shockingly less about men. He's pretty sure he can handle the mousy little scholar. All he had to do is to figure out what makes her tick. She's just a woman, after all. And women tend to fall all over themselves around him. He'll just lay on the charm and sweet talk her into doing what he wants and send her on her way to a life better suited for her so that he can get back to his.But Tru has different ideas. She's tired of the sheltered life she's lived until now. She wants to experience real passion, a real career, and a real purpose in life. And she's decided Nash is going to help her with all three.Author Confession: Welcome to Brazen Bay, a small town I crafted just to explore that feeling of "so wrong it's right". Nash could have any woman he wanted, so I deliberately gave him the one he doesn't want. Because, authors are evil, and I like trouble. I hope you enjoy the "opposites attract" trope as much as I love authoring it.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Raven. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167087/bk_acx0_167087_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Making You Mine: Knox and Aubrey: The Bradens & Montgomerys: Pleasant Hill - Oak Falls, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min
    Discover the magic of New York Times best seller Melissa Foster's writing and see why millions have fallen in love with the fiercely loyal and sassily sexy characters in the Love in Bloom big-family romance collection. Love in Bloom novels are written to stand alone or may be enjoyed as part of the larger series, so dive right into this fun, sexy romance featuring Graham Braden's business partner, Knox Bentley!In Making You Mine...Knox Bentley never liked the pomp and circumstance that came with being wealthy. He'd distanced himself from his pretentious family and their fortune as a young adult and found his own path to success. But even with the world at his fingertips, he realizes something is missing, and after a long stay overseas, he finally knows exactly what it is. His no-strings-attached hookups with Aubrey Stewart, an exquisite and stubbornly independent blonde, are no longer enough for him. They connect on every level, but Aubrey is a fierce businesswoman with a new movie channel on the horizon and no time for much else. She is the deal he can't close, the precious jewel even his billions can't buy. Now that he's back in the States, he's determined to show her that what they have goes beyond the bedroom and finally make her his.Love in Bloom novels feature alpha-male heroes and sexy, empowered women. They're flawed, funny, passionate, and relatable to listeners who enjoy contemporary romance and women's fiction. For avid fans of the Love in Bloom series, you may have met sexy and hilarious Knox Bentley, Graham Braden's business partner, in Trails of Love, and Aubrey Stewart, one of the badass billionaire founders of the Ladies Who Write (LWW), in Anything for Love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andi Arndt, Jason Clarke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/176032/bk_acx0_176032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Southern Gentleman: An Accidental Pregnancy Romance : Charleston Heat, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
    I knew two things when I meet my new boss Greyson Parker Montgomery III. One, he’s an egomaniac. And two, we’re going to get naked. Something I didn’t know? That I’d end up pregnant.No one is more surprised by our off-the-charts chemistry than me. I’m a free spirit with a passion for design and a taste for the bohemian. Greyson is a cocky venture capitalist who’s as pretentious as his sharply cut power suits.He owns half of Charleston, and has the other half at his beck and call. But the only place he owns me is in bed...or in the backseat of his car, boneless and begging for mercy.We argue over contracts and costs all day long. Behind closed doors, however, we engage in a different kind of business. The kind that has me surrendering to his unique brand of dominance.Our no-strings attached arrangement suits me just fine. Until I wake up one morning with what I think is a wicked hangover. Only it’s not a hangover.I thought Greyson was a typical “greed is good” grump. But when he demands to be involved in the life we accidentally created, I start to see a different side of him. One that’s more gentleman than jerk.Am I crazy to think we could be a family together? Or is making me fall for him just another one of his power plays?Southern Gentleman is a stand-alone, full-length, accidental pregnancy/enemies-to-lovers romance. The books in the Charleston Heat series are interconnected stand-alone romances, and can be listened to in any order. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Arden, Emma Wilder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/207532/bk_acx0_207532_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min
    The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream. The discovery of the quantum - the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities - planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination. Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an endless stream of photons. Phrases such as multiverse, quantum leap, alternate universe, the uncertainty principle, and Schrödinger's cat get reinvented continually in cartoons and movies, coffee mugs and T-shirts, and fiction and philosophy - phrases reinterpreted by each new generation of artists and writers. Is a quantum leap big or small? How uncertain is the uncertainty principle? Is this barrage of quantum vocabulary pretentious and wacky or a fundamental shift in the way we think? All of the above, say Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber in this groundbreaking book. The authors - one a philosopher, the other a physicist - draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding. Together, they and their students explored missteps, mistranslations, jokes, and gibberish in public discussions of the quantum. Their book explores the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace. The authors reveal the quantum's implications for knowledge, metaphor, intellectual exchange, and the contemporary world. Understanding and appreciating quantum language and imagery, and recognizing its misuse, is part of what it means to be an educated person today. The result is acelebration of language at the interface of physics and culture, perfect for anyone drawn to the infinite variety of ideas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Runnette. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006968/bk_blak_006968_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ghosted: A Paranormal Academy Romance (Manderley Academy, Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min
    Ivan, Titus, Dorien. These bad boys of baroque may play like angels, but they’re determined to make my life hell.When my mom got sick, my dreams of a career in music imploded. That is, until Madame Usher wafts into my life like a ghost from the past, offering me the chance to study at the exclusive Manderley Academy - a music school for the most gifted and wealthy.It’s an offer I can’t refuse - free room and board at the Gothic mansion where elite students immerse themselves in mastering their art. But there’s a catch, and it’s a big one.I’m her slave.I clean the rooms. I polish the piano keys. I serve her and the three pretentious a-hole guys who rule this school.I must endure their bullying in silence. Even when they destroy my things, sabotage my performances, and try their best to drive me from Manderley.Rich. Arrogant. Cruel.They won’t have the poor little charity case ruining their fun.They’ve heard me play.They know I’m a serious contender for the prestigious Manderley Prize.These broken muses aren’t used to losing, especially to the help.But they’re not the only ones haunting me.Something twisted and evil shrouds Manderley Academy. Maybe, my bullies are the least of my problems. Maybe, Dorien, Ivan, and Titus aren’t the ones behind the strange noises in the walls, the warnings scrawled on my mirror, and the gruesome murders on the school grounds.Maybe...maybe Manderley’s ghosts are real.A dark mystery unfolds around musician Faye de Winter in book one of this gripping college reverse-harem bully romance by USA Today best-selling author Steffanie Holmes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keira Stevens, J Thomas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214709/bk_acx0_214709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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