Seine Augen sind so dunkel und endlos wie die Mitternacht … Nacht für Nacht quält die junge Journalistin Melanie der gleiche Traum über einen mysteriösen Fremden, der ihr mehr zu bedeuten scheint als das Leben selbst. Nichts kann ihr helfen, also beschließt Melanie, fortan die Nacht zum Tag zu machen und in den Bars der Stadt zu tanzen, bis der Morgen dämmert. Doch dann schlüpft sie in einem exklusiven Club durch eine Tür, die für normale Besucher verboten ist – und steht plötzlich dem Unbekannten aus ihren Träumen gegenüber. Sein Gesicht ist überirdisch schön, sein Herz aber kalt und hart. Dennoch ist Melanie fest entschlossen, Alexandres Geheimnis zu ergründen – und wagt sich dafür tief hinein in eine Welt aus Schatten und ekstatischen Gefühlen … Marie Fleur hingegen gehört schon lange der Welt der Nacht an – und niemals hat sie dem Mann verziehen, der sie zu diesem Schicksal verdammt hat. Als sie in New York dem Barkeeper Six begegnet, der für ihren Erzfeind arbeitet, beschließt sie, ihn zum Instrument ihrer Rache zu machen – doch Six verfolgt seine ganz eigenen Pläne … Der erste Band der berauschenden Urban-Romantasy-Saga von Ela van de Maan wird Fans von Ali Hazelwood's »Bride« und Scarlett St. Clair begeistern!
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Ein fesselnder »Second Chances«-Roman voller Überraschungen: »Beach Dreams – Eine Chance für Liebe« von C.J. Crown jetzt als eBook bei venusbooks. Wie heiß ist zu heiß …? Eigentlich schafft es kein gutaussehender Mann, Norah aus der Ruhe zu bringen – schließlich ist sie als Kellnerin im exklusiven »Diamond Club« jeden Tag von einer ganzen Horde sexy Tänzer umgeben, für die sie inzwischen nur noch ein müdes Lächeln übrig hat. Doch das ändert sich, als plötzlich der neu engagierte »Diamond Guy« vor ihr steht … denn der ist für Norah alles andere als ein Unbekannter: Was hat Kyle Thompson hier in Miami zu suchen, der Mann, der sie vor fünf Jahren vor dem Traualtar sitzen ließ? Für Norah ist klar, dass sie ihm nie wieder trauen wird, zumal Kyle immer noch ein Geheimnis vor ihr zu hüten scheint. Und trotzdem entbrennt zwischen den beiden schnell ein riskantes Spiel … Jetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: »Beach Dreams – Eine Chance für Liebe« von C.J. Crown ist auch bekannt unter dem Titel »Kyle (The Diamond Guys)« und wird Fans von Ana Huang begeistern. Lesen ist sexy: venusbooks – der erotische eBook-Verlag.
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If you want to learn cartooning from one of the modern-day masters, Drawing Cartoons Step by Step will help you take your drawing to whole new levels! Featuring 200 tutorials from Jerry King, a Reuben Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, this beginner-friendly guide takes you from your very first steps into cartooning and holds your hand through the entire process. If you've got lots of illustration ambition in your future, you can even use the tutorials within to tackle an entire graphic novel. Open the pages to discover everything from guides on drawing houses and people to animals and more. Drawing Cartoons Step by Step features fun "drawing prompts" and written instructions that make every new lesson a pleasure. It doesn't matter when you're starting—if you're completely new to cartooning or exploring something more ambitious—because Drawing Cartoons Step by Step will give you everything you need to start cartooning with skills you didn't know you had.
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Midwife and award-winning author Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, alongside illustrator Lilly Williams, celebrates the beauty and science of pregnancy and birth. This accessible and approachable book is the perfect guide for expectant parents, as well as anybody interested in knowing more about how we are brought into the world. Covering everything from contractions and fetal positioning to feeding and postnatal care, Pregnancy and Birth: A Graphic Guide emphasises the importance of physical and mental health of mothers and babies while offering a clear and concise insight into the many issues that surround this exciting, but sometimes overwhelming, stage of life.
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Bewicched: The Sea Wicche Chronicles: We here at The Sea Wicche cater to your art-collecting, muffin-eating, tea-drinking, and potion-peddling needs. Palmistry and Tarot sessions are available upon request and by appointment. Our store hours vary and rely completely on Arwyn—the owner—getting her butt out of bed. I'm Arwyn Cassandra Corey, the sea wicche, or the wicche who lives by the sea. It requires a lot more work than I'd anticipated to remodel an abandoned cannery and turn it into an art gallery & tea bar. It's coming along, though, especially with the help of a new werewolf who's joined the construction crew. He does beautiful work. His sexy, growly, bearded presence is very hard to ignore, but I'm trying. I'm not sure how such a laid-back guy got the local Alpha and his pack threatening to hunt him down and tear him apart, but we all have our secrets. And because I don't want to know his—or yours for that matter—I wear these gloves. Clairvoyance makes the simplest things the absolute worst. Trust me. Or don't. Totally up to you. Did I mention my mother and grandmother are pressuring me to assume my rightful place on the Corey Council? That's a kind of governing triad for our ancient magical family, one that has more than its fair share of black magic practitioners. And yes, before you ask, people have killed to be on the council—one psychotic sorceress aunt comes to mind—but I have no interest in the power or politics that come with the position. I'd rather stick to my art and, in the words of my favorite sea wicche, help poor unfortunate souls. (Good luck trying to get that song out of your head now.) "This story hits all the right beats for a paranormal romance, and the complicating factors make the prospect of future books enticing." ~Booklife Reviews EDITORS PICK, by Publisher's Weekly Content Warning: Bewicched: The Sea Wicche Chronicles is a contemporary fantasy novel with suspense elements about a clairvoyant witch who, among other things, helps detectives hunt a fledgling serial killer. While there are light, funny, romantic moments, there are also dark ones that may be disturbing for some readers. Warning for: death of/harm to a child, violence toward animals, visions that include graphic or explicit violence.
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I'm Arwyn Cassandra Corey, the Sea Wicche of Monterey. Want a psychic reading? Sure. I can do that. In the market for art? I have all your painting, photography, glass blowing, and ceramic needs covered in my newly remodeled art gallery by the sea. Need help solving a grisly cold case? Unfortunately, I can probably help with that too. After more than a decade of being nagged, guilted, and threatened, I've finally joined the Corey Council and am working with my mother and grandmother to hunt down a twisted sorcerer. We know who she is. Now we need to find and stop her before more are murdered. The evil the sorcerer and her demon are doing is seeping into the community. Violent crimes have been increasing and as a result Detectives Hernández and Osso have brought me another horrifying case. I'll do what I can, because of course I will. What are a few more nightmares to a woman who barely sleeps? Declan Quinn, the wicked hot werewolf rebuilding my deck, is preparing for a dominance battle with the local Alpha. A couple of wolves have already left their pack to follow Declan, recognizing him as the true Alpha. Declan needs to watch his back as the full moon approaches. The current Alpha will do whatever it takes to hold on to power, including breaking pack law and enlisting the help of a local vampire. And if Wilbur, my selkie friend is right, I might just be meeting my dad soon. Perhaps he'll have some advice for this wicche hunt. I'm going to need all the help I can get. Content Warning: Wicche Hunt: The Sea Wicche Chronicles is a contemporary fantasy novel with suspense elements about a clairvoyant witch who, among other things, helps detectives hunt a killer. While there are light, funny, romantic moments, there are also dark ones that may be disturbing for some readers. Warning for: visions that include graphic or explicit violence, murder.
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A Group of Noble Dames is a collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. All ten stories were published in serial magazines before Hardy collected them into book form. "The Duchess of Hamptonshire" and "The Honourable Laura" were written relatively early in Hardy's career, in 1878 and 1881 respectively. "The First Countess of Wessex" and "The Lady Penelope" were written in 1888-89. Hardy revised all four of these stories significantly before adding them to the collection in 1891. The remaining six stories were written in early 1890 and published in bowdlerised form in a special Christmas number of The Graphic in December 1890. Hardy collected all ten stories together for the first time in A Group of Noble Dames, which was published in England by Osgood, McIlvaine, & Co. and in America by Harper & Brothers in 1891. The critical reception of the book was mixed. Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.
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An indispensable talent or element in a writer of a book of travels is so to present every scene and object described that every reader shall seem to be present and go along with the traveler and see everything he sees and through the same eyes. The author of this book has this very desirable element of an agreeable traveler. He has enthusiasm. He has two eyes. They are both wide awake. He sees every thing seeable. His descriptions are graphic, graceful, and mirror-like, into which the reader looks and sees first the traveler himself in the foreground of the picture. Then he sees the Nile, the boat, the shores, the cities, the numerous and varied objects, moving and stationary, living and dead, passing like a panorama before the mind's eye, all the way up the Nile from Alexandria to Nubia, and back again. You seem to hear his voice describing the objects as they pass. ... Some may think there are a goodly number of idiosyncrasies. But we like to see and keep an eye on the man we are traveling with, even if we are five thousand miles apart. We advise those who would enjoy a pleasant sail up the Nile to Nubia, without its fatigues and exposures, to buy Mr. Prime's book, and borrow his eyes with which to see the scenes and objects so graphically described.
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