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#1 New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter’s Pretty Girls is a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives.Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.CLAIRE: A glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta mil...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series.Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth.Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites.For ...

Join two brave friends on a quest to find a legendary hero and save their village in this Minecraft epic fantasy novel full of towering castles, sweeping landscapes, and resistance!Stone Haven used to be a peaceful, prosperous place—until Raska and her army came. They promised to keep the people safe, but in exchange they took over everything. And everyone.Raska’s control is all that Wat and Sevyn have ever known. So when a traveling bard wanders into town ...

One day, Maria is reincarnated as a character in her favorite dating-sim game. As fate would have it, her favorite character and heroine, Lily, appears right before her as well?! Without so much as casting a glance toward her supposed object of desire, the Prince, Maria is overwhelmed by being so near her favorite character, Lilly. But, it turns out Maria's actually reincarnated into the character that bullies Lily in the game...?! Just when Maria thought things would end up with her being...

On the night of 30 October 2002, eight bomb blasts tore through Soweto, leaving one woman dead and damaging vital infrastructure. The bombs were the work of a far-right white Afrikaner separatist group called the Boeremag, whose stated aim was to overthrow the ruling ANC government, rid the country of black people and reinstate a new Boer-administered republic. For months before the bombings, police had been investigating the terror group and had made several arrests. In December, after an...

A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet accessible overview of Modern Standard Arabic in which the essential aspects of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. Accompanied by extensive carefully-chosen examples, it will prove invaluable as a practical guide for supporting students' textbooks, classroom work or self-study,...

Although Jewish tradition gives tremendous importance to the Hebrew Bible, from the beginning Jewish interpretation of those scriptures has been practiced with remarkable freedom. Karin Hedner Zetterholm offers a clear and concise introduction to the legal, theological, and historical presuppositions that shaped the dominant stream of rabbinic interpretation, including Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrashim, discussing specific examples of different interpretive methods. She then explores the cont...

What if radiation wasn’t your worst enemy?In the wake of a nuclear war that plunged the world into darkness, Hana searches for her father in the irradiated lands of Fairy Chimney Valley, vengeance in her heart. Her quest leads her to the underground greenhouses of the Taeyang Corporation, then to the depths of a hidden cavern where she must make a choice: trust a mysterious stranger or succumb to betrayal. But whatever choice she makes, some debts can never be repa...

Everyone knows Latte Macchiato – but what about Sangue Macchiato? When the young vampire Victoria discovers this drink at a very unusual coffee shop, she becomes curious. The coffee is delicious – and so is the outrageously attractive Barista Leon …

An inventively twisted psychological thriller from "a master of the slow build, the controlled burn" ( Chicago Tribune).In the middle of the night, a man breaks into a woman's house, finds her bedroom, and wakes her up. She's the author who could save his soul by telling his story. He's one of many characters waiting their turn—except now he's cut the line. After all, she could die soon, leaving him lost forever. He refuses to leave until she gives him a na...

This is a much-needed development from the first edition that provides an update on the theory and research on love by world-renowned scientific experts. It explores love from a diverse range of standpoints: social-psychological, evolutionary, neuropsychological, clinical, cultural, and even political. It considers questions such as: how men and women differ in their love, what makes us susceptible to jealousy and envy in relationships, how love differs across various cultures? As the neur...

Simply the Worst…Alice Cabot’s only great love is science, but a lapse in judgment has exiled the New York journalist to the glitzy Gallerias and vapid bubble-babble of Beverly Hills. The assignment to do a flattering feature series on Simply the Best and the superficial nonsense it sells threatens to crush what little is left of her spirit.Simply the Best…Pepper Addington can’t believe she’s moved up from grunt intern to personal assistant for Helene Jolie, the celebrity socialite...