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It's the year 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend, Arthur, must leave school and go to work on the looms in the mill. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in their town, and a few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board.

Former Marine Colton Brody is trouble with a capital T. One night with him and good girls go bad. Real bad. But he's not going to let sweet Olivia Page end up another name on his hit it and quit it list. His little sister's best friend is off limits, even if her killer curves inspire an endless supply of wicked fantasy fodder. With only a few weeks until he leaves town, this bad boy is determined to resist temptation. But then innocent Olivia makes him a not-so-innocent proposal.

Ida B. Applewood is a fourth grader like no other, living a life like no other, with a voice like no other, and a family like no other, and her story will resonate long after this audiobook has ended. How does Ida B. cope when outside forces, life, really, attempt to derail her and her family and her future? She enters her Black Period, and it is not pretty.

When newscaster Mike Woodard suggests they work on a television magazine profile based on her new book, Carly’s thrilled but guarded. His obvious desire to turn their relationship into something other than just a working one is more than she bargained for. Mike Woodard is ambitious, and not only in his chosen profession. He wants Carly, maybe more than he’s ever wanted anything or anyone else. As he tells her, he’s a patient man. But the more they’re together, Mike realizes it isn’t simply desire beating within him.

With a strong jaw and chiseled abs, were-dragon Coram was impossibly attractive. And he knew it. So, when he joined cute and curvy Leanna Shire on a mission to the planet of Lacerta, he immediately sensed her attraction for him. With one eye on the task at hand, Coram was never going to pass up the chance to sleep with an attractive human woman. However, the consequences of his actions would be both a surprise and a shock for the most handsome were-dragon in the universe....

Big Cats opens with "Charlotte", in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David", a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals with the aftermath of a minor earthquake and the body of a customer who died in the lobby.

Young student Nina Wilson just wanted to have a bit of fun in Miami. But she ended up getting much more than she bargained for. When she met local billionaire Alex Conrad she immediately fell head over heels for a man who wasn't just wealthy. He was kind, charming and extremely driven too. He was perfect. And when Nina discovered she was pregnant with his child it felt like a dream come true. However, there were a lot of things about Alex that Nina had no idea about. And very soon the truth about how Alex made his first billion would be a truth that would come back to haunt both of them....

Merriwether Morgan doesn't need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is – simple, happy and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble. But Merry's best friend, Teddy, is joining the Toadmen – a secret society upholding backward thinking and suspiciously supernatural traditions – and she is determined to stop him. Even if it means teaming up with her academic arch-nemesis, Caraway Boswell, an ice-cold snob who hides his true face behind a glamour.

Peter and Abigail were childhood sweethearts whose parents did not approve of their spending time together, yet allowed it to happen due to their childrens devout ways and promise of innocence until marriage. Many years pass, and their love for each other grows with every passing year. What started out as knowing glances and cute conversations grew into hand-holding and long conversations of commitment and love.

Mansfield Mansion seemed the perfect home for Debbie and her two boys. Debbie wanted a fresh start after her divorce, and the beautiful mansion in the country seemed the perfect place for her family to start over. But the beauty of the mansion soon becomes overrun with terrifying evil that soon takes over their lives. Deadly visions appear, terrifying Debbie and the boys. Noises from beyond the grave have horrifying consequences, and physical altercations with an unknown entity have deadly results. For no one knows the horrific and deadly past that Mansfield Mansion holds, but Debbie and her family will soon find out. Can they leave Mansfield Mansion before they fall victim to the mansion's gruesome past?

One widow, one killer - who will die first? Gutsy, grieving Anna is determined to find who murdered her husband. Hampered by agonizing loneliness, her obsessive-compulsive mother, and her over-controlling father, she defies convention, and the law, to investigate on her own. When she runs up against Lee Adams, a handsome police detective who’s determined to save Anna from herself, she has to step up her rogue search for the killer, before time and dwindling leads run out.

Adelita tendrá un hermanito y eso la irrita. Todo empeora cuando nace una niña con síndrome de Down. Aunque al principio la vida en la familia es difícil, Lucero se gana el cariño de todos.

En los años noventa del siglo XX surgió la que estaba llamada a ser la máxima estrella de rock nacional... Pero no lo fue. Priscila, ejemplo de mujer desparpajada (y, sí, un poco malhablada), siempre aspiró a ser la nueva Janis Joplin, o de perdida la heredera de Alejandra Guzmán. De espíritu combativo y libre, terminó eligiendo un camino que la alejó cada vez más de los escenarios, la música, sus amigos, sus sueños. Esta es la crónica sin censura de su impetuosa juventud...

Emilia está en el limbo. Para armar el relato de sus dieciocho años acude a las instantáneas que conforman su memoria: su abuela postrada para rezar. Ella misma sentada en las piernas de un sacerdote. El día que conocía a Matías. La noche en que logró escuchar a Júpiter. Emilia quiere salir del coma pero su única vía de contacto con el exterior es también su mayor fobia: una mariposa. Ella ha visto ya tres simulacros del fin del mundo pero los jinetes del apocalipsis tienen que completar el número cuatro.

Por más de 400 años, el mundo ha sido un sinfín de tierras baldías. Los pocos seres humanos que logran sobrevivir han formado una existencia en la ruin ciudad de Pocatel, o prueban su suerte en las Forastierras, llenas de espíritus deambulantes y gudrones. No suelen durar mucho.

Vanessa lo tiene todo: una familia increíble, grandes amigos y las comodidades propias de una niña consentida. Sin embargo, a sus apenas 26 años se siente agobiada, aburrida y más encerrada que un animal salvaje en la vitrina de un zoológico, por lo que decide dejar México e irse a vivir a Miami en busca de aventuras. Ahora Vanessa tendrá que lidiar con las consecuencias de sus actos en lugar de salir corriendo, de manera que pueda probarse a ella y al mundo que no sigue siendo la misma chica mimada con diferente geografía.

Camisas azules, manos negras es un crudo testimonio que comprende nueve años de investigación de una periodista dedicada a escrutar la corrupción en Pemex, soportada con fuentes vivas y documentales de alto nivel, expedientes de auditorías clasificados como confidenciales; así como decenas de entrevistas, testimonios y recorridos por las regiones petroleras en tierra y en plataformas, además de las revelaciones de altos funcionarios de los gobiernos de Vicente Fox y Felipe Calderón, que desnudan los negocios privados de los hombres públicos.

A partir de la nacionalización de la industria petrolera, por ochenta años Pemex fue el principal sostén de la economía mexicana, una maquinaria generadora de billones y billones de dólares por la producción y venta del oro negro y sus derivados, sólo que, a pesar de ser un bien público, sus ganancias y beneficios se repartieron entre pocas manos.

Cada año 470 miembros del ejército ingresan en hospitales por diagnóstico de enfermedades mentales. ¿Qué hay alrededor de esa rotunda estadística? Este libro intenta trazar algunas respuestas a la luz del violento presente que vive el país.

Tras el éxito de Camisas azules, manos negras (caso Oceanografía) y El cártel negro, Ana Lilia Pérez regresa con el que tal vez sea el trabajo más ambicioso de su carrera: Mares de cocaína, una estremecedora investigación acerca del tráfico de drogas que se lleva a cabo en cientos de rutas náuticas a escala internacional, donde incluso algunos cárteles mexicanos ya han impuesto el pago de piso.