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England, 1914. The world is at war. Captain Hastings, injured and shaken, is invited to Styles Court to recover. It’s a grand old country house - the family home of his old friend - and a perfect haven. Or so it seems. But in the blistering summer heat, trouble is afoot. Simmering tensions are tearing the family apart, and it all comes to a head in the most horrifying way.

London, 1978. Hester is stuck; trapped in the same secretarial job for years while her older boyfriend, Julian, refuses to commit. When she's offered a role working with an exciting film producer, she sees a chance for everything to change.

After a life of pool hustling and living on the wrong side of the law, Ruby Elliott is living on the straight and narrow with sexy-as-all-hell NYPD detective, Troy Bennett. Now the only trouble Ruby has with the law is the naughty kind, pinned against the wall by Troy's strict and spectacularly hard body. But then her father returns with an offer she can't refuse: one last hustle in exchange for information. Information she'd die to have. As the pieces and the players reveal themselves, Troy feels the fine edges of his control slipping—control he can't channel without hurting Ruby.

How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks—and answers. Taking us on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras.

Kayleigh Morris is just trying to survive her first year at St. Kellum’s University. Freshers’ Week is a blur of social anxiety, parties, and the weight of trying to fit in. But when Kayleigh’s panic attack becomes the talk of the campus, she retreats into herself, shutting herself away in her room. Everything changes when she’s selected for a mysterious new module, led by Professor Lady Marian, who introduces her and a group of misfits to a psychedelic drug believed to cure anxiety and promote productivity.

Ian Gray é o CEO do hospital San Rose. Uma instituição que há anos foi criada pela sua família. Mas, por trás de sua aparência impecável e fria, esconde uma ferida que o faz se afundar em um mar de amargura. Priscilla Menezes, teve seu coração destroçado pelo homem que acreditava ser o amor de sua vida. Abandonada no altar, sem quaisquer explicações e apenas um profundo vazio. Dias depois, descobriu que estava grávida, mas ele não estava disposto a ouvi-la, nem para que contasse da filha, fruto do amor com que um dia se iludiu, pensando que duraria para sempre.

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. 

This set contains all 6 of the Wild Hunt books. Each of them is a steamy new adult fantasy romance featuring a different couple with their own happily ever after.

Ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at a secluded estate on the Yorkshire moors with a scowl and a chip on her shoulder. First, there’s Martha Sowerby, the too-cheery maid with bothersome questions who seems out of place in the dreary manor. Then, there’s the elusive Uncle Craven, Mary’s only remaining family—whom she’s not permitted to see. And finally, there are the mysteries that seem to haunt the run-down place–rumors of a lost garden with a tragic past, and a midnight wail that echoes across the moors at night.

After three long months in a new town with a new job, things aren’t going exactly to plan for Cosima Lockwood. The job? Not at all what she thought it would be. The town? Deader than ever, and just when she decides it’s time to pack up and move on, the local shape-shifter packs start closing in. Not only that, but her partner is nowhere to be seen, which robs the entire trip of its salacious prospects.

Rooming with three members of the same hockey team as their live-in PR Director could be a nightmare. But when they offer to fulfill my fantasies? Sign me up. The captain, D'Angelo, is my perfect man. Best friend, protector, and so hot it should be illegal, he's been obsessively in love with me since college. Shay has a rock star swagger and winter-gray eyes that are enough to make me melt. Sweet, intense, and tattooed, Shay's twin, Eden, is the heart of my newfoundfamily.

Los relatos de Extraños testimonios provienen de una dimensión donde la realidad parece moldeada con la misma sustancia de la que están hechos los sueños. Moviéndose por regiones inciertas, el presente audio libro ejemplifica una de las facetas estilísticas de Daína Chaviano que ella denomina "gótico caribeño." Sus propuestas formales son tan diversas como sus contenidos, trazados con una prosa sutil y feroz a la vez.

Este produto é um resumo do livro original de mesmo título. O autor, uma das maiores autoridades em Ayurveda no Brasil e um dos maiores estudiosos da Fitoterapia em nosso país nos ensina, de maneira simples, dicas preciosas de como usar as ervas brasileiras no dia a dia para aperfeiçoar nossa saúde. E, todo o conhecimento adquirido pelo autor na convivência com os melhores médicos indianos (vaidyas) que estiveram em nosso país, contido neste livro, poderá mudar a sua visão sobre a sabedoria milenar do Ayurveda - o sistema de promoção de saúde mais antigo do mundo.

The Bear family learns the importance of washing hands, brushing teeth and eating healthy by witnessing all the troubles the Rabbit family goes through.

The Bear family learns the importance of washing hands, brushing teeth and eating healthy by witnessing all the troubles the Rabbit family goes through.

I’ve been chained like a beast for a year. Collared. Muzzled. Left to rot in a dungeon beneath the palace of my enemy. But when his sister, a curvy little princess, offers me freedom in exchange for a favor, I listen. She needs a dragon to fly her across the Poison Desert to save her dying mother. And I need her blood to Shift. But not just any bite will do.

Lerne die Manning Brüder in dieser heißen Kleinstadt-Cowboy-Reihe der USA Bestsellerautorin Vanessa Vale kennen! Eine Junggesellenversteigerung. Ich nahm an einer beschissenen Junggesellenversteigerung teil. Ich war keine Kuh. Ein Bulle definitiv. Als die Ladies zu bieten anfingen, sah es übel aus. Bis sie das höchste Gebot abgab. Die Eine, die ich wollte. Die Frau, die mir erst am Vortag das Knie in die Nüsse gerammt hatte. Yeah, ich stand auf eine Frau, die nichts mit mir zu tun haben wollte. Ich war wie besessen.

Debbie Mullen está furiosa. Há anos ela oferece seus melhores conselhos na coluna Querida Debbie, para a qual mulheres escrevem em busca de soluções para problemas do dia a dia. Em seu trabalho, Debbie ouve inúmeras esposas que são ignoradas, menosprezadas e até mesmo agredidas pelo marido. E sempre faz o possível para lhes apontar um caminho. Mas ultimamente sua própria vida está saindo do controle. As duas filhas adolescentes estão se comportando de forma estranha. Ela acabou de ser demitida.

Diana har alltid tyckt ”ju fler desto bättre”, men har sexuellt hållit sig till en enda man alldeles för länge. Så när hon oväntat får besök av en främmande man är hon inte sen att bjuda in honom till gemensamma lekar. Att männen hittar varandra är en välkommen bonus. Lustgatan...

Alba har aldrig varit intresserad av att dela sin sexualitet med någon annan. Hon får ut det hon behöver av att lyssna och tjuvkika på sina utsvävande rumskamrater. Tills en kväll då hon upptäcker att någon har spanat in henne också. Lustgatan 6 är en somrig, het novellserie om vad...