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Polar bear shapeshifter Russell is content with his isolated life in a small Alaskan town. That is, until the arrival of a kindergarten teacher from the lower 48 blows Russell's comfortable world to pieces. One whiff of Riley Jenkins' compelling scent, and Russ is a goner. But how can he explain all that he is to this innocent young woman...and will her own dark past prevent their fated love from turning into a happily-ever-after?

On August 6, 1993, twenty-year-old Natasha Alexenko was assaulted at gunpoint. After nearly a decade, her backlogged rape kit was finally tested and her rapist, who roamed free for ten years, was brought to justice. On the day he was sentenced, Alexenko vowed that she would no longer be a statistic and would do whatever she could to help police on behalf of other rape victims. In 2011, she founded Natasha’s Justice Project (NJP), a nonprofit committed to ending the rape-kit backlog. This unflinching memoir chronicles her journey from trauma to triumph.

Sam ran his hands along her spine, pulling her closer to his torso. Her hips arched against him. "Bobbie, I swear I'd never hurt you, never raise a hand to you. Trust me." Trust him. She'd couldn't remember ever truly trusting a man before. But she'd never felt this kind of yearning before, either, this magic connection between herself and a man. She couldn't say the words, couldn't commit to total trust. But she was committed to total lust.

Best friend Faith rescues her place on the small screen when she unwittingly lands them both starring roles in a steamy spin-off that becomes an instant hit. The new show is more about relationships, sex and stonking big vegetables than cooking. Throw in a fluctuating crush on her surprisingly irresistible agent, Harry Hipgrave, an unlikely friendship with a pair of D-list models and a gossip journalist intent on making her life miserable, Grace wonders if becoming famous is all it’s cracked up to be?

Simone Moro racconta l’eroica spedizione sull'Annapurna del 1997 che purtroppo ebbe un epilogo tragico: i due suoi compagni di cordata persero la vita travolti da una valanga di dimensioni enormi, il ghiaccio e le rocce che li investirono non lasciarono loro scampo. Diversa fu la sorte di Simone: sopravvisse miracolosamente a un volo di 800 metri e in modo quasi soprannaturale rimase praticamente illeso. Cometa sull’Annapurna è la cronaca di quei lontani giorni vissuti al limite della sopravvivenza, e della sua amicizia con Anatoli Boukreev, il grande alpinista russo morto sull’Annapurna.

Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Russia is a beautiful, complicated place. Their guide is Macha, André's daughter from a previous relationship - a woman they both love. Adventure, inspiration, good food and good vodka are promised. Once thrilled by their romance, Nicole and André have now become too used to each other. Both harbour a growing feeling of not being fully understood - of being alone.

This course focuses on the French needed for teaching, lecturing, and instruction-based roles, such as managing a classroom, giving feedback to students, arranging group work, and other topics related to learning and education. Content is presented in a topic-based fashion with French words and phrases alongside the English.

Leontyne Dennison is on a love hiatus. And that’s just fine, because perfectionist Leo is hyperfocused on the success of her family’s Berkshires inn. Volunteering for Rose Bend’s annual spring festival is certain to boost business—and provide the perfect distraction from men—until Leo comes face-to-face with Owen Stafford, the hottest one-night stand of her life.

When the man who wants to marry you and the man you want to marry are not the same, what happens next? And when the past is revealed, your secrets confessed, who will protect you?

This police officer romance trilogy contains three steamy standalone stories. Each book focuses on one of the three Baker Brothers - Nick, Nate, and Noah.

Simone Veil accepte de se raconter à la première personne. Personnage au destin exceptionnel, elle est la femme politique dont la légitimité est la moins contestée, en France et à l'étranger ; son autobiographie était attendue depuis longtemps. Elle s'y montre telle qu'elle est : libre, véhémente, sereine.Avec la participation exceptionnelle de l'auteur pour la lecture du premier chapitre "Une enfance niçoise"

Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, public prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when 12 heavily armed men pull out guns and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a man whose life - and family - have been destroyed by Hoogsmart’s actions. With the police looking on from outside - their colleagues’ lives at stake - and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill from sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation.

Glück ist mehr als ein Gefühlszustand – es ist eine Gehirnfunktion, ein physiologischer Prozess, der sowohl Nährstoffe benötigt als auch produziert. Letztere sind enorm wichtig für weitere Abläufe im menschlichen Organismus. Man kann also sagen: Man braucht ein gesundes Gehirn, um sich glücklich zu fühlen, und ein glückliches Gehirn, um körperlich gesund zu sein. Um diesen Kreislauf anzukurbeln und aktiv zu halten, hat Neurowissenschaftler Dr. Daniel Amen sieben Strategien entwickelt, mit denen jeder den eigenen Glücks- und Gesundheitszustand verbessern kann.

Grieving ER nurse Nessa Hunt is on a road trip with her sullen teen half-sister, Ivy, and still reeling from her mother’s deathbed confession: Nessa’s dad wasn’t really her dad. Seeking answers, they arrive in Rose Bend to find a small town teeming with the kind of Christmas cheer Nessa usually avoids. But then she meets the innkeeper’s ruggedly sexy son, Wolfgang Dennison.

Sydney Collins left the small Berkshires town of Rose Bend eight years ago, grieving her sister’s death - and heartbroken over her parents’ rejection. But now the rebel is back - newly divorced and newly pregnant - ready to face her past and make a home for her child in the caring community she once knew. The last thing she needs is trouble. But trouble just set her body on fire with one hot, hot smile.

Après quarante-deux ans d'absence, Léa revient dans la maison de sa grand-mère à Sainte-Flavie. Entre les murs qui ont abrité ses seuls étés heureux, elle retrouve l'odeur de la confiture de fraises, les marches qui craquent, et surtout, les lettres jamais envoyées de Simone qui l'a attendue jusqu'à son dernier souffle.

The show for you to put on in the background, so can we get things done together. This season, we "unpack" while I pack to move from LA to Barcelona. Each episode, a friend joins me to box up my life in LA while we share stories, laughs, and honest conversations about creativity, music, and life transitions. So get your task ready, and lets get ahead together!

After being left at the altar by her cold and brilliant professor, Church Cason, Charlotte Tenpenny had to leave school to take care of her younger brother. But a fateful night brings Church—and his delicious, drugging kisses—back into Charlotte's life. And it stirs up a reckoning years in the making. . .

Charlotte’s captor, Finchby, is dead. But his accomplice, Baxter, is still loose, hell-bent on revenge against her father, Klempner. Is this the calm before the storm? Where is Baxter? And what is he doing?

When Ivy Leavold ran away from Markham Hall on her wedding day, she knew that it wasn't the end. But what she didn't count on were the surprises, betrayals and horrors that awaited her outside of Mr. Markham's world. As for Julian Markham, he is determined to find his bride and win her back, but when the sins of his past return with a vengeance, can he keep her safe from the most dangerous thing of all—himself?