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Moving between Ireland, Scotland and London, Something About Her is a story about the fragility and transformative power of first love. With vivid insight and tenderness, it exposes the fear, hope, and longing that can consume us, particularly when there’s so much you still don’t know about love, about life, and about yourself.

Since aging out of the foster-care system and becoming a nurse, all I dreamed of was marrying a nice doctor and moving to a yellow two-story house in the suburbs. So how did a dangerous biker-gang criminal end up handcuffed to my bed? And why did I agree to let that animal teach me how to...ahem...do things? Wicked things. In the very same bed he’s been handcuffed to in order to keep me safe? Long story. And it didn’t end well. Now it’s time to marry my doctor fiancé and make all my former foster kid dreams come true.

Over the years with Razo, I've learned to keep my mouth shut. Learned not to fight back. Learned that talking only makes it bad...fighting only makes it worse. I shut down my feelings long ago. Because it’s the only way to survive. But then Razo sells me...to a dangerous biker with zero morals and a sick upbringing. A psycho who makes me feel like I have a flock of ravens inside my stomach. He never hesitates to remind me: I belong to him now.

When a shockingly sexy amnesia patient shows up at my hospital, he flips my heart switch on like no one ever has before. Now I'm happier than I've ever been and seriously considering a future with someone who doesn't have a past. But when the shocking truth about his real identity finally comes out...

Claire and her friends, taken by a crazy band of cultists, are treated quite well. That is, until the aliens take Claire away. She's abducted by aliens, and the first thing she wakes up to in their spaceship is more restraints. Her alien captor has to follow a strict code: Pleasure Claire, don't get involved with her emotionally, and serve his commanders by impregnating her. The code says this should be done simply, without getting attached. He's been training his whole life for this moment.

After a stalker breaks into her home, internet entrepreneur Bee Langston decides Kelly Connolly is the only man who can help her - but seeking help from the former Marine isn't easy, especially after she made a spectacular fool of herself trying to kiss the sinfully sexy bodyguard. When Kelly spots Bee weaving her way through the Houston nightspot where he's working security, all those feelings he's desperately tried to deny for his best friend's sister come flooding to the surface.

My Alien Overlords are red, massive, and determined to claim--steal? Keep? Possibly all of the above--me. Moons, I dunno. My status with the Louxos cousins is set on so, SO complicated. One night of passion with two Xalthurians changed everything. Nope! Try made everything worse. One will do anything to get me off the planet, including accepting my Hail Mary, crazy-high-stakes bet for full custody of our hybrid son. And the other one’s angry at me because I refuse to risk it all to become the MFM triad he believes me, him, and my hot-but-horrible alien baby daddy are fated to become.

Everyone thinks Colin Fairgood is exactly what his PR machine tells them - a country superstar with a killer smile and dazzling blue eyes. But I met him before his country makeover and fame. Colin has a dark side…one that takes me places I've never been. One that makes me want to do very bad things with him. One that makes me scared of him. And even more scared of myself.I don't know what kind of endgame he's running on my heart, but he's definitely playing for keeps. And if I'm not careful, he's going to win.

The very last thing Willa needs is for Sawyer Grant, the hot jock who made her life miserable in high school, to come roaring back into her life on a Harley. Too bad. The gorgeous bully is now a wounded veteran after his stint in the Navy SEALs - tortured and in need of the kind of care only she can provide with her unique gift. She's trying to keep it strictly professional with him, but he's determined to take their relationship to the next level. She knows if she lets him in, he'll ruin her life. Again.

Un an a passé depuis les événements de Justicière : le conflit entre les humains et " Ceux-qui-chantent " n’en finit pas, et nos héros peinent à se relever de leurs traumatismes. Un tome qui fait la part-belle à l’introspection psychologique des personnages, tout en explorant de nouveaux recoins du Cosmère, tel que le mystérieux monde de Shadesmar.

Him: She showed up in my dark world and pulled me into her light. Then she ran away. For six long years, she kept herself hidden from me. She is my wife. Did she really think I would just let her go? Nyet. She belongs to me, and now that I have found her, I will make her pay for destroying me. Her: He's the domineering monster I had to escape. The only place he and I work right is in bed. And now that he's found me, he's determined to take every scrap of dignity I have left. So why can't I stop wanting him?

I didn’t know true desire until the first time I laid eyes on him. Tall, dark, beautiful as a god—completely forbidden. He was the penniless son of the help born in the Lousiana bayou, and I was a pretty southern princess, cultivated like a hothouse flower to become the trophy on some well-pedigreed man’s arm.

Every server at the roadhouse I work at knows that Vengeance is a package deal. The three enforcers for the Ruthless Reapers don’t just share a job; they share you for one night if you dare to go to one of the rooms upstairs with them. Whenever they come into the roadhouse, they stare at me. Hard pass. It doesn’t matter if they make my stomach flutter and my seriously neglected nether regions stir with some very bad thoughts. But then my aunt’s boyfriend attacks me. One moment I’m calling Vengeance as a last resort. And the next I’m waking up in their bed.

Carla is an up and coming country music star when she boards a plane for Denver in the year 2014. After the plane crashes in the year 2064 she learns that nuclear war destroyed technology and unleashed a plague that devastated the female population. Even now, decades after the plague has dwindled to isolated outbreaks, women are precious commodities to be fought for, and Carla finds herself offered as the prize in a Bride Fight.

La série incontournable pour les amateurs de fantasy continue, plus haletante que jamais. Brandon Sanderson signe, une fois de plus, une œuvre vertigineuse, qui allie parfaitement un rythme épique à couper le souffle, des personnages plus vrais que nature et un univers d’une fascinante complexité.

"Vos pouvoirs viendront quand vous serez prêt, pas avant, expliqua le Père-des-tempêtes. On ne peut ni les hâter, ni les forcer. Vous possédez le pouvoir qu’Ishar détenait autrefois. Avant qu’il soit le Héraut de la Chance, on l’appelait Celui-qui-lie-les-dieux. Il fut le fondateur du Pacte Sacré. Aucun Radieux n’est capable d’accomplir davantage que vous. Votre pouvoir est celui du Lien, qui unit les hommes et les mondes, les esprits et les âmes. Vos Flux sont les plus grands de tous, mais ils seront impuissants si vous cherchez à les manier uniquement pour le combat. "

We have always been told that work defines us, and serves as the foundation of our dignity as human beings. So why, all over the world, are more and more people quitting their jobs? In recent years, we have had several opportunities to ask ourselves whether the life we are living is the one we truly desire. For many, the answer has been no. This is due to a growing unwillingness to submit to the toxic and vexatious rules imposed by many work contexts. Even prior to the pandemic, a survey conducted in 140 countries revealed that 80 percent of the employed population disliked their jobs.

Les Radieux, à l’exception de Kaladin et Lift, sont plongés dans l’inconscience et la tour d’Urithiru est tombée entre les mains des Fusionnés. Navani, prisonnière de la Fusionnée Raboniel, mène avec l’aide du sprène de la tour des expériences pour percer les secrets de la lumière. Pendant ce temps, à Shadesmar, Adolin tente une manœuvre risquée pour rallier les sprènes d’honneur à ses côtés, en acceptant d’être jugé au nom de toute la race humaine pour les crimes anciens commis à l’encontre des sprènes. L’affrontement contre Abjection se précise, mais, avant cela, l’humanité a besoin de soldats.

Lorsque Jeanne Eyrmont, la filleule de la directrice, débarque à l'internat des Pierres-Noires, elle semble apeurée, comme si elle avait vu des fantômes. Ambroise, Rose, Nadget et Milo sont bien décidés à tirer cette affaire au clair. Ce livre réunit deux nouvelles enquêtes du Club de la Pluie, Le fantôme des Pierres-Noires et Le mystère des chaussons rouges.

Un voyage saisissant dans le temps et l’espace, à travers les vicissitudes de l’immigration italienne. Un roman lumineux et réparateur.