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Cirrine was perfectly content biding her time, waiting for the right opportunity to secure her place in Hell until an unwelcome summons ruined everything. Stripped of her powers, she’s forced into the unthinkable: trusting her fate to a mortal. After losing his family years ago, Hunter’s failure to avenge their deaths gnaws at him day after day. All he wanted was a few more coins to help drown out the painful memories. Tracking down a runaway princess should’ve been easy money.

There's been a brutal murder in the Surrey countryside and it's DC Kate O'Connell's first case. Will it also be her last? Kate was driven to become a detective following the tragic murder of her aunt when she was a teenager. Memories of that unsolved case, and how she handled it, hang over her to this day. But Kate is keen to prove herself to her superiors and fights to break through the lies that surround this new victim’s life. Meanwhile, the chilling nature of the murder dredges up those disturbing memories, and Kate begins to wonder if there's a link between the two cases.

Le mois qui suit l'accouchement est l'un des plus beaux moments de la vie d'une femme. Ces semaines sont pourtant éprouvantes pour la mère comme pour le nouveau-né : manque de sommeil, fatigue, douleurs, baby blues... Les jeunes mères se retrouvent souvent seules, les émotions à fleur de peau, pour affronter une phase de bouleversements. Cette période représente un enjeu majeur pour la santé future de la mère. Dans de nombreuses cultures, elle fait ainsi l'objet de soins adaptés (bandage du bassin, massages, conseils en nutrition...).

Juliette a un amoureux, un appartement, un bon job et trente-et-une paires de chaussures. Mais toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin : du jour au lendemain elle se retrouve célibataire, chômeuse et sans logement ! Elle déprime pendant des jours devant Gossip Girl en engloutissant des kilos de Chococookies. Jusqu'à ce qu'une série de quiproquos rocambolesques la contraigne à affronter sa plus grande terreur, l'avion, et à s'envoler pour les Maldives à la poursuite de son ex et de sa mystérieuse nouvelle copine. Evidemment, là non plus, les choses ne tournent pas comme elle l'avait imaginé.

Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances - blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects - hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook - as precious icons.

As their son Henry gets married, Doc and Carrie have sent their last little fledgling off to fly and are ready to follow their bliss together as a couple. The whole Baumgartner clan has now welcomed Doc and Carrie's latest romantic interest, Jody, a changeable, charming Southern belle whose colloquialisms keep everyone delightfully amused. While Carrie's love for Jody goes way back, now Doc has fully embraced her, too - in so many ways.

Our Miss Brooks was a situation comedy show heard on radio and seen on television and in films starring Oscar winner Eve Arden. Her skill with the wicked one-liner and acid aside had begun to lead to typecasting, so, to find a new image, Arden signed on for the lead in radio's Our Miss Brooks. The series centered on Connie Brooks, a smart, sharp-witted, lovable English teacher at fictional Madison High School.

For the first time in years, Carrie Baumgartner doesn't have any chicks in the nest - all the fledglings have flown the coop, and she's finally got her sexy, energetic husband all to herself! Doc suggests they take advantage of this newfound freedom, and his adventurous wife has no objections. She intends to enjoy their little nest: preferably in every room, in every position they can possibly imagine. But an empty house has its echoes.

Selena Kitt's Power Play where those uber-hot alpha authority figures take full advantage of their status to strike up all sorts of sexy naughtiness with their subordinates!

When her new neighbor Gina moves in, shy Nancy gets invited to her pool party, but she isn't quite ready for all the attention she gets in the bikini that Gina's loaned her. And she definitely isn't ready for that drunken, crazy point in the party when everyone abandons their bathing suits altogether! Nancy hides in a cabana until Gina comes to find her and slowly and deliciously convinces her that being naked isn't such a bad thing after all!

Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell. When her mother died, she was three months old and she was sent to live in Knutsford, Cheshire with her Aunt Hannah, this setting would become the basis for her novel Cranford.

Bataille pour choisir les vêtements, crise d'envie au supermarché, répétition des gestes interdits... Entre un et cinq ans, les enfants peuvent avoir des comportements face auxquels les parents se sentent démunis. Certains y voient des manifestations d'opposition ou d'insolence, d'autres culpabilisent inutilement. Pourtant, des explications scientifiques, issues de la neurophysiologie et de la psychologie expérimentale, permettent d'éclairer, de comprendre, ces attitudes.

The Rose and Thorn trilogy continues in Pure White Rose. I'm no longer Harlow Granger, aspiring ballerina. Now, I am Thorn's Rose. His newest conquest. His toy. I've fallen for the man who has stolen my life from me, and I hate myself for it. But how am I supposed to fight these feelings? Thorn is dominant yet caring, controlling yet kind. I'm falling in love despite my best efforts. But I can't let this happen. I can't become the toy of a powerful man. I have hopes, dreams. And I'm going to pursue them.

The year is 1897, and gifted violinist Reuven Bloom is fifteen years old. Life for the Jews in Russia is very hard. First Reuven’s best friend is captured to serve in the Tsar’s army, and then his parents and older sister are murdered. Reuven’s dreams of music must be set aside. Now he has...

Ever since the brutal murder of her aunt, Kate O’Connell always wanted to be a police detective. On her first day on the Surrey Murder Team, Kate is thrown into the deep end. A local businessman has been murdered. Ritually sacrificed in a local forest. Partnered with the disgraced Nathan, they strive to hunt down the killer before he strikes again.

D'abord, courtiser le Roi des Ombres. Puis l'épouser. Enfin, le tuer et récupérer son royaume... Personne ne connait l'étendue des pouvoirs du Roi des Ombres, fraîchement couronné. Certains disent qu'il peut contrôler les ombres qui errent autour de lui et les manipuler à sa guise. D'autres que les ténèbres lui murmurent les secrets de ses ennemis.

Tuck yourself in tight, you are in for one sinister paranormal journey. Twenty-six sections of ghostly sightings to keep you up past dawn. Hospitals are where we go to feel better or to mend our bodies. Unfortunately sometimes we don’t survive our stay. Even more so...on occasion we linger. We have collected the most gripping real ghost stories from staff, visitors, and patients who have seen, felt, or heard unexplainable paranormal events at hospitals.

Des personnages qui avancent obstinément... Comme des petites tortues entêtées qui apprendraient à danser lentement, lentement, dans un monde trop rapide, trop violent.

In "Airport Heaven" a lesbian couple enjoy role-play, while "Hen Party" involves two women who make their own entertainment when they get stuck on a dull weekend away. In "The Train Ride", two women are drawn to each other on a long journey, and "Backstory" explores what happens when a woman asks her boyfriend to get it on with another man. Finally, in "Office Politics", a feisty office worker gets more than a telling off when she's called to her female boss' office.

The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on the blustery outer deck of which stands Futh: a middle-aged, recently-separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. After an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barman at a family-run hotel in Hellhaus, Futh sets out on his week-long circular walk along the Rhine. As he travels, he contemplates his childhood, a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour, his parents’ broken marriage and his own.