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When Ellery moved to New York with her boyfriend, she thought they’d live happily ever after in their small New York apartment. She never thought he’d pack his bags and leave because he “needed space”. With her newfound single status and fear of being alone, Ellery buries herself in her artwork and paintings until one night she helps a mysterious intoxicated stranger get home safely. Little did she know the mysterious stranger is none other than CEO and millionaire Connor Black.

I had a plan to get through senior year. Get good grades, stay busy with clubs, don’t forget to carve out time for Mom and Hannah, and most importantly, stay far, far away from Landon Atwater. That plan collapsed at the end of summer when my mom announced her surprise engagement… to Landon’s father. Now, I have to live with the jerk who has spent years tormenting me. At school, I could make sure we weren’t in the same classes and turn the other way if I saw him in the halls, but avoiding him gets a lot harder when I’m living in his seaside mansion.

The Original Hypnotic Gastric Band (2010) International Best-selling Hypnosis Audio. Weight loss can become easier with the help of this Original Hypnotic Gastric Band Audio. Benjamin Bonetti is one of the world's best-selling hypnotherapists. His advanced hypnotic technique sends positive messages to your subconscious so you can accomplish your goals.

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications.

They call them the Serpents. Knox, Mason, Silas. These sick, twisted psychos are the untouchable elites at Cinderhart Academy. I'd never get involved with such dangerous guys despite how gorgeous, rich, and influential they are. But after I witness them committing a sadistic crime, I'm dragged kicking and screaming into their dark, depraved world. If they plan to break me, they're late to the party.

The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration - in art and word - of nearby nature and its wonders. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrations by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book evokes the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages. Across a rich and vivid natural soundscape, Edith Bowman, Guy Garvey, Cerys Matthews and Benjamin Zephaniah, iconic voices of modern Britain, bring the magic of nature and language to listeners.

Eliza Chapman has never been good enough. Not to get into drama school, not to hold down a boyfriend, not even to be her insufferable brother’s PA. But that’s about to change. Eliza’s enrolled as an entertainment host on a six-month Caribbean cruise, where the motto is “work hard, play hard”. Determined not to repeat the mistakes of her past by mixing work with romance, she swears herself off men completely.

À 33 ans, Iris trimballe sa vie dans une valise. Théo, 18 ans, a peu de rêves, car ils en foutent partout quand ils se brisent. À 74 ans, Jeanne regarde son existence dans le rétroviseur. Rien ne les destinait à se rencontrer. Quand le hasard les réunit sous le même toit, ces trois êtres abîmés vont devoir apprendre à vivre ensemble. La jeune femme mystérieuse, le garçon gouailleur et la dame discrète se retrouvent malgré eux dans une colocation qui leur réserve bien des surprises.

A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of the novel, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of "terminal cases", The World According to Garp.

Floella Benjamin was just a young girl when she, her sister and two brothers arrived in England in 1960 to join their parents, whom they had not seen for 15 months. They had left their island home of Trinidad to make a new life in London—part of a whole generation of West Indians who were encouraged to move to Britain and help rebuild the country after the Second World War. Reunited with her mother, Floella was too overwhelmed at first to care about the cold weather and the noise and dirt from the traffic.

The continuing adventure of Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot, characters first introduced on television in Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977), who have become Infernal Investigators, solving mysteries involving paranormal or alien phenomena in 1880s London. This release features four full-cast audio dramas plus a behind-the-scenes documentary.

Imagine a 1980s world of sumptuous hotel rooms, restaurants, New York City penthouses, and the powerful men who move easily between these pinnacles of luxury. They are music producers, rock stars, writers, and restaurateurs. They are household names like Billy Joel, Art Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, and Sting. And yet, each man has an entire aspect to his life that he doesn’t talk about publicly—his depression, his rocky marriage, his feelings of shame and failure, his private loss of faith. And now: The phone rings. Imagine the woman who has each of these men at her beck and call.

Dix ans après avoir obtenu leur diplôme, cinq anciens camarades de fac se réunissent pour le week-end dans un chalet au beau milieu des montagnes Catskill. Ces retrouvailles ne sont pas un enterrement de vie de garçon, contrairement à ce qu'ils affirment, mais plutôt une tentative pour empêcher l'un d'eux de sombrer dans l'addiction. Après le suicide présumé de leur amie Alice, ils sont bien décidés à ne pas laisser survenir un nouveau drame.

Nahe Familienmitglieder sterben, der Welt geht es auch nicht so gut, das letzte Glas Alkohol wird getrunken und die letzte Zigarette geraucht. Und doch färbt Martin Suter sich noch immer nicht die Haare. Wer auch in schwierigen Situationen und Kippmomenten des Lebens noch lacht, meint es wirklich ernst mit dem Humor.

This is Benny's story—of how his faith and the faith his friends placed in him, turned him from a hard-core heroin addict into a restaurant boss. But it is more than a story of a wasted youth—it is also a primer for young people who have the idealism and drive to start businesses that can help society and make the world a kinder place.

Born on the night of the nation's independence, Gimme Lao is cheated of the honour of being Singapore's firstborn son by a vindictive nurse. This forms the first of three things Gimme never knows about himself, the second being the circumstances surrounding his parents' marriage, and the third being the profound (but often unintentional) impact he has on other people's lives.

A publishing sensation in the 1970s and 1980s, Son of Singapore traces the extraordinary upbringing of an Everyman. As a Teochew farm boy coming of age during the Japanese Occupation, Tan Kok Seng enters the "university of the world" at only 15, becoming a coolie at the Orchard Road market. On his rounds to the homes of the "Red Hairs", he befriends a group of Chinese dialect-speaking Caucasians who inspire him to improve himself beyond his humble roots.

When enigmatic scientist Lyon Avidin walks into a world of supernatural murders and unearthly forces, he must confront not only the evil killer but also his newly found mate, the brilliant Dr. Alexandra King. A forgotten past entwines their destinies; they must race against time to thwart a ruthless foe who has utilized Lyon's groundbreaking nanobot technology for sinister ends.

Me llamo Chloe Handley, soy abogada y vivo en Manhattan. La llamada de una mujer desconocida y los deseos de mi jefe por enviarme a una delegación europea hacen que mi vida dé un giro de... muchos grados. Londres es mi destino. Y también un odioso médico con los ojos de color miel que se convierte en el responsable de que una parte de mi vida gire unos cuantos grados más. De la otra parte, se encarga una herencia, una escalera traicionera, un taxi robado y una bruja... como la de los cuentos. Y también un precioso pueblo al sur de Inglaterra.

Ein beliebter Draufgänger und ein neuer geheimnisvoller Mitschüler, der ihm den Kopf verdreht. Die mitreißende Gay Romance, die die Herzen berührt. Niklas hat alles, wovon jeder 18-Jährige träumt: Freunde, mit denen man Spaß haben kann, eine Familie, die immer hinter ihm steht, und noch dazu jede Menge Follower auf Social-Media. Sein Leben scheint perfekt zu sein. Zumindest, wenn man nur die Videos kennt, die er online hochlädt. In Wahrheit ist Niklas der reinste Chaot. Auch seine Noten lassen zu wünschen übrig.