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In the 1940s and '50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.

Som baby bliver Carmel fundet i parken til godset Commonwood House. Her bliver hun plejebarn hos familien Marline, en vanskelig position, der ikke bliver bedre af, at husets frue øjensynligt hader hende fra første øjekast. Efter en dødbringende tragedie på Commonwood House bliver Carmel sendt bort til Australien, hvor den varmhjertede onkel Toby giver hende den tryghed, hun så desperat higer efter.

Every personal dream and aspiration - their lifelong study and achievement - is about to culminate in one unfathomable moment for Chris and Becky. Partnering to share a private lab for their personal research, two powerful minds brilliantly intersect where experimental biology and chemistry meet. Together, they formulate a chemical solution with the power to change every facet of life on Earth for every culture and every country: a solution with the ability to grow breast tissue at a rapid rate upon human ingestion.

Welsh brawn, all black mystique, South African power, Australian courage, Celtic grit, English resolve: all have given us occasions to remember. Moments of courage and resistance, moments of passion and pride. Moments when a flash of brilliance or collective determination helped turn the game one way or another. Moments when the best proved they are the best, and times when the unsung had their moment in the spotlight. These are rugby's greatest moments.

When rancher Reece Halliday met the new manager of his fetish club, Rawhide, he was shocked to see Katie Warren, the woman he'd loved and lost because of his sexual preferences. But a lot of time has passed and Katie has discovered the lure and satisfaction of BDSM - including the pleasurable sting of the single tail whip. Will Reece be able to lure her back into his arms - and bed - when he cracks the whip during their private sessions?

“It was meant to be play acting,” said Whittaker. “But when someone is shot dead, on the stage in front of an audience, then it becomes an act of murder.”

Lilly Claremont is well used to being at the center of gossip. Being the illegitimate child of a rich businessman never failed to titillate the gossips, and while she cared little about the wagging tongues, she never intended to reinforce their opinions of her by ruining herself completely.

I Annalice Mallorys släkt har det funnits många berömda personer. Upptäcktsresande, vetenskapsmän. Och just därför är också deras herrgård fylld av märkliga, fascinerande föremål. En dag hittar hon en sekelgammal dagbok som förtäljer om en mystisk ö. På ön ska det visst ha inträffat ett skeppsbrott. Om man kan hitta det gamla skeppet så kommer man också att bli rikligt belönad.

Timothy is on probation. It's a strange word - something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is under house arrest for the next year. He must check in weekly with a probation officer and a therapist and keep a journal for an entire year. And mostly, he has to stay out of trouble. But when he must take drastic measures to help his struggling family, staying out of trouble proves more difficult than Timothy ever thought it would be.

Skjulte skatte. Mystiske haendelser. Mørke hemmeligheder. Anna Brett frygter, at hun er dømt til at vaere en guvernante for andres familier resten af hendes liv. Men da den flotte kaptajn Redvers Stretton kommer tilbage i hendes liv, bliver hun draget vaek fra det kolde, engelske landskab og til Stillehavets mystik, hvor intet er hvad det ser ud til, og mod en gåde, kun hun kan løse. Mens den smukke, blonde og blåøjede kaptajn gør sit for at få Anna til at glemme sin fortid, går det op for hende, at der gemmer sig mørke hemmeligheder under hans charmerende overflade.

“Mr. Kendall, in the past few months there have been a number of doctors who have mysteriously disappeared, or whose deaths were either alleged to be accidents, or were suicides, or they were actually murdered.” Kendall made a mental note to find out about these "other doctors". “A number of doctors you said. How many are we talking about?” Mrs. Eaton thought for a few moments. “To my knowledge there have been at least eight cases in the past six months. There may be a whole lot more that I know nothing about.”

It's official: Harrison Towers is engaged to Marion Devereaux. Danielle struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered life after her steamy affair with the enigmatic mogul comes to a screeching halt. She chastises herself for letting her guard down and tries to suppress her feelings for the man who possessed her body and stole her heart. Making matters worse, Danielle finds herself the victim of a mysterious stalker, who seems to know her every move. Caught in a tangled web of danger, money and power, Danielle begins to despair, as escape seems impossible.

My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915. His father, Rudyard, had pulled strings to get his myopic son into the firing line. Devastated at the loss of his only son, Rudyard undertook the sad mission to find John's grave but tragically never succeeded in his quest.

Hard to Handle: Extreme edge play at private bondage club Rawhide gives horse wranglers Bailey French and Hondo Labar an outlet for their sexual chemistry, but he wants more. Only when an accident puts her in his care can Bailey decide whether or not to trust her heart. Spurred to Submission: Wade Hampton wants to sell the ranch left to him and get back to the city. Zoe Hampton wants to show him she’s not a little girl anymore. When she follows him to Rawhide one night, what happens is an eye opener for both of them. Includes books five - nine of the Rawhide series.

Den lille pige Drusilla og hendes to venner Lavinia og Fabian leger gemmeleg på godset og finder tilfaeldigvis en indisk vifte af påfuglefjer. Rygterne siger, at der knytter sig onde, overnaturlige kraefter til den smukke vifte, men Drusilla vaelger alligevel at tage den til sig. Da Drusilla er blevet voksen, rejser hun til Indien, og efterhånden får den ene katastrofale begivenhed efter den anden hende til at indse, at rygterne om viften talte sandt.

Women hold just 11 percent of the most senior-level leadership positions in US corporations - a number that hasn't changed in over 30 years. How can more women break through? Break Your Own Rules distills the six faulty assumptions (or "rules") most women follow that get in the way, then delivers the correlating new rules that promise to clear a path.

Want to clear out the noise and fuzz regarding Christian dating? Want to ensure finding the right one? Want to put God first before anything else? Christian dating has become so weird in the last couple of years, totally understandable. The world is getting worse, and finding the right partner seems like an impossible mission. There are so many misconceptions, rules, and lies that have made dating difficult for Christians when it shouldn't be hard at all.

Everything in Hazel's perfect life is going according to plan. But she's in for a surprise. When her best friend and roommate takes ill, Jenny begs Hazel to fill in for her on a trip to South Georgia. When Dalton Sullivan takes a spill from a bronc at the last rodeo of the season, his life changes forever. Uncertain about his future, his fortunes take another turn when Grandpa Joe bequeaths him a dilapidated horse ranch in his will. Dalton's plans to refurbish it and turn it into a working ranch again are interrupted when a beautiful woman shows up pretending to be someone she's not.

Tom Kendall had been with the 32nd Precinct, New York Police Department, for just under 10 years. But now he wanted a change. Now he wanted to start his own private detective agency. He had grand ideas. He wasn’t interested in just any old case. Oh no, he would handle only the big-time cases, the expensive ones. He would be able to take his pick, the ones that he wanted, where the stakes were high and so were the rewards. He knew exactly the kind of case that he wanted. Anything else would not do, and it would just be turned down flat.

‘To make a killing in the City’ is a phrase often used within the financial world, to indicate making a large profit on investments, or through dealings on the stock market--the bigger the profit, the bigger the killing. However, Tom Kendall, a private detective, on vacation in London, has a different kind of killing in mind when he hears about the death of one of his fellow passengers who traveled with him on the plane from Miami. It was suicide apparently, a simple overdose of prescribed tablets. Kendall immediately offers his help to Scotland Yard. He is shocked when he is told his services will not be required. They can manage perfectly well without him, thank you.