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Someone at a Distance was Dorothy Whipple’s last book, hailed by many as her best. The story charts the gradual breakdown of a marriage through the eyes of those involved. Whipple deftly and persuasively explores the minds of her characters, particularly the two women. This audio edition is...

When love will not let you find a way out The last time Daksh met Aanchal, it was at a wedding in Dubai. A brief spark and then both of them move on. It’s not necessary to be together even if you love each other to the moon and back, right? Wrong. Not being with the one you love means that...

« Ceci est l'histoire de Kay Bartholdi. Kay est ma voisine, mon amie. Kay est plus que ça encore... Un jour, Kay est entrée dans mon restaurant. Elle a posé une grosse liasse de lettres sur la table. Elle m'a dit : tu en fais ce que tu veux... Je ne veux plus les garder. Je ne les ai pas lues tout de suite, mais dès que j'ai commencé, je n'ai pas pu m'arrêter... Pourtant... Pourtant, je connaissais son histoire... L'histoire d'un amour haut comme une cathédrale, violent comme une bordée de pirates, avec des chants, des confessions, de l'encens, des abordages, des orages, des prises d'otages. »

In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing position with a doctor in the New Mexico Territory. She knows the journey from New York to Santa Fe will not be easy, but she relishes the adventure. However, nothing could have prepared her for the wilderness she encounters. Its vastness and power are awe-inspiring, stunning in both beauty and brutality. To endure, she must learn to rely on her fellow travelers—and one enigmatic man in particular. As the small, tight-knit group tackles challenge after challenge, she feels her heart opening to this rugged land.

Meg Pero has been assisting her photographer father since she was big enough to carry his equipment, so when he dies she is determined to take over his profession - starting with fulfilling the contract he signed to serve on an Army survey of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in 1871. What she doesn't realize is that the leader of the expedition is none other than the man she once refused to marry. Captain Ben Coleridge would like nothing more than to leave without the woman who broke his heart, but he refuses to wait even one more day to get started.

Assuming the Lord wants her to practice medicine in a remote African outpost, Astrid Bjorklund enrolls in a missionary training school. She prays her former sweetheart will one day understand. But when a family crisis calls her home, Astrid hears of a deadly measles outbreak on a nearby Indian reservation. Feeling inexplicably constrained to help, she wonders if God might be leading her to a “mission field” that’s much closer than she imagined.

Astrid Bjorklund wants to use her medical training to serve God and feels that He might be leading her in the direction of missionary work. Smarting from a misunderstanding with Joshua Landsverk, the young man she thought she loved, she heads east to a missionary training school, hoping to eventually use her skills in some remote outpost in Africa. When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, Astrid learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation.

மனிதர்கள் ஓரோர் சந்திப்பிலும் ஒவ்வொரு கோணத்தைக் காட்டுகிறார்கள். நமக்கு அது பிடித்த பக்கமாக இருந்தால் நெருங்கி செல்வதும், பிடிக்காததெனில் தள்ளி நிற்பதுமாக ஒவ்வொரு உறவிலும் நட்பிலும் தூரங்கள் நகர்ந்தபடியே உள்ளன. இக்கதையிலும் அவ்விதமே!

A Vera Sigall y Horacio Infante los une un amor de juventud y su pasión por la literatura. También un lazo misterioso que dos jóvenes, Emilia y Daniel, intentan desentrañar. Sin embargo, este no es el único enigma en sus vidas. Una mañana, Vera Sigall cae por las escaleras de su casa y queda en coma. Al principio, la noción de que su caída no fue un accidente aparece como una sospecha para Daniel. Pero con los días y las semanas, la duda irá creciendo hasta volverse una certeza.