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Jerry North, the suave and successful book publisher, is married to the resourceful, glamorous, and quick-witted Pam. This terrific twosome is just as comfortable dealing with blood stains and dead bodies as they are hosting dinner parties or going out for an evening of dancing. And that's a good thing...because each week finds them smack in the middle of a murder! Fortunately, these amateur criminologists always get to the bottom of things.

February 2012. Somewhere in the North Atlantic. In an increasingly uncertain defence environment, a deadly new arms race has begun. In an attempt to secure her boundaries, Britain has deployed the very latest sub-sea military technology. Beneath and beyond the front line, these are the adventures of the HMS Goliath. A 55,000-tonne M-Class nuclear stealth submarine, prowling 5,000 metres below the surface, manned by idiots.

Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life in the green and pleasant county of Staffordshire. She'd love to finally master the rules of croquet, acquire a decent boyfriend and make some commission as an estate agent. All that might have to wait, though, because there are zombies rising from...

Entre les ennuis de santé de son père et le charme énigmatique de Dave, entre son désir d'être elle-même et la pression à laquelle elle se soumet, Élie est perdue. Elle se réfugie dans ses vieux patterns et essaie de reprendre le contrôle de sa vie, un Fat Burning Challenge à la fois. En cours de route, elle réalise qu’écouter son cœur, c’est beaucoup moins glam qu'il n'y paraît.

Being a nanny for three girls who belong to a grumpy boxing legend was not on my list of plans when I followed my brother to Macon, Oregon. I went from ruling the boardroom to baking cupcakes in the blink of an eye. And aside from a few mishaps and seemingly always upsetting their dad, it oddly fits me better than anything else I've ever done. Until Liam put everything into question.

"Темный эфир" - фантастический роман Анны Терешковой, первая книга цикла "Империя драконов", жанр любовное фэнтези, юмористическое фэнтези.

L'écrivaine Karen Walker en sait plus que quiconque sur les meurtriers. Son ex est le « Bagman », un tueur en série enfermé à vie dans une prison de haute sécurité. Après l'avoir aimé aveuglément durant des années, elle a fini par le livrer à la police. Mais aujourd'hui, dix ans plus tard, alors que Karen s'apprête à publier le récit de ses crimes, une jeune femme disparaît dans des circonstances terriblement familières. Cela ne peut pas être le Bagman, puisqu'il est derrière les barreaux… n'est-ce pas ? Karen doit en avoir le cœur net.

Tout commence en 1986, lorsque l'amitié naissante entre Léo, Marion, Sophie et Clémentine se tisse à leur entrée au collège. Au fil des années, alors que la vie les pousse vers des chemins parfois divergents, leur amitié reste le fil conducteur de leur existence. Ensemble, ils traversent les joies simples, les amours naissantes qui laissent une marque indélébile, et symbolisent leur passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte. Au travers des allers et retours entre le passé et le présent, le roman dévoile comment ces moments partagés ont façonné leurs destinées actuelles.

Help for sharing the truth with those deceived by the darkness.

Are you aware of these spiritual gateways in the physical realm?

Reece Spencer became a monster after a Halloween party gone wrong, but instead of letting it ruin his life, he dedicated his life to monsters. After selling his portion of a successful investment firm, he funded the creation of a college for monsters just outside the monstrous little town of Screaming Woods.

A reserved Chinese American teen at a Southern performing arts boarding school comes into her own under the tutelage of a glamorous new piano teacher. A moving coming-of-age-novel from a debut novelist about first love, adolescent angst, and academic pressures. “Compellingly readable. Make...

Working as a quality-assurance grunt in the gaming industry sounds like fun, right? You get to play the coolest new games before anyone else. And all you have to do is to find, reproduce, and report bugs before the last pixel is locked in and the games are launched to an eager public. Sure, there’s the unpaid overtime, the office politics, and the ever-present threat of layoffs. But you get to game!

Ce soir d'hiver, une terreur glaçante balaie brutalement les plans d'avenir d'Eve et Charlie lorsqu'une étrange famille surgit sur leur perron et demande la permission de visiter la maison isolée que les deux jeunes femmes viennent tout juste d'acquérir, dans laquelle le père prétend avoir grandi. Rapidement, les phénomènes inexplicables s'enchaînent. La porte de l'effrayant sous-sol s'ouvre toute seule, des silhouettes décharnées arpentent les couloirs et Shylo, la border collie du jeune couple, change brutalement de comportement.

The billion-dollar bump…in their snowbound night! Shy secretary Flora Greening doesn’t want to take a work trip right before the holidays. Except saying no isn’t her strong suit. Besides, what commanding boss Vito Monticello wants, he gets! Even he can’t command the weather, though. A...

Billion-dollar bargain… for an on-paper wife! Odysseus Diamides never expects a warm welcome at his family's imposing estate. Until he's greeted by maid Grace Foster—who spent last night in his bed! He can't allow her life to be ruined by his controlling grandfather, so the Greek barters for her freedom by making Grace his convenient bride… Odysseus's diamond is the lifeline Grace requires. She can escape her boss and ensure her grandmother is cared for. Yet after their idyllic island wedding Grace realizes just how cynical Odysseus truly is.

C'est l'histoire de la femme qui voulait et aurait pu devenir présidente de l'Afghanistan. Celle qui a dû se réfugier au Royaume-Uni lorsque les talibans ont pris le pouvoir, celle qui a refusé d'être réduite au silence malgré deux tentatives d'assassinat.

Read by the author. An extraordinary journey that uncovers historical secrets about England’s forgotten Queen. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen. ‘Alice Loxton is the star of her generation’ – Dan Snow, historian and host of History Hit ‘I loved this...

Quand Rose Dupin fait son entrée au collège à l'internat des Pierres-Noires, elle ne se doute pas de ce qui l'attend. Il pleut ce jour-là sur Saint-Malo. Mais, depuis la tour de l'internat, ce sont des appels au secours qui pleuvent sous la forme de petits papiers. Qui peut bien envoyer de tels messages ? Un mystère que devront résoudre Rose, Nadget et Ambroise, réunis au sein du Club de la Pluie.

The delegates—or as Kirill thought of them, “The Seven Deadly Sins”—were not people who had brought happiness into the world. For the sake of his own survival and longevity, he had to remain on guard for the entire duration of the conference. Some periods in life are quite literally life-or-death moments, and this conference would be a long series of such moments.