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Après Monsieur, numéro un des best-sellers du New York Times, une nouvelle histoire d'amour passionnée et haletante par EL James, l'auteure de la trilogie phénomène Cinquante nuances de Grey. Que se passe-t-il une fois la pantoufle de vair chaussée ? Maxim Trevelyan, devenu à contrecœur comte de Trevethick, a retrouvé la femme qu'il aime au fin fond de l'Albanie. Et maintenant, il doit se marier sous la menace du fusil paternel. Mais un libertin repenti peut-il faire un bon époux ?

Afghanistan 2021. The Taliban takeover. Surrounded and outnumbered by their Taliban attackers, a small group of Afghan special forces fights their way out of their base and races toward Kabul and the last of the flights leaving the country. A team of seasoned SAS soldiers is deployed to Kabul to assist in extracting intelligence assets for the MI6 Station there. But as the Taliban tighten their deadly noose around the city, the simple locate and recovery task soon becomes a lot more complicated.

Thirty years ago, the best-selling "letter to the government", Work in America, was published to national acclaim, including front-page coverage in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. It sounded an alarm about worker dissatisfaction and the effects on the nation as a whole.

Londres, 2019. Maxim Trevelyan siempre ha disfrutado de una vida fácil. Gracias a su innegable atractivo, su entorno aristocrático y su riqueza, jamás ha tenido que trabajar y pocas veces duerme solo. De pronto todo cambia cuando la tragedia estalla y Maxim hereda el título nobiliario, la fortuna y las propiedades familiares, pero también muchas responsabilidades que deberá afrontar y para las que no se siente del todo preparado.

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting. In the pens of such luminaries as Henry James, E M Delafield, C E Montague, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others we connect with old fashioned media from publishing and advertising to telegrams and radio and everything in between in ways that are surprising, enlightening but always entertaining.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. Human beings are, in the main, social animals, they like to gather, to herd together, to share experiences. But some do not. Either through choice or exclusion their way forward is difficult. In this volume our authors and their characters share their stories.

Feeling stuck? You're not alone. We’ve all heard of the seven-year itch in relationships, but what if that itch shows up in your job, your hobbies, your friendships, or even your identity? In The Seven-Year (Sw)itch: Why We Get Restless in Work, Life, and Love and What to Do About It, you’ll explore why that nagging dissatisfaction creeps in every few years, and how to turn it into your greatest opportunity for growth. This isn’t your typical self-help book.

Congressman James E. Clyburn combines history and politics while discussing the lessons of the past, the politics of the present, and how we must learn from those experiences to help shape the future.

Quella che per Anastasia Steele e Christian Grey era iniziata solo come una passione erotica travolgente è destinata in breve tempo a cambiare le loro vite. Ana ha sempre saputo che amarlo non sarebbe stato facile e stare insieme li sottopone a sfide che nessuno dei due aveva previsto. Lei deve imparare a condividere lo stile di vita di Grey senza sacrificare la sua integrità e indipendenza, lui deve superare la sua ossessione per il controllo lasciandosi alle spalle i tormenti che continuano a perseguitarlo.

By now, you should know that my official name and title is Willie A.P. Lester Jr., chairman of the deacon board down there at Auburn Avenue Missionary Baptist Church. Unfortunately, yesterday after Sunday morning service, I sort of ended up spending the night in the city jail and I was accompanied by this bootleg preacher we got, Rev. Charles David Weldon, III.

Joshua and Susan Ritter were at the threshold of their golden years. Joshua had retired from a family business and the slightly aging couple was ready to travel and see the world. In a twist in life, Joshua soon finds himself alone and on a cross-country motorcycle journey. In his attempt to be a Good Samaritan Joshua finds himself, as a matter of life and death, needing a place to hide.

While present-day firefighters John Kirk and his partner are inside a burning house trying to locate the fire, something goes terribly wrong. The next morning, John awakes in a hospital surrounded by a group of men claiming to be the crew of Engine Company 8 and that they had rescued him from the porch of a burning house, the night before.

A fantasy, science fiction, and horror anthology featuring seven short stories by well-received authors. They may scare you, thrill you, and capture your imagination. If you enjoy high-quality short stories that will excite you, then this is for you! E. R. Robin Dover’s “The Trees” (horror): In a remote desert region of southwestern New Mexico, centered along the Rio Grande, is an ancient grove of trees permeated with an evil that has always existed.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

One hundred fifty years ago, the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail. The Chisholm Trail follows the McCoys' vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post-Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the national and international beef trade.

Katie Reynolds, a young veterinary doctor from California, is sent overseas to war-torn Kurdistan to find a disease spreading from animals to people. Unexpectedly caught in a firestorm, she is cast into the ancient Middle East, where she has only her intelligence to keep her alive in the extraordinary and archaic time of 1320 BC, the age of the Egyptian Pharaohs.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia. The partners, who began their careers as small-town cops, have been immortalised in Netflix's Narcos, a fictional account of their hunt for Escobar.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. For America, as the century closes, she is becoming less isolated. Her industrial might, her rising military power are pulling her ever closer into the entangled globe of nations. Her authors flex ideas and lexicons with riveting tales of this astonishing society.