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This is a story from the Bliss & Other Stories collection.

Caleb is a former professional surfer trying to build his life after a career-ending accident. Lindy has moved to Loor Island to start a new life, combing the shores for sea glass to weave into jewelry. When the two meet, sparks fly – but not the good kind. Then they discover they’re neighbours, and they’re stuck with each other for one, long summer. As they slowly learn to trust each other, and find themselves sharing their stories that brought them to Loor, their dislike begins to unravel into friendship, then maybe something more.

Phoebe is caught between a rock and a hard place: either settle down and get married or return to the French Alps to pursue her passion. Eliza is in love with someone who is no longer hers. In fact he probably never was.... Rose is out of a job and out of a boyfriend. But these very different girls have one thing in common: Angus. The one they fell in love with....

L'autohypnose est une pratique qui conduit à un état mental d'hyper vigilance et de relaxation dans lequel le sujet cesse de diriger volontairement le cours de ses pensées...

Spring, 1914. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. When war breaks out and the army won't take Paul, he enlists in the Belgian Red Cross just as he and fellow student Elinor Brooke admit their feelings for one another.

The friends of a young girl called Tara, who mysteriously went missing 10 years ago, hire PI Jordan Lewis to investigate her disappearance. There have been frequent sighting of what witnesses describe to be Tara. Jordan tries to piece together these statements to try and uncover the truth. However, as her investigation deepens, multiple bodies start appearing around the usually quiet Lake Windermere and Bowness.

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The Lamp of Marriage features Esther & Moses's insights on how to make a marriage triumph, thrive, and bless the lives of entire families. Esther and Moses let couples in on how God can transform a marriage. Whether newly wed, happily married, in a marriage crisis, or just in a relationship rut, Esther and Moses’s book will help energize and revitalize a marriage.

From the thrilling imagination of best-selling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes this ambitious, violent and modern retelling of one of our oldest and most enduring stories. On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later he returns home, and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence.

This is a story from the Bliss & Other Stories collection.

In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he’s let his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London.

Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song-written by world-famous superstar Jonesy-but Jane hasn't had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight-the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired.

Are you looking for a stunning new crime mystery full of suspense? Then you'll love AB Morgan's unmissable audiobook. For a community psychiatric nurse, Monica Morris has an unhealthy interest in poison, and when on impulse she buys an antique ship’s doctor’s cabinet with a set of leather-bound journals, she becomes fascinated by the content. A few days later, she discovers the body of her patient, Jan Collins...and although police assume suicide by overdose, Monica is not convinced....

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of “Genesis and Catastrophe”, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by the actress Juliet Stevenson. In “Genesis and Catastrophe”, Roald Dahl, one of the world’s favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a baby is born and his worried parents, who have lost children before, are concerned for his future.

Dans le milieu de l'édition française, la concurrence est rude. Alors pour rivaliser d'imagination, la course au synopsis idéal, à la cover la plus sensuelle et au marketing à succès font légion. Marynn tente pour la première fois de sélectionner elle-même son modèle. Des heures de recherches, des tonnes de conversations avec ses copinauteures et la voilà en pleine conversation avec Fell, mannequin parisien d'une beauté à couper le souffle. Sauf qu'il est trop sexy, trop arrogant, trop détestable...

"On ne naît pas Connard, on le devient." Malgré les années, Enzo Montalbano ne s'est jamais remis de la trahison de son amour de fac. Pour combler ses blessures et protéger ses failles, il a blindé son cœur et son mental derrière une haine sans borne pour les femmes. Trois règles : 1 : Pas d'attaches. 2 : Pas de sentiments. 3 : Pas de deuxième nuit. 3 bis : Ne jamais déroger aux règles 1, 2, et 3. 3 bis bis : Même si ça concerne cette comète aux cheveux bleus et son foutu défi ! Vices. Noirceur. Démons intérieurs.

Louise Andersen, la quarantaine, vit dans un petit village retiré sur l'île de Bornholm, au Danemark. Elle partage l'existence d'un écrivain, Joachim, de dix ans son aîné. Leur vie, sans histoires, est routinière. Jusqu'au jour où un homme, Edmund, arrive sur l'île et reconnaît Louise : c'est sa femme, Hélène, disparue sans laisser de traces trois ans plus tôt. Il en est convaincu. Coup de théâtre : la police prouve, tests à l'appui, que Louise est bien Hélène. Hélène Soderberg, héritière de l'immense empire du même nom, femme d'Edmund, mère de deux enfants.

Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore. Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her trademark imagination and gift for making history human, she explores the fragile ties between passion, love, family, friendship and grief, often through people facing turning points in their lives.

Australie, 1921. Viola et Duncan Summer font partie d'une troupe de comédiens ambulants quand naît Catriona. Très tôt, leur fillette montre d'étonnantes prédispositions pour le chant et entame une carrière dans les villes et villages de l'outback. Mais un premier drame survient. La grande dépression sévit, la troupe se sépare et Duncan meurt accidentellement. Catriona est âgée de 11 ans quand sa mère et elle sont prises sous l'aile protectrice de Francis Kane.

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