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Lavinia Kent-a four-time Golden Heart Award nominee and one of the most exciting talents in the new generation of historical romance writers-explores What a Duke Wants in this darkly sensuous tale of a woman running from a secret past who finds herself in the arms of a handsome reluctant English nobleman whom she desires intensely but dares not love. Any reader who has ever been entranced by the passionate romance of Anna Campbell, Stephanie Laurens,...
22) Interior cero
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Cristina tiene treinta años y trabaja como secretaria en una constructora de Bucarest. En una sucesión de episodios tragicómicos asistiremos a su lucha diaria por sobrevivir en un anodino entorno empresarial -marcado por el autoritarismo de su jefa y la condescendencia de sus compañeros-, y al desamparo emocional que se oculta tras inconsistentes relaciones sentimentales y la ausencia de su madre, que trabaja en España desde hace años. Con tremenda...
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A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's much-praised debut novel 'Mary George of Allnorthover'. 'An Irresponsible Age', Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea just because it proved to be a bad one'. In these hesitant times we follow the life of Juliet Clough and her three siblings, all of them interdependent in a not-quite...
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"Les cicatrices de l'école" est le témoignage poignant d'une expérience personnelle de harcèlement scolaire. Il dépeint le parcours tumultueux d'une victime qui a trouvé le courage de se dresser et de faire entendre sa voix. L'auteure vous plonge dans les années de calvaire qu'elle a endurées, décrivant les premiers signes de maltraitance, ses sentiments confus et les obstacles rencontrés, mais aussi les sources de force qui lui ont permis...
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Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert's bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one's own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their experiences instantaneously. Thus, the act of chronicling one's journey has never been more popular, nor the urge stronger. Writing Away: A Creative Guide to...
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Few cities anywhere are as vibrant, historically rich, and just plain fun as New Orleans. But it's not a "dummy proof" destination. Too many travelers leave town wondering what all the fuss is about.
That doesn't happen to those carrying this book. Written by travel experts Lavinia Spalding and Tami Fairweather, Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans introduces travelers to the experiences other visitors miss; and has the type of insightful commentary...
27) Unmasking
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'Drop the mask and revel in the beauty of being bare.' The only directive Phoebe has to adhere to.
With the return of Damien Ambrose, changes were bound to happen. Phoebe Smith expected no less. However, finding herself in a new, odd and out-of-norm friendship with Federick Archer was inconceivable. And the conception of feeling at ease between Federick's arms was beyond her wildest dreams. Particularly when the man in question and she had a truculent...
28) Belladonna
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"I am surrounded by beautiful things... but I am not one of them."
Agent Alyssa Rawkesby never thought she'd relate so strongly to a serial killer's letter. But the moment she reads it, she knows there is no going back - she must find the notorious Belladonna Killer, even if it breaks the mental stability she spent seven years repairing. Women in Ottawa, Ontario are being poisoned to death and left posed with a bizarre signature. The grief and fear...
29) Presagios
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Lo irracional nunca ha sido parte de la vida ordinaria de Áine O'Quinn, de veintiocho años: los únicos acertijos que conoce son su familia y los misterios de las novelas de detectives, en este orden, pero parece que el Día de San Patricio está listo para traerle uno nuevo. Forzada a regresar a la ciudad donde nació y de la cual huyó para evitar la opresión de sus padres, Áine se encontrará con fenómenos extraños a los que no puede dar...
30) Présages
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L'irrationnel n'a jamais fait partie de la vie ordinaire d'Àine O'Quinn, vingt-huit ans: les seules enigmes qu'elle connaisse sont celle de sa famille et celles des romans policiers - dans cet ordre - mais il semblerait que la fête de la Saint Patrick soit l'occasion de lui en proposer une toute nouvelle. Contrainte de revenir dans sa ville natale don’t elle a fui pour se soustraire à l'oppression de ses parents, Àine se retrouve confrontée...
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When bodyguard Brent Hawthorne moves to India to start a new business, he thinks his biggest problems are going to be the language barrier and coping with the intense heat in Mumbai. But when he starts working for one of Bollywood's top actors, Rajkumar Khan, Brent has to rethink that estimation.Raj is not only handsome and sexy but also secretly gay, and sparks fly the instant the pair meet. But Raj is being blackmailed and the unknown sender of...
32) The Omen
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The irrational has never been part of the everyday life of 28-year-old Áine O'Quinn: the only puzzles she is aware of concern her family and the mysteries of the books she reads – in that order – but it seems that St. Patrick's Day is ready to bring her a brand new one. Forced to return to the small town where she was born and from which she fled to escape her parent's oppression, Áine will come across strange phenomena to which she cannot give...
33) The Lost Girls
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Private investigator Martha Holmes is falling out of love and back into her life – or so she thinks, until a decade-old missing persons case comes her way. Four teenage girls have been missing for ten years, and their families have never given up looking. Desperate, Thomas Remmy turns to Martha, relying on her solid reputation to find some answers about his sister. Martha isn't so sure she can carry the weight of these girls' lives and what their...
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La vida de Anthea Grage es aparentemente normal. Vive en Portown, un pequeño pueblo en Maine, tiene una familia amorosa y una inseparable mejor amiga, Lyv, la única que conoce su oscuro secreto. Nadie más sabe que al anochecer los sueños de Ant están poblados no por miedos y deseos, sino por las sombras de los eventos que aún tienen que suceder. Cuando uno de sus sueños premonitorios anuncia la llegada a la ciudad de un joven misterioso y hermoso,...
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Regency England just got real(ity)Episode 4: How to Succeed in Marriage without Really Trying. Elizabeth, the Countess of Westhampton, has found her husband. Unfortunately, she would have preferred that he stayed lost! How is she supposed to react when the man who married her, and then abandoned her without a wedding night, suddenly reappears? Obviously, she'll have to plan her revenge very carefully…
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Die Kurzgeschichten-Anthologie "Mixtum Compositum-Bellas Kurzgeschichtensammlung" beinhaltet 4 Kurzgeschichten zu wichtigen Tagen:
Kapitel 1 (Silvester) Die Geister, die ich rief
Kapitel 2 (Earth Hour) Als der Himmel verschwand
Kapitel 3 (Weltnaturschutztag) die Botschaft der Tiere
Kapitel 4 (Welthundetag) Glück muss Hund haben
Das Buch kann natürlich unabhängig dieser Tage gelesen werden, man kann sich aber an diesen Tagen gerne zu Bella, die...
37) A Talent for Sin
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She was blessed with a gift of temptation. Violet, Lady Carrington, possesses everything a spirited woman could want out of life. Money (and lots of it). The freedom to make her own choices, with no husband to rule her. And a delightfully attentive young lover, Lord Peter St. Johns, to satisfy her every wild whim. But Peter desires more than Violet's lascivious attentions. He's desperate for her heart-and her hand in marriage. Yet with a toss of her...
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"Who celebrates being first runner-up?" you might ask. I did. So much so that I even ended the book with a rap song about it-Southern, beauty queen rap, that is.
Runner-up Rap
I'm not Miss America
But I'm still pumped
'Cause I love being
The first runner-up
It's a lifetime job
Being Miss America
But we runners-up
Can hang up our tiaras
And no one remembers
Who came in second
So I don't have to fret
When...
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An accidental time travel led her to find love in the arms of a Duke from the past. Olivia is finally rebuilding her life and career after a painful divorce. While on a business trip to England, she is driven off the road by a mysterious force, only to come to her senses in the opulent mansion of a handsome Duke. The year is 1872. The wealthy and powerful Duke of Avondale has forsworn love after the death of his wife, for which he blames himself....
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Amid open fields and empty pews, small towns can crush big dreams.
Abandoned by his no-good father and forced to grow up too soon, Noble Burden has set his dreams aside to run the family farm. Meanwhile, James Horton, the pastor of the local church, questions his own calling as he prepares to close the doors for good.
As a severe storm rolls through, threatening their community and very livelihood, both men fear losing what they care about most ....