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Best-selling authors Shayla Black, Jenna Jacob, and Isabella LaPearl present three sizzling stories featuring hot Alpha heroes ready, willing, and very much able to do anything - and everything - to heat the sheets and claim their woman.

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments."

Sara suffered a debilitating fear of asserting herself. Spencer experienced crippling social anxiety. Bonnie was shut down, disconnected from her feelings. These patients all came to psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel seeking treatment for depression, but in fact none of them were chemically depressed. Rather, Jacobs Hendel found that they’d all experienced traumas in their youth that caused them to put up emotional defenses that masqueraded as symptoms of depression. Jacobs Hendel led these patients and others toward lives newly capable of joy and fulfillment....

Lancashire, 1857. Liza, 17 ans, est employée au service des Pringle, un jeune couple qui la traite bien. Mais son père exige soudain qu'elle revienne vivre parmi les siens pour s'occuper de sa mère malade et de ses jeunes frère et sœur. Liza déchante, mais sa déception n'est rien comparée à la décision qu'a prise pour elle son père : elle épousera un veuf bien plus âgé qu'elle. Pour échapper aux avances pressantes de cet homme qui lui répugne, Liza s'enfuit.

The White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil: these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Yet who was the man who created this world? This audiobook attempts to unearth the making of the first Narnian, C. S. Lewis himself.

Cole has successfully survived the preschooler exam, and now he’s a full-fledged Scholomance student. More importantly, though, he now has four women bound to him forever. He’s their master, they are his slaves, and they must obey his commands. But his women also gain power and prestige out of the deal, and the Headmistress has taken a special interest in Cole and his coven. Now, they must prove themselves against Scholomance’s enemies: The elder gods and their minions.

Si, dans les années 1860, Singapour a tout d'une destination exotique, elle n'en reste pas moins une ville impressionnante pour Isabella, jeune Anglaise sans le sou, orpheline depuis la mort de sa mère. Ne trouvant pas de place de gouvernante, elle accepte l'offre de M. Lee, un riche marchand chinois. Elle s'installera chez lui et lui enseignera l'anglais. Deux ans plus tard, ce dernier lui présente Bram Deagan, un Irlandais ambitieux souhaitant s'installer en Australie et y ouvrir un négoce. M. Lee pousse Isabella à épouser Bram et à le suivre dans l'aventure.

Walker & Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club is the ad hoc creation of some of Georgia's regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. Once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat - and occasionally clash - over their stories of love, life, and everything in between.

Quatre sœurs enfin réunies en Australie. Mais les péripéties continuent. Dans la veine des sagas de Colleen MucCulloug, Tamara McKinley et Sarah Lark. La bonne fortune des soeurs Blake Réunies dans l'outback australien, les quatre sœurs Blake se réjouissent d'être à nouveau ensemble. Pour Cassandra, qui a retrouvé Reece, l'homme qu'elle aime, la colonie de Swan River apparaît comme un refuge inespéré.

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel", "Hansel and Gretel", and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style.

Have you ever wondered how to improve your English grammar skills with little to no effort at all? How about the most effective ways to master punctuation and structure sentences like a professional book editor? If so, keep reading because you’re in for a treat...The information contained in this audiobook is designed to help fix your grammar skills once and for all. The application of what you learn in this audiobook can help you see results in as little as one week, and change your life forever.

L'autrice de la série best-seller La Villa aux étoffes arrive à l'audio avec sa nouvelle saga familiale captivante Wiesbaden, 1945. Hilde a du mal à croire à sa chance : la guerre est finie, et le Café Engel a été miraculeusement sauvé. Elle va pouvoir redonner au lieu le prestige qu'il avait autrefois, quand il réunissait artistes et personnalités influentes. Peu après le succès de la réouverture, une autre surprise attend la jeune Allemande. Son père est libéré et rentre chez lui. Mais, à peine retrouvée, la joie est de courte durée.

Jukebox Joyride follows 12-year-old twins Jules and George on a wild adventure through time. Their Uncle Bob, a renowned ethnomusicologist (he studies music!), has discovered the secret to time travel and is having a ball joyriding through history checking out the best concerts ever...but something’s gone wrong! A sinister force has been unleashed, someone is chasing after Uncle Bob, and the fate of all music hangs in the balance! Now, it’s up to Jules and George to find their uncle before their new rival does!

Jacob Haendel has been handed a death sentence. He has a terminal progressive disease that's eating away at the white matter of his brain. In six months, he'll be dead. As the months progress, Jake slips into a coma, laying there in total darkness. But something odd has happened... Jake is fully conscious. Nobody knows that he can hear them. They’re certain he's no longer in there. With the promise that Jake will never recover, friends and family visit less and less. Until there is just one person left. A person who begins to whisper strange admissions in his ear. It is here, helpless in his...

1861. Le Lancashire subit la crise. Privées de coton, les filatures ferment une à une en Angleterre, plongeant la population dans la misère. Cassandra Blake, ses trois sœurs cadettes et leur père Edwin tentent malgré tout de faire face à l'adversité. Mais la mort du patriarche vient tout bouleverser.

The beautiful monster girls of the Archipelagos were in need. They needed a man to help build their homes. They needed a man to teach them to survive. They needed a man to defend them from the evil slaver-pirates. And most of all, they needed a man to impregnate them and rebuild their population. Fortunately for them, a man named Ben came from our world to give them everything they needed.

Veuve martyrisée par sa belle-fille, Hannah Firth fait la rencontre de Nathaniel King, qui vient de tout perdre... L'espoir renaît alors, mais pour combien de temps ? Le troisième volet de la série Les Pionnières, par l'autrice de la trilogie Cassandra. Lancashire, 1863. Veuve depuis peu, Hannah Firth fait ses adieux à son fils cadet, qui part tenter sa chance en Australie. Elle se retrouve désormais seule en compagnie de son aîné et de son odieuse belle-fille, qui la traite comme une domestique.

I admit it was me who shouted, “Looking good, hot stuff!” at Mr. Richmond this morning, but I didn’t mean it like that. Yes, Mrs. HR Lady, I know how it looks. Believe me, I am totally anti-catcalling, but that’s not what that was. Honest. I was paying him a compliment! That’s kind of what I do: I’m a proud, small-town Floridian, and Manhattan is craving some Florida sunshine—nothing like a sincere compliment to turn those New York frowns upside down!

Un manoir, une famille puissante, un sombre secret... À Augsburg, près de Munich, en 1913, la jeune Marie est embauchée en cuisine à la Villa aux étoffes, la résidence des Melzer, propriétaires d'une imposante usine de textile. Alors que la jeune orpheline tente de tailler sa place parmi les serviteurs, les maîtres anticipent le début de la saison des bals hivernaux qui permettra à la belle Katharina, la cadette de la famille, de briller de tous ses feux en société.

Two weeks ago, I was an optimistic office girl with a Pinterest vision board and a dream. Now? I’m standing in a billionaire’s penthouse office, trying not to throw a donut at his smug, perfect face. McCarthy Svensson is my new boss-slash-personal tormentor. Though he thinks he’s my only protector. He’s wrong. He’s way worse than the merry-go-round of ex fiancés who may or may not be stalking me, including ex-fiancé number one of three, who fakes his death then pops up out of a casket. Alive.