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Devenez une bombe sexuelle... Voici un petit manuel qui vous aidera à accéder au plaisir partagé. Servane Vergy, forte des multiples rencontres et des délicieuses expériences qui émaillent sa vie de coquine insatiable, vous livre tous les petits et grands secrets indispensables pour devenir cette bête de sexe que vous rêvez d'être. Simple, direct, didactique et terriblement érotique, ce guide vous dit tout pour que votre vie sexuelle soit plus palpitante.

Oh yeah. A single look at the leggy blonde in the stands and Tucker Jenkins is ready to buck all night long. It's time to forget all about his cheating ex and his usual hands off policy. Becca Hart is an East Coast professor. Not a buckle bunny. But no degree can prepare her for the moves of the sexy bull rider she hooks up with at her first rodeo… or the shock of finding him at her first Oklahoma State University staff meeting. Tuck knows it's all about holding on, no matter how wild the ride.

Pioneering director J. J. Abrams has delivered an explosive action thriller that takes Star Trek into darkness. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island’s beloved female divers. She doesn’t like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn’t play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean’s also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea’s solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little too quick with her gun.

Si vous aimez les citadins aussi pédants que sexy et les écureuils tout mignons... ce roman est pour vous ! Capucine, psychologue trentenaire, mène une vie parfaite en roucoulant auprès de son mari génial... Depuis quand ce spécimen existe-t-il ? Après une soirée mémorable, elle décide de tout quitter et en particulier son conjoint bien sous tous rapports (ou pas), pour vivre dans les montagnes auvergnates.

Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.

Jeune servante dans la ville d'Itsandra, aux Comores, Gaillard grandit sous la protection de deux figures parentales : son maître, qui lui enseigne le Coran, et sa mère adoptive, qui lui conte les légendes héritées de ses ancêtres esclaves venus de l'autre côté de la mer. Un jour, dans le bois d'Ahmad, Gaillard rencontre Halima, jeune fille bien née qui tente d'échapper à un mariage forcé. Elles deviennent amies, au point qu'avant de rentrer se soumettre à la volonté paternelle, Halima confi e à Gaillard un petit objet qu'elle devra conserver sans jamais le montrer.

Many babies are fussy and spit up milk, and in recent years, it has become common for them to be diagnosed with reflux and medicated with antacids, thickeners, and acid suppressants. However, research tells us that reflux is normal in young babies and that many of the symptoms associated with it may in fact be misunderstood baby behaviors rather than clinical symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GORD).

Quand ils décident d'emmener leur petite sœur se baigner dans cette étrange carrière au milieu de la forêt, Roberta et Willet ne mesurent pas le danger qui guette dans ces eaux... White Forest, Mississippi. Cachée au milieu de la forêt, la carrière fascine autant qu'elle inquiète. On murmure que des esprits malveillants se dissimulent dans ses eaux profondes. Par une chaude journée d'été, Roberta et Willet bravent toutes les superstitions pour aller s'y baigner avec leur petite soeur, Pansy. En quête de baies, ils s'éloignent de la carrière. Quand ils reviennent, Pansy a disparu.

New to Singapore and escaping a bad break up back in the UK, Tamsin’s attempts to settle in to her new surroundings are quickly disrupted when her building's speaker system crackles into life and an anonymous voice fills her glossy apartment. Things had been going well until her welcome drinks, a night that ended with her boss incapacitated in her bathroom. Although Tamsin will swear it was an accident, from the adjacent high-rise things looked altogether rather different.

Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks. In chapters about boiling water, cooking eggs and beans, and summoning respectable meals from empty cupboards, Tamar weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on instinctive cooking. Tamar shows how to make the most of everything you buy, demonstrating what the world’s great chefs know: that great meals rely on the bones and peels and ends of meals before them.

Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding - or two! - in Charleston's fabled Lowcountry. A centuries-old church, an avenue of ancient oaks dripping moss, a storied ballroom, a sand dune at sunset.... Yet when a stranger arrives, a long-held family secret could silence the bells ringing for the Muir sisters. Scandals surface, family bonds are questioned, and promises are broken and renewed.

The notion that everyone wants sex—and that we all have to have it—is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it impacts the most marginalized among us. For asexual folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness that’s not queer enough, seen through a lens of perceived lack: lack of pleasure, connection, joy, maturity, and even humanity. In this exploration of what it means to be Black and asexual in America today, Sherronda J. Brown offers new perspectives on asexuality.

After her sister snags a hot Oklahoma cowboy, Emma Hart figures it's her turn to saddle up. And with two country boys pursuing her at once, she's in for a wild ride. Lieutenant Colonel Logan Hunt can't deny the heat between him and Emma is fierce. But Logan isn't looking for anything serious... just a chance to blow off some steam. So why is he crazy jealous when he sees pro bull rider Jace Mills trying to charm Emma into bed? Logan knows he and Emma could have something special

When a young girl's life is torn apart by the terror and fear of a new communist government, she has to learn to survive within its harsh confines. As she grows, so does her understanding and her hatred of the political situation, and she becomes determined to escape its confines. Can Suk Hing survive the arduous journey that is fraught with danger, or will she be captured and have to suffer the consequences of being branded a traitor? This is a novelization of a true story of one young woman's struggle, an epic journey - the story of the Freedom Swimmers.

When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate. And that belief has inspired her career as an artist, as well as the large art installations she makes with (obviously) red string. That is until artist’s block strikes and Rooney begins to question everything. But then fate leads her to the perfect guy.

Collapse has become the framework through which we write, debate, theorise, and, therefore, make society. It establishes a fertile ground for the development of conservative ideas in mainstream discourse since, in times of fear, people are more likely to turn in on themselves, their families, and look back for answers.

Caretta Rutledge thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother – coming just as her own life is spinning out of control – has Cara heading back to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide “turtle lady” and renews old acquaintances long thought lost.

The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. In Coming to My Senses, Alice retraces the events that led her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue and the tumultuous times that emboldened her to find her own voice as a cook when the prevailing food culture was embracing convenience and uniformity.

When a beautiful piece of music stirs mega-tycoon Maximilian West, he remembers the women who have loved him and shaped his life. So begins a dazzling tale, taking us from the streets of London to the suites of New York, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Strong, powerful, enigmatic, aloof, and adoring - many women made Maximilian the man with everything, but there is only one woman who can make him feel truly alive.