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Meet the Lakefront Billionaires . . .JulianIf I ever caught on fire, Dahlia Muñoz would fan the flames with a smile.So, when she returns to Lake Wisteria, I fully intend to avoid the interior designer.At least until my meddling mother exploits my saviour complex.The faster I help Dahlia find her creative spark, the sooner she will leave town.But while I was busy getting rid of Dahlia, I overlooked one potential issue.What happens if I want her to stay?DahliaPeople say the devil has many faces, but I know only one.Julian Lopez - my childhood rival and family frenemy.I vow to steer clear of him while recovering from my broken engagement, but then the billionaire makes an irresistible offer.Renovate a historic house together and triple our profits.Our temporary truce becomes compromised as we face years' worth of denied attraction and mixed emotions.Giving into our desire is inevitable . . . but falling in love?That isn't part of the plan.'Lauren Asher is an expert at giving readers everything they could ever want in a romance book. It's impossible to avoid becoming addicted to the world she builds' Hannah Grace
Legacy: What The All Blacks Can Teach Us About The Business Of Life
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONChampions do extra.They sweep the sheds.They follow the spearhead.They keep a blue head.They are good ancestors.In Legacy, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business.Legacy is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success - sustained success? How do you achieve world-class standards, day after day, week after week, year after year? How do you handle pressure? How do you train to win at the highest level? What do you leave behind you after you're gone?What will be your legacy?
The Graham Effect
The first book in the delicious, icy-hot Campus Diaries series, a spinoff of BookTok sensations Off Campus and Briar U, by New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy.Hockey's golden girl just made a deal with the bad boy . . .Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine - a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder.Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude . . . and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy.Briar's new hockey co-captain has his reasons, though. The men's team just merged with a rival program, leaving Ryder with an angry roster where everyone hates one another's guts. To make matters worse, the summer coaching spot he's angling for with the legendary Garrett Graham is out of reach after he makes the worst possible first impression on his hero. So, really, this compromise with Gigi is win-win. He helps her make the national team, she puts in a good word with her dad.The only potential snag? This bone-deep, body-numbing, mind-spinning chemistry they're trying to ignore. It's a dangerous game they're playing, but the risks just might be worth it.
Sexy But Psycho
Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not conforming to whichever norms or stereotypes are expected of them in that time and space. Sexy But Psycho is a challenging and uncomfortable book which seeks to explore the way professionals and society at large pathologize and sexualise women and girls.Utilising decades of research, real case studies and new data from her own work, Dr Taylor's book will critically analyse the way we label women with personality disorders. Why are women and girls pathologized for being angry about oppression and abuse? How have so many women been duped into believing that they are mentally ill, for having normal and natural reactions to their experiences? Sexy But Psycho argues that there is a specific purpose to convincing women and girls that they are mentally ill, as the world avoids addressing violence against women and their centuries of ignored trauma.
Where The Crawdads Sing
#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon X Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick I Can't Even Express How Much I Love This Book! I Didn't Want This Story To End! Reese Witherspoon Painfully Beautiful. The New York Times Book Review For Years, Rumors Of The Marsh Girl Have Haunted Barkley Cove, A Quiet Town On The North Carolina Coast. So In Late 1969, When Handsome Chase Andrews Is Found Dead, The Locals Immediately Suspect Kya Clark, The So-called Marsh Girl. But Kya Is Not What They Say. Sensitive And Intelligent, She Has Survived For Years Alone In The Marsh That She Calls Home, Finding Friends In The Gulls And Lessons In The Sand. Then The Time Comes When She Yearns To Be Touched And Loved. When Two Young Men From Town Become Intrigued By Her Wild Beauty, Kya Opens Herself To A New Life - Until The Unthinkable Happens. Perfect For Fans Of Barbara Kingsolver And Celeste Ng, Where The Crawdads Sing Is At Once An Exquisite Ode To The Natural World, A Heartbreaking Coming-of-age Story, And A Surprising Tale Of Possible Murder. Owens Reminds Us That We Are Forever Shaped By The Children We Once Were, And That We Are All Subject To The Beautiful And Violent Secrets That Nature Keeps.
Anatomy: A Love Story
A gothic tale full of mystery and romance about a willful female surgeon, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, and the buried secrets they must uncover together.Edinburgh, 1817.Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry.Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die.When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new acquaintance might be more helpful than she first thought. Because Hazel has made a deal with Dr. Beecham: if she can pass the medical examination on her own, the university will allow her to enroll. Without official lessons, though, Hazel will need more than just her books – she’ll need bodies to study, corpses to dissect.Lucky that she’s made the acquaintance of someone who digs them up for a living, then.But Jack has his own problems: strange men have been seen skulking around cemeteries, his friends are disappearing off the streets. Hazel and Jack work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves, but in the very heart of Edinburgh society.
VERITY
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.
The Rock of Tanios
An exploration of myth, passion and loyalty from the Lebanon's troubled past, The Rock of Tanios is another superbly rich and rewarding novel from the author of Samarkand and Leo the African. Expertly controlling his multi-faceted narrative with prose of great beauty and power, Maalouf delves into the history of an extraordinary life: that of Tanois, child of the mountains.
The Gardens of Light
Born in a Mesopotamian village in the third century, the son of a Parthian warrior, Mani grows up in a volatile and dangerous world. As battle rages for control over the Middle East between the great Roman and Persian empires, as Jews and Christians, Buddhists and Zoroastrians fight for ascendency, Mani- painter, mystic, physician and prophet- makes his way through the battlefields to preach to his incandescent doctrine of humility, tolerance and love, a doctrine that comes to be known as Manicheanism.A vivid glimpse of the ancient world in all its perfumed splendour and cruelty, an elegantly philosophical discourse on the fall of man, THE GARDENS OF LIGHT is a story of great beauty and resonance, exquisitely told.
The First Century After Beatrice
A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers: specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant - and when the entomologist does some research in to the matter, discovering the incidence of female birth has become increasingly rare, he is left in no doubt that the world has entered intoa critical phase of its history.As this beloved daughter Beatrice approaches maturity, the entomologist and his partner question the validity of gender bias, and attempt to redress the growing imbalance before it reaches irreversible proportions. But in the poverty and famine of the South, where male children can mean the difference between survival and starvation, the popularity of the scarab beans is already taking devastating effect.
Samarkand
Leo the African
From his chlidhood in Fez, having fled the Christian Inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as an itinerant merhcant, Hasans story is a quixotic catalogue of pirates, slave girls and princesses, encompassing the complexities of a world in a state of religious flux. Hasan too is touched by the instability of the era, performing his hadj to Mecca, then converting to Christianity, only to relapse back to the Muslim faith later in life.In re-creating his extraordinary experiences, Amin Maalouf sketches an irrisistible portrait of the Mediterranea world as it was nearly five centuries ago - the fall of Granada, the Ottoman conquest of Egypt, Renaissance Rome under the Medicis: all contribute to a background of spectacular colour, matched only by the picaresque adventures of Hasan's life.
The Love Hypothesis: The Tiktok sensation and romcom of the year!
Based on the available information and the data hitherto collected, my hypothesis is that the further I stay away from love, the better off I will be.'Contemporary romance's unicorn: the elusive marriage of deeply brainy and delightfully escapist.' Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners*When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive on her way to a happily ever after was always going to be tough, scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting woman, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when he agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire and Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support (and his unyielding abs), their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion.Olive soon discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.What the five star reviews are saying about The Love Hypothesis:'Did I read this in 24 hours? Yes.''Funny. Snarky. Intelligent. Real.''If you're even slightly thinking about getting this book to read, just go a head and do it''Adam is just *swoon*''Ali Hazelwood has made herself an auto-buy author''It was just... perfect.''A heroine you will instantly fall in love with'
Check & Mate
In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart.Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays: after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious "Kingkiller" Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess.Nolan's loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone. What's even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to walk away. Resign. Game over. But Mallory's victory opens the door to sorely needed cash-prizes and despite everything, she can't help feeling drawn to the enigmatic strategist....As she rockets up the ranks, Mallory struggles to keep her family safely separated from the game that wrecked it in the first place. And as her love for the sport she so desperately wanted to hate begins to rekindle, Mallory quickly realizes that the games aren't only on the board, the spotlight is brighter than she imagined, and the competition can be fierce (-ly attractive. And intelligent...and infuriating...)
Fables choisies
Nouvelle édition About the Author Né en 1621 à Château-Thierry, Jean de La Fontaine étudie le droit à Paris et fréquente le groupe de la "Table Ronde". Il est reçu en qualité de maître particulier triennal des eaux et forêts, puis "attaché" à la duchesse douairière d'Orléans ce qui lui permet de fréquenter les salons. Il entre à l'Académie française en 1684. Hébergé pendant près de vingt ans par Mme de La Sablière, puis par M. et Mme d'Hervart, il est mort à Paris en 1695.
AFTER – saison 3 – [ after we fell ] (After, 3)
Le caractère ombrageux d'Hardin continue à lui jouer des tours, et il échappe de peu à l'expulsion de l'université. De son côté, Tessa retrouve son père par hasard au détour d'une rue. Hardin, toujours aussi ingérable, ne facilite pas cette entrevue inopinée. Tessa va devoir affronter la plus douloureuse des questions : Hardin pourra-t-il s'ouvrir un jour ?Un week-end chez le père d'Hardin est l'occasion rêvée pour se recentrer sur leur histoire. La rencontre de Riley et de Lillian va leur en apprendre bien plus que toutes leurs querelles. Pourtant, le départ pour Seattle approche... C'est le moment de prendre les bonnes décisions. Mais Hardin est-il seulement capable de mettre ses démons de côté pour suivre Tessa ? Le besoin passionné d'être ensemble sera-t-il plus fort que tous les obstacles ?
After Tome 2 – After We Collided (After, 2)
Après un début tumultueux, la relation de Tessa et Hardin semblait s arranger. Jusqu'au moment où Tessa découvre les secrets du passé d'Hardin, qui la bouleversent. Elle savait qu'il pouvait être cruel, mais à ce point... Est-il vraiment l'homme dont Tessa est tombée éperdument amoureuse, ou ment-il depuis le début ? Ce n'est pas si facile. Le souvenir de leurs nuits passionnées trouble son jugement. Tessa n'est pas sûre de supporter une autre promesse non tenue, mais elle a besoin de lui pour avancer. Hardin sait qu'il a fait une erreur, peut-être la plus grande de sa vie, et qu'il peut perdre Tessa. Il sait aussi qu il faut parfois se méfier de ses amis. Il veut se battre pour elle, mais pourra-t-il changer par amour ?Le deuxième tome d une série phénomène, véritable best-seller planétaire.
Origines (Ldp Litterature)
Il était une fois deux frères, Gebrayel et Botros, nés dans ce Liban de la fin du xixe siècle encore partie intégrante de l’Empire ottoman. Le premier rêve de conquérir le monde et quitte l’Orient natal pour faire souche à Cuba. Le second, homme de pensée et de livres, reste au pays. Ainsi commence la saga des Maalouf, sédentaires ou nomades, emportés par l’histoire dans une diaspora familiale, et que relient, du Brésil à l’Australie et des Etats-Unis à la France, le bruissement d’un nom et la conscience d’une origine commune.C’est à cette « tribu », dont il reconstitue l’histoire avec la rigueur d’un archiviste et l’empathie d’un romancier, que l’auteur du Rocher de Tanios (prix Goncourt 1993) rend un magnifique hommage d’amour et de fidélité. Pour l’écrivain, lui-même en exil, n’est-elle pas sa seule patrie ?Ce livre a obtenu le prix Méditerranée 2004.
Les Echelles du Levant
«Echelles du Levant», c'est le nom qu'on donnait autrefois à ce chapelet de cités marchandes par lesquelles les voyageurs d'Europe accédaient à l'Orient. De Constantinople à Alexandrie, en passant par Smyrne, Adana ou Beyrouth, ces villes ont longtemps été des lieux de brassage où se côtoyaient langues, coutumes et croyances. Des univers précaires que l'Histoire avait lentement façonnés, avant de les démolir. Brisant, au passage, d'innombrables vies.Le héros de ce roman, Ossyane, est l'un de ces hommes au destin détourné. De l'agonie de l'Empire ottoman aux deux guerres mondiales et aux tragédies qui, aujourd'hui encore, déchirent le Proche-Orient, sa vie ne pèsera guère plus qu'un brin de paille dans la tourmente. Patiemment, il se souvient, il raconte son enfance princière, sa grand-mère démente, son père révolté, son frère déchu, son séjour en France sous l'Occupation, sa rencontre avec Clara, leurs moments de ferveur, d'héroïsme et de rêve : puis la descente aux enfers.Dépossédé de son avenir, de sa dignité, privé des joies les plus simples, que lui reste-t-il ? Un amour en attente. Un amour tranquille, mais puissant. Peut-être, en fin de compte, plus puissant que l'Histoire.Il est des personnages de roman qui s'imposent par l'universalité de leur histoire. Leur destin particulier porte témoignage de millions d'autres : à travers leurs amours, leurs drames, leurs espérances, des peuples se reconnaissent... Ossyane est de ces héros romanesques qui ont la présence des personnages mythiques.Pierre-Robert Leclercq, Le Monde.
Le Rocher de Tanios (Ldp Litterature)
« Le destin passe et repasse à travers nous, comme l'aiguille du cordonnier à travers le cuir qu'il façonne. » Pour Tanios, enfant des montagnes libanaises, le destin se marque d'abord dans le mystère qui entoure sa naissance : fils de la trop belle Lamia, des murmures courent le pays sur l'identité de son vrai père. Le destin passera de nouveau, dans ces années 1830 où l'Empire ottoman, l'Egypte, l'Angleterre se disputent ce pays promis aux déchirements, le jour où l'assassinat d'un chef religieux contraindra Tanios à l'exil...Mêlant l'histoire et la légende, la sagesse et la folie des hommes, le romancier de Léon l'Africain et du Premier Siècle après Béatrice nous entraîne dans un prodigieux voyage romanesque qui lui a valu le prix Goncourt 1993.
Le Periple De Baldassare (Ldp Litterature)
« Ce que la présence de cette femme a apaisé en moi, ce n’est pas la soif charnelle d’un voyageur, c’est ma détresse originelle. Je suis né étranger, j’ai vécu étranger et je mourrai plus étranger encore. Je suis trop orgueilleux pour parlerd’hostilité, d’humiliations, de rancœur, de souffrances, mais je sais reconnaître les regards et les gestes. Il y a des bras de femmes qui sont des lieux d’exil, et d’autres qui sont la terre natale. »Parti sur les routes en 1665, le narrateur de cette histoire, Baldassare Embriaco, Génois d’Orient et négociant en curiosités, est à la poursuite d’un livre qui est censé apporter le Salut à un monde désemparé. Sans doute est-il aussi à la recherche de ce qui pourrait encore donner un sens à sa propre existence.Au cours de son périple, en Méditerranée et au-delà, Baldassare traverse des pays en perdition, des villes en feu, des communautés en attente. Il rencontre la peur, la tromperie et la désillusion : mais également l’amour, à l’heure où il ne l’attendait plus.
Les possibles
Juliane n'aime pas les surprises. Quand son père fantasque vient s'installer chez elle, à la suite de l'incendie de sa maison, son quotidien parfaitement huilé connaît quelques turbulences.Jean dépense sa retraite au téléachat, écoute du rock, tapisse les murs de posters d'Indiens, égare ses affaires, cherche son chemin.Juliane veut croire que l'originalité de Jean s'est épanouie avec l'âge, mais elle doit se rendre à l'évidence : il déraille.Face aux lendemains qui s'évaporent, elle va apprendre à découvrir l'homme sous le costume de père, ses valeurs, ses failles, et surtout ses rêves.Tant que la partie n'est pas finie, il est encore l'heure de tous les possibles.Entrer dans l’univers de Virginie Grimaldi, c’est accepter d’être saisi d’émotions, de rire, de pleurer et d’être touché par toute la sensibilité que dégage son duo père-fille. 20 Minutes Livres.Un livre très émouvant qui va vous emporter. Femme actuelle.
Le parfum du bonheur est plus fort sous la pluie (Littérature)
« Je veux qu’on divorce. »Il aura suffi de cinq mots pour que l'univers de Pauline bascule.Installée avec son fils de quatre ans chez ses parents, elle laisse les jours s'écouler en attendant que la douleur s'estompe. Jusqu'au moment où elle décide de reprendre sa vie en main.Si les sentiments de Ben se sont évanouis, il suffit de les ranimer.Chaque jour, elle va donc lui écrire un souvenir de leur histoire. Mais cette plongée dans le passé peut faire resurgir les secrets les plus enfouis.Entre rire et larmes, ce roman touche au cœur. Version Femina.Tous les ingrédients sont réunis pour passer un bon moment. Télé Loisirs.Revigorant.Femme actuelle.