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Summer has arrived in the Cornish town of Mount Polbearne, and Polly Waterford couldn't be happier. Because Polly is in love: She's in love with the beautiful seaside town she calls home, she's in love with running the bakery on Beach Street, and she's in love with her boyfriend, Huckle. And yet there's something unsettling about the gentle summer breeze that's floating through town.

A Best Historical Fiction of Spring Pick by Amazon, PopSugar, AARP, and BookBub! A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the terrible injustice that tears them apart, by the USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of...

"Nous commencerons par discuter les points de vue pris sur la femme par la biologie, la psychanalyse, le matérialisme historique. Nous essaierons de montrer ensuite positivement comment la "réalité féminine" s'est constituée, pourquoi la femme a été définie comme l'Autre et quelles en ont été les conséquences du point de vue des hommes."

Evelyn Waugh is one of the pre-eminent English novelists of the 20th Century. This collection comprises six of his finest works, dramatised by award-winning writer Jeremy Front. Decline and Fall Paul Pennyfeather, an earnest, scholarly Oxford student, knows nothing of 1920's high-life - until...

True stories inspired by one of the most iconic, beloved, best-selling books of our time. In the 10 years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of people to set out on paths they never thought possible, in search of their own best selves. Here, in this candid and captivating collection, nearly 50 of those people, as diverse in their experiences as they are in age and background, share their stories.

The new Anna Jacobs saga continues the story of the younger sisters of Keara Michaels, the heroine of A PENNYWORTH OF SUNSHINE, following their fortunes from nineteenth-century Ireland to the brave new world of Australia. Three sisters. Three journeys. One destination. In 1863 the authorities...

This is the After the End collection, Volumes 5 through 8. BROOD by Claire Kent For years, I’ve been waiting to turn twenty-one so I can marry, start breeding, and contribute to life in our bunker, but just before my spousal ceremony, the council makes a change. Instead of marrying the boy...

A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: eight comedies with all-star casts including David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Martin Jarvis, Siân Phillips and Miriam Margolyes. The plays included in this collection are: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and All's Well That Ends Well.

Recueillies bébés par l'énigmatique Pa Salt, les six sœurs d'Aplièse ont chacune découvert leur histoire. À présent que leur père a disparu, elles n'ont qu'un indice pour trouver leur dernière sœur: une bague sertie d'émeraudes formant une étoile à sept branches. Elles se lancent alors dans une quête haletante où, parcourant différents continents, elles découvrent une magnifique histoire d'amour, de bravoure et de sacrifice, qui a commencé près d'un siècle plus tôt, tandis que d'autres courageuses jeunes femmes avaient décidé de risquer leur vie pour changer le monde autour d'elles.

She's out to prove that there's no such thing as choosing happiness. Full of heart, humor, and tenderness, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley is a story of found family with a slow-burn, kisses-only romance. Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project. Isadora...

The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, now she's come home -- broke...

Discover the dark side of humanity as we delve into some of the most shocking and twisted little-known true crime stories. To most, the senseless acts of violence and pure evil depicted in these cases are simply unimaginable. But they’re all somebody’s reality.

A killer dubbed the Confession Artist is posting sketches of potential victims on social media. And paranoia spreads as strangers across the nation admit to their sins—fearing the consequences: You have six days to confess or die. Then former cop and first-year PI Crosbie Mitchell sees a sketch that bears a striking resemblance to her. How can that be? She’s a nobody from Flathead Valley, Montana. Crosbie dismisses it as an unnerving coincidence.

A little over four months has passed since Desmond McLaughlin was physically yanked from his home and thrown to the mercy of a conquering alien empire when they demanded he be handed over for training as he was an ‘Adept’, one of the few able to harness the power of magic in the universe. During that time, he has learned how to manipulate mana and made several friends amongst the aliens whose culture he was now immersed in. And one lover.

I didn't expect him. I didn't want to fall in love. But I can't let him go. Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place. He's brilliant. He's a hero. He locks away the sick and depraved. But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me. Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead. They should have made sure I stayed dead. Now I'm taking from them. One name at a time.

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar for twenty-first-century Japan, a young woman suffering from depression embarks on a series of darkly comic domestic disasters that lead her to question whether she is worthy of love Twenty-five-year-old Yasuko has been living with her kind but apathetic boyfriend...

Some homes are worth fighting for. Others demand a price. Generations of Appalachian magic kept Ina Klee's family land protected. Now a ruthless tech company—and a wealthy family hiding dangerous enchantments—threaten everything she's sworn to protect. Hidden among overgrown fields and old...

Il n'existe aucun mot dans la langue française pour désigner la fratrie au féminin. Un oubli dont on peut aisément déterminer les causes : une fratrie uniquement composée de filles a longtemps été considérée comme un échec dans nos sociétés où la descendance passe par les fils. Pourtant, des Petites Filles modèles à Kate et Pippa Middleton, de Simone et Hélène de Beauvoir à Venus et Serena Williams, des sept Pléiades antiques aux sœurs Halliwell de Charmed, les exemples héroïques et ordinaires sont nombreux.

Gus and the Stuck Engine is a gentle and emotionally supportive children’s story about a little garbage truck named Gus who feels stuck inside. No matter how hard he tries, his engine will not move forward, and his worried thoughts keep looping around and around. With the calm support of his trusted friend Pip and a kind little frog, Gus slowly learns that stuck feelings do not last forever. Through patience, breathing, naming emotions, and taking one small step at a time, Gus discovers that healing and movement can happen gently.

Ich weiß, wer ich bin. Was ich bin. Und … es zerfetzt mein Innerstes. Denn um wirklich Klarheit zu erhalten, muss ich etwas tun, das jedes Rudel der Welt auseinanderreißen würde. Kann ich das? Meine Bedürfnisse über diejenige stellen, mit denen ich so viel Zeit verbracht habe? Denen ich vertraue und die meine Familie geworden sind? Ich muss. Denn nur dann bekomme ich endlich Wahrheiten. Nicht nur über mich, sondern auch über das Rudel. Selbst wenn das bedeutet, dass nie wieder etwas so sein wird wie zuvor.