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Автор: Kristan Higgins

Everyone loves Jack Holland, but Emmaline Neal needs him. Her ex-fianc? is getting married in Malibu and, obviously, she can't go to the wedding alone.In Manningsport, New York, tall, blond and gorgeous Jack Holland is practically a cottage industry when it comes to rescuing desperate women. He knows the drill, Em figures, so he won't get the wrong idea.What Jack needs is an excuse to leave town. Ever since rescuing four teenagers from a car wreck, he's been hailed as a hero and the attention is making him itchy, especially since his too-pretty ex-wife is back, angling for a reunion. He's always liked Emmaline. She needs a weekend date? No problem.So when they wind up in bed together, Em chalks it up to red wine and chocolate cake, just one impulsive night not to be repeated. But Jack's pushing for more, and if she lets down her guard, either she'll get her heart crushed again, or discover that Jack's worth more than just dreaming about.

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Автор: Kristen Strassel

Un potente drago, su cui tanti anni fa ? stato lanciato un incantesimo, ? convinto che io sia una dea. Ma non una dea qualsiasi – la sua. Ha bisogno che io lo aiuti, ma perch? ci? accada deve prima farmi credere nella magia. Un potente drago, su cui tanti anni fa ? stato lanciato un incantesimo, ? convinto che io sia una dea. Ma non una dea qualsiasi – la sua. Ha bisogno che io lo aiuti, ma perch? ci? accada deve prima farmi credere nella magia. Una cosa da niente, vero? Sono impegnata a costruirmi una carriera e a ristrutturare la casa dei miei sogni. Ho tutto ci? che desidero, ma negli anni ho volutamente ignorato alcune parti della mia vita. Nello specifico, la mia vita amorosa. Quando la casa della nonna va a fuoco, mi reco a Summerland per aiutarla a rimettersi in piedi. Lei e mia sorella sostengono che la causa di quella devastazione sia stato un combattimento tra draghi, e che sia necessario che io venga a patti con la vita che ho a lungo trascurato e con la magia, nella quale non credo. Anche quell’uomo cos? sexy di Chance Drake ? disposto ad aiutare la nonna. ? scettico sulle capacit? magiche che lei sostiene di avere, e insiste che uno degli incantesimi che lei ha lanciato ? andato storto e lo ha lasciato intrappolato nella sua forma umana. Sostiene di essere un drago, e io l’ho sfidato a farmi credere nella magia. Quando solo io riesco a leggere un antico testo che nessun altro finora ? stato in grado di decifrare, la mia vita cambia per sempre. Chance riuscir? a convincermi a rimanere a Summerland e a usare la mia magia per salvare il tuono delle Smoky Mountains?

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Автор: Corinne Sullivan

A twisty read following an affair between a young female teacher and male boarding school student that fans of Katerina Diamond and Louise Jensen will devour.She’s a teacher. She knows the rules. When recent college graduate Imogene Abney takes a job as a teacher at pricey and exclusive The Vandenberg School, an institution populated by the most privileged boys in America, she is plunged into an unfamiliar world.Struggling to adjust, Imogene welcomes the friendship of student Adam Kipling. But when Adam starts taking things too far, she crosses a line that could result in disaster —losing her job, jail, and the total ruin of her reputation.Suddenly Imogene is facing her worst nightmare, even though Adam began their affair, which hardly seems fair to Imogene. Especially when Adam is telling a very different story and the authorities seem to be on his side.She’s the innocent one…Isn’t she?

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Автор: Полина Саймонс

They were ready for anything … except the end. The must-read conclusion to Paullina Simons' epic End of Forever saga. Julian has lost everything he ever loved and is almost out of time. His life and death struggle against fate offers him one last chance to do the impossible and save the woman to whom he is permanently bound. Together, Julian and Josephine must wage war against the relentless dark force that threatens to destroy them. This fight will take everything they have and everything they are as they try once more to give each other their unfinished lives back. As time runs out for the star-crossed lovers, Julian learns that fate has one last cruel trick in store for them—and even a man who has lost everything still has something left to lose.

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Автор: Angela Saini

‘Inferior is more than just a book. It’s a battle cry – and right now, it’s having a galvanising effect on its core fanbase’ ObserverAre women more nurturing than men?Are men more promiscuous than women?Are males the naturally dominant sex?And can science give us an impartial answer to these questions?Taking us on an eye-opening journey through science, Inferior challenges our preconceptions about men and women, investigating the ferocious gender wars that burn in biology, psychology and anthropology. Angela Saini revisits the landmark experiments that have informed our understanding, lays bare the problem of bias in research, and speaks to the scientists finally exploring the truth about the female sex.The result is an enlightening and deeply empowering account of women’s minds, bodies and evolutionary history. Interrogating what these revelations mean for us as individuals and as a society, Inferior unveils a fresh view of science in which women are included, rather than excluded.

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Автор: Джек Марс

"Um dos melhores suspenses que eu li este ano."– Roberto Mattos, Books and Movie ReviewsNesta t?o esperada estreia de uma ?pica s?rie de suspense de espionagem do autor n?mero de best-sellers, Jack Mars, os leitores s?o levados para um suspense com muita a??o atrav?s da Europa com o agente da CIA Kent Steele, ca?ado por terroristas, pela CIA e pela sombra da sua pr?pria identidade. Ele precisa resolver este mist?rio. Quem est? atr?s dele, quem ele ?? Alvo dos terroristas – e da bela mulher que ele continua vendo em sua mente.Kent Steele, 38 anos, brilhante professor de Hist?ria Europeia na Universidade de Columbia, vive uma vida tranquila em um sub?rbio de Nova York com suas duas filhas adolescentes. Tudo isso muda quando, numa noite, algu?m bate ? sua porta e ele ? sequestrado por tr?s terroristas – e se v? atravessando o oceano para ser interrogado em um por?o em Paris.Eles est?o convencidos de que Kent ? o espi?o mais letal que a CIA j? conheceu.Mas Kent est? convencido de que eles pegaram o homem errado.Quem tem raz?o?Com uma conspira??o ? sua volta, advers?rios t?o espertos quanto ele e um assassino em sua cola, o jogo selvagem de gato e rato leva Kent a um caminho perigoso – que pode levar a Langley – e a uma descoberta chocante sobre sua pr?pria vida e sua identidade.

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Автор: Dawn Brower

Alguns contos de fada s?o distorcidos Alguns contos de fadas s?o distorcidos. Como a filha de um duque, Lady Annalise Palmer deveria estar vivendo uma vida encantada, mas as apar?ncias podem enganar. Seu pai garantiu que toda a sua vida n?o fosse preenchida com nada al?m de dor e sofrimento. A felicidade ? uma emo??o indescrit?vel e o amor, ? inexistente. Ela n?o tem motivos para acreditar que ir? encontrar ambos. Ryan Simms, o marqu?s de Cinderbury, esteve sozinho por quase toda a sua vida. Depois que seu pai morreu, ele foi abandonado por seu av? e deixado sob os cuidados de sua malvada madrasta. Desde pequeno, ele aprendeu a n?o confiar em uma dama e, especialmente, nunca se apaixonar. S?o duas almas perdidas em busca da salva??o. Juntos, eles podem ajudar um ao outro a se curar, se conseguirem acreditar na possibilidade da felicidade, para escapar do tormento que ambos sofreram, e, ao longo do caminho, descobrir um amor eterno.

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Автор: Francis Hindes Groome

D?nyanın en neşeli ve ?zg?r ruhlu halkı ?ingenelerin masalları… D?nya ?zerinde ?ingenelerden daha geniş bir alana yayılmış başka bir halk yoktur. Gittikleri her yere masallarını da g?t?rm?ş ve dilden dile yayılmalarını sağlamışlardır. Bu masallar ?ingenelerin sivri dilini, cesaretini, hayal g?c?n?, vahşi doğasını ortaya koyarken m?zik, doğa ve ?zg?rl?k sevgilerine de dikkat ?ekmektedir. Kendini ?ingene yaşamına adayan halkbilimci Francis Hindes Groome tarafından derlenen bu masallar, ?ingenelerin renkli d?nyasını g?zler ?n?ne seriyor. Bu kitapta T?rk, Romen, Bukovina, Transilvanya, Slovakya, Moravya, Bohemya, Polonya, İngiliz, Galler ve İsko? ?ingenelerinin masalları ayrı ayrı ele alınırken başka halkların masallarıyla ilişkileri de ortaya konuyor. Ge?mişle geleceği birbirine bağlayan bu masallar, masal seven herkesin kitaplığında bulunmalı.

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Автор: Агата Кристи

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Raymond West approaches the Tuesday Night Club after his visit to John Newman, a friend who is searching for the Spanish ship Otranto which was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall. When John Newman disappears for days, upon his return he claims that he had been abducted by the thieves who had stripped the Otranto of its gold, and that the local pub landlord had worked with them. Can Miss Marple help the club solve the mystery of the Otranto and its dangerous allure?

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Автор: Ute Scheffler

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Автор: Пенни Джордан

Penny Jordan needs no introduction as arguably the most recognisable name writing for Mills & Boon. We have celebrated her wonderful writing with a special collection, many of which for the first time in eBook format and all available right now."The choice is yours," Joel was saying.Joel's biting contempt of her over a teenage episode that he had wrongly interpreted had permanently scarred Lissa – left her unable to respond to any man. Now, years later, they were at loggerheads over their joint guardianship of her sister's little girls.No way would Lissa give them up.But Joel's proposal of marriage came as a shock. She'd learned to live without Joel. How could she possibly learn to live with him? Knowing his contempt for her was still there, knowing that she loved him.

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Автор: Блейк Пирс

Fr?n den b?sts?ljande f?rfattaren Blake Pierce kommer nu en ny pulsh?jande deckarserie.Mitt ute bland majsf?lten i Nebraska hittas en kvinna d?d och fastbunden vid en p?le, offer f?r en vansinnig m?rdare. Polisen inser snart att de har att g?ra med en seriem?rdare – och att han bara har b?rjat.Kriminalinspekt?r Mackenzie White, ung, tuff och smartare ?n de ?ldrade, sexistiska m?nnen i den lokala polisk?ren, kallas motvilligt in f?r att f?rs?ka l?sa fallet. Det tar emot f?r de andra poliserna att erk?nna att de beh?ver hennes unga, skarpa sinne, som redan har lyckats l?sa tidigare ouppklarade brottsfall som l?mnat dem handfallna. Men ?ven f?r Mackenzie framst?r det h?r nya fallet n?rmast som en g?ta utan svar, ett fall vars like varken hon eller den lokala polisk?ren n?gonsin tidigare sett.N?r FBI kallas in f?r samarbete p?b?rjas en intensiv jakt. Mackenzies m?rka f?rflutna, hennes misslyckade relationer och hennes uppenbara attraktion till den nya FBI-agenten, tvingar henne att m?ta sina egna demoner samtidigt som m?rdaren tar henne till de allra m?rkaste delarna av hennes inre. N?r hon gr?ver sig allt djupare ner i m?rdarens v?rld, besatt av att hans vrickade psyke, inser hon att ondska verkligen existerar. Hon hoppas bara att hon inte ska bli fullkomligt uppslukad av det, samtidigt som hela hennes liv faller is?r omkring henne.N?r fler offer hittas och en hektisk kamp mot klockan p?b?rjas, s? finns det ingen annan utv?g ?n att hitta honom innan han d?dar igen.INNAN HAN D?DAR ?r en m?rk psykologisk thriller med pulsh?jande sp?nning, samt b?rjan p? en f?ngslande ny bokserie – och en ?lskv?rd ny karakt?r – som kommer f? dig att v?nda sida efter sida l?ngt in p? sm?timmarna.Den andra boken i deckarserien om Mackenzie White finns ute nu!Ute nu finns ocks? BORTA (En Riley Paige-deckare – Bok 1), en b?sts?ljare (etta p? Amazons b?sts?ljarlista) med ?ver 350 femstj?rniga recensioner – och gratis att ladda ner!

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Автор: Блейк Пирс

Fr?n Blake Pierce, b?sts?ljande f?rfattare av BORTA (etta p? Amazons b?sts?ljarlista med ?ver 600 femstj?rniga recensioner), kommer den andra boken i en ny pulsh?jande deckarserie. I INNAN HAN SER (En Mackenzie White-deckare – Bok 2) k?mpar Mackenzie White, FBI-agent under uppl?rning, med att g?ra intryck p? FBI-akademien i Quantico. Hon f?rs?ker bevisa sig sj?lv som kvinna och som nyrekryterad fr?n Nebraska. Med f?rhoppningar om att kunna l?mna sitt liv i mellanv?stra USA bakom sig f?rs?ker hon nu visa att hon har vad som kr?vs f?r att bli FBI-agent. Hon h?ller l?g profil och g?r vad hon kan f?r att imponera p? sina ?verordnade.Men allt st?lls p? ?nda n?r en d?d kvinnas kropp hittas p? en soptipp. Mordet har chockerande likheter med ?kerm?rdaren – brottsfallet som gjorde Mackenzie k?nd i Nebraska – och i den hektiska kampen mot klockan f?r att stoppa seriem?rdaren best?mmer sig FBI f?r att fr?ng? reglerna och ge Mackenzie chansen att arbeta med fallet.Det ?r Mackenzies stora chans att imponera p? FBI – men insatsen har aldrig varit h?gre ?n nu. Alla ?r inte n?jda ?ver att se henne jobba med fallet och allt hon tar sig f?r verkar g? fel. Allt eftersom trycket ?kar och m?rdaren sl?r till igen finner sig Mackenzie allt mer ensam i ett hav av erfarna agenter, och hon inser att hon tagit sig vatten ?ver huvudet. Hela hennes framtid hos FBI st?r p? spel.Trots att Mackenzie ?r tuff och har en vilja av st?l och trots hennes briljanta f?rm?ga att jaga ifatt m?rdare, s? visar sig det h?r brottsfallet vara n?rmast en om?jlig g?ta, n?gonting bortom hennes f?rm?ga. Hon kanske inte ens hinner l?sa det eftersom hennes liv h?ller p? att falla is?r omkring henne.INNAN HAN SER ?r en m?rk psykologisk thriller med pulsh?jande sp?nning, samt den andra boken i en f?ngslande ny bokserie – och en ?lskv?rd ny karakt?r – som kommer f? dig att v?nda sida efter sida l?ngt in p? sm?timmarna.Bok 3 i deckarserien om Mackenzie White kommer snart.

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Автор: Dan Hancox

The definitive story of grime, the 21st Century’s most groundbreaking and influential musical phenomenon.Beginning at the start of the new millennium in the council estates of inner London, Inner City Pressure tells the full story of grime, Britain’s most exciting musical revolution since punk. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, grime’s teenage pioneers sent out a signal from the pirate radio aerials and crumbling estates of London’s poorest boroughs that would, 15 years later, resonate as the universal sound of youthful rebellion, as big in the suburbs as in the inner city.By 2018, the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Skepta have long since become household names. But have the conditions that produced this music now gone forever? What happens to those living on the margins when those margins become ever-smaller spaces? And what happens to a rebellious, outsider sound when it is fully accepted by the pop cultural mainstream? Inner City Pressure tells the astonishing story of a generation dancing, fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital.

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Автор: Kathleen Tessaro

Sunday Times bestselling author, Kathleen Tessaro returns with a stunning new novel that will be a big hit with fans of her debut success EleganceIt's 1987 and Evie is leaving home for the first time, headed for London to study acting. Along with her fellow students and roommates, Imogene (a born again Laura Ashley poster child and frustrated virgin) and Robbie (native New Yorker, budding bohemian, and very much not a virgin), Evie's determined to make her mark both on stage and off.But then life and love, in the shape of struggling rock musician Jake Albery, intervene. And everything changes.Fourteen years later and Evie's stuck. She's now a single mother teaching drama classes, her dreams long since abandoned. Robbie's dead, killed in car accident and Imo's lost touch.Then a friendship from the past comes to haunt Evie. Literally. And suddenly everything is about to change again.

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Автор: Margaret Way

When lawyer Jude Conroy tells Cate that she's just inherited a fortune from a wealthy man, everyone – including Jude – presumes she must have been the man's mistress….Cate insists she doesn't even know the man who left her the money. But Jude has learned to be cynical about women who play the innocent – and part of him doesn't believe her. But another part wants to go to any lengths to prove she's telling the truth….Because if she's going to be anyone's mistress – or anyone's wife, for that matter – she's going to be his!

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Автор: MELANIE MILBURNE

For Patrizio Trelini, everything points to Keira Worthington's infidelity.The ruthless Italian throws his temptress wife out–he won't listen to her lies! But, two months later, necessity brings Keira back into Patrizio's life, and into his bed, although his heart remains cold.With her marriage revived, Keira has one last chance to prove her innocence. But she's just discovered she's pregnant! Will Patrizio accept the truth–that Keira's having his child?

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Автор: Dani Collins

“If you’re pregnant… …you’ll marry me. ” Control is everything to billionaire Viktor Rohan. Then Rozalia Toth appears on his mansion’s doorstep, looking for a family heirloom, and throws his world into chaos! Her sweetness intrigues him beyond measure…and as their inescapable chemistry explodes, Viktor realises Rozi’s innocence isn’t an act! But their passion has consequences, and Viktor refuses to let scandal ruin his family again. Their baby will be legitimate! And Rozi? She will be his…

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Автор: Мэг Кэбот

From the best-selling author of PRINCESS DIARIES comes this supernatural romance with real bite…Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.Meena Harper is familiar with the supernatural. After all, she knows how you're going to die (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.)But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for Lucien Antonescu—who she meets and then makes the mistake of falling in love with—a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side for which an ancient society of vampire hunters would prefer to see him dead.The problem is Lucien's already dead. Maybe that's why he's the first guy Meena's ever met with whom she could imagine herself having a future. See, while Meena's always been able to see everyone else's destiny, she's never been able look into her own. Lucien seems to be everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, though he might turn out to be more of a nightmare.So now would be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future . . . if she has one.

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Автор: Ngaio Marsh

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the sixth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.OPENING NIGHTDreams of stardom lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to a soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. Now, driven by sheer necessity, she accepts the humble job of dresser to the Vulcan Theatre's leading lady. But the eagerly awaited opening night brings a strange turn of the wheel of fortune – and sudden unforeseen death…SPINSTERS IN JEOPARDYHigh in the mountains stands an historic Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. Roderick Alleyn, on holiday with his family, suspects that a huge drugs ring operates from within the castle. When someone else stumbles upon the secret, Mr Oberon decides his strange rituals require a human sacrifice…SCALES OF JUSTICEThe inhabitants of Swevenings are stirred only by a fierce competition to catch a monster trout known to dwell in their beautiful stream. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish…

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Автор: Ngaio Marsh

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the second volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.DIED IN THE WOOLOne summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech – and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction – packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead…FINAL CURTAINJust as Agatha Troy, the world famous painter, completes her portrait of Sir Henry Ancred, the Grand Old Man of the stage, the old actor dies. The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in – in the person of Troy's long-absent husband, Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn…SWING, BROTHER, SWINGThe music rises to a climax: Lord Pastern aims his revolver and fires. The figure in the spotlight falls – and the coup-de-th?atre has become murder… Has the eccentric peer let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or will a tangle of jealousies and blackmail reveal to Inspector Alleyn an altogether different murderer?

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Автор: Ngaio Marsh

The tenth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.BLACK AS HE'S PAINTEDCalled in to help with security arrangements for a presidential reception at a London embassy, Chief Superintendent Alleyn ensures the house and grounds are stiff with police. Nevertheless, an assassin strikes, and Alleyn finds no shortage of help, from Special Branch to a tribal court – and a small black cat named Lucy Lockett…LAST DITCHYoung Rickie Alleyn has come to the Channel Islands to write, but village life seems tedious – until he finds the stablehand in a ditch, dead from an unlucky jump. But Rickie notices something strange and his father, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, is discreetly summoned to the scene, when Rickie disappears…GRAVE MISTAKEWith two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and a debilitating disease, it is no wonder that Sybil Foster took her own life. But Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn doesn't believe she was the type to kill herself – and he thinks someone else has made a very grave mistake…

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Автор: Ngaio Marsh

The eighth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.HAND IN GLOVEThe April Fool's Day was a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who ended up in the ditch – for ever. Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period's letter of condolence, sent before the body was found – not to mention the family squabbles. It's all a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn…DEAD WATERTimes are good in the Cornish village of Portcarrow, as hundreds flock to taste the healing waters of Pixie Falls. When Miss Emily Pride inherits this celebrated land, she wants to put an end to the villagers' exploitation of miracle cures, especially Miss Elspeth Costs's gift shop. But someone puts an end to Miss Cost, and Roderick Alleyn finds himself literally on the spot…DEATH AT THE DOLPHINThe bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious oil millionaire, who also gives him a glove that belonged to Shakespeare to display in the dockside theatre. But then a murder takes place, a boy is attacked, and the glove is stolen. Inspector Roderick Alleyn doesn't think oil and water are a good mix…

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Автор: Ngaio Marsh

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the third volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.DEATH IN A WHITE TIEThe season has begun. D?butantes and chaperones are planning their gala dinners – and the blackmailer is planning strategies to stalk his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knows that something is up and has already planted his friend Lord Gospell at the dinner. But someone else has got there first…OVERTURE TO DEATHIt was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, and an amusing evening's entertainment to finance the gift. But all is doomed when Miss Campanula sits down to play. A chord is struck, a shot rings out, and Miss Campanula is dead.it seems to be a case of sinister infatuation for Roderick Alleyn…DEATH AT THE BARA midsummer evening – darts night at The Plume of Feathers, a traditional Devonshire public house. A distinguished painter, a celebrated actor, a woman graduate, a plump lady from County Clare and a local farmer all play their parts in a fatal experiment which calls for the investigative expertise of Inspector Alleyn…

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Автор: Freeman Crofts Wills

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fourth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE BODY THAT CAME FROM NOWHEREOff the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two fishermen discover a shipping crate and manage to haul it ashore. Inside is the decomposing body of a brutally murdered man. With nothing to indicate who he is or where it came from, the local police decide to call in Scotland Yard. Fortunately Inspector Joseph French does not believe in insoluble cases – there are always clues to be found if you know what to look for. Testing his theories with his accustomed thoroughness, French’s ingenuity sets him off on another investigation . . .

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Автор: Freeman Crofts Wills

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THREE CORPSES FOR INSPECTOR FRENCHA chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill’s life on the night her uncle’s old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a tragic accident, the case is closed – until Scotland Yard is alerted to the circulation of bank-notes supposedly destroyed in the inferno. Inspector Joseph French suspects that dark deeds were done in the Hollow that night and begins to uncover a brutal crime involving arson, murder and body snatching . . .

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Автор: Freeman Crofts Wills

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the sixth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.A MURDER MYSTERY WITHOUT A CLUEWhen Sir John Magill, the wealthy Irish industrialist, fails to show up at his home town on a well-publicised visit, neither his family nor the Belfast police can explain his disappearance. Foul play is suspected when his bloodstained hat is discovered, and Scotland Yard is called in. With his characteristic genius for reconstruction, Inspector French evolves a gruesome theory about what happened to the elderly man, but his reputation – and that of Scotland Yard – will depend on finding out who was responsible . . .

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Автор: Freeman Crofts Wills

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERYAt the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant Duke and Peabody, the body of old Mr Gething is discovered beside a now-empty safe. With multiple suspects, the robbery and murder is clearly the work of a master criminal, and requires a master detective to solve it. Meticulous as ever, Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard embarks on an investigation that takes him from the streets of London to Holland, France and Spain, and finally to a ship bound for South America . . .

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Автор: Judith McWilliams

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Автор: Emma Richmond

Wife for a year!A recent accident has left Alexa Gifford homeless, jobless and manless, with a rather scruffy dog to support! Her situation looks pretty desperate until her longtime friend Stefan Blake offers her a new position…as his wife!In order to adopt his six-year-old niece, Jessica, Stefan needs to convince the authorities that he can provide a stable home. He hasn't got time to find the woman of his dreams; Alexa will just have to do. After all, he only needs a temporary wife. Unfortunately, Stefan reckons without two things: little orphan Jessica falling in love with her instant mother, and his new bride falling in love with him!

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Автор: Various

Ten sexy stories about bad behaviour and the disciplinary measures taken to correct it. Original erotica from Monica Belle, Rose de Fer, Liz Coldwell, Heather Towne, and many more.Good girl Mary has a whole range of confessions to tempt her husband into dispensing some domestic discipline…Rich and thoroughly spoilt brat, Louise, discovers the skin-tingling limits to her excessive and unacceptable behaviour…A visit to Miss Vine most often results in a dispensing of “old school” discipline, as one wayward madam discovers…Erotica to keep you on your toes at Mischief Books.

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Автор: Serena Longhi Gelati

While the life of two English twins, Anne and Sarah, goes on peacefully, taking them from childhood to the end of adolescence, the novel plunges us into a background full of magic, traditions and real instructions. Nature will be not only the frame, but an active part in the story. Lunar and sun cycles will find their original meanings again; we are going to learn to work with herbs, to interpret Celtic Oghams, Tarots, we are going to understand the powers of stones, of colors and especially of our minds. A perfect mix of 21st century modernity and the wish to wake up and embrace the power, the symbols and the tools that the Universe puts at our disposal. While the life of two English twins, Anne and Sarah, goes on peacefully, taking them from childhood to the end of adolescence, the novel plunges us into a background full of magic, traditions and real instructions. Nature will be not only a frame, but an active part in the story. Lunar and sun cycles will find their original meanings again; we are going to learn to work with herbs, to interpret Celtic Oghams, Tarots, we are going to understand the powers of stones, of colors and especially of our minds. A perfect mix between 21st century modernity and the wish to wake up embracing the power, the symbols and the tools that the Universe puts at our disposal.

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Автор: Cara Summers

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Автор: Alana Matthews

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Автор: Коллектив авторов

Get the most out of your time at universityThis e-book prepares you for undergraduate and postgraduate life at English-speaking universities. You will discover what to expect and how to prepare for living and studying in another country.Learn how to:• adjust to a new culture• make new friends• meet academic expectations• stay safe and wellThe authors are based in the US, UK and Australia so the ebook includes specific information relevant to students attending English-speaking universities in each of these countries.Suitable for students whose level of English is Upper Intermediate / CEF level B2 / IELTS 5.5 / iBT TOEFL 50 and higher.

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Автор: Dana Lynn R

SAFE BY THE LAWMAN’S SIDEMaggie Slade’s been on the run since witnessing her husband’s murder, hiding from a killer who wants evidence he believes she has. A killer who was dressed as a LaMar Pond policeman. And she’d better run fast, because it’s not just her life on the line—Maggie now has year-old twin babies. But then she’s attacked again, and rescued…by a LaMar Pond cop. Trusting Lieutenant Dan Willis is frightening. Letting him take her back to LaMar Pond to find her husband’s killer is terrifying. But to protect her babies, she’ll risk anything. Even her life. And, as she grows closer to Dan and learns to trust again…she may even risk her heart.

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Автор: Valerie Parv

A child taken from her loving arms too soon.So Tara McNiven swallowed her tears, bolstered her pride and vowed never to let Zeke Blaxland know about the family that might have been…. But when Zeke burst unexpectedly into her life once more, Tara could keep no secrets from this determined, mesmerizing man. For Zeke not only demanded her kiss, he demanded answers.And what he discovered filled Tara with a powerful hope. Zeke claimed their baby was still alive and only needed to be found. Now, as they searched side by side, she discovered the powerful truth: that she had never stopped loving Zeke, or dreaming of their future family….

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Автор: Danilo Clementoni

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Автор: Kathryn Ross

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Автор: Virginia Smith

When Ben Dearinger got hold of a flash drive carrying deadly secrets, the scuba diver did the only thing he could. He buried it–fathoms deep.Now a drug cartel wants the evidence back, and they're willing to threaten Ben's ex-girlfriend Nikki Hoffman to get it. Although Nikki caused him no end of heartache, forgetting her has been impossible, and Ben would risk anything to protect her. But what will he do when he discovers her secret–that he's the father of her child?

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Автор: Joan Johnston

Bella Benedict's five grown children are scattered around the world like a handful of precious jewels. Now she's dying and she has one last, secret wish. To bring her children home. And to give them what she once had: a marriage of passion.Wealthy playboy Max Benedict has no interest in long-term commitment. He had his heart broken once and that was enough. Instead, he travels the world, working as a sometime spy for the CIA. When he's asked to investigate a foreign threat against the president, he doesn't think twice about accepting–until he hears who he'll be working with in London.FBI Special Agent Kristin Lassiter is under investigation and on the verge of losing everything–her savings, her job, her beloved father. So when Bella Benedict approaches her with the offer to pay her mounting debts, she's tempted to accept. But there's a catch–a big one. Bella wants Kristin to win the heart of her son Max, the very man who destroyed Kristin years ago. A man unaware he fathered her nine-year-old daughter. If Kristin succeeds, she'll get the money she needs–and the priceless Blackthorne rubies Bella has offered to sweeten the deal. The only problem is, can she win Max's heart without falling back in love with him?

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Автор: Jonathan Buckley

A lyrical and beautifully realised novel about a blind man's experiences of the world around him, from the acclaimed author of Ghost MacIndoe.Edward Morton, a blind translator, arrives at the Oak, an ailing spa hotel in the west of England, intending to stay for a few days to visit his family and to work. The manager of the Oak, Malcolm Caldecott, is preparing for the closure of the hotel, and for the visit of Stephanie, the daughter he has not seen for eight years. Eloni Dobra, a chambermaid at the Oak, is striving to establish a life in England, and to free herself of a burden that is crucial to her relationship both with her employer and with Edward Morton. As the nature of that burden becomes clearer, each of these four protagonists and the absent fifth – Morton's lover – move towards a crisis and, like the Oak itself, towards an uncertain future.Spanning the last three weeks of the Oak's existence, Invisible explores multiple voices – voices in conversation, voices in writing, on tape, in memory. It's an investigation of our perception of the world and our place in it, of the pleasures and deceptions of the senses, of the uses of language, of the lure of nostalgia and the difficulties of living in the present.Above all, like Buckley's previous novel, Ghost MacIndoe, it's a lyrical celebration of the transient, and an original study of love.

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Автор: Aldivan Teixeira Torres

Io sono il Frutto della Terra che viene a presentare come sfondo principale la cultura indigena cos? dimenticata dalla maggior parte dei Tupiniquins. ? un viaggio di conoscenza e liberazione.

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Автор: Erick Carballo

Novelle Felipe ist ein junger Mann aus ?quatorialguinea und ?berzeugt davon, dass er an irgendeinem Ort auf dieser Welt das Gl?ck finden wird, nach dem er sich so sehr sehnt. Bei seiner Suche ist er ganz auf sich gestellt und muss so manche Herausforderungen bew?ltigen, die sich ihm in den Weg stellen.

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Автор: Peter Conradi J

A full and revealing biography of one of the century’s greatest English writers and an icon to a generation.Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S.Byatt notes, she is ‘absolutely central to our culture’. As a novelist, as a thinker, and as a private individual, her life has significance for our age. There is a recognisable Murdoch world, and the adjective ‘Murdochian’ has entered the language to describe situations where a small group of people interract intricately and strangely. Her story is as emotionally fascinating as that of Virginia Woolf, but far less well known; hers has been an adventurous, highly eventful life, a life of phenomenal emotional and intellectual pressures, and her books portray a real world which is if anything toned down as well as mythicised. For Iris’s formative years, astonishingly, movingly and intimately documented by Conradi’s meticulous research, were spent among the leading European and British intellectuals who fought and endured World War II, and her life like her books, was full of the most extraordinary passions and profound relationships with some of the most inspiring and influential thinkers, artists, writers and poets of that turbulent time and after.Peter Conradi was very close to both Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, Iris’s husband, whose memoir of their life together has itself been the subject of an enormous amount of attention and acclaim. This will be an extraordinarily full biography, for there are vast resources in diaries and papers and friends’ recollections, and while it is a superlative biography it is also a superb history of a generation who have profoundly influenced our world today.

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Автор: Neil Hegarty

From mesolithic Ireland to the peace process, this little book covers all of the main historical and cultural events, places and figures in Irish history. A must for all lovers of Ireland and the Irish. An excellent, concise guide to how Ireland has come to be what it is today. Some key events, people, topics and places include: • Monastic Ireland, Vikings and Normans• The Irish language, the Book of Kells• Patrick, Colm Cille, Brian Boru, Granuaile (Grace O’Malley)• Colonial Ireland, Emigration• Rebellion, Famine and Partition• The Troubles, Good Friday Agreement and Brexit A helpful index is found at the back of the book. Beautifully produced, Collins Little Book of Irish History is a treasure in itself and makes a perfect gift for any Ireland enthusiast.

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Автор: Dana Marton

HIS LAST MISSION MIGHT ALSO BE HERS…FBI agent Brant Law was on a mission to bring down associates of an international criminal. This was his last case and he was determined to succeed, so teaming up with Anita Caballo, an attractive agent with a desire for justice, made him leery. But when his new partner was shot at and her life nearly cut short, Brant found his quick reflexes matched his desperate need to protect her.As his trust in Anita grew, so did his passion for her intelligence and beauty. Before long Brant wished Anita would shy away from the most challenging operation of his career…because losing her was more dangerous to his heart than any job he'd ever take on.

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Автор: Melissa F. Miller

El venerable estudio de abogados Prescott & Talbott se tambalea tras el asesinato de su socia Ellen Mortenson, supuestamente a manos de su marido, cuando llega una fotograf?a de la mujer muerta con su rostro tachado y con el texto ”ONE DOWN” («Uno Menos») en la parte inferior. Sasha no ejerce la defensa penal, as? que sospecha cuando su antiguo bufete le pide que represente al marido de Ellen. En deuda con Prescott, ella acepta el caso y pronto se encuentra representando no a una, sino a las dos, de las llamadas Lady Lawyer Killers. Pero eso es lo de menos, porque lo que ella no sabe es que el verdadero asesino est? llevando a cabo una venganza por un caso que sali? mal en el pasado. Y hay un abogado m?s en su lista.

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Автор: Julia James

She ran from their attraction… But can she resist the billionaire’s deal? Dutiful heiress Talia Grantham shared one earth-shattering evening with sinful stranger Luke, knowing that they could never be anything more. So she’s stunned when the enigmatic Greek returns as Luke Xenaskis, having bought her father’s business out from under him! Arrogant Luke offers Talia a job to save her family home… She can’t turn down the arrangement – or deny their still-powerful chemistry!

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Автор: Stephanie Bond

Wanted: Single women of any age to take part in a four-week clinical study.Ellie Sutherland wasn't exactly desperate… yet. But after fourteen months, five days and two hours of being without a man, she was getting pretty close. So when she had a chance to try out a pill that attracted the opposite sex, Ellie didn't waste any time signing up. After all, she had nowhere to go but up!Almost immediately, men started falling at her feet. She even had sexy Mark Blackwell eating out of her hand. And before long, she'd fallen head over heels in love with him, too. Ellie's life was a perfect, at least for a while. But when the pills ran out, would Mark still find her irresistible?

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Автор: David Reynolds

What does Brexit mean to you? For award-winning historian David Reynolds, it’s neither a saga of British liberation nor a Westminster soap: it’s a crisis of national identity a long time in the making. Politicians like to extol ‘our island story’ as if there is just one island and one story. Island Stories takes a broader view, exploring the history of Britain’s identity through the great defining narratives of its past, from rise and decline to engagement in Europe and the legacies of empire. This is a book that resets our perspective on Britain and its place in the world. Traversing the centuries, Reynolds sheds fresh light on topics ranging from the slave trade to the heritage industry, from the ‘Channel’ to the ‘special relationship’, from India to the ‘English problem’. He examines how other critical turning points have forged our history, including the Act of Union with Scotland and the political mishandling of post-1945 immigration. Island Stories also looks carefully across the Irish Sea, noting – as Brexit has shown again – that Ireland is the ‘other island’ the English have always been dangerously happy to forget. Island Stories leads us on an exciting journey through history, investigating how Britain’s sense of national identity has been shaped and contested, and how that saga has brought us to the era of Brexit. Combining sharp historical analysis with vivid human stories, this is big history with a light touch that will challenge and entertain anyone interested in where Britain has come from and where it is heading.

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