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It is the Roaring Twenties and Monica Woodard bobs her hair and raises the hem of her dresses, but she doesn't feel liberated. The last lavish party of the season at aloof tycoon Jared Fitzgerald's "Mansion on the Rock," an event not to be missed, is that night. Reluctantl,y Monica agrees to go along with friends to crash it.

Snowed in while a storm dumps three feet of snow on her house in Maine, Alyssa Silva doesn't really mind that the road isn't plowed yet. It means that she has to stay home from work, and with the internet out she can't even work from home. She needed a break from her busy routine. She wanted some down time to relax, but truly what she wanted more than anything else was a hot guy in her life, who was crazy about her and wanted nothing more than to pleasure her and be with her.

The boy next door is back, and so am I. He's spending his NFL off-season in our small Midwestern town after seven long years away, and I'm in town for different reasons. Memories shift to reality as we find ourselves in the place where we first fell in love. We're different people now, but I'm falling fast and hard for the man he is now.

Three reasons I’m still single by Jayne Grandberry: 1. I’m eleven feet tall and guys are intimidated by my height… okay I’m just six foot, but you get the idea. 2. My British accent makes me sound fancier than I am. Running a business is hard work, and doesn’t leave a lot of time for dating. 3. Opening a second clothing boutique is my singular focus. So I’m not even trying when my friends set me up with financial wizard, Stacey Cunningham.

He's not the boy next door anymore, and I'm not the girl I used to be, either. His life is in the spotlight as one of the most popular professional football players on the Vegas Aces, while I can't afford to have my secrets exposed. As we work together on a project benefitting our small Midwestern town, we easily slip back into the friendship we once shared. He introduces me to the people he's closest to now, and I find myself fitting into his new life as he works to fix the mistakes of his past. But somebody's digging into my history, threatening to break us before we even get started.

Do you often feel weighed down by life? Is it hard to find time for yourself? Do you often feel that you’re putting the needs of others above your own? Then it’s time to try the self-love workbook! Inside, you’ll find everything you need to revitalize your self-love and stop feeling like you’re neglecting your own needs for others. In the modern world, it can be very easy to forget about our own basic needs, running around after others and never taking time for ourselves.

Whether you are a woman who has never flirted before or a seasoned flirt who needs new pointers to step up your game, we can turn that tedious flirting into a truly fun experience. There is an art to flirting, and once you have mastered it, you just might find yourself wanting to flirt all the time - even when you are in a relationship with one of those guys you flirted with in the first place!

Do you sometimes feel that you were born into the wrong life? A life where you don’t fit in? Duke of Earl looks at the 1960s through the eyes of Lila Naimark, who was a young girl at odds with her parents. In their view, adhering to strict Pentecostal doctrine was the only way for their daughter to avoid eternal damnation. The author’s quest to understand “Why doesn’t this seem right to me?” forced her to choose between keeping to the safe-and-narrow road prescribed by her religion or chasing her dreams of a bigger life.

Après l’épique Percy Jackson qui explorait la mythologie grecque, Rick Riordan nous entraine dans une nouvelle aventure tout aussi extraordinaire, cette fois au plus profond des mers.

After only a week as enigmatic billionaire, Dorian Black's, girlfriend Alicia Jones gets the shock of her life: he's flying her to Tuscany for a business retreat! But at the retreat she learns Dorian's company wants him to marry by the end of the year or give up his position as CEO. He insists Alicia be his bride, but dark secrets from his past threaten to keep them apart. Will Alicia give in to the domineering billionaire and marry him to save his job and her own?

Claire Silk needs ransom money for her husband, kidnapped while working in Columbia. His billionaire boss won't pay it unless she is willing to perform certain acts to satisfy him. Claire is reluctant, but she can't refuse doing everything in her power to get her husband back. He never has to know. Right? The billionaire's secret needs are more wicked than she expects. He doesn't want to have sex with her. He just wants to watch. What he wants her do, and with who, shocks Claire even more. But she will do whatever he wants while he watches. She has to.

I walked away from my billion-dollar inheritance. But I guess I didn’t walk far enough...because yesterday my inheritance came back to me. In order to claim it, I need to find a fake fiancée to satisfy my family’s demands. That’s where my tyrannical, uptight boss Nancy comes in - a royal pain in the seat of the secondhand jeans I’ve worn since the day I became her bartender. The truth is I’ve been lying for seven years. I figure I can lie for one more weekend. But what I can’t lie about is how I’ve started to see the usually buttoned-up Nancy in a whole new light.

Milwaukee, 1942. Les États-Unis viennent d'entrer en guerre. Jane Pearson, vingt-cinq ans, prend son courage à deux mains et s'engage dans la Croix-Rouge. Là-bas, Jane et les autres volontaires ont pour mission de soutenir le moral des troupes américaines, jusqu'au Débarquement. Voilà Jane et ses consœurs chargées de sillonner les bases militaires pour distribuer du café, des cigarettes et... des donuts, qu'elles cuisinent elles-mêmes. Le succès est total, les soldats attendent les jeunes femmes avec impatience.

Though she has long suspected, at age twenty-four, Kali discovers she is adopted. The search for her birth parents brings both joy and crippling heartache. Her newfound grandparents are lovely people, but she soon learns the tragic history of her biological mother... Over two decades before, a young woman was raped and brutalized by four unknown men. She survived, but discovered she was pregnant. The young woman's name was Jessica. But she went by… Jinx.

Du warst mein Verderben und hast mir mein altes Leben genommen. Ich habe versucht, dich zu vergessen, doch der Hass begleitete mich Schritt für Schritt. Und plötzlich – jetzt, wo mein Leben nicht komplizierter sein könnte – stolpere ich dir unbeabsichtlich vor die Füße. Ausgerechnet dir! Meiner persönlichen Zerstörung auf zwei Beinen! Du darfst nie wieder ein Teil von mir sein, denn du weißt nicht alles von mir. Doch wie soll ich deinen Reizen widerstehen, wenn mein Körper und mein Geist so sehr nach dir verlangen?

In diesem Single-Ratgeber der etwas anderen Art zeigen Lila Sauerschnig und Stefanie Scharaweger pointiert und warmherzig, wie ihre Leserinnen wieder bereit werden für die Liebe. Sie erfahren, wie sie mit Enttäuschungen, unerwiderter Liebe und der Single-Einsamkeit umgehen können. Vor allem aber führt ihr Weg zu einer erfüllenden Partnerschaft über Selbstakzeptanz und Verletzlichkeit, die echte Nähe erst möglich macht - man macht sich quasi "pudelnackert" für die Liebe.

La vengeance. Elle a été le seul objectif de Courtney pendant des mois, l'unique perspective à laquelle elle s'est raccrochée pour surmonter le viol qu'elle a subi. Contrainte de s'endurcir, elle s'est réfugiée derrière le masque de Méduse, son alter ego mythologique derrière lequel elle a dissous sa réelle personnalité.

You'll learn how to shake the "tyranny of time" so you can tap into productive rhythms and bring a more natural pace to your life. You'll learn to relax, concentrate, and more fully realize yourself and the tasks you face. You'll become more efficient, more attentive and more productive. And before you know it, you'll find yourself putting on the brakes—and surging ahead!

Violée à 15 ans par son entraîneur, la patineuse brise l'omerta. " Vous étiez mon entraîneur. Je venais d'avoir quinze ans. Et vous m'avez violée. Il aura fallu trente ans pour que ma colère cachée se transforme enfin en cri public. Vous avez détruit ma vie, monsieur O., pendant que vous meniez tranquillement la vôtre. Aujourd'hui, je veux balayer ma honte, la faire changer de camp. Mais je veux aussi dénoncer le monde sportif qui vous a protégé, et vous protège encore à l'heure où j'écris ces lignes. Quand j'ai voulu parler, à plusieurs reprises, je n'ai pas pu le faire.

He's my brother's best friend. My first crush, my first love, and my first time. But I had to break his heart to save us both. Ten years later, my life is in danger, and Aiden is the only one who can offer the protection I need. I don't have a choice, because the man and the life I chose instead . . . They're about to cost me everything. I know Aiden hates me, and he has every right to. But maybe this is my chance to tell him the truth.