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The tale of spirited farmer Bathsheba Everdene and the three suitors who vie for her attention is the first of Hardy’s Wessex novels. Passion and tragedy abound against the backdrop of a 19th-century rural idyll, as Hardy sets the tone for his subsequent forays into the life and love stories of this fictional county.

Don’t trust the humans. It’s a new sentiment among the fae. For most of his life, the few humans he’s known have been like family. So how does their entire world want those like Gullie destroyed?

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.

In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical, chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace.

In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable.

Adalyn Reyes siempre ha estado centrada en los Miami Flames. Sin embargo, su impecable carrera se ve afectada cuando el vídeo de un altercado con la mascota del equipo se hace viral. En consecuencia, el dueño del club (que casualmente es también su padre) la manda a un pueblo en mitad de la nada para que reflote el equipo de fútbol local. Adalyn está dispuesta a dejarse la piel para conseguirlo, pero no contaba con que sus jugadores serían un grupo de niñas de nueve años con tutú y una cabra como mascota.

The Audio Masterclass series will give you everything you need to get up to speed on the big topics that matter in self-help, psychology, business and the humanities. Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) is a revolutionary approach to human communication and development that helps you to modify your thought and behavioural patterns to suit your projected goals. NLP will help you to get what you want by managing your internal mind-set to achieve faster learning, better relationships and greater success.

This audiobook of sexy stories will make your toes curl! They are written by Sandra Novel who isn't ashamed of her kinks, fetishes, predilections, or pasts, and they want to share their wild imaginations with you! From start to finish, these pleasurable sensual tales of love and lust will soak your panties starting right now! You are about to enter a new world of forbidden lust, sex, and eroticism that will keep you on the edge!

Fallon Malone is a loner, refusing to rely on anyone else for her happiness. She's content being her own boss, working in the skies of the remote Queensland outback. When she begins her contract in the Augathella region for the annual cattle muster, she's unimpressed with the new station manager. Jon Ingram is equally unhappy with this new female bush pilot, hired by Kent Mason, owner of neighbouring Lara Waters. It doesn't help that she seems to be a law unto herself. As the stockman and bush pilot come head-to-head, nature conspires to bring them together.

Hilda Snibbs takes her three mischievous little monkeys to stay with her uncle Gilbert for Christmas. Among many amazing things, Uncle Gilbert’s prized possession is an ancient golden teapot, so the little monkeys must be very good. But what is supposed to be a traditional holiday is soon filled with chaos! Hilda begins to regret bringing the three little monkeys with her - until, one night, their antics come in very handy.

Brea Robinson is a murderer. That’s what everyone tells her when she’s accused of killing her best friend. Her mother always claimed she belonged in a straitjacket. Turns out, she was right. When the man with flashing violet eyes whisks her through a portal into a world beyond her imagination, a world vicious in its beauty and wicked in its lies, Brea begins to wonder if she was ever crazy at all. Every hallucination she’s ever had is real, but this new world has its own set of lies and questions.

White walls. Locked doors. A kid’s voice in her head. Sophie’s father believes she has lost her mind, that her trip to the fae world might have healed her body, but it also turned her into one of them. He’s sent her to a place for humans suffering from brutal encounters with the fae. But Sophie knows he’s hiding a dark secret. One that will change her world forever.

The vampire king should know better than to fall for a married woman…Moira is one of the few people he can trust. A fae healer with a touch that soothes his unbeating heart. The one who wakes a beast deep within him. The woman of his dreams…except vampires don’t dream. It’s taken everything he has to keep his hands to himself. She’s married, and Adrian doesn’t deal in drama. She belongs to someone else even if his heart belongs to her. But Adrian doesn’t know the whole story.

Marianna è una giovane donna che vive in un furgone camperizzato e lavora come stagionale negli alberghi. Quindici anni prima, dopo una brutale aggressione che le ha causato una parziale perdita di memoria, ha lasciato la famiglia, con cui aveva pessimi rapporti, e ha scelto una vita solitaria. Zero legami, zero affetti, sempre pronta a partire al primo segnale di disagio. Quando il furgone ha un guasto improvviso, Marianna è costretta a fermarsi in un antico borgo ristrutturato sull’Appennino tosco-romagnolo: un luogo incantevole, popolato da gente ospitale e curiosa.

"Fer el cor fort" és una expressió que les dones han sentit i han fet servir des de fa moltes generacions. L’han rebut com una consigna i, de manera explícita o no, l’han transmès a les filles. "Fer el cor fort" és el que s’espera d’una dona, una actitud davant de la vida que barreja resignació i valentia. Aquesta novel·la arrenca als anys cinquanta, amb una jove Teresa que es queda embarassada sense voler-ho i decideix ser mare soltera. L’anirem seguint mentre crea una família i acaba sent un referent per a les generacions posteriors. És la història d’una dona que ja no pot més.

With a sentient tail and cat-like eyes, Gulliver O’Shea has always been different, and everyone can see it. Except for his best friend, the queen of Iskalt. She treats him like he matters. So, when she says jump, he flies. And when she asks him to travel through a portal to a strange human city and gather information on a dangerous group attacking fae, he…reluctantly realizes he has no choice.

Lady Lisbeth Medford, Countess of Waterstone and famed international spy, is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. On a covert mission, she’s determined to infiltrate a notorious smuggling ring in the West Indies as a ship’s captain…only her identity has been compromised. Leaving her pursuers in ashes, she boards her vessel to flee, but the men on her heels will stop at nothing until she’s paid the piper.

After all, who doesn’t long to hear the whoosh of the crop, the whack of the paddle on a soft, fleshy behind...and the plea for mercy? Behind the sunshine there is darkness. These erotic tales feature plenty of hard, hot spanking, paddles, straps, bondage, threesomes, oral, anal and straight sex.

With one battle won, the war between the Northwood pack and the Long Claw pack rages on. Meanwhile, the demons continue to complicate matters. Their toxic and chaotic influence poisons everything—and everyone—they touch.

Cuando la inexperta estudiante Anastasia Steele conoció al joven, seductor y exitoso empresario Christian Grey, nació entre ellos una sensual relación que cambió sus vidas para siempre. Sin embargo, desconcertada y llevada al límite por las peculiares prácticas eróticas de Christian, Ana lucha por conseguir un mayor compromiso por parte de él. Y Christian accede con tal de no perderla.