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À l'aube de ses vingt ans, Sasha s'envole pour l'Irlande, résolue à percer les secrets qui l'entourent dont celui, douloureux, de la disparition de sa mère lorsqu'elle était encore adolescente. À Galway, elle rencontre Jason, qui vient de la tirer d'un mauvais pas. Mais son sauveur autoritaire à l'aura ténébreuse n'est pas n'importe qui : Jason est un loup, l'Alpha de la Meute Blanche. S'ouvre alors pour Sasha un monde dont elle ne soupçonnait pas l'existence. Plus étrange encore, Jason et elle semblent être unis par un lien mystérieux et puissant.

Flora, surnommée « la planète verte », est entièrement couverte de forêts. Depuis des mois, les vaisseaux de l'Empire terrien l'observent, envoient des sondes, des robots, afin d'en percer les secrets. L'heure est maintenant venue de démarrer les opérations de colonisation. Les premiers humains vont pénétrer sous le couvert des arbres géants. Liam, un soldat malgré lui, fait partie de cette première vague. Il doit, avec des centaines de camarades, sécuriser le site choisi pour l'ascenseur spatial et le camp de base.

Charles Shilling has always had a soft spot for the poor and downtrodden, so when his friend comes to him with the case of a missing runaway, he wants to give it his best. Unfortunately, there’s more on his mind than one missing girl. The case is fighting for dominance with the more pressing issues of his personal life, and a rather intriguing discovery he is honoured to have been brought in to investigate – by the only person in the world who can leave him star-struck.

Soon to be an original movie on Disney+. The beloved 2014 Newbery Medal winner by former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Kate DiCamillo. Holy unanticipated occurrences! It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences...

Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family antiques business. Her knowledge of antiques extends only to the relics of information she has crammed from frantic daytime TV watching, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in blind enthusiasm. So she is more than a little put off when she doesn't receive the warm country welcome she expected.

Heartbroken and betrayed, college senior Jenny Cates returns home for spring break, seeking solace in her family. Instead, she stumbles upon her mother, a prominent lawyer, brutally attacked in her office. With her last breath before slipping into a coma, her mother utters a desperate plea: Run, Jen. Burn the diaries and run.

Get a deeper understanding of police shootings through interviews with officers involved in real-life cases. Today’s media is filled with discussions about officer-involved shootings. Too often missing from that discussion are the police officers’ voices and the reality of what happens in actual shooting incidents. Through actual interviews with involved officers, this book addresses common myths and misunderstandings about these shootings. Shots Fired is a journey “behind the shield” and the experiences of the real human beings behind the badge.

When a woman discovers a rare book with connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this “beguiling blend of hope, mystery, and true familial love” (Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times...

When the body of eight-year-old Timothy Watts is found wrapped in a blue blanket in a Portland, Maine park, homicide detective Joe Burgess (introduced in Playing God) vows to find the killer. Everyone in the neighborhood loved Timmy except his abusive family, but people are unwilling to talk. Even Iris, Timmy's deaf sister, will not share what she knows and soon goes missing.

On a cold and snowy night in Portland, ME, Police Detective Joe Burgess catches a nasty murder case: oncologist Steven Pleasant, who had a habit of picking up prostitutes, is found dead in his car with a metal rod rammed down his throat. No one wants to talk to the police, yet both his family and his work colleagues knew about his sordid predilection.

Robert Belford necesita una esposa. Después de la muerte de su hermano mayor, ha heredado el título de conde y debe responsabilizarse de la vida de su madre y sus dos hermanos menores. Obligado a dejar su carrera militar, está dispuesto a llevar una vida ejemplar y para ello necesita una esposa. Encontrar a la candidata ideal hubiera sido imposible, pero el milagro se dio en Belinda Withman. Hermosa y de modales impecables, cumple todos los requisitos que él y su madre exigen. Solo hay unos pequeños inconvenientes: las grandes deudas de juego de su padre y... Livia Withman.

Riot Night changed my life. Coming back to Shadow Grove turned it on its head. I’ve been hunted, stabbed, stalked, tormented, and used. Hate fueled me, lies tore me apart, and in the end, everything I thought I knew turned out to be fake. Except...Riot Night also brought Archer, Kody, and Steele back into my life. No matter how much I’ve fought it, hated it, been lied to, or discovered the deceptions - I want them in my life.

From the first call to a Portland detective about a missing woman to the police’s growing certainty that she had been murdered, from the heroic efforts to locate the body to the flight from Maine of their chief suspect, and from the painstaking work of collecting evidence and building a case to the struggles over jurisdictional questions to the twists and turns of the eventual trial, Finding Amy is a dramatic story of brutal murder and exemplary police work with the human beings and emotion behind the shield.

Running Breakthroughs by Floris Gierman reveals how small, practical shifts can transform your running and your life. Drawing from over a decade of experience and hundreds of conversations with elite athletes, health experts, and recreational runners, Floris shows how to unlock sustainable progress, greater enjoyment, and deeper resilience.

Rose Stratford, lleva enamorada de su vecino Lyonel Knigth, desde que era una niña. Un hecho curioso, pues todo el mundo piensa que su corazón le pertenece al hermano, Frederick Knigth. Pero nada más lejos de la realidad. Lyonel es apuesto, valiente, un coronel del ejército de su majestad al que ha amado en silencio desde siempre. Pero su carácter serio y el cierto hieratismo que demuestra cuando está con ella, le hace pensar que le es totalmente indiferente, hasta que ocurre una tragedia.

Esa es la maldición que persigue a su familia desde hace generaciones, por lo que Lily Wadlow, al enterarse de que su hermana Daisy está embarazada de un inglés, viaja hasta Escocia para encontrar una manera de romper el maleficio. Allí, contará con la ayuda de Drustan MacAuley, un noble guerrero dispuesto a todo por ella.

Esta es la maldición que pesa sobre James Wadlow, barón de Aldenford. Dispuesto a vencer dicha maldición, el barón, de sangre inglesa, necesita encontrar un marido extranjero para cada una de sus cinco hijas. Su primer candidato es un escocés, al que toda la familia intuye como un bárbaro de las Highlands.

Cuando su hermana Bluebell se escapa para evitar casarse con Diego de Valterra, Rose Wadlow se siente obligada a ocupar su lugar. Sabe que el matrimonio pactado con ese hombre no le traerá felicidad. Aun así, está dispuesta a no permitir que su carácter mujeriego le afecte, porque, a cambio, su sangre española la liberará de la maldición que pesa sobre su familia.

I stared into the innocent eyes of my newborn daughter, the miracle I prayed for through four heart-wrenching losses, and wondered if she was truly his. My husband beamed beside me, his love so blinding it nearly erased the guilt that had rooted itself in my chest. Nearly. Because behind his joy lies a truth I can’t bear to face—the kind of truth that unravels lives. If I confess, I could lose everything. If I don’t, I’ll spend the rest of my life wondering if my miracle baby is the ultimate blessing or my darkest betrayal.

When the man who date raped a friend is found not guilty, the women in her book group decide to take matters into their own hands. Mystery and true-crime writer Kate Clark Flora's fascination with people's criminal tendencies began in the Maine attorney general's office. Deadbeat dads, people who hurt their kids, and employers' acts of discrimination aroused her curiosity about human behavior. Her books include seven "strong woman" Thea Kozak mysteries and three gritty police procedurals in her star-reviewed Joe Burgess series.