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Quatre vendeuses de Harpers, grand magasin d'Oxford Street, sont déterminées à réussir tant professionnellement que personnellement. Vivant sous un même toit, elles pourront se soutenir en cas de coup dur, ou se réjouir quand la première d'entre elles annoncera ses fiançailles. Des amours naissent dans le deuxième volet de cette série addictive, par l'une des autrices les plus populaires d'Angleterre.

Bienvenue à Maple Street, une banlieue tranquille et sans histoire où les pelouses sont toujours bien tondues et les voisins souriants. Mais sous cette façade soignée se cache une tension sourde. Lorsque la famille Wilde – un couple excentrique et leurs deux enfants – emménage dans le quartier, le vernis des apparences commence à se craqueler. La tragédie qui va tout faire basculer survient lors d'un été caniculaire : un gouffre s'ouvre dans le parc local et une jeune fille disparaît.

THE STREETE FILES VOLUME 2 - THE SECOND THIRTEEN COMPLETE MYSTERY SHORT STORIES FROM THE STREETE FILES PODCAST.

The days of traveling martial artists and mountaintop masters are over. Power is controlled by corporations, modernized martial arts sects, and governments. Those at the bottom of society struggle as second class citizens in a world in which power is a commodity. Rick is a young fighter in this world. He doesn't dream of immortality or becoming the strongest, just of building a better life for himself and his sister, who suffers from a spiritual illness. Unfortunately, life isn't that easy.

Street Ohana is a gritty coming-of-age crime novel about loyalty, survival, and the cost of growing up where the streets raise you faster than life ever should. Ghost never planned on becoming the man he is. He learned early how to fight, how to protect his own, and how to move through a world where trust is rare and consequences are permanent. Surrounded by his crew, brothers bound not by blood, but by shared scars, Ghost navigates love, violence, ambition, and loss in a city that never forgives weakness.

Stock market multimillionaire at 26, federal convict at 36, he partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived his rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon. By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting.

More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success. America’s most successful...

From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks.

Thirteen authors, including Gail Z. Martin, David Gerrold, and Jonathan Maberry, come together to pen short stories innovating Sherlock Holmes, adapting and revolutionizing the iconic character. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most iconic and lasting figures in literature. His feats of detection are legendary, and he continues to capture audiences today in stories, movies, and on TV. In this new anthology, authors present the celebrated detective in more than a dozen different, wildly entertaining new ways.

Rich people know a secret. In this book, former Wall Street investor Codie Sanchez pulls back the curtain. Most people look for wealth in all the wrong places. From dropshipping and startups to grinding for promotions, you might believe you have to trade your life to be one of the few who win...

At a time of frightening volatility, what is the average investor to do? The answer: Turn to Burton G. Malkiel's advice in his reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio or 401(k), A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on "tax-loss harvesting", the crown jewel of tax management; the current bitcoin bubble; and automated investment advisers; as well as a brand-new chapter on factor investing and risk parity.  

In Main Street Millionaire, Codie Sanchez teaches you the path the wealthy really walk. Instead of risking it all with little chance of success, she shows you how to acquire cash-flowing businesses that are winning right now. Sanchez, one of the world’s leading small business experts, reveals the deal-making framework she’s taught to tens of thousands, and that she’s used to build her own 9-figure holding company.

Wall Street is an unending source of legend - and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at once a chronicle of the street itself - from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant - and an engaging economic history of the United States, a tale of profits and losses, enterprising spirits, and key figures that transformed America into the most powerful economy in the world.

What risks would you take if you had nothing left to lose?1970s New York City is almost bankrupt. Police, schools and other municipalities struggle under massive layoffs, buildings are abandoned and the streets are dangerous. For Johnny Alvarez—a young runaway, haunted by abuse suffered at the hands of his sadistic older brother and dysfunctional parents—the lawlessness offers camouflage and opportunity. He squats in a derelict tenement and gathers a gang of streetwise kids, most of whom struggle with their own issues.

The acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American...

The Street Observer“It Could Happen to Anyone.”Every street corner has a story. Every face has a history. Every life has a turning point.The Street Observer is a compelling and thought-provoking podcast that shines a light on the growing homeless epidemic affecting communities across America. Through the eyes and journal entries of observer Jake, listeners are introduced to the lives of two homeless men, Charles and Roger, whose journeys reveal the hardships, struggles, triumphs, and realities of life on the streets.Each episode unfolds in a unique format. Jake first presents his ...

This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister – the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election...

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street...

"A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum!' because he could see no more." But to its residents, this derelict corner of Trinidad's capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.

La plupart des voleurs de trains sont pas malins, et c'est une chance pour les compagnies de chemins de fer. À eux seuls, cinq bandits pas trop idiots pourraient braquer tous les trains de ce pays. Ainsi parle Woodrow Call, ancien capitaine des Texas Rangers reconverti en chasseur de primes. Engagé pour éliminer Joey Garza, un dangereux criminel mexicain plus futé que les autres, il sillonne les étendues arides du Texas en compagnie d'une équipe hétéroclite. Mais l'Ouest héroïque n'est plus ce qu'il était ; la Frontière se referme, le pays se civilise et Call a vieilli.