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When you fight for so long, sometimes it's just easier to give in. I want to give in to the god before me. Sent to me from the heavens, Owen is the very definition of divine perfection. But he doesn't know my truth. If he did, he'd know that I don't belong in his world. The shame of seeing the disgust on his face when he figures it out keeps me running from him. Even though fate or destiny or something cruel keeps throwing us together. Maybe he's the motivation I need to get my shit in order. But can I do it before he figures out I'm nothing but a street rat?

Paroles simples, concrètes, partant toujours de l'observation simple de la vie des hommes et des femmes et révélant ce qui se trouve ainsi enfoui dans le cœur des personnes humaines. Tantôt il s'adresse à la foule, tantôt à ceux qui croient en lui. Ici Jésus donne des conseils à ses apôtres, là il invective ceux qui regardent seulement les apparences et jugent de l'extérieur.

Even a gay athlete has an appearance to uphold. There are a handful out in every sport and while every trashy magazine wants to get the scoop on what the gays are up to, looking for a scandal and a way to ruin us, every one of us is constantly on our best behavior. Acting a certain way, dressing a certain way, speaking a certain way. If the world knew the real me, it'd shudder. Lace. Pearls. Dresses. Collars. All I want is to be someone's pretty little doll that they dress up and tell me how pretty I am. I want to be loved for the real me, not the image I'm forced to show to the world.

In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it.

In this edition, we hear, translated into modern English, 20-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more. Some are bawdy, some spiritual, some romantic, some mysterious, some chivalrous. Between the stories, the travelers converse, joke, and argue, revealing much about their individual outlooks upon life as well as what life was like in late 14th-century England.

Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he’s hopelessly naïve when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he’s confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henry’s search for the “the real thing” in art and love demonstrates beautifully why both are worth the effort in the end.

Als Maggy ihre Londoner Karriere gegen einen Neustart in den schottischen Highlands eintauscht, erwartet sie alles - nur nicht einen Job beim charismatischen Spieleentwickler Lewis MacKenzie. Der geniale, aber hoffnungslos unorganisierte Chef eines erfolgreichen Gaming-Imperiums braucht dringend jemanden, der Ordnung in sein Chaos bringt. Was als professionelles Arbeitsverhältnis beginnt, entwickelt sich durch späte Arbeitsnächte und intensive Gespräche zu etwas, das Maggy nicht einzuordnen weiß.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. We, The Drowned is an epic novel about generations of men who go to sea and the women and children they leave behind. Filled with adventure, cannibals, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, forbidden passions, cowards, heroes, tragedies, love, and survival, this book takes...

In the third volume of the critically acclaimed Marching with Caesar series, Titus Pullus and his friends in the 10th Legion are called on to serve as the agents of change as their general, Gaius Julius Caesar singlehandedly changes the Roman Republic to Empire.

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Hero is a duology comprised of two previously published novella length variations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Sie schwört den Männern ab. Doch ihm kann sie nicht widerstehen. Winter hat genug von Männern und dem Herzschmerz, den sie unweigerlich mit sich bringen. Sie hat sich gerade erst aus ihrer toxischen Ehe befreit und will dieses Kapitel hinter sich lassen. Doch als sie den Starsportler Theo Silva trifft, geraten ihre guten Vorsätze ins Wanken. Es soll nur eine Nacht sein, eine einmalige Sache. Nicht mehr als Begehren. Danach würden sie niemandem davon erzählen und sich niemals wiedersehen.

Un livre audio pour tout comprendre du numérique responsable et réussir sa transformation numérique responsable ! Au centre de la performance globale, le numérique responsable a une meilleure empreinte environnementale en respectant notre planète, une meilleure empreinte sociale en étant accessible à tous, une meilleure éthique, tout en étant au service des problématiques sociétales.

Patricia Simon presents her story in this practical self-help guide. A nonfiction author who writes about her struggles while embarking on a worthy journey of discovery within herself. She chose to fight her battles and disclose it all in My Fight Club Within. She will hold nothing back, divulging every part of her story while sharing her many wild adventures in her journey throughout the universe.

The violent clash between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St John on the island fortress of Malta serves as the backdrop to Eight-Pointed Cross. Young siblings Domenicus and Katrina Montesa live under constant threat of raids by the Ottoman Turks, the staunchest enemies of the Christian knights. All the while, hundreds of leagues away in Istanbul, Demir's dream of becoming an imperial horseman in the Sultan's cavalry is his only salvation against relentless torment by his cruel brother.

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon...

To many thousands of listeners world-wide, Titus Crow is the psychic sleuth - the cosmic voyager and investigator - of Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos novels, from The Burrowers Beneath to Elysia. But before The Burrowers and Crow's transition, his exploits were chronicled in a series of short stories and novellas uncollected in the USA, except in limited editions.

Das grandiose Finale der Bestseller-Trilogie von Kerstin Gier! Es ist März, in London steht der Frühling vor der Tür – und Liv Silber vor drei Problemen. Erstens: Sie hat Henry angelogen. Zweitens: Die Sache mit den Träumen wird immer gefährlicher. Arthur hat Geheimnisse der Traumwelt ergründet, durch die er unfassbares Unheil anrichten kann. Er muss unbedingt aufgehalten werden. Drittens: Livs Mutter und Graysons Vater wollen im Juni heiraten.

Drei Kurzgeschichten über die Lust am schmerzenden...

Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so many of Jamess young American heroines. She is engaged to Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince; he must marry money, and as his name suggests, an American heiress is the perfect solution.

Forensic expert Wagner has crafted a volume that stands out from the plethora of recent memoirs of contemporary scientific detectives. By using the immortal and well-known Sherlock Holmes stories as her starting point, Wagner blends familiar examples from Doyle's accounts into a history of the growth of forensic science, pointing out where fiction strayed from fact.