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SISTERHOOD’S ANSWER TO AGENT PENDERGASTEmpathic Scotland Yard Detective Jackson Randolph is over-burdened by a series of bizarre murders. He enlists the aid of rogue Egyptologist Vahlona Selket Faralay, pleading with her to retrieve an ancient item linked to the crimes. Vahlona leaves her mysterious home in the Yorkshire Moors and travels to Egypt, where she braves misogynistic policemen, vicious wildlife, and manic terrorists in her quest to procure the artefact. The shadowy but alluring antiquities dealer Usire Ra Arakti provides the answer, but can Vahlona smuggle the prize out of ...

Italia è una giovane cubana con il bel Paese nel destino e nel grembo. Quando il frutto della passione con un avventuriero italico conosciuto mesi prima viene improvvisamente alla luce, anche i suoi piani di raggiungere la terra promessa finiscono per stravolgersi completamente. Italia è un viaggio di uno strano trio formatosi casualmente nella hall di un fatiscente ostello dell'Avana e che prende corpo passo dopo passo in un labirinto di gioie, frustrazioni, demoni provati, colori sgargianti, sapori speziati verso una destinazione ignonta che appare via via sempre più irrilevante.

Life Before Death is a road trip across the Red Centre and the wilds of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a spirited ride through late-twentieth century Australian counter culture. Then an event occurs which gives an insight into the other side of life itself, and provides a message. A message which resolves the ultimate unknown – why are we here? Many of the events in this book are based on true-life experiences that occurred in Australia in the late twentieth century. The kind of things that most of the non-conforming members of society have to endure simply because they don’t ...

What do the women of Sea View have in common? Dan! When two dead women wash up on the beach, their only common denominator is Long Island attorney, Dan Chua, Pam’s on-again, off-again lover. Then, at a Sea View beach gathering of friends and family, Laura Long realizes that every female guest there had been involved with him. The fact is pointed out to Dan, and he changes his modus operandi; something he’d attempted to do and failed many times in the past.But when Dan takes himself out of circulation, his popularity with the womenfolk of Babylon increases exponentially. Focusing on his ...

Lucy Lyman, an assistant trader for a brokerage firm, in her mid-forties, has given up on love. “Nothing ever happens in my life,” she tells her friends. That is until she begins to have the reoccurring dream that haunts her sleep; The dream where someone watches her but never shows their face. Is it a stalker or a suitor? Frustrated Lucy decides that to solve this mystery she must camp out where the dream takes place—at the library. Then maybe she’ll be able to sleep again.

Just one look into the eyes of a grumpy ex-navy seal… and I’m hooked. I went to a lavish Newark hotel on my boss’ behalf, to meet with a billionaire CEO, Sebastian Hale, to work on a project. Surprisingly, on entering what I thought was my allocated hotel room, a tall, muscular man stands peering at me with a wry smile. My breath catches in my throat. Stunning blue eyes scan me from head to foot, leaving intense heat wherever they land on my body. Then, our gazes lock, sparks fly, tension soars…. We could not keep our hands off each other, not even during work. Right when I start to...

Cinco antiguas amigas de un internado vuelven a reunirse quince años después de su graduación. Ahora son mujeres muy bellas de treinta años con buena posición social. Tres de ellas se han casado y las otras dos solteras han logrado por méritos propios un envidiable status: una como...

It’s not easy to impress a Dalton girl… It’s not easy being a Dalton, let alone the last unmarried one of the Texas bunch. Keziah, or Kizzy, is drained by all the family weddings, and her sisters keep trying to rope and tie her to any old cowboy in the county. To ensure this doesn’t happen, she takes off for the big city and a job as assistant to none other than the smart, savvy and sexy KC Cohen, the mortgage company billionaire who sees her as something more than a cowgirl. Knox Channing Cohen has achieved his goal—to build his own billion-dollar business from the ground up and ...

En Noches insomnes una mujer repasa su vida - la galería de personajes, los variados telones de fondo de los lugares - y elabora un cuaderno de recuerdos, reflexiones, retratos, cartas y sueños. En una vivificante fusión de hechos y ficciones, este audiolibro lírico, endurecido y perfectamente construido, no es sólo una de las mejores obras de Elizabeth Hardwick sino una de las grandes contribuciones a la literatura estadounidense de los últimos cincuenta años.

Balneario de Mondariz, 1920. Candela comienza a trabajar en el Gran Hotel del balneario, donde se codea con la élite más ilustre y poderosa de un país que afronta tiempos convulsos. Pero el lujo y la apariencia ocultan un mundo de engaños, pasiones prohibidas y traiciones. Candela deberá navegar la relación con Ignacio, su primer amor, que ha vuelto a su vida sin previo aviso, y Gabriel, uno de los empleados del hotel, que le ha pedido matrimonio.

Bárbara Medina de Palacios es la esposa del canciller de Colombia, madre de sus hijos y una mujer que no conoce el placer sexual. Después de treinta y cinco años de un muy infeliz matrimonio, regido por la hipocresía de la sociedad bogotana, decide tomar el control de su vida y penetra en un mundo prohibido para mujeres como ella. En esta aventura, llena de peligros y desafíos, descubre que la sexualidad es la llave para muchas otras libertades.

Levi Hawkins was a typical fun-loving, hard-partying college student with his whole life in front of him - until one tragic night ripped his world apart and left him adrift with no home or family to return to. After a soul-crushing stint in Afghanistan, he spent a decade wandering the globe searching for something or someone to make him whole again. Weary of regret and consumed by loneliness, he puts his heart on the line and turns to the only people still connected to him by blood.

Scarlett Parish is a recovery agent, and she and her partner, Walter Hillam, travel all along California’s vast, unpredictable landscape as they search for, capture, and bring to justice wrongdoers. This story begins with just such an occurrence: Scarlett and Walter, after tracking a thief all the way from Sacramento to San Diego, are eventually able to apprehend the man and bring him to the local sheriff to retrieve their reward.

34-year-old Willa is a successful hairstylist in Orlando with great friends, a supportive mother, and a lovely home. Everything is fine in her life, but for her, fine doesn't seem like enough. She feels caught in the clutches of the routine. Something needs to change, so she embarks on an adventure to clear her mind and learn how to live a life that is truly happy.

The moment Kate stepped into Noah Beaumont's office, she never expected to feel the sparks that she did. As she was hired to be his personal assistant, the two were expected to keep a strictly professional relationship - no matter how attracted they were to each other. But when a work trip to the tropical paradise of Malaysia strands them on a deserted island, they are faced with a forbidden love that threatens to break their resolve.

Dans ce village, c'est du corps des femmes qu'on tire l'argent qui fait vivre les familles. Car ici, on vend une denrée précieuse : le lait maternel. Sylvaine, son propre enfant à peine sevré, accueille chez elle comme tant d'autres une « petite de la ville ». Mais une nuit, en pleine forêt, elle découvre un bébé abandonné dans une clairière et à ses côtés un carnet qui raconte son histoire.

A mystery novel set in New York City during the summer of 1965. Step into the sweltering heat of July 1965, where ambition runs rampant and jealousy threatens to boil over in the heart of New York’s publishing world. When Naomi Malcolm, a powerful editorial director at Clifford-Malcolm Publications, is found murdered in her office, the shockwaves ripple through the bustling corridors, laying bare the dark secrets and rivalries lurking beneath the surface. As her colleagues scramble to make sense of the tragedy, they become entangled in a web of suspicion, fear, and hidden motives, ...

September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo Soldiers prepare to invade. As Vittoria's country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Should she do what she is told - or what she believes in?

When Caldean washes ashore, injured and barely alive, he has no idea Fate would soon force him to conceal his true identity. He is a fearsome pirate known in all the Isles of Nauru, with a bounty on his head. When Corrine Beauford finds Caldean, she vows to save him. Even if she is the niece of his enemy - the British. In a case of mistaken identity, Caldean plays the part of Nauruan royalty while falling in love with Corrine. But reality deals them a heavy blow. She is to marry General Oliver Campbell - the man responsible for destroying Caldean's pirate ship in a shipwreck fueled by ...

Dark and hazy nights were both their sword and shield... Liz Gripping danger surrounded her. Escape seemed impossible. Hope came from the last place she expected. She knew his name...everyone did. But she knew nothing about the man he really was. Or if he had any chance at saving her. Sam The plan was a good one. If it worked. He had the perfect cover story without a single bit of drama involved. He’d be the one asking all the questions. Looking for answers was the story of his life and everyone knew it...expected it. This time though...the stories could turn out differently than expected...