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As florist and co-owner of a successful Chicago wedding planning business, Daphne Lovell has been there for the happiest days of other people's lives. As for her own life? Well, it's hard to be perfectly happy when you're carrying a torch for your sexy, womanizing and oblivious best friend. So when the lights go out on New Year's Eve, she seizes the opportunity to kiss him senseless. British expat Gibson Moore has a lot on his plate. The hotel he manages is being bought out, his family is crazy and someone just kissed him in the dark.

Sur la Côte d'Opale, durant les Années folles, une modeste fille de pêcheurs est prête à tout pour changer de condition. C'est au Royal Picardy, considéré comme le plus bel hôtel du monde, au Touquet-Paris-Plage, que son destin va basculer... La jeune Laurette vit au port d'Etaples, où ses parents sont simples pêcheurs. A quinze ans, affublée d'un physique ingrat, elle est bien décidée à changer le cours de son existence et à côtoyer le beau monde.

Au XIXe siècle, le périple d'une Française exilée en terre slave. Un destin tumultueux et aventurier marqué par un amour inconditionnel pour la Russie. "L'hiver revint avec ses troïkas, les chevaux résistant aux intempéries, frangés de glace, et soufflant des jets de fumée. Une foule massée sur les tribunes autour de cet immense champ nacré qu'était la Neva emprisonnée sous les glaces assistait aux courses de traîneaux sur patins d'acier. Sur la perspective Nevski, le collet relevé, en bonnet fourré et longue houppelande, les portiers enlevaient la glace. Ils veillaient ainsi toute la nuit."

Acapulco, 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. She wakes to discover her employer's severed head on her bedside table and a man with an AK-47 coming through the door of her hotel room. She needs all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape. After a car chase, she is captured by a Mexican drug boss who exploits her radiant beauty and ruthless expertise to eliminate an inconvenient member of the government.

London, 1961. In the dying days of the Macmillan government, George Preston is in control of crime in West London, and Rina Walker is his favoured contract killer. When Rina is hired by Soho vice king Tony Farina to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, she discovers that they are being supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre sexual tastes.

CEO and alpha werewolf Drake Wilder has given up the search for his one true love. When he discovers that she's a secretary in his company, Drake's primal instincts kick into overdrive. What he wouldn't give to have her fingers rake over his body instead of the keyboard...

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, 18-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldly, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their passionate affair and Liza's fall from grace is fast and fatal. Written while Maugham was a medical student, and his first published novel, Liza of Lambeth is a vividly realistic portrayal of working-class London life.

Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman who was the longtime lover of Frederick Engels, co-author of The Communist Manifesto. In Gavin McCrea's first novel, she is finally given a voice - one that won't easily be forgotten.

Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all that? What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials? Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products.

How will sex be after breast cancer? How does a couple cope with the sensitivities? For both women and men, the question is rarely asked. Soon after her 25th birthday, Katherine Schmidhofer was diagnosed with breast cancer, and her doctor advised an immediate mastectomy. Her breasts were removed, and she underwent ghastly sessions of chemotherapy and hormone therapy. She wondered whether she would ever have children. She mourned her incapacity to breastfeed.

Here is a collection of darkly humorous short stories previously published in magazines such as Adbusters and Apex Digest of Science Fiction and Horror.

Sky Lopez thought she had it all - the perfect job, the perfect relationship, the perfect life... until she discovers her not-so-perfect boyfriend has been cheating on her. So when her uncle asks her to help plan his Hamptons wedding, Sky jumps at the chance, leaving all of her "perfect" future plans in the rearview mirror.

Meet Ambrosia, one of Gitchi Manitou's helpers. Ambrosia tells the story of the beginning. In the beginning, Gitchi Manitou created the earth on which we live. First Gitchi Manitou created the creatures of lights, mountains, trees, fish, birds, and mammals. At this time Gitchi Manitou also created the shires of Eden, Agartha, Atlantis, Shambhala, Aztlan, and Camelot. Over time, the creatures start to forget about the shires, so Gitchi Manitou creates the train to take them to the shires so they can better remember them.

The Daffodil Diary is a tender story of love, acceptance and friendship. The story begins when two girls who are from different cultures and places ask the same three questions: Does anyone care about me? Can anyone hear me? Will anyone understand me? Tessa and Daffodil find themselves and answers, too, on a fun journey of friendship with God and each other.

This is the first book in the Liar Girl series telling the story of 16-year-old Stephanie Dawson from Rhyl in North Wales. She just can't stop telling lies and whilst they may only start as small lies, they quickly become bigger and bigger and she has to cover these with more lies. This is both funny and also dramatic, as you are left wondering just how many she will get away with.

It’s hard to be the new girl in town. Again. But that’s exactly where Harper finds herself as she begins her third fantasy football season. This time was supposed to be different. This time, she was supposed to be about excitement and growth. Instead, she’s stuck in a cubicle job she hates, more lonely than ever, and she has a fantasy football team that even a mother wouldn’t love. And just when she thinks it couldn’t get worse, something happens that could jeopardize everything she’s worked so hard to have.

An urban songline of New York. From the author of the memoir L Is for Lion comes a panegyric of the geology of Manhattan. These poems glitter. Manhattan schist is rendered as a template for the skyline and characters of New York. Grit and stardust collide in this debut collection of poetry and song.

A handicapped boy wants to cure his own muscle disease, but a rivalry turns his ambitions into obsessions.

Dennis Caine has a pretty average near death experience. White light. Crisis of faith. Family bonding. Don’t forget: delusions of grandeur. Plenty of those.

After a surgery gone wrong leaves him bedridden, Dennis isn’t satisfied with just regaining his strength. His harrowing journey of rehabilitation is just the beginning, as he seeks to cure his muscle weakness, impress the girl of his dreams, and destroy his childhood bully. You know: your average delusions of grandeur.

Emerson Sinclair, 27-year-old hotel heiress, has said yes. With just over a year to plan her extravagant, over-the-top nuptials to Logan Worthington, it's all hands on deck with the wedding plans. A Sinclair marrying into the Worthington family is the talk of their small New Hampshire town, and ideas include filming the wedding for a TV segment. But as the items get checked off the list, plans start to go not as planned.

After a disastrous 31st birthday party where she gets stood up by a man she isn't supposed to be dating, Peri McKenna decides it's time to change what hasn't been working - which is pretty much everything. Her love life is going nowhere fast, she's bored to tears by a job that makes her the office pariah, and the lifelong junk food addiction that used to be somewhat quirky is now positively problematic. To top it all off, her newly purchased home is falling apart, and wishful thinking hasn't done much to fix the leaky roof.