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I'm twenty-two, buried in student loans, and soon to be homeless. I need a job that pays decently—stat. When my best friend suggests interviewing for a traveling nanny position with some tennis star, I think she's joking. It's too good to be true. The pay is more than I could dream of. I'd get to travel the world. There don't seem to be any cons. Not until I meet my potential boss. Noah Baker. Hot as hell, but with a massive chip on his shoulder.

With the threat of a second cataclysm bearing down on them, Matt and his allies double their efforts to climb the tower, juggling personal responsibilities, new players, unexpected assistance from unlikely sources, all while weighing the insidious possibility of threats from within.

The drought on Hank’s ranch has finally ended, and it’s a beautiful spring day. In fact, it’s the kind of day in which the head of ranch security really wouldn’t expect to find himself protecting the ranch from bloodthirsty mosquitoes, doing toad duty, or, most especially of all, standing between his cowboy friends and a sick and angry cow. However, that’s exactly what happens when Miss Viola asks Slim and Hank to help Woodrow haul a cow to the veterinarian. And, what begins as a simple job soon turns into a circus when the cow proves to be a little more clever than anyone anticipated.

One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he’s shanghaied to Mars. Smythe suddenly finds himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians is at stake, and failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war.

There are all sorts of idiots we have to work with every day. Every office has them. Fortunately for most of us, idiots in the work place are few and far between. However, Hogsbottom Plugs, "the home of bath plugs", has a higher concentrate than other work places, from the MD down to the cleaner, they're all Idiots. Hear the trials and tribulations of this idiotic workforce as they explain their recent life events through reviews of things they've brought.

Lance Evergreen recibe el encargo más extraño de su carrera como detective privado: un adinerado hombre de negocios desea que investigue quién quiere deshacerse de él. Se trataría de un trabajo más, de no ser porque su cliente fallece y, después de muerto, le ofrece continuar la misión a cambio de una importante recompensa económica. Inmediatamente, las sospechas recaen sobre Charlotte Miller, la hija y heredera de la fortuna del magnate asesinado. Fácil, ¿verdad?

The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. The only thing he's good at is playing video games, but his mother wants him to broaden his horizons by doing something - anything! - else. When Greg finds an old video camera in his basement, he thinks he may have discovered just the thing to prove he's got big-time talent. With the help of his best friend, Rowley, Greg hatches a plan to make a scary movie and become rich and famous in the process. But is doubling down on moviemaking a smart plan? Or is it just a recipe for doubling Greg's troubles?

Choosing a college when your family is struggling can be difficult, but it isn’t supposed to be world ending. And the falling meteor is seriously limiting Matt’s options. Now in the aftermath, his home city is locked down by a mysterious dome, corporations are looking to monopolize a wealth of new untapped resources, and people are suddenly developing powers via a System that seems to have borderline sinister intentions.

As an elite assassin for the CIA, Helen Warwick was trained to keep a low profile. But now that she's retired, she's forced to take on a very different, and very public, role—as the proud mother of a rising young politician. At a DC press conference for her son's campaign, she sees the ominous green light of a gun laser fixed on her son's head, and her CIA training kicks in. She jumps into action, pushes her son down, and saves him from a sniper's bullet. In that moment, Helen realizes she will never escape the secrets of her past—or the deranged man she thought she killed.

All this is topped off by a mysterious golden tower that appeared overnight, drawing adventurers from far and wide. Still recovering from the events of Transposition and struggling with his nature, Matt sets out to rescue his best friend from the clutches of the mysterious organization that kidnapped him. He’ll need every trick in the Rogue’s playbook to stay ahead of the game, using infiltration, cunning, and his unique Ordinator ability to outthink and outmaneuver stronger and better-connected foes.

Mackenzie Blue is a star! Or she will be...as soon as she gets the part of an aspiring singer on a new TV pilot! But juggling auditions and the rest of her life turns out to be harder than Zee thought. Zee's friends are helping her hold everything together. But Zee doesn't like having to bail on plans--and her friends--to run to another audition. Is being a star worth it?

A twisted tale of murder in the world of big-stakes bass fishing tournaments. Filled with ex-wives, evangelists, and an armed pit-bull, this is a story that could only be concocted by Carl Hiaasen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, and czar of Florida noir fiction.

I have no business falling in love with Emmett Foster. The man is an incredibly wealthy professional baseball player who’s ten years older than me and has a daughter. But when he hires me to take care of said daughter, I find myself catching feelings for the star pitcher. He’s gruff, but sweet, and has a big heart that he shows in small pieces. Pieces I’d like to collect and call mine. Unfortunately, he has no plans on marrying again after his ex-wife cheated on him then abandoned him and June.

In his first assignment as an officer, Ishmael Horatio Wang finds himself fresh out of school, wet behind the ears, and way out of his depth. Aboard the William Tinker the senior officers are derelict and abusive, the crew demoralized and undisciplined, and change unwelcomed and dangerous. Can Ishmael use what he learned aboard the Lois McKendrick to help the crew find the ship's heart? Or will he discover that bucking the system may come at too high a price?

Ce roman plonge le lecteur dans la folie du personnage principal, Goliadkine. Déjà fragile psychologiquement, ce dernier sombre progressivement dans la démence à la suite d'une série d'événements. L'auteur suit de près la dégradation de son état mental, sans jamais l'abandonner. Goliadkine est hanté par la vision constante de son double, qu'il tient pour responsable de tous ses malheurs. Cette obsession le conduit jusqu'à vouloir provoquer en duel cette apparition imaginaire, devenue son cauchemar permanent.

The Double was published in 1846. A classic of doppelgänger literature, it is conidered one of Dostoyvesky's most significant shorter works. Our protagonist, Golyadkin senior, is persecuted by his double, Golyadkin junior, who resembles him closely in almost every detail. The latter abuses the former with mounting scorn and brutality as the tale proceeds toward its frightening denouement.

This is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk who believes that a fellow clerk has taken over his identity and is determined to bring about his ruin. Considered the most Gogolesque of Dostoevsky's works, the novella brilliantly depicts Golyadkin's descent into madness in a way that is hauntingly poetic. The Double illustrates Dostoevsky's uncanny ability at capturing the complexity of human emotion, especially the darker side of the human psyche.

First published in 1846, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella The Double is a classic doppelganger story and the second major work published by the author. It is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk who believes that a fellow clerk has taken over his identity and is determined to bring about his ruin. Considered the most Gogolesque of Dostoyevsky's works, the novella brilliantly depicts Golyadkin's descent into madness in a way that is hauntingly poetic. The Double illustrates Dostoyevsky's uncanny ability at capturing the complexity of human emotion.

Double Lives is an evocative glimpse into the secrets that can drive a family to splinter, the shattering impact of sexual trauma, which so often brings an abrupt end to the innocence and happy childhoods of many girls, and the power of love to bring redemption, forgiveness and healing.

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