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"Husets prakt förbluffade henne men skänkte ingen tröst. Rummen var alldeles för stora för att hon skulle våga röra sig fritt i dem; hon trodde att hon skulle ha sönder allt hon rörde vid och hon smög omkring i ständig fruktan för ett eller annat; ofta drog hon sig undan till sitt eget rum för att gråta; och den lilla flickan, om vilken det sades i salongen när hon hade lämnat den på kvällen att hon verkade så medveten om sin enastående goda tur som man kunde önska, avrundade varje dags sorger med att snyfta sig till sömns."

Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will change her life forever. 

Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. But events conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.

Kenton is the last of his people, desperately searching for others who can aid in his quest to unearth the gods from their hiding places and restore goodness and order to the world. As Kenton gathers together the legendary godbearers - who are said to be able to retrieve the gods, wherever they lie - he finds an unlikely ally in Daniella, the daughter of the dictator himself. Daniella is tired of being her father's puppet, all too eager to be out of his grasp. But as they travel together, Kenton begins to suspect she may be something far more dangerous than a dictator's pawn.

At some point, every game has to end. There must be a winner, and there must be a loser. There must be victory at all costs. Behind the cameras, something is shifting. The script is off, and their masks are slipping. The only thing more dangerous than the truth is what they’ll do to keep it hidden, but the walls are closing in and the spotlight is burning brighter than ever. For Isobel and the Alphas, there is nowhere left to hide. The time for moves and countermoves has come to an end. The game, finally, has come to an end. Beware, pretty Icons. Ironside Academy has terminated the feed.

Diana Sommerville seems to have it all - beauty, brains, and vast wealth, thanks to her family's ownership of a diamond mine abroad. But when her beloved brother dies in battle and leaves a lion's share of his estate to his best friend, Diana finds herself in a situation that seems scripted for the stage: sharing her family home with the man she used to love - and now loathes. Worse, her unfaithful former fiance has already moved in... 

On a beau être belle, intelligente et riche, il reste à faire l’apprentissage des caractères et des relations pour soi-même connaître l’amour. Jeune, célibataire, fortunée et quelque peu désœuvrée, Emma Woodhouse est maintenant la maîtresse de maison de Hartfield où elle vit avec son père, hypocondriaque et de nature inquiète. Seuls M. Knightley et les Weston viennent fréquemment leur rendre visite, ce qui est toujours l’occasion de longues conversations à deux avec M. Knightley.

Estamos en 1939. Hitler acaba de invadir Polonia y los primeros nubarrones de la guerra van ensombreciendo la vida de los Cazalet: en su residencia de Sussex hay que cegar la luz de las ventanas, la escasez de alimentos empieza a hacerse notar y las exigencias del esfuerzo bélico obligan a los miembros de la familia a enfrentar complicadas decisiones. Algunos hombres --los ancianos, los lisiados-- tienen que resignarse a ver cómo los demás son llamados a luchar por su país; otros, en cambio, solo querrían regresar intactos a casa tras el infierno de Dunquerque.

He promised to write every day. Then the letters stopped. When Tyler Armstrong leaves to begin his Navy SEAL career, he and his best friend, Amanda Jarvis, promise to stay in touch the old-fashioned way: handwritten letters. But Amanda's aunt, Phoebe Garrison, has other plans. A SEAL has no...

She prayed for a best friend. God sent Tyler. Growing up in the mountains of North Carolina, Amanda Jarvis and Tyler Armstrong have been inseparable since childhood. Then, just months before graduation, Tyler's heart makes a choice his plans don't allow. He's falling for his best friend. It...

His SEAL career is over. He's afraid their future is too. After a lifetime of friendship and seventeen months apart, Tyler Armstrong and Amanda Jarvis are finally back together. But when a training accident ends Tyler's Navy career, he begins to question whether he should ask Amanda to share...

L'abécédaire sérieux associe chaque lettre de l'alphabet arabe à un mot et à une linogravure bichrome. Les mots ne révèlent pas tout de suite leur lien logique, mais on voyage peu à peu dans la culture du Moyen-Orient. Ici, on apprend tout en s'amusant des lettres et des mots arabes, avec leur traduction et prononciation phonétique. Livre sonore bilingue français-arabe réalisé par Catherine Vincent.

Für Fortune Redding beginnt die Rückkehr nach Sinful, Louisiana, alles andere als ruhig. Kaum hat die ehemalige CIA-Agentin ihre Koffer ausgepackt, wird die Kleinstadt von einem Mord erschüttert. Das Opfer, Boone »Hooch« Carre, war alles andere als beliebt.

The academy that once promised Isobel Carter salvation has pulled back the curtain and revealed itself for what it truly is. A pretty little prison. She may have been reduced to a puppet behind a screen, but at least the Alphas of Dorm A are there to heighten her performances, quicken her breath, and flood her face with colour for the cameras.

What’s in a label? Are we the product of our upbringing or do we have a natural propensity towards good or evil? The eternal question of nature vs nurture is at the centre of Dr Diane Buckley’s world. A talented freelance forensic psychologist who has never quite found the key to engaging with people on a casual level, she is drafted in to examine a grisly murder – a body found in a children’s playground.

The backbone of Mansfield Park is based around the marriages of sisters Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, and Mrs. Price. Each of these sisters marries a man from a different social class. Lady Bertram marries an extremely wealthy baronet, Sir Thomas Bertram; Mrs. Norris marries a clergyman who makes a decent living; and Mrs. Price marries a naval lieutenant who is injured shortly after they marry, causing his career to end with living in poverty.

Research has shown that the first three years in a child's life are a critical moment in their development, and that behavior patterns instilled during that time can have profound implications for the rest of a child's life. Hundreds of thousands of parents have already used the advice in Positive Discipline: The First Three Years to help set effective boundaries, forge strong foundations for healthy communication, and lay the groundwork for happy and respectful relationships with their young children. 

Nueva York, 1953. Liv Joyner y Oscar Hancock compiten por el proyecto de la remodelación interior del hotel Edén de Manhattan. Un proyecto que a Liv la consolidaría como decoradora y por el que Hancock estaría dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa. Cuando la dueña del hotel, Heidy Brinicombe...

I London fortæller en afhoppet sovjetisk agent om muldvarpe i vestlige sikkerhedstjenester. I Moskva får en deltager i en svensk delegation øje på en mand, som han ikke ventede at finde der. Hans beretning giver forsvarsstabens sikkerhedsafdeling noget at tænke over. I Stockholm pågriber...

Fortællingen om det legendariske danske heavyband, Pretty Maids, der har mere end 40 år på bagen. Fortalt af de to grundlæggere, Ronnie Atkins og Ken Hammer. Fra de første spæde skridt og tiltag til gennembruddet i Tyskland og Japan, de mange op- og nedture undervejs til i dag, hvor svær...