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Tout à son amour, Orchidée, la petite princesse mandchoue, avait oublié la Chine et l’impératrice Ts’eu-hi qu’elle a trahie pour épouser Édouard. Mais, soudain, elle reçoit une terrible missive… Ts’eu-hi lui ordonne de regagner la Chine après avoir volé à Paris une agrafe qui appartenait à la famille impériale.

La mort dans l’âme, Orchidée dérobe le bijou. Mais le cauchemar continue. Le lendemain, Édouard est assassiné. Et c’est elle que les domestiques accusent !

Effondrée, Orchidée prend la fuite. Direction Marseille, puis… À bord du Méditerranée-Express, elle rencontre enfin l’homme providentiel qui réussira peut-être à l’aider…

Michael Gallo found his calling in life – he wants to kick ass. He works at Inked as a piercer, but spends his mornings training and dreaming of winning an UFC championship. Michael is the road to achieving his goal when a chance encounter alters his world forever. The title is no longer enough – he must capture the woman of his dreams.

Dr. Mia Greco is dedicated to saving lives and helping those less fortunate. She doesn’t have time to meet Mr. Right with her busy schedule. She buries herself in her work and helping humanity. Fate steps in and sweeps the carpet out from under her. She tries to deny the pull to him, a man that uses his fists for gain, but the universe won’t let her walk away so easy and Michael isn’t one to take no for an answer.

He has a secret that may rip them apart. There are forces bigger than them at work; drawing them in and making their worlds collide – not letting either one of them walk away.

La suite des aventures de la belle Marie à la Cour de Louis XIII qui va devoir affronter un adversaire de taille : Richelieu...

Exilée après une tentative d'attentat contre le cardinal de Richelieu, Marie, duchesse de Chevreuse, n'a de cesse de regagner la Cour, loin de laquelle elle dépérit. Seule sa passion dévorante pour l'aristocrate anglais Henry Holland illumine sa retraite.

Dès son retour à Paris elle prend la tête, avec l'appui de la reine Anne d'Autriche, de complots aussi ambitieux qu'improbables. Mais chacune de ces conspirations l'éloigne un peu plus du pouvoir.

Collectionnant les admirateurs, Marie connaîtra-t-elle enfin le bonheur d'un amour partagé ? Saura-t-elle, malgré ses erreurs, conserver son influence à la Cour ? Confiante en son extraordinaire destin, elle ne va pas hésiter à se mettre en danger pour obtenir ce qu'elle désire...

Le 21 juin 1627, François de Montmorency-Bouteville est décapité en place de Grève pour avoir violé vingt-huit fois les édits royaux interdisant le duel. Il laisse une jeuné épouse de vingt ans, deux petites filles de deux ans et un petit garçon à naître. Ce serait la misère si la princesse Charlotte de Condé, leur cousine, ne se chargeait d'élever les enfants selon leur rang. Chez elle Isabelle, la cadette des filles, va s'éprendre très tôt du duc d'Enghien, futur Grand Condé et l'aîné des fils de la maison qui a six ans de plus qu'elle et qui la dédaigne jusqu'à ce qu'en grandissant, elle devienne ravissante. Ce qui va déplaire profondément à sa soeur Anne-Geneviève, future duchesse de Longueville, très belle et très adulée mais qu'un sentiment trouble - payé d'ailleurs de retour ! - unit à Enghien. Elle ne tolère jamais qu'il aime ailleurs et se comportera en conséquence... Quand éclatent les troubles de la Fronde, cette longue révolte où tout le monde trahit tout le monde, où l'ami d'hier devient l'ennemi de demain, où l'on va jusqu'à traîner dans la boue la Régente Anne d'Autriche et le cardinal Mazarin, ils couvriront la guerre larvée qui durant des années va opposer Isabelle, devenue duchesse de Chatillon à Mme de Longueville...<

Après avoir trouvé son château pillé et dévasté par les troupes du Grand Condé, qu’elle aime depuis l’enfance, Isabelle, duchesse de Châtillon, entend lui faire payer mais ne résistera pas longtemps à l’amour qu’il lui avoue. Ce pourrait être le bonheur. Ce sera la fin d’une paix relative pour Isabelle.

La Fronde du Parlement et des Parisiens s’achève. Celle des Princes commence. Moins pour chasser Mazarin que pour s’emparer du pouvoir, avant que le jeune Louis XIV ne l’assume. Pour Isabelle commence un incessant et épuisant combat où elle ira jusqu’à jouer sa vie pour empêcher le héros de Rocroi de passer à l’ennemi et de retourner ses armes contre la France, entraînant avec lui François, son jeune frère qu’elle aime infiniment.

Quand cette dure bataille prend fin, Isabelle, adorée des uns, détestée des autres, n’en aura pas fini avec l’aventure menée au galop de ses chevaux. Ils la mèneront très loin, très haut sans qu’elle abandonne jamais l’amour de son enfance.

The tap’s run dry, the supermarkets have been ransacked, the power is off and the low rumble of tanks can be heard in the distance. The unprepared who refused to believe that such a thing could happen here will live as wretched refugees—if they live at all. But for the prepared—for the city survivors—life will go on. America’s leading survival author debunks the myth that the only way to survive is to stock a retreat in the mountains. He tells urban dwellers how to find water; trap and butcher game; preserve food; position a retreat for maximum safety; avoid troops; and barter with other survivors. You’ll learn which weapons are absolute necessities and which aren’t worth having, and confront the all-important topic of survival nursing care. Ragnar gives you the solid information you will need to make it if the worst-case scenario becomes a reality.<

Archaeologist Lowe Magnusson is packing something everyone wants. The djed amulet, a priceless Egyptian artifact, will fetch Lowe a hefty paycheck from one of San Francisco’s wealthiest. But when the handsome Swede runs into his patron’s uptight daughter, what he once considered easy money becomes maddeningly complicated…

Cursed with deadly spirits as her constant companions, curator Hadley Bacall must keep calm to hold her dangerous specters at bay and prevent them from lashing out at anything—or anyone. Trouble is, Lowe is driving her crazy, but her father needs the artifact he’s transporting. While Hadley can feel the amulet’s power, she can’t fathom the destruction—or the desire—it’s about to stir up.

Complicated does not begin to describe Arcadia Bell's life right now: unnatural magical power, another brush with death, and a murderous mother who's not only overbearing but determined to take permanent possession of Cady's body.

Forced to delve deep into the mystery surrounding her own birth, Cady must uncover which evil spell her parents cast during her conception…and how to reverse it.

As she and her lover Lon embark on a dangerous journey through her magical past, Lon's teenage son Jupe sneaks off for his own investigation. Each family secret they uncover is darker than the last, and Cady, who has worn many identities—Moonchild, mage, fugitive—is about to add one more to the list.

Budding illusionist Anna Van Housen is on top of the world: after scoring a spot on a prestigious European vaudeville tour, she has moved to London to chase her dream and to join an underground society for people like her with psychic abilities. Along with her handsome beau, Cole Archer, Anna is prepared to take the city by storm.

But when Anna arrives in London, she finds the group in turmoil. Sensitives are disappearing and, without a suspect, the group’s members are turning on one another. Could the kidnapper be someone within the society itself—or has the nefarious Dr. Boyle followed them to London?

As Cole and Anna begin to unravel the case and secrets about the society are revealed, they find themselves at odds, their plans for romance in London having vanished. Her life in danger and her relationship fizzling, can Anna find a way to track down the killer before he makes her his next victim—or will she have to pay the ultimate price for her powers?

Set in Jazz-Age London, this alluring sequel to Born of Illusion comes alive with sparkling romance, deadly intrigue, and daring magic.

Agent Harper “Shield” Kennedy’s specialty within the Elite Operatives Organization is security, although she’s long lost any gratification from babysitting most VIPs. However, her new assignment—to safeguard the U.S. president—will prove to be the biggest challenge of her career. Shield’s mission to protect the first female chief executive is complicated by threats to her own life when she begins to question the president’s orders.

Loner Ryden Wagner is content with her life as a florist until she becomes a pawn in a political deception involving the highest office in the land. Trapped in a dangerous game where one false move could cost Ryden her life, she has to rely solely on the president’s new bodyguard.

As an attraction between the two women grows, so does the urgency for answers, but will the truth bring them together or tear them apart?

Sixth in the romantic intrigue series: Elite Operatives.

Eric Brown’s stories combine memorable characters, fascinating settings, and a passionate concern for story-telling that has made this BSFA award-winning author one of the leaders of the field.

The American approach to law enforcement was forged by the experience of revolution. Emerging as they did from the shadow of British rule, the country’s founders would likely have viewed police, as they exist today, as a standing army, and therefore a threat to liberty. Even so, excessive force and disregard for the Bill of Rights have become epidemic in today’s world. According to civil liberties reporter Radley Balko, these are all symptoms of a generation-long shift to increasingly aggressive, militaristic, and arguably unconstitutional policing—one that would have shocked the conscience of America’s founders.

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation.

A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan.

A botched defection in an airport hotel in New Jersey.

A test of loyalty at an abandoned resort in the Burmese jungle.

A boy and a girl locking eyes at a rave in a South London laundrette. .

For the first time, Britain's most exciting young novelist turns his attention to the present day, as a conspiracy with global repercussions converges on one small flat above a dentist's office in Camberwell.

Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture the imagination and emotions of millions. was such a book. Richard Bach’s unique vision again shines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all its limitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.

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For all who wish to rise above their earth-bound existences to feast on the freedom and adventure that Richard Bach knows and loves and recreates so magnificently, this book offers—

Is there a reason for every event that touches our lives? Richard Bach believed there was, and to find it, he set out on a great adventure. Here he tells about the magical summer when he turned time backward to become an old-fashioned barnstormer in an antique biplane… and let destiny be his copilot.<

They control your memories…

They tell you how to live…

In the bombed-out streets of New York, the corrupt bosses of Memoria Corporation make billions by erasing people’s traumatic memories. But their bubble bursts when a humble citizen Frank Shelby becomes a murder suspect on the run. Betrayed by his friends and hunted down by mysterious killers, Frank has to penetrate Memoria and find evidence of their real plans before it’s too late for all of us.

Reeling from a bitter divorce, Adrienne Carter abandons Chicago and retreats to the sun, sand, and beauty of Southern Florida, throwing herself into the restoration of a dilapidated old Victorian beach house. Early into the renovations, she discovers a tin box hidden away in the attic that reveals the emotional letters from a WWII paratrooper to a young woman who lived in the house more than a half-century earlier.

The old letters—incredibly poetic and romantic—transcend time, and they arouse in Adrienne a curiosity that leads her to track down the writer of the letters. William “Pops” Bryant is now an old man living in a nearby town with his handsome but overprotective grandson, Will. As Adrienne begins to unravel the secrets of the letters (and the Bryants), she finds herself not yet willing to give up entirely on love.

Trevor Shay has it all—a successful football and baseball career, and any woman he wants. But when he finds out his college mentor’s daughter is in trouble, he drops everything to come to her aid.

Haven Briscoe has finally landed a dream job as a sportscaster for a major network. But she hasn’t been able to move past the recent death of her beloved father, and it’s affecting her career. A plum assignment following the daily life of sports superstar Trevor Shay might be just the inspiration she needs…

Trevor will do anything to spark life back into Haven, including letting her into every aspect of his world. The chemistry between them flames higher than one of Trevor’s home runs and faster than his dashes to the end zone. But as they grow closer, Haven stumbles onto Trevor’s closely guarded secret, one he’s hidden his entire life. And despite his protests, now it’s Haven’s turn to put everything on hold to help Trevor. Will he let her in and trust her with a secret that could blow his professional and personal world apart?