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Personne n'est assez fort pour la vivre. Personne n'est préparé à l'affronter même si chacun la désire plus que tout. La passion, la vraie. Cette histoire commence par un coup de foudre. Un homme croise le regard d'une femme et sa vie bascule. Une sensation de surprise, d'euphorie, mais bien vite l'obsession et le mal être lorsque l'autre n'est pas à vos côtés... ou ne partage pas les mêmes sentiments.

Féministes avant l'heure, les sorcières ont laissé en héritage leurs savoirs et leurs pouvoirs, autant de clés au service d'une féminité libre et puissante. Symbole subversif de la révolte féministe, la figure de la sorcière est aujourd'hui de retour, prête à questionner nos choix, notre rapport au monde, à la nature, au corps, à la rationalité, à la sexualité... Et ce qu'elle a à nous apprendre peut réellement changer nos vies. Loin du folklore et des clichés, les sorcières sont porteuses d'un savoir riche et multiple, qui dérange et bouscule l'ordre établi. Pourquoi les a-t-on massacrées au XVe siècle, pourquoi a-t-on cherché à les oublier ?

Adrienne loves her job and her apartment, and she's happy to help out her grandfather a few times a month. If she could just get the peacocks that plague his neighborhood to stop destroying his yard, she'd be set. Native to Mississippi, Casey knows beautiful when she sees it, and California is full of beauty. She appreciates everything about her college town—the weather, her job, and the majestic birds that populate her neighborhood. Though every encounter Casey has with Adrienne seems designed to scare her away, Casey keeps finding herself drawn back to her neighbor's granddaughter.

Au cours de leur périple, Ayla et son compagnon Jondalar font la connaissance des Mamutoï, un peuple de chasseurs de mammouths. Grâce à ses talents de guérisseuse, mais aussi à son étonnante familiarité avec les animaux, la jeune Cro-Magnon gagne rapidement la confiance et l'admiration de la tribu, qui accueille le couple avec chaleur. La situation se complique cependant lorsque Ranec, un artiste du clan, invite Ayla à venir admirer les statuettes en ivoire qu'il a sculptées pour honorer la "Grande Mère".

Dripping wet from his shower and wearing only a towel, billionaire cowboy Gage Winchester makes quite a first impression on Suzette Fiftypence. Her first night in his posh Texas resort he dashes from his shower to her rescue when she screams in the night. Now she finds herself alone with this half-naked hunk in her hotel room. Things are looking up. Before meeting him, investigative journalist Suzette would much rather have spent Christmas exposing a crime ring than reviewing a high end resort ranch. Her career was all that mattered to her.

Snowed in on Christmas Eve in her remote Maine cottage, Lisette Quentin was grateful for the peaceful and quiet break from her hectic life. It was just what she needed, but what she wanted was another matter. There was only thing on her Christmas wish list, a sexy hunk with a heart of gold who was crazy about her and knew how to satisfy her. Too much to hope for, she knew. But on Christmas, magic can happen and anything is possible.

When bookish Penny Collins reluctantly lets her sister drag her to an estate sale at a neighbor’s house, she’s hoping for a little diversion rummaging through dusty antiques. Instead, she ends up in a public squabble over candlesticks with the deceased owner’s nephew, Anthony—right before a dead body tumbles out of a closet.

The making of the Oscar® Award-winning classic Rebecca is detailed in this enlightening and fascinating book which delves into the behind the scenes drama, struggles, and passion that went into the filming of this iconic movie. Biographical sketches of key figures such as author Daphne du Maurier and leading actors Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier are included.

All Samantha wanted for Christmas truly was a hot guy who would love her with all his heart and every inch of his hard body. Instead, she got a box set of Game of Thrones. She is fed up with her job and with being single. Her plan to spend her vacation watching TV and doing nothing else (she needed some down time) changes when she has the impulse to visit her friend Lisette in Maine.

It is the Roaring Twenties and Monica Woodard bobs her hair and raises the hem of her dresses, but she doesn't feel liberated. The last lavish party of the season at aloof tycoon Jared Fitzgerald's "Mansion on the Rock," an event not to be missed, is that night. Reluctantl,y Monica agrees to go along with friends to crash it.

Snowed in while a storm dumps three feet of snow on her house in Maine, Alyssa Silva doesn't really mind that the road isn't plowed yet. It means that she has to stay home from work, and with the internet out she can't even work from home. She needed a break from her busy routine. She wanted some down time to relax, but truly what she wanted more than anything else was a hot guy in her life, who was crazy about her and wanted nothing more than to pleasure her and be with her.

If there's room in her heart for anything more than literature and controlling those around her—Renee hasn't allowed herself the chance to discover that possibility. Her life is perfectly in order until one fall weekend, when her world collides with possibility and the past, setting off a tidal wave of changes she could have never predicted.

As the reigning queen of the dirt bike racing circuit, my only goal is to win this next championship race. Except I’ve got a bit of a…reputation problem. While my fans love my tattooed bad-girl image, my fancy new sponsor hates it. After a recent media fiasco, I’m on the brink of losing everything. So I asked Rowan O’Callaghan to fake date me to rehab my image. We’ve known each other since I was just his favorite bartender, and he was the charming baseball god who swaggered into my bar to seduce every woman in sight. Not me, though. I always knew better. Until now.

Do you often feel weighed down by life? Is it hard to find time for yourself? Do you often feel that you’re putting the needs of others above your own? Then it’s time to try the self-love workbook! Inside, you’ll find everything you need to revitalize your self-love and stop feeling like you’re neglecting your own needs for others. In the modern world, it can be very easy to forget about our own basic needs, running around after others and never taking time for ourselves.

FEAT DESC 1617, Vardø, au nord du cercle polaire, en Norvège. Maren Magnus-datter, vingt ans, regarde depuis le village la violente tempête qui s'abat sur la mer. Quarante pêcheurs, dont son frère et son père, gisent sur les rochers en contrebas, noyés. Ce sont les hommes de Vardø qui ont été ainsi décimés, et les femmes vont désormais devoir assurer seules leur survie.

After only a week as enigmatic billionaire, Dorian Black's, girlfriend Alicia Jones gets the shock of her life: he's flying her to Tuscany for a business retreat! But at the retreat she learns Dorian's company wants him to marry by the end of the year or give up his position as CEO. He insists Alicia be his bride, but dark secrets from his past threaten to keep them apart. Will Alicia give in to the domineering billionaire and marry him to save his job and her own?

Claire Silk needs ransom money for her husband, kidnapped while working in Columbia. His billionaire boss won't pay it unless she is willing to perform certain acts to satisfy him. Claire is reluctant, but she can't refuse doing everything in her power to get her husband back. He never has to know. Right? The billionaire's secret needs are more wicked than she expects. He doesn't want to have sex with her. He just wants to watch. What he wants her do, and with who, shocks Claire even more. But she will do whatever he wants while he watches. She has to.

I walked away from my billion-dollar inheritance. But I guess I didn’t walk far enough...because yesterday my inheritance came back to me. In order to claim it, I need to find a fake fiancée to satisfy my family’s demands. That’s where my tyrannical, uptight boss Nancy comes in - a royal pain in the seat of the secondhand jeans I’ve worn since the day I became her bartender. The truth is I’ve been lying for seven years. I figure I can lie for one more weekend. But what I can’t lie about is how I’ve started to see the usually buttoned-up Nancy in a whole new light.

After spending my entire childhood moving wherever the military told us to, I put down roots in Tyson's Creek. My plan was simple—start a business and live a peaceful, fulfilling life with my friends. That is until Seth Williams walked into my yoga studio and turned my world upside down. I swore that I'd never fall in love with a military man, but the more time I spent with him, the more I started to fall. One night, I let my guard down, allowing the walls around my heart to crumble to the ground. After spending one amazing night together, he was shipped off to defend our country.

Do you sometimes feel that you were born into the wrong life? A life where you don’t fit in? Duke of Earl looks at the 1960s through the eyes of Lila Naimark, who was a young girl at odds with her parents. In their view, adhering to strict Pentecostal doctrine was the only way for their daughter to avoid eternal damnation. The author’s quest to understand “Why doesn’t this seem right to me?” forced her to choose between keeping to the safe-and-narrow road prescribed by her religion or chasing her dreams of a bigger life.