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Marianne est la mère de Vincent, Sophie et Malo. Ce dernier est parti de la maison très jeune pour voyager à travers le monde. Tous les ans, pour son anniversaire, Marianne et ses deux aînés se réunissent, espérant le voir arriver, et tous les ans, il leur fait faux bond... Et cette année ?

Having had her heart broken her freshman year, Ashley took an eight-year hiatus from college and men. Now older and wiser, she’s determined to tackle her dream degree. Yet, there’s only so much studying a girl can do. Has her heart healed enough for dating? So when the handsome witty engineer Ashley’s been messaging wants to meet her at a ComicCon Costume Ball for their first date, she’s apprehensive. That’s a weird first date, but it could be fun.

Anabelle Weatherstone is up from the country for her first London Season. She soon earns the sobriquet "Belle of London". Major Lord Ashdon, a soldier returned to England to find a bride, remembers meeting the demure young lady. He's startled to discover that she's become the toast of the town! He's not certain he approves, but he is intrigued.

A lovely impostor. Tragedy and a family feud years ago tore Cassandra Weatherstone and her twin apart. Cassandra exchanges lives with her sister to get to know her grandfather. She’s astonished to discover that Sir Marcus has arranged to betroth his granddaughter to his godson, Philip Raven. The problem is, she's the wrong granddaughter! A man meant for someone else. Everything has gotten so complicated! She’s in love with Philip. What is she to do? If she reveals who she really is, will he turn away from her?

London, 1915. Britain is still at war with Germany. Stylish lady detective Miss Isabel Hewitt has agreed to play the piano at a fundraising concert. The funds are for a small military hospital where her former manservant Clarke works as an orderly. But her rehearsal is interrupted when a Mrs. Peveril calls to ask Isabel to look into the suicide of her daughter Leah. The family hope the girl did not kill herself.

Marcella has stumbled into puberty. She’s grown too old to play with toys but is still too young for boys. Songs, Christianity, and curiosity at her changing body fill her time. She practices the piano, talks to her God and, alone in her bedroom, she explores. Then she finds out there's a name for what she does, that it's a bad thing to do, and that God prohibits it, even though it feels so delightful.

A shy beauty in distress: When Guineveve Holland arrives in London, she's full of apprehension. Mrs. Holland has no great affection for her daughter, but she still has grand ambitions. Guin is to be married off for wealth and position. Guin's own hopes are ignored. Stammering, shy and gauche, Guin does not shine in society. Sir Frederick Hawkesworth pities the beleaguered beauty. He has a soft spot for damsels in distress. As the London Season progresses, his interest in Miss Holland becomes far more personal than he ever anticipated.

His lordship is in the House of Lords. His new bride is straight out of the schoolroom. It's their first Christmas. Lady Gwen Hallcroft organizes their holiday houseparty at the manor. She wants to be a credit to her husband, but she's feeling very insecure. After all, he's never told her that he loves her, not in words. Lord Christopher Hallcroft thinks nothing of making a public speech. But he isn't able to say all that is in his heart. He's uncertain - what gift will prove how much he adores his new bride?

A great many of you may be working at home due to the global pandemic. I hope sharing the benefit of my 20 years of experience will help you work through this challenge. Nearly every time I tell someone that I work from home, they say that they could never do that. They would not get any work done. Yet there is a way to do it. You must change your perspective by separating your work life and home life while you do both in the place that you live. You will do your job and be content in your home, if you adopt the method I am going lay out in this audiobook.

For holidaymakers it’s a glorious time of breathtaking scenery, picnics on beaches, and flocks of tourists on their summertime holidays. But for Miss Judy Dimont, this is all a trifle dull. As a reporter for local rag, The Riviera Express, she needs scandal and intrigue - and one morning, as the clock strikes the quarter hour, she gets it. A woman has been shot dead in one of Buntorama’s upmarket holiday huts, the toffee-nosed rival hotelier next door is rubbing his hands with glee, and Judy and her trusty moped, Herbert, are off like a shot to survey the scene of the crime.

Det mest dödliga rovdjuret är redan bland dem. När kriminalinspektör Jane Rizzoli och rättsläkare Maura Isles kallas till en brottsplats finner de ett mordoffer som kunde ha fallit offer för ett av världens farligaste rovdjur - upphängt i fötterna, rensat på sina inälvor och sönderklöst av vad som ser ut som ett vilddjurs klor.

A stay in Paris should be just the tonic for a distracted and insular German student. But it is the beginning of the French Revolution and the blood-stained guillotine is doing its grisly work every day. So when the student encounters a beautiful, distraught woman in need of comfort on its steps in the dead of night, he doesn’t consider this meeting perhaps as strange as he should. "The Adventure of the German Student" is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural.

Mirabai was a Rajput princess born to the Rathore clan in 1498 in Kudaki, Rajasthan, in northern India. Despite being one of the most significant saints in the Bhakti tradition and an immensely popular Hindu mystic and religious poet, very few facts are actually known about her life including her date of birth. It is clear that her mother died when she was very young and she was greatly influenced by her father, also a worshipper of Krishna. From a young age, Mirabai’s devotion to Krishna was absolute surrender and complete devotion.

Anne Kingsmill was born in April 1661 (an exact date is not known) in Sydmonton, Hampshire. Throughout her life, Anne was involved in several Court cases that dragged on for years. These involved both a share of her parent’s estate for her education and later her and her husband’s share of an inheritance. In 1682, Anne became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena (wife of James, Duke of York, and later King James II) at St James’ Palace. Anne's interest in poetry began at the palace, and she started writing her own verse.

Eve Arden stars as the tart-tongued Constance Brooks, a dedicated English teacher at Madison High School. Before and after the bell rings, Miss Brooks turns her thoughts from language to love. Indulging in her perpetual pursuit of bashful biology teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler), Connie finds herself making his favorite stew, conspiring to make him sick, and pretending to be his mother! She even considers compromising her principles (and her principal)!

I've always been a dancer. A ballerina. I live for the sound of music, for dancing under the bright lights on a stage. But Thorn wants to take it all away. He wants me to dance just for him. Nobody else. That means my dreams of being a prima ballerina will be truly over, and I don't know if I'm ready. Can I give it all up for him, the man of my dreams? Is our love enough to make up for giving up on my dreams? And more importantly...if I say no, will Thorn force me to stop anyway?

Désespérée par le Brexit, Justine Dodgson décide de lancer une start-up secrète. Son objectif : organiser des mariages blancs entre Français et Anglais afin que ces derniers obtiennent un passeport européen. Quand elle rencontre Marguerite Fiorel, jeune soprane talentueuse, et Pierre Kamenev, son taciturne professeur de piano, Justine imagine aussitôt avec qui les faire convoler.

Catastrophe with a Count: A man with nothing to lose, and a woman with everything to gain - and neither trusts the other an inch…. Emigrating with an Earl: A man accused of murder, and a woman desperate for protection - and neither is sure who is being rescued by whom…. Peril with a Prince: A prince hiding his identity, and a woman hiding hers – and sparks will fly when they have only each other to rely on….

L'Amérique est-elle condamnée à la bêtise, au machisme, à la paranoïa et au mensonge ? Anna Crawford, professeure d'anglais au lycée de Seldom Falls, Pennsylvanie, est virée pour insubordination. Mauvais timing. Dans la foulée, un étudiant pénètre dans les locaux et se livre à une tuerie de masse : 19 morts, 45 blessés.

Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northampton, England. Her parents' position allowed them to educate Anne across many subjects, which was unusual for its day. She married and had eight children. She and her family emigrated to America, where they moved often from place to place. She wrote some beautiful poetry in 1650; the publication of her collection of verse The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America made her the first female poet ever published in England and the New World.