"It's been a minute--or five years--since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old...

From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, about two young women-Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing, who find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental...

In the 1840s, Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rand an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is the second of these stories, whose predecessor was the famous A Christmas Carol. The Chimes focuses on Trotty, a poor elderly messenger who is filled with gloom over reports of crime and immorality in the newspapers. After losing faith in the society, Trotty follows a call...

John McCann ist ein Mensch, der das Leben nach den Bilanzen im Hauptbuch beurteilt. Sein oberstes Ziel ist es, den geschäftlichen Erfolg, den er sich erarbeitet hat, zu erhalten und zu genießen. Jedoch stellen ihn zunehmend schlimmere Migräneanfälle vor ein Problem, und sein Arzt rät ihm zu einem Tapetenwechsel – er solle sich doch ein nettes kleines Geschäft auf dem Lande kaufen, zur Ruhe kommen, seine Zeit mit etwas Einfacherem ausfüllen… John...

Extrait : "Le restaurant Grillon, ce phalanstère des canotiers, se vidait lentement. C'était, devant la porte, un tumulte de cris, d'appels ; et les grands gaillards en maillot blanc gesticulaient avec des avirons sur l'épaule..." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup...

John Marcher is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier while living in southern Italy, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event, lying in wait for him like a ""beast in the jungle"". May decides to buy a house in London with the money she inherited from a great aunt, and to spend her days with Marcher, curiously awaiting what fate...

Traditionally, leather is an anniversary gift. One couple is about to take that in a very non–traditional way...

Rory and Lily have been married for five years, and they have special plans to celebrate their anniversary: a little game involving a collar and a leash and some silky underwear...for Rory. A little light bondage can be just for fun – but beyond the play, there is love, bone deep and bright as the stars.

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As a Seminus demon, Raze's life literally depends on having sex with females. The problem is that he doesn't desire females, and it's physically impossible for him to be with males. Thankfully, he and his best friend, Fayle, have an arrangement that keeps him alive...if lonely. He finds some solace in his work as a medic at Thirst, a vampire club known for its rough clientele. But his carefully structured world turns upside down when he meets a

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"Nineteen-year-old Avery plans to end her life but changes her mind when she learns an asteroid is heading towards Earth, and with nine days left to live, long held secrets begin to come out and Avery finally begins to heal. Avery Byrne is queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass; and she's suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. On the morning Avery plans to jump into the river near her college campus, the world discovers there are...

A"fter a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Can Dylan and Leighton save their friendship and protect their future while trying to survive camp?"-- Provided by publisher.