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Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, delivers book two in her new lushly imagined trilogy featuring daughter of Alba, Moirin.NAAMAH'S CURSEFar from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people. After a long ordeal, she not only succeeds, but surrenders to a passion the likes of which she's never known. But the lovers' happiness is short lived, for Bao is entangled in a complication that soon leads to their betrayal.

L'Or. La merveilleuse histoire du général Johann August Suter est un roman de Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), paru chez Grasset en 1925. C'est le premier roman publié par son auteur, connu jusqu'alors pour ses poèmes (Les Pâques à New York, la Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne de France) et ses collaborations avec les peintres dans les milieux d'avant-garde. Écrit en quelques semaines au retour du premier voyage de Cendrars au Brésil (1924), L'Or a connu immédiatement un grand succès qui ne s'est jamais démenti. Il marque un tournant dans l'œuvre de son auteur qui « prend congé » du poème pour devenir tout au long des années 1920 un romancier de l'aventure héroïque. L'Or est une biographie du général Suter, un aventurier d'origine Bâloise, en Suisse, qui fit fortune en Californie grâce à l'agriculture dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle. Il racheta la région au Mexique et installa une véritable industrie de l'agriculture. Il était en passe de devenir l'homme le plus riche du monde mais fut ruiné par la découverte d'or sur ses terres en 1848 et par la grande ruée vers l'or qui s'ensuivit. Des milliers de personnes se ruèrent sur les territoires du général Suter, dévastant tout ce qu'il avait mis tant d'énergie à construire. Ces nouveaux arrivants venaient avec des notaires et se procuraient de faux titres de propriété flambant neufs. Le général fatigué et abattu par tant d'injustice sombra dans une mélancolie passive jusqu'à ce que sa famille réapparaisse devant sa maison. Il décida de se reprendre en main et poursuivit en justice les milliers de prospecteurs qui exploitaient son territoire rempli d'or. Mais cela n'allait servir à rien ; la machine était déjà lancée et roulait beaucoup trop vite pour le général Suter. Celui-ci, dépassé, finit fou et mourut tristement en plein Washington. Source: Wikipedia<

When corporate reorganization strikes, spirited journalist Stanna keeps her job but discovers her struggle has only begun. The workplace becomes a sizzling environment as she battles her macho, hard-bodied new boss for control of her Men's Weekly column. She's determined to reform him. He's determined to train her. Neither wants to acknowledge the electricity that pulls at them both.<

Diego Christian's trail of deceit follows him all the way to the altar. After ruining the life of the woman he was to marry, he continues to find himself in one casual relationship after another with other men's wives and girlfriends. Through his sex-a-thon he meets a magazine editor who helps him develop his own column — "Ladies Listen Up" — dishing out relationship advice to women. When his behavior finally begins to cost him, Diego has to decide if he can — or wants to — change.

Jacob Marsh, a teacher at Lyndon B. Johnson High School, is Diego's best friend. Jacob has always been cool under pressure and is a master manipulator. When he makes a critical mistake with a student who has a crush on him, he soon learns that covering it up may cost him everything he's worked so hard to keep.

Through their drama-filled trysts, Diego, Jacob, and others give women the lowdown on the way men work.<

Lucky Santangelo, una mujer exótica y sensual, está decidida a demostrar lo que se puede conseguir con un carácter fuerte e independiente. Aunque para ello tenga que sumergirse en el despiadado ambiente de Hollywood, donde reina la traición, la depravación sexual, las drogas y las ambiciones desmedidas.Apasionante en cada página y con un estilo descarnado y sin concesiones, esta obra pone al descubierto las terribles luchas por el poder, la fama y el dinero que tienen lugar en los círculos más sofisticados y exclusivos de la meca del cine.<

When journalist Nick Mason got a hot tip to investigate the frame-up of a man being executed for murder, he didn't know what he was in for. At the gas chamber, it was Vessi's last words that gave Mason the clue to a peculiar cover up at the respectable Mackenzie Fabric Corporation. But when Mason gets warned off by a cold-eyed gunman and a dangerous hooker called Blondie, he would have abandoned the whole investigation . . . if it weren't for the irresistible Mardi, the girl from Mackenzie Fabrics who might be able to lead him to the truth.      

Review

"Reminiscent of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert Jordan." - School Library Journal, starred review

"From the pre-industrial English feel to the sprawling setting and backstory, this book feels every bit as substantial as its heft implies." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Gives the Dickensian orphan story an original spin. . . . Expertly envisioned and peopled with intriguing characters." - Booklist, starred review

Product Description

Continuing the absorbing, inventive saga started in Foundling, Lamplighter follows Rossamund Bookchild, now one of the Emperor's lamplighters, who is sworn to protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. Small and meek, he does not fit in. Then a haughty young female monster hunter is forced upon the lamplighters for training. As Rossamund begins to make new friends in the dangerous world of the Half-Continent, he also seems to make more enemies, finding himself pushed toward a destiny that he could never have imagined. . . .

SUMMARY:
While investigating the death of a friend in a small village in the Hudson River Valley, Mongo must unexpectedly duel with an old enemy as well as a right-wing conspiracy.

QUARRY'S BACK -- FOR HIS TOUGHEST JOB EVER.

The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?

And why in hell does he care?

On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings him back for a dark and deadly mission where the last quarry may turn out to be Quarry himself.<

The Woman in White (1860) is a tale of mystery and mistaken identity told by its various characters in turn. From the moment when a lovely young woman suprises Walter Hartright in moonlit north London, Collins keeps the reader in suspense until the entire mesh of secrets is unwoven. In theMoonstone (1868) a fabulous yellow diamond disappears from the Verinders' country house in Yorkshire. Witnesses, suspects, and detectives all take up the story, and their narratives lead toward a melodramtic, unforeseeable conclusion. Valeria Woodville in The Law and the Lady (1875) must unravelthe secrets of her husband's earlier life; she takes the law into her own hands and becomes one of the first woman detectives in fiction.Collins's memorable, opinionated characters and his masterful control of pace and plot make thse early thrillers as racy and exciting as any written today.<

Artist Tate Eresby has accepted the unusual sights and sounds of Golgotham, New York's paranormal underworld. But her relationship with witch-lord Hexe, the current heir to the Kymeran throne, is full of tension. Hexe's Uncle Esau is an anti-human activist who believes Tate is a human enemy of his race.

But Tate's time in Golgotham has left her more than human...<