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In 1980, Beaton personally chose Hugo Vickers to be his biographer, entrusting him with his diaries and the entire body of letters he had written - both personally and professionally - over the course of his life. Drawing on five years of intensive research and interviews with the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, Princess Grace of Monaco and Sir John Gielgud, Vickers' biography was an instant best seller upon its publication in 1985.

My name is Jacinthe. I'm the orphaned daughter of a powerful witch healer, but I was born without any magic of my own. I want revenge on the evil stepfather who sold me into slavery. But first, I have to survive toiling in the kitchens at the Darkstone Academy for Magical Arts. The human students here are the rejects from other academies, out-of-control psycho mages. And then there are the supernaturals. They hate humans and aren't shy about showing it.

After all, who doesn’t long to hear the whoosh of the crop, the whack of the paddle on a soft, fleshy behind...and the plea for mercy? Behind the sunshine there is darkness. These erotic tales feature plenty of hard, hot spanking, paddles, straps, bondage, threesomes, oral, anal and straight sex.

Manchester detective DCI Stone and his team are faced with 10 complex, morally challenging cases in this collection of hard-hitting radio dramas. As series 5 opens, Stone is still reeling from the mishandled shooting of Callum Gartside, a gunman who had murdered his own family. With his personal life in tatters, he must find the strength to hold it together and do his job.

Los miserables es una novela histórica de Víctor Hugo, publicada en 1862. La historia se enmarca en el período de la restauración de la monarquía francesa, que tuvo lugar en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Su tema gira en torno al bien, el mal, la ética, la justicia y la fe. El argumento de la novela Los miserables de Víctor Hugo se centra en la historia de Jean Valjean, condenado a prisión por robar una hogaza de pan para sus sobrinos.

Lilian always had a no-dating rule. For the last twelve years, she's been the guardian of her younger sister. She did the whole PTO, soccer mom thing. But now that her sister's a college graduate and married, Lilian is taking her life back . . . and looking for a good time. I respected her "no dating" rule even though I've wanted her since the day she started working for me. Two years later and my thirst for her has only intensified. Lily might think all she wants is a one-night-stand, but I'm determined to make her mine.

I'm completely in love with my husband. And he takes care of my needs . . . as long as they're financial or physical. Anything more is too much to ask. I know that while I might have his name, I don't have his heart. It's almost like he keeps me in a very specific box: WIFE. He only opens that box when we're home alone, anything else would make me too much a part of his life. Even though I love him, I can't live like this anymore. I don't want to, but I ask him for a divorce.

En esta obra Maquiavelo enumera las condiciones que han de caracterizar a un príncipe, entendida esta figura como la cabeza o jefe del Estado. Podemos decir que es un libro práctico, pues pretende dar normas de acción. Intentó el autor teorizar sobre la naturaleza del Estado, sobre la sociedad en que se sustenta y sobre todo en las formas de adquirir y perder el poder y las formas de mantenerse en él.

The classic trilogy about murder, revenge and justice, as heard on BBC Radio 3 – plus a bonus documentary exploring Aeschylus's seminal Greek tragedy. A chilling tale of homecoming, violent death and bloody vengeance, The Oresteia dates back to the fifth century BC, but its themes still resonate today. At once a family saga, morality tale and courtroom drama, it recounts how two generations of the cursed House of Atreus become locked into a deadly cycle of atrocities....

Tom hat eine Geisterbahn mit quicklebendigen Geistern geerbt! Und die im Zaum und geheim zu halten, ist gar nicht so einfach: Vampir Vlarad mutiert dummerweise bei Blutkonsum zum jeweiligen Spenderwesen, meistens zu Meerschweinchen. Mit Zombie Wombie ist nicht zu spaßen, wenn man seinem Plüschhäschen zu nahe kommt, und Hop-Tep, die Mumie, kann aufgrund der Bandagen um den Kopf nur telepathisch kommunizieren.

It's time to redefine menopause. This pivotal time of life is often mistakenly viewed as a health crisis that is ‘suffered from’ or ‘coped with’, and misinformation and myths around menopause can leave you feeling ignored and misunderstood. Wise Power is the radical new story of menopause — illuminating its power and potential. Pioneers of the menstruality revolution and the founders of Red School, Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer explain how to embrace menopause as a sacred rite of passage.

I've tried to forget him. He refuses to allow it. Now, here we are, forced to spend the holidays together, pretending everything is as merry as ever. It isn't. I know this. He knows this. Everyone else? Not so much thanks to the man determined to be mine. Despite all that's happened between us, he swears not everything has changed. He might be right.

The last thing Slade Williams, the intensely driven, hard-partying Navy SEAL, sees coming is his future as a single father. He already knows he sucks at the daddy part, not that it's really his fault, but a tiny-for-her-age six year old daughter now looks to him as the center of her world. Tina Anderson, the pretty first grade teacher Slade dated the previous year when he visited his SEAL buddy's cattle ranch, wants nothing to do with the outgoing man who so easily forgot her. Her heartbreaking past made this rejection a nearly unbearable experience.

A Harvard physician’s scientifically proven method to improve your physical and mental health by optimizing your hormones in your 30s, 40s, and beyond.... Dr. Sara Gottfried refuses to accept the traditional medical thinking that feeling cranky, asexual, tapped out, and sleep-deprived is just part of being female and aging, and that prescription medication will fix all problems. Offering solutions in nonjudgmental and thoughtful language, Dr. Gottfried provides a novel plan based on solid scientific research.

Et si le bonheur se trouvait juste sous nos yeux ? Anna, 37 ans, croule sous le travail et les relances des huissiers. Ses filles, elle ne fait que les croiser au petit déjeuner. Sa vie défile, et elle l'observe depuis la bulle dans laquelle elle s'est enfermée. À 17 ans, Chloé a renoncé à ses rêves pour aider sa mère. Elle cherche de l'affection auprès des garçons, mais cela ne dure jamais. Comme le carrosse de Cendrillon, ils se transforment après l'amour. Lily, du haut de ses 12 ans, n'aime pas trop les gens.

Deva Kent spent most of her life dreaming of escaping. She hated being forced to live among the Fellowship of the Enlightened, the small community closed off from the rest of the world, and was desperate to spread her wings and discover something new. When she applied to be a nanny for a single father and his two-year-old son, the Fellowship wasn't happy, but she knew that was her fresh start. However, she never thought she'd end up falling for the man with more baggage than he could carry and storm clouds in his eyes.

Sold into indentured servitude at a remote reform school for wayward mages, Darkstone Academy for the Magical Arts, I found myself surrounded by dangerous enemies and far from home. Luckily, I made three powerful friends, all outcasts like me: the gorgeous and protective merman Lord Tama, the fiery dragon Prince Boreas, and the skilled and enigmatic Fae Prince Gwydion. They were sent to Darkstone Academy as diplomatic hostages to keep the peace between the Human Dominion and the supernatural kingdoms.

A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker is a celebratory selection from 100 years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker. Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Maggie Smith, Kaveh Akbar: these stellar names make up just a fraction of the wonderfulness that is present in this essential anthology.

Au cours d’une saison d’estive, les attaques répétées d’une ourse ravivent les tensions dans une vallée pyrénéenne. Tentant de s’abstraire des débats, Alma, une éthologue, et Gaspard, un berger, communient avec la montagne, mêlent leur existence à celles des bêtes. Sur ces terres où l'homme et l'animal sont intimement liés, l'histoire d'un jeune montreur d'ours parti faire fortune à New York, un siècle plus tôt, résonne tragiquement avec le présent.

Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsars. Broadcast to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this extraordinary drama cycle by Mike Walker comprises 11 ambitious plays spanning over 400 years, exploring the lives of Russia’s key rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.