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There are many rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God. I've always been good at following rules. Until she came. Then I learned new rules.

Former presidential aide Ryan Belvedere has been drifting in a fog of misery ever since his president was killed, but he reluctantly agrees to do a favor for a friend--fetching a rare book from a crumbling manor house in England. There he meets Sidney Blount--a cold, sophisticated, Dominant--who's at the same house to appraise the family art. It doesn't take Sidney long to appraise Ryan too, and decide exactly what Ryan needs. Which just so happens to be the one thing Sidney wants to give...

I'm not a good man, and I've never pretended to be. I don't believe in goodness or God or any happy ending that isn't paid for in advance. What do I believe in? Money. Sex. Macallan 18. They have words for men like me - playboy. Womanizer. Skirt chaser. My brother used to be a priest, and he only has one word for me: sinner.

Warned as a girl to keep her kisses to herself, Greer Galloway wants nothing to do with kisses—or love. Twice she's ignored the childhood warning and kissed a man, and both times ended in gutting, miserable heartbreak. Now she's sworn off all romance forever, determined to teach her classes and do her research and live out the rest of her days alone.

No law but pleasure. No limit but acquiescence. No rule but secrecy. Welcome to the world of Far Hope, where wicked deeds rule the night and dangerous lovers wait in the shadows.

Peregrine Hind, known to all as the bloodiest highwayman ever to bedevil the road, seeks only one thing—revenge against the Dartham family. And so when a robbery sends the second Dartham son and notorious rakehell Alexander Dartham tumbling to Peregrine’s feet, it seems like fate has given Peregrine his vengeance at last. Except then Alexander offers him a desperate bargain: to kidnap him instead, so Peregrine can harvest a generous ransom from Alexander’s family first.

Il 3 gennaio del 2021, in pieno lockdown, il corpo di un ragazzo di 28 anni viene trovato all'interno di una fabbrica in provincia di Varese. Impiccato con la sua cintura a un macchinario usato per riciclare il vetro. Per i magistrati che conducono le indagini, Simone Mattarelli si è tolto la vita sotto effetto di cocaina, dopo tre ore di inseguimento a folle velocità con sei gazzelle dei carabinieri. Ma per i suoi genitori le cose non sono andate così.È stato un suicidio o un omicidio?Grazie ad audio e documenti inediti, interviste con i protagonisti della storia ed esperti, il ...

Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences.

"Simone führte das Leben, von dem wir immer geträumt hatten, ich das, was mir vernünftig erschien. Ich beneidete sie um ihre Schönheit, ihren Mut, ihre Unabhängigkeit. Und merkte nicht, wie ich sie verlor. Seit ihrem Tod vergeht kaum ein Tag, an dem ich nicht an Simone denke, mich frage, warum die eine am Leben zerbricht, die andere nicht." "Einen Tag vor ihrem Tod rief Simone mich noch einmal an. Das weiß ich genau, denn ich hatte keine Zeit." Berlin, Mitte der achtziger Jahre. Zwei junge Frauen feiern, tanzen, reisen, verlieben sich - und werden im Osten der Stadt erwachsen.

In diesem Roman schlägt Lion Feuchtwanger eine Brücke zwischen Jeanne d'Arc, der Retterin Frankreichs, und einer Fünfzehnjährigen in dem von Deutschen besetzten Land. Madame betrachtet Simone durch ihr Lorgnon. Ihr Gesicht verrät, was ihr Mund gleich sprechen wird: ​"Hochmütig, aufsässig, vorwitzig.​"​ Simone hat sich wieder einmal eingemischt in die Geschäfte ihrer Verwandten. Es ist passiert, nachdem sie Schriften über das Leben Jeanne d'Arcs gelesen hat. Das tut sie oft, abends, vor dem Einschlafen. Diesmal aber ist Merkwürdiges geschehen.

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Italy has always had dreams of going away to college. Those dreams seemed like a far reality when she found out that she was pregnant. While she thought her life was over, her saving grace, by the name of Chase, came and saved her. In her first year of college in Atlanta, she has to come back home to care for her younger sister once her mother dies in a car accident. The car accident takes her mother's life and her sister's sight. Fast forward nine years, Italy is working as a flight attendant while trying to raise three children and keep an eye on her twenty-year-old sister.

We are told God will punish the wicked; that sinful men will reap what they sow. We are told to scourge our souls with prayer and pain to become clean once again. Well, here I am. Wicked and sinful. Desperate to become clean - even though it feels so good to be dirty. But even I never expected what came next. Even I never expected my punishment to come so soon.

England is burning with Norman fires, and Tate—the youngest ever abbess of Far Hope Abbey—is determined to guard the abbey's ancient secrets with her very life. Her life may be what it takes, however, for a Norman warlord known only as The Wolf is pillaging his way right to the abbey's doors. But when The Wolf arrives, Tate finds not the brutal man she was expecting, but instead a cruel and beautiful woman who leads her men with a ferocity to rival that of her Viking ancestors.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Life without her would be death' The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex. The compulsive story of two friends growing up and falling apart. INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY. When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her...

The first time I meet the devil, he knows my name. The second time I meet him, the truth becomes clear: Mark Trevena is to be my husband. No matter that we don't know each other. No matter that he's older than me; shameless and sinful; the owner of a secret club where the powerful come to play. My father has spoken, and I'll be the devil's bride the minute I graduate from college. Except my future husband has one condition for this arranged marriage: We have to pretend it’s real.

As Our Souls Foretold is an evocative collection that transcends time, identity, and human experience, guiding listeners into the hidden currents of the mind and soul. Each verse flows like a wave—sometimes gentle and calm, other times intense and transformative—carrying listeners through the ebb and flow of subconscious thoughts and emotions. Themes of love, loss, transformation, and resilience weave throughout the collection, offering a poetic journey that invites reflection and self-discovery.

Parker Hayes—a former true-crime podcaster turned aspiring cafe owner—thought swapping the hustle of big-city life for the charm of Magnolia Grove would be a piece of cake… or at least a slice of pie. But when a high-society gala at the historic Beauregard Mansion ends with a murder and the theft of the priceless Magnolia Rose necklace, Parker's peaceful plans quickly go up in steam.

स्त्री म्हणजे काय ? असा प्रश्न विचारणारं 'द सेकंड सेक्स' हे पुस्तक स्त्रीवादावरचं अत्यंत महत्वाचं पुस्तक मानलं...

"C'est un drôle de truc, l'écriture.", Marguerite Duras. "Être femme, c'est le résultat d'une histoire.", Simone de Beauvoir. "Il est des livres qu'on ne doit pas oser avant d'avoir dépassé quarante ans. On risque avant cet âge de méconnaître l’existence des grandes frontières naturelles qui séparent l'infinie variété des êtres.", Marguerite Yourcenar . "Il n’y a pas de vraie mémoire de soi.", Annie Ernaux.