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Polly has always felt different. She is always top in swimming competitions, she swims in the sea but never feels the cold, and has a birthmark shaped like a small fish. Then she meets a girl called Lisa who has the same mark. The girls discover that they were adopted after having been found on a beach and that they can swim underwater for long periods.... This leads them to a city underwater, a completely different way of life and some startling revelations....

Pressured by her looming deadline and an unfinished romance manuscript, author Molly Covington applies her immersive research skills and goes all in. She hires a male companion for inspiration during three days of research in Las Vegas.

The week before Christmas, 1929, Eoghan O'Keenan loses his factory job, and has to flee the slums of Chippendale with his seven-year-old sister Agnes. On the north side of Sydney at Lavender Bay, Olivia Greene is working on her latest millinery creations and dreaming of becoming the next Coco Chanel. A job on the Harbour Bridge for Eoghan, designing couture for the Governor's wife for Olivia, and a chance meeting in the Botanic Gardens sees the beginning of an unconventional romance.

Delphi Hoffman, a wildchild living in London, is finally getting her life together with a new love affair and the offer of a coveted job—until she receives the phone call she hoped would never arrive. Her mother Vivian’s terminal illness has reached its tipping point and she summons Delphi to Australia to help her euthanise. Unable to deny her mother’s suffering, or her promise to her of a good death, Delphi reluctantly returns to her mother for the last time.

When self-proclaimed failure Kat moves hundreds of miles to renovate her late Dad’s house, falling in love with the grumpy builder wasn’t part of the plan… Kat Williams is well and truly in a rut. She’s lost her mojo at work, her estranged dad has passed away, and she royally messed up...

When Parker Bailey is brought into his emergency room, Jax Carson knows that he's just found his fated mate. Unfortunately for him, her injuries are extensive and he knows that modern medicine won't be enough to save her so he does the logical thing and bites her.

In 1945, Jean Barnet put her war in a box—all her memories, achievements, and heartache. She hoped it would stay there so that she might forget and become the dutiful wife, mother, and daughter a post-war world demanded.

Rentrée 1957. Le plus prestigieux lycée de l'Arkansas ouvre pour la première fois ses portes à des étudiants noirs. Ils sont neuf à tenter l'aventure. Ils sont deux mille cinq cents, prêts à tout pour les en empêcher. Cette histoire est inspirée de faits réels. Zoé Fréchet-Sarrault et Mélanie Belamy nous livrent une lecture saisissante et bouleversante de ce récit à deux voix, porté par deux adolescentes que seule la couleur de peau oppose. © Casterman 2013, 2014 pour la présente édition.

We all obsess about worrying less, but worrying can actually be good for you. Similarly we strive to be proactive and fast - but aren't there hidden benefits to procrastinating? The last thing a parent is meant to do is neglect their offspring, but children do amazing things when you just leave them alone. And at work we spend hours frantically brainstorming, but isn't there a benefit to just lazily staring out of the window? In this short piece, Zoe Beaty explores the benefits of being a frequent latecomer, and why not being on time might actually be the best thing for you. 

My heart pounds as I take in the headline: ‘Missing girl believed kidnapped’. Underneath is a photo of my beautiful daughter Mia, her gap-toothed grin unmistakable. But Mia is safe beside me, snuggled up on the sofa. Who has taken a photo of her, and put it on the news? And what message are they trying to send me…? I run to the window of our little house–the cosy, homely place my husband Mark and I bought so Mia could have everything I didn’t as a child–and pull the curtains tightly shut, hiding us from sight as terror courses through my body.

A determined lady botanist and a non-binary explorer make the long journey over the high Himalayan mountain passes from Kashmir to Little Tibet, collecting flowers and exploring ruins on the way. Will Jones discover the root of the mysterious deaths of her parents? Will she confide in Edie and allow her to help in the quest?

Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia–finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to ‘exotic' beauty, Luna reinvents herself as ‘Luna Lu' and takes her ticket out of the most isolated city on earth. However, as her international modelling career approaches its expiry date, Luna must grapple with what she's sacrificed—and who she's become—in her mission to conquer the world.

Micah Davis has always been a lone wolf. His parents passed when he was younger and he was the oddball in his pack. Now that he's back from medical school, he's looking forward to focusing on his career and nothing else. Then he walks into Aspen Ridge Medical and locks eyes with Kaia Luxe, and his carefully laid plans go up in smoke.

Zane's instincts to possess Dana Bright kick in the first time he sees her. Her guard is up, but she can't help but crave the sexy soldier just back from the Gulf War. After a sultry night between the sheets, everything in Dana's life changes. Zane's the first man to ever make her climax.

What the Wind Saw is a collection of 25 short stories of the people, real and imagined, from a small tract of ancient land in the heart of Hertfordshire. The wind has always blown over these villages, fields, rivers, its towns, and its city. It always will. We have the same worries, fears, hopes, and dreams today as we have always had. We are connected to each other by our shared experiences, by the places that we live and by the paths that we tread.

It's Christmas 1980, and inside a sprawling Upper West Side apartment, Faye Bascov is about to throw an opulent Christmas dinner - a tradition for this secular, well-educated Jewish family. But any family gathering is an invitation for old resentments to boil over, as Faye's sister-in-law Julie and the extended family have plenty to hash out. Flash-forward to 2000, and the apartment, now much shabbier, reflects how the family's fortunes have changed, and the Bascovs now have to reckon with the legacy of their family discord.

Black Widow (Catherine Deneuve), Wolverine (Gérard Lanvin), Star-Lord (Antoine de Caunes), Hawkeye (Olivier Marchal) et le Docteur Fatalis (Pascal Greggory) s'unissent pour contrer Valeria Richards (Emma de Caunes). Elle est la femme la plus intelligente de la Terre, immortelle et solitaire au-delà de toute raison. Après avoir survécu à une pluie de missiles nucléaires en Californie du Sud et pris possession du Cube Cosmique qui altère la réalité, Valeria est au bord de la folie.

What's better than being fated to one shifter? Being mated to THREE! Come along as these shifters find their fated mate! If you love reverse harem romances with growly alpha heroes and curvy heroines, then this series is for you!

Newly returned to Western Australia, journalist Amy Rhinehart pitches a crime podcast to increase her radio station's ratings. Her idea: to use the listeners of the show as its co-creators, with live-time calls and suggestion boards. The case: Jonah Scott, charged and imprisoned for life for the murder of his girlfriend, transgender woman Casey Williams.

Susanne and her two best friends have been dreaming of a holiday. All of them need an escape. Especially Susanne, who is reeling from the news that her ex is getting remarried. They need the warm Tuscan sun, delicious Italian food and wine, and - most of all - the time to unwind with each other. What they get is Harry. Handsome, charming, and great company, Harry soon sweeps Susanne off her feet for a holiday fling.