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When Cathryn Ashe was 17, she ran away to the anonymity of the city after a romantic encounter with Rule Jackson, the manager of her father's ranch. Now, eight years later, her father has passed away, leaving her the ranch, and Cathryn returns to claim what's hers...and to challenge Rule like never before.

One night of fun turns into a morning of regret when I wake up hungover, fully clothed, and next to muscle-bound wide receiver Ty Matthews… and a phone full of evidence of our Elvis-ordained nuptials. Talk about bad choices: I can be kicked off the team for talking to a football player, much less marrying one. After a night of spilling my darkest secrets, even playboy Ty knows exactly how to persuade me to stay married to him—he promises to fund my small business dreams if I convince his parents we're together. Our so-called agreement is already off to a crazy start.

Michael Lewis’s best-selling book The Big Short is now 15 years old. The Oscar-winning movie based on it came out a decade ago. To mark the occasion, Lewis has narrated a new audiobook of The Big Short. Here on his podcast, he and co-host Lidia Jean Kott are thinking about the legacy of the book, the movie, and the financial crisis of 2008. Michael catches up with the director of the movie, Adam McKay, as well as some of the real-life characters depicted by the likes of Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Jeremy Strong. He also calls up journalists, economists, and historians to make sense of the...

It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they're not alone. The Finney family - rich, cultured, and respectable - has also arrived for a celebration of their own. The beautiful Manoir Bellechasse might be surrounded by nature, but there is something unnatural looming.

When two parties meet in court, the outcome is rarely preordained. Judges must figure out who wins and who loses by analyzing the facts of the case before them and applying the legal principles of cases that have come before. How Would You Rule? brings that experience alive by presenting you with the critical facts and rules in 31 of the law's most interesting cases and inviting you to test your legal wits and sharpen your legal judgment by figuring out how these challenging cases should be decided.

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER​ Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny...

Desire which breaks all rules... Samara, the cool and efficient office assistant at work, is hopelessly attracted to her boss but determined to keep it a secret from the suave tycoon, Tahir Virani. Tahir, the distant and at times, sarcastic boss, has, as it appears, no time for Samara. Embittered and cynical after his failed marriage, he has no intention of getting involved and certainly not in anything long term. A kiss changes everything. The office logistics go haywire as awareness zooms to level ‘O’. Soon one thing is clear, they can no longer ignore each other or the attraction ...

New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire tell the story of CIA Station Chief William Buckley and the beginning of the CIA’s war against Islamic radicalism.

This audiobook collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, The Murder on the Links, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim, The Adventure of the "Western Star", The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor, The Million Dollar Bond Robbery, The Adventure of the Cheap Flat, The Mystery of the Hunter's Lodge, The Kidnapped Prime Minister, The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman, The Case of the Missing Will, The Chocolate Box, The Veiled Lady, The Lost Mine, The Affair at the Victory Ball.

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the...

Nic Darnell never took the easy path. Her life was filled with loss, death, addictions, and pain. When she accepted a marketing position at a reputable company it was meant to be just another job and a way to pay the bills. But from the moment she met her new coworker, Danica Carrell, it became much more than that. Her unplanned journey of self discovery took a surprising turn when she realized she was breaking the one cardinal rule of being a lesbian - never fall for a straight girl. But maybe some rules are meant to be broken...

St. Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyon, France, wrote Against Heresies in 180 AD. It is a collected work made up of five books, in which Irenaeus examines the many schools of Gnostic thought of his day, in addition to various heretical Christian sects. He contrasts these with the orthodoxy of Christianity. This version of the work contains the first three books, which, before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library, were the best surviving description of Gnosticism.

*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II—all Medal of Honor recipients—from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler’s own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave “Pitch-perfect...

It's the height of summer, and the wealthy Finney family have gathered at the Manoir Bellechasse to pay tribute to their late father. But as the temperature rises, old secrets and bitter rivalries begin to surface. When the heat wave boils over into a mighty storm, a dead body is left in its wake. Chief Inspector Gamache, a guest at the Bellechasse, finds himself with a building full of suspects. With the hotel locked down, the murderer is trapped. But a cornered predator is always the most dangerous of all...

Fate takes a slap shot at Emma's heart when she finds a driver's license outside a grocery store belonging to none other than Tyler Bowen: the center for her brother's hockey team with looks that scream "plenty of scoring off the ice". Her overprotective brother warns her to stay away, but after a particularly patronizing comment, Emma decides to break free from the defense. Sean has always tried to control her relationships, and at 29, she's had enough.

What happens when love breaks all the rules—and ignites a fire that no one can extinguish? Emma Carter has always fought for survival. A woman with a past full of hardships, she is fiercely protective of her younger sister and determined to carve out a life that no one can take from her. Working as a cleaner in the opulent halls of Montford Manor, she has one goal: keep her head down, save every penny, and never draw attention to herself in a world where she doesn’t belong. But that all changes the day she meets him. Alexander Romanov is no ordinary man. A billionaire duke with a ...

Read by the author. You can't make the world fair, but you can take back your power. As a woman in Silicon Valley who worked her way to the top of the corporate ladder--she's a former VP at Facebook and the current president and CEO of Ancestry--Deborah Liu knows firsthand the challenges and...

In 2007, after almost 40 years of operations, the SAS ceased operations in Northern Ireland and ended the longest operational commitment in the unit's history. Starting in 1969, Mark Urban reveals the extraordinary history of the special forces' operations in Northern Ireland and the unenviable dilemmas faced by intelligence chiefs engaged in a daily struggle against one of the world's most sophisticated terrorist organisations.

He’s heir to a title, trapped by duty. She’s the sister he wasn’t supposed to notice. And behind the mask, a dangerous secret waits to be revealed... Harrison Pemberton, future Duke of Drumsport, knows his destiny: marry well, produce heirs, and uphold the family name. His father has already chosen the perfect bride—Miss Lorna Douglas, the shimmering diamond of the season. She's everything society adores: graceful, refined, untouchable. But Harrison feels nothing. Then comes Ellsbeth Douglas. Lorna’s younger sister is everything Harrison shouldn’t want—spirited, sharp, and off...

She was the one that got away. Now she’s the one I can’t escape. Piper Walsh walks back into my boardroom like she owns it—same fire, same smile that wrecked me years ago. Only this time, she’s here to fix my company, not my heart. She’s the last person I should work with. Too smart, too beautiful, too damn capable of getting under my skin. We’re trapped together for three weeks in the same apartment—thanks to the merger from hell. Every late-night argument turns into a dare. Every glance feels like déjà vu. I tell myself I don’t care why she disappeared after college. ...