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How did Lucky Santangelo become the kick-ass woman she is today? Only bestselling author Jackie Collins can tell in this prequel to all of the Santangelo novels, featuring a young, beautiful and headstrong teenaged Lucky Lucky Saint is a fifteen-year-old wild child who discovered her mother's...

From internationally acclaimed New Testament scholar Fr. Raymond F. Collins, essential listening for Christians, Catholics, and all who seek to understand scripture. Through this audio course, the capstone of Fr. Collin’s decades of teaching and scholarship, you’ll understand Paul’s Epistles like never before. Through 24 erudite and engaging lectures, you will gain new insights into the 13 letters attributed to Paul, the New Testament’s oldest texts.

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF 2025 A celebrated bartender at the Ritz Hotel during the Nazi occupation of Paris harbors a dangerous secret in this “magnificent” (Elle), “brilliant” (Le Parisien) international bestseller based on a true story. Paris, 1940. The Nazis...

" Ils n'utiliseront pas mes larmes pour leur divertissement. " – Haymitch Abernathy. Redécouvrez l'un des personnages les plus emblématiques de la série culte, à travers le timbre atypique et nuancé de Xavier Baur ! À l'aube des cinquantièmes Hunger Games, la peur s'empare des districts de Panem. Cette année, en l'honneur des Jeux de l'Expiation, le nombre de tributs arrachés à leur famille pour participer à ces jeux cruels sera doublé ! Dans le district 12, Haymitch Abernathy tente de ne pas trop penser au terrible tirage au sort. Il est concentré sur sa survie et sur la survie de celle qu'il aime.

Ellie MacLean dreams of being a full-time writer while working her day job as a real estate agent. She prides herself on not forming attachments to any of the women she sleeps with, and her casual lifestyle suits her busy schedule just fine. Sienna Blake is a tenured professor at the University of Maine in Zachary who devotes her life to her research. Her last serious relationship was many years ago, and she had little interest in dating the few men she met over the years. After Sienna gets to know Ellie, she promises to read one of Ellie’s lesbian romance novels. The book awakens ...

American Star is a love story of two extraordinary lovers, separated by tragedy, yearning for each other, though seemingly unable to be together ever again. Nick and Lauren could never forget each other. Teenage small-town lovers—he from the wrong side of the tracks, she the prettiest girl in...

Racial tensions had long simmered in Benton Harbor, a small city on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, before the day a White narcotics officer - more focused on arrests than justice - set his sights on an innocent Black man. But when officer Andrew Collins framed Jameel McGee for possession of crack cocaine, the surprising result was not a race riot but a transformative journey for both men.

Jerry Anderson was an astronaut faced with an impossible choice: die of asphyxiation in a few hours or see if the alien pod he was transporting really was an escape pod and find out if it could actually save him. When he enters it, he finds that the controls are unreadable, lacking anything to go on, and rapidly running out of air. He presses the blinking green button. The next thing he knows, he isn’t human anymore, and he finds himself on a seashore, next to some birds feasting on a body that looks very similar to his new body. He is alive, but staying alive will be a challenge, and he ...

On November 23, 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor - some leads put Parkman at sea or in Manhattan - but a Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never even left the Medical School building. His shocking discovery engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials.

A grumpy single-dad fisherman. A sunshine teacher new to Alaska. And a slow burn that melts the coldest state. Timber Moore trades the Arizona heat for a summer teaching job in Port Promise, Alaska. She tells everyone she’s chasing adventure, but the truth rides in her coat pocket: a postcard from a man who might be the father she’s never met. All she needs is a few quiet months to dig up answers. She doesn’t need Kane Hollister—gruff, storm-eyed, and convinced she won’t last the season—telling her she doesn’t belong. Kane has one rule: don’t get attached to anyone who ...

Listen to everyday words and phrases in French, then repeat, practise and refine! A relaxing way to pick up the language. Follow the words using the free booklet, also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources Covers the words you need for modern life in France with topics on home life, work...

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer. The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first...

First there was The Last Quarry, then there was The First Quarry - now look who's caught in the middle.

The enigmatic hit man Quarry - star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film (The Last Lullaby) - is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both contracts….

Quando Katniss urla "Mi offro volontaria, mi offro volontaria come tributo!" sa di aver appena firmato la sua condanna a morte. È il giorno dell'estrazione dei partecipanti agli Hunger Games, un reality show organizzato ogni anno da Capitol City con una sola regola: uccidi o muori. Ognuno dei Distretti deve sorteggiare un ragazzo e una ragazza tra i 12 e i 18 anni che verrà gettato nell'Arena a combattere fino alla morte. Ne sopravvive uno solo, il più bravo, il più forte, ma anche quello che si conquista il pubblico, gli sponsor, l'audience.

Learn about the incomparable beauty of the Northern Lights with this accessible guide for aspiring astronomers and seasoned night sky observers. Covers the essential equipment needed for observation and photography. Tom Kerss covers the cultural and scientific context for auroras, and offers a...

John Alexander Dowie (1847-1907) was a Scottish evangelist and “faith healer” who migrated to the United States from Australia in the late 1800s. Dowie was referred to by critics of his time as a “confidence man”, a person who appealed to the confidence of victims using deception to convince or persuade them out of money or into submission. In the case of Dowie’s Christian Catholic Church cult following, commonly referred to as “Zionites” or “Dowieites”, both money and power were gained.

Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him, that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one - by expecting trouble. What he didn't expect was ever running into his ex again....

Built to Fit Resort is a wildly erotic size-play vacation where Brian thinks he’s been dragged to the middle of nowhere—until he and his girlfriend Sarah (and her mischievous twin sister Becca) discover a hidden resort designed for one thing: changing your body to any size you want. With cutting-edge “tracer” tech and a staff that knows exactly how to push every limit, the weekend spirals into a fantasy of towering giantesses, Barbie-doll shrinking, and nonstop power-play indulgence—where size isn’t just a thrill… it’s the entire experience.

Depois de sobreviver duas vezes à crueldade de uma arena projetada para destruí-la, Katniss acreditava que não precisaria mais lutar. Mas as regras do jogo mudaram: com a chegada dos rebeldes do lendário Distrito 13, enfim é possível organizar uma resistência. Começou a revolução. A coragem de Katniss nos jogos fez nascer a esperança em um país disposto a fazer de tudo para se livrar da opressão. E agora, contra a própria vontade, ela precisa assumir seu lugar como símbolo da causa rebelde. Ela precisa virar o Tordo.

The AD 312 Battle of the Milvian Bridge, just outside Rome, marked the start of a monumental change for Rome and her empire. This battle was the figurative bridge between old pagan Rome and new Christian Rome. And once Constantine had crossed that bridge, there was no turning back.