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The fast, informal way to learn to speak French - with integrated audio clips throughout. Listen to pronunciations and conversations.   French is a beautiful language but quite difficult to learn. Whether you need to learn the language for a French class, or you travel overseas for business...

Hesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of fifth-century lyric and drama with the poetic corpus attributed to Hesiod as well as with the poetic figure of Hesiod. The first half of the book is dedicated...

Troubled young mother Vivian Myrtle arrives one day in the quiet town of Ivory Meadows, trailing her young daughter Rosie and a mysterious past. Moving into an isolated and eerie house in the woods, she begins to settle in and find her place in the idyllic little town, but soon learns of a corrupt...

Ex-hockey player and sportswriter, Jesse Malone goes to Liberty Tavern at the behest of his friend Aiden Sinclair to help sassy, beautiful redheaded, Abigail Wescott who has only recently inherited the bar from her father. Talk about opposites in every way including his preference for his dog Puck,...

Book 1Marie Owens moves to a new town, new school. Her white married professor seems to have an interesting attraction to black women, especially Marie. She struggles to understand her new professor’s feelings and can’t decide if he’s just being friendly and a little flirty, or if there’s...

Meet Roanne Chappell -- definitely not your ordinary teenage girl. A product of the loving but decidedly unorthodox guardianship of her mother, Del, Roanne is a fascinating study in contrasts. Equal parts bold seductress and wide-eyed innocent, smart-ass teenager and wizened sage, she is an outlandish,...

Meet Jess and Joe. They want to tell you their story. Joe is Norfolk born and bred and wears wellies. Jess holidays there with her au pair and is slightly too tubby for her summer dresses. They are miles apart even when they stand next to each other. This is a story of growing up, fitting in (or not),...

Ordinary kids are introduced to an extraordinary galaxy full of pirates, monkeys, and other colorful creatures—both human and otherwise—in this first book of this “absolutely action-packed” (School Library Journal) fantasy-adventure trilogy. On the night Emma Garton’s supposedly boring...

Desperate for work after months of unemployment, David Sands agrees to become the webmaster for an "adult entertainment" hosting company. The pay is great, the boss seems like a nice guy, and the uber-hot secretary is flirting with David. But the cramped back office is dusty, and David's...

Having lost her parents in a tragic multi-car pile-up, Monica Harper is drawn time and again to fatal automobile accidents without understanding why. Living alone, she works next to the same section of highway where her parents were killed. But it isn’t survivors’ guilt trapping Monica in her...

Anna Caplin is an ambitious TV reporter. When her boss offers her a chance to infiltrate a secret medical institute, she grabs the opportunity, not realising the institute specialises in sexual experimentation. It isn't long before Anna finds herself involved in some highly unorthodox situations with...

Daniel Rafferty is an apartment handyman and ex-con who helps a pair of delinquents living in his complex. His efforts to straighten out Patrick and Matt Campbell also draw the interest of their sister Miranda. Her interest grows as she learns that Daniel is a writer. Miranda thinks falling in love...

This book provides a critical discussion of the way in which religion influences: criminal and antisocial behaviour, punishment and the law, intergroup conflict and peace-making, and the rehabilitation of offenders. The authors argue that in order to understand how religion is related to each of these...

IntroductionAs soon as she was in his arms she felt herself yielding to the powerful erotic sensations he awoke in her.Slowly Jordan pulled his head back and looked down at her. And Pearly opened her eyes to stare back at him.“You kiss me like that, and yet you keep pretending you don’t...