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I used to be a sensible, responsible good girl who kept her nose buried in textbooks and worked hard to make her father’s dreams come true. Then Keane happened. He was a crude, rude, ruthless Southie bully who only cared about his hockey career and pucking his way through a string of girls. I hated him and I thought he hated me, but then one unexpected spring break kiss changed everything. Moving across the country to go to med school and eventually marrying Keane’s total opposite seemed like the right things to do at the time.

Everyone thinks Colin Fairgood is exactly what his PR machine tells them - a country superstar with a killer smile and dazzling blue eyes. But I met him before his country makeover and fame. Colin has a dark side…one that takes me places I've never been. One that makes me want to do very bad things with him. One that makes me scared of him. And even more scared of myself.I don't know what kind of endgame he's running on my heart, but he's definitely playing for keeps. And if I'm not careful, he's going to win.

Over the years with Razo, I've learned to keep my mouth shut. Learned not to fight back. Learned that talking only makes it bad...fighting only makes it worse. I shut down my feelings long ago. Because it’s the only way to survive. But then Razo sells me...to a dangerous biker with zero morals and a sick upbringing. A psycho who makes me feel like I have a flock of ravens inside my stomach. He never hesitates to remind me: I belong to him now.

The rules of the accord between my humble human colony and our Xalthurian alien overlords are cruel but clear: Every human female the age of 21 must participate in a ceremony where she gets taken by the Xalthurians who want an heir. I knew the rules when I submitted to the huge red Xalthurian, who gave me unexpected pleasure before returning to his home planet. I was aware I wouldn't be able to keep my baby when I saw that "the issue" of our coupling was a boy.

Le nouvelle livre de Christelle Dabos lu par des comédiens de talent !

When goth-girl Glory Peterson's plane crashes she walks to find help. What she finds are people living in teepees like it's the Old West. Wolf's Shadow knows Glory is his mate. Glory's happy to take a roll in the hay with him while she's waiting for transportation back to civilization, but when she finds out she's gone fifty years into the future and Shadow is a bossy werewolf who thinks he owns her, her attitude changes fast. Shadow is used to giving orders that are obeyed. Glory hasn't obeyed an order since kindergarten.

When pawn broker Abby Kirkwood discovers the evidence of a chilling drug cartel hit on one of the video cameras hocked in her store, she turns to the only man she can trust - Jack Connolly. The smolderingly sexy former Marine runs a successful gym down the street and coaches her brother's special needs baseball team. He's the one man who is always there when she needs him. If anyone can protect her family, it's commanding, capable Jack.

"J'en ai ras le bol des mecs. Vous me gonflez ! J'en ai plus qu'assez de vos sales coups ! C'est votre tour de souffrir ! Ma voix résonne dans tout le quartier. Et là, trempée, titubante, épuisée, je prends une décision sur laquelle je jure de ne jamais revenir : je ne vais plus rien leur passer. On remet les compteurs à zéro. On renverse la vapeur. Je vais faire payer ce fumier. Chaque joueur doit vous donner mille baffes. Je vais me venger de tout."

Chef-d'œuvre de la littérature mondiale et du mouvement réaliste français, "Madame Bovary" parut en 1857. En dépit d'une réception houleuse, les écrivains perçurent très vite la profonde portée de l'œuvre et Maupassant, le premier, qualifia le roman de révolutionnaire. "C'est la vie elle-même apparue", écrivit-il. Puis Proust de surenchérir un peu plus tard, allant jusqu'à estimer que l'œuvre de Flaubert était à la littérature ce que celle de Kant était à la philosophie : une nouvelle saisie du monde.

All of us girls growing up on New Terrhan know that when we become of age, we must submit to our overlords in a special ceremony. To my surprise, though, the alien warrior who hunts me down gifts me with hours of bliss and a beautiful little girl. She becomes my only happiness in life after he’s gone. I’ve never forgotten him...even after surviving an abusive relationship. But when we meet again, he’s different. An unrecognizable beast.

My Alien Overlords are red, massive, and determined to claim--steal? Keep? Possibly all of the above--me. Moons, I dunno. My status with the Louxos cousins is set on so, SO complicated. One night of passion with two Xalthurians changed everything. Nope! Try made everything worse. One will do anything to get me off the planet, including accepting my Hail Mary, crazy-high-stakes bet for full custody of our hybrid son. And the other one’s angry at me because I refuse to risk it all to become the MFM triad he believes me, him, and my hot-but-horrible alien baby daddy are fated to become.

1875. Un chef cheyenne propose au président Grant d'échanger mille chevaux contre mille femmes blanches, afin de les marier à ses guerriers. Celles-ci, " recrutées " de force dans les pénitenciers et les asiles du pays, intègrent peu à peu le mode de vie des Indiens, au moment où commencent les grands massacres des tribus. 1876. Après la bataille de Little Big Horn, quelques survivantes décident de prendre les armes contre cette prétendue " civilisation " qui vole aux Indiens leurs terres, leur mode de vie, leur culture et leur histoire.

I didn’t know true desire until the first time I laid eyes on him. Tall, dark, beautiful as a god—completely forbidden. He was the penniless son of the help born in the Lousiana bayou, and I was a pretty southern princess, cultivated like a hothouse flower to become the trophy on some well-pedigreed man’s arm.

We met. Our eyes locked. But I wasn’t free, and neither was she. I watched her walk away and her memory has haunted me ever since. We meet again in paradise. But my life has been destroyed. I’m a ruin of what I used to be, and I send her away.

Strong, independent Tami was a survivalist and mountain guide in 2014 when she was flung forward fifty years into a post-apocalyptic future where women are worth their weight in gold. She is taken by four men to be their wife, but when she escapes from them they hire the Tracker, a deadly loner from the Lakota Wolf Clan with a reputation for being able to track anything, to bring her back. But Tami knows how to ride and how to hide, and she leads him on a chase that rouses his admiration.

Un livre et une femme incroyables : María Sánchez, vétérinaire, poétesse, porte-parole de territoires et d'individus oubliés, déclassés, mal-aimés. La Terre des femmes est un récit intime, familial, politique à sa manière, qui redonne leur place aux femmes dans le monde rural, à leurs mains, à leurs gestes. Une histoire de filiation et de destin. De transmission. Et un pas de côté pour réfléchir à nos propres vies. Phénomène en Espagne, avec plus de 6 réimpressions, le livre a enthousiasmé la critique et bouleversé les lecteurs.

Elynn est assez jeune pour avoir la vie devant elle. Pourtant, elle a souvent le sentiment que ses rêves sont de plus en plus loin derrière. Entre son couple qui végète et la réalité quotidienne de son métier d'infirmière, la jeune femme a l'impression de faire du sur-place dans un horizon sans intérêt. Comment en est-elle arrivée là ? Qu'est devenue l'enfant pleine d'envies qu'elle était ? Cherchant à bousculer sa routine, Elynn s'inscrit dans un club de sport.

Born with a broken heart, Hadley Rivera hasn't stopped fighting since the moment she drew her first breath. Coddled and spoiled by her wealthy parents, she's finally managed to break free and live life on her own terms. With a best-selling series of graphic novels and her very own thriving arts center, Hadley has one more box to check on her to-do list. And his name is Finn Connolly.

La réelle et fabuleuse histoire de Menie Grégoire, la première animatrice radio à donner le micro aux auditrices pour parler d’amour, de sexualité et de parentalité ! Ce magnifique roman choral témoigne d’un demi-siècle d’évolution de la condition féminine.

Toute vérité n'est pas bonne à dire. La vie a toujours souri à Verity Crawford. Ses livres font d'elle une auteur star, sa maison du Vermont est splendide et elle forme avec Jeremy, son mari, un couple parfait. Mais un jour, sur une route, son rêve tourne au cauchemar. L'accident l'empêche d'écrire, transforme sa trop grande maison en prison, et menace de l'éloigner de Jeremy. La vie n'a jamais été tendre avec Lowen ashleigh.