He is 18 years old, extremely shy and practically a virgin. She is 36, a monumental body and a face that seems to have been carved by God himself ... but she keeps a secret that she does not dare confess ...Can a relationship between a young man and a mature woman be love? Or simple obsession?A couple meets just as they travel through life on opposite paths. An impossible love that produces an explosion of passion and eroticism. A romance based on ...

He is 18 years old, extremely shy and practically a virgin. She is 36, a monumental body and a face that seems to have been carved by God himself ... but she keeps a secret that she does not dare confess ...Can a relationship between a young man and a mature woman be love? Or simple obsession?A couple meets just as they travel through life on opposite paths. An impossible love that produces an explosion of passion and eroticism. A romance based on ...

He is 18 years old, extremely shy and practically a virgin. She is 36, a monumental body and a face that seems to have been carved by God himself ... but she keeps a secret that she does not dare confess ...Can a relationship between a young man and a mature woman be love? Or simple obsession?A couple meets just as they travel through life on opposite paths. An impossible love that produces an explosion of passion and eroticism. A romance based on ...

Like its World War II namesake of Leyte Gulf fame, USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) was a small combatant built for escort duty. But its skipper imbued his brand-new crew with a fighting spirit to match their forebears, and in 1988 when the guided missile frigate was thrust into the Persian Gulf at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, there was no better ship for the job. Forbidden to fire unless fired upon, Captain Paul Rinn and his crew sailed amid the chaos in the Gulf for two months...

This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which suddenly Holmes’s efforts reveal a new perspective on the case, typically identifying the culprit(s) and resolving the case. Drawing on ideas presented by Thomas S. Kuhn in his famous Structure of Scientific Revolutions

First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel's 'Zodiacus christianus' (or 'Christian Zodiac') was a remarkable work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help. Raised a Lutheran but converting to Catholicism in his youth, Drexel (1581-1638) was well placed to publish a book that appealed to Protestants as well as Catholics, his 'Zodiac' appearing in multiple reprints, re-editions and translations across Europe during his lifetime and posthumously across the rest of the seventeenth centur...

This text takes the student from the very basics of digital electronics to an introduction of state-of-the-art techniques used in the field. It is ideal for any engineering or science student who wishes to study the subject from its basic principles as well as serving as a guide to more advanced topics for readers already familiar with the subject. The coverage is sufficiently in-depth to allow the reader to progress smoothly onto higher level texts.

NOW A MAJOR NEW FILMRECOMMENDED ON THE HIGH LOW PODCAST'There's no ceremony for friendship, is there?**''Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.'Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change when Laura gets engaged to the man of Tyler's nightmares. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up mean growing apart?

Meet Zezé, Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a 'poet with a bow-tie' - and to stop making his parents angry with all his mistakes. For now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood, and when he has troubles he tells them to the talking orange tree in his back garden. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change...

‘A perfect staycation read’ Guardian‘Funny, dark and brilliantly written… should be top of your TBR’ Stylist Magazine‘Extraordinarily excellent’ Daily Mail‘A completely addictive read that is laugh-out-loud funny’ Heat MagazineSet in Trinidad, and told with wry humour and irresistible wit, ONE YEAR OF UGLY is a story of family, first love, and finding home...

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor – an attractive married woman and mother – while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mind...

Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl.In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section. His father is a man of few ...