"Maggie. Ragazza di strada" è uno dei grandi romanzi che chiudono l'Ottocento americano, ma che, per temi trattati e tecniche stilistiche, si proietta ormai ben dentro il Novecento. La storia è quella di una ragazza dei bassifondi newyorkesi, operaia in una fabbrica di colletti e polsini, con un retroterra familiare disastrato, fra povertà, violenza e alcolismo. La conoscenza di Pete l'illude di potersi staccare da quell'ambiente: ma Pete non è il bianco cavaliere che lei crede... Accompag...

Delightfully sinful stories from Mills & Boons best-selling authors!Claiming His Innocent by Lynne GrahamJess’s PromiseA Rich Man’s WhimThe Billionaire’s Bridal BargainAn Australian Conquest by Emma DarcyThe Incorrigible PlayboyHis Most Exquisite ConquestHis Bought MistressSurrender to the DevilThe Repla...

Ómnibus Bianca 442Una amante temporalEmma Darcy¿A disposición del millonario?Una tarde en las carreras, champán y mujeres. Aquél era otro evento más para Ethan Cartwright, hasta que la muy normal Daisy Donahue pasó ante sus ojos.Daisy sabía mantener la cabeza baja y ser invisible entre las más famosas australianas vestidas de diseño. Pero el despiadado Ethan estaba intrigado y no pudo evitar acercarse a ella...

Gary Brown's BBC Radio 4 full-cast comedy dramatisation about artist Eric Gill's clash with the BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel, starring Anton Lesser as Eric Gill and Tim McInnerny as Sir John Reith, the first Director General of the Corporation. Originally broadcast in the ‘Afternoon Play’ slot on Wednesday 9 June 2010. Inspired by real events, the play charts a clash between the BBC's Governors and the artist over the propriety of the sculpture's appearance. Gill bec...

"This text is long overdue and timely. Carr and Broom have placed the issues firmly in the broader context of the relationship between our species and the others which share this planet with us...As they argue it is possible for tourists and the travel and tourism sector to take and exercise responsibility to drive change, Carr and Broom's text helps us to understand the issues and the context and to make better-informed choices." Harold Goodwin Responsible Tourism Partnership Animals are ...

The exciting sequel to JADE DARCY AND THE AFFAIR OF HONOR.At first, expecting her new job to be easy, Jade Darcy is oblivious to the religious strife wracking the world of Restaapa.Jade and Megan Cafferty, her employer, discover that the Restaapans are in the process of choosing a new heir to the throne. During this process, the candidates hatch plots against anyone they see as a danger to their victory. Each one of them will go to any extreme, even murder, to assure his el...

We are proud to present the People of Color Take over FSI Special Issue! Edited by Nisi Shawl Fiction 'What Futures' by Su-Yee Lin 'Shadow Animals' by Stephen Graham Jones 'Darkout' by E. Lily Yu 'The Executioner' by Jennifer Marie Brissett 'I Understand' by Jermaine McGill 'Walking Round Money' by Paul Miles 'Serving Fish' by Christopher Caldwell 'Fortitude' by Eliza Victoria 'The Sacrifice of the Hanged Monkey' by Minsoo Kang 'Maggie Doll' by Alex Jennings 'Glass Bottle Trick' by Nalo Ho...

For the past five years, Jade Darcy has not seen another human being. A computer-augmented mercenary, she lives on the planet Cablans, a stopover point for traders from hundreds of worlds -- and a good place to meet customers who need the services of a skilled warrior.She turns down what she considers a suicide assignment: traveling to an enslaved world to assassinate one of its military leaders. But then she learns there's another human being on Cablans -- a human being with the p...

A fighter pilot races to stop a terrorist plot in Washington, DC, in this thriller by a New York Times–bestselling author hailed as “brilliant” by Tom Clancy.When the psychotic Colombian drug lord Chano Aldana is extradited to the United States for trial, he brings his army of vicious mercenaries with him. And as Aldana’s hit men target the President of the United States, the capital is plunged into chaos that only veteran fighter pilot Jake Grafton can st...

When the Soviet Union collapses, thousands of nuclear warheads go unaccounted for, and it’ll take someone of Jake Grafton’s talents to make sure they don’t end up in the wrong handsPromoted to deputy director of a new U.S. intelligence agency, the stakes of Jake Grafton’s commission are higher than ever before. With the USSR on the brink of dissolution, a vast nuclear arsenal is suddenly ripe for the taking by mercenaries, rogue nations, and insane Russian nationalists. Grafton mus...

Hailed as the finest combat aviation novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Flight of the Intruder spent twenty-eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list and became one of the top twenty bestselling first novels of all time. An instant classic, the book was translated into more than twenty languages and made into a major motion picture. Its hero, Jake Grafton, became a household name and the star of many more Coonts’ bestsellers.Without question, ...

A practical guide for veterinary technicians and nurses on essential concepts of animal pain managementPain management is an essential aspect of medical care, but in the field of veterinary medicine it poses unique challenges. Learning to recognize animal pain, to advocate for patient care, and to build and implement pain management protocols allows veterinary nursing teams to be more effective and vastly improves patient outcomes. Mastering this aspect of veterina...