Pour Ruby, une nouvelle vie commence enfin. La jeune femme, qui vient d'être acceptée dans une grande école de droit à Paris, quitte ses parents et savoure le début de cette liberté dont elle a tant rêvé. Elle va enfin pouvoir vivre seule et profiter de son indépendance. Jusqu'au moment où elle réalise qu'elle doit partager sa chambre à l'université avec Ralph, un étudiant égocentrique, arrogant et froid. Certes, il est sexy en diable avec ses cheveux blonds, ses tatouages et ses vêtements...

In the last several decades, the number of films featuring female protagonists has increased significantly. Many of these films reflect the vast cultural and sociological changes that have taken place since the early 1960s, highlighting not only a wide spectrum of female characters depicted onscreen, but the creative work of women behind the camera as well. In Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women, media librarian Jane Sloan has assembled an impre...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in a single line or paragraph: a Quote.To feel the impact a Quote can have, here ...

The ancient oracle system of the I Ching has guided wisdom seekers for over 5,000 years. Now those seeking insights and motivation can take advantage of these ancient predictions, recast by writing professor Sarah Jane Sloane into suggestions for contemporary writers. Each of the I Ching’s sixty-four hexagrams, interpreted by Sloane from years of study and comparisons of over fifty translations, offers directions and comments about what the future will hold for the writer. In addition to t...

Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told in the offices of psychotherapists we begin to understand the impact of adoption in all its complexity. We learn from parents how their quest to have and raise a child has played out in real life, and what shadows might have f...

In 'Love in the Shadow of Revolution – 4 Classic Historical Romance Novels,' readers are invited to explore the profound intersections of affection and upheaval through the masterful storytelling of literary giants such as Rafael Sabatini, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Honoré de Balzac. The collection deftly traverses varied styles, from Sabatini's swashbuckling adventures to Austen's keen social commentaries, enriching the theme of romance set against the backdrop of socie...

Je me noie depuis longtemps. Je n'avais jamais pensé trouver quelqu'un qui sache à quoi cela ressemble...Playboy autoproclamé, Aiden Vale, a tout pour plaire : le physique, une carrière réussie, beaucoup d’argent à la banque et une pléiade d’hommes connaissant les règles... ce n’est que pour une nuit. Donc, la dernière chose qu’il veut, ou dont il a besoin, est d’établir un lien qui pourrait signifier de révéler plus de lui-même qu’il est prêt à le faire. ...

Il avait promis de ne jamais me quitter. Mais lorsque j’ai eu le plus besoin de lui, c’est exactement ce qu’il a fait...Le guide forestier, Xander Reed, a passé quinze ans à essayer d’oublier la nuit où il s’est tourné vers son meilleur ami aux heures les plus sombres de sa vie pour se rendre compte que le jeune homme qui avait juré de toujours être là pour lui, lui avait tourné le dos. Trois mille kilomètres et quinze années à reconstruire une nouvelle vi...

The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy tells the inspiring, never-before-told, story of the Global Women’s Funding Movement—considered the women’s movement’s greatest secret—and how it enabled women from all walks of life to harness the power of money to free themselves from oppression.Brimming with feminist epiphanies, this social justice playbook is an urgent call for women’s collective leadership to guide humanity through the gravest of challenges, overcoming patriarchy’...

Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in Arthur Miller’s 1949 masterpiece, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play’s iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with success and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions.Recor...

With this third installment in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology series, we set out to explore the truth by which we at Duck Prints Press live: that a classic work without a single canonically queer character must be in want of a very LGBTQIA+ makeover!A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice*"* queers up this classic with 21 short stories and 20 full-page color artworks. 38 creators contributed to thi...

Beloved authors Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane deliver the stories of four friends from Madame Rochambeaux’s Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings…“Something Old”Julia Quinn’s prologue introduces her heroine Beatrice Heywood and the premise for Four Weddings and a Sixpence.“Something New”