Avery Dacosta ne s’attendait absolument pas à trouver un manifestant devant son bureau. Surtout maintenant, alors qu’elle est à « ça » de concrétiser un projet sur lequel elle travaille depuis des années : construire un hôtel de luxe sur Playa Vieja, la plage paradisiaque de San Diego.Finn Travis, surfeur local et décontracté, lui ne s’attendait pas à se retrouver à la tête de la résistance de Playa Vieja. Il est plutôt écolo tranquille qu’activiste radical. Seulement, l’hôtel d’Av...

Deux âmes attirées l’une vers l’autre sous un ciel colérique...La vie soignée et ordonnée de Calvin Ellis vole en éclats lorsque son grand-père décède, lui léguant une librairie atypique à Big Sur, en Californie. The Mad Ones : autrefois célèbre pour ses lectures de poésie et son atmosphère de rébellion bohème, maintenant au bord de la ruine financière.La vie luxueuse de Lucia Bell, mannequin d’envergure internationale, est remise en question lorsqu’elle se présent...

A ex-policial Delilah Barrett fez carreira em uma empresa de detetives particulares recuperando livros raros roubados. É equilibrada, inteligente e fria sob pressão. Henry Finch é um acadêmico famoso e um brilhante bibliotecário de livros raros, mas nunca na vida enfrentou criminosos. E jamais fingiu ser casado com uma mulher que tanto o deslumbra quanto desconfia dele… Quando um livro centenário que vale uma fortuna astronômica desaparece do Museu Franklin da Filadélfia, Delilah faz dupla...

While on assignment in Santa Fe to find a treasure hunter, reporter Harper Hendrix stumbles onto an even better story—the fate of the missing Blackburn Diamonds, rumored to be buried in the nearby hills. Harper knows a solid lead when she sees one, and with a promotion on the line, she'll do anything to impress her editors.Even if that means finding the missing diamonds herself.Unless Eve Bardot gets there first. The cocky antiques salvager is the only thing standing in her...

Luna da Rosa é a vegana queridinha da América. Uma bilionária hippie que possui um feed do Instagram tão popular quanto sua marca de maquiagem livre de crueldade animal, chamada Wild Heart. Porém, sua paz acaba quando um erro coloca em risco tudo o que construiu. Beck Mason é o filho pródigo dos líderes da gangue de motoqueiros mais famosa de Miami. Ele abandonou sua família criminosa e fundou a Lucky Dog, uma ONG que resgata cães em situação de risco. Trabalhar como voluntária na Lucky Do...

From the outside, the gorgeous Freya Evandale seems like a quirky bookworm with a taco addiction. Most people would never guess she's a proud drop-out of the FBI's training academy and a highly-skilled computer nerd. These days, she's happy as a private detective at Codex, specializing in stolen rare books.That is until an old nemesis with an arrogant smirk and superhero shoulders ends up in her office.Special Agent Sam Byrne is a tightly-wound workaholic with a secret . . ...

Just because the marriage is fake doesn't mean the attraction is . . .Delilah Barrett is a head-turning beauty on a quest for justice. She's made a career of recovering stolen rare books with her private detective firm. She's level-headed, smart, cool under pressure . . . and entirely unprepared for her new assignment.When a centuries-old book worth an astronomical fortune disappears from Philadelphia's Franklin Museum, Delilah is paired up with Henry Finch...

He needs to keep the gorgeous competition out of his head . . . and his bed.Former FBI agent Abe Royal believes in hard work, justice, and a suit for every occasion. He's hot on the trail of an elusive book thief when he realizes he's being followed . . . by a sultry, cunning stranger.Ambitious, young detective Sloane Argento has just been handed the case of a lifetime. It's a challenge she's prepared to meet head-on. Until she finds herself in a sexy game ...

Quando olham para Freya Evandale, tudo que veem é uma bookaholic viciada em tacos e com gostos muito peculiares. A maioria das pessoas nunca imaginaria que ela quase se tornou uma agente do FBI e que trabalha como detetive particular na Codex, uma empresa especializada em livros raros roubados. O agente especial Sam Byrne está afastado do FBI, enquanto investigações estão em andamento para livrá-lo de uma acusação. Por isso, trabalhar como consultor para a Codex parece perfeito para se man...

A Magazine Celebrating Romance:Love romance? Love discovering the best new writers with bite-sized stories? Or maybe you prefer to treat yourself by escaping into a sure-to-please favorite author's world now and again, but don't have the time to read a full-length novel. Heart's Kiss magazine offers delicious variety and more.Each issue has at least 60,000 plus words of fiction from names readers will recognize, to newly discovered writers, including interviews and...

Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnos...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity ...