Showing results for "jonas helm"

Ricky Ruiz—ruthless kingpin, reclusive heir, the one man I can’t seem to outrun.Rumors buzz when a pic of me buying a pregnancy test goes viral. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if, roughly one month ago, I wasn’t also spotted with the new top-dog of Cypress Pointe’s most notorious crime family.The same crime family my father dedicated his entire law enforcement career trying to bring to their knees.Ricky inherited the money, the houses, the cars, but he also inheri...

With bullets raining fire around themHe’ll risk everything to keep her safeWhen Mary Hudson meets Walker Daniels—under gunfire, no less—the cautious cold case investigator becomes entrenched in his mother’s decades-old unsolved murder case. But giving the alpha maverick and his siblings a safe haven at her family ranch only magnifies her attraction to him. Until Walker’s sister reveals a secret tie to a powerful senator, challenging everythi...

Flying too close to love could get her heart burned.FBI Agent Trevor Steele is used to tackling impossible missions. But taking a leave of absence to take care of his little sister after their mother’s death is making him long for the days when the hardest thing about his day was having a gun pointed at his head. Once his sister is finished with school, he’s getting the hell out of Pilots Point and getting back to his real life.Callie Baker is drowning in debt. The former b...

I didn’t notice her.She greeted me with a cheery smile for years, but other than nodding back, I treated her just like I do all my employees…like she’s invisible.I’m not an asshole. I swear. I’ve learned that to thrive in a family built for chaos, I need the rest of the world to disappear into the background. I’ve divided everything up into two categories: Matters and Doesn’t Matter.But in one short meeting, everything changes. Janey’s now at the ve...

Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A 'profoundly moving chronicle' (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbrück, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from survivorsOn a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant g...

She's supposed to be dead.So is he.Rancher Cal Thompson is shocked when his wife turns up injured, amnesiac and cradling a baby…especially since he was told she had died. But who just tried to murder her? Together, Cal and Norah start investigating, but as her memory returns, secrets shatter and both come under attack. One mystery turns into two, and Cal is torn between his family and his mission. Meanwhile Norah is desperate to learn why she was told Cal wa...

SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 FICTION BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEAREDJust because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it . . .Nombeko Mayeki was never meant to be a hero. Born in a Soweto shack, she seemed destined for a short, hard life. But now she is on the run from the world ‘s most ruthless secret service, with three Chinese sisters, twins who are o...

The bestselling novel from the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of SwedenIT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN.It’s always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in south Stockholm, it’s particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman currently staying in room seven. Per Persson, the hotel receptionist, jus...

The thoughtful, revealing and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING memoir from one of the world's most recognisable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking and activism'One of the juiciest memoirs in years . . . eye-openingly honest. She speaks candidly, skilfully, side-stepping the sanctimony that permeates the celebrity memoir' ELLE UK_______"I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, ...

An undercover Texas Ranger aims to take down a human trafficker with the help of one of his victims in this romantic thriller.Jaime Alessandro fears he's been undercover too long. Now his only shot at destroying one of Texas's largest crime organizations is Gabriella Torres—a "gift" from The Stallion and his longest-held captive. Her inside info and inspired moves are helping Jaime take the gang apart. But what he's starting to feel for the brilliant, tough-minded G...

"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?"– Epictetus, Stoic philosopherWhere can you find joy? Gain strength? How should we face our fears? Deal with the death of a loved one? And what about those reoccurring depressing thoughts?While traditional schooling doesn't address such questions, it's exactly what ancient schools of philosophy were all about: They taught you how to live. Even though these schools don't exist an...

A refugee from post–World War II Europe who immigrated to the US in 1949, Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) became one of America's foremost champions of independent cinema and one of its most innovative filmmakers. An admired poet in his native Lithuania, Mekas began recording his life on film shortly after his arrival in New York. Through his work as the author of the Village Voice’s “Movie Journal” column, editor of Film Culture magazine, and founder of Anthology Film Archives a...