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Miss Eleanor Clairbridge, at five and twenty, has resigned herself to a life without love. With her family's London townhouse threatened by dwindling finances, she accepts employment as a governess to help support her widowed mother and preserve her cherished childhood home. When Eleanor arrives at Ivy Grange Estate, the last thing she expects to find is a spark of attraction between her and her new employer. Determined not to risk her position, she resolves to keeps her distance. There is more than one reason a romance between them can never be.

From a former FBI Special Agent specializing in behavior analysis and recruiting spies comes a handbook filled with his proven strategies on how to instantly read people and influence how they perceive you, so you can easily turn on the like switch. The Like Switch is packed with all the tools...

Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved either stealing a spaceship or having one built to order - for Tschai was home to several intelligent star-born races, and so they had spaceyards. But Adam Reith's problem was not so simple. He'd already been lucky to escape the Chasch and the Wankh and a dozen different types of humans, and now his course led directly to the Grand Sivishe Spaceyards in the domains of the Dirdir.

From famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes a collection of essays and stories compiled from journal entries he made during his travels. In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys...

Martin Eden is living in California at the beginning of the 1900s where he struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation is his love for...

"Martin Eden", le plus autobiographique des romans de Jack London, est le récit d'un écrivain né dans les bas-fonds, homme de rien basculé dans la bourgeoisie qui croit tenir sa revanche sur la vie... C'est aussi la rencontre d'un homme et d'une femme ; l'occasion enfin de découvrir le vrai visage de Jack London, une personnalité rare à la source de notre modernité. Son œuvre, dont "Martin Eden" est le point d'orgue, a fasciné des millions de lecteurs. Denis Podalydès nous offre une lecture vibrante et délicate, inoubliable.

They say you can’t pick your neighbors… but can you survive them? When Salem Ripley moves into her apartment in New York City, she’s disheartened to find it isn’t exactly like the pictures. Still, with her past, she’s lucky to find a place at all. Her neighbor across the hall is tall...

Brought to you by Penguin. Why are all my clothes made in Asia? How come I'm so much richer than my great-great grandma? And what even is money? Whether you're buying lunch, looking for a job, or applying for a mortgage, the thing we call 'the economy' is going to set the terms. A pity, then...

Five intergalactic criminal masterminds raid the tranquil world of Mount Pleasant, leaving behind only ruin and slaughter - and the orphaned child Kirth Gersen, who comes to manhood swearing to take bloody revenge. Now Gersen roams the galaxy, bringing vengeance to the Demon Princes one by one, in Jack Vance's classic series of hardboiled space opera.

Los principios del Éxito MR es una guía practica para quienes quieren alcanzar sus metas profesionales y personales. Este audiolibro no es solo una antología de buenas ideas, pero contiene los principios del éxito utilizados por los altos empresarios, atletas, famosos y gente común y corriente.

Six acclaimed meditation teachers and visionaries show us how to transform ourselves, our communities, and the world. If we want to make positive outward changes in the world, we need to start making changes in our inner lives as well. It's a truth that more and more of us are realizing. But...

The War Collection: Essential Battlefield Classics is a collection of 13 works of fiction, philosophy, military strategy, and epic poetry, read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Included here are novels from Ernest Hemingway; military strategy from Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz; essays from Orwell; philosophy from Freud, and epic poetry from Homer, amongst much more.

Jeremiah Thorn, a kindhearted young man who happens to be a novice necromancer, is condemned to die by an uncaring kingdom. When he’s discovered by a group of adventurers, it seems his time is up. Can he convince them he's more valuable alive than dead? And can death itself be a force for good?

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Canfield comes a powerful, science-based program to help you cut back or quit drinking and reclaim your best life—one day at a time. The 30-Day Sobriety Solution grew out of Jack Canfield’s decades-long work in self-esteem and success training...

Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, bravely chronicles her decades-long battle with anorexia and public journey to recovery in this “courageously candid” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir. All Jackie Goldschneider ever wanted was to be thin. As a child, she’d stand in...

Doctor Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence. Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Doctor Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer...

Depuis des décennies, une poignée de traders de matières premières règne dans l'ombre sur l'économie mondiale. Inconnus du grand public, ils négocient quotidiennement des milliards de dollars de pétrole, de métaux et de céréales et façonnent les équilibres économiques et politiques. Pour développer leurs affaires, ils n'hésitent pas à soutenir des dictatures, à se rendre sur les théâtres de guerre et à contourner les sanctions internationales.

Two decades ago, the United States invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to fumigate a rat's nest of international terrorists. And then it left. If there's one thing Trapp has learned, it's the more things change, the more they stay the same. IS-K has to be stopped. The problem is, not everybody agrees...

Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again. Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time...

Jack Duluoz (Kerouac) ha publicado una novela ( En el camino ) que ha alcanzado un gran éxito, pero la fama es como una fiera que lo devora. Huyendo de la imagen que los críticos y los lectores se han forjado de él, en junio de 1960 se refugia en una cabaña que su amigo Lorenzo Monsanto (Lawrence Ferlinghetti en la vida real) tiene en la costa californiana de Big Sur, entre San Francisco y Los Ángeles, donde medita, sufre alucinaciones, escribe poemas místicos, bebe como un cosaco, recibe visitas, se droga y evoca el pasado.