Category: Contemporary

By John Haydn Gurmin

By Sidney Sheldon

He sought after energy. Oliver Russell is fated to upward push to the top of strength, the place of work of President of the USA. She sought after revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee, a girl devoted to a unmarried purpose-the downfall of Oliver Russell. collecting her personal media empire, marshaling all her forces opposed to him, she stands poised to ruin Russell at the eve of his so much fabulous triumph. From Sidney Sheldon, the unchallenged grasp of bestselling fiction, comes a narrative of blazing goals and thwarted love that enthralls and surprises with each page...

This ebook provides a number of articles on modern matters in environmental legislations via eminent college professors of environmental legislations, foreign public legislations, eu Union legislations, and comparative legislations in Europe and Japan. it's the first e-book within the box of environmental legislation in response to the result of foreign meetings and study actions supported by means of the eu Union delegation in Japan.

By Ruth Doan MacDougall

Here's what it was once wish to develop up within the Nineteen Fifties within the years of ponytails, pajama events, proms, and parking, whilst to be renowned used to be vital and whilst, in the event you have been a woman, being vital intended being a cheerleader. THE CHEERLEADER is a best-selling novel concerning the lack of innocence, the expansion of ardour, and the awakening of ambition.A classic.--PUBLISHERS WEEKLYOne of the truest pix of an American woman ever written.--DETROIT loose PRESSIt's heartbreaking from time to time, hilarious at others, and she's received all of it down beautifully.--PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERIf destiny historians and sociologists are ever impelled to determine what it used to be prefer to be a highschool scholar in the US at mid twentieth century, they're going to desire cross no farther than THE CHEERLEADER for documentation and enlightenment...Utterly sincere, actual, and sympathetic.--KANSAS urban STARA devastatingly exact portrait of the '50s.--LIBRARY magazine

This complete, interdisciplinary assortment examines various kinds of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and modern Britain, supplying a distinct comparability of the equipment which were hired via governments to manage it.

By Lori Foster

Undercover mercenary hint Rivers loves the adrenaline rush of a well-planned undertaking. First he will earn the belief of corrupt businessman Murray Coburn, then assemble the facts he must close down the man's soiled smuggling operation. it is a ideal scheme—until Coburn's long-lost daughter saunters in along with her personal lethal plan for revenge.

With a grin like an angel and fireplace in her eyes, Priscilla Patterson is not who she seems. yet nor is the attractive bodyguard who ignites all her senses. becoming a member of forces to plan Coburn's downfall, Priss and hint needs to struggle the indisputable warmth among them. For one fallacious movement, one lingering include, will reveal them to the wrath of a cruel opponent….

By Sharon Kay Penman

Simon de Montfort was once a guy sooner than his time within the 13th century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his manner into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate chief, Simon quickly misplaced endurance with the king's incompetence and lack of ability to maintain his observe, and located himself the champion of the typical people.

This is his tale, and the tale of Henry III, as susceptible and changeable as Simon used to be brash and unbending. it's a story of opposing wills that will ultimately conflict in a hurricane of violence and betrayal―an impossible to resist saga that brings the pages of heritage thoroughly, provocatively, and magnificently alive.

By John Fante

He got here alongside, kicking the snow. the following was once a disgusted guy. His identify was once Svevo Bandini, and he lived 3 blocks down that road. He used to be chilly and there have been holes in his sneakers. That morning he had patched the holes at the within with items of cardboard from a macaroni field. The macaroni in that field was once no longer paid for. He had considered that as he positioned the card within his shoes.

By Stephanie James

The ruthless and seductive York Sutherland pursues appealing Selena Caldwell as a part of his revenge opposed to his archenemy and competitor, a guy with whom Selena had as soon as been concerned. Reprint.

Will she succumb to the sheikh?

Who dares trespass on Sheikh Zageo's palace at the unique island of Zanzibar? Zageo calls for that the intruder be introduced prior to him!

Emily Ross is appalled to discover she's the sheikh's prisoner. To turn out her innocence she wishes Zageo's support. If the cost is giving herself to him, then it truly is one she'll need to pay....