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While attending the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s rigorous training program, Paradise falls for a commoner. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training center program and learn to fight for herself. And that’s before she falls in love with a fellow classmate. http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Kiss-Black-Dagger-Legacy/dp/0451475321

The government hit man Will Robie investigates murder charges against his estranged father in their Mississippi hometown. He infiltrates the most hostile countries in the world, defeats our enemies’ advanced security measures, and eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores. To recover what he has lost, Robie must confront what he has tried to forget for over twenty years: …

The attorney Sebastian Rudd is a lone gunman who hates injustice and the system, and defends unpopular clients. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture is a vintage pool table. He drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. Because he believes everyone is entitled to a fair trial, even if …

Harry Bosch reluctantly helps his half brother, a defense attorney, and his investigations lead him inside the L.A.P.D. The murder rap against his client seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it’s a setup. With the secret help of his former L.A.P.D. partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Crossing-Michael-Connelly/dp/1409145905

Detective Alex Cross returns home, for the first time in 35 years, to help a cousin who has been accused of murder. As Cross steps into his family home, the horrors of his childhood flood back, and he learns that they’re not really over. A brutal killer, the truth about his own past, and justice for his cousin. Any one …

President Jack Ryan detects a pattern in outbreaks of violence around the world that point to the Russian president, but he must unite the Western allies before he can take action. A floating natural gas facility in Lithuania is blown up. A Venezuelan prosecutor is assassinated. A devastating attack on a Russian troop train kills dozens. A chaotic world is …

Two sisters are separated in World War II France: one in the countryside, the other in Paris. In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France, but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and …

He could change her future. This thought Annabel, the woman who never forgot a secret of her tragic childhood. After separating from her husband, she changes home, going to the island of Ruegen, to live the experience of its white chalk cliffs, making long walks on pristine beaches. Yes, it is certain to regain its serenity. One day, in the …

IM SPIEGEL Im Spiegel mein zerschnittener Körper In der Mitte geteilt von der Operation die mein Leben gerettet hat. Wozu Frage ich mich beim Blick in den Spiegel Für ein Kind eine Frau ein Spätwerk Leben lernen mit der halben Maschine Atmen essen Verboten die frage Wozu Die zu leicht von den Lippen geht Der Tod Ist das Einfache sterben …

Many readers, consider it as the most encyclopedic and erotic of all the books ever written. Thomas Pynchon and his “Gravity’s Rainbow” a novel published 40 years ago – still is a masterpiece of American fiction. With your eyes (but also with all of yourself), you will discover the city of London, in 1944, bombed by the Nazis. You’ll find …

The succession of the seasons, a special way to measure the time of writing, developing the characters that drive the story. Page after page – as well as in the seasons – you too will know the love affairs, stories that are tying in the season of ice and flowers, stories that feed the dissatisfaction and storms, but also the …

KEEP CLOSE TO YOU WHAT IT IS GOOD > Keep close to you what is good, although a handful of earth. Hold onto what you believe in, even if it is a solitary tree. Hold onto what you have to do, even if it’s far away from here. Keep close life, although it is easier to let go. Hold on …

VA CHANSON > Va, chanson, à titre-d’aile, au-devant d’elle, et dis-lui bien que dans mon coeur fidèle un rayon joyeux a lui, dissipant lumière sainte, ces ténèbres de l’amour: méfiance, doute, crainte, et que voici le grand jour! Longtemps craintive et muette, entendez-vous? La gaîté, comme une vive alouette, dans le ciel clair a chanté. Va donc, chanson ingénue, et …

MEMORY OF MARIE A. > One day in September, the month blue, quiet under a young plum tree, I held my love pale and quiet in my arms like a sweet dream. And over us in the beautiful summer sky there was a cloud that I mirai long: white in the high was lost, and when she looked again, she …