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Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed Victorian household of her grandmother and spinster aunts. A casual flirtation shocks and horrifies the elderly ladies, and they summon Robert Crayfield, her godfather, who is an officer in the Indian Civil Service, to make suitable arrangements for her to be a missionary or governess. But, tantalized by her beauty and disregarding the difference in their ages, he offers to marry her instead, scandalizing the village. 

Stella, indifferent to romance, is most excited by the prospect of...

Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. Years later, a car is pulled up from the bottom of a lake, with a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past, follows the case.

Step by step she reveals the extraordinary bonds that unite the three childhood friends. How is the car wreck connected to their story? Why did their friendship fall apart?Three is a compelling story of love and loss, hope and grief, and of the distance that comes with the passing of time. A masterly crafted story full of suspense and...

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Neue magische Geheimgesellschaften sprießen in London wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Wunscherfüller, Tierflüsterer, Geisterbeschwörer, sogar ein Junge, der mit der Themse kommunizieren kann ... Enna ist begeistert! Doch dann läuft die Magie immer öfter aus dem Ruder. Kann Enna all ihren neuen und alten Freunden wirklich trauen? Und was hat es mit dem gruseligen grünen Ring auf sich, den die Themse eines Tages anschwemmt? Während Enna gleich mehrere magische Rätsel auf einmal zu lösen versucht, hängt auch noch der...

The Sweet Spot has nothing to do with football. . . .

Just ask Kahari Brown, one of the NFL's sexiest stars. He knows how to handle a football, and always thought he had a way with the ladies. But his smooth moves off the field are only getting him into hot water these days.

And no one is hotter than Zoe Andrews. When she thrusts a mic in his face and asks him if he's the father of a crazy fan's baby, he's ready to tackle her and toss her out of the locker room on her shapely butt. But there's something about Zoe . . .

Zoe's Rule Number One: Never Date an Athlete...

Distributed Systems: Concurrency and Consistency explores the gray area of distributed systems and draws a map of weak consistency criteria, identifying several families and demonstrating how these may be implemented into a programming language. Unlike their sequential counterparts, distributed systems are much more difficult to design, and are therefore prone to problems. On a large scale, usability reminiscent of sequential consistency, which would provide the same global view to all users, is very expensive or impossible to achieve. This book investigates the best ways to specify...

"I Wrote the Script, but I Want to Change the Ending" is her inspirational autobiography, telling the story of a woman determined never to let her past dictate her future. Using her unique voice, Perrin depicts her challenges as a single woman living and working in small Canadian cities from the 1940s to the late 1990s. She details her struggles with patriarchy, chauvinism, institutional systems, and living with multiple...

Now, Wheaton College scholar Nicholas Perrin takes on Ehrman and others who claim that the text of the New Testament has been corrupted beyond recognition. Perrin, in an approachable,...