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This riveting follow-up to A Conflict of Interest is a gritty, sophisticated thriller that will draw fans of Scott Turow and John Grisham into a world of relentless suspense. Dan Sorenson was once a high-powered New York defense attorney but that was before a horrifying accident killed the two most important people in his life. As he approaches rock bottom, Dan is unexpectedly offered the opportunity of a lifetime: defend an up-and-coming rapper who swears he’s innocent of the brutal slaying of his pop star girlfriend. Dan realizes that this may be his only hope to put his own life back on track, but as he delves deeper into the case, he learns that atonement comes at a very steep price.
A sweeping historical romance that is “gripping, tragic, yet filled with passion and hope” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author), offering a vivid and unique portrayal of life in war-torn 1941 Bucharest during World War II and its aftermath—perfect for fans of Lilac Girls and Sarah’s Key. On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of an apartment building in Bucharest. With Romania recently allied with the Nazis, the Jewish population is in grave danger so the girl is placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by a wealthy childless couple who name her Natalia. As she assimilates into her new life, she all but forgets the parents who ...
In 1951, the eight o’clock nightly news reported on Jean-Paul Sartre for the first time. By the end of the twentieth century, more than 3,500 programs dealing with philosophy and its practitioners—including Bachelard, Badiou, Foucault, Lyotard, and Lévy—had aired on French television. According to Tamara Chaplin, this enduring commitment to bringing the most abstract and least visual of disciplines to the French public challenges our very assumptions about the incompatibility of elite culture and mass media. Indeed, it belies the conviction that television is inevitably anti-intellectual and the quintessential archenemy of the book. Chaplin argues that the history of the televising of...
• Après Detroit, Fabien Fernandez pointe son objectif sur la Louisiane pour donner à la plus célèbre des histoires d'amour des saveurs inédites ! • Un dénouement doublement inattendu amené par une enquête trépidante dans les rues de New Orleans. Deux familles qui se détestent, deux jeunes adultes, beaux et intelligents, qui se découvrent lors d'une soirée masquée et sont dès lors prêts à braver la mort pour vivre leur amour... Cette histoire, vous croyez l'avoir entendue cent fois. Vous pensez déjà entrevoir son dénouement. Mais cette affaire, ce n'est pas celle de Shakespeare. La scène ne s'est pas tenue à Vérone, mais dans les quartiers animés de la Nouvelle-Orléans. De vidéos reçues anonymement en témoignages récoltés avec discrétion, ma curiosité de journaliste m'a permis de retracer ce qu'il s'est vraiment passer à NOLA.
The authors focus on the multidimensionality of gender in conflict, yet they also prioritise the experience of women given both the changing nature of war and the historical de-emphasis on women's experiences.
[BookStrand Historical Romance, HEA] As her widowed mother's constant companion, Lauren Cameron can only dream of traveling the world in search of adventure--until Prince Anton Danilov abducts her to St. Petersburg, Russia. The ransom is a jeweled heart his brother lost to hers. Anton will do whatever it takes to retrieve the heart of gold that was his late father's last gift to his mother. If only his deceptively demure captive didn't enjoy her scandalous predicament! And if only he didn't wish to make it even more enjoyable for her! Lauren can't help losing her heart to this golden-haired prince who compromised her simply by kidnapping her. If all she has to face upon returning to America is a lifetime trapped in her mother's oppressive shadow, then what else does she have to lose if she lets him make her ruin truly worthwhile? Anton wants her only for that jeweled heart...but will he keep Lauren for another heart even more precious? ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance
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