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Ihre Anziehung ist stärker als jede Naturgewalt … Im zweiten Jahr am College könnte Vanessa Clark kaum glücklicher sein. Sie hat Freundschaften, die ihr Halt geben, ein Studium, das sie liebt. Doch dann taucht Thomas Collins auf einer ihrer Uni-Veranstaltungen auf und stellt ihr wohlgeordnetes Leben auf den Kopf. Mit seinen Tattoos und den grünen Augen, in denen man sich nur allzu leicht verlieren kann, ist er eine explosive Mischung aus Charme und Arroganz. Vom ersten Moment an ist die Anziehung zu ihm wie eine Naturgewalt.

Vanessa Clark, a second-year college student, has a visceral love of books and rain and an unbreakable bond with her best friends. Marked by her parents' difficult divorce, she found comfort in Travis, apparently the good guy that all mothers—including hers—would like next to their daughter. With him she hopes to be able to build a happiness that she has been missing for too long now. After two years, however, even that love seems to have cracked and only rubble remains in Vanessa's heart. At least until, in class, she meets new classmate Thomas Collins for the first time.

In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, historically informed account of the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine war.

To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation.

Rose is looking forward to meeting the Fisone as part of the United Council's outreach mission. Since the Tecran were defeated, and the full scope of their crimes was uncovered, the UC has wanted to find the Tecran's victims and extend the hand of friendship. The fact that Rose is close to having her baby is just another element to the adventure of finding the Fisone's planet and seeing if they could be potential allies.

Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency.

Il décide de se replonger dans la complexité de cet accident, et de se lancer sur les traces du motard pour comprendre d'où il vient, quel a été son parcours et comment un tel événement a été rendu possible. En décortiquant ce drame familial, Paul Gasnier révèle deux destins qui s'écrivent en parallèle, dans la même ville, et qui s'ignorent jusqu'au jour où ils entrent violemment en collision.

Non esiste rosa senza spina. Non esiste passione senza tormento. Vanessa, studentessa al secondo anno di college, ha un amore viscerale per i libri e la pioggia e un legame indissolubile con i suoi migliori amici. Segnata dal difficile divorzio dei genitori, ha trovato conforto in Travis, all’apparenza il bravo ragazzo che tutte le madri – compresa la sua – vorrebbero accanto alle loro figlie. Con lui spera di riuscire a costruire una felicità che ormai da troppo tempo le manca.

Worlds in Collision - written in a brilliant, easily understandable, and entertaining style and full to the brim with precise information-can be considered one of the most important and most challenging books in the history of science. Not without reason was this book found open on Einstein's desk after his death. For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the history of mankind, traditions, religions, mythology or just the world as it is today, Worlds in Collision is an absolute must-listen!

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires - Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany - remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely expose of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front - a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever.

Our love was a secret, forbidden, and then I went and screwed it all up. Eight years ago, Baine Landry was a young, naïve boy in love with his best friend’s little sister. He knew she was off limits, but that hadn’t stopped him from succumbing to her innocent, and sometimes not-so-innocent charm. Sure, Olivia was five years younger, but she was about to come of age and he foolish thought her family would accept him. He was wrong. His biggest regret in life would always be confiding in his best friend, her brother.

Destroying the Thulian North American Headquarters has not made life easier for ECHO, or the world. The Thulians continue their attacks, first in unpredictable incursions, then with another all-out assault on ECHO, orchestrated against ECHO headquarters across the world. Dominic Verdigris has not given up on his effort to obtain The Seraphym for himself, in order to use her to avert his own fate at the hands of the Thulians. Nor have the heroes of ECHO and the CCCP found life anything but harder.

When 18-year-old Kara Jones gets into a car accident on the way home from college, she's left with more than a few bruised ribs, a busted cell phone, and a totaled car. After a slip-up at the hospital, she’s shaken to discover that her family isn't all it seems. And now her mother's strange behavior and willingness to do anything to protect her secrets - including pulling Kara out of school - have Kara floundering in the dark.

After escaping an angry, dangerous mob, Kate Stellute and her neighbor Sinclair set out on a journey to stop Rex––and his kind—from unleashing more pain on the remaining population. The sinister otherworldly being has already made hundreds of millions of people turn their guns on themselves, and, amidst the suffering and death, no one can predict what he will do next.

The world's worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, when two fully loaded 747 passenger jets collided after a horrendous series of human errors. One of the jets, KLM Flight 4805, was traveling more than 150 miles an hour and was within seconds of lifting off when it crashed into Pan Am Flight 1736 taxiing in its path. The loss of lives was staggering - 583 dead. The crash happened after a lengthy series of major and minor human errors. In the intervening years, has aviation advanced to the point that such a disaster can't happen again?

From the author of the international best seller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel - and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.

Juliette Salinger lives her life entirely on her mother’s terms. Everything from what she wears to who she dates is determined by what is deemed appropriate for their social standing. Look a little closer. Juliette isn’t cut out for that life. She lives for moments of reckless abandon to escape the crushing pressure of never being good enough. Leo Ashlar appears to live his life entirely on his own terms. He’s a bartending bachelor and undefeated fight-club champion. Look a little closer. He’s haunted by a tragic past and hides his demons even from those he loves.

After losing both of her parents, Merritt Adams was forced to grow up. Now a bitter and jaded adult, she's convinced that the only person she can count on is herself. When she's injured in a fiery crash, Merritt has to learn how to accept help from her friends. But she isn't prepared for support from the popular musician she used to go to school with. Chase Brooks spent the last two years in California aspiring to become a rock star, but his dream is cut short when he receives word about his sick father.

Un pilote amateur de sensations fortes, en quête de l'ultime moyen d'échapper à la monotonie et à l'anonymat. Une ambitieuse stagiaire dans la tour de contrôle, déstabilisée par une découverte qui pourrait bien changer le cours de sa vie. Un grand manager pressé de rentrer à Paris pour fêter la signature d'un important contrat. Un manutentionnaire aigri, passablement imbibé d'alcool, qui commet imprudence sur imprudence sur le tarmac. Quatre personnages dont les trajectoires vont entrer en collision, un certain vendredi d'octobre, à l'aéroport de Lisbonne.

Riordan Malone is more than a bodyguard. As an Elite Ops agent, he’s ripped, raged, and ready to rumble—a true warrior, inside and out. But no war zone can compare to the battle in Rory’s heart when he lays eyes on the only woman he’s ever loved—and thought he had lost forever....