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Simon Kennedy's mother Yvonne was one of 10 Australians to die during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the only one to die outside of New York, in the attack on the Pentagon. On September 11, 2001, Yvonne boarded flight AA77 to begin her return to Australia after completing a much-planned vacation to America. All passengers on board were killed in the crash into the Pentagon.

After serving a decade long prison sentence for an accident that resulted in my husband’s death, Noah Reid returns. Even if he was my childhood best friend and the first man I secretly loved, I refuse to make it easy for him. But the heart never forgets and those old repressed feelings quickly bubble to the surface.

I walked away from London for good. I was young, scared, and stupid, and it cost me everything except my dear life.... Weeks later, a nice man helped me out not knowing my past....

On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In the decade since, the world has mourned her death amid new revelations about her relationship to her Blackness, her sexuality, and her addictions. Didn’t We Almost Have It All is author Gerrick Kennedy’s exploration of the duality of Whitney’s life as both a woman in the spotlight and someone who often had to hide who she was. This is the story of Whitney’s life, her whole life, told with both grace and honesty.

In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another and the natural world is a primitive salve. Here, women are domestically trapped by predatorial men, Ireland’s folklore and politics loom large and poverty - material, emotional, sexual - seeps through every crack.

Nigger: it is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of “the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience.” In this tour de force, distinguished Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy - author of the highly acclaimed Race, Crime, and the Law - “put[s] a tracer on nigger”, to identify how it has been used and by whom, while analyzing the controversies to which it has given rise.

Our narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone’s death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he is driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: His prediction says he died 23 minutes ago. The only person who can confirm its accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know.

L'université était censée être ma chance de surmonter mon complexe de vilain petit canard et de déployer mes ailes. Au lieu de cela, je me suis retrouvée dans une sororité pleine de filles odieuses. J'ai déjà du mal à m'intégrer, alors quand mes soeurs Kappa Chi me lancent le défi, je ne peux pas dire non. Le défi : séduire la nouvelle recrue de l'équipe de hockey. Le mec le plus sexy de la classe. Conor Edwards est un habitué des soirées de Greek Row... et des lits de la sororité.

Tout le monde dit que je suis une mauvaise fille. Ils n'ont pas tout à fait tort. C'est vrai que je ne me laisse jamais marcher sur les pieds et que je me fiche totalement de ce que les gens pensent de moi. Mais de là à avoir une aventure avec l'ennemi, je ne suis pas aussi téméraire ! Je suis la fille de l'entraîneur de l'équipe de hockey de Briar et, si je sortais avec un joueur de l'équipe rivale, je serais vilipendée. Jake Connelly, l'attaquant vedette de Harvard, est arrogant, exaspérant et tellement attirant.

When J. Edgar Hoover suddenly passed away, his long-time secretary smuggled an ornate wooden puzzle box out of his office. For several decades, it remained one of her most prized possessions with its dark secret tucked safely inside until it was discovered by a Stanford student by the name of Ryan Lane. After countless attempts to open the mysterious box, Ryan finally heard a click, and a tiny drawer popped open revealing something he knew would send shock waves around the world. Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, someone has resurrected an apocalyptic plan.

Having destroyed the starkiller located at Aneb-4, the alliance of Goltar, Spine Patriots, and the Midnight Sun Free Company have gained a bit of breathing space from the criminal organization known as the Endless Night. But the Endless Night isn’t done. They have two more starkillers in their possession, and they are ready to use them against a civilization that no one - especially the Mercenary Guild - is going to miss. Their target: Sol. Although victorious on Aneb-4, the alliance only has the façade of combat power; they need time to re-equip and rearm…time they don’t have.

Nach einer katastrophalen letzten Saison fasst Hunter Davenport, der neue Kapitän des Briar-Eishockeyteams, einen klaren Entschluss: Keine Niederlagen mehr, keine Ablenkungen – und vor allem: keine Frauen. Ab sofort lebt er offiziell im Zölibat. Doch seine Kommilitonin Demi Davis stellt seine guten Vorsätze auf eine harte Probe. Denn nach der Trennung von ihrem Freund ist sie auf der Suche nach Ablenkung und genießt es, mit Hunter zu spielen. Obwohl er fest entschlossen ist, Demi zu widerstehen, fällt es Hunter immer schwerer, auch seinen Körper davon zu überzeugen – und sein Herz.

Dans la lignée de Off campus, la nouvelle série de Elle Kennedy ! Il entre en première année d'université avec un seul but en tête : pas de petites amies. L'an dernier, il s'est laissé distraire par sa vie amoureuse, ce qui lui a coûté sa saison de hockey. Cette année, il a décidé de renoncer aux femmes. Son équipe passe en premier. Mais ces bonnes résolutions vont être difficile à tenir. Il se trouve qu'il se retrouve en binôme avec une fille hyper sexy sur un projet d'école. Une bavarde invétérée qui a beaucoup d'arguments pour elle.

The Bible is filled with healing promises! From Genesis to Revelation, the nature of God is clearly revealed. He heals because he is good and because his name is Healer. The good news is this: Right now, you have instant access to the supernatural source of God's healing power - his word! Dr. Sandra Kennedy is a powerful yet practical Bible teacher who has been training Christians for decades on how to activate God's Word to receive their healing.

Summer parviendra-t-elle à se faire une place parmi les trois sportifs dont elle partage dorénavant la maison ? On dit que les opposés s'attirent. Et s'il y en a bien une qui est d'accord avec ça, c'est Summer, parce qu'il n'y a aucune raison logique pour qu'elle soit attirée par Colin Fitzgerald. En règle générale, elle n'aime ni les intellos tatoués, ni les jeux vidéo, ni les joueurs de hockey qui pensent qu'elle est volage et superficielle.

In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out", or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of the term and shows how its usage bedevils Blacks and Whites, while elucidating the effects it has on individuals and on our society as a whole.

Change can turn our plans, our lives and our dreams upside down. Whether you have faced a redundancy, been in an accident, lost a loved one, had a health scare, or been impacted by an economic downturn, your ability to navigate through the change process and create an alternative plan will be the key to your future happiness. Shannah Kennedy, best-selling author of The Life Plan, has created a simple yet powerful four-part guide that is designed to give you the confidence to accept, heal, grow and adapt.

Being ripped from her mundane life by a swarm of police officers is not what Rae Chapin expected when she woke up this morning. Accused of a series of murders she didn’t commit, Rae doesn’t have anyone to rely on. Except him. Alec Bronson, the popular boy who broke her heart all those years ago - now a smoking hot man - is her only hope of proving her innocence and finding the person eager to kill everyone she loves.

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of 60, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber.

Part memoir, part exposé of the music world’s murky underbelly, Noise Damage is emotional, painfully honest, funny, informative, and ridiculous. It’s also a celebration of the life-changing magic of music.