A hidden treasure. A lost legend. Adventure awaits Camping at a ruined abbey at the end of the summer holidays, six teenage archaeologists find themselves witness to a violent haunting and discover a secret crypt below the abbey.The discoveries they make set them on an epic quest across the country. In a race against an unhinged academic and armed with only their honour, knowledge and swordsmanship, the group will have to trust one another and work together, as reality and mythology merge and the quest for an artefact of legend becomes a fight for survival.Told in a unique blend of first and third person narration, The Mystery of St. Arondight's follows Suzannah Jones, Melody Knight, Sarah Heddon, Claire Scott, Jerry Llewellen and S mon James Matherson in their first archaeological adventure. Contains scenes of perilous adventure, violence, some sexual references, and strong language - everything a mature teenager (or immature adult) needs.Follow S. M. Porter on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube @smporterauthor.
Lesson For Lox ---I'm Lox Storm, I believe everything in life is some sort of lesson. One night with a stripper damn sure taught me one. Don't EVER let a chick you barely know handcuff you to a hotel bed...No matter how hot she is. Lesson learned ... maybe Letting Lox In ---Sloan Foster was an honor student in high school, she had big plans for herself. Then she had the earth shattering realization that dreams were just that...dreams. Now a struggling 25- year- old single mom, she works as a massage therapist and is determined to take care of her son, Sage, on her own. Loxley Storm was raised by his mom, his dad was a dead beat he never knew. Growing up, he had anger issues and got into a lot of trouble for fighting. Thankfully, a man named Marco took him under his wing and helped him learn to control his anger by fighting...in the ring. Now 26, he is an MMA fighter working to become pro. An injury in a fight lands Lox on Sloan's massage table, where sparks fly and neither can deny the attraction. Will she let Lox in? Or will she let her past ruin her chances of finding love again? In Sly's Eyes ---Kara Chambers plays by her own rules, she has since she graduated high school. One night, that's all she ever gives. One night and she'd be able to get the sexiness, known as Sly Webb out of her system. No complications, no awkwardness, just one night. Yeah, right. Sylvester "Sly" Webb is living his dream, working full time at the gym for his surrogate father and now, a big MMA league wants to sign contracts with them. What else does he need? Until meeting Kara for the first time, she threw him for a loop. All of that voluptuous sassiness made his head swim. Then she came to his fight and followed him home, but what happened next was something he thinks he'll never understand. Now, he can't get her out of his head. In his eyes she's perfect, but how can he prove that to her? Holding Huck's Heart ---Huckleberry "Huck" Webb cares only about the two F's in life - fighting and being the man-whore he is you can figure out the other. As an up and coming celebrity in the MMA world, he can have all the women he wants, no strings attached. And he does. Chelsea Harmon is the good girl in a mess. She lived her life under the long arm of the law, her detective father. She couldn't wait to escape. The big world out there was hers for the taking. Only if something is too good to be true, it usually is. The good girl finds herself in a very bad situation with a very powerful and wealthy man. Everything changes for them both when Chelsea gets the call to come home. What happens when two complete opposites find themselves together once more? Can Huck handle Chelsea's past? Can Chelsea face it all and come out on the other side? After walking away once before, can Huck forgive the girl who always held his heart?
Life has a funny way of pushing us beyond what is mentally possible. Paige I was born to parents who never cared if I had food or clothes. I was nothing. A waste of space and time to them. At sixteen, they relocated...and didn't bother to tell me. I lived in my busted up and broken-down car behind a gym for months when two men found me. One of them I believed was my savior, the love of my life. Turns out things aren't always what they seem. He was the devil in disguise. A few thousand bad decisions later, I find myself in the very same parking lot where I found the devil and the man who supported me through it all. I'm Paige Turner. I'm a mess of a woman with nothing but hard times in my past and a future that's completely uncertain. Sergio I had a life once. I had a wife and a baby on the way. My life was everything I never knew I wanted. I was halfway around the world, defending my country, serving the United States proudly, when I lost absolutely everything that mattered. I couldn't save them. I couldn't even fight for them. I went through the stages of grief and I've come out on the other side a different man. Now, I fight. Literally. There is something therapeutic about beating someone or even yourself. I can control the pain, unlike my life. I'm Sergio Nichols. When my family was taken, I've somehow learned to function in a new dysfunctional family of their own making. Two broken people with one chance at redemption.
S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society.The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls "the architecture of Bigness." Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a "dictionary" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources.
Before Stone trained Kara Magari or taught the First Vagabond to master the Blood loyalty, he was nothing more than a slave boy named Terric. Terric is a curious loner hellbent on reading his master's forbidden books. When one heist goes wrong, Terric abandons his old life and runs for freedom-only to fall prey to a ruthless man named Niccoli. Niccoli is an isen-a creature of magic from the hidden world of Ourea-and he awakens within Terric an unimaginable gift. But this gift comes with a catch. Suddenly in control of newfound power he is forbidden to freely use, Terric realizes too late he simply traded one master for another. In Ourea, a world dominated by the gifted, few isen dare defy their masters. Until now.
The magic evolves, connecting Team Valor in ways they couldn't foresee. They're back together, but not safe. They must track down the people responsible for planning Sara's kidnapping and eliminate the threats if they hope to lead a more normal life with their secrets intact.Connected by magic and love, Sara and Charlie vow to stay together. A vow the magic seals with lightning, revealing it isn't a passive ability that they possess, but a living entity that possesses them.This new connection might be more than they bargained for though. Now privy to his wife's emotions, the terror she feels is all too clear to him, enraging both he and his magic.And to keep his new wife sane, Charlie is willing to do anything.
S. M. l'Empereur. Les bienfaits de l'empire; par A. Bradier... et Maurice Cuminge. (5 Janv. 1879)Date de l'edition originale: 1879Sujet de l'ouvrage: France (1852-1870, Second Empire)Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
S. M. Alphonse XIII a Paris, mai-juin 1905: decoration publique et privee... itineraire, l'attentat du 1er juin 1905... / Henri DaragonDate de l'edition originale: 1905Collection: Collection de l'histoire par le bibelotCe livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
