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The Boyfriend Goal


A forbidden romance with my brother's hockey teammate wasn't on my to-do list when I moved across the country… Neither was getting locked out of a friend's place wearing next to nothing. Or spending the night with the sexy stranger who rescues me. In the morning, I learn the filthy-mouthed man with the talented hands is not only the hotshot new hockey player on my brother's team: he's also - wait for it - my brand new roommate. A Friends-only rule seems like a good idea, but it turns out to be far from easy. Wes is flirty, generous and looks at me like I'm the only one. How can I avoid falling for my brother's teammate when he comes to my door and tells me exactly how he'd like to break our rules? Every single one. Tropes: - ice hockey romance - roommates-to-lovers - forbidden love - brother's teammate - lovers-to-friends-to-lovers - one night stand
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The Proposal Play


My plan when I win a date in Vegas with my brother's hockey star best friend? Poker and go to sleep early. Instead, I wake up with a ring on my finger and the sexy athlete naked in my bed. Asher's my best friend too so we'll get this annulled and laugh about this secret for years. Trouble is our wedding pics went viral overnight. And for the sake of our careers we need to look like we meant to tie the knot. We'll claim we've been secretly in love, while staying in separate rooms for the rest of the hockey season. The last thing we want is to ruin a decade-long friendship by falling into bed again. Except, the more he calls me his wife, the more I start to wonder if Asher was ever pretending? And if my heart is ready to take the biggest risk of all. Tropes: - ice hockey romance - brother's best friend - friends to lovers - marriage of convenience - marriage pact - he's been secretly in love with her for years - forced proximity - my wife - pro hockey
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Jumbo


Iconic. World Class. Legendary.Discover the soaring highs and enthralling history of the 747 - otherwise known as the Jumbo JetIn the 1960s, beset by crippling financial challenges and ceding the supersonic race to the European Concorde, US aviation was flailing. Until, in a modest corner of Boeing's factory, engineer Joe Sutter dared to think big. The aircraft he developed - the 747 \"Jumbo\" Jet - was about to have an immeasurable impact on air travel as we know it.Over its fifty-four-year history the 747 has weathered storms and hijackings, seen disaster and saved lives. Its use democratised air travel for the masses, carrying everything and everyone from space shuttles to presidents, to enough passengers across its lifetime to equal half the world's population. Scott Bateman, pilot and author has flown the 747 for over twelve years.Here he weaves reportage, history and personal accounts into an utterly unforgettable story.
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The Romance Line


The first rule of handling PR for a hockey team? Never hook up with a player. That shouldn't be a problem since the last man on earth I want to give an image makeover to is our goalie. He's infuriatingly hot, famously grumpy and lives to spar with me after every game. Shining up his rough edges is my path to landing the promotion I need, so I grit my teeth and do my job, no matter how hard he makes it. As I get to know the man behind the broody iceman exterior, he becomes impossible to resist and soon, only once turns into every night. But the man is entirely off limits. Because the only thing worse than hooking up with a player is falling head over heels for him. Tropes: - ice hockey romance - grumpy/sunshine - player and publicist - forbidden romance - workplace romance - secret dates - hate to love
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The Overtime Kiss


Just what every bride dreams of-running straight from her cheating fiancé into the arms of a hot hockey star… and then getting hired as his kids' nanny. Tyler Falcon is protective, flirtatious…and frustratingly responsible. We almost did something reckless when he found me alone in my wedding dress, and I blurted out all the things I'd never truly experienced. Now, the sexy single dad is saving me again with a nannying job I desperately need-and a promise to never mention The Night of 1001 Confessions. Until one night, the tension snaps. Now we have a deal. Five lessons in seduction. No strings attached. But the more nights we spend tangled up together though, the harder it is to pretend it's just physical. Because I'm not only falling for my boss-I'm falling for the man whose kids have stolen my heart. Tropes: - ice hockey romance - single dad/nanny - runaway bride - forced proximity - spicy lessons - she's his daughter's skating coach - confession of all secrets - love notes - found family
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The Flirting Game


My new neighbour is a hot, grumpy hockey player who works out shirtless on his porch every morning. But it's not technically spying if I just happen to be on my patio at the same time. . . right? Imagine my surprise when the sexy grouch turns out to be the client who just hired me to redecorate the house he's giving his mom. What's a ray of sunshine like me to do? Pretend I've never noticed his abs while we pick out furniture - since I'd never date a client. And Ford Devon? He's made it clear this is his final season, and he wants zero distractions. Which means I need to exercise some serious resistance. . . To his cool blue eyes that track my every move. To that deep voice that makes me shiver. And to the mouth that shuts me up one night in our shared backyard with a scorching kiss. Oops. We agree it's a one-time slip up. But when he insists on being my date to my cheating ex's party. . . we slip up again into a very fun sleepover. With our dogs watching! One fake date at a charity gala turns into another at a hockey game, and somewhere between fabric swatches and porch picnics, I stop pretending. But how do I convince Ford that with me, he can have both love and hockey? Tropes: - ice hockey romance - neighbours-to-lovers - grumpy x sunshine - fake dating
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Tiny Experiments


Life isn’t linear, and yet we constantly try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentation? Based on ancestral philosophy and the latest scientific research, Tiny Experiments provides a desperately needed reframing: Uncertainty can be a state of expanded possibility and a space for metamorphosis. Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals that all you need is an experimental mindset to turn challenges into self-discovery and doubt into opportunity. Readers will replace the old linear model of success with a circular model of growth in which goals are discovered, pursued, and adapted—not in a vacuum, but in conversation with the larger world. Throughout the book, you will ask hard questions and design simple yet meaningful experiments to find the answers. You will learn how to break free from the invisible cognitive scripts that shape your life, how to harness the power of imperfection, and how to make smarter decisions when the path forward is unclear. This is a guide to: • Discover your true ambitions through conducting tiny personal experiments • Dismantle harmful beliefs about success that have kept you stuck • Dare to make decisions true to your own aspirations • Stop trying to find your purpose and start living instead Tiny Experiments offers not just practical tools to make sure our most vital work gets done, but a guide to reawakening our curiosity and drive in a noisy, busy, disaffected world, so that we can discover and pursue our most authentic ambitions while making a meaningful contribution.
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18,45 €

The Intimate Animal


Why do we love who we love? Why do we stay in unfulfilling relationships, or stray from rewarding ones? Why do some couples crash and burn while others stay madly in love? In The Intimate Animal, Dr Justin Garcia - one of the world's leading experts on the science of love and sex - reveals that the answer to these questions lies in our evolution. We are biologically wired to connect with each other, yet our inner intimate animal is often at odds with the way we live now. Dr Garcia explains the multiplicity of human sexual and romantic behaviour using cutting-edge research from his team of researchers at the world-leading Kinsey Institute, including: - Why we have evolved to live and die for love - Why searching for 'the one' is futile - Why we are wired for 'social monogamy' but not necessarily 'sexual monogamy' - Why some people are more likely to cheat With practical tips on love and lust - the two biological systems often in painful conflict - The Intimate Animal is the essential, research-backed guide for anyone who wants to forge deeper, more intimate connections in these disconnected times.
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27,95 €

What Does it Feel Like


Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumour growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again ? and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children ? she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights and always buying that dress when she sees it. Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief. This extraordinary novella is a celebration of life, shot through with warmth and humour – it will both break your heart and put it back together again.
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Life in Three Dimensions


A groundbreaking new understanding of happiness to help us build a fuller, more authentic life. We all want a good life. But do the simple, predictable pleasures we call happiness lead to complacency and regret? Does a life of purpose invite narrow or misplaced loyalties? Now, one of our foremost psychologists Shigehiro Oishi proposes a new way to live. Psychological richness is a concept that prioritizes curiosity, exploration and a variety of experiences. These can be as simple as taking a walk, or as complex as moving to a new country, causing a shift in perspective that helps us grow. Weaving his own story with those of people like Steve Jobs, Oliver Sacks and Alison Gopnik, and original research from fields ranging from moral philosophy, literature, culture, neuroscience, personality and psychology, Oishi shows how to deepen and better our existence through psychological richness.
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Bear Hugs! from Brown Bear and Friends


Hugs when you're happy. Hugs when you're sad. Hugs when you're scared. Hugs when you're mad! Join Brown Bear and Friends as they celebrate love and the power of hugs! This charming, sweet rhyming book is the perfect gift for Valentine's Day - or any day of the year. Fans of Eric Carle will love this special hug in a book as it’s the perfect way to say I love you. Using a range of images from the World of Eric Carle, and featuring Brown Bear, Polar Bear, Panda Bear, Baby Bear and more, this special gift book celebrates the affirming power of a hug.
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12,45 €

Operation Heartbreak


A moving reimagining of the man at the heart of Operation Mincemeat. William Maryngton has just one dream: to fight for his country, as his late father did. Devoted and honourable, he knows no fear - yet somehow, he always misses the battle; too young for the First World War, too old for the Second. Operation Heartbreak follows Willie's life, through youthful idealism, love affairs and disappointed hopes, until, finally, he gets the chance to make a difference. Duff Cooper's bittersweet novel, inspired by the real events of Operation Mincemeat, is a poignant tale of dreams of glory, and what it means to be true.
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Unstoppable Us Volume 3


Why is the world not always a peaceful place? Why do we have wars? And why do we sometimes . . . not? The answer to these questions can be found in one of the strangest tales you'll ever hear. And it's a true story. Find out about what exactly happened, thousands of years ago, when people from different tribes met. How they sometimes fought. But were sometimes able to live happily together. You'll discover how we were able to agree on rules and ideas for how life should go. Why wars were (and still are) often fought, and what we can learn from the past to make a more peaceful future. From Ancient Rome to the Mongol Khans, from Carthage to Mongolia, travel deep into the past, and around the world, to discover how people became friends and enemies, and built the world as we know it today.
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Love in Exile


Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It was a fear that would erupt in destructive, counterfeit versions of the real love she craved: addictions and short-lived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical, or excruciatingly painful and unhinged, often both. Faye's experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up visibly queer, exacerbated her fears. But, as she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture. Love, she argues, is as much a collective question as a personal one. Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless; in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new, engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. In this highly politicized terrain, boundaries are purposefully drawn to keep some in and to keep others out. Those who exist outside them are ignored, denigrated, exiled. In Love in Exile, Shon Faye shows love is much greater than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave so desperately that we are willing to bend and break ourselves to fit them. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, this is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in whatever form it takes, is the meaning of life itself.
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Learn Like a Lobster


We used to go to work to learn to do the job. Now learning IS the job. Whatever your career, staying relevant and adaptable is essential to your success. And your unexpected role model for learning at work? A lobster. In Learn Like a Lobster, Sunday Times bestselling authors Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis explore the unexpected parallels between lobsters and lifelong learning: * Lobsters never stop growing - and neither should you * Lobsters grow through hard moments - use your challenges to uncover new learning * Lobsters fuel their own growth - don't wait to be taught, create your own opportunities to learn Learn Like a Lobster shows how to make learning an easy and energising part of every working day. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to develop in their career in a way that feels meaningful and motivating. Whether you are someone who is ambitious to grow or you're not sure about where to start, Learn Like a Lobster offers the practical skills, tools and motivation you need for career progression and fulfilment. Because when we learn, we grow.
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The Tiger Slam


Twenty-five years ago, Tiger Woods achieved the greatest feat in golf history: the 'Tiger Slam'. Now, for the first time, the award-winning author of Tommy's Honor delivers a riveting account of Tiger at his most brilliant - dominating the game in a way we will never see again. In 1997 Tiger Woods wins the Masters by the largest margin in history, becoming the first Black player to win a major championship. Four years later, the world watches with breathless anticipation as he returns to Augusta National, aiming for a milestone no other golfer has ever achieved: four professional Grand Slam triumphs in a row. In The Tiger Slam, Kevin Cook delivers a gripping, inside-the-ropes account of an astonishing streak of victories. Readers will hear from many of golf's biggest names-Tiger's caddie, his coach, his opponents, his idols and others, all offering fresh insight into the electrifying highs of his triumphs and the obstacles on and off the course that threatened his relentless pursuit of perfection. The Tiger Slam is the epitome of greatness in sport, a feat as exhilarating today as it was twenty-five years ago. Kevin Cook invites us to close our eyes and see a young champion at the peak of his powers: unmatched raw strength, single-minded focus, strategic genius, and utter fearlessness. The Tiger Slam takes readers behind the scenes in the thrilling months when Tiger Woods took an ancient game to new heights.
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