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The sudden withdrawal of British and American troops from Afghanistan in 2021, ended the 20 year war on terror, yet it also left Afghanistan to be reconquered by the Taliban. As violence and religious fundamentalism once again overwhelmed the region, thousands of Afghans who loyally served the British and American armies were left behind.

Human beings can survive for about forty days without food; for about three days without water; for about eight minutes without air. But they can’t live for one single second without hope. That’s what my dad taught us. He said we had to be prepared for what was coming. He said it was better to be ten years too early than one minute too late. That’s why he did what he did, on that morning.

This is the ideal way to quickly master the Cockney (British) accent using a combination of approaches from pronunciation and oral posture techniques to dialect development (Cockney rhyming slang) and practice exercises. The course also contains guidance on developing a basic British accent to underpin a Cockney accent if desired dependent on your native accent. This course can help you prepare for a Cockney role or audition on stage or screen.

The vampire king should know better than to fall for a married woman…Moira is one of the few people he can trust. A fae healer with a touch that soothes his unbeating heart. The one who wakes a beast deep within him. The woman of his dreams…except vampires don’t dream. It’s taken everything he has to keep his hands to himself. She’s married, and Adrian doesn’t deal in drama. She belongs to someone else even if his heart belongs to her. But Adrian doesn’t know the whole story.

This is the story of how Victoria dominates a weak man in every way: financially, sexually, and mentally. Soon, he is pushed to the limit as she makes him do things he never even thought possible.

After a disastrous breakup, paramedic Madison Petrov isn’t looking for love—she just wants to put the pieces of her life back together. Easier said than done, given the hit her confidence has taken. And now with her sister’s wedding looming, all of the scars Madison thought had healed feel fresh and new.

No es solo la sensación: ella puede notar los ojos puestos en su piel, en su nuca… en su alma. Siente la vibración de esa mirada inexistente. Como la sigue, la vigila desde la oscuridad aunque sepa que no hay nadie allí. Y así Camille Bitterlone pasa los días, creyendo volverse loca, víctima de su propia mente, del insomnio, de las pesadillas que forman parte de las pocas horas que logra conciliar el sueño.

Felicitas Saint-Maxent, la hermosa hija criolla de uno de los colonos franceses más poderosos de Nueva Orleans, vive junto a su familia entre las espléndidas casas de campo y los palacetes de la ciudad que su padre ha adquirido comerciando con pieles, armas y toda suerte de mercancías Misisipi arriba. Cuando la Luisiana pasa inesperadamente en 1763 de manos de la corona francesa a la corona española, la vida de sus pobladores quedará marcada para siempre.

Following on from The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions, this audiobook provides EVEN MORE answers to the weird, wonderful and sometimes downright dumbfounding questions that buzz around kids' brains at bedtime – covering topics such as philosophy, science, nature, animals, geography, culture and more. With fascinating but short, succinct answers and inviting sound effects, it really is the ideal listen for curious kids.

El primer ser humano revienta contra el asfalto a las diez y cuarenta y dos minutos de la noche del domingo dos de junio. Un hombre que camina al otro lado de la plaza levanta instintivamente la vista. Le da tiempo a ver a varias personas —no sabría decir cuántas, le cuenta luego a la policía— en los alféizares de las ventanas de un rascacielos. Y de repente, antes incluso de que pueda asombrarse por lo que está pasando, todas ellas saltan a la vez.

Meet the Blanchard twins: Rose is practical, sharp, and protective. Specialty: manta rays. Finn is too sweet and kind for his own good. Specialty: sharks. Rose and Finn are looking for sharks on the sea bed. When they return to the Dauphin they make a terrible discovery: their colleague has been murdered on the ice - with a harpoon that should never have been there. Everyone else on the luxury cruise ship - the wealthy passengers, the researchers hard at work, the tight-knit crew and their strangely calm Captain - were all aboard at the time, so they are all under suspicion.

No es solo la sensación: ella puede notar los ojos puestos en su piel, en su nuca... en su alma. Siente la vibración de esa mirada inexistente. Como la sigue, la vigila desde la oscuridad aunque sepa que no hay nadie allí. Y así Camille Bitterlone pasa los días, creyendo volverse loca, víctima de su propia mente, del insomnio, de las pesadillas que forman parte de las pocas horas que logra conciliar el sueño. Una noche un encuentro fortuito desatará el caos en su vida y en la existencia de seres que ni en la peor de sus pesadillas se habría imaginado que pudieran existir...

Cuando la atención de un antiguo y peligroso vampiro recae sobre Mina Murray, su prometido Jonathan Harker se reúne con un grupo de valientes hombres en una carrera contra el tiempo para salvar la vida y el alma de su amada.

La muerte de mi padre me ha traído de nuevo a Chicago, donde solo he encontrado problemas: he tomado las riendas de la empresa familiar, que está ahogada por las deudas, he descubierto secretos que jamás hubiera imaginado y reconozco que tengo serias dificultades para mantenerme alejada de él: Tyler Gallagher. Un bombero insoportable cuyo cinismo me impulsa a correr en sentido contrario. Soy Alice Jane Lynch y así empezó todo.

La escritora Bárbara Myst lleva años escribiendo novelas de intriga con gran éxito comercial, cuya trama ha copiado de un enigmático libro que encontró en el garaje de su abuelo y cuyas historias le han abierto las puertas del éxito. Decidida a terminar con esta farsa que la atormenta, abandona temporalmente a su marido y a sus dos hijas y emprende un improvisado viaje a un pueblo llamado Dark Falls, situado en un recóndito lugar de Montana, Estados Unidos, en donde piensa empezar de cero y escribir una novela original y brillante.

Lady Emmeline Prescott is shocked when Sir Alexander Thornton, the most incorrigible scoundrel in England, suddenly notices she even exists—and starts flirting with her. Not that she'll be taken in by his charms. To win a wager, Alex must win a kiss from an innocent maiden. But first he must get past the giggly young lady's chaperone—her older sister, Lady Emmeline. And to his surprise, it is the enchanting, levelheaded Emmeline who intoxicates him with her soft sensuality.

In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical, chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace.

Escaping personal upheaval, city accountant Billie Gibbs takes a break in a friend's country lakeside shack. Local farmer Noah Sutton arrives at the shack to investigate the unexpected visitor on a neighbouring property. He wants her to stay, but needs her to leave. Resisting an instant attraction in the face of mysterious happenings around the lake, Billie believes Noah is not all he seems, and sets out to discover why.

The Perfect Pairs series is a trilogy of standalone, yet interconnected MFM menage paranormal romances, set in the Rocky Mountains. There, fraternal twins are born in the mountain lion shifter community as a Perfect Pair, two different yet complimentary men to love their mate, and in this series, all the heroines are Big Beautiful Women! Enjoy.

When Adderley discovers Ef - a being who seems part human and part fish - in the river by her home, she is drawn into an adventure that challenges everything she's learnt about the world. Ef is searching for a special stone that she says has been stolen from her people. Could this be the key to the drought that is destroying Adderley's home? Together, Adderley and Ef resolve to recover the stone and return it to its true home, but the river waters are not always on their side and the journey is filled with danger.