The air was thick with desire as Jade's eyes met Harry's across the dimly lit bar, sparking an instant connection. With a smoldering look, Harry leaned in close, his breath hot against Jade's ear, murmuring an irresistible invitation.They stumbled into Harry's apartment, shedding clothes and falling onto the bed in a passionate embrace. Harry's scorching kisses and roaming hands made Jade arch and moan softly. Their lovemaking was fervent and all-consuming.When morning ligh...

One word opened every door in Italy. One word closed this case.Chiara Romano came to Milan with a byline she built for the occasion: four years of harmless fashion essays, a charming cover story, and six months of evidence that one of Italy's most revered fashion houses is washing dirty money through ghosts. It took one email, one phone call and one dinner to get her inside Bellini Moda. It took one unlocked cabinet in an empty design studio to find the ledger.Alessio Belli...

Sheena is a cartographer who has spent a lifetime charting coastlines she never visits. When she inherits a Cornish cottage from an aunt she barely knew, she arrives with her drafting table and her grief and her carefully constructed solitude, intending to finish her commission and return home.The wall at the edge of the garden is crumbling. She hires Theo, a local stonemason, to rebuild it.Over the course of a single week in August, the wall rises stone by stone, and Sheen...

In the swinging sixties of London, when homosexuality was still criminalized, Gerald, a thirty-year-old man, feels the electric charge of desire the moment his fingers brush against those of the handsome, younger Alen in a quiet library. Though the stern librarian's beady eyes watch their every move, the spark between them cannot be extinguished so easily.Alen craftily slips a note amidst the pages of a book, inviting Gerald to meet him later in secrecy. Despite the thrilling fear ...

As a coherent development of the themes already expressed in the author's articles, A woman with three soulsis therefore an ironic prefiguration, in a futuristic and fantastic key, of an Eve of the future, incarnated, in literary fiction, in the featureless and "dusty" Giorgia Rossi who in a short period of time experiences, due to a psychic alteration caused by an electromagnetic accident, three personalities very different from her original nature (emblem of the cliché of the wi...

Fully updated new edition of the best-selling political biography.He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party leadership by a landslide, with a greater mandate than any British political leader before him. This new edition of the critically acclaimed biography brings the Jeremy Corby...

The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council’s form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission.This book examines the creation and formative...

Rosa Wang’s remarkable book takes readers to the last frontier of the mobile/digital revolution. While much has been written about breakthrough technologies and early adopters who live where roads are good and smart phones are affordable, this book explores the largely undocumented journey of how digital technologies are entering the lives of those in extreme poverty—people, often women, often illiterate—who live without electricity or running water.With powerful stories, Wang brin...

It seems that when one secret is uncovered, more start to come out…DestinI never considered our lives to be particularly eventful. Sure, our family setups were a little unconventional, especially with so many people in our close circle running their own companies and all, but there was never much drama going on. Until this year, it seems.While we worried about me mating Seb, him being pregnant and trying to figure out where to go fr...

It’s ten weeks since Ethan and Max met for the first time, ten weeks since Ethan got pregnant and it’s time for their first sonogram, their first sight of the baby.This brings up feelings in Ethan he can no longer keep to himself and he finally whispers words to Max that the man has been waiting to hear for weeks.But while they’re in their own little bubble, the outside world is about to crash into theirs. Leaving them reconsidering their priorities.

It’s almost the big day, Ethan and Max are getting married.But it wouldn’t be them if they didn’t have quite a couple of hurdles to jump through before they reach the special “I do” moment.Because before they start, Max has a very special gift for Ethan. Something that will change their lives forever.And maybe, just maybe, it will heal Ethan too, let him come to terms with his own past.Omega’s Wedding is the sixth story in the completed ...