Erotic encounters of every flavour are on offer to guests at the Hotel Luxe Royale. Brief encounters in the bar seductions in the pool or a menage in the elevator
- this haven for the hedonistic promises as much heat steam lust & excitement as those who pass through it can handle. Conferences end with a bang; a gym instructor offers extremely personal training; illicit liaisons abound & flourish in the luxuriously appointed rooms. The daring sexual exploits of the staff & guests are often seen through the eyes of the Receptionist who is on her own quest to snare the attentions of the charismatic Manager. Does the woman who offers a discreet venue for the indulgence of every secret desire & fetish
- from satin sheets to rubber masks
- have anything to offer him?


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On Dublin Street by Samantha Young is the hottest new romance bestseller. Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare... Four years ago Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States & started over in Scotland burying her grief ignoring her demons & forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well
- until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core. Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants & he's determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached. But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts she realizes that Braden won't be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her.. .down to the very soul. Incredibly passionate & downright romantic On Dublin Street is a captivating & bittersweet story of the redemptive power of love. Scotland's answer to E.L. James". (Sunday Post). " This extraordinary debut combines a true gift for storytelling with a liberal dose of racy encounters. But what really sets it apart is exquisite characterisation so vivid that the cast seeps into the reader's psyche". (Daily Record). " Highly recommend this one". (USA Today). Samantha Young is a 27-year-old Scottish book addict who graduated from the University of Edinburgh. She currently lives in Scotl&."
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Though most of my life seems to have been spent on the banks of lakes & rivers I have always been drawn to the sea. Through twenty-two casts Britains best-known freshwater fisherman quits land in favour of the sea. There he discovers the many pleasures of the coast: wild shores unpredictable waves the violent collision of the elements & of course fish that glisten & dart beneath a never-still surface. From childhood remembrances of saltwater escapades to more recent discoveries Chris Yates brings the sea & its many wonders to scintillating life. ...

Four forms of energy pulse through each of us at all times: physical emotional mental & spiritual. To thrive we must recruit all four of these energies in the service of a specific mission. To be fully engaged means to be physically energized emotially engaged mentally focused & spiritually vested. Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz draw on 30 years of research & experience with thousands of world-class atheletes FBI hostage rescue teams emergency service workers & corporate executives who must sustain high performance in the face of pressure. In this book they offer their precise understanding of how to help individuals & organizations manage energy to drive full engagement
- along with a step-by step programme to make that happen.
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Edinburgh & Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world from Madrid & Barcelona to Moscow & St. Petersburg to Beijing & Shanghai Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be much smaller & closer together--like twin stars orbiting a common axis. Yet their size belies their world-historical importance as cultural & commercial capitals of the British Empire & the mere forty miles between their city centers does not diminish their stubbornly individual nature. Robert Crawford dares to bring both cities to life between the covers of one book. His story of the fluctuating fortunes of each city is animated by the one-upping that has been entrenched since the eighteenth century when Edinburgh lost parliamentary sovereignty & took on its proud wistfulness while Glasgow came into its industrial promise & defiance. Using landmarks & individuals as gateways to their character & past this tale of two cities mixes novelty & familiarity just as Scotland's capital & its largest city do. Crawford gives us Adam Smith & Walter Scott the Scottish Enlightenment & the School of Art but also tiny apartments a poetry library Spanish Civil War volunteers & the nineteenth-century entrepreneur Maria Theresa Short. We see Glasgow's best-known street through the eyes of a Victorian child & Edinburgh University as it appeared to Charles Darwin. Crawford's literary detailed account affirms what people from Glasgow or Edinburgh have long doubted--that it is possible to love both cities at the same time. ...

In her first seminal book ON DEATH & DYING Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified the five stages of dying: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression & Acceptance. In the years that followed it became evident that these stages applied not only to the process of accepting death but also to accepting other difficult & catastrophic life experiences. With ON GRIEF & GRIEVING Kubler-Ross & LIFE LESSONS co-author David Kessler revisit the five stages in order to create a deeply empathetic & accessible guide for those in grief. The authors deliver insights & advice designed to help readers normalise their lives & find the courage to continue. Featuring sections on sadness hauntings dreams coping isolation children healing & even sex ON GRIEF & GRIEVING fuses practical wisdom with spiritual insight as it forges a path to wholeness. ...

On Heaven & Earth is an open & expansive dialogue between Jorge Mario Bergoglio & Abraham Skorka a Rabbi & biophysicist in which they share their thoughts on religion reason & the challenges the world faces in the 21st Century. For years Cardinal Bergoglio (then Archbishop of Buenos Aires) & Rabbi Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith & reason. They both sought to build bridges between Catholicism Judaism & the world at large. On Heaven & Earth brings together a series of these dialogues where both men talk about various theological & world issues including God fundamentalism atheism abortion homosexuality euthanasia same sex marriage & globalization. From these personal & accessible dialogues comes a first-hand view of the man who is now Pope to 1.2 billion Catholics around the world. ...

On 8 C Ds: In his Alpine base Blofeld is developing biological weapons that will devastate Britain. Unaware of the danger James Bond is about to get married to Teresa di Vicenzo the daughter of a Corsican Mafioso. But then he is sent to Switzerl&. Bonds marriage & Blofelds schemes disintegrate in a blizzard of gunfire & high explosive from which neither man emerges the victor. ...

' He was a man with many years of dirty dangerous memories
- a spy.' James Bond has had enough. Enough of Service life of fruitless
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January 1829: George IV is on the throne Wellington is Englands prime-minister & snow is falling thickly on the London streets as Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey is summoned to the Horse Guards in the expectation of command of his regiment the 6th Light Dragoons. But the benefits of long-term peace at home mean cuts in the army & Hervey is told that the Sixth are to be reduced to a single squadron. With his long-term plans in disarray he undertakes instead a six-month assignment as an observer with the Russian army. Soon Hervey his friend Edward Fairbrother & his faithful groom Private Johnson are sailing north to St Petersburg & from there to the Eastern Balkans & the ferocious war between Russia & the Ottoman Empire. Hervey is meant to be an impartial spectator in the campaign but soon the circumstances
- & his own nature
- propel him into a more active role. In the climactic Battle of Kulewtscha in which more troops were engaged than in any battle since Waterloo Hervey & Fairbrother find themselves in the thick of the action. For Matthew Hervey the stakes have never been higher
- or more personal.


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