All 20-year-old Daisy Haites has ever wanted is a normal life, but as the heiress to London's most notorious criminal empire, it's just not on the cards for her. Raised by her older brother Julian since their parents were murdered, Daisy has never been able to escape the watchful gaze of her gang-lord brother. But Julian's line of work means that Daisy's life is... complicated. And things don't become any easier when she falls hard for the beautiful and emotionally unavailable Christian Hemmes, who also happens to be one of the few men in London who doesn't answer to Julian. Christian's life is no walk in the park either, since he's in love with his best friend's girlfriend, Magnolia Parks. He's happy enough to use Daisy to throw off the scent of his true affections - until she starts to infiltrate those too. As their romance blossoms into something neither were anticipating, Daisy, Christian, and Julian must come to terms with the fact that in this life everything comes at a price. As their relationships intersect and tangle, they all learn that sometimes life's most worthwhile pursuits can only be paid in blood.
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She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain's most photographed bad-boy lothario who broke her heart. But Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it. They're in the stars... just suspended in a strange kind of love that looks like hurting each other a lot of the time: She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of their every sad endeavour to get over one another, it's still each other they crawl back to. But their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they've built; a world where neither has to ever let the other go completely. As the cracks start to show and secrets begin to surface, Magnolia and BJ are finally forced to face the formidable question they've been avoiding all their lives: how many loves do you really get in a lifetime?
The Horse Dancer
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
The 2009 novel The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes, the bestselling author of Me Before You and two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. In a hidden corner of London, Henri Lachapelle is teaching his granddaughter and her horse to defy gravity, just as he had done in France, fifty years previously. But when disaster strikes, fourteen-year-old Sarah is left to fend for herself. Forced to share a house with her charismatic ex-husband, her professional judgement called into question, lawyer Natasha Macauley's life seems to have gone awry. When her path crosses that of Sarah, she sees a chance to put things right. But she doesn't know that Sarah is keeping a secret, one that will change all their lives forever . . .
Tvorba krok za krokem. Ikebana, japonské umění květinové vazby, je jedním z nejvytříbenějších projevů japonské estetiky. Jde o starobylou dovednost, jež v průběhu staletí prošla vývojem, který vyústil do různorodých stylů a stále kreativnějších forem. Tato kniha představuje díla tří velkých škol ikebany: Ikenobo, Ohara a Sogecu. Tvorba je nafocena krok za krokem, kompozice náleží k různým stylům a sledují rytmus ročních dob.
Candy
- 428 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Candy en a marre ! Star d'une émission de téléréalité américaine, elle décide de tout quitter pour s'enfuir à Londres. Désormais, plus rien ne l'empêchera de réaliser son rêve : devenir styliste. Mais alors qu'elle commence à trouver ses marques entre shooting photo et histoire de coeur, ses parents débarquent chez elle avec une équipe de tournage. Cette fois c'en est trop ! Candy refuse de voir sa nouvelle vie chamboulée. Pour sortir de ce cauchemar, il lui faudra apprendre à faire confiance à ses nouveaux amis...