Une histoire torride autour du monde : Rio de Janeiro, Dubaï, Amsterdam, la Floride... En apparence riche héritière à la plastique parfaite, Kendall Sparks doit pourtant faire face à un dilemme dont l'issue va conditionner son futur. Elevée dans un monde où l'argent supplante tout le reste, va-t-elle suivre cette voie ou tracer la sienne ? Carter Clynes est un pilote de ligne, sexy et charmeur, incapable de se poser plus de quelques heures - dans son métier aussi bien qu'avec une femme. Mais derrière ce comportement désinvolte se cache un traumatisme qu'il n'arrive pas à dépasser. Ces deux âmes égarées se rencontrent dans un bar d'aéroport alors que Kendall n'arrive pas à choisir sa prochaine destination. De Rio de Janeiro à Amsterdam, au rythme des chansons des Beatles, ils entament ensemble un périple qui pourrait les mener bien plus loin qu'ils ne l'auraient imaginé. Serait-ce pour eux le début d'un long voyage ? Vont-ils réussir à surmonter leurs histoires personnelles pour vivre la leur ?

C'EST SUR LA ROUTE DU CIEL QUE LES ÂMES SOEURS SE RENCONTRENT Tout les oppose, et pourtant ils vont rejoindre le club du « mile high » ensemble. Fille d'une famille aisée, Kendall se retrouve à l'aéroport en quête d'une destination mystérieuse pour prendre la décision la plus importante de sa vie : faire un enfant pour toucher son héritage, ou tout laisser tomber ? Pour cela, elle a un plan. Subir une insémination artificielle et être la mère porteuse d'un couple d'homosexuels. Carter, pilote d'avion passionné par son métier, sillonne le monde afin d'oublier un passé douloureux, le suicide d'une femme qu'il a aimée et la solitude. Ainsi, l'un tente d'oublier son passé, tandis que l'autre essaye de se libérer de son avenir. Évidemment, c'est à l'aéroport que nos deux jeunes gens vont se rencontrer et se rejoindre sur un vol pour le Brésil, dans l'avion de Carter. Avion qui les mènera à Dubai, puis aux Pays-Bas, pour finir en Floride, dans la maison de Carter. D'aventures en aventure, leur relation va se construire. Kendall peine à prendre une décision face à ses sentiments pour Carter. Une rencontre décisive mettra un terme douloureux à leur relation. Mais c'est bien loin d'être la fin Kendall et Carter mettront-ils leurs histoires personnelles de côté pour se rejoindre et vivre leur amour ?

Examines the ideology of sacrifice in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, analyzing a range of fictional and real-life figures who became part of a pantheon of heroes primarily because of their victimhood.

This book, a collection of fifteen original essays on the film performances and stardom of John Barrymore, redresses the lack of scholarship on Barrymore by offering a range of varied perspectives on the actor's work.

This WWII biography recounts the heroic contributions of a female pilot who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes and Wellington Bombers for the RAF. A farmer’s daughter from Oxfordshire, Mary Ellis fell in love with flying at the age of eleven, when she rode in a biplane at a flying circus. Already a licensed pilot by the time the Second World War broke out, Mary joined the Air Transit Auxiliary in 1941. As a ferry pilot, she transported aircraft for the Royal Air Force, including more than four hundred Spitfires and seventy-six different kinds of aircraft. After the war, Mary accepted a secondment to the RAF as one of the first pilots to fly the new Gloster Meteor, Britain’s first fighter jet. By 1950, she became Europe's first female air commandant. In this authorized biography, Mary and biographer Melody Foreman vividly recount her action-packed career spanning almost a century of aviation. Mary says: I am passionate for anything fast and furious. I always have been since the age of three and I always knew I would fly. The day I stepped into a Spitfire was a complete joy and it was the most natural thing in the world for me.

This analysis of nearly 150 movies and television programs considers the influence that war films bring to bear on the socialization of young boys in America. This book considers such issues as major male stereotypes—both positive and negative—in film, the influence of sports as an alternate to mortal combat, why men admire war and value winning so highly, and how war films define manly courage.

Drug War is a landmark modern history: the first ever full account of the United Kingdom’s fight against the illegal importation of drugs. Packed with remarkable revelations and thrilling anecdotes, it tells for the first time the story of the high-level traffickers who drugged Britain, and the secretive organisation that tried to stop them: the Investigation Division of HM Customs and Excise. The ID’s elite officers waged a fifty-year battle to stem the tide of cannabis, cocaine and heroin arriving by land, air and sea, and to track, arrest and prosecute the smuggling gangs, both organised and chaotic, who turned an amateur pastime into a multi-billion-pound trade. The result of more than 100 unique interviews, many with insiders who have never spoken publicly, it is a ground-breaking account of one of the most vital subjects of our times. It begins with the UN Single Convention of 1961, intended to enshrine a worldwide ban on narcotics. Yet within five years the UK was on the cusp of a narco-boom, driven by immigrants from its former colonies and by the eruption of the youth counterculture. The insidious effect was to corrupt key areas of British life, including airport baggage and freight handlers at Heathrow Airport, dockers at the major ports and even the Drug Squad at New Scotland Yard. Drug War chronicles: the first major ‘barons’, including the brilliant laser scientist Dr Gurdev Singh Sangha; the rise of hippie traffickers such as the legendary Howard Marks, and the violent gangland syndicates that ultimately brushed them aside; the ongoing rivalry between police and Customs and how this often blighted the law enforcement response; the emergence of London’s first heroin godfather, Gigi Bekir, and how the Turkish state was complicit in flooding the country with smack; the heavyweight ‘untouchables’ who eventually streamlined the drug business, and the extraordinary covert methods employed against them; and how secret liaison with British and American spy agencies led to the biggest cocaine seizures ever, the motherships of the Colombian cartels. Concluding with the series of mishaps and scandals that ushered in the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Drug War is a ground-breaking account packed with unique revelations, personal testimony and fresh analysis.

This companion volume to Reel Men at War takes a look at how women have been portrayed in war films, from silents of the 1920s to films of the twenty-first century. The authors explore the full range of women on the home front, covering nurses and doctors on the war front and women in combat. Films examined include Wings, A Farewell to Arms, Since You Went Away, So Proudly We Hail, Mrs. Miniver, A Guy Named Joe, The Best Years of Our Lives, From Here to Eternity, M*A*S*H, Coming Home, Aliens, G. I. Jane, Courage under Fire, Starship Troopers, Inglorious Basterds, and Zero Dark Thirty. This volume also includes an extensive filmography with brief assessments of how women are portrayed in each of these films.

The universe is a tough place to make it as a female cargo ship captain, and Remington Hawthorne fights every day to scrape by. A sketchy deal goes south, and although she doesn’t want anyone else to touch her ship, she’s forced to accept help from the stranger who calls himself Max Fletcher. He’s hot. And he’s trouble. Big trouble. But she’s out of time, out of money, and every crooked cartel is on her tail. Max Fletcher has spent his life running from his past. So he has no idea what makes him offer to bail out tall, gorgeous, sassy Remy when she needs a pilot to get her illegal cargo to its destination—the last place in the universe he ever wanted to land again. One thing’s for sure, it’s gonna be a helluva ride.

Former air force pilot Max Taylor has gained something of a reputation with the high-society ladies he shuttles around on his charter airline service. And the rumor mill has been out of control since he's become a chapter in the tell-all book written by a late congressman's widow! Looking to lie low while the courts restore his good name, Max has decided to hide out with his grandfather in the tiny town of Trouble, Pennsylvania. Sabrina Cavanaugh isn't the sultry, mysterious heiress she's pretending to be. In fact, she's a junior book editor who happens to be on a mission — to nail Max Taylor for the womanizing creep he is. Having worked hand in hand with the loose-lipped widow in writing her memoirs, there's no way Sabrina's going to let some spoiled (and hot) flyboy kill her career-making project with a lawsuit. It looks as if the love of a lifetime is on the horizon.

The history of the Arnold Palmer Regional airport in Latrobe, Westmoreland Country, Pennsylvania.

Fly with Captain Tom Cooper on this most incredible roller coaster ride from a rural, Mayberry-ish community in the foot hills of North Carolina to the apex of the scheduled airline world. A superb story teller, Captain Cooper takes you on a breathtaking trip with intermediate stops in the jungles of South America, revolutions in the tropics, the “sometimes” exciting exploits of a scheduled airline pilot and finally lands you on the top floor, mahogany row, of the volatile airline community. Whether you are a professional or private pilot or just an “arm chair” adventurer, with his simple but vivid writing style, he escorts you through his 60 years of aviation experiences with page after page of a literary reality show that can only be narrated by someone who has actually lived it. Captain Cooper shares his experiences, the good times and the bad, the wins and the losses, with clarity and with a simple credo that to be a success one must, to paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, be “in the arena” and experience failures along with any successes that might come your way without fear of criticism or admonition. And…….never, ever, let ‘em see you sweat!

Previous experience with women's lingerie required. Billionaire CEO Cole Carrington knew the only way to check the seemingly downward spiral of his lingerie store was to go undercover. If it was being mismanaged he’d be able to get to the bottom of it. What he wasn’t expecting was to run into Jillian Winters, the gorgeous woman he’d evicted months ago from the same location. When Jillian Winters gets evicted from the building she rented, she’s forced to shut down her five-star lingerie store. Unable to have the proper funds to relocate into an equally swank location in Downtown Denver, Jillian is certain her managing skills aren’t what she believed them to be. Still sulking weeks later, Jillian’s pesky sister helps her get a new job—same location, new lingerie store—owned by the handsome stranger who evicted her. Unforeseen circumstances force Jillian into the management position where she realizes she’ll have the chance to learn from her previous mistakes. But she’s taken aback when a competitor offers Jillian part of her dream again—half owner of a lingerie store. Jillian must decide where she wants to be: working at her hot boss’s upscale lingerie store and helping him succeed. Or working toward her ultimate goal of being an owner again—even if that means taking a step down from the five-star norm she’s used to. Especially when she realizes that dealing with Cole Carrington on a day to day basis isn’t as difficult as she first thought it might be. This series is perfect for those who love books by: Melissa Foster, Carly Phillips, Louise Bay, Lauren Landish, Kendall Ryan, Lauren Blakely, Emma Chase, Penny Reid, Leigh James, Vi Keeland, Melanie Harlow, Layla Hagen, Penelope Ward, Lili Valente, Aleatha Romig, Tijan, Piper Rayne, Lexy Timms, Josie Silver, Robyn Carr, Beth O’leary, Natasha Madison, Laurelin Paige, Kate Aster, Elle Kennedy, Kennedy Fox, Layla Hagen, Helen Hardt, Meredith Wild, J.S. Scott, Nana Malone, T.L. Swan Keywords: book, books, ebook, novel, rich, quick read, serial, series, novel, alpha male, literature, story, stories, hero, fiction, romance, romance ebook, romance ebooks, romance book, romance books, billionaire, wealthy, millionaire, women's fiction, books to read and download, alpha male billionaire romance books, bad boy romance books, steamy romance books, contemporary romance books, hot romance books, office romance books, beach reads, new adult, romantic fiction, romance fiction books, wealthy, billionaire, billionaire romance, romance novel, seduction, sexy, sensual, urban, contemporary, 21st century, current, romance series, contemporary crush, love story, new adult romance, contemporary romance and sex, romance billionaire series, billionaire bachelors series, billionaire romance novels, billionaire romance, happily ever after romance, Colorado romance, brooding hero, brooding billionaire, brooding alpha, billionaire hero, long series, long romance series, wealthy hero, sassy, strong heroine, captivating romance, alpha hero, emotional journey, beach romance, books for summer, books for the beach, family, kissing books, city romance, something hot, happy ending, hot guy, fun summer reads, hot romance series, swoon worthy romance, contemporary romance, contemporary romance series, hot romance, sexy romance novels, lighthearted romance, light romance, feel-good romance, captivating romance, sizzling reads, undercover boss, billionaire boss, enemies to lovers, lingerie, billionaire CEO, CEO/Employee, Ashley Bostock, irresistible billionaires, work for it, nothing but trouble, all shook up, no strings attached, now or never, feels like love, love by design, playing for keeps, mistaken identity

A Newborn Surprise Helicopter pilot Creed Carter can't believe his eyes—someone's left a baby on the church altar. When this perfect little girl is temporarily turned over to Haley Blanchard, Creed is skeptical. The auburn-haired foster mother in flowing skirts is pretty, yet definitely not his type. But the more time Creed spends with Haley, the more he appreciates her style and her fierce commitment to her foster kids. To his surprise, he's falling for her—and for baby Rose. But when a crisis strikes, can Creed convince Haley to face her worst fear and trust what's in her heart?

The Business of American Theatre is a research guide to the history of producing theatre in the United States. Covering a wide range of subjects, the book explores how traditions of investment, marketing, labor union contracts, advertising, leasing arrangements, ticket scalping, zoning ordinances, royalties, and numerous other financial transactions have influenced the art of theatre for the past three centuries. Yet the book is not a dry reiteration of hits and flops, bankruptcies and bamboozles. Nor does it cover "everything about it that's appealing, everything the traffic will allow" (as Irving Berlin did in the song "There's No Business Like Show Business"). It is instead a highly readable resource for anyone interested in how money, and how much money, is critical to the art and artists of theatre. Many of those artists make appearances in the book: Richard Rodgers and his keen eye for investment, Jacob Shubert and his construction of "the bridge of thighs" for his showgirls at the Winter Garden, the significance of the Disney Souvenir Shop near the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, and the difference between a Broadway show losing millions of dollars or making billions in one night. Consider this book a go-to resource for readers, students, and scholars of the theatre business.