Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty -- until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him -- past the business prodigy and the penthouse...

Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.

The author follows a narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country, as he sets in motion his latest conquest, a $50 million heroin deal that originates in Colombia and has federal agents sitting at attention from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to New York City. As the bust unfolds, the agent reveals the unerring instinct and ceaseless vigilance that have led him through minefields and brought down kingpins. But now they have led...

"Es una casa espectacular. Elegante, minimalista. Toda ella respira buen gusto y serenidad. Justo el lugar que Jane estaba buscando para empezar de cero y ser feliz. Aunque lo extraordinario es que se la ofrecen por un alquiler irrisorio. Solo tiene que completar un peculiar formulario de solicitud y aceptar sin condiciones las reglas impuestas por su propietario y creador, un enigmático arquitecto. Al poco de instalarse, Jane descubre que algo le...

If you are preparing for a career in air traffic control, you can expect fierce competition for a job within the field. With high pay, good benefits, and rewarding job prospects, an ATC career is highly desired--but you can gain an advantage on the competition by successfully completing the AT-SAT, the exam administered by FAA-approved programs.

In this inquisitive voyage of self-discovery, Rhonda Byrne reveals that people have the ability to dramatically improve their lives. From better health to a successful, fulfilling career, listeners will discover how to completely overhaul their lives and finally start living the way they have always wanted.

"A groundbreaking and illuminating look at the state of abortion access in America and the first long-term study of the consequences -- emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological -- of receiving versus being denied an abortion on women's lives"-- A team of psychologists, epidemiologists, demographers, nursing scholars, and public health researchers set out to discover the effect of receiving versus being denied an abortion...

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is rapidly becoming a major concern of medical practitioners worldwide. In fact, unless it is dealt with as a matter of urgency, we shall return to the 'Dark Ages of Medicine' as the British Prime Minister has recently warned. This book vividly paints the scenario before the 'germ theory' was conceived, and at a time when antimicrobials and anti-parasite agents were not even envisaged. How were the cause and management...