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L''été s''achève à Plaka, un village sur la côte nord de la Crète. Alexis, une jeune Anglaise diplômée d''archéologie, a choisi de s''y rendre parce que c''est là que sa mère est née et a vécu jusqu'

Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her father''s activities, and terrorized at home by her father, who became a drunken, violent monster after his release from prison, Tendo rebelled. As a teenager she became a drug addict and a member of a girl gang. At the age of 15 she spent eight months in a juvenile detention center after getting into a fight with another gang. During Japan''s bubble economy of the eighties, Tendo worked as a bar hostess, attracting many rich and loyal customers, and earning money to help her family out of debt. But there were also abusive clients, one of whom beat her so badly that her face was left permanently scarred. Her mother died, plunging Tendo into a depression so deep that she tried to commit suicide. Somehow, Tendo overcame these tough times. A turning point was getting a full-body tattoo with a design centered on a geisha with a dagger in her mouth, an act that empowered her to change her life. She quit her job as a hostess. On her last day at work, she looked up at the full moon, which became a symbol of her struggle to become whole, and the title of the book she wrote as an epitaph for herself and her family. The paperback edition of Yakuza Moon features 16-pages of never-before-seen photos of Tendos youth, family, and tattoos, as well as a new foreword by the author, describing her life since the book was first published four years ago.

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When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. Beneath his veneer of civilized behaviour, Isabel discovers cruelty and a stifling darkness. In this portrait of a ''young woman affronting her destiny'', Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy.

New York in den Goldenen Zwanzigern: Eine turbulente Metropole voller Leben, Musik, Abenteuer - ein aufregendes Versprechen. Als die fünfzehnjährige Louise aus dem verschlafenen Kansas dorthin reist, um Tänzerin zu werden, geht für sie ein Traum in Erfüllung. Hals über Kopf stürzt sich das neugierige, unkonventionelle Mädchen in diese berauschende Welt - sehr zum Missfallen ihrer Anstandsdame Cora, einer Frau mit traditionellen Wertvorstellungen. Doch hinter Coras korrekter Fassade verbirgt sich ein trauriges Schicksal, von dem niemand ahnt. Die Reise nach New York ist für sie eine Reise in die Vergangenheit

She is the definitive icon of 1960s European cool. Erotic, independent, stylish, fetishistic and always in the right place at the right time, she is every woman s sexy alter ego. Her creator is the Italian illustrator, Guido Crepax. Valentina lives her life on two fronts, the first as a successful fashion photographer based in Milan, the other as the lead protagonist of erotic sexual fantasies. She is brooding, intelligent, complicated, seductive and perversely attracted to what most frightens her which leads her to invent fabulously exciting sexual experiences. Her libertine fantasies are filled with men, women, costumes, machinery and monsters that all reach beyond fantasy and very often become mixed with reality. Valentina s fantasy world is extraordinary, but her life in the real world is just as enviable. Fiercely independent and with no one to answer to, Valentina becomes a successful photographer which allows her to travel around Europe meeting new people and living out exciting, often glamorous, dangerous and erotic situations among the artistic elite of the 60s.

There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. We are here to find a target who will fulfil our requirements. Someone who is admired and whose ignominious destruction would cause dismay A beautiful Soviet spy. A brand-new Spektor cipher machine. SMERSH has set an irresistible trap that threatens the entire Secret Service. Flemings fifth 007 novel reveals a different side to Bond restless, vulnerable ... and hunted.