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They said good-bye months ago. So why can’t he walk away from her…or her twin babies?Delivering his ex-fiancée’s twins in a snowstorm is a brave new world for innovator Royce Miller. Despite the pain in their past, he’s driven to protect Naomi Steele and her babies. Will forgiveness lead to forever this time?
| Автор | Catherine Mann |
A glamorous assignment and a brooding bachelor…When journalist April Fotherington is assigned to write about handsome royal advisor Marcus Alrikson, she knows she’ll have her work cut out. After sheltering together from a thunderstorm on a desert island, who knows what will happen next!
| Автор | Nina Milne |
She felt no hesitation. She was his.Victoria Masters remembers nothing after the accident that stole her past.Now she’s living in a billionaire’s palatial home and finding the sensual stranger impossible to resist. But why is Wade’s holding back?
| Автор | Lauren Canan |
“Marry me, Maggie.”The conclusion of Maggie & Griffin’s trilogyMayor Maggie Spencer is too busy prepping Stonecreek for its holiday spectacular to pine over lost love Griffin Stone. Until he returns—this time with a son! Griffin couldn’t say no to becoming the boy’s guardian. Neither can he say goodbye to Maggie. As Christmas nears, there’s only one thing he wants to say to his first and only love: “Forever.”
| Автор | Michelle Major |
Alfred Coppel (Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel, 1921– 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, California, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later «slick» publishers. Though writing in a variety of...
| Автор | Alfred Coppel |
The Sir Edward Leithen series is cut from the same cloth as John Buchan's other great series, the John Hanay books. The heroes are similar, the pace breathtaking, and their adventures cross all country lines. This volume contains all 5 books in the series.<P> THE POWER HOUSE – The Power-House of the title is an international anarchist organization led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley. Its plan to destroy Western civilisation is thwarted by Leithen with the assistance of a...
| Автор | Buchan John |
The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton's exhaustive translation of «The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night», more commonly known as «The Arabian Nights». The story of «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves» is one of the more popular of those found in «The Arabian Nights» collection. It tells the story of Ali Baba who while chopping wood in the forest discovers the secret hiding place for the treasure of a band of forty thieves. The treasure is sealed in a magic cave which...
| Автор | Sir Richard Burton |
He’s put family first for years – now he wants to be wild!Wealthy security expert Reame Jepsen, has vowed to keep his best friend’s sister, Lachlyn Latimore, safe. Even if that means moving in, staying close and giving in to the forbidden…!
| Автор | Joss Wood |
He used to be her whole world.Sophie Eden refuses to sell her family’s legacy, especially not to Jake Wheeler. He and Sophie have history—a night of passion that first left her elated, then heartbroken. But when they’re snowed in for Christmas, temptation could be too much.
| Автор | Karen Booth |
‘If you need anything, I’m here. All you have to do is ask.’Posing as personal chef to billionaire Jared Stone is the perfect cover for Bella Reid. She must hide her identity and protect her baby at all costs. Yet as heat sizzles between them will Bella risk everything to tell Jared the truth?
| Автор | Charlene Sands |
"The Inferno", Henri Barbusse's 1908 novel, is a brilliant examination of the philosophy of solipsism, which is the idea that knowledge outside of one's own mind is essentially unobtainable. Solipsism conjectures that the external world and the minds of other people can never be known to truly exist. The narrative follows an unnamed man who by cutting a hole in his room gains a view to the outside world. He voyeuristically bears witness to the full breadth of human experience and...
| Автор | Henri Barbusse |
Agatha Christie's second novel, «The Secret Adversary», is the story of the out of work couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley who form the partnership «The Young Adventures, Ltd.» The two quickly become involved with a mysterious individual by the name of Mr. Whittington and then later because of this involvement, the British intelligence agency. Quickly a mystery is underway. A classic of detective fiction, «The Secret Adversary» will delight all fans of the genre.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
Originally one story but divided into two, «Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins» is a combination of Mark Twain's light-hearted humor as well as his penchant for the melancholy. «Pudd'nhead Wilson» is a murder mystery set in the Antebellum South in Missouri, more specifically, on the Mississippi River. During infancy, a light-skinned black baby and a white-skinned baby were switched at birth by a slave mother. Because the black baby grows up thinking he is white, he is...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
Little is definitively known about Charlotte Lennox (1730?-1804) before the publication of her novels and poetry other than she was probably born in Gibraltar to the English captain-lieutenant, James Ramsay, and moved to New York when she was ten. It is thought that she spent much of her childhood reading romance novels as a solution to the boredom of living at small frontier outposts. She was particularly drawn to Miguel de Cervantes' «Don Quixote», and in 1752 she published «The Female...
| Автор | Charlotte Lennox |
Can even sham marriages end in happily ever after?Desperate to keep custody of her late sister’s sweet stepdaughter, Alexis Smith needs to find a husband… fast. US Air Force Major Ben Kincaid seems like the perfect candidate. A brief marriage of convenience suits them both – until Ben moves in. Suddenly, playing house seems a little too real…
| Автор | Merline Lovelace |
The best of both worlds…Darby Brogan has goals: single motherhood and a successful career. Yet when Darby accepts a job with rival architect Judah Huntley, there are strings—caring for the baby on his doorstep! But when playing house gets hot and heavy, will temporary turn into having it all?
| Автор | Joss Wood |
She’s meeting her groom for the first time at the altar!First mistake. Because imagine Imogene’s shock when the groom is Valentin Horvath, her ex-husband! They are perfect for each other accordingto the matchmaker and the fire of their mutual attraction still burns.But will secrets torpedo this marriage, like the last…or save it?
| Автор | Yvonne Lindsay |
"The Sign of the Four" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's follow-up to his immensely successful «A Study in Scarlet», where we first meet one of the most famous literary detectives of all time, Sherlock Holmes. «The Sign of the Four» is the mystery surrounding the disappearance Miss Mary Morstan's father. Every year on the anniversary of Miss Morstan's father's disappearance, Mary receives an anonymous gift of a priceless pearl. Miss Morstan solicits the help of Sherlock Holmes...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a true American novelist, passionate abolitionist and supporter of women's suffrage. Her foremost novel, «Little Woman», is beloved by readers who enjoy Alcott's sentimental style. Daughter of noted transcendentalist, reformer and educator, Bronson Alcott, she was influenced by such well known figures as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller. This collection of short narratives features strong women with...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
Set in the fictitious mining town of Sulaco, a port city in the imaginary country of Costaguana, «Nostromo» is widely considered as one of Joseph Conrad's best works. It is the story of Senõr Gould, an English expatriate who owns the silver-mining concession in the country. When the country becomes engulfed in increasing political turmoil, Senõr Gould charges Nostromo, his trusted head longshoreman, with the duty of hiding his silver so that it does not fall into the hands of his political...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is best known as the innovator of the English detective novel, whose sensational novels, plays, and short stories were hugely popular in the Victorian Era. Today, readers enjoy Collins' intricate and suspenseful plots, and his penetrating social commentary on the plight of women and domestic issues of the time. Unfortunately Collins suffered from rheumatic gout, for which he took the opiate laudanum, and which eventually led to paranoid delusions and the...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
"The Idiot" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1868 novel which tells the story of Prince Lyov Nikolayevich Myshkin who, after a long absence, returns to Russia from Switzerland where he sought treatment for his epilepsy. The story is primarily a tragic tale of the struggle for the love of a woman, Nastasya Filippovna, between Myshkin and Rogozhin, a dark and impassioned man that the Prince meets on the train to St. Petersburg. «The Idiot» is a classic tale of the conflict between good and evil....
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
The last thing this bachelor rancher needs?Temptation beneath the mistletoe!Rancher Marshall Steele’s emotions are on lockdown—until he meets his beautiful new housekeeper. A desire this strong won’t lead to anything but trouble. And yet Marshall can’t stop wanting Tally Benson—her beauty, her kindness. As the holidays heat up, he vows to have her and then let her go. But will their passion survive the secrets she’s been keeping?
| Автор | Catherine Mann |
He’ll prove he’s worthy of her love and her bed!Jacques Brookes is trouble and Lily Newman has already had her heart broken once. But, by pretending to be his girlfriend, she may be the only person who can help the millionaire to redemption. And perhaps it’s also just what Lily needs to believe in love again…
| Автор | Therese Beharrie |