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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by George Gissing:<br><br>Born in Exile<br>By the Ionian Sea<br>The Crown of Life<br>Demos<br>The Emancipated<br>Eve's Ransom<br>The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories<br>In the Year of Jubilee<br>A Life's Morning<br>The Nether World<br>New Grub Street<br>The Odd Women<br>Our Friend the Charlatan<br>The Paying Guest<br>The Private...
| Автор | George Gissing |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by William Makepeace Thackeray:<br><br>The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan<br>Barry Lyndon<br>The Bedford-Row Conspiracy<br>The Book of Snobs<br>Burlesques<br>Catherine: A Story<br>The Christmas Books<br>The Fatal Boots<br>The Fitz-Boodle Papers<br>Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo<br>George Cruikshank<br>The History of Henry Esmond,...
| Автор | William Makepeace Thackeray |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Jeffrey Farnol:<br><br>The Amateur Gentleman<br>Beltane The Smith<br>Black Bartlemy's Treasure<br>The Broad Highway<br>The Definite Object<br>The Geste of Duke Jocelyn<br>Great Britain at War<br>The Honourable Mr. Tawnish<br>Martin Conisby's Vengeance<br>The Money Moon<br>My Lady Caprice<br>Peregrine's Progress
| Автор | Jeffrey Farnol |
She's serving up red-hot revenge…London McCaffrey made a deal to get revenge at any cost. But her target’s brother, gorgeous racing driver Harrison Crosby, stands in her way. And he's unleashed a torrent of desire that could catch London in her own web of deception.
| Автор | Cat Schield |
One prize bachelor… one mystery brideWhen ex-marine Cole Dalton hires Vivienne Shuster as his wedding planner, gossip begins to spread like wildfire. Why has no one met his mystery bride? Whilst everyone is convinced the wedding is fake, sparks fly between Cole and Vivienne – there may be a wedding after all!
| Автор | Christy Jeffries |
Taking care of baby…With the boss!When her identical twin sister begs her to take her place for a week, working for business hotshot Lord Sebastian Tyrell, Liv Gilmour can’t say no—after all, the boss will be away! Until someone abandons a baby in his office, with a note demanding that Sebastian take care of it! Sebastian’s swift return sees her suddenly up close and personal with the sexy boss…and a baby who needs them both!
| Автор | Michelle Douglas |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Elinor Glyn<br><br>Beyond The Rocks<br>The Damsel and the Sage<br>Elizabeth Visits America<br>Halcyone<br>His Hour<br>Man and Maid<br>The Man and the Moment<br>The Point of View<br>The Price of Things<br>The Reason Why<br>Red Hair<br>The Reflections of Ambrosine<br>Three Things<br>Three Weeks<br>The Visits of Elizabeth
| Автор | Glyn Elinor |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Booth Tarkington<br><br>Alice Adams<br>Beasley's Christmas Party<br>The Beautiful Lady<br>The Conquest of Canaan<br>The Flirt<br>Gentle Julia<br>The Gentleman From Indiana<br>The Gibson Upright<br>The Guest of Quesnay<br>Harlequin and Columbine<br>His Own People<br>In the Arena<br>The Magnificent Ambersons<br>The Man from...
| Автор | Booth Tarkington |
In the cubicle building blocks of American industry, April of 2009 brought workers little more than meeting requests to pull them away from barely hidden job searches and online gambling losses on their 401Ks.<br><br>Product Wave, Ltd., a global software company headquartered in Massachusetts, was just as rife with frustration, dotted among endless rows of cubes, as any company withering in the recession. The difference was that the workers were still engaged hoping for a...
| Автор | Geoff Jarok |
This is the second book in a series about a wealthy family of the future.<br><br>The Houstons adventure into space where they take on space pirates and many kinds of aliens. As technology advances, so do their ships until they pilot the most advanced ship in the universe. The risks, thrills and challenges of space exploration are many and diverse – even to the point of occasionally having to struggle against Earth Defense Forces.
| Автор | Darryl Wright |
When flighty ne'er-do-well Gab comes to his sensible friend Pal looking for help in starting a primal scream therapy business, Pal is reluctant to indulge him, having almost lost his shirt in their last venture (a house cleaning service staffed by ex-cons). But this time Gab seems determined to do better, and Pal gives in. Spurred on by hatred of the 9-to-5 world, Gab convinces his girlfriend–a married artist–to relinquish half her studio space for the therapy...
| Автор | Homer Starkey |
He took home the wrong baby…But gained a wife!Single dad Liam Mercer loves his son – but his beloved baby isn't his! Shelby Ingalls is reeling to discover that her baby was switched with Liam's. Their solution: marriage! But this marriage of convenience sure looks a lot like love…
| Автор | Melissa Senate |
The bride is falling for a stranger…When heiress Morgan Monroe sees nothing about her wedding is her choice – including the groom! – she runs. But Spanish millionaire Riccardo Ochoa is hot on her heels! Morgan wonders why being with Riccardo feels so right?
| Автор | Susan Meier |
Righting the pastReclaiming his futureCole Hawkins has been keeping secrets for nine years – and made a promise to never share the truth. Now, almost a decade later, Cole is back in Wyoming: with every intention of reclaiming Tamsin Rayburn. When Tamsin’s family ranch is targeted by an arsonist, Cole wants to help catch the culprit. Can Tamsin give Cole a second chance ten years on…?
| Автор | Rebecca Winters |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Winston Churchill: <br><br>The Celebrity<br>Coniston<br>The Crisis<br>The Crossing<br>Dr. Jonathan (A Play)<br>The Dwelling Place of Light<br>An Essay On The American Contribution And The Democratic Idea<br>A Far Country<br>The Inside of the Cup<br>A Modern Chronicle<br>Mr. Crewe's Career<br>Richard Carvel<br>A Traveller in War-Time
| Автор | Winston Churchill |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Joseph Crosby Lincoln<br><br>Cape Cod Stories<br>Cap'n Dan's Daughter<br>Cap'n Eri<br>Cap'n Warren's Wards<br>Cy Whittaker's Place<br>The Depot Master<br>Fair Harbor<br>Galusha the Magnificent<br>Kent Knowles: Quahaug<br>Keziah Coffin<br>Mary-'Gusta<br>The Portygee<br>The Rise of Roscoe...
| Автор | Joseph C Lincoln |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Wilkie Collins<br><br>After Dark<br>Antonina<br>Armadale<br>Basil<br>The Black Robe<br>Blind Love<br>The Dead Alive<br>A Fair Penitent<br>The Fallen Leaves<br>The Frozen Deep<br>The Guilty River<br>The Haunted Hotel<br>Heart and Science<br>Hide and Seek<br>I Say No<br>Jezebel<br>The Law and the Lady<br>The Legacy of...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
A drug dealer who doesn't want to deal anymore, Brazilian hit men, two shrewd trailer trash brothers, a mafia boss with a bad leg and a Chinese bodyguard fly through the pages of The Ariel. When it crashes, with 300 kilograms of pure cocaine, the trip is just beginning. Paul Hewlett is an Ivy League stockbroker crawls from the wreckage salvaging half the cargo. He has to unload it and disappear before the mob makes him disappear. The flight path takes you from Miami in the 80's,...
| Автор | Joseph Dylan Dylan |
Five widows and the storm of the century…<br><br>Just in time to wreak havoc for Thanksgiving, a monster storm from the Arctic blasts south freezing much of the United States. In East Texas, dire weather warnings brings together a unique group of women, all struggling with new and older grief, as well as a host of life issues.<br><br>Retta–determinedly fighting to keep her ancestral farm going, while nature, her children, and time were showing her that a need...
| Автор | Helen Foster Reed |
Best friends… to parents!Selena Jacobs’s estranged best friend insists on staying with her to keep her safe from her ex husband. She trusts him, but living with the one who got away gets complicated and one night together leads to an unexpected surprise…
| Автор | Maisey Yates |
Whoring Around, a novella in six stories.<br /> <br />Prologue<br />Blowing It<br />Between Whores<br />Dreaming of Glory<br />A Sense of Propriety<br /> <br />More and more we lunched at his tennis club. He had recently become its honorary treasurer. I remember an afternoon, with the washed blues and faint yellows of early winter, when we ate on the terrace. The stonework was damp where the sun had not touched it. The other tables were empty, so...
| Автор | John Bryson |
Here is Brodie, an expatriate trader in New Guinea, whose understanding of the sorceries and rituals he now lives with is moving close to respect and wonderment. He watches his visiting daughter, a twelve year old, being captivated by this culture of theatre.<br /> <br />The place was packed. Tiptoe, over the matt-black heads of the crowd, he could see the performers. He edged closer, but so rapt was everyone that none of them looked around. The figure who held their attention was...
| Автор | John Bryson |
This book is hilarious, quirky and completely out of left field,' said somebody.<br /> <br />From debut author Hayden Bradford comes a rip roaring yarn which could be the funniest book published this year.<br /> <br />'Travesty' is an unashamedly hilarious tale of a bloke so hard done by in his life, he could only have been born from the imagination of another bloke. His mother named him Travesty as she believed his birth signalled the beginning of one...
| Автор | Hayden Bradford |
Southern England. August 1936. An artefact from the dark ages – a wolf carved in jet black – is stolen from the archaeology department of St Matthew's College. A man is murdered in an antique store.<br /> <br />Historian George Haye translates two eighth-century documents for the investigating police, and is very soon nearly murdered himself. What is it about the documents? Aren't they just letters from one Englishman to another? And why does the wolf from St Matthew's...
| Автор | Will Schaefer |