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5 Years After is a fresh look at the apocalypse genre. A deeper, more intriguing storyline with characters that reach out and grab you. They are defined not by their strengths. Instead, it is their weaknesses and emotions that set them apart. They feel real, they are just like us.<br><br>"Richard Correll has created a rich and descriptive landscape that will make you believe. " KSPK Radio<br><br>"....as startling as it is descriptive. 5 Years...
| Автор | Richard Correll |
Firefighter Leo Santori is on his honeymoon in Costa Rica.Alone.That is until gorgeous Madison Reid steps into his world… The heat between them is undeniable – irresistible.But Madison has a scandalous secret – one that could extinguish their red-hot affair forever…
| Автор | Leslie Kelly |
When Selina Thorn applied for a job with the father she never met, darkly handsom Piers Gresham, his nephew, decided she was just another grasping woman on the make. And made no secret of his contempt for her. But neither could he hide his desire.Selina found the aggravating man increasingly difficult to resist. But was Piers's expert seduction of her only a means to get her to confess to the real reason she was there? Her dark secret was about to be exposed….
| Автор | Пенни Джордан |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Louisa May Alcott:<br><br>The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation <br>Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag <br>Behind A Mask, Or A Woman's Power <br>Eight Cousins <br>Flower Fables <br>A Garland for Girls <br>Hospital Sketches <br>Jack and Jill <br>Jo's Boys <br>Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories <br>Little Men...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
The George W. Cable Collection of books in one anthology:<br><br>The Amateur Garden <br>Bonaventure, A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana <br>Bylow Hill <br>The Cavalier <br>Dr. Sevier <br>The Flower of the Chapdelaines <br>Gideon's Band <br>The Grandissimes <br>Kincaid's Battery <br>Madame Delphine <br>Old Creole Days <br>Strange True Stories of Louisiana <br>Strong Hearts
| Автор | George W. Cable |
A group of boys was assembled in an open field to the west of the public schoolhouse in the town of Crawford. Most of them held hats in their hands, while two, stationed sixty feet distant from each other, were "having catch."<br><br>Tom Pinkerton, son of Deacon Pinkerton, had just returned from Brooklyn, and while there had witnessed a match game between two professional clubs. On his return he proposed that the boys of Crawford should establish a club, to be known...
| Автор | By Horatio Alger Jr. |
AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband's name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity of the servants, the long intervals between the courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal her condition from the visitors, wearied her to exhaustion. She longed to get away from the house, to sit in the shade and rest her heart...
| Автор | Anton Tchekhov |
The essential collection of Arthur B. Reeve in one:<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>CONSTANCE DUNLAP<br>THE DREAM DOCTOR<br>THE EAR IN THE WALL<br>THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE<br>THE FILM MYSTERY<br>THE GOLD OF THE GODS<br>GUY GARRICK<br>THE MASTER MYSTERY<br>The Poisoned Pen by, Arthur B. Reeve<br>THE ROMANCE OF ELAINE<br>THE SILENT BULLET<br>THE TREASURE-TRAIN<br>THE WAR TERROR
| Автор | Arthur B Reeve |
He claimed another man's child…Fearful that her ex's wealthy family would try to get custody of her unborn baby, there was only one man Cassie Marshall could turn to–her boss, Hunter O'Banyon. When he offered his protection and his name, Cassie accepted, sure that she was doing her best for her child. But when Hunter branded her with his kisses, Cassie forgot their arrangement was only a pretense…. Would it ever be more?
| Автор | Kathie DeNosky |
Photographer Jack wants Melissa, as a model…and maybe a little more. Melissa comes to life in front of the camera, channelling a raw passion that Jack finds irresistible. But each time she bares her body and soul, the intense sexual current between them grows stronger.And the more they give in to temptation, the more they both risk becoming exposed!
| Автор | Isabel Sharpe |
Billionaire playboy Jeb Whitcomb is desperate to win back his ex, so when she decides to marry someone else, he immediately sets sail. He has only four days to stop the wedding and, worse still, he has a stowaway…the only woman who can make a newly good man behave very, very badly!
| Автор | Lori Wilde |
There was once a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called the Simpleton. He was laughed at and despised and neglected on all occasions. Now it happened one day that the eldest son wanted to go into the forest, to hew wood, and his Mother gave him a beautiful cake and a bottle of wine to take with him, so that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst. When he came to the wood he met a little old grey man, who, bidding him good-day, said: "Give me a small piece of the cake...
| Автор | L. Leslie Brooke |
The Essential Robert W. Chambers Collection of books in one book:<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>AILSA PAIGE<br>ATHALIE<br>BARBARIANS<br>Between Friends<br>COMMON LAW<br>THE DANGER MARK<br>THE DARK STAR<br>The Fighting Chance<br>THE FIRING LINE<br>The Flaming Jewel<br>The Hidden Children<br>IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWN<br>IN SECRET<br>In the Quarter<br>THE KING IN YELLOW<br>LORRAINE<br>THE...
| Автор | Robert W. Chambers |
FYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kulikin, was getting ready for the annual dinner. Every year after the school examination the board of managers gave a dinner at which the inspector of elementary schools, all who had conducted the examinations, and all the managers and foremen of the factory were present. In spite of their official character, these dinners were always good and lively, and the guests sat a long time over them;...
| Автор | Anton Tchekhov |
A narrow street with dreadful "wynds" and "vennels" running back from it was the High street of Glasgow at the time my story opens. And yet, though dirty, noisy and overcrowded with sin and suffering, a flavor of old time royalty and romance lingered amid its vulgar surroundings; and midway of its squalid length a quaint brown frontage kept behind it noble halls of learning, and pleasant old courts full of the "air of still delightful...
| Автор | Amelia Edith Huddleston |
Your sexy ex roars up in a red sports car and offers to sweep you away from the mess you’ve made of your life…Well, wouldn’t you? With her wedding plans in tatters, and the local grapevine ablaze, Bella Shaw is getting out of town and speeding across country with gorgeous, dangerous Damon Cavello.Bella’s been playing it safe for far too long – and now her brooding rebel is back in her life it’s time to go wild!
| Автор | Barbara Hannay |
When her sham engagement finally ended, celebrity chef Corri Harris was free to indulge in a steamy affair.Sexy studio executive Aidan O'Brien seemed to be just the remedy for her bruised ego. The problem? Aidan was her boss!With their illicit affair moving full steam ahead and no mention of commitment, Corri feared she'd become nothing more than Aidan's pet protégée. Once he'd taken her career as far as he could, would he discard her for another ingénue?
| Автор | Kristi Gold |
There’s something suspicious about Jordan’s sexy new secretary. The billionaire boss is determined to seduce the truth out of Jane. But is that playing into her hands, as Jane is investigating a corporate wrongdoer? The prime suspect? Jordan.But when her hidden agenda clashes with his allure, she has to choose: career or man of her dreams. Which will it be?
| Автор | Michelle Celmer |
This ebook brings together two of Lurie's novels, the comic "Rappaport", which focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander, and "Rappaport's Revenge" where the characters, transplanted to London, were further chronicled. These are followed by several short stories: "Rappaport Lays an Egg", "The Death of Rappaport", "Dirty Friends",...
| Автор | Morris Lurie |
Charlie Lansdowne's life is going nowhere… fast. Trapped at home with his eccentric father, Roger, and his stroke-affected grandfather, Frank, he finds life a daily exercise in dysfunction as three generations of men strive to get along. But when Charlie meets the volatile and tempestuous Maxine – a surfer girl who works at the local abattoir – his life goes supernova. Friendships implode, passions ignite and death comes stalking in the night. <i>Pulling Down the Stars</i> is a...
| Автор | James Laidler |
Although John Slade wasn’t a regular at Gabriel’s Tavern, he had been there occasionally. On this night, he had some thinking to do, and Gabriel’s was the place where he knew he could totally crawl into himself and concentrate. Preoccupied, he never did see the stranger walk into the Tavern, so he was surprised to find someone sitting on the stool immediately next to his at the empty bar. He was even more surprised when the stranger told him who he was. And so began the most unforgettable—and...
| Автор | Anthony Caruso |