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Businesswoman Ella has it all: a beautiful apartment, the perfect career and total independence.Until her beloved sister Keira asks a favour she can’t refuse…to give Keira a baby and make her life complete. But now her sister has second thoughts and Ella will be left with a baby she never planned to keep – until the baby’s father proposes a solution…
| Автор | Tessa Radley |
For years, Rose Clancy dreamed of her brother’s best friend, wealthy, powerful Lucas King, but touching him was off limits.And dutiful Rose kept her distance. Until a recent chance meeting leads Lucas to hire her for intimate, nightly cooking classes and the heat between them quickly ignites. Lucas makes Rose feel wanted – like he can’t get enough…
| Автор | Maureen Child |
Pretty single mother Vanessa Reynolds believes she’s going to marry his father, but Prince Marcus Theodorou will do everything in his power to prevent that marriage.The lovely American and her adorable baby girl could make the debonair prince’s life complete. Yet the powerful bachelor knows he may be forbidden to ever truly make her his own.
| Автор | Michelle Celmer |
#4 in the Singer Batts mystery series, by Thomas B. Dewey.<P> Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!<P> The Boston Herald called the first book «well paced and lively,» and The Saturday Review called it, «lively, lurid, and outspoken.» Author Dorothy Hughes said: «It's murder and mayhem...
| Автор | Thomas B. Dewey |
"<p>An apocalypse, A lone savior, A treasure of memories<p> <p>Set in the future, Aadrika, a young woman wakes up to the biggest secret of her life. She discovers that her genetic composition is remarkably similar to that of the ‘gifted girl’ who saved the earth from Solar Flares 563 years ago.<p> <p>The solar flares resurge, endangering the life on earth again. The prominence of Aadrika in the world of science intensifies. As she kicks off the mission to...
| Автор | Shiva Pothu |
Life Mountain In the snowy mountains of life. Keeping the heart warm is pivotal when the cold winds start to pick up. When beats skip don't trip flip the script and live on. A Play With a king refusing to be anything different, than corrupt. The court deems it necessary to act and rebel. However, they all might not have the same motive in mind. Oh, and a jester might be the ring leader… And a short story, action packed in America 2045, gripped with civil war....
| Автор | Troy Chavez |
Good Lady Ducayne', is a gothic novella by Mary Elizabeth Braddon originally published in 1869. It is a nineteenth century incarnation of the popular vampire myth, setting it against the backdrop of an Anglicised region of the Italian Riviera during the Victorian era. This is a great read and an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the genre. To this republication is added a specially commissioned brand new short biography of the author.
| Автор | Мэри Брэддон |
Begun while John Bunyan was in Bedfordshire county jail serving time for holding religious services outside the auspices of the Church of England, Pilgrim's Progress is considered one of the greatest works of the English language. «Pilgrim's Progress» is a Christian allegory that concerns the path of one's soul to Heaven. John Bunyan published the first part of the «Pilgrim's Progress» in 1678 with a second part to follow in 1679. Contained here in this volume is both the...
| Автор | John Bunyan |
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a celebrated French novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist and statesman whose work ushered in the Romantic literary movement in France, one of the most influential movements in French and all European literary history. Like many of his time, Hugo promoted the virtues of liberty, individualism, spirit and nature in rebellion of the conservative political and religious establishments of Imperial France, and eventually became known as one of the most gifted and...
| Автор | Victor Hugo |
Successful CEO Matt Patterson has a new challenge to face – fatherhood!Finding himself guardian to baby Bella, Matt’s lucky that social worker Claire agrees to play temporary mum. Happy families may never have been in Matt’s remit, but Claire and little Bella are opening his eyes to a life that money could never buy…
| Автор | Susan Meier |
"The Wild Ass's Skin" is Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaël de Valentin, who discovers a piece of shagreen, in this case a rough untanned piece of a wild ass's skin, which has the magical property of granting wishes. However the fulfillment of the wisher's desire comes at a cost, after each wish the skin shrinks a little bit and consumes the physical energy of the wisher. «The Wild Ass's Skin» is at once both a work of...
| Автор | Оноре Бальзак |
The «Divine Comedy» was entitled by Dante himself merely «Commedia,» meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary...
| Автор | Данте Алигьери |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was an American sociologist, author, poet, and lecturer whose influential work and unorthodox lifestyle made her an icon for future generations of feminists. Much of her work criticized common perceptions of the role of women in marriage and society, and advocated educational, financial, and cultural equality for women. This edition features «Herland», a utopian novel about the exploration of an isolated, entirely female, society by three American men. Also...
| Автор | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Literally meaning «heart», the Japanese word «kokoro» can be more distinctly translated as «the heart of things» or «feeling.» Natsume Soseki's 1914 novel, which was originally published in serial format in a Japanese newspaper, «Kokoro» deals with the transition from the Japanese Meiji society to the modern era. Divided into three parts «Sensei and I,» «My Parents and I,» and «Sensei and His Testament,» the novel explores the themes of loneliness and isolation. In the first part we find...
| Автор | Natsume Soseki |
Since Holt Calhoun’s marriage ended, the town of Larkville knows that ‘no’ is pretty much the sum total of the taciturn cowboy’s vocabulary.But Kathryn Ellis won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. She needs Holt to save the local clinic before her baby arrives! Holt does his best to ignore his growing feelings, until an early arrival with Kathryn’s heart-melting smile makes it impossible to turn on his spurred heel and walk away…
| Автор | Myrna Mackenzie |
When Ellie decides to finish her great-aunt’s romance novel she needs some inspiration… Wildly sexy Uriel Lassiter is all that she could wish for; he hasn’t forgotten Ellie or their mind-blowing kiss ten years ago. In fact, their sizzling chemistry is making him reconsider his bachelor status.But when her original motives are revealed, can Ellie convince him to keep giving her sweet inspiration forever?
| Автор | Brenda Jackson |
While cleaning a jet for entrepreneur Seth Jansen, Alexa Randall finds his one-year-old twins!Seth needs a temporary nanny; Alexa needs time for a one-on-one business pitch. So she says yes to an intimate stay on a lush Florida island. The babies remind her of the family she once wanted.And the nights with Seth are…incomparable. This billionaire could be the man of her dreams…
| Автор | Catherine Mann |
Begun while John Bunyan was in Bedfordshire county jail serving time for holding religious services outside the auspices of the Church of England, Pilgrim's Progress is considered one of the greatest works of the English language. «Pilgrim's Progress» is a Christian allegory that concerns the path of one's soul to Heaven. John Bunyan published the first part of the «Pilgrim's Progress» in 1678 with a second part to follow in 1679. Contained here in this volume is the second...
| Автор | John Bunyan |
The «Divine Comedy» was entitled by Dante himself merely «Commedia,» meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary...
| Автор | Данте Алигьери |
Described as «A Novel Without a Plot» J. K. Huysman's «Against the Grain (À Rebours)» is a relatively simple story. It concerns the seclusion of one Des Esseintes, the last member of a once powerful and noble family. Having lived an extremely decadent life, Des Esseintes finds himself disgusted with human society and retreats to a house in the countryside where he is intent upon spending the rest of his days in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation. Because of its decadent content...
| Автор | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
The tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola, «Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)» was first published in serially format in the periodical «Le Gaulois» between January and April 1882. The title of the work, Pot-Bouille, is a 19th-century French slang term for a large cooking pot used for preparing stews. It is a term that really has not direct translation in English. The title of the novel which recounts the activities of the residents of a block of flats in the Rue de Choiseul over the...
| Автор | Emile Zola |