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Here We Are

Ксюша Ангел

Here We Are

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The Watcher by the Threshold

Buchan John

The Watcher by the Threshold

Edited and introduced by Andrew Lownie. ‘The short story is the real form’ John Buchan This is the first ever complete collection of all Buchan’s shorter Scottish fiction. Set largely in his beloved Borders, these stories and novellas show the full range and depth of Buchan’s writing. Featuring shepherds, poachers, gamekeepers and drovers, they are worlds away from the tales of aristocratic adventure with which he is so often associated. Shot through with characters and places he returned...

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Buchan John

The Wedding Party

Lisa Childs

The Wedding Party

Brenna Kelly just took that fateful walk down the aisle…as maid of honor at her best friend's wedding.But when the bride's a no-show, Brenna suddenly has to cope with a runaway wedding…and her own runaway feelings for the jilted groom. Dr. Josh Towers is sexy, gorgeous and strictly off-limits. And that includes his adorable twin boys. Being dumped by his fiancée could be the best thing that's ever happened to Josh. Especially when he's so attracted to the curvaceous maid of...

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Lisa Childs

The Wedding Party

Lisa Childs

The Wedding Party

Friend. Lover. Groom?Running out on her own wedding is the only way Molly McClintock can stop herself from making the biggest mistake of her life. But running to her childhood friend Eric South could land her in even more trouble. Ever since the second grade, Eric's always been there for her. Now the wounded war hero is back in her life… and igniting enough sparks to turn friends into lovers.How could Eric forget the girl who accepted his boyhood marriage proposal? Now, twenty years later,...

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Lisa Childs

The Wedding Party

Lisa Childs

The Wedding Party

Always A Bridesmaid?Only her best friend's impending nuptials could bring Abby Hamilton back to her Michigan hometown. But when the bride runs away, the wedding reception turns into an unexpected homecoming party for Cloverville's Prodigal Daughter. Everyone's happy to see Abby…except Clayton McClintock, the bride's straight-arrow older brother–and Abby's unrequited crush.Where Abby goes, trouble seems to follow. But Clayton has to admit the adult Abby is very different...

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Lisa Childs

The White Company

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Артур Конан Дойл и др.

The White Company

"Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!" With that rousing proclamation, twelve hundred knights ride into battle, accompanied by the stalwart archers known as the White Company.Fueled by their appetite for glory, this motley crew of freebooters stands united in their unswerving devotion to the company commander, Sir Nigel Loring. Short, bald, and extremely nearsighted, Sir...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Артур Конан Дойл и др.

Grotlyn

Ксюша Ангел

Grotlyn

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Ксюша Ангел

Ajax Penumbra 1969

Робин Слоун

Ajax Penumbra 1969

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Робин Слоун

Cat and Jemima J

Jane Green

Cat and Jemima J

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Jane Green

Home Is the Sailor

Ксюша Ангел

Home Is the Sailor

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Ксюша Ангел

The White Company

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The White Company

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's notoriety lies primarily in his Sherlock Holmes stories, which remain the quintessential crime and detective novels of the twentieth century. However, before his days of penning detective fiction for zealous audiences, Doyle found inspiration for his novel «The White Company» in an 1889 lecture on medieval times. He had read over a hundred volumes on the period of Edward III and the Hundred Years' War, and called this novel «the most complete, satisfying and...

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The Wings of the Dove

Генри Джеймс

The Wings of the Dove

"The Wings of the Dove", considered to be one of Henry James's great masterpieces, is the story of Milly Theale, an American Heiress with a serious illness. The narrative of the work is chiefly concerned with Milly's struggle to «achieve, however briefly and brokenly, the sense of having lived» and the impact that struggle has on those around her. A semi-biographical tale of James's own cousin, Minny Temple, «The Wings of the Dove» is a classic and compelling work of American...

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Генри Джеймс

The Wisdom of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Chesterton и др.

The Wisdom of Father Brown

“The Wisdom of Father Brown” is a 1928 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesteron. Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centres around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, a catholic priest-cum-detective who uses his incredible intuition to solve a variety of perplexing mysteries. The stories include: “The Absence of Mr Glass”, “The Paradise of Thieves”, “The Duel of Dr Hirsch”, “The Man in the Passage”, “The Mistake of the Machine”, “The Head...

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G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Chesterton и др.

The Wisdom of Father Brown

Gilbert Chesterton

The Wisdom of Father Brown

"The Wisdom of Father Brown" is the second in a series of Gilbert K. Chesterton's much-loved Father Brown mystery short story collections. In this volume are the following twelve tales: The Absence of Mr. Glass, The Paradise of Thieves, The Duel of Dr. Hirsch, The Man in the Passage, The Mistake of the Machine, The Head of Caesar, The Purple Wig, The Perishing of the Pendragons, The God of the Gongs, The Salad of Colonel Cray, The Strange Crime of John Boulnois, The Fairy Tale of...

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Gilbert Chesterton

Misunderstanding Of Glencoe

Alexander McCall Smith

Misunderstanding Of Glencoe

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Alexander McCall Smith

No Risk Refused

Cara Summers

No Risk Refused

No Risk RefusedTo investigate a theft, CIA agent Cam Sutherland has returned to Castle MacPherson. It’s the place where he very nearly lost his heart and soul to wedding planner Adair MacPherson…and she is still as bewitching as ever.When he finds a seven-years-old erotic story written by her – and starring him – Cam decides to prove to Adair that fantasies are best made into realities…

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Cara Summers

From Waif To His Wife

Lindsay Armstrong

From Waif To His Wife

A mousy music teacher, Maisie's hardly a seductive siren.But her lack of worldliness turns her life upside down, and, abandoned and alone, she knows she has to confront the man who deceived her. . . .Rafael Sanderson is rich, successful and a master of marriage avoidance. He's never seen Maisie before, but she seems to think she knows him. And even though it's his rule never to get involved, this time he's compelled to make this waif his wife!

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Lindsay Armstrong

Feels So Right

Isabel Sharpe

Feels So Right

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Isabel Sharpe

Surprise Me...

Isabel Sharpe

Surprise Me...

Under the covers… and unexpected!When Melanie Hawthorne sneaks into her new man’s bed one very dark night, she gets quite a few surprises. Great sex – toe-curling in fact. Intense emotion and real feelings – even better. But it’s all with the wrong man!Waking up alone, Edgar Raymond can’t believe the hot night he just had. Seduced by his fantasy woman, Melanie. . . how cool is that? He’s totally captivated – until he realises she mistook him for his bad-boy brother!

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Isabel Sharpe

The Woman in White

Уилки Коллинз, Wilkie Collins Collins и др.

The Woman in White

A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Richard G. Lewis. The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret – a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller...

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Уилки Коллинз, Wilkie Collins Collins и др.

The Woman in White

Уилки Коллинз

The Woman in White

Considered one of the first mystery novels, «The Woman in White» is Wilkie Collins's epistolary novel that tells the tale of Walter Hartright, who encounters a woman all dressed in white on a moonlit road in Hampstead. Hartright helps the woman to find her way back to London. The woman warns him against an unnamed baronet and when they part he discovers that she may have escaped from an asylum. Hartright travels to Cumberland where he takes up as an art tutor and meets two half-sisters,...

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Уилки Коллинз

Thirteen Cents

K Sello Duiker

Thirteen Cents

Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and moments of happiness. Living in this shadow is Azure, a thirteen-year-old who makes his living on the streets, a black teenager sought out by white men, beholden to gang leaders but determined to create some measure of independence in this...

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K Sello Duiker

Those Extraordinary Twins

Mark Twain

Those Extraordinary Twins

"Those Extraordinary Twins" by Mark Twain. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...

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Mark Twain

Those Extraordinary Twins

Mark Twain

Those Extraordinary Twins

Mark Twain was born on November 30th, 1835, when Halley's Comet shone in the night sky, and died April 21, 1910, during the return of the same comet. Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri near the banks of the Mississippi River, a setting displayed prominently in his best works. Twain met a great deal of literary success during his lifetime, and is to this day regarded as one of the greatest North American writers of all time. He was highly popular as a...

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