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Our heroine Kate is madly in love with her fiancé. She is planning their wedding and future life together... Unfortunately, she discovers a secret that he has that will forever change what she thinks of him. With this new insight, she toils with her desire to be morally accountable, and for him to "do the right thing". Much later in life, she finds herself in a very similar situation, only this time with her own son... A gripping and fascinating novella about the so called "Gilded Age", by one of the true masters of the genre.

Bring on the bug spray, because to prevail, Josie's going to have to face her greatest fear. Josie's not a brave person, and she's especially scared of spiders. Imagine her surprise when she finds herself attracted to not one, but two, larger than life men. Clint and Brandon both want the timid mouse who's come to work for them - and their beasts are chafing to mark her - but when she can't decide between them, there's only one thing to do - share her.

At a high-security military complex in Colorado, a computer war game ends with the brutal death of a programmer.

An irresistible one-night seduction leads to a secret pregnancy in this passionate Cinderella romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick. Cinderella’s story will change forever… ...with her festive secret! Hollie Walker knew Spanish businessman Maximo Diaz was off-the-charts...

Bertha Watt, tree-climber and would-be polar explorer, is excited to be on RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage, as she leaves Aberdeen behind for the glamour of a new life in America.

A delightful new short story by Liz Mingo, author of Between Green and Orange. From poetry to my first short story, hoping this is just one of many so watch this space....

Varsha and her father live near the forest. It has been a hot summer and Varsha is feeling the heat. One day she hears a strange noise and decides to investigate. Only she can hear the sound and wonders what it is. Varsha soon finds out it is a leopard cub, fallen into the water well, but will her father believe her? Digitally narrated using the voice of Alice White. "The Sound of Water" was originally published by Pratham Books on the online platform StoryWeaver. Several of the stories are written by Indian authors and are set on the other side of the world.

A turn of the century British masterpiece. The satirical story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. In Florence, she meets the unconventional George Emerson, with whom she shares a single passionate kiss, to the horror of her chaperone, her uptight cousin Charlotte. Back in England, Lucy has to choose between George and her uptight fiancé Cecil Vyse.

Discover the benefits of the Keto diet for ladies over 60! This comprehensive guidebook is specifically designed to help women over the age of 60 understand the ketogenic diet and how it can benefit their health and overall wellbeing.

In a comic whirlwind of high style, La Bête tells the story of Elomire, a 17th century French playwright, and his touring acting troupe who have come to lead the high life due to the patronage of the fickle Prince of Conti. Sparks fly when Valere, a swaggering braggert with delusions of artistic grandeur, becomes the Prince's choice to join Elomire's troupe. It is a battle of wits and witticisms as the two face off in this outrageous commentary on the nature of art and the artist in society.

"The Glimpses of the Moon" is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer Edith Wharton (1862-1937). It was published in 1920. Set in the early 1920s, this novel continues Edith Wharton's examination of New York society. Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are both barely getting by in the wealthy social circles they move in and they can't afford to get married. They make a deal. They will get married and stay together as long as they can but when they run out of money, they can divorce each other.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over 20 years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural southeast Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely.

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest programs from radio’s golden age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them.

Ronny Bronston accomplishes his lifelong dream of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. However, his first off-planet job is to find the elusive Tommy Paine, a radical, reputed to be involved in the assassination of an immortal god king on the planet of New Delos.

After a disastrous fling with a frat brother, Samantha Barnes leaves for a semester abroad in Japan in hopes of an international adventure. But when she meets a charming Scottish rugby player who feels like her soulmate, she allows her former mistakes to keep him at arm's length. Taking the time to find herself while studying in Kyoto, Samantha grows closer to the sexy university athlete and starts to fall for him. Hard. But when tragedy strikes back at home, will unresolved trauma from the past prevent her from chasing the happiness she deserves?

Les héritiers de Ji quittent l’île d’Usul avec l’esprit troublé. Ils sont parvenus à arracher quelques réponses au démon omniscient, mais ces révélations ont engendré davantage encore de mystères et d’angoisses… Que pourraient-ils bien tenter contre un ennemi que même la mort n’a pas su garder ? Comment bâtir un plan de défense, quand chaque nouvelle découverte remet en question tout ce qu’ils croyaient savoir ? Sans certitudes, ni prophétie pour les guider, les jeunes gardiens du secret du Jal vont devoir explorer toutes les pistes... quitte à oser remonter les plus anciennes, hantées par des monstres et des fantômes à la rancune tenace.

Una storia toccante e delicata, narrata dal punto di vista di una bambina cinese, il cui nonno, aiutato da un androide, ritroverà un posto nella società.

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was the founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women. In this 1916 speech, The Crisis, she called for vigorous action towards attaining women’s suffrage. It was in no small part due to Catt’s tireless efforts that American women were granted the right to vote in 1920.

Edward Jenner fa parte degli uomini straordinari che con le loro scoperte hanno cambiato il destino dell'umanità. Medico e chirurgo inglese di fine Settecento, riuscì a produrre la prima cura efficace contro il vaiolo, il "vaccino antivaioloso", una scoperta rivoluzionaria che salvò innumerevoli vite umane. Edward Jenner è senza dubbio "il padre dell'immunizzazione": fu il primo scienziato in grado di elaborare una cura risolutiva per la malattia più pericolosa del suo secolo, ma fu anche fonte di ispirazione per tutti i medici, biologi e ricercatori successivi.

Twenty-six-year-old Claire's life is exactly the way she wants it to be. During the week she's an adult with all of the normal responsibilities that entails, while on the weekends her husband, Jensen, is her daddy and she's his little girl, free to relax, play with toys, cuddle in his arms, and let him take care of everything. But when Claire starts missing meals routinely and coming home from work more stressed than he's ever seen her, Jensen knows that something needs to change.