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The Star of Susa. A crown won in silence. A kingdom forged in secrets. A destiny written in the stars. In the heart of the glittering Achaemenid Empire, Susa is a city of gilded cages and lethal whispers. For Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in the shadows of the exile, survival depends on remaining invisible. But when the volatile King Ahasuerus deposes his Queen, the machinery of the empire reaches into the dust of the streets to pluck Hadassah from her home. Stripped of her name and her past, she becomes Esther—a girl transformed by a year of myrrh and jasmine into a weapon of grace.

Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. Wedding bells are ringing in Bunburry - but not everyone is celebrating... Alfie and Emma are finally planning their big day in the idyllic Cotswold village of Bunburry. With the legendary wedding planner Elizabeth Ravensdale in charge, perfection seems guaranteed. But when a body is discovered, the dream of a flawless celebration quickly unravels. While the police are convinced they've found their culprit, the Bunburry triangle senses that something doesn't add up.

This omnibus contains six romance novellas—two completed novella trilogies totaling 200,000+ words. Get all six books in one big collection, perfect for BWWM romance binge readers!

Strangers’ eyes on you while you fuck in public. Once you’ve felt it, everything else feels boring. If you’re tired of tame erotica that teases but never delivers the real danger and excitement of getting caught, Exhibitionist Erotic Tales is about to blow your mind. This scorching collection of explicit XXX sex stories drops you straight into non-stop public sex erotica and exhibitionist stories—ten boundary-pushing tales that skip the romance and plot entirely and go straight for the raw, graphic action.

They think he’s just the driver. They’re wrong. In Houston, Orlandus Shorter moved quietly through the lives of the city’s elite, its strivers, its liars, its lonely, its grieving, its beautiful, and its broken. CEOs. Athletes. Couples on the edge. Men performing power. Women carrying secrets. People who believed a closed car door made them invisible. It never did. The Silent Driver is a hybrid work of interconnected literary fiction written from the lived perspective of Orlandus Shorter, who becomes both witness and vessel for the private lives passing through the backseat of his car.

Beautii Hamilton is a highly skilled, self-motivated, hardworking lawyer who’s employed by the most renowned law office in Groove City, California. She’s an authentic woman, well acquainted with her worth. She has raised the bar high for any man who desires to indulge in her time. Her independence, focus, and determination to be a successful black woman thrusts her into a class of her own. Success; however, comes with a hefty sacrifice that not many women have the discipline to walk out.

On a photography trip in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Ryan Jordan hears the low drone of Buddhist voices chanting up the street. Hundreds of monks are streaming across a bridge. To investigate, and wanting to photograph the procession, he engages a local tuk-tuk driver to drive him to monks’ destination. With streets blocked, they detour through various alleys and side streets, eating up time, and leaving Ryan to wonder if he is being taken for a ride. Skeptical but determined, he stays with the driver despite the obstacles. Has he made the right choice?

Looking for your next romantic suspense protective biker romance series binge? The entire Open Road series is now available in one complete collection. Featuring your favorite romance tropes such as protective bikers, forced proximity, found family, band of brothers, grumpy sunshine, and so much more.

The collection includes five sizzling full-length novels:

-Broken Sparrow

-Broken Dove

-Broken Wings

-Broken Arrow

-Broken Hearts

Ruth: The Harvest of Grace A Nation in Decay. A House in Ruins. A Love that Defies the Law. The era of the Judges is a time of "Double Wickedness"—a world of bronze and bone where the tribes of Israel have traded their Covenant for the shadows of local gods and the dust of a relentless famine. Naomi was a woman of "Pleasantness" who walked out of Bethlehem with a husband and two sons, only to find herself hollowed out by a decade of silence in the alien landscape of Moab. Returning as "Mara," she is a woman of bitter shadows, convinced that the Almighty has turned His face away.

Within this book--Moon and Stone--You will find stories of strange fox hunts; distressed opera stars; droll, odd, and dangerous neighbors; a fiction editor who perhaps works for The New Yorker; an officious doctor on a ghostly river walk; a poetry war; a magical Waterbear. Also, find poems, chants, sigils, and songs--some funny, others, gothic, searching... all, messages from what T. F. Long likes to call the wide primal river.

The world ended in November 2019. Fortlet never recovered. Fifteen years later, the Citadel survives beneath the ruins—part fortress, part pressure cooker—where every ration is counted and every promise has an expiration date. Milo is one of the Legion's surface hunters: fast, quiet, careful. He isn't sent out to be brave. He's sent out to bring back facts. General Beckett has a job that sounds simple on paper: scout a multi-level parking structure north of Aurora Station. Raiders have been sighted. Scouts have vanished.

The Song of the Stone Well is a quiet evening story set in a hidden meadow, where an ancient stone well hums softly beneath the earth and the air grows still as daylight fades.

Paru en 1913, cet ensemble de paraboles et de libres diversions trace, en traits vifs, les inquiétudes et l’orgueil de l’esprit humain. D’un ton tour à tour grave et malicieux, Pierre Mille se demande pourquoi la création semble s’être arrêtée à l’homme, scrute le regard du premier critique et compose des images morales qui éclairent nos travers sans pesanteur.

Im Moloch Paris treiben sich die seltsamsten Gestalten herum. Der prosaische Großmeister Victor Hugo nutzt diese Weltbühne, um Charaktere unterschiedlichster Couleur aufeinanderprallen zu lassen und entfesselt ein spektakuläres Realitätsbild der wahnwitzigen Gesellschaft. Sorgenlose und mutige Glücksjäger, ausgestoßene Einzelgänger, vom Teufel besessene Priester, die leidenschaftlich morden und in alchemistischer Besessenheit nach Goldformeln suchen, wunderschöne Frauen, Studenten u. a.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】戦死したと思われていた出征者が停戦後に帰還し、再縁していた妻が困るという話は少なからずあることらしい。わたくしは、戦死とされ遺骨まで戻っていた兄の妻を弟が娶っていたところへ、兄が突然帰ってきたという実際の噂話を聞いた。兄の帰還に妻は恐怖して近所の教師の家へ逃げ込み、両親と仲人夫婦はその夜のうちに嫁を実家に戻してしまったようだ。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】本所相生町の煙草売り・平吉は貧しい独り者だが、橋番に勧められて富籤を買い続け、湯島の富で百両に当たる。大金を持つ不安からまず借金を返し、残りは町内の左官親方の妻に預け、橋番には放し鰻の代金として一分三つを渡して明日放す約束をする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】明治以降の教育の変化と文学の「浪漫主義/自然主義」を対応させて論じた講演記録。昔の教育は忠孝や聖人像を絶対的理想とし、感激と情緒を強調する一元的な徳育だったのに対し、近代の教育は、事実から出発して人間の欠点や二面性も認める二元的な教育へ移った。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】雪山へのスキー旅行をめぐる体験を日記形式で記した紀行的随筆。──「僕」は、十一月頃になると腹の中の「変な虫」が暴れ出し、「雪が食いたい」とがなり立てるせいで落ち着かなくなる。今回は幸い、同じ「虫喰い」の友人二人と五色温泉へ向かうことになった。──そうして、「虫の言い草」と銘打った日記が綴られる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ガラス張りの大温室には熱帯植物が密集し、根や枝を絡ませながら窮屈に生きている。故郷の南国を恋う一本のシュロ「アッタレーア・プリンケプス」は、とくに背が高く、美しいがゆえに孤立し、ガラス越しに見える青空を誰よりも切実に慕っていた。故郷を知るブラジル人は本当の名を口にし、故郷の友人に会ったように語りかけてくるが、園長は「学名だけが本当の名である」と受け付けない。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】リズムに関する美学・芸術論。自然や身体の反復として現れるリズムを、三つの解釈に整理する。第一に、時間を量として計る数学的解釈。第二に、「間」や呼吸、「一打・一漕ぎ」にこもる緊張などから捉える存在論的解釈。第三に、スポーツチームの成績の波などを例に、過去と未来の関係として見る歴史的・集団的解釈である。