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This original compilation from Skyboat Media features the most inventive and poetic of Alexander Pushkin’s short fiction. Exposed to French culture at a young age, Pushkin’s work reflects these sensibilities, and he combines this with stories of his Russian ancestors that his grandmother would relate to him and his siblings during their summers near Moscow.

As a longtime financial writer and nationally acclaimed investment advisor, Alexander Green understands the importance of money. But in this insightful and inspiring new audiobook, he looks beyond traditional measures of wealth to explore how a rich life is one of significance, not just financial success. As Green observes, money creates wealth, but so do character, conscience, attitude, and wisdom.

The Emperor is dead. His final weapon has been destroyed. The imperial army is in disarray. In the aftermath, Yrica Quell is just one of thousands of defectors from her former cause living in a deserters' shantytown - until she is selected to join Alphabet Squadron. Cobbled together from an eclectic assortment of pilots and starfighters, the five members of Alphabet are tasked by New Republic General Hera Syndulla herself. Like Yrica, each is a talented pilot struggling to find their place in a changing galaxy. Their mission: to track down and destroy the mysterious Shadow Wing.

In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming. Max explains to you why programmers suck, and how to suck less as a programmer. There's just too much complex stuff in the world. Complex stuff can't be used, and it breaks too easily. Complexity is stupid. Simplicity is smart.

Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander brings you How to Read a Book, a poetic journey about the experience of reading.

This is a mini-sequel to The Other Son, a little gift for all those listeners who have been begging to know what happens next. Alice has been lying to herself for years, holding fast to the belief that the needs of her family far outweigh her own. But her outwardly successful marriage hides dark secrets, and for much of her life, the children were the only reason she stuck around.

When Lili Lowe gets caught having an affair with her married boss, an admired local politician, she finds herself at the epicenter of a scandal that could dismantle her life as she knows it. She turns, as many women would, to her mother. But Lydia Lowe is not the kind of mother to offer gentle words of consolation. Instead she devises a strategy that doesn’t just manage the fallout, it actively exploits it, and Lili goes from making coffee and booking meetings to making headlines and booking talk shows.

London, 1889. Lady Rosalynd, a fervent champion of women’s rights, is no stranger to challenging the status quo. But when a brutal murder casts suspicion on Rosalynd’s beloved cousin and implicates the enigmatic Duke of Steele's brother, her fiercely guarded independence is put to the ultimate test.

The Silk Road conjures images of the exotic and the unknown. Most travellers simply pass along it. Brit Chris Alexander chose to live there. Ostensibly writing a guidebook, Alexander found life at the heart of the glittering madrassahs, mosques and minarets of the walled city of Khiva — a remote desert oasis in Uzbekistan — immensely alluring, and stayed.

Journey into the heart of Roman Britain through the eyes of a fallen patrician's daughter, Caelwyn, as she weaves a tale of myth and legend in this captivating poetic prose. In the vein of a long, internal monologue, this poetic fiction brings the fantastical universe of.

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Step into the dark and captivating world of one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek tells the tale of Vathek, a man of immense wealth and power, yet his insatiable thirst for forbidden knowledge drives him further into moral decay. With the sinister influence of his depraved mother, Carathis, Vathek embarks on a treacherous journey that not only endangers himself but also damns those around him. Join us as we explore this haunting narrative of ambition and consequence. (Introduction by MorganScorpion)

Springtime at Kimberly Magic Academy brings a new batch of first-year students, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as they begin their journey to become full-fledged mages. Among these newcomers are Oliver Horn, a studious boy equally skilled with the wand and the blade, and Nanao Hibiya, a strong-willed samurai girl from the distant nation of Yamatsu. The wheels of fate bring these two souls together at Kimberly, where they become both comrades and rivals in equal measure.

This is the authoritative, “deeply reported” (The Wall Street Journal) account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country’s political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden’s first year in the White House.

Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to EMMA, the next book in The Austen Project.Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything.Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash.

Slaves are easy to sell when they are viewed as nothing but product. Its another matter entirely when you're the one being sold. Sitter has been a bandit for over a decade. He's killed, he's robbed, and he's burned more homesteads than he can count to the ground with their families inside. For him, it's simply a lifestyle he's lived since he was a young boy. The world will always have bandits and he may as well play his part.

Volume one of a series of erotic stories about five women on a journey to sexual awaking through various affairs with younger men. All the stories are taboo and scandalous, and yes, they are all true. So, pour yourself a glass of wine, and let’s have some NAUGHTY FUN, and find out how things work in this world- the secret sex lives of women in the bourgeois class. Some of the stories happened to me, others I heard in passing, and some were told to me in confidence. Names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals depicted in the stories.

A Man of Leisure is an erotic story set in a world of power and privilege, where the glamor of high society collides with the stark realities of the impoverished. Four men find themselves imprisoned in a world they never imagined: that of male sex workers in a world dominated by rich and powerful older women. The men plunge into the shadowy realm of sex work, hoping for freedom, but find themselves powerless to their affluent clients—a group known as the Cougars.