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Home in Carolina

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series!From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl WoodsThere’s no place like home, especially if it’s Serenity, South Carolina. For Annie Sullivan, though, the homecoming is bittersweet. She’d always envisioned a life there with her childhood best friend, Tyler Townsend. But Ty’s betrayal has cost her the family and the future they’d once planned. For Ty, losing Annie was heartbreaking. Still, he can’t imagine life without the three-year-old son whose mother left him for Ty to raise. Ty wants it all—Annie, his child and the future he’d dreamed about—and he’s back home in Serenity to fight for it. But getting Annie to forgive and forget may be the hardest challenge he’s ever faced. With the stakes so high, this is one game he can’t afford to lose.Read the Sweet Magnolias Series by Sherryl Woods:Book One: Stealing HomeBook Two: A Slice of HeavenBook Three: Feels Like FamilyBook Four: Welcome to SerenityBook Five: Home in CarolinaBook Six: Sweet Tea at SunriseBook Seven: Honeysuckle SummerBook Eight: Midnight PromisesBook Nine: Catching FirefliesBook Ten: Where Azaleas BloomBook Eleven: Swan PointBonus: The Sweet Magnolias Cookbook

Cattle Brands

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Gear up to ride the dusty trails of the Wild West with Cattle Brands, a collection of thrilling and informative tales from renowned author Andy Adams. With years of experience on cattle drives in Texas and surrounding states, Adams was praised by many cowboys as the most realistic of all the popular writers of Westerns, particularly those having to do with range life. The stories in this collection certainly bear out that praise.

PEN America 7: World Voices

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World Voices captures some of the best conversations from the 2005 Festival. Featuring work from Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Ha Jin, Michael Ondaatje, Zakes Mda, Hanif Kureishi, Shan Sa, Khaled Mattawa, Dunya Mikhail, and many others. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia. In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize. ----- PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 to dispel national, ethnic, and racial hatreds and to promote understanding among all countries. PEN American Center, founded a year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. Its 3,400 distinguished members carry on the achievements in literature and the advancement of human rights of such past members as James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Eugene O'Neill, Susan Sontag, and John Steinbeck. To learn more about PEN American Center, please visit: www.pen.org. PEN American Center welcomes readers and writers from all walks of life to join us in our mission to protect free expression and celebrate literature. To learn how to become a Professional or Associate Member of PEN, please visit: pen.org/join.

Sons of Russ

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THE STORY These are the sagas of the Great Wolves, the Lords of Fenris and the Champions of Asaheim. Heed their legends and be ready for the charge of the Rout! Vlka Fenryka!ABOUT THE BOOK Includes: Kraken by Chris Wraight - Originally published as an eShort - 2012 Twelve Wolves by Ben Counter - Originally published in Legends of the Space Marines Deathwolf by Andy Smillie (prose) - Originally released as an audio Deathwolf by Andy Smillie (script) Thunder From Fenris by Nick Kyme (prose) - Originally released as an audio Thunder From Fenris by Nick Kyme (script) Runes by Chris Wraight - Originally published in Victories of the Space Marines

The Greatest Gothic Classics

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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Vampyre The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Melmoth the Wanderer The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Phantom Ship St, John's Eve Viy The Mysterious Portrait Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark The Lifted Veil The Woman in White Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Mystery of Edwin Drood Carmilla Uncle Silas The Hound of the Baskervilles The Picture of Dorian Gray The Horla The Forsaken Inn The Great God Pan Lilith The Lost Stradivarius The Island of Doctor Moreau The Beetle The Turn of the Screw Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars (Original 1903 Edition) The Monkey's Paw The Necromancers The Phantom of the Opera Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot The House on the Borderland The Boats of the Glen Carrig Wolverden Tower

60 Gothic Classics

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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Vampyre The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Melmoth the Wanderer The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Phantom Ship St, John's Eve Viy The Mysterious Portrait Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark The Lifted Veil The Woman in White Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Mystery of Edwin Drood Carmilla Uncle Silas The Hound of the Baskervilles The Picture of Dorian Gray The Horla The Forsaken Inn The Yellow Wallpaper The Great God Pan Lilith The Lost Stradivarius The Island of Doctor Moreau The Beetle The Turn of the Screw Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars (Original 1903 Edition) The Monkey's Paw The Necromancers The Phantom of the Opera Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot The House on the Borderland The Boats of the Glen Carrig Wolverden Tower

Pinocchio

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In a little town somewhere in Italy lived a friendly old carpenter called Geppetto. And this is the story of that good man and his son - Pinocchio. Now in the town all the girls and boys knew that old Geppetto had a way with toys. With his clever hands he made wonderful things like dolls and trains and birds with wings, for the people who know how to make the best toys are the ones who really love you girls and boys. But Geppetto himself had no children of his own and it made him feel sad that he lived alone.

The Somerset Girls

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“Foster convincingly brings her characters to life against the idyllic backdrop of Kentucky farmland. This down-to-earth romance will especially appeal to animal lovers.”—Publishers Weekly on The Somerset GirlsNo one knows you quite like a sister…Summer in Sunset, Kentucky, means long, hot days—and sometimes surprising new beginnings. Through it all, the ties of sisterhood will be there, guiding Autumn and Ember to the lives, and loves, they need…When they’re running the animal-rescue farm they inherited from their grandparents, Autumn and Ember Somerset are perfectly in sync. At all other times, not so much. Dependable Autumn would rather curl up with a good book than paint the town red with Ember. After the disaster that was Autumn’s last relationship, it’s pure self-protection. But when her high school crush comes back to town with his adorable young daughter, igniting memories best left forgotten, there’s only one person Autumn can turn to…Beneath Ember’s free-spirited facade is a layer of deep hurt. She’ll gladly nudge Autumn toward a second chance. But risk her own heart? Not likely. The closer Autumn gets to her own happily-ever-after, the more Ember wonders what she might be missing—and if it isn’t her time to be bold, too.Don't miss The Little Flower Shop, an all new heartwarming summer read from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster about a 40-something florist who, with the help of her meddling small town, gets a second chance at life and love.More charming contemporaries from Lori Foster: The Honeymoon Cottage The Summer of No Attachments Sisters of Summer's End Cooper's Charm

The Dying Negro ... [By T. Day and J. Bicknell.] Second edition, with additions.

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The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire.

Das verrückte Tagebuch des Henry Shackleford

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Ausgezeichnet mit dem National Book Award.Kansas im Jahre 1857: Hier, im Mittleren Westen der USA, lebt der junge Sklave Henry Shackleford. Hier tobt auch der Krieg zwischen überzeugten Sklavenhaltern und bibeltreuen Abolitionisten besonders wüst. John Brown ist einer derjenigen, die beseelt davon sind, Gottes Willen durchzusetzen und die Schwarzen in die Freiheit zu führen. Als er zufällig in einer Kneipe auf Henrys grausamen Master trifft – einen weithin bekannten und berüchtigten Sklavenhalter –, kommt es zu einer gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzung, in deren Folge beide fliehen müssen: sowohl John Brown als auch der junge Henry, der irrtümlicherweise für ein Mädchen gehalten wird und schnell begreift, dass dies seine Vorteile hat …

Misère de la prospérité

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Né en 1948, romancier et essayiste, Pascal Bruckner est, entre autres, l'auteur de La tentation de l'innocence ( Prix Médicis de l'essai en 1995) et Les Voleurs de Beauté (Prix Renaudot en 1997). Il a publié récemment chez Grasset, L'Euphorie perpétuelle (2000). « Dans nos pays développés, l'économie prétend de plus en plus régir les esprits et l'ensemble des activités humaines. 1989 devait marquer le triomphe sans partage de la démocratie et du doux commerce sur l'ensemble de la planète. Or depuis plus de dix ans, le capitalisme déçoit : non seulement il laisse des centaines de millions d'hommes au bord de la route mais, en Europe et en Amérique, malgré un enrichissement sans précédent, il ne cesse de creuser les inégalités et d'affaiblir les classes moyennes menacées par le spectre de la paupérisation. La solution serait-elle dans une remise en cause du système ? Ceux qui s'opposent à lui (les antimondialisations et leur discours à vide) partagent la même logique : voir dans le marché la source de tous les maux là où les libéraux célèbrent la source de tous les bienfaits. Dépréciée ou adulée, l'idole reste l'idole. Il faut donc s'affranchir de la fascination réciproque par le mode de production où communient les frères ennemis. Ce n'est pas du capitalisme qu'il faut sortir, c'est de l'économisme. La volonté du marché est de reconstruire la société sur son modèle, de périmer le politique, la culture, l'éducation ; d'imposer partout un seul type d'hommes, le consommateur-entrepreneur qui pense ses rapports au monde sous le seul angle du service et de la prestation. Il est grand temps de désacraliser le capitalisme, qu'on soit pour ou contre, et de réfléchir à une autre vie. » P.Bruckner

Forget Me Not

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For a New Jersey cartoonist, the death of her parents reveals a bevy of secrets in this novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Fancy Dancer. With a popular comic strip, card line, and children’s cartoon to her name, Lucy Brighton should be in a happy place. But the ache of a cold, lonely childhood lingers on. Even though she still lives in the New Jersey house where she grew up, Lucy has had little contact with her parents since they moved to Florida five years ago. Then Lucy receives a call that her parents have been killed in a car crash. While settling their affairs in Florida, Lucy begins to realize how little she really knew about their lives. She has no way to explain the mysterious safe in their bedroom, with its cache of fake passports, cash, and weapons. What secrets were the Brightons keeping? Were they even who they claimed to be? The answers will shatter everything she once believed about her parents—and about herself. Praise for Fern Michaels and her novels “Tirelessly inventive and entertaining.” —Booklist on Up Close and Personal “Fast-moving . . . entertaining . . . a roller-coaster ride of serendipitous fun.” —Publishers Weekly on Mr. and Miss Anonymous “Michaels knows what readers expect from her and she delivers each and every time.” —RT Book Reviews on Perfect Match

Η συνήθεια των 5

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Η συνήθεια των 5. Μη σας ξεγελάει ο τίτλος. Δεν πρόκειται για άλλο ένα βιβλίο που θα σας πει πώς να ευχαριστείτε τους άλλους γύρω σας. Το κάνετε ήδη. Πανηγυρίζετε για τις αγαπημένες σας ομάδες. Γιορτάζετε με τους φίλους σας. Υποστηρίζετε τους ανθρώπους που αγαπάτε και τους ενθαρρύνετε να πετύχουν τους στόχους τους. Φανταστείτε όμως να δίνατε την ίδια αγάπη και ενθάρρυνση στον εαυτό σας. Ή, ακόμα καλύτερα, να το κάνατε καθημερινή συνήθεια. Τότε δεν θα μπορούσε να σας σταματήσει κανείς. Με αυτό το βιβλίο θα μάθετε πώς να επιβραβεύετε το πιο σημαντικό άτομο στη ζωή σας: ΤΟΝ ΕΑΥΤΟ ΣΑΣ. Εάν παλεύετε με την αμφιβολία για τον εαυτό σας (και ποιος δεν το κάνει;)… Αν έχετε βαρεθεί αυτή την γκρινιάρικη φωνή στο κεφάλι σας που σας ασκεί συνεχώς κριτική (θα μπορούσε κάποιος να τη διώξει;)… Εάν είστε εξαιρετικά επιτυχημένοι, αλλά το μόνο στο οποίο εστιάζετε είναι τι πάει στραβά (δεν είστε οι μόνοι)… Αν έχετε βαρεθεί να βλέπετε όλους τους άλλους να τα προλαβαίνουν όλα, ενώ εσείς κάθεστε στον καναπέ με τον σκύλο σας (δεν φταίει ο σκύλος σας γι’ αυτό)… …αυτό το βιβλίο είναι για σας. Χρησιμοποιώντας τις επιστημονικές της γνώσεις αλλά και τις βαθιά προσωπικές της ιστορίες, η Robbins φέρνει την αλλαγή στις ζωές των ανθρώπων σε όλο τον κόσμο. Το βιβλίο αυτό σας δείχνει πώς να κάνετε την πίστη στον εαυτό σας συνήθεια, ώστε να λειτουργείτε με τη σιγουριά που απαιτούν οι στόχοι και τα όνειρά σας. Κινηθείτε πιο γρήγορα από τις δικαιολογίες σας. Ανακαλύψτε τον τρόπο που θα πείσετε τον εαυτό σας να κάνει αυτό που πρέπει.

7 best short stories by Zane Grey

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Grey's novels however denigrated by critics as empurpled froths of 'virgins, villains and varmints' were only part of the allure that fixed his name in the hearts of millions of Americans. Zane Grey was a self-made model of rugged rural virtue overimbued with what the critic Heywood Broun acidly called "the sanity, the strength and the wholesomeness" of his novels; a teetotaler opposed to the "jiggle and toddle and wiggle" of jazz-age dancing; and a staunch champion of clean outdoor living and hard work and righteous, simple codes of conduct. The New York TimesThis selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:Amber's MirageThe RangerDon: The Story Of A Lion DogThe Wolf TrackerLure of the RiverA Missouri SchoolmarmMonty Price's Nightingale

The Gaspards of Pine Croft

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The Gaspards of Pine Croft: A Romance of the Windermere written by Ralph Connor who was a Canadian novelist. This book was published in 1923. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy reading this book.

The Key

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The Key-A collection of short stories.These nine tales will lead you on adventures that may open a legacy… or dark and sinister truths you’d rather not know. It could lead to an inheritance or acurse... you’ll just have to read on to find out.

Classic Westerns: Zane Grey: 18 novels in a single file

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This book-collection file includes: The Last of the Plainsmen, 1908; The Last Trail, 1909; The Heritage of the Desert, 1910; The Young Forester, 1910; Riders of the Purple Sage, 1912; Desert Gold, 1913; The Light of Western Stars, 1914; The Lone Star Ranger, 1915; The Rainbow Trail 1915; The Border Legion, 1916; Wildfire, 1917; The U. P. Trail, 1918; The Desert of Wheat, 1919; The Man of the Forest, 1920; The Mysterious Rider, 1921; To the Last Man, 1921; The Day of the Beast, 1922; and Tales of Lonely Trails, 1922. With the active (hyperlinked) table of contents, you click on a book title to go to that book; and use the Back button to return to the table of contents. According to Wikipedia: "Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West."

Salem Falls

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a compelling and “multilayered tale of small-town intrigue” (Glamour) about a prep schoolteacher accused of rape by a group of young girls, the woman who stands by him, and the repercussions of the case in a New England town where the past is only a heartbeat away.Love can redeem a man...but secrets and lies can condemn him.A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past. Once a teacher at a girls prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart.But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets—and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation. Now, at the center of a modern-day witch hunt, Jack is forced once again to proclaim his innocence: to a town searching for answers, to a justice system where truth becomes a slippery concept written in shades of gray, and to the woman who has come to love him in this unputdownable novel that will keep you “constantly guessing” (The Dallas Morning News) until the very last page.

The String of Pearls: Vol. I

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Long before Tim Burton, an anonymous author created the infamous Sweeny Todd, “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” in 1846. Featured in The String of Pearls, a penny dreadful serial, Sweeny Todd is a barber who murders his customers and disposes the bodies by baking them into meat pies. His partner, Mrs. Lovett, sells the pies at a local shop in London. Set in 1785, the story begins with the strange disappearance of a sailor, Lt. Thornhill, last seen at Sweeny Todd’s shop. Thornhill had a string of pearls he was intending to give as a gift to a young girl, Johanna Oakley, on behalf of her lover, Mark Ingestrie, who had been lost at sea. Desperate to solve the mystery of Thornhill’s death and retrieve her trinket from her lost beau, Johanna disguises herself as a man and applies for a position at Sweeny Todd’s shop as an assistant. What she discovers leads to a bittersweet ending on Fleet Street. This book was created from a scan of the original artifact, and as such the text of the book is not selectable or searchable.

To Him That Hath

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This an excellent depiction of some of the post war events and union formations that took place in Canada. It is as relevant today as then in what miscommunication can lead to. Ralph Connor writes stories free of vulgar language and free of sex while exposing the character of man and how a few good men can change their community, their environment, all the while having a slow under- lying romantic story that would keep any woman reading.

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