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Tietyt tytöt

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Mitä todellinen onni on, ja kuinka se saavutetaan? ”Kuin kirjallista hattaraa – kevyttä, hauskaa ja makeaa, mutta tarttuu kiinni ja pysyy mielessä pitkään.” – Gotham Nelikymppinen Cannie Shapiro julkaisi aikoinaan seksiä tihkuvan omaelämäkerrallisen kohuromaanin, mutta nykyisin hänen elämänsä on nautinnollisen tasaista. Cannie kirjoittaa salanimellä, kuljettaa 12-vuotiasta tytärtään harrastuksiin ja viettää aikaa aviomiehensä kanssa. Mikään ei kuitenkaan voi jatkua ikuisesti, ja arki heittääkin yllättäen volttia: Ensin aviomies päättää haluta vauvan. Sitten tytär Joy lukee Cannien romaanin ja uskoo selvittäneensä, miten hänet pantiin alulle. Cannien ei auta kuin luovia perhe-elämän karikoilla parhaan taitonsa mukaan. Jennifer Weiner (s. 1970) on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, journalisti ja tv-tuottaja. Hänen romaaninsa tunnetaan hersyvästä sanailusta ja herkullisista henkilöhahmoista, ja ne nousevat järjestään The New York Timesin bestsellerlistan kärkeen. Weinerin teoksia on myyty maailmanlaajuisesti yli 11 miljoonaa kappaletta 36 eri maassa. Weiner asuu Philadelphiassa perheensä kanssa.

Little women

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Little women, Louisa May Alcott. Revised version of http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/1894 . Original online public domain version published by New Wave Publishers, Portland, U.S.A. Downloaded from the InterNet Wiretap anonymous ftp server (wiretap.spies.com) in July 1993. First printed edition published in 1869. .

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2019 Edition

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A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2019.Includes stories by:Elizabeth BearSiobhan CarrollJohn ChuGreg EganKathleen Ann GoonanS. L. HuangCarole JohnstoneKJ KabzaErinn L. KemperMary Robinette KowalRich LarsonM. Evan MacGriogirSeanan McGuireLis MitchellMimi MondalAnnalee NewitzSilvia ParkLaurie PennyBrenda PeynadoChristopher RoweRivers SolomonKarin TidbeckJY YangE. Lily YuAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Love, Lust & Heartbreak: 50 Romance Classics in One Collection

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e-artnow offers you this warm and meticulously edited collection for these stressful times: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Play) Romeo & Juliet (Prose Version) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Camilla (Fanny Burney) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Villette (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Red and the Black (Stendhal) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Adam Bede (George Eliot) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The House of a Thousand Candles (Meredith Nicholson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda The Agony Column (Earl DerrBiggers) The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott) Night and Day (Virginia Woolf) Affairs of State (Burton Egbert Stevenson) Jill the Reckless (P.G. Wodehouse) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) The Transformation of Philip Jettan (Georgette Heyer) And Both Were Young (Madeleine L'Engle) Penny Plain (O. Douglas) The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

The Defenders

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"The Defenders" is a 1953 science fiction short story by American author Philip K. Dick, and the basis for Dick's 1964 novel The Penultimate Truth. It is one of several of his short stories to be expanded into a novel. The short story was first published in the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Great Books: Volume One

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Great Books is inspired by a curriculum and a book list, as well as a method of education. Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:1. the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times;2. the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit;3. the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries.Includes active table of contents. Authors include:Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison:The Federalist PapersCharles Dickens:David CopperfieldHard TimesThe Pickwick PapersDaniel Defoe:Robinson CrusoeDesiderius Brasmus:The Praise of FollyEdmund Spenser:The Faerie QueenFrancois Rabelais:Gargantua and PantagruelGeoffrey Chaucer:The Canterbury TalesHerman Melville:Moby DickHomer:The IliadThe OdysseyJane Austen:EmmaPride and PredjudiceJonathan Swift:A Modest ProposalGullivers TravelsLeonardo da Vinci:The NotebooksMarcus Aurelius:MeditationsMark Twain:Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMichel de Montaigne:EssaysMiguel de Cervantes:Don QuixoteSt. Augustine:ConfessionsWilliam Congreve: The Way of the World

Cineva cunoscut

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Bestseller New York TimesDe la autoarea bestsellerurilor Cuplul din vecini și Străinul de acasă„Aceasta este o scrisoare dificil de scris. Sper că n-o să ne urăști prea tare (…) Fiul meu a intrat recent în casa voastră în timp ce erați plecați."Într-o suburbie înverzită din New York, un adolescent se strecoară în casele vecinilor — și în computerele lor — și le află secretele. Cine e și ce-ar fi putut descoperi? După ce apar două scrisori anonime, încep să circule zvonuri și oamenii devin bănuitori. Iar când este găsit cadavrul unei femei, încordarea atinge punctul critic. Cine a ucis-o? Cine știe mai multe decât spune? Și cât de departe vor merge niște oameni cumsecade ca să-și apere secretele?În acest cartier, nu doar soții și soțiile se înșală unii pe alții. Aici, toți membrii familieiau câte ceva de ascuns…Nu știi de fapt niciodată de ce sunt în stare oamenii.

The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

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The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarchs V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bunyan & Walton V. 16: 1001 Nights V. 17: Folklore & Fable V. 18: Modern English Drama V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe V. 20: The Divine Comedy V. 21: I Promessi Sposi V. 22: The Odyssey V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast V. 24: Edmund Burke V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle V. 26: Continental Drama V. 27 & 28: English & American Essays V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle V. 30: Scientific Papers V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays V. 33: Voyages & Travels V. 34: French & English Philosophers V. 35: Chronicle and Romance V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur V. 39: Prologues V. 40–42: English Poetry V. 43: American Historical Documents V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama V. 48: Blaise Pascal V. 49: Saga V. 50: Reader's Guide V. 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice V. 4: Guy Mannering V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield V. 9: The Mill on the Floss V. 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale V.11: The Portrait of a Lady V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland

Condominium

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Welcome to Golden Sands, the dream condominium built on a weak foundation and a thousand dirty secrets.Here is a panoramic look at the shocking facts of life in a Sun Belt community -- the real estate swindles and political payoffs, the maintenance charges that run up and the health benefits that run cut...the crackups and marital breakdowns...the disaster that awaits those who play in the path of the hurricane...

Con tutto l'amore che ho

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In esclusiva digitale, il racconto che ha ispirato il nuovo romanzo di Jennifer Weiner, La prima cosa bella. Non è certo un bel momento della vita di Ruth. Un lavoro come autrice per un programma televisivo alle spalle, e una delusione d'amore in corso, vive facendo la scrittrice freelance, aiutando ansiosi studenti universitari a preparare domande d'ammissione al college, o cuori solitari a scrivere profili per siti d'appuntamenti. Finché un inaspettato cliente le mostrerà come a volte di fronte alle difficoltà, la cosa migliore da fare è buttarsi nella mischia. Contiene in omaggio il primo capitolo de La prima cosa bella.

Bara över sommaren

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Det tycks vila en förbannelse över Justin – alla kvinnor han dejtar hittar sin själsfrände så snart de går skilda vägar, medan han förblir ungkarl. Den eviga singeln Emma lider av exakt samma problem. När de får kontakt med varandra börjar en idé ta form. Om de dejtar varandra och sedan gör slut borde förbannelserna hävas och de båda hitta sitt livs kärlek. En galen idé, men vad kan gå fel? Det som är tänkt att vara en sommarflirt blir mer komplicerat när Emmas mamma dyker upp och Justin tvingas ta hand om sina småsyskon. Dessutom uppstår något som ingen av dem kan avfärda som en tillfällig romans. Tänk om ödet faktiskt fört samman det perfekta paret den här gången? Bara över sommaren är en oemotståndlig sommarflirt som tar sig an komplicerade familjerelationer med humor och värme. Den utgör sista delen i Abby Jimenez succéserie Del av din värld.

The Jungle

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The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968).[1] Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper.

Indecent (Regency Lovers 1)

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This 26,000 word novella was previously published in A Regency Duo by Carole Mortimer & Angelique Armae. There have been no changes or additions from the original novella.INDECENT (Regency Lovers 1) is the 1st book in USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer’s, NEW Regency series.Impoverished Miss Emma Harris can hardly believe her good fortune when Adam Stirling, the handsome and imposing Duke of Hawkwood, asks her father for her hand in marriage.However, she feels thoroughly humiliated when she attends a masked ball that very same evening and sees Hawkwood in a compromising position with a married woman. A very compromising position, in fact it is positively INDECENT.Angry and upset, Emma confronts Hawkwood with what she saw, accusing him of only wanting to marry her as a shield to his affairs with other women. Accusations the duke denies.Half in love with the arrogant Hawkwood, Emma is devastated when she learns the real reason he asked her to marry him.But if Emma thinks Adam is the type of gentleman to meekly accept her rejection, she is about to learn exactly how INDECENT he can be when he wants something as deeply as he now wants Emma.More books by Carole Mortimer:NEW Regency Lovers Series:INDECENT (Regency Lovers 1)OBSESSION (Regency Lovers 2)CRAVING (Regency Lovers 3)More books to come in this seriesSteele Protectors - NEW Contemporary Romantic Suspense Series COMING SOONLOGAN (Steele Protectors 1)More books to come in this seriesRegency Sinners Series:Wicked Torment (Regency Sinners 1)Wicked Surrender (Regency Sinners 2)Wicked Scandal (Regency Sinners 3)Wicked Deception (Regency Sinners 4)Wicked Captive (Regency Sinners 5)Wicked Temptation (Regency Sinners 6)Wicked Sinner (Regency Sinners 7)Wicked Christmas (Regency Sinners 8)Bk 8 Completes this SeriesDragon Hearts Series:NATHANIEL (Dragon Hearts 1)DERYK (Dragon Hearts 2)BRYN (Dragon Hearts 3)DYLAN (Dragon Hearts 4)GRIGOR (Dragon Hearts 5)GARRETT (Dragon Hearts 6)AERAN & RHYS (Dragon Hearts 7)Regency Unlaced Series: 9 book Regency romance seriesContemporary Knight Security Series – spin-off to Alpha Series: 7 book Romantic Suspense seriesContemporary Alpha Series: 8 book Romantic Suspense seriesCarole Mortimer has written 240 books in Regency, Contemporary, and Paranormal romance. In 2015 she became the Recipient of the prestigious Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She was awarded a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 2017. She is an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author—ever. A 2014 Romantic Times Pioneer of Romance author. She was also recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, for her “outstanding service to literature”.

Sällsynt kloka varelser

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Amerikansk succédebut!- New York Times bästsäljarlista- Nominerad till både Best Debut Novel och Best Fiction 2022 av Goodreads- A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!"Med sina ömsinta karaktärsbeskrivningar, lågmälda humor och lättsamma prosa är den helt enkelt perfekt till sommarens hängmatta." UNT"... läsvärd roman som är både finstämd och mysig. En bok som berör på djupet." Vestmanlands Läns TidningTova har tagit jobb som städare på stadens akvarium för att ha något att göra. Hennes make har gått bort och annars träffar hon mest sina enerverande väninnor på tråkiga kafferep.Med mopp och hink rengör Tova akvariets lokaler efter stängning iakttagen av de vattenlevande varelserna. Där finns den åttaarmade bläckfisken Marcellus som hon är särskilt fäst vid. Samtidigt kommer den unge Cameron till stan, på jakt efter sin pappa. När Tova råkar halka och skada foten får Cameron ta över hennes nattliga städjobb.Vad varken Tova eller Cameron förstår är att bläckfisken Marcellus döljer många hemligheter i sitt akvarium - han vet vad som hände när Tovas son försvann.Den hjärtevärmande "Sällsynt kloka varelser" handlar vänskap och hopp, om att försonas med det förflutna och att leva i nuet."Sällsynt kloka varelser" har legat på den amerikanska bästsäljarlistan och var av Goodreads nominerad till både Best Debut Novel och Best Fiction 2022.

Una notte solo per noi

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UN RACCONTO DI JENNIFER WEINER, DISPONIBILE SOLO IN DIGITALE. Il volo di Piper per Parigi è stato cancellato e suo marito ha pensato di comunicarle che al suo ritorno non lo troverà più a casa. Una giornata iniziata nel peggiore dei modi, ma che riserverà a Piper sorprese inaspettate, soprattutto quando in aeroporto, ad attendere un volo che non arriverà mai, non sarà sola. Un uomo affascinante e sconosciuto sembra essere l'occasione giusta per buttarsi alle spalle i mille pensieri che affollano la sua mente. Almeno per una notte. Contiene le prime pagine del nuovo romanzo dell'autrice, La prima cosa bella.

Šťastně až navěky

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MYSLELA SI, ŽE JEJÍ ŽIVOT SKONČIL. PAK ALE POTKALA JEHO… TEDY, JEHO PSA.Umělkyně Sloan má i dva roky po osobní tragédii, která otřásla celým jejím životem, stále problém vstát ráno z postele. Ať dělá cokoliv, připadá si jako tělo bez duše. Alespoň dokud jí do auta neskočí jeden trochu divoký, ale roztomilý a především opuštěný pes, jehož oči vyloženě prosí, aby se ho ujala.Tucker, jak se zvíře jmenuje, vnese do jejích dnů nečekaný řád a radost, a Sloan se díky němu konečně začíná cítit sama sebou. Jenže to skončí, když se po řadě nezodpovězených textovek najednou ozve Tuckerův majitel, muzikant Jason, že chce svého psa zpátky.Sloan se svého nového zvířecího parťáka nehodlá vzdát bez boje. Co když ho ale Jason opravdu postrádá? A navíc je ten chlap milý, pohledný a vtipný… Co začne flirtováním po chatu, se brzy změní na dlouhé telefonáty, a kdo ví, co by se mohlo stát, až se potkají osobně?Otázka je, jak dlouho se Jason, kterého hudební kariéra nutí být stále na cestách, asi hodlá zdržet na jednom místě. A unesla by Sloan, kdyby jí někdo znovu zlomil srdce?____Chytrá letní romance od autorky bestselleru Jenom kamarádi. „Poutavý román o hledání odvahy a o tom, že když jde o lásku, stojí za to vzít druhou šanci za pačesy.“ – Publishers Weekly „Jedna z nejlepších romancí tohoto roku.“ – SheReads

The Unexpected Meet-Cute

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Sechs mal auf Wolke sieben schwebenOb in einem Spa, auf der Hochzeit des besten Freundes oder im Tiefschlaf auf der Spanischen Treppe, es gibt in diesen sechs Geschichten keinen Ort, an welchem den Protagonistinnen die Liebe nicht über den Weg läuft. Genauso überraschend sind die Wege, die sie nimmt: sei es über eine falsch adressierte E-Mail, einen fehlgeleiteten Valentinstagsgruß, eine Aspirin, die keine war oder einen Notruf an einen unglaublich netten (und heißen) Feuerwehrmann, der versucht die defekte Floating-Muschel wieder zu öffnen. Eines aber hat die Liebe in den Geschichten von Christina Lauren, Abby Jimenez, Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, Ashley Poston und Sariah Wilson gemeinsam: Sie ist unverhofft, und das ausgerechnet am Tag der Liebe!Sechs romantische und unglaublich unterhaltsame Kurzgeschichten zum Lächeln, Weinen und herzhaft Lachen.

Criaturas luminosas

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Una cálida y entrañable historia sobre la inesperada amistad entre un pulpo y una mujer que afronta su vida en soledad. Una novela que te atrapa con sus tentáculos y no te suelta. *Finalista de los premios Goodreads 2022**En la lista de best sellers de The New York Times*Marcellus es un pulpo increíblemente curioso y descarado. Cada día, mucha gente pasa por delante de su tanque en el acuario de Sowell Bay, aunque pocos se detienen demasiado. En cambio, Tova, la limpiadora, le ha cogido cariño y, mientras barre, le cuenta cuánto echa de menos a su hijo, desaparecido hace treinta años en el mar.A Marcellus no se le escapa nada y es mucho más inteligente de lo que nadie podría imaginar, pero nunca se le ocurriría mover un solo tentáculo para ayudar a uno de sus captores humanos... hasta que comienza a formar una inesperada amistad con Tova. Con su perspicacia de detective, Marcellus ha deducido lo que sucedió la noche de la desaparición. Y ahora tendrá que ingeniárselas desde el otro lado del cristal para revelarle la verdad, antes de que sea demasiado tarde.Una novela deslumbrante y conmovedora sobre una amistad capaz de vencer la peor de las soledades. Y una historia de esperanza sobre dos almas generosas, criaturas imperfectas... y , quizá por eso, increíblemente luminosas.Sobre la novela han dicho:«Memorable y tierna».The Washington Post«Única y luminosa».Booklist«Una irresistible y totalmenteoriginal novela feel-good con un toque de misterio y llena de personajes inolvidables».Irish Independent«Su calidez e ingenio te deleitarán».Spectrum«Impregnada de un tierno humor, la elegante historia de Van Pelt sobre una viudaque encuentra comprensión y conexión en un inteligente pulpo resulta refrescante y sorprendentemente cercana».Elle«Una lectura cálida y llena de encanto».Kirkus Reviews«Una brillante novela sobre la esperanza».Business Insider

Aesop's Fables; a new translation

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Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic mediums.

Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe (1839) is a remarkable collection by the romantic poet, Shelley, who wrote more than a thousand pages of poetry over his career. It presents the origin and history of each of his writings as well as the intricacies of the poetry that has kept him alive on the modern literary scene. Mary Shelley edited this delicate commentary.

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