"Marry me… or your family dies."To save her father, Rachel Owens agrees to the one contract no woman survives—becoming the wife of Damien Montrel, the city's most feared mafia king.His rules are absolute:Obey.Stay inside.Never ask questions.But behind the mansion's iron gates, Rachel discovers a hidden truth…Leo. A small boy who calls her "Mama," and the only weakness Damien has ever shown.Ruthless to his enemies, merciless to...

SUMMER TO FALL is a romance novel in the New Adult genre, set in the 1980s. A classical pianist and devoted student, Lara Czerny is preparing to leave her Manhattan home for college, and feeling disconnected after high school ends. Then Lara meets Bryan in Queens, and everything changes. A lonely NYC summer heats up with romance, beach days, wild nights, and live music. A girl who always followed the rules begins breaking them, spectacularly. College plans loom ahead and Lara strains to bl...

Humans hoard cats. Kytol hoards raccoons. I'm just the animal control officer trying to get a leash on the situation.Earth's Wildlife and You: A Primer should be required reading for aliens. Unfortunately it isn't, and now I'm stuck in the unenviable position of explaining to green-skinned Kytol that no, raccoons aren't pets. Calls involving animal hoarding is one of the fastest ways to get me angry, but Kytol's menagerie of rescued raccoons is happy, heal...

This book examines The Commitments (Parker, 1991) for the first time as a film, rather than an adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s bestselling novel, and as a significant cultural event in 1990s Ireland.A major hit in Ireland and around the world, the film depicts the short-lived attempts of an ensemble of young working-class Dubliners to achieve success as a soul covers band, playing the hits of Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and others, on a mission to ‘bring soul back to Dublin...

Meet GEORGE the flybot, a one-of-a-kind robotic fly on his first official mission! With instructions from Darcy Luna, his boss at Fly on the Wall Inc., GEORGE zips off to the Himalayas to search for a camera that went missing during an ill-fated 1924 Mount Everest summit attempt. GEORGE understands that he might change history by discovering who really conquered Mount Everest. But GEORGE has a mission of his own: to learn more about how humans act and feel, and maybe - just maybe - find a ...

Lob Lie-by-the-Fire, The Brownies and Other Tales gathers Juliana Horatia Ewing's deftly wrought fairy tales and moral fantasies, works in which household life, rural folklore, and ethical education are interwoven with uncommon grace. The title tale transforms the figure of the fireside hobgoblin into a meditation on belonging, labor, and imaginative sympathy, while "The Brownies" famously recasts fairy assistance as a lesson in self-reliance. Written in the Victorian golden age of childre...

Jean Webster's Just Patty is a spirited collection of linked school stories set at St. Ursula's, where the irrepressible Patty Wyatt turns boarding-school routine into a theatre of wit, rebellion, and moral experiment. Written in a crisp, comic, and conversational style, the book belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of girls' school fiction, yet it distinguishes itself through its sharp social observation and sympathy for youthful independence. Webster treats pranks, friendship...

The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing is a pragmatic text assisting nurses at every career level through the challenges and rewards of their everyday duty to care. It advances the seminal work of Drs. Betty Ferrell and Nessa Coyle to give voice to the suffering of patients, their families, and their communities, as well as the suffering of nurses and other clinicians. This second edition has been updated in light of health and social care changes from the COVID-19 pande...

5 Short threesome and multiple partners stories.If you think it takes more than two to tango than those hot stories are for you! Inside you will find:1. A gangbang for my wifeWill five men be enough for her?2. Kissing Game, Sucking gameA bet over a kissing game with her fellow students turns into a game of sucking3. The Whole Soccer Team Comes on My FaceThirsty for the feeling of cum on ...

Nonie, is a little girl who lives on a farm. She is the only child of her ever busy but loving parents and when Nonie is not at school, she is starved for company. Her loneliness reaches new lows this winter. But then a special friend, Bundle, enters her life and everything changes like magic. Bundle’s arrival brings, joy, excitement and adventures as well as misadventures that go terribly wrong.

Dale and Jackson fit in every way. They have passion, they have love, and their lives are already intertwined. There's just one more step to go...A part of the 2009 Daily Dose Set, To Have and to Hold, which includes 30 M/M romance stories providing a glimpse of the many forms of love: love at first sight or a love for the ages, wedding bells or engagements, or that inexplicable something that makes you think "I do," the men in these stories are all touched by its spell.

A Prince of Swindlers is a late-Victorian rogue narrative built around the dazzling exploits of a master confidence man moving through drawing rooms, hotels, gaming tables, and imperial routes of travel. Boothby writes in a brisk, urbane, episodic style, combining sensation fiction, crime adventure, and the gentleman-criminal tradition that flourished alongside anxieties about class performance and modern anonymity. The book's pleasures lie in its elegant deceptions: disguise, social mimic...