If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That’s what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you — a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled … except for the cupcake...

I preferred it when life came in tidy packages. When it didn’t — when something went awry — I was exceedingly skilled at packaging it back up. It was my job to do so, after all.I was a reconstructionist.I collected the puzzle pieces, then I gave those pieces to an investigative team to sort out. I didn’t ask questions. I didn’t offer answers. I saw, I recorded, and I moved on.I didn’t dwell or obsess. I didn’t hunt down suspects. I didn’t follow clues to find a kill...

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stali...

The day I turned nineteen, I expected to gain what little freedom I could within the restrictions of my bank account and the hallucinations that had haunted me for the last six years. I expected to drive away from a life that had been dictated by the tragedy of others and shaped by the care of strangers. I expected to be alone. Actually, I relished the idea of being alone. Instead, I found fear I thought I’d overcome. Uncertainty I thought I’d painstakingly planned away. And terror that wa...

They called me an amplifier. And they had bred me, raised me, and trained me to be a killer with preternatural precision. I was capable of taking, holding, and transferring power that wasn’t my own with a simple touch. Skin-to-skin contact. Along with four others of my generation, I could infiltrate any magical organization, extracting whoever or whatever I’d been ordered to extricate. Then I could destroy all evidence of our passing presence.They had made me. They directed me. Con...

The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and the year after, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway in 1954. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, this short novel is already a modern classic. It is the superbly told, tragic story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and his struggles with a giant Marlin far out in the Gulf...

"The tongue is the pen of the heart/ Di tsung iz der feder fun di hartz" and more sayings that sum up Jewish character and culture from generations past.Decade after decade, Yiddish proverbs continue to capture the humor, warmth, and traditions of Jewish life. Now, the beloved Yiddish Wisdom has been expanded with even more proverbs and fresh illustrations to be cherished by a new generation. With more than 150 folk sayings translated in Yiddish and English...

Approach the Old Testament with confidence.Chronological and Background Charts of the Old Testament helps students organize and synthesize the vast amount of biblical and extrabiblical information on the Old Testament by providing a helpful visual overview of the data, chronology, historical background, and criticism.This format allows facts, relationships, parallels, and contrasts to be grasped quickly and easily. Perfect for enhancing every type ...

This complete edition of the Holy Synod Version of the Russian Bible was designed for optimal navigation on Kobo and other electronic devices. It has both book and chapter navigation links. In just a few clicks, you can be reading any verse in the Bible.The Table of Contents lists all books of the Old and New Testaments, and Deuterocanonical literature. Just select the book you want to read and to go directly to it. Once you opened the book, you can select the chapter you want in j...

Welcome to Hartwell, an English village full of cobbled streets, pretty cottages, and dark secrets.Lady Lucy Hanley is struggling to preserve crumbling Hartwell Hall for her son as rumours circulate about her husband’s disappearance. Her best friend, Rachel Foxton feels trapped and lonely. She’s lived in Hartwell all her life and is exhausted after teaching during the pandemic, grieving her beloved father, and battling heartache. Dr. Meera Kumar is a new arrival. She’s always been ...

One thousand years ago, in the valley of Kashmir, a great Tantric master named Kshemaraja wrote his masterpiece: the Pratyabhijnahrdayam, which means "The Essence of the Recognition Philosophy". This text was a concise primer, written to introduce spiritual seekers to the Recognition philosophy in less formally philosophical, more approachable language. What Kshemaraja created turned out to be one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, breathtaking in its brevity but stunning in its ...

First published in 1926, ‘These Old Shades’ is a Georgian romance novel by Georgette Heyer, an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the regency romance and detective fiction genres. It is considered to be the work that established Georgette Heyer's career and helped direct her into becoming the Queen of Regency Romance. The Duke of Avon is known for his indifference, extraordinary omniscience, and his passionate lifestyle. Late one evening, he is accosted by a young person clot...