King Solomon of Jerusalem was a legendary womanizer during the Antiquity. The Song of Solomon is his most famous poem and celebrates sexual love.

Sam hasn't seen, heard, or felt a ghost in months, but that changes as soon as he and Rocky explore an abandoned indigo plantation in Charleston, SC. First: A ghost steps out of a mirror, tells them to run away, and then flies straight through Sam. Second: Sam feels an angry ghost who leads him to an old vat, then it forces him to watch cryptic letters carved into the old wood by an unseen hand. Third: They meet the ghost of an enslaved boy who wants to get back to his family. With three m...

Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years w

World-renowned artifact collector, Ronald Moore, has always had a hunger for adventure and never believed in sharing the fruits of his labor. Behind his admirable reputation as one of the most famous explorers in the world, lies a stubborn man with an unwavering ego. When the seasoned collector is given the most dangerous mission of his career, retrieving The Relic of Power, he is faced with a life-changing reality that makes him question everything he once knew.Although Susan Klei...

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised La...

The extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup, a free African-American living in New York in 1841, who was kidnapped, sold into slavery, and subjected to unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue 12 years later.This moving and utterly brutal book is a harrowing account of his life in the sugar and cotton plantations of Louisiana, subject to varying degrees of savagery and abuse by a series of owners. Against all odds, Northup eventually manages to get word to his family...

Luke's dad has bought a lot of gadgets recently and not one of them works as it's supposed to. Maybe it's because a machine-from-the-future is stalking Bromley, playing havoc with all the tech and trying to stop Star Lad going on a date. Could this be the Rise of the Machines? Luke knows what he must do - he just needs his fellow SCARF members to help, or it will be the end of everything...My Cousin is a Time-Traveller is the fifth instalment of Luke's laugh-out-loud adven...

This audiobook is value-packed with more than 440 funny puns that are a mix of silly amusement for kids, and witty entertainment for adults.By listening to this audiobook while driving or relaxing, you can easily memorize the many funny jokes while being entertained every time.With this reservoir of dad and mom jokes, good & bad jokes for kids, as well as smart & silly jokes for adults, you would be able to sprinkle & tickle your children, even your dad, and also friends & ...

Aaron Brandon Solomon, known mainly and formidably by her official monikers, Samantha Komodo and "Cheezi D"; formerly known by her past pen names of Jennifer Gisselbrecht, and Mwezi Desoto, is a female gray wolf (choosing to reincarnate into a female African Wild Dog) and an American author/rapper/lyricist.She has been writing series of more than many fiction/action/thriller seriesbook since the tender cub age of five; with his most famous hits apparentlybeing "Lone Wo...

Experience the harrowing and unforgettable true story of resilience in 12 Years a Slave, the groundbreaking memoir by Solomon Northup. Originally published in 1853, this powerful historical narrative stands as one of the most important and gripping firsthand accounts of American slavery ever written. The book chronicles the tragic and deeply moving life of Northup, a free-born African American man from New York who, in 1841, was deceitfully kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and sold into the ...

"A wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real." Marlon James"A fantastical, fierce reckoning... Sorrowland is gorgeous." Roxanne Gay"Dark, magical and incredibly satisfying." Independent"An exhilarating journey to the outer limits of science fiction." Guardian.---Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises t...

A brilliantly funny story of what happens when a galactic princess moves in next door and almost brings about the end of the world. Exciting new fiction from the bestselling, award-winning author of My Brother is a Superhero.Gavin's got a new neighbour and she's really annoying. Niki follows him everywhere, bosses him about, and doesn't care that her parents will obliterate Earth with their galactic warships if she doesn't stop running away from them. Can ...