SOFIAI came to the altar to marry the heir.I left it wearing his father's ring.One moment, I was promised to the prince of the Italian underworld. The next, I belonged to Luciano Valenti—Il Re. The king no one dares betray. Older. Ruthless. Untouchable. And the last man I should ever trust. They say he married me to protect my family. He says it was the only way to keep me alive. I say he stole my future. But the deeper I fall into his empire, the m...

Her plan was simple:Help the Alpha King choose his Queen.Earn her freedom.Escape the pack that has treated her like a slave.Then the King chooses her.SeraphinaFor ten years, Seraphina has survived by staying invisible.An unwanted omega with no rank, she's ordered to help the Alpha's daughter win the King's heart. If she succeeds, she'll finally be free. If she fails, she'll be forced to marry the crue...

King Alfred's Old English rendering of St. Augustine's Soliloquies appears here in modern English, framed by Hargrove's scholarly preface and Alfred's own reflective introduction. From the opening, the work joins practical labor to spiritual aspiration: timber, cottages, and eternal homes become emblems of earthly effort directed toward divine rest and glory. At its heart is a searching dialogue in which Augustine, through Reason, wrestles with the soul, the existence of God, and the diffe...

FOUR MATES. ONE HIDDEN IDENTITY. AND A POWER I WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO HAVE.I was nobody.A powerless witch with no family, no magical pedigree, and no place among the supernatural elite.Then I arrived at Nightfall Academy.And four of its most powerful students—and one very forbidden man—claimed I was their mate.The arrogant shadow mage who can't stand me.The seductive vampire prince who seems to know exactly what I am.T...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

MY MAGIC IS AWAKE. MY FOUR MATES ARE BONDED TO ME. AND NOW EVERYONE KNOWS I EXIST.I thought discovering my four mates was the most dangerous thing that could happen to me.I was wrong.The seal hiding my magic is breaking.Every day, I'm becoming stronger—and more afraid of what I'll find when the last piece of my power returns.My shadow mage is fighting a war against his own feelings.My vampire prince is becoming dangerously po...

THEY BURIED MY BLOODLINE. THEY SEALED MY POWER. THEY SHOULD HAVE FINISHED THE JOB.They failed. My magic is fully awake. The supernatural kingdoms know who I am.And the four men bound to my soul have chosen me—even if choosing me means turning against the world they were born to protect.My shadow mage. My vampire prince. My wolf shifter. My fae heir.They are my mates. My family. My greatest weakness. And my greatest strength.But the p...

Seventeen stories from NY Times and USA Today bestsellers and award-winning authors that will lure you to the darker side of faerie tales. More Grimm than Disney, in this collection you’ll find twists on Snow White, Hansel & Gretel, Rumpelstilstskin, The Snow Queen, Cinderella, The Pied Piper, Alice in Wonderland, and Red Riding Hood, plus new tales paying homage to the old traditions.Shadows cannot exist without light, however, and you’ll find enough happily ever afters to lift yo...

"I think I'm in love. Loathe. I'm in loathe with her."PANDORA'S SERPENT is the debut novel of Augustine Kent's dark romantasy series, The Kurosh Cycle.Janessa's nearly picture-perfect life turned upside down the day she crossed a chaos demon's path. When Janessa stepped unfraid into Varku's mayhem, he couldn't look away. It infuriated him, the way she put things back in order. But he also found himself intrigued, much to his di...

Preparing for the court interpreter written exam is demanding, and for most languages the study material has been scarce. If you interpret in Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Amharic, Arabic, Mandarin, Somali, or any of the many languages the courts rely on, you have probably searched for a guide and found little. This book was written to close that gap.What this book helps you doCourt Interpreter Written Exam Prep is a complete study guide for the written scree...

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of St. Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is one of the most influential works in Western philosophy and Christian theology. This profound autobiographical text, written by Saint Augustine of Hippo in the 4th century, recounts his journey from a life of indulgence and sin to spiritual awakening and conversion to Christianity. Rich in introspection, theology, and moral reflection, Augustine's Confessions deeply explore the human soul, sin, and redemption. This timeless work offers profound insight...