In a sleepy Danish town, death lurks amongst the dusty bric‑a‑brac…The elderly volunteers at the second-hand shop keep dying. Heart attacks. Strokes. A simple case of old age, say the police. Sad but inevitable.Newly retired Mrs Mortensen begs to differ. This "Danish Miss Marple" and her loyal dachshund, Mortensen III, sniff a sinister pattern at work.Armed with a fierce sense of justice and a fondness for tea and cake, Anne-Maj launches her own investigation. The f...

Our Emotional Complexities is a powerful journey into the raw, unfiltered core of what it means to feel. Each page captures a single emotion in its purest form, offering a space to pause, reflect and connect. These are the poems that speak to the moments you thought no one else understood. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself feel. Let the words guide you through the beautiful, messy complexity of being human. This is not just poetry. This is emotional truth, one feeling at a time.

In Oriental countries woman has been uniformly devoted to a life of ignorance, infamy, and complete stagnation. The Chinese shoe of to-day does not more entirely dwarf, cramp, and destroy her physical powers, than have the customs, laws, and social instincts, which from remotest ages have governed our Sister of the East, enervated and blighted her mental and moral life. Mahomet makes no account of woman whatever in his polity. The Koran, which, unlike our Bible, was a product and not a gro...

** "A beautifully woven tale of two love stories, past and present, that capture the complexities of love. Anna Gomez delivers a poignant story that juxtaposes the outward quest of a young woman to find her mother with the transformative journey of the heart." - New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Leylah Attar **Charlotte “Charlie” Hastings never missed her mother. But when Charlie's late father visits her in a dream and reveals the lette...

Hot Erotic 50+ Short Stories: The Big Book of Hot Erotica Adult Sex Stories Collections"The Ultimate Erotic Short Story Collections"These stories are adult erotic short stories to read in bedtime all things erotic and sexy pleasures of pure and extreme naughty action sexual pleasure.Enjoy my new collection of 55+ erotica short stories!WARNING: This story is intended for ADULT female readers 18 years of age or older.....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • Centuries after the events of Wings of Starlight, two fairies must battle a dangerous magic—and their growing feelings for each other—in order to save their home in the Winter Woods of Pixie Hollow.When frost fairy Periwinkle travels too close to the forbidden border where Spring meets the Winter Woods, she unknowingly discovers a thread of a lost magic. And, for the first time, she begins to dream. While Per...

Lambda Literary Award Winner: The history of the tactics used by US law enforcement to harass and attack gay communities across the country.In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mi...

**Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”—The Guardian**In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s ...

Three women relate their harrowing stories in this powerful true crime collection.This volume includes three accounts of horrifying crimes told by women involved in them, whether as victim, witness, or family member:You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan: This is not a typical story of Internet stalking. It is an unusual case of friendship and deception so pitiless and unyielding that it opened a door to Hell into the author's life. This is an un...

NATURE-STUDY is, despite all discussions and perversions, a study of nature; it consists of simple, truthful observations that may, like beads on a string, finally be threaded upon the understanding and thus held together as a logical and harmonious whole. Therefore, the object of the nature-study teacher should be to cultivate in the children powers of accurate observation and to build up within them, understanding.FIRST, but not most important, nature-study gives the child practi...

Penny is a young maidservant, innocent and pure. But her innocence is soon to be corrupted...Her Master, Lord Wiltshire is a known rake and scoundrel, and when it comes to sweet little maids like Penny, he simply cannot resist his base desires...~~~~~ PG Excerpt ~~~~~Remembering her quick induction to the service, Penny went to Lady Wiltshire first. The prim woman held up her glass and didn't acknowledge the lowly maid as she poured her glass like she had been instr...

Lady Emily is an innocent. But her dreams are about to be shattered. Her father has gambled away her dowry, and the family is ruined. The only way to avoid the workhouse is through the most sinful and shocking path possible. She must give a year's service to the Hellfire Club, where London's most debauched libertines sample the delights of innocent flesh, and always crave fresh meat.~~~~~ PG Excerpt ~~~~~The woman who walked down the streets of London in her scarlet dress w...