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6761) Activation
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Caught in a fusion reactor explosion, Moira is paralyzed from the waist down. But her memories are also not the same. Is she who she thinks she is?Moira Pearce is an artist and sculptor. Covert operations involving keycards, ear mics, and contact lens cameras are definitely out of her wheelhouse. But when her sister needs help, she doesn't hesitate.Angie works on highly sensitive projects at Innovate Corp, military-grade technology. When she collapses...
6762) The Stranger's Touch
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CelesteHis kiss is heaven; his touch is fireHis heart is ice; his love inexistentBut can his dominance be my happiness? MicheleHer stubbornness is joy.Her fragility is excitement.Her love? I don't want it.But her submission? I want it forever Who shall win the Game of Doms? The Game of Doms is a fated enemy to lovers Mafia series filled with dark, explicit, and sensual scenes that can ignite your lust but make you desire a happy-ending romance.The...
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Ce florilège de presque cinq siècles vous donnera l'occasion de mieux connaître le tabac en littérature.
Le tabac: être pour ou être contre ne doit pas nous empêcher d'accéder à la connaissance de notre littérature, de notre culture. Les écrivains, les poètes, ont toujours écrit, sauf peut-être de nos jours, en raison de la période moraliste et puritaine que nous vivons, sur ou par l'herbe qui fume et enfume. Comment notre société...
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The McNealy Saga continues with Janus.
Janus moved away, across the country to find peace from the magic which assailed her when her older sister came into power. At 24, she still struggled with her powers, more than her family knew. Plus, she felt the dark calling her. It scared her into hiding away on her remote mountain in Washington State.
Mount Rainier had long been Ian's favorite retreat away from the world. He'd gone up hiking when a freak...
6765) Strange Stories
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The Strange Stories of Eduardo Capistrano are 13 tales of the fantastic, incorporating supernatural elements to tell eccentric narratives of imagination, illusion and dream.
In Horribile Dictu, the incursion of a supernatural investigator into the horror of a family destroyed by the hunger for power of its patriarch. In Umbilical, a psychiatrist tends to an obese patient with a very unusual eating disorder. Strange fortunes befall a man who tried...
6766) In Custody
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Out of place in the city, one of few humans among millions of aliens, Jaine Mar desperately searches for her brother.
They have got him somewhere in the crystalline towers.
To find him, she needs help. Maybe from an unexpected source.
One of five slightly quirky sci-fi stories in this collection from the award-winning writer of The Billows of Sarto.
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Two worlds with very different futures for humanity. In The Lord of Death, four scientists, aided by reverse-magnetism, travel to a dead planet where they discover that one human's lust for power destroyed all life there-except for him. In suspended animation, he awaits the newcomers. In The Queen of Life, the scientists travel to a planet encased in a glass sphere to protect the overpopulated planet from the sun's radiation. Conflict leads to a riot....
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"An unusually rewarding anthology whose most dangerous species remain Homo sapiens."- Kirkus Reviews
Feline friends, canine companions and aviary associates are often the truest reflections of their owners and have played a crucial role in classic crime fiction-be they detectives, or delinquents. Martin Edwards reaches into the British Library of Crime Classics to collect mysteries featuring an animal cohort.
Guilty Creatures celebrates an often-overlooked...
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When her dream meets his fantasy, it turns into somebody's nightmare...From the collection Free: My Abuse is Over comes the story of Brooklyn, a 22 year old woman who has saved herself for the right time and for the right man. She has prayed for this man to come into her life and waited. And now on her wedding night she believes God has answered her prayer, and her dreams are about to come true.Ky looks and sounds like the right man. A charismatic,...
6770) Liberating Deceit
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A kidnapped woman… On a private island of depraved men… With a master manipulator who's wanted her for years… Liberating Deceit is the complete dark romance trilogy featuring Angel and Liberty. When Liberty is kidnapped and taken to a private island, she meets Angel, a man who claims he wants to help her. But after being deceived so many times before… Should she trust him?
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The Scarlet Stiletto series of eBooks — the First to the Thirteenth Cuts — feature superb collections of spine-chilling crime and mystery short stories, by Australian women writers, curated from 28 years of the Scarlet Stiletto Awards hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.
6772) Wet Heat Collection
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Wet Heat Collection 1-3 Wet Heat Book 1Chelsey Hayden lives by strict codes under her family's name. When you're a Hayden, you follow the rules and never stray. Especially when it comes to her brother's friends being off limits, no matter how handsome and sexy they are. She comes from a wealthy family that has set her life according to plan from school, to marriage, and career. That is until the dynamics change and her path crosses with the one she...
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Octobre 2016, Paris, alors que s'apprête à ouvrir la première Salle de Consommation À Moindre Risque, appelée « salle de shoot ». Marion, 21 ans, consommatrice, souhaite s'y rendre afin de pratiquer ses injections dans un cadre sécurisé. Mais sa mère, Sonia, est démunie face à l'addiction et au mal-être de sa fille. Les deux femmes ne réussissent plus à communiquer : à l'enjeu de cette ouverture historique, se mêle toute la complexité...
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The sixth volume in the LTUE Benefit Anthologies series! Princesses and troubadours have long been a staple of adventure fiction. The tradition continues here, with princesses going on epic journeys, a tune worthy of a royal rodent, the power of a forgotten song, the secret music of DNA, a wandering wizard takes the stage with his favorite rock band, a musician who sacrifices everything for the ultimate gig on Mars, and more. Join sixteen authors...
6775) The Adjalane Sheikhs
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Book One: The Sheikh's Secret Bride
Work always comes first for Sheikh Nassir Adjalane. From an early age, he learned business was infinitely more important than having a personal life. But with pressure from an opponent on his board, Nassir suddenly has only one month to marry, or risk being voted out of his company. With everything he's worked toward on the line, Nassir desperately needs a bride…and only one woman will do.
Wedding planner Janna...
6776) Misos on a Mission
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The Answer Book is still missing…will it ever be found?! Find out as the Miso Mice visit the Rainbow Bridge and Suzy Butterfly's Center for Awareness Techniques where OctavioKat jumpstarts all their wacky energy tools propelling the Miso Mice on more adventures as they search for that elusive Answer Book. Enjoy the next fantastical volume in the "Adventures of the Miso Mice" 5-star acclaimed series.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Works of Guy de Maupassant by Leo Tolstoy
Novels:
A Life
Bel-Ami (The History of a Scoundrel)
Mont Oriol
Notre Coeur - A Woman's Pastime
Pierre and Jean
Strong as Death
Novellas and Short Stories:
Boul De Suif
Simon's Papa
Suicides
On The River
Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
Two Friends
Father Milon
A Coup D"Etat
The Horrible
Madame Parisse
An Adventure in Paris
The Awakening
Crash
My Landlady
The Horla
Our Letters
Profitable...
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Fifteen short speculative stories from author E.M. Faulds featuring female or female-coded protagonists.Revenge. Resistance. Rebellion. Women who are ungovernable, girls who won't stand by the status quo. Female protagonists who endure the unimaginable and come out stronger.From deep space to the home hearth, from the far future to the mythical past. Dark magic, body horror, technology, these are women who go beyond. Complicated or straightforward,...
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Curl up with a cowboy in this contemporary cowboy romance collection, with a novella and two full-length novels featuring sexy-yet-sweet cowboys at the core of each story. Fall in love with the Steeple Ridge horse stable in picturesque Vermont!You'll get THREE complete romances from Liz Isaacson, a USA Today bestselling author and Top 10 most-read authors in Kindle Unlimited, each with an uplifting and satisfying cowboy romance that will leave you...
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From New York Times bestselling author Vivian Arend comes both books in the Extreme Adventures series.Falling FreestyleWith her outdoor adventure buddies, Dara's lived life to the max. Now Kane and Jack are both considering settling down, with Dara, but neither wants to break up their trio. Dara has a plan that will solve everything-or lose it all.Rising FreestyleRecovering after a climbing accident, Melanie tackles the wall at the local climbing...
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