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George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a co…

Diagnosed with incurable cancer in 2009 with a maximum six-year life expectancy, the author chronicles her journey through traditional and alternative treatments to complete remission. Without rejecting traditional treatment (i.e., chemo or radio the…

A smart and enchanting postwar mystery that will appeal to fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds herself ha…

In a world where women are seen as a commodity to barter, Alaska promised a sanctuary. But to stay, I have to enter the wife lottery. Six men, one wife. And I have no say in who those men will be. It's more than a game of chance – it's my l…

"An unforgettable new female detective bursts onto the audio scene in a historical mystery series set in 1920's Ireland, featuring the Reverend Mother Aquinas. Read by Audie award-winning narrator Rosalyn Landor. A dead body washed up after…

It's 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto: Zanele, a black female student organizer; Meena, a South Asian girl working at her father's shop; Jack, an Oxford-bound white studen…

Earworms MBT Rapid French – your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation V…

Размышления Анатолия Мерзлова несопоставимы с временами Николая Алексеевича Некрасова, но тогда и сегодня они отзываются в умах и сердцах современных читателей, рождая вопросы и заставляя задуматься.

In a stunning fictional tour de force, based on five years of research, Donald S. Olson portrays Aubrey Beardsley's life from infancy to his death at the early age of twenty-five, a victim of tuberculosis. Written in the first person, in the for…

Move back through time into the alluring worlds of the Alchemists' Council The anticipated second book in Cynthea Masson's series takes readers to Flaw Dimension, centuries before the events of book one. Rebel scribe Genevre, exploring secr…

The Parasite is an 1894 novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Parasite makes use of a form of mind control similar to the mesmerism of the Victorian era; it works on some hosts but not others. The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilr…

Daddy Jack calls me his Princess and tells me he'll protect me from the big bad world. But how can he protect me from the way being near him stirs my body to life and fills me with forbidden desire? How can he protect me from my…Heat Cycle? M…

Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to collect berries as a punishment. The siblings get lost in the twilight and discover the gingerbread house of an old ugly witch. She enchants the children and wants to bake them into ginger…

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Poker buddies Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison suddenly find themselves bachelors again and innocently decide to share an apartment. In this classic comedy by America's most prolific and successful playwright, these two legendarily mismatched roomm…

Tales of Space and Time is a fantasy and science fiction collection of three short stories and two novellas written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1897 and 1898. It was first published by Doubleday & McClure Co. in 1899. All the storie…

Did you know that ancient Egyptian mummy makers had special tools to extract brains through the nose? Or that before mummies became objects of scientific interest, people used to burn them as fuel? Explore this exciting book for answers to questions …

"The Banner of the Upright Seven" is a novel by the swiss poet Gottfried Keller. The narration is divided into acts and scenes, almost like a theater piece. It contains remarkable speeches and many dialogs compared to other novels of Keller. In …

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets their harsh cries sharp blades of palm trees gree…

An inventive and evocative story, told in poems. <br/> Ava is hiding – hiding from the small, cramped room where she lives with her Mum and two younger siblings, hiding from the taunts and hostility she gets at school, hiding from her sometimes lone…