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War's Peace (Club Apocalypse Book 1) by Raisa Greywood (Raisa Greywood LLC) 4.6 Stars (139 Reviews)    Price verified 14 minutes ago

Kendra Hall is a fixer. As far as Mark Luciano is concerned, nothing in his life needs fixing -- not him, and certainly not his business. As part owner of Club Apocalypse, a resort catering to those who share certain proclivities, he's perfectly happy with the small, select clientele they've curated. He doesn't need some fancy suit telling him how to run his business -- even if the advice is coming from the most stunning woman he's ever seen. Worse, she's right more than she's wrong. When he discovers that behind closed doors ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction [f] [x] / Length: 314 Pages (4,658 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 30th, 2023

Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold 5.0 Stars (2 Reviews)    Price verified 13 minutes ago

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Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 424 Pages (917 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 28th, 2023

Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox 5.0 Stars (2 Reviews)    Price verified 13 minutes ago

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Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 308 Pages (776 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 26th, 2023

Shift (Fuel Series Book 1) by Ginger Scott (Little Miss Write, LLC) 4.3 Stars (304 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Dustin Bridges has always had two things he could count on -- his fearless instincts behind the wheel and the support of his two best friends, Tommy and Hannah Judge. Dustin brought the speed. Tommy, the brains. And Hannah... she was the glue that held everyone together. Together, they were unstoppable. From the dirt tracks of their youth to the late-night drag races under a desert moon as teens, the Judge siblings pushed and watched in awe as their friend edged closer to his dream. Always racing, always running. That was ...

Genre: Teen & Young Adult [f] [x] / Length: 308 Pages (5,213 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 22nd, 2023

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 462 Pages (886 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 14th, 2023

Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times by Zhiyi Yang (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 4 hours ago

Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on cultural memory: modern mainland China prohibits serious academic research on wartime collaboration in general, and on Wang Jingwei in particular. At this critical juncture, when the recollection of World War II is fading from living memory and transforming into ...

Genre: Poetry [f] [x] / Length: 348 Pages (8,570 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 3rd, 2023

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 320 Pages (690 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 2nd, 2023

Missing Bessie (The Bessie Series Book 1) by Jody Overend (Next Chapter) 5.0 Stars (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

It's the summer of 1972 and Bessie has just turned fifteen in Ravenspond, Canada. She is young, curious and restless. Having just broken up with her boyfriend Jason, she decides to hitchhike to Vancouver with her best pal, Ash, and catch her hero Chris Lisacker in concert. But instead of ending up on the West Coast, Bessie and Ash find themselves in Heaven, with no idea how they got there. With the help of the Hawaiian-shirted Angel, Mel, Bessie gradually recovers her memories. But when her fate is about to be revealed, does she ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality [f] [x] / Length: 426 Pages (4,470 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 23rd, 2023

Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe by Thaddeus Mason Harris 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 341 Pages (678 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 5th, 2023

Out of the Darkness: Operation Lazarus by Kaden Gardner 4.6 Stars (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

For every positive trait humanity has, they seem to do more harm than good. Be it to the planet, the wildlife, to even each other. But they're only human, and no species is perfect. But with that being said, no other species can kill on the mass scale that humanity can. At least, as far as we know. With that being said, is humanity, with all its faults, worth saving? Is it even capable of saving itself? A personal betrayal sends CIA Agents Chad Davis, and Ophelia Wilde down a dark rabbit hole where no one seems to stay dead, and the ...

Genre: Fantasy [f] [x] / Length: 589 Pages (734 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Sep 20th, 2023

The Landloper by Holman (Holman Francis) Day 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 44 minutes ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 316 Pages (709 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Sep 5th, 2023

Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg 3.9 Stars (5 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Genre: Literary Criticism [f] [x] / Length: 382 Pages (589 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Aug 29th, 2023

Queens Kings and Monsters (Monsters and Magecraft Book 1) by Teddy Baire 4.5 Stars (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

In this gripping Dark Adult Fantasy, Swords and Magic are what define the five kingdoms of Ellendor. Five Kingdoms split between four queens and a singular king. But this world is about change in unforeseen ways. Chased from her home and separated from her father, the young girl Rana seeks shelter wherever she can. Finding help in a dubious set of circumstances. Rana must protect herself and navigate a new world of magic and murder that she has been thrust into. But in the land of the five kingdoms, nothing is ever as easy as it ...

Genre: Fantasy [f] [x] / Length: 431 Pages (5,620 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Aug 19th, 2023

Code Blues: When Medicine Becomes Murder (Hope Sze medical mystery Book 1) by Melissa Yi MD (Windtree Press) 3.6 Stars (760 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

What if a brilliant killer stalks the halls of a Montreal hospital, and you're the only one who knows? Dr. Hope Sze dives into her family medicine residency braced for anything from newborn babies to foot ulcers. The one thing Hope doesn't expect? Murder. Someone killed her supervising physician so cleverly that it looks like an accident. Now Hope fights not only to save lives around the clock, but to unmask the killer, while two different but equally compelling men draw Hope into their own schemes. Sex. Drugs. Doctors. Written ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense [f] [x] / Length: 316 Pages (3,786 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Aug 15th, 2023

New Winslow: The Complete Sixth Season by Amanda McCormack 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

After decades spent within New Winslow's boundaries, the town cautionary tale is out. Recovering from a near-fatal heart attack away from his family, Roman has no idea how the curse lifted, who did it, and why they chose him. All he knows is that the question haunts him as he attempts to acclimate to a world that has moved on without him. Back in New Winslow, new information sends Iris and Andrew searching for answers that may never come. As he sets down roots in the town, Andrew is torn between the life he's built here and the one ...

Genre: Fantasy [f] [x] / Length: 320 Pages (2,215 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Aug 9th, 2023

Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas: Impressionist Figure Paintings in Contemporary Anglophone Art Fiction (Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA) Book ... by Lyutsiya Staub (Narr Francke Attempto Verlag) 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This work analyses the relationship between visual art and contemporary art fiction by addressing the problem of the ekphrastic re-presentation and re-interpretation of an Impressionist figure painting through its composition, selected details of the painting and allusion to specific techniques used in the process of creating the masterpiece based on the examples of the following novels: Luncheon of the Boating Party (LOTBP) by Susan Vreeland (2007), Mademoiselle Victorine (MV) by Debra Finerman (2007), With Violets (WV) by Elizabeth ...

Genre: Literary Criticism [f] [x] / Length: 341 Pages (10,253 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Aug 2nd, 2023

The Real Adventure by Henry Kitchell Webster 4.3 Stars (12 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 520 Pages (756 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jul 22nd, 2023

A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade 4.5 Stars (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 376 Pages (506 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jul 19th, 2023

Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific by Jeffrey Santa Ana (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 2 hours ago

Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental ...

Genre: Literary Criticism [f] [x] / Length: 321 Pages (4,975 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jun 29th, 2023

The Priest of Santa Maria (The Beginning of the End Book 1) by Alexandra Kleanthous (Anemos Books Ltd) 4.2 Stars (97 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A Catholic priest fresh out of the seminary. A mysterious woman running from a dangerous past. A secret they must protect at all costs. Christiano is obliged to act as the temporary minister of a small town convent. There he meets the captivating Angelica who, unknown to him, has been seeking refuge at the convent under the supervision of the abbess. Within a month, sparks ignite between them, but the abbess intervenes, demanding Christiano leave the convent before she reports his conduct to the Monsignor. Little do they know his ...

Genre: Action & Adventure [f] [x] / Length: 427 Pages (3,051 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jun 16th, 2023

The Adventures of Roderick Random (Grapevine Press) by T. Smollett 4.0 Stars (120 Reviews)    Price verified 29 minutes ago

A book of great significance, a classic from a time of enduring distinction. The books of the past are better than the books of the present. This book is the pinnacle of adventure literature, and you won't be disappointed. Roderick is often harsh and violent, but he is also very kind and giving. His father fled Scotland after losing his inheritance, leaving his son penniless. After completing a brief apprenticeship with a surgeon, Roderick, a goodhearted person, departs for London. He encounters a variety of outlaws there.

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 599 Pages (870 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 31st, 2023

Glitter Season by Victory Storm (Booker) 3.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Sometimes a season will change your life. A sparkling season born of a friendship that will change your destiny forever. Rachel's life was not going well between her boyfriend's betrayal and the prospect of being fired from her dream job. Emma lived in a gilded cage, surrounded by the affection of her family, but she dreamed of freedom and love, TRUE LOVE. Abigail was looking for her place in the world, but her insecurities prevented her from expressing herself fully. Then one day, Rachel, Emma, and Abigail met and became friends - ...

Genre: Women's Fiction [f] [x] / Length: 425 Pages (2,783 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 30th, 2023

Wittgenstein's Novels by Martin Klebes (Routledge) 4.5 Stars (20 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more pervasive than other equally renowned twentieth century philosophers and asks why some authors such as Händler and Roubaud, are less ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences [f] [x] / Length: 314 Pages (12,749 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 29th, 2023

Every Student has a Secret (Students and Secrets Book 1) by Teddy Baire 3.5 Stars (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

In this slow-burn mystery, Safia finds herself in a school with a history covered in secrets whose students are plucked from different facets of life. Each one with their own reasons for being there. A novel that will catapult you, along with the protagonist, from a simple waitress at her family's Cuban African-American diner, to a very secret school. Here, the students are groomed for a purpose that isn't exactly clear. Determined to survive and not fall victim to its games, Safia must try to navigate the school's crazy rule system ...

Genre: Black & African American [f] [x] / Length: 447 Pages (2,114 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 27th, 2023

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Grapevine Press) by Lew Wallace 4.5 Stars (2,151 Reviews)    Price verified 44 minutes ago

Lew Wallace's book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was released by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880. Wallace's writing falls under a significant kind of historical fiction that is set among New Testament figures. The book was a fantastic bestseller; it quickly overtook Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American book and held that title until Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was published in 1936. The protagonist is Judah, prince of the Hur family in the Hebrew language. During the stormy ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 700 Pages (1,054 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 23rd, 2023

Rivers Between Us: A Small-Town Western Romance (Wisper Dreams Book 1) by Greta Rose West (Punk Rose Press) 4.5 Stars (491 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

From Internationally Bestselling author of the Cade Ranch Series, Greta Rose West, the first book in the Wisper Dreams Series, Rivers Between Us... A woman finds safety in the one man she hurt the most. Sheriff of Teton County, Carey Michaels, puts everyone else's needs before his own -- always -- but when his ex-best friend shows up in his life again, with a ten-year-old daughter and a mountain of problems in tow, he has to decide if he can handle his heart being broken. Again. Francesca Morris feels safer back in her Wyoming ...

Genre: Romance [f] [x] / Length: 310 Pages (15 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 17th, 2023

Finn's Fantasy: Maine Men, Book One by K.C. Wells 4.4 Stars (1,483 Review)    Price verified 14 minutes ago

A secret desire By day, Finn builds houses on the coastline of Maine. Afterhours, Finn dreams of the hot older guy who walks his chocolate lab on Goose Rocks Beach. The man of his dreams ticks all his boxes. Salt and pepper hair. Strong jawline. Blue eyes. His dream man is perfect fantasy material. As for actually speaking to him? As if. Their paths won't ever cross, and the guy is probably straight. A new chapter Recently divorced Joel is finally living as a gay man, but he's not sure he's ready to jump into a relationship. That ...

Genre: LGBTQ+ eBooks [f] [x] / Length: 313 Pages (2,024 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 14th, 2023

The Auschwitz Protocol (The Sikora Files Book 1) by Jack Carnegie 4.6 Stars (198 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Retired US Detective Emil Janowitz lied to his wife for nearly forty years. Having lost his entire family whilst an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau it was simply easier on his soul to invent a past than face up to the demons buried deep inside. Life was good, but then the mail arrived bringing a letter which would result in a voyage of discovery, denunciation and confrontation with the past. Life is a journey, history should not be forgotten, the evil still exists.

Genre: Historical Fiction [f] [x] / Length: 377 Pages (1,026 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jan 20th, 2023

The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Ellingwood Beach 3.8 Stars (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 527 Pages (831 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Dec 5th, 2022

Impressions d’Afrique (French Edition) by Raymond Roussel 3.9 Stars (15 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) avait un peu plus de trente ans et aspirait encore à la gloire littéraire lorsqu'il publia ces Impressions d'Afrique. En particulier le rôle des Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique, méritent mieux leur nom qu'il n'y paraît. Ces longues énumérations de courts fragments occupant tout ou partie de un, deux ou trois vers ont au moins une fonction identifiable : elles contiennent des allusions aux ?uvres de Roussel, ou plus précisément à leur texte sous-jacent. De Raymond Roussel le grand public, qui ne ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 386 Pages (2,694 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 17th, 2022

Wright with Benefits (Wright Vineyard Book 1) by K.A. Linde 4.4 Stars (1,349 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

A feisty stand alone friends with benefits romance from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde. With new characters set in the bestselling world of the Wrights, this is a perfect jumping on point for new readers! I shouldn't have hooked up with my one night stand... again. To be fair, I was having the worst day of my life. I was sure that nothing else could go wrong. Then in walks Jordan Wright. We have a heated history, and I've been avoiding him. Not least of all because he's a hundred percent my type with those big brown ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 322 Pages (2,307 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 11th, 2022

Rome and The Guidebook Tradition: From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century by Anna Blennow Price verified 3 hours ago

To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project Topos and Topography, led by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota. From the case studies performed within the project, it becomes evident that the guidebook as a phenomenon was formed in Rome during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 620 Pages (29,266 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 11th, 2022

Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) by Gina Bloom Price verified 4 hours ago

Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play; they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 303 Pages (2,627 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 9th, 2022

Exégèse des Lieux Communs (French Edition) by Léon Bloy 4.6 Stars (26 Reviews)    Price verified 49 minutes ago

De quoi s'agit-il sinon d'arracher la langue aux imbéciles, aux redoutables et définitifs idiots de ce siècle, comme saint Jérôme réduisit au silence les Pélagiens de son temps ? Obtenir enfin le mutisme du Bourgeois, quel rêve ! L'entreprise, je le sais bien, doit paraître fort insensée. Cependant je ne désespère pas de la démontrer d'une exécution facile et même agréable. Le vrai Bourgeois, c'est-à-dire, dans un sens moderne et aussi général que possible, l'homme qui ne fait aucun usage de la faculté de penser ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 312 Pages (2,576 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 6th, 2022

Peñas arriba (Spanish Edition) by Jose María de Pereda (Biblioteca Nacional de España) 4.6 Stars (29 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Esta edición digital en formato forma parte de un proyecto puesto en marcha por la Biblioteca Nacional de España junto con Redes encaminado a enriquecer la oferta de servicios de la Biblioteca Digital Hispánica y fomentar su acceso y utilización. En el proceso de digitalización de documentos los impresos son en primer lugar digitalizados en forma de imagen, posteriormente el texto es extraído de manera automatizada gracias a la tecnología de reconocimiento óptico de caracteres (OCR). El texto así obtenido ha sido aquí ...

Genre: Foreign Languages [f] [x] / Length: 359 Pages (687 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Sep 24th, 2022

Bricks Without Straw by Albion Winegar Tourgée 3.7 Stars (11 Reviews)    Price verified 9 minutes ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 590 Pages (1,002 KB) / Lending: Enabled / Added: Sep 18th, 2022

Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Daniel Leonhard Purdy (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 54 minutes ago

Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans -- German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular -- identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being fundamentally similar to Europe. Analyzing key German literary texts -- theological ...

Genre: History [f] [x] / Length: 413 Pages (5,765 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Sep 8th, 2022

Scornfully Yours (The Torn Series Book 1) by Pamela Ann 4.1 Stars (1,496 Review)    Price verified 49 minutes ago

"The best kind of revenge is to let him see how strong and beautiful you are, with or without him." When Emma realized that she fell in love with the notorious womanizer, Carter Mason-the badass Soccer athlete--she bailed and jumped ship, knowing quite well how this will turn out if Carter ever finds out about how she felt about him. Newly single, Emma parties in Hollywood amongst her friends--determined to enjoy her new status. Enter Hollywood's sexy heartthrob and sought out actor, Bass Cole. ?Bass was clearly smitten when ...

Genre: Sagas [f] [x] / Length: 352 Pages (1,478 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jul 21st, 2022

The Story of Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal (China Program Books) by Erzeng Yang (University of Washington Press) 4.4 Stars (4 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

In this seventeenth-century Chinese novel, Han Xiangzi, best known as one of the Eight Immortals, seeks and achieves immortality and then devotes himself to converting his materialistic, politically ambitious Confucian uncle -- Han Yu, a real historical figure -- to Daoism. Written in lively vernacular prose interspersed with poems and songs, the novel takes its readers across China, to the heavens, and into the underworld. Readers listen to debates among Confucians, Daoists, and Buddhists and witness trials of faith and the ...

Genre: World Literature [f] [x] / Length: 499 Pages (51,033 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jul 5th, 2022

Not Your Average Beauty: A Beauty and the Beast inspired Historical Romance (Enchanted Tales Book 1) by Michelle Helliwell 4.1 Stars (217 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

For Stephen Pembroke, where beauty goes... death follows. With his legacy at stake, Stephen, Marquess of Barronsfield, makes a desperate proposal of marriage to his steward's new ward - and the plainest girl he has ever met. Funny that the bright, quick witted bookworm, isn't at all interested. But when she challenges him about his curse, he begins to wonder if this apparently ordinary woman is not as unremarkable as he believed. After a lifetime living in the shadows of others, Rosalind is determined to use her arrival at ...

Genre: Mythology & Folk Tales [f] [x] / Length: 300 Pages (2,684 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jun 3rd, 2022

Lord Temptation (The Charlotte Society Book 1) by Rebecca Hagan Lee (Amber House Books, LLC) 4.5 Stars (939 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

What's a proper lady to do when a gentleman's charms prove irresistible? With his unruly black hair and cool gray eyes, Anthony Carlisle, the Earl of Carlisle, was christened "Lord Temptation" the first time he conquered London society. His effortless charm captured the hearts of every besotted belle in Regency London. But his own heart was captured when he first laid eyes on Lady Caroline Hardage. After he is torn from her arms by battle and betrayal, Tony returns from the war a scarred and embittered recluse who refuses to leave ...

Genre: Historical Fiction [f] [x] / Length: 356 Pages (2,277 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 26th, 2022

Angel Flights by Baer Charlton 4.6 Stars (139 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

As Los Angeles comes of age in the 1960s, two undercover cops struggle to maintain their balance in the growing drug trade. Boundaries are broken and borders are crossed in an effort to do good--while doing bad. Newcomer Gabe learns from the masters. "Normal" is a meaningless word the civilian society makes up, and the books (on being a cop) don't know squat. Taken from real events, this is a warning of what was, and is about to be again. Truly a must-read for every woman.

Genre: City Life [f] [x] / Length: 380 Pages (759 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 20th, 2022

Six femmes - extrait (French Edition) by Tina Seskis (Cherche Midi) 3.5 Stars (46 Reviews)    Price verified 59 minutes ago

Ça avait toujours été " nous six ". Elles sont six femmes, se sont connues à l'université et se réunissent une fois par an pour un dîner, plus par habitude que par réelle amitié. En effet, après vingt-cinq ans, leurs parcours les ont séparées et il leur reste finalement aujourd'hui moins de complicité à partager que de choses à se reprocher. Toutes ont connu des drames. Certaines d'entre elles en ont trahi d'autres, les ranc?urs et regrets se sont accumulés, et les secrets aussi. Cette année, les six ont organisé ...

Genre: Foreign Languages [f] [x] / Length: 496 Pages (2,920 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 8th, 2022

Blood Magick (Bloodlines Book 1) by Suzan Harden (Angry Sheep Publishing) 4.4 Stars (32 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

It's not the family you're born to. It's the Family you join. Blood Caesar Augustine has survived on it for millennia, but his friend Natasha believed she was close to a cure for vampirism. When she dies and her lab notes disappear, Caesar's only chance to walk in sunlight again is finding her granddaughter Bebe, the one witch Natasha would trust with her research. But getting Bebe to trust him is another matter altogether. Magick Dr. Bebe Zachary has feared and mistrusted vampires for seventeen years, since the night she ...

Genre: Action & Adventure [f] [x] / Length: 301 Pages (1,937 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 5th, 2022

The Web of Life by Robert Herrick 3.6 Stars (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 365 Pages (614 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 29th, 2022

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich 3.9 Stars (5 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: Literary Criticism [f] [x] / Length: 345 Pages (789 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 28th, 2022

Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts by Edmond Rostand (Constellation Press) 4.4 Stars (88 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Brian Hooker's brilliant 1923 blank-verse translation of the classic swashbuckling romantic French play by Edmond Rostand. Long-nosed quick-witted master swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac writes love letters, on behalf of the good-looking soldier Christian de Neuvillette, to Roxane, the woman they both love. A paean to the power of words. This ebook edition is a carefully formatted and proofread close copy of a 1924 print edition. The text of this book is in the public domain.

Genre: Classics [f] [x] / Length: 402 Pages (2,343 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 20th, 2022

Le fantôme de la rue Michel-Ange (French Edition) by Henry Bordeaux (Bibebook) 3.6 Stars (15 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

En juin 1914, M. et Mme Falaise organisent un dîner pour célébrer l'entrée aux Beaux Arts de leur fils unique et invitent leurs meilleurs amis. Au cours du dîner la conversation prend la tournure d'un débat sur les apparitions après la mort d'un proche, sur la communication avec l'au-delà. Personne ne se doute alors que cette conversation sera le prologue d'un drame de famille assez bizarre. Peu de temps après la guerre éclate, avec son cortège de morts... Extrait : e vous citerai le plus probant. Ils étaient entrés en ...

Genre: Classics [f] [x] / Length: 320 Pages (2,263 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 18th, 2022

La Voilette bleue (French Edition) by Fortuné Du Boisgobey 4.2 Stars (104 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 414 Pages (806 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 17th, 2022

Le Crime de l'Opéra - Tome I - La Loge sanglante (French Edition) by Fortuné Du Boisgobey 3.9 Stars (63 Reviews)    Price verified 59 minutes ago

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Genre: Foreign Languages [f] [x] / Length: 318 Pages (578 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 17th, 2022

An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore 4.4 Stars (9 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Genre: Drama & Plays [f] [x] / Length: 300 Pages (611 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 17th, 2022

Jewel by Clara Louise Burnham 3.7 Stars (18 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 328 Pages (364 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 16th, 2022

Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant 4.2 Stars (77 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Genre: Reference [f] [x] / Length: 366 Pages (556 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 14th, 2022

DIVIDED: The Days of Peleg (Bearer of The Seed Book 2) by V. Morrow (Karasmatic Consulting) 4.8 Stars (8 Reviews)    Price verified 54 minutes ago

Bow to the Image! Has the whole world gone mad? Or is there something wrong with a statue that speaks and the giant man who makes the people worship it? Peleg is virtually alone in his misgivings. Meanwhile, all the rest of Shinar follows the mighty hunter Nimrod in building a Tower to reach the gates of heaven and even the Ancient One Himself. Could the mysterious encounters and cruel whispers heard since the Tower Temple's construction lead to something good? To Peleg the matter is simple, find someone who remembers the truth, ...

Genre: Fantasy [f] [x] / Length: 303 Pages (1,395 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Mar 3rd, 2022

The Nivison Annals: Selected Works of David S. Nivison on Early Chinese Chronology, Astronomy, and Historiography (Library of Sinology [LOS] Book 1) by David S. Nivison (De Gruyter Mouton) 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 44 minutes ago

In his last essay just weeks before his death at the age of 91, David S. Nivison says, "Breaking into a formal system - such as a chronology - must be like breaking into a code. If you are successful, success will show right off." Since the late 1970's Nivison has focused his scholarship on breaking the code of Three Dynasties (Xia, Shang, Zhou) chronology by establishing an innovative methodology based on mourning periods, astronomical phenomenon, and numerical manipulations derived from them. Nivison is most readily known in the ...

Genre: History [f] [x] / Length: 473 Pages (18,221 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Mar 2nd, 2022

Beach House Romance (The Beach House Trilogy Book 1) by Cora Seton (One Acre Press) 4.4 Stars (2,966 Reviews)    Price verified 24 minutes ago

She's 27 and just hit rock bottom... Emma Miller's fiancé left her days before her meal delivery business went bust. Now she's broke, homeless and starting out all over again, weighed down with debt that isn't even hers. So when she learns she and her estranged sister, Ashley, have received an unexpected inheritance, she's thrilled. Now they can both move to Seahaven, California and run Brightview, her grandmother's rambling beachside bed & breakfast. She'll do the cooking. Ashley can tend the Cliff Garden, the attached acre of ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction [f] [x] / Length: 398 Pages (4,788 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jan 25th, 2022

Confucius and Cicero: Old Ideas for a New World, New Ideas for an Old World (Roma Sinica Book 1) by Andrea Balbo 3.8 Stars (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contemporary world. More than 10 scholars from all around the world offer thereby a reference work for the comparative research between Roman (and early Greek) and Eastern thought, setting new trends in the panorama of Classical and Comparative Studies.

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences [f] [x] / Length: 362 Pages (30 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jan 12th, 2022

Freedom to Rarity (Order of the Remfrey Book 1) by Patricia Hoving (TRS Books) Price verified 2 hours ago

The fight for family may be the fight for love. Katsi Rae Cataldi hoards her freedom like stray dogs hoards their food. And in 16th century Italy, Katsi struggles to come to terms with the world and her place in it. When the Queen of Eulius beloved by her people and hated by the aristocracy, waiting to take her place suffers a deadly blow. Katsi Rae Cataldi will find herself, the one person seeking the truth. Even if she has to do it dressed as a man fighting against a witch and her monstrous creatures. If she doesn't succeed, her ...

Genre: LGBTQ+ eBooks [f] [x] / Length: 352 Pages (5,145 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Dec 23rd, 2021

BURNED: A Cowboys of Cade Ranch Novel (The Cade Ranch Series Book 1) by Greta Rose West (Punk Rose Press) 4.5 Stars (2,748 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

From Internationally Bestselling Small-town Western Romance author, Greta Rose West... Jack Cade already has enough on his shoulders with his four brothers, his struggling Wyoming horse ranch, and his adopted mama going through chemo again. He doesn't have time for a woman, and he doesn't trust them. But when Everlea Donovan falls into his life -- literally -- he can't stop fantasizing about her. Wanting her. But Everlea's hiding something, always looking over her shoulder, ready to run at any moment. She can't risk putting Jack ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction [f] [x] / Length: 340 Pages (2,483 KB) / Lending: Enabled / Added: Nov 8th, 2021

How to Read the Constitution--and Why Teaching Guide (Legal Expert Series) by Kim Wehle 4.5 Stars (841 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that lays out in common sense language how the United States Constitution works, and how its protections are eroding before our eyes -- essential reading for anyone who wants to understand and parse the constantly breaking news about the backbone of American government. The Constitution is the most significant document in America. But do you fully understand what this valuable document means to you? In How to Read the Constitution and Why Now, legal expert and educator ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 352 Pages (1,477 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 3rd, 2021

Beyond Media Borders, Volume 2: Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media by Lars Elleström (Palgrave Macmillan) 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 14 minutes ago

This open access book promotes the idea that all media types are multimodal and that comparing media types, through an intermedial lens, necessarily involves analysing these multimodal traits. The collection includes a series of interconnected articles that illustrate and clarify how the concepts developed in Elleström's influential article The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) can be used for methodical investigation and interpretation of media traits and media ...

Genre: Literary Criticism [f] [x] / Length: 351 Pages (85 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jun 30th, 2021

Zero Pucks Given: (Gigi & Beau duet #1) (Las Vegas Angels Duet Series) by Jessa York 4.2 Stars (354 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

They're both driven to succeed--at all costs. But neither of them expects that to include wedding vows... Beau Being captain of my team has always been a dream of mine since I first stepped out on the ice. When Gigi slams into my life, everything I've known is shaken. I've never been in a fake relationship before -- especially with someone who hates me. But if it means finally reaching my goal, I'll do just about anything. That is, if I can keep my eyes -- and my hands -- off her. Gigi I've dreamed of marrying Beau Moreau -- ...

Genre: Romance [f] [x] / Length: 376 Pages (2,554 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jun 17th, 2021

Callum's Compass: Journey to Love (Love, Hope, and Faith Book 1) by Sara L. Foust (Silver Lining Literary Services, LLC) 4.5 Stars (539 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Kat Williams's brother died in a gruesome accident in the mountains of East Tennessee. She blames herself.Ryan Jenkins's fiancée was murdered. He couldn't protect her.With the death of her brother, Kat believes she is unworthy of love from anyone -- even God. When a good friend elicits a promise that she will stop living in the past, then leaves her clues to a real-life treasure hunt, Kat embarks on an adventure chock-full of danger. To find the treasure, Kat will have to survive wild animals -- and even wilder men. Can she rely on ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality [f] [x] / Length: 415 Pages (9,753 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jun 11th, 2021

Flesh (Flesh Series Book 1) by Sky Corgan 3.9 Stars (287 Reviews)    Price verified 29 minutes ago

Looking to explore the lifestyle for the first time? Want to experiment without having to commit to a Dominant? Then come to Flesh. Flesh is the perfect entryway to all things kink related. Come find out what the lifestyle is all about in a safe, controlled environment. We'll tailor your scene to your needs. Whether you're new to the lifestyle and just want to get your feet wet, or you're into the hardcore stuff, we can create the perfect experience for you. Simply fill out a list of the things you want to try, and we'll pair you ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 530 Pages (807 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jun 5th, 2021

Meadowlarks by Thomas Holladay (Cinema Enterprises) 4.2 Stars (437 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

... Carolyn and her eight-year-old son Jason unwittingly step into a maelstrom of horror partially brought about by their unwillingness to allow a long-standing ritual to continue. As family relationships, heritage, neighbors, and deadly forces intersect, evil becomes apparent in not only an unleashed supernatural beast, but in the hearts of men. Rural roots, supernatural horror, Native rituals, and family relationships blend seamlessly to build a nicely-paced drama that comes full circle for elderly Native John Crow, whose new ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense [f] [x] / Length: 350 Pages (3,803 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 22nd, 2021

Stage 3: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Thriller by Ken Stark 4.3 Stars (641 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Blindness is just the beginning. Once the virus strips away everything remotely human, all that's left is a mindless, savage predator. • Finalist, Fiction Horror - 2018 International Book Awards • Bronze Medal, Fiction Horror - 2017 Readers' Favorite Book Awards • Official Selection: Horror - 2018 New Apple Summer E-Book Awards From multi-award-winning, horror writer, Ken Stark, comes a pulse-pounding, post-apocalyptic zombie novel that will keep you pumped up until the very last page. For fans of World War Z, The Last of ...

Genre: Disaster [f] [x] / Length: 359 Pages (3,596 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 14th, 2021

Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive by Bethany Hicok (Lever Press) 4.5 Stars (8 Reviews)    Price verified 59 minutes ago

In a life full of chaos and travel, Elizabeth Bishop managed to preserve and even partially catalog, a large collection -- more than 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose, notebooks, memorabilia, artwork, hundreds of letters to major poets and writers, and thousands of books -- now housed at Vassar College. Informed by archival theory and practice, as well as a deep appreciation of Bishop's poetics, the collection charts new territory for teaching and reading American poetry at the intersection of the institutional archive, ...

Genre: LGBTQ+ eBooks [f] [x] / Length: 363 Pages (5,191 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: May 14th, 2021

Sacrifice (Karre & Viktoria Crime Novels Book 1) by Tim Svart (PageturnerInk) 4.2 Stars (117 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

A hidden scheme. Suspiciously pat answers. Can one untested leader navigate the thin line between professional and personal justice? Essen, Germany. Chief Inspector "Karre" Karrenberg has no appetite for overseeing a homicide squad. Still grieving over his ex-wife's fatal car crash that left his daughter in a coma, the veteran detective's gut tells him to ignore all the evidence that it was an accident. But he's forced to put his own needs aside when a poor young woman's lakeside adventure transforms her into an unidentified body. ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense [f] [x] / Length: 394 Pages (1,838 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Apr 24th, 2021

Just the Tip by Alex Grayson (Twisted Fiction Publishing LLC) 4.1 Stars (15 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Just the Tip gives you a tantalizing taste of the dark, sweet, and sexy reads by Alex Grayson. From dark and sinister to sweet and sexy. From alpha males who worship their women to females who would do anything for their men. And everything in between! No matter what you're in the mood for, you're sure to find your next favorite book! NOTE: Just the Tip contains the first two chapters of each of Alex's books. It is meant to give readers a glimpse into Alex's writing style and a tease of what's to come should you choose to purchase ...

Genre: Romance [f] [x] / Length: 471 Pages (5,172 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Feb 11th, 2021

A Fallen Star: A Brother's Best Friend Romance (Shattered Cove Series Book 1) by A. M. Kusi 4.1 Stars (459 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

He's tormented by dark addictions. She's fighting for a lifelong dream. Can they rise from the ashes of despair and find happily ever after? Mikel Evans is broken. With all his attention focused on dealing with blackmail and a drug dependency, his day-to-day is barely survivable. So when he reflexively steps up to defend his best friend's little sister, he's blindsided when she leans in for a kiss. Remy Stone is done bottling up her emotions. And now that she's finally caught Mikel's eye, she's determined to pursue the ...

Genre: Women's Fiction [f] [x] / Length: 344 Pages (2,248 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Feb 2nd, 2021

Seven Ten Third by Sara Mack 4.2 Stars (27 Reviews)    Price verified 14 minutes ago

On a warm spring night in May, three lives changed forever. Lucy Anderson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Cody Cunningham lost his life. And Aaron Matthews couldn't stop it. As their senior year begins, Aaron and Lucy must learn to navigate Holton High after the loss of its popular star athlete. Practically strangers, the two find themselves thrown together in a way neither of them dreamed possible. Aaron's best friend is gone, Lucy is responsible, and the school is playing judge and jury. As Aaron and Lucy's feelings ...

Genre: Literature & Fiction [x] / Length: 329 Pages (1,863 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Jan 15th, 2021

Hunting The Kobra (Project Kobra Book 1) by Tracy Cooper-Posey (Stories Rule Press) 4.4 Stars (119 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

No one is who they seem to be. No one at all... When her lover and partner, Denis, dies in a random terrorist bombing, Quinn craves answers no one can give her. An international businessman, Elijah Aslan, who says he once knew Denis well, seems to need the same answers. He alone understands Quinn's pain. Yet Aslan is not the simple businessman he appears to be. Flagged by the CIA, Aslan's contact with Quinn sends up alarms and thrusts Quinn into the middle of an affair with unseen roots in Denis' past, and with world-shaking ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense [f] [x] / Length: 374 Pages (2,687 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Dec 29th, 2020

Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Myth and Poetics) by Dwight F. Reynolds (Cornell University Press) 4.2 Stars (4 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds's account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative ...

Genre: Literary Criticism [f] [x] / Length: 329 Pages (3,355 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Dec 11th, 2020

From the Shadows: Villainous Tales of Dark Lords, Despots, and Devils by Angel Haze 4.2 Stars (228 Reviews)    Price verified 9 minutes ago

I thought I would be the hero. Instead, I became the villain. They curse me, call me ruthless, insane, unhinged... a monster. But is life so black and white? What if they took the time to understand my motivations? Would they still condemn me if they recognized the same monster lurking inside themselves? There's a villain inside us all. Unhinge yourself from reality and walk with me into the darkness. If you dare... From the Shadows is an anthology of twenty-one villainous stories brought to you by the authors of Indie ...

Genre: Fantasy [f] [x] / Length: 661 Pages (5,809 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Nov 27th, 2020

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: Volume II, 1836–1849 by William Cullen Bryant (Fordham University Press) 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 13 minutes ago

The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has brought the paper close to its greatest financial prosperity and to national political and cultural influence. Bryant's letters lf the ...

Genre: Literary Criticism [f] [x] / Length: 860 Pages (15,892 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 19th, 2020

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: Volume VI, 1872–1878 by William Cullen Bryant (Fordham University Press) 5.0 Stars (4 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

In January 1872, Bryant traveled to Mexico City, where he was greeted warmly by President Benito Juarez; on this and other occasions he was feted for the Evening Post's sturdy condemnation in 1863 of the abortive invasion of Mexico, which was freshly remembered there. AT the close of his visit a local newspaper remarked that the "honors and hospitality which were so lavishly and generously conferred upon him were the spontaneous outpouring of a grateful people, who had not forgotten that when Mexico was friendless Mr. Bryant became ...

Genre: Literary Criticism [f] [x] / Length: 674 Pages (21,853 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 19th, 2020

Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford 5.0 Stars (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 370 Pages (1,040 KB) / Lending: Enabled / Added: Oct 16th, 2020

The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Paul Henri Thiry Baron D'Holbach 4.4 Stars (8 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: Poetry [f] [x] / Length: 392 Pages (876 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 15th, 2020

The Haunting of Sunshine House (Ghosts of Los Angeles Book 1) by Dominika Best (Dupin Press) 4.2 Stars (2,460 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Is the evil lurking in Sunshine House human or something much worse? Once an exclusive Hollywood hotel catering to the likes of Rudolf Valentino and other great stars of the Silent Film Era, the Bockerman Hotel now is the Sunshine House, an assisted living home for seniors. And its residents are dying... in droves. Sara Caine, paranormal investigator, couldn't believe she got an invitation to hunt for ghosts in the most haunted building in all of Los Angeles, The Sunshine House. Her excitement turns to horror as the mysteries of ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense [f] [x] / Length: 308 Pages (1,331 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Oct 1st, 2020

Too Far to Whisper: Book one of the Corwin-Chandler Trilogy by Arianna Eastland 4.3 Stars (199 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

In 17th-century New England, Rosalind Chandler's complete lack of interest in ever becoming a bride is a constant source of speculation and gossip in town. Then a twist of fate delivers two men - enemies of each other - into her life on the same day. Although both men initially intrigue her, one soon turns her blood cold, while the other heats it to a degree she is unable to comprehend... or control. Soon her resolve never to wed begins to crumble. The problem is, the proposal of marriage comes from the wrong man... and he refuses ...

Genre: United States [f] [x] / Length: 355 Pages (1,825 KB) / Lending: Not Enabled / Added: Sep 20th, 2020