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In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: 100 nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables. In March of 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine created The Decameron Project, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as our current pandemic first swept the globe.

Today I sat on a bench facing the sea, the one where I waited for L to be born, and sobbed my heart out. I don't know if I'll ever recover. This note was written on 9th November 2017. As the seagulls squawked overhead and the sun dipped into the sea, Alexandra Heminsley's world was turning inside out. She'd just been told her then-husband was going to transition. The revelation threatened to shatter their brand new, still fragile, family.

Annie has a problem: She has a beautiful child, a loving husband, a well-run boardinghouse with a supportive circle of friends and family, but she’s feeling restless and unhappy. Dr. Charlotte Brown, the doctor who delivered Annie’s baby, has a different problem. The Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children, the clinic and hospital she co-founded, is being threatened by financial and legal difficulties caused by the mysterious illness of a former patient.

A vengeful Pat Taylor misused alien technology and banished her best friends, Tracy Palmer and Reid Adams, and others back in time. The aliens' condition to be returned sounds simple—sail from Hawaiian waters to the Bermuda Triangle. It is anything but; Suicide Sail is bubbling with danger and surprises. And for the few who do survive, Pat Taylor is waiting for them, and her vindictiveness has gotten worse.

L’été est enfin arrivé! Le soleil, les petits boulots, la belle vie et surtout, les amours de vacances!

Herzklopfen hoch drei: Am Tag unscheinbare Studentin, abends schillernde Nachtklub-Tänzerin: Lenny James lebt ein gefährliches Doppelleben. Um ihr Geheimnis zu wahren, trägt sie tagsüber nur unförmige Männerkleider und lässt niemanden zu nah an sich heran. Das gilt ganz besonders für den Frauenschwarm Creed Parker, in den sie sich gegen ihren Willen verliebt hat. Als Creed eines Abends in dem Nachtclub auftaucht, in dem Lenny arbeitet, und einen privaten Tanz bei Lennys Alter Ego "Daisy" bucht, ist sie so durcheinander, dass es entgegen aller Regeln zu einem heißen Kuss kommt.

I was 12 the first time I killed a man. After the war, I was driven to the human world by a vengeful leader. My only chance at survival? Run. With the help of a genderfluid shifter, I learned to hide in plain sight and harness the powers within, but my luck soon ran out.

It’s been decades since the deadly GM virus decimated humanity, but the world continues to hold out for a cure. Hidden underground in the dark, GEOs remain, what’s left of the population as Farrow Corp works tirelessly in their never-ending search for a miracle. For seventeen-year-old Tylia Coder, survival is all she knows. With virus mutations continuing to spread, Tylia must either watch her ailing mother be ravaged by illness or hack her way into the terrifying Acceptance trials and face the infected world above to save her family.

Hobart Hucklebuck looked out the window. There was his 103-year-old grandfather, hanging upside down from a Tallyho tree reading a comic book. And that was just the beginning. Colonel Screevy Scuttlebutt thinks giant gophers are invading the town, Pernacious Prattfall thinks pirates left treasure in the Pennywhistle Park pond, and—hold on to your garters—is that Quoquandriak the halfling wearing a tutu? Someone is at it again, and things look bleak for the citizens of Pennywhistle! But here come Hobart Hucklebuck and his friends. Can they save the village one more time?

Olympe est une femme forte, fière et libre, une véritable working-girl. Elle était loin de se douter que Jonas, l'homme qu'elle doit interviewer pour le compte de son agence de communication, n'est autre que celui avec qui elle a passé la meilleure nuit de sa vie, quelques années plus tôt.

Le chemin de la jeune Méliane va croiser celui de la Bête. Les dangers guettent... Trahison. Complots. Voilà que le destin guide les pas de Méliane aux pieds de la Mérilara, ce mystérieux arbre couvert de roses, protecteur et gardien d'une famille royale déchue. Dans l'ombre, rôde la Bête, monstrueuse et redoutable, que Méliane devra apprivoiser pour sauver les siens. "Il ressemblait à un prédateur.

It's rarely obvious when a group is a cult. Most cults don't advertise themselves as such: They are groups of people who look and act just like you and me. Not dangerous. Not deranged. At least, not at first. In this award-winning memoir, Alexandra Amor shines a light on cults so that others might learn from her heartbreaking experience. Amor gracefully and sensitively explains how ordinary and intelligent people get seduced into joining cults, why they stay despite the emotional and psychological abuse, and what the long process of recovery looks like once someone leaves a cult.

Are you looking for hot stories that can turn your sexiest fantasies on? Do you like to fantasize about hot and forbidden encounters to make you extremely excited? Then, keep reading, as this is the audiobook you were looking for. You will find a collection of sexy stories about hot and forbidden encounters that you can comfortably listen to while relaxing in the bed as well as on your way to the office or wherever you want to feel excited.

Decades ago, a band of neurally augmented rebels, the Seventy-Seven, and their leader, Arthur Lannius, helped liberate a remote mountain town from the Perpetual Corporation in a great machine war. Eventually defeated, the Seventy-Seven scattered, and Lannius went into exile without a trace...except for a child. When memories of a stranger burst into her mind, Aurora learns she is not an ordinary orphan of the war, but that she is augmented and that her past is more than it seems.

Enfin, Nadeige et Émy ont fait la paix. Ce que les filles souhaitent par-dessus tout, désormais, c’est passer le plus de temps possible ensemble. Mais la semaine de relâche se pointe le bout du nez et les parents de Nad ont prévu de partir dans le Sud...sans leur fille! Non seulement celle-ci ne pourra pas les accompagner, mais ils l’enverront à l’autre bout du monde, chez une amie de la famille qui vit à la campagne. La joie! Sans compter que cette dernière cache un lourd secret....

En cette nouvelle année scolaire, la promesse que se sont faite Émy-Lee et Nadeige est plus que jamais difficile à tenir. Obligées de commencer leur deuxième secondaire dans des écoles différentes, les deux amies ne reculent devant rien pour tenter de renverser la vapeur: Émy-Lee décidera d’établir une stratégie pour inciter ses parents à l’inscrire au collège de sa best, tandis que Nadeige accumulera les manigances pour se faire renvoyer de cette institution qu’elle déteste tant.

Gessie Chapel is making a name for herself as a songwriter in Nashville. Her latest client is an up-and-coming band who hopes one of Gessie's songs will put them on the country charts. But when Gessie arrives at the band's rehearsal studio and finds the lead singer for the group lying in a pool of blood, she becomes entangled in a web of emotional blackmail, jealousy, and greed. It's up to Gessie to find out who killed the band's lead singer because the investigator has decided Gessie is his prime suspect.

The poems in Hail, the Invisible Watchman are as tidy as a picket-fence—and as suggestive. Behind the charms of iambs lurks a dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. Metered rhyme sets the tone like a chilling piano score as insidiousness creeps into the neighborhood. A spectral narrator surveils social gatherings in the town of Sherbet Lake; community members chime in, each revealing their various troubles and hypocrisies; an eerie reimagining of an Ethel Wilson novel follows a young woman into a taboo friendship with an enigmatic divorcée.

In her debut book, Eyes Up, Alexandra Hoover reveals that God offers a clear way out of that dark place—by getting your eyes off your surroundings and raising them up to the Ebenezer-stone moments in your life. Ebenezer stone by Ebenezer stone, God did this for Alexandra, helping her trace his grace. He lifted her eyes to see the places He had met her and helped her along, even in the darkest parts of the story, and on top of that, He casted vision for her mission and purpose as a member of His family. And now, in Eyes Up, you can experience the very same thing.

Rien ne va plus pour Nadeige et Émy-Lee. À peine revenues de leur croisière dans les Caraïbes, celles-ci ont peine à se remettre de leurs émotions. Dévastée par sa rupture avec le beau Maxime-Alexandre, Émy-Lee poursuit tant bien que mal son année au collège. Non seulement elle a le coeur brisé, mais la distance qui la sépare de sa BFF lui rend cette épreuve quasiment impossible à surmonter.