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Alison marveled at how everything was still the same as she returned to the town she had left six years ago when she was 12. Now 18, she has grown into a beautiful woman. She hesitated at returning due to the humiliation she suffered at the hands of Kirk, a boy she believed she had been in love with. But Kirk never paid any attention to her, a lowly servant from a poor family. All of the town's girls had been smitten by Kirk, son of the laird and future Laird of Caithness. As she reunites with her best friend, Berthia, from childhood, she learns that Kirk is now the laird.

Here is a collection of darkly humorous short stories previously published in magazines such as Adbusters and Apex Digest of Science Fiction and Horror.

Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all that? What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials? Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products.

Judy Webster is born in a mud-splattered tent at Woodstock, just as Crosby, Stills, and Nash take the stage. Her mother, Cassie, is a beautiful, flawed flower-child who brings her little girl to anti-war protests and parties rather than enroll her in pre-school. But as Cassie's husband, Kirk, gradually abandons '60s ideals in favor of a steady home and a law degree, their once idyllic marriage crumbles.

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, 18-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldly, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their passionate affair and Liza's fall from grace is fast and fatal. Written while Maugham was a medical student, and his first published novel, Liza of Lambeth is a vividly realistic portrayal of working-class London life.

Dr. Alyssa Foster will admit to a bad boy fetish…. But when she finds herself face to face with a convicted murderer with a determination for freedom and an eye on her as his get out of jail free card, Alyssa knows she's in deep trouble.... Not just because Teague Creek is a prisoner desperate for freedom, but because his every touch makes her desperate for more. A man with a life sentence has nothing to lose... Teague Creek has one shot at freedom, but his plan to escape with a hostage develops a fatal flaw: Alyssa.

After the daring theft of the DeBeers diamond in the small mining town of Kimberley, South Africa, Inspector Lipinski is brought in to solve the impossible crime. George Griffith (1857-1906) was a Welsh explorer, journalist, and writer, best known today for his airship science fiction adventures and Inspector Lipinski mysteries.

Shirley Pitts, the eldest of six children, was born upside down on November 24, 1934. Her "career" began by thieving bread off doorsteps and coal from coal carts. Her father's bungled attempts at black marketeering and her dipsomaniac mother's inadequacies made Shirley resolve to be not only a first-class thief but also the best mother her six children could wish for.

Whether you're making a major decision, dealing with a difficult transition, or facing a fear, 100 Days to Brave will give you courage and confidence to move forward. Annie F. Downs felt her challenges were too difficult, too scary, too much. Then she decided to stop allowing fear to hold her back. It wasn't easy or simple. But it was good. With honesty and relatable humor, this compilation of best-of writings and new pieces from Annie will give you the inspiration to embrace the path and the plan God has for you and experience personal growth.

When Kristen’s partner, William, is murdered in a mugging gone wrong, she tries to pick up the pieces for the sake of her young stepson, Theo. But when Theo’s biological mother, Ros, demands that he go to live with her, Kristen’s world is torn apart again. The police think that William was killed by an elusive criminal known as the dog man - but Kristen has reason to believe that Ros, a woman with an unstable past, is behind the killing.

I was a just normal guy until the night the cherry blossoms bloomed, the night that Grace appeared on my doorstep. A failed sci-fi writer, a gamer, but a normal guy nonetheless. Grace was everything I was not - a psychic shifter, beautiful beyond my wildest imagination, a government conspiracy waiting to be unraveled. And that was before the second superpowered woman showed up to kill us both.

Il faut reconnaître qu'il y avait, de la part de Corneille, quelque témérité à offrir au public un drame religieux, en un temps où l'on ne cherchait pas l'édification au théâtre et ou les spectateurs ne pouvaient qu'être déconcertés et refroidis de voir un miracle de la grâce transformé en un divertissement profane... et le martyr d'un Saint représenté sur les planches où s'étaient poignardés tant d'amoureux. Comment dans ces conditions, expliquer le succès de Polyeucte ? C'est que, auteur habile, Corneille avait pris la précaution de doubler ce drame de la foi d'une intrigue amoureuse qui tira à soi l'intérêt des auditeurs ! En effet pour les contemporains, un personnage domina tous les autres : Sévère, type du parfait amant, loyal et romanesque, alors qu'ils ne virent dans Polyeucte que le conflit passionnel qui le met aux prises avec Pauline... Il est d'ailleurs curieux de noter, comme au cours du temps cette pièce fut diversement comprise : drame d'amour au XVIIème siècle, et la lutte entre les aspirations naturelles et la contrainte religieuse au XVIIIème, et c'est seulement pour nous, modernes, que cette tragédie, conduite concurremment par des passions humaines et par la grâce divine, devait prendre sa signification pleine et vraie !

Nach anfänglichen Erfolgen erlitt der Perserkönig Xerxes auf seinem Kriegszug gegen die Griechen in der Seeschlacht bei Salamis 480 v. Chr. eine so ungeheure Niederlage...

Romeo und Julia - das bekannteste Liebespaar der Welt, unsterblich gemacht von William Shakespeare.Aber wie ist das jetzt eigentlich mit den Montagues und den Capulets? Wer gehört zu wem? Wer ist Tybalt? Und wer Mercutio? Wen tötet Romeo gleich wieder? Und wie war noch mal der Plan mit dem Betäubungstrank, den Julia nimmt, um der Hochzeit mit Paris zu entgehen?

Les quatre nuits d'Alfred de Musset ont été écrites en l'espace de deux ans et publiées dans "La Revue des deux Mondes", dans l'ordre suivant : "Nuit de mai" (15 juin 1835), "Nuit de décembre" (1er décembre 1835), "Nuit d'août" (15 août 1836), "Nuit d'octobre" (15 octobre 1837).

The Lennicker sisters live in a cottage nestled amongst the counting houses, shops and inns, where the smugglers plot and the seamen drink. When their father – a fisherman and smuggler – is murdered by a rival gang, the eldest daughter, Louisa, is forced to carve out a living by trading illegally in French lace. She will do anything to keep a roof over her sisters’ heads, but what she truly desires is a way of wreaking revenge. With the threat of Napoleon approaching Britain’s shores, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Flo Canning’s heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading since the outbreak of war. As Flo throws herself into the role of fabric manager at Liberty’s, old and new friends alike help pull her from a whirl of despair. Between work and home life there’s plenty to keep Flo occupied. Not least new Deputy Store Manager, Henry Masters, whose arrival has consequences that Flo and her workmates could never have foreseen.

Pretty 17-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962.

To everyone's dismay, an older widower falls in love with his young secretary in this unlikely romance.

Something is brewing in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Only two people know the truth about a tragic accident that claims the lives of a popular couple, and one of them is dead. That doesn’t stop Bowen Swersey from coming back from the Afterlife to set the record straight, even though he must make a gruesome choice to do it.