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All books in the UNEXPECTED LOVE Series are stand-alone novels! Headline: Hollywood Heartthrob returns home for the girl he left behind. Dylan North is back … ten years after he left his small town and high school sweetheart behind. But is he here to stay? Dr. Holly Evans has...

Years before he wrote The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame published a very different sort of book: Pagan Papers, a wry, witty, wide-ranging collection of eighteen irresistible essays. Strolling, loafing, smoking, collecting books and pondering, the author muses on the human condition....

Extrait : Environ quatre ans après cette aventure, M. Guillaume de Boussac repassait pour la première fois au pied du mont Barlot, sur lequel s’élèvent les pierres jomâtres ; et, en regardant de loin ces monuments druidiques, en se souvenant d’y avoir été conduit jadis deux ou trois fois...

The horror first took concrete form amid that most unconcrete of all things--a hashish dream. I was off on a timeless, spaceless journey through the strange lands that belong to this state of being, a million miles away from earth and all things earthly; yet I became cognizant that something was reaching...

The war has led to so many upheavals that not many people now remember the Hergemont scandal of seventeen years ago. Let us recall the details in a few lines. One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a series of well-known studies on the megalithic monuments of Brittany,...

"Would you please give your name, madam?" asked the waiter. And he handed the elder of the two travellers a sheet of paper headed, "Villa-pension des Deux Mondes, Dieppe." "Write down the name, Gilberte," she said. "I am so tired." Gilberte...

The novel is a first-person narrative told from the point of view of the adolescent girl Maud Ruthyn, an heiress living with her sombre, reclusive father Austin Ruthyn in their mansion at Knowl. Through her father and her worldly, cheerful cousin, Lady Monica Knollys, she gradually learns more regarding...

The princess Amasidia, daughter of Amasis, king of Tanis in Egypt, took a walk upon the highway of Peluaium with the ladies of her train. She was sunk in deep melancholy. Tears gushed from her beautiful eyes. The cause of her grief was known, as well as the fears she entertained lest that grief should...

Don Quixote de la Mancha is a novel by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and is considered one of the best novels in history. The first part was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. It is one of the earliest written novels in a modern European language and is arguably the most influential and emblematic work in the canon of Spanish literature.

Sinclair Lewis: An American author of novels, short stories, and plays who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. When the windshield was closed it became so filmed with rain that Clair fancied she was piloting a drowned car in dim spaces under the sea. When it was open, drops jabbed into...

En novembre 1817, à Redon, en Bretagne, trois mystérieux personnages, deux hommes et une femme, s’arrêtent à l’auberge du Mouton Couronné, tenu par le père Géraud: il s’agit de Robert, dit l’Américain, son complice Blaise, surnommé l’Endormeur, et la jeune Lola, belle mais « sans...

All books in the UNEXPECTED LOVE Series are stand-alone novels! Marry for friendship? Or wait for love? Advice columnist Carly Wexler has mapped out her entire life, and she’s convinced by marrying her best friend she’ll find happiness. The fact that they have no sexual sparks? No...

One fine afternoon during the Easter holidays, Kensington Gardens were in their freshest spring green, and the steps of the Albert Memorial dotted with country visitors, who alternately conned their guidebooks and stared up at the golden gentleman under the shrine, trying to reconcile the reality...

Tales from Shakespeare is a children's book by Charles and Mary Lamb, first published in 1807. It retells, in language accessible to children, the stories of twenty of Shakespeare's plays.