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« Danelle Harmon est lune de mes autrices préférées de tous les temps ! » — JULIA QUINN, autrice de La Chronique des Bridgerton, classée n°1 des ventes par le New York Times« Le sang le plus noble, l

Life of an Expat Wife is a personal narrative that spans over two decades and several continents, exploring the emotional and cultural complexity of life as an expatriate woman. At its core, this book is a journey of self-discovery, charting the evolution of identity through the lenses of motherhood, marriage, and constant reinvention.Told with humour, warmth, and unflinching honesty, Life of an Expat Wife pulls back the curtain on what it really means to uproot your life. Through every move, from England to Trinidad, from the Caribbean to beyond, Juliet discovers that being an expat wife isnt just about adjusting to new countries, but about finding herself in the process.This is a story for every woman who has felt invisible in the shadow of family and life in general. For every mother who has laughed through tears of exhaustion, and for anyone who has ever wondered if starting over could mean finally coming home to your true authentic self.

« Sombre, âpre et terriblement humain » Harlan CobenLocksburg, petite ville minière de Pennsylvanie, est pavée des mêmes bonnes intentions que l’enfer.Nathan, pompier volontaire, rêve dun ailleurs en

The future is now. The children of the remnant are adults living in the 10 Domes of Eurasia, self-sustaining biospheres along the Mediterranean Sea. Aerocars fly, clones work as security officers, and every citizens words and actions are monitored via their neural implants. Peace reigns over alluntil a group of terrorists targets government buildings, and Chancellor Persephone Hawthorne is kidnapped. Sera Chen, Dome 1 law enforcer, is drawn into the conflict after chasing a curfew violator capable of leaping from one skyscraper to another. When her augments go offline due to a localized EMP burst, she starts hearing voices. The band of survivors in North America is fractured. Daiyna roams the Wastes with a bounty on her head, refusing to confront her demons. Samson and Shechara target UW raiders who are pillaging ruins for resources the remnant needs to survive. James Bishop struggles against unexpected obstacles to be reunited with his family. And Luther is determined to find a way into Eurasia to meet the twenty children taken from Eden. As their lives converge, unlikely alliances will form to combat an emergent enemy with plans to undermine the course of humanitys future.

Laura, una giornalista italiana determinata e fiduciosa, lascia lItalia con unurgenza profonda: trovare la propria voce in una lingua straniera, lontano da tutto cio che conosce. In Texas incontra Chris, docente di lingua e letteratura inglese dallo sguardo limpido e dallanimo gentile. Il loro amore nasce allimprovviso e si radica in unestate sospesa durante un viaggio lungo la Route 66, tra motel storici e paesaggi mozzafiato. Ogni sosta di quel viaggio on the road imprime ricordi indelebili, alimentando la feroce nostalgia di cio che non sara vissuto. Quando Laura e costretta a tornare in Italia, la distanza non e solo geografica: e il tempo che si sfilaccia, le loro vite che cambiano direzione senza chiedere permesso. Eppure, negli anni, Laura e Chris continuano a sfiorarsi in citta, aeroporti, stanze dalbergo che diventano parentesi fuori dalla realta, incontri che assomigliano a strane coincidenze come se luniverso non volesse arrendersi alla loro lontananza. Una storia, la loro, fatta di ritorni e rinunce, di desideri che non trovano un approdo definitivo, di un amore che non accetta di essere relegato al passato. Finche un ultimo viaggio prende una svolta inaspettata aprendo la possibilita di un nuovo inizio o un ultimo addio.

Freeing Him for My Own Use - My flatmates boyfriend is a dick.Ive never liked him.But when I find the key for his cock cage I decide to have a bit of fun, and it leads to something unexpected.How to Have an Affair with a Guy in a Cock Cage - My co-worker and I arent going to let a little metal cage stop us from exploring our feelings.Especially when there are still so many things we can do for each other. *Please note these are both standalone stories

The future is in their hands. The post-apocalyptic world is bigger than the remnant imagined. Across the ocean, the domed cities of Eurasia have survived the nuclear holocaust that ravaged the rest of the planet. But only the survivors from the North American Wastes can give the sterile Eurasians what they need most in order to continue existing as a society: children.Sergeant James Bishop, United World Marine, leads his team across the desert wasteland in order to make first contact with survivors in Eden, who are rumored to have a lab full of viable embryos. Meanwhile Cain, a coastal warlord dedicated to repopulating the planet, follows the will of Gaia, a malicious spirit of the earth with no love for humankind. Margo, telepathic geneticist responsible for designing the next generation, struggles to balance the will of a selfish dictator with whats best for humanity. And Tucker, an invisible man on a mission, carries precious cargo across the Wastes in an effort to rally a group of survivors into action against Eden.As their lives intersect, agendas collide and tensions reach a breaking point. Twenty unborn children in incubation chambers hang in the balancealong with the fate of the world.

A big city. New sights. Endless adventures.In The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City, Laura Lee Hope takes Nan, Bert, Flossie, and Freddie on an exciting journey beyond their familiar surroundings into the bustling life of a great city.Surrounded by busy streets, towering buildings, and new experiences, the twins encounter unexpected adventures, curious situations, and small mysteries that make their trip unforgettable. Their curiosity and teamwork help them navigate the excitement of city life while learning valuable lessons along the way.Filled with charm, humor, and wholesome storytelling, the book captures the wonder of exploring new places through the eyes of children.A delightful classic of childrens literature, this story continues to entertain young readers with its warmth and sense of adventure."A fun and engaging story that brings the excitement of city life to young readers."Join the Bobbsey Twins as they explore the wonders of a great city.Scroll up and get your copy today to enjoy The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City.

A quiet street. A restless presence. A mystery that refuses to fade.In An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu delivers a deeply atmospheric and unsettling ghost story set in a seemingly ordinary Dublin residence.As strange noises, eerie visions, and unexplainable events begin to disturb the occupants, the story unfolds through a gripping narrative that blends realism with supernatural dread. What begins as curiosity soon turns into fear, as the haunting grows more intense and impossible to ignore.Le Fanu masterfully builds tension through subtle detail and psychological unease, allowing terror to emerge gradually from the shadows.A standout piece of gothic fiction, this story remains a classic example of supernatural horror that continues to captivate readers."A haunting and suspenseful tale where the ordinary becomes terrifying."Step into a house where silence hides something sinister.Scroll up and get your copy today to experience Aungier Street.

Hes always had everything except control over his own life.Alec Dumont was raised in wealth, privilege, and expectations he never chose. Bold, impulsive, and used to getting whatever he wants, hes spent his life pushing against a future already mapped out for himwhile still trying to figure out who he truly is.A trans man who has never quite found where he belongs.When hes forced to spend the summer in the middle of nowhere, far from the city and everything familiar, Alec expects nothing more than boredom and frustration. But everything changes the moment he meets Daniel.Quiet, guarded, and impossible to read, Daniel lives a simple life shaped by responsibility and sacrifice. He isnt impressed by money, doesnt fall for charm and clearly has no intention of getting involved.Which only makes Alec want him more.What starts as teasing and persistence quickly turns into something deeperan undeniable connection neither of them can ignore. For the first time, Alec is faced with someone who sees past the surface, beyond expectations and through the walls hes spent years building.But wanting someone is easy.Facing real feelings isnt.Especially when those feelings come with differences that feel impossible to bridge and the quiet, lingering fear of never being enough.Because some connections change everything.And sometimes, the greatest risk is falling for someone who might break your heart.

Conventional Lies of Our Civilization (1883) anatomizes the polite falsehoods that stabilize modern Europe: ecclesiastical dogma, patriotic militarism, the sanctity of marriage and property, retributive justice, laissezfaire economics, and the theatrics of diplomacy and the press. In a physicians idiomdiagnosis, prognosis, cureNordau fuses caustic polemic with empirical examples to show how ideals mask coercion and privilege. Anchored in liberal, freethinking currents of the fin de siecle, the book extends positivist critique against the hypocrisies of bourgeois respectability and Realpolitik. Born in Budapest in 1849, Max Simon Nordau trained as a physician before becoming a Paris correspondent for the Neue Freie Presse. His clinical discipline, cosmopolitan vantage, and position as a Jewish intellectual sharpened his eye for institutional bad faith. Observing hospitals, courts, salons, and parliaments, he developed a diagnosticians method that he later recast in Degeneration and in public activism; here it serves a secular, humanitarian program of reform. Recommended to readers of social theory, intellectual history, and cultural criticism, this book offers a lucid primer in ideology critique. Read Nordau to test todays pieties about nation, market, media, and marriageand to recover a bracing, reformist ethic of secular, civic responsibility.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Revision Revised (1883) is Burgons sustained critique of the 1881 Revised Version and the WestcottHort Greek text. Through detailed collation of Fathers, ancient versions, and the lectionary tradition, he argues for the Traditional or Byzantine text against reliance on a narrow Alexandrian witness (notably Codex Vaticanus and Sinaiticus). Written in a vigorous, forensic prose, studded with notes and examples, the book situates the revision controversy within nineteenthcentury textual theory, challenging genealogical assumptions and the notion of neutral manuscripts. John William Burgon, later Dean of Chichester, was a classically trained Anglican scholar formed in the Oxford milieu and committed to the doctrinal stability of the Churchs public Scriptures. His pastoral and liturgical concerns, combined with meticulous philological habits, led him to prize consensus across centuries over conjectural preference. Long engagement with patristic literature and ecclesial usage furnished the documentary base for his polemic. Whether or not one accepts Byzantine priority, this is indispensable reading for textual critics, translators, theologians, and historians of Victorian scholarship. Burgon teaches readers to test methods, weigh evidence ecumenically, and attend to reception as well as manuscripts. It remains a bracing, erudite counterpoint to Westcott and Hort, and a classic of English polemical scholarship.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In Jewish Theology, Systematically and Historically Considered, Kaufmann Kohler surveys Jewish belief from Bible to modernity, pairing a systematic outlineGod, revelation and law, worship, sin and atonement, election and mission, messianism, immortalitywith a meticulous historical narrative. Drawing on Bible, rabbinic sources, medieval philosophy and Kabbalah, and modern thought, he shows doctrines forming, contending, and adapting. The style is learned yet direct, blending the categories of theology with the historical rigor of the Wissenschaft des Judentums and comparative glances to Christianity and philosophy. German-born and trained in the historical-critical school, Kohler emigrated to the United States, became a leading architect of Reform Judaism, and later presided over Hebrew Union College. Mentored by Abraham Geiger and shaped by his reformer father-in-law, David Einhorn, he fused seminar scholarship with pulpit realism. That dual vocation explains his ambition here: to ground a modern, ethically inflected Jewish theology in the full sweep of tradition without surrendering honesty to science or conscience. Scholars, clergy, and serious readers will value it as both a primary statement of Reform theology and a panoramic guide to sources. It rewards coursework and independent study alike, provoking reflection on law, ethics, and faith.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Avoidant Attachment CureHow To Stop Running Into The Forest Every Time Someone Asks You What Your Favorite Color IsThis is not a book about becoming suddenly openits about understanding why closeness has always felt like a quiet threat. Avoidant attachment doesnt announce itself loudly; it shows up in subtle exits, emotional distance, and the instinct to retreat just when things start to matter. The forest is not literalits the internal space you disappear into when connection begins to feel too real, too exposing, too hard to control.The approach here is not force, but awareness. It explores how these patterns formed, why independence became a shield, and how to slowly expand your capacity for closeness without losing your sense of self. Instead of pushing you to overshare or fix yourself overnight, the book introduces small, manageable shiftsstaying present a little longer, expressing one honest thought, tolerating the discomfort of being seen. Each step is designed to build safety from the inside out.By the end, connection no longer feels like something you must escape. The forest is still there, but it becomes a choice, not a reflex. What replaces avoidance is not dependence, but balancethe ability to be close without feeling trapped, to care without shutting down, and to remain fully yourself while letting others in.

Set in Reformation-era Saxony and Brandenburg, Michael Kohlhaas follows a horse dealer whose effort to rectify a petty aristocratic abuse swells into a private war on the state. With the crisp authority of a legal brief and the relentlessness of classical tragedy, Kleists tightly wound sentences bind cause to consequence until justice curdles into fanaticism. Framed as a chronicle and punctuated by Luthers intervention, the novella probes sovereignty, the rule of law, and righteous violence in a style both austere and unnervingly modern. A former Prussian officer and civil servant, Heinrich von Kleist (17771811) wrote after political upheaval and his own "Kant crisis," which shattered confidence in stable knowledge. Encounters with bureaucracy and military discipline inform the books obsession with legality and its breakdown. Across works from The Broken Jug to The Prince of Homburg, he staged collisions between conscience and authority; Michael Kohlhaas distills that conflict with unmatched severity. His volatile life, ending in a double suicide at Wannsee, shadows the novellas fatalism. Readers of legal philosophy, political history, and dark moral fictionKafka to Melvillewill find a bracing study of justice unbound, rewarding close attention to its syntax, irony, and ethical rigor.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Divine Comedy follows an exiled pilgrim through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, ordered by the sacred numerology of threes and nines. Cast in propulsive terza rima, it marries scriptural allegory, scholastic argument, and classical epic; Virgil and Beatrice guide a drama that is simultaneously theological summa and civic satire. Its gallery of historical and contemporary figures enacts a rigorous moral taxonomy, while its supple Tuscan vernacular helped mint a literary language for Europe. Dante Alighierilyric innovator, former Florentine prior, and lifelong student of Aristotle via Aquinasbegan the poem in exile after his 1302 banishment. Grief for Beatrice, indignation at factional politics, and a reforming vision shaped by Augustinian and Roman ideals all converge here. In lieu of lost civic office, he builds an imaginative polity governed by justice, love, and ordered freedom. Recommended to readers of epic, theology, and political thought, the Comedy rewards slow, annotated reading in Italian or translation. Its crystalline architecture, ethical urgency, and lyric flame invite argument and devotion alike; few works better illuminate how a single soul, and a whole society, might be judged, corrected, and led toward beatitude.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In The Great Gatsby (Unabridged), F. Scott Fitzgerald filters the rise and unraveling of Jay Gatsby through Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner adrift among East and West Eggs brittle splendors. Set in the summer of 1922, the novel deploys a modernist economy of scene and symbolthe green light, the valley of ashes, the watchful billboardwithin lyrical prose that shifts from satire to elegy. Its taut design and ironic focalization expose class performance, obsessive desire, and the American Dream recast as spectacle. Fitzgerald, a Midwesterner educated at Princeton who tasted swift fame with This Side of Paradise, wrote Gatsby after seasons among Long Islands nouveaux riches and Manhattan speakeasies, where conspicuous consumption masked private precarity. His marriage to Zelda Sayre, brief work in New York advertising, and acute sensitivity to status attuned him to the intoxicants and corrosions of the Jazz Age; painstaking revisions yielded a style equal to both glitter and moral xray. Unabridged, this edition preserves the novels cadences and design, making it essential for readers seeking a lucid study of longing, privilege, and reinvention. Students, modernist enthusiasts, and curious newcomers alike will find a brief book that dazzles and disturbs.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Science and Health articulates the theological and metaphysical core of Christian Science, asserting that divine Mind is real and matter illusory, and that healing follows from spiritual understanding. In didactic prose, scriptural exegesis, and the catechetical "Recapitulation," it recasts prayer as demonstration. Composed amid nineteenthcentury disputes over medicine and biblical authority, it reframes "science" as Gods provable law and challenges medical materialism. Mary Baker Eddy (18211910), raised in New Hampshires Protestant milieu and long beset by illness, traced her method to a dramatic 1866 recovery that prompted rigorous study of the Gospels. Contact with mental healing circles, including Phineas P. Quimby, became a foil as she formulated a biblical "Christian Science." She repeatedly revised this book, founded the Church of Christ, Scientist (1879), and trained practitioners, presenting it as a pedagogical "Key to the Scriptures." Recommended to readers exploring the nexus of theology, knowledge, and healing, this volume offers a lucidif contestedarchitecture of faith-as-demonstration. It rewards scholars of American religious innovation, New Thought, and Transcendentalism, as well as critics of biomedical materialism. Read critically yet sympathetically, in conversation with the biblical texts it cites and with ongoing debates about what counts as science.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Le radici del male di Alda Teodorani e unopera cardine dellhorror metropolitano. La raccolta di tre romanzi - Giu nel delirio, Specchi di sangue e Soluzione finale - esplora senza filtri la psiche umana, in un viaggio estremo nei meandri piu oscuri dellessere tra violenza, ossessione e follia. I protagonisti vivono in un universo alienato, sospeso tra incubo e realta deformata, dove il male nasce dallanimo umano e non offre redenzione.

DescriptionWhen Sophie White walks out after seven years, Nathan Quinn barely notices shes gone.He goes back to gaming. He stretches out across the whole bed. He tells himself this is freedom.Over the next seventy-two hours, as he searches for her through a city that keeps handing him back his own reflection, Nathan begins to understand everything he missed the congee she made him from memory, the hair net she stitched back together instead of replacing, the down payment she built quietly with her own hands while he wasnt paying attention.*72 Hours* is an unflinching portrait of a man learning, too late, what love actually looks like told with dark humor, raw honesty, and a kind of grief that hits harder for being so deserved.*She didnt leave in anger. She left with relief. Thats the part he cant forget.*