Download Eleanor of Castile (PDF) by Sara Cockerill

Download Eleanor of Castile (PDF) by Sara Cockerill


PDF: 416 pages
Publisher: Amberley (November 19, 2014)
Language: English

Eleanor of Castile has been effectively airbrushed from history, portrayed as the archetypal submissive queen. In fact Eleanor had perhaps one of the most fascinating lives of any of England’s queens. Her childhood was spent in the center of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her famed military hero of a father (St Ferdinand) and her intellectual polymath brother. Married at the age of twelve and a mother at thirteen, she gave birth to at least fourteen children, most of whom died young. She was to live for extended periods in five different countries, venture on Crusade and endure destitution and captivity amid a civil war in which her husband’s life was in acute danger. As Queen of England she enjoyed, alongside Edward I, the full glory of returning Crusaders and conquerors.
Personally she was a highly dynamic, forceful personality who acted as part of Edward’s innermost circle of advisers, and successfully accumulated a vast property empire for the English Crown. In cultural terms her influence in architecture, design and even gardening can be discerned to this day, while her idealized image speaks to us from Edward’s beautiful memorials to her, the Eleanor crosses, the most complete and ornate set of monuments to a beloved spouse ever seen in this country.

About the Author
Sara Cockerill shelved an early passion for history to obtain a first class degree in Law from Oxford in 1989 and be called to the Bar in 1990. She has since been practising as a barrister specialising in commercial disputes and indulging her historical interests in such spare time as she could find. She has spent ten years researching Eleanor of Castile. She is married with one cat, and divides her time between London and the seaside.


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Download This Shattered World (Starbound) PDF by Amie Kaufman

Download This Shattered World (Starbound) PDF by Amie Kaufman


Age Range: 12 - 18 years
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Series: Starbound
PDF: 400 pages
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion (December 23, 2014)
Language: English

Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.
Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. 
Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. His sister died in the original uprising against the powerful corporate conglomerate that rules Avon with an iron fist. These corporations make their fortune by terraforming uninhabitable planets across the universe and recruiting colonists to make the planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion. 

Desperate for any advantage against the military occupying his home, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape base together, caught between two sides in a senseless war.
The stunning second novel in the Starbound trilogy is an unforgettable story of love and forgiveness in a world torn apart by war.


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Download Storm' Fury: The Shenkar War PDF by Seth Libby

Download Storm' Fury: The Shenkar War PDF by Seth Libby


PDF: 546 pages
Language: English

Many lives were lost when Earth was thrown into a ferocious battle for the own survival. In the end the survivors of the EDF Sacrifice and the people of Earth beat back the Shenkar assault of Earth. 
Now the world has united with the common goal; build a unified fighting force, both in space and on the ground, to protect the Earth of the eventual return of the Shenkar. 
Commander Liam Brennan, leader of the Templar knights, must learn to control his abilities. Learning to maintain control of his emotions as to prevent a reoccurence of what happened aboard the Tryliene. 
With the new fleet almost complete, the fear of the Shenkar return comes to fruition and once again the human race fights a desperate battle for survival. With victory, the leaders of Earth realize they will never be left alone by the Shenkar and they must act. They also learn that not every Shenkar feel the way of their leaders and that Liam Brennan is being whispered of within the Shenkar Federation both as a hero and an enemy. 
Join Liam Brennan as he and the rest of the Templat Knights head forth, taking the battle to the Shenkar Federation. Their agenda:To contact other races who may wish to join them, to break the chains of Shenkar rule.


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Download All That Heaven Will Allow (PDF) by D.W. Marchwell

Download All That Heaven Will Allow (PDF) by D.W. Marchwell


PDF: 200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (November 21, 2014)
Language: English

Jimmy Campbell has owned his own bar for the past twenty years. While his past is troubled, his present and future make life worth living. He has good friends, more than enough money, and he volunteers—along with his Yorkie, Bozo, and his Maine coon cat, Miss Alicia—at the local hospital every Friday. He couldn’t ask for more. That is, until he meets Derek “Dizzy” Roberts.
Derek is a musician who tours the country with his band. He’s an ex-cop, was married once, and has the bitter ex-wife and two spoiled children to prove it. He's finally living his dream, and that includes bedding all the groupies who think he’s every bit as good as his music. He doesn’t worry much about the future, until he meets Jimmy.
The two men begin a long-distance romance, sneaking weekends here and there, until a tragedy forces them to realize they might lose the only thing they both want—a future together. Now, they’re asking for everything heaven will allow.


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Download Messenger's Legacy (Demon Cycle) PDF by Peter V. Brett

Download Messenger's Legacy (Demon Cycle) PDF by Peter V. Brett


Series: Demon Cycle
PDF: 136 pages
Publisher: Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover Edition edition (November 30, 2014)
Language: English

Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons--bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting the surface for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.

Briar Damaj is a boy of six in the small village of Bogton. Half-Krasian, the village children call him Mudboy for his dark skin. When tragedy strikes, Briar decides the town is better off without him, fleeing into the bog with nothing but his wits and a bit of herb lore to protect him.
After twenty years, Ragen Messenger has agreed to retire and pass on his route to his protégé, Arlen Bales. But for all that he's earned the rest, he has no idea what to do with the rest of his life. When he learns Briar, the son of an old friend, is missing, Ragen is willing to risk any danger to bring him safely home.

About the Author
Raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels, comic books, and Dungeons & Dragons, Peter V. Brett ('Peat ' to his friends) has been writing fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Art History from the University of Buffalo in 1995, and then spent over a decade in pharmaceutical publishing before returning to his bliss. He lives in New York City.


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Download Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? PDF by Karen Dawisha

Download Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? PDF by Karen Dawisha


PDF: 464 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 30, 2014)
Language: English

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.
Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about the Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime.

Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says. “But some of that work remains.”

About the Author
Karen Dawisha is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the director of the University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. She has written five previous books, eight edited volumes, and numerous journal articles, and continues to do research and teaching in the areas of post-communist transitions and Russian politics.


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Angelina's Bachelors (PDF ebook) by Brian O'Reilly - download

Angelina's Bachelors (PDF ebook) by Brian O'Reilly - download


PDF: 384 pages
Publisher: Gallery Books; Reprint edition (August 9, 2011)
Language: English

Sometimes the shortest distance between two people is the length of a kitchen table. . . . 
Far too young to be a widow, Angelina D’Angelo suddenly finds herself facing a life without her beloved husband, Frank. Late one night shortly after the funeral, she makes her way down to the kitchen and pours all of her grief and anger into the only outlet she has left—her passion for cooking. In a frenzy of concentration and swift precision, she builds layer upon layer of thick, rich lasagna, braids loaves of yeasty bread, roasts plump herb-rubbed chicken; she makes so much food that she winds up delivering the spoils to the neighbors in her tight-knit Italian community in South Philadelphia. 

Retiree Basil Cupertino, who has just moved in with his kindly sister across the street, is positively smitten with Angelina’s food. In a stroke of good fortune, Basil offers Angelina (not only husbandless but unemployed) a job cooking for him—two meals a day, six days a week, in exchange for a handsome salary. Soon, word of her irresistible culinary prowess spreads and she finds herself cooking for seven bachelors—and in the process discovers the magical power of food to heal, to bring people together . . . and maybe even to provide a second chance at love. 
Filled to the brim with homemade warmth, Angelina’s Bachelors is a sweet tale of overcoming grief, redefining family, and following your heart—through food.

About the Author
Brian O’Reilly is a writer and producer.  He was the creator and executive producer of Food Network’s Dinner: Impossible.  Angelina’s Bachelors is his third book and first novel, after Mission: Cook! and Impossible to Easy.  His culinary collaborator is his wife and partner, Virginia, a lifelong cook and culinary producer of their production company.  In a perfect world, they believe, there’d be pie every day.


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Download Hotter Than Helltown (PDF ebook) by S M Reine

Download Hotter Than Helltown (PDF ebook) by S M Reine


Series: Preternatural Affairs
PDF: 264 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (June 17, 2014)
Language: English

A killer is mutilating bodies in Los Angeles. Agent Cèsar Hawke is on the case, but the murderer is ahead of him—way ahead of him. Wiping the memories of the dead so that the team’s necrocognitive can’t talk to them? Done. Preventing magical reconstruction of the crime scenes? Oh yeah. And the murders keep getting more brutal while Cèsar struggles to catch up. The best way to heat up a cold case is to go to Helltown, where Los Angeles’s most powerful evil hides out, but even those demons are afraid of the murderer. Their fear adds one more question to the growing pile of unknowns: What kind of bad guy is too hot for Helltown?


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Download Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter PDF by Richard Parks

Download Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter PDF by Richard Parks


PDF: 288 pages
Publisher: Prime Books (January 22, 2013)
Language: English

In an ancient Japan where the incursions of gods, ghosts, and demons into the living world is an everyday event, an impoverished nobleman named Yamada no Goji makes his living as a demon hunter for hire. With the occasional assistance of the reprobate exorcist Kenji, whatever the difficulty - ogres, demons, fox-spirits - for a price Yamada will do what needs to be done, even and especially if the solution to the problem isn't as simple as the edge of a sword. Yet, no matter how many monsters he has to face, or how powerful and terrible they may be, the demons Yamada fears the most are his own!

About the author:
Richard Parks lives in Mississippi with his wife and a varying number of cats. He collects Japanese woodblock prints but otherwise has no hobbies since he discovered that they all require time. His fiction has appeared in Asimov's SF, Realms of Fantasy, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and numerous anthologies, including Year's Best Fantasy and Fantasy: The Best of the Year. He's been a finalist for both the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature.


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Download Faithful and Virtuous Night (PDF) by Louise Glück

Download Faithful and Virtuous Night (PDF) by Louise Glück


PDF: 80 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition (September 9, 2014)
Language: English

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry
A luminous, seductive new collection from the “fearless” (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as “a major event in this country’s literature” in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception.
You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it’s the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight’s undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you’ve always known, that first primer where “on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball” and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, “the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball.” Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.

About the Author
Louise Glück is the author of eleven books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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Download Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (PDF) by Hermione Lee

Download Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (PDF) by Hermione Lee


PDF: 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf (November 18, 2014)
Language: English

The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century.
Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. She would go on to win some of the most coveted awards in literature—the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 
Now, in an impeccable match of talent between biographer and subject, Hermione Lee, a master biographer and one of Fitzgerald's greatest champions, gives us this remarkable writer’s story. Lee’s critical expertise is on dazzling display on every page, as it illuminates this extraordinary English life. Fitzgerald, born into an accomplished intellectual family, the granddaughter of two bishops, led a life marked by dramatic twists of fate, moving from a bishop’s palace to a sinking houseboat to a last, late blaze of renown. We see Fitzgerald’s very English childhood in the village of Hampstead; her Oxford years, when she was known as the “blonde bombshell”; her impoverished adulthood as a struggling wife, mother and schoolteacher, raising a family in difficult circumstances; and the long-delayed start to her literary career. 

Fitzgerald’s early novels draw on her own experiences—working at the BBC in wartime, at a bookshop in Suffolk, at an eccentric stage school in the 1960s—while her later books open out into historical worlds that she, magically, seems to entirely possess: Russia before the Revolution, postwar Italy, Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. Fitzgerald’s novels are short, spare masterpieces, and Hermione Lee unfurls them here as works of genius. Expertly researched, written out of love and admiration for this wonderful author’s work, Penelope Fitzgerald is literary biography at its finest—an unforgettable story of lateness, persistence and survival. 


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Download New Regime (Rune Alexander 5) PDF by Laken Cane

Download New Regime (Rune Alexander 5) PDF by Laken Cane


PDF: 296 pages
Language: English

Rune and her people have been taken under the mysterious wing of the Annex, an agency that works toward Other equality. 
But with the new regime comes changes and some monstrous enemies the Annex seems to have brought with it. 
The crew finds themselves up against a group called the Shop, whose leader cares only about his lab and the monsters he creates there. 
But he hasn't been able to build monsters he can use or sell...until now. 
Now Rune must follow a path of horror that leads from a little werefox named Megan to a town full of evil in Reverence, Kentucky, and find a way to defeat something worse than blades or guns or bombs. 
Magic. 
She can't use her claws on magic. 
Can she? 
In book five of the Rune Alexander series, Rune must deal with not only the monsters, but the escalating tension between the berserker and Owen, flashbacks from the COS attack, and the fear that she's losing Levi to the chasm of darkness started by Karin Love and deepened by the slayers. 
She and her crew will fight with everything they've got to defeat the evil, even if some of that darkness lives inside each one of them. 
Because they're Shiv Crew, and that is what they do.


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Download Sanctuary (Rise of the Empire 2) PDF by Ivan Kal

Download Sanctuary (Rise of the Empire 2) PDF by Ivan Kal


PDF: 215 pages
Language: English

A new start, six hundred light-years from Earth. 
Tomas Klein, founder of Olympus, has brought his people to a new world, free of constraints of Earth governments. 
But, a new world brings new dangers. Tomas Klein will need to set aside past regrets, and rise up to the challenge. 
Adrian Farkas, commander of Olympus warship Athena, will need to use all his skills when even more responsibility is put on his shoulders. 
New allies appear, just as new foes threaten the peace of Sanctuary. 
Sanctuary is the second book in the "Rise of the Empire" series, it continues the story from Olympus, and follows a part of humanity that chose to split off from Earth and make their own way to the stars.


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Download Abracadaver (Esther Diamond 7) PDF by Laura Resnick

Download Abracadaver (Esther Diamond 7) PDF by Laura Resnick


Series: Esther Diamond Novel (Book 7)
PDF: 336 pages
Publisher: DAW (November 25, 2014)
Language: English

R.I.P. = Reanimated, Infernal, and Pretty damn dangerous 
Struggling actress Esther Diamond, whose year got off to a rough start (what with incarceration, unemployment, and mystical death curses), finally catches a break when she lands an acting job.
She's hired to reprise her guest role as prostitute Jilly C-Note on The Dirty Thirty, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department. Esther's ex-sometime boyfriend, NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, hates that show with undying passion -- especially after Esther convinces her narcissistic co-star to shadow Lopez on the job, in order to add verisimilitude to his performance as a morally bankrupt cop.

But Esther's fellow thespian is her best bet for keeping an eye on Lopez 24/7—and, more to the point, on Lopez's new partner, Detective Quinn. Esther and her friend Max, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting the city from Evil, suspect Quinn of being involved in the latest mystical mayhem to menace Manhattan...

Corpses suddenly aren't staying quite as dead as they should.
While Max and Esther try to determine what Quinn's role is in the supernatural reanimation of the deceased downtown, a dangerous foe with deadly intent changes everyone's dinner plans one cold winter night...



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Nothing Ventured (pdf ebook) by Jay Northcote - download

Nothing Ventured (pdf ebook) by Jay Northcote - download


PDF: 141 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press; 1 edition (November 12, 2014)
Language: English

When Aiden agrees to run the Mad Mucker—a twelve-mile muddy slog over an obstacle course—he’s expecting it to be a bit of a laugh. The training will be tough, but Aiden could use the motivation to regain some fitness. 
Matt is the sexy cousin of one of Aiden’s coworkers and a last-minute addition to the team. When he agrees to train with Aiden, Aiden suddenly finds the prospect of regular workouts a lot more appealing. 
Soon attraction flares, and they embark on an intense physical relationship. Matt doesn’t want to fall in love with a man, and Aiden doesn’t want to fall in love at all, but despite their insistence on no strings, they grow closer. As the day of the race approaches, time is running out for them to work out how they feel about each other.


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Download Hunting in Bruges (Hunters' Guild) PDF by E.J. Stevens

Download Hunting in Bruges (Hunters' Guild) PDF by E.J. Stevens


PDF: 278 pages
Publisher: Sacred Oaks Press (November 9, 2014)
Language: English

he only thing worse than being a Hunter in the fae-ridden city of Harborsmouth, is hunting vamps in Bruges. 
Being shipped off to Belgium sucks. The medieval city of Bruges is quaint, but the local Hunters' Guild is understaffed, the canals are choked with dead bodies, and there's no shortage of supernatural predators as likely suspects. 

On second thought, maybe Bruges isn't so bad after all. 
With a desire to prove herself, protect the innocent, and advance within the ranks of the Hunters' Guild, Jenna Lehane hits the cobbled streets of Bruges with blades at the ready. Someone, or something, is murdering tourists and dumping their bodies in the city's scenic canals. With the help of a mysterious stranger, Jenna begins to piece together clues that are dotted throughout the city like blood spatter. 
Determined to stop the killings, Jenna delves into a bloody local history that only raises more questions--but some secrets are best left buried. Jenna must put her combat training to the test as she struggles to unearth the truth about an ancient enemy. 
Hunting in Bruges is the first novel in the Hunters' Guild urban fantasy series set in the world of Ivy Granger.


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Download Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover PDF by Sarah MacLean

Download Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover PDF by Sarah MacLean


Series: Rules of Scoundrels (Book 4)
PDF: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon (November 25, 2014)
Language: English

RITA® Award-winning author Sarah MacLean reveals the identity of The Fallen Angel's final scoundrel in the spectacular conclusion to her New York Times bestselling Rules of Scoundrels series . . .
By day, she is Lady Georgiana, sister to a duke, ruined before her first season in the worst kind of scandal. But the truth is far more shocking—in London's darkest corners, she is Chase, the mysterious, unknown founder of the city's most legendary gaming hell. For years, her double identity has gone undiscovered . . . until now.
Brilliant, driven, handsome-as-sin Duncan West is intrigued by the beautiful, ruined woman who is somehow connected to a world of darkness and sin. He knows she is more than she seems, and he vows to uncover all of Georgiana's secrets, laying bare her past, threatening her present, and risking all she holds dear . . . including her heart.

About the author:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sarah MacLean grew up in Rhode Island, obsessed with historical romance. Her love of all things historical helped to earn her degrees from Smith College and Harvard University before she finally set pen to paper and wrote her first book. Sarah now lives in New York City with her husband, their dog, and a ridiculously large collection of romance novels.


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Download Strange Land (Young Ancients 15) PDF by P. S. Power

Download Strange Land (Young Ancients 15) PDF by P. S. Power


PDF: 261 pages
Publisher: Orange Cat Publishing; 1 edition (November 14, 2014)
Language: English

The far off strange land of Tellerand is dying.
Vast and horrible storms have pounded the entire world to the point where few are able to make it on their own, but only that one place has refused aid from the new colony of Harmony. Magics that can produce food from water, or even rock. Wonders that can heal them of illness and injury in moments. Even a chance to simply leave and find a better, safer location.
To the people of Tellerand this is forbidden, being brought by the Devil himself. So they sit, prayers on their lips, the lives of their children fading with every sunrise.
Sara Debri has been given the task of saving them. No matter what it takes, the plucky and brave spy must see that these odd people, who are very different from the ones of her own Kingdom, survive. To do that she must learn their ways, pretend to be one of them, and in the end, become something far more than anyone ever thought she could be.
A savior.


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Download Captive (The Blackcoat Rebellion 2) PDF by Aimée Carter

Download Captive (The Blackcoat Rebellion 2) PDF by Aimée Carter


PDF: 304 pages
Publisher: Harlequin Teen (November 25, 2014)
Language: English

The truth can set her free 
For the past two months, Kitty Doe's life has been a lie. Forced to impersonate Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, in a hostile meritocracy on the verge of revolution, Kitty sees her frustration grow as her trust in her fake fiancé cracks, her real boyfriend is forbidden and the Blackcoat rebels she is secretly supporting keep her in the dark more than ever. 
But in the midst of discovering that her role in the Hart family may not be as coincidental as she thought, she's accused of treason and is forced to face her greatest fear: Elsewhere. A prison where no one can escape. 
As one shocking revelation leads to the next, Kitty learns the hard way that she can trust no one, not even the people she thought were on her side. With her back against the wall, Kitty wants to believe she'll do whatever it takes to support the rebellion she believes in—but is she prepared to pay the ultimate price?

About the Author
Aimée Carter was born in 1986 and raised in Michigan, where she currently resides. She started writing fan fiction at eleven, began her first original story four years later, and hasn’t stopped writing since. Besides writing and reading, she enjoys seeing movies, playing with her puppies, and wrestling with the puzzles in the paper each morning.


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Download Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella PDF by Zoe Sugg

Download Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella PDF by Zoe Sugg


PDF: 352 pages
Publisher: Atria/Keywords Press (November 25, 2014)
Language: English

From YouTube sensation Zoella comes a debut coming-of-age novel that perfectly captures what it means to grow up and fall in love in today’s digital world. Girl Online is the first book to be published by Keywords Press, an imprint under Simon & Schuster dedicated to today’s digital stars.
I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we’re something we’re not. That would be awesome. But until that day, I’m going to keep it real on this blog and keep it unreal in “real” life.

Penny has a secret. 
Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her quirky family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse at school, her parents accept an opportunity to whisk the family away for Christmas at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. There, she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love—and capturing every moment she spends with “Brooklyn Boy” on her blog.
But Noah has a secret, too, one that threatens to ruin Penny’s cover—and her closest friendship—forever.
Award-winning and influential YouTube vlogger Zoe Sugg delivers a heartfelt coming-of-age novel that perfectly captures the highs and lows of first love, friendship, and growing up in the digital age.


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Steel and Flame (pdf ebook) by Damien Lake - download

Steel and Flame (pdf ebook) by Damien Lake - download


PDF: 636 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Language: English

The Chronicles of the Crimson Kings trilogy is the first series set in the world of Folcrist. In Folcrist, there exist multiple systems of magic, dozens of different types of magic users ranging from wizards to mages to sorcerers to geomancers, lands unexplored and lands long forgotten. It is a world where no two kingdoms are the same, and anything might happen. The Eternal Twelve, six paired gods and goddesses, watch over Folcrist, but most of them chose long ago to restrict their influence to indirect measures. 
In the forested kingdom of Galemar, peace has reigned for over a century. Even for a common mercenary, finding work isn't all that easy. Mercenary Rail Drakkson leaves his home every spring to find what jobs he can and bring the pay home to his wife and son. But Rail never came home one winter. His fate was left a mystery to all. When his son Marik reaches his coming of age, he decides to set out into the larger kingdom to solve the mystery, with nothing to aide his quest except his father's old sword and a conviction that there is more to the disappearance than most people assume. 

Deep in a seemingly haunted forest lies a secret village, protected from outsiders by its own clan of Guardians. Colbey, a young member of their ranks, abruptly finds himself one of the few survivors after a brutal surprise attack. Strangers casting frightening magic and commanding monsters slaughter every villager they can. Amidst the shattered buildings and hanging walkways, Colbey must come face to face with his failure. But despite the carnage, there remain duties to be performed. An artifact from a long forgotten war between gods and their mortal followers remains sealed within the village ruins. If the foreign magic wielders return in strength, they might break open the seals and unleash unimaginable horrors on the whole of Folcrist.
With Galemar being the peaceful land it is, the only realistic option for both men is offered by the best mercenary band within the borders, the Crimson Kings. Marik seeks both answers to his father's fate and to develop his own budding sword skills as a fighter. Colbey seeks signs of the strife that will undoubtedly sprout in the footsteps of his quarry, and who knows faster than the mercenaries about any slight trouble that arises anywhere in the kingdom? Neither will have much time before fighting and war fall upon them both. 
Marik and Colbey will have to wade through sword fights, battle lines, combat magic, foreign armies, sieges and unrestrained warfare in pursuit of their answers. But in a mercenary band, there is never any guarantee that you'll live to see the next sunrise.


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Download No Safeword: Matte - Happily Ever After (PDF) by Candace Blevins

Download No Safeword: Matte - Happily Ever After (PDF) by Candace Blevins


PDF: 426 pages
Publisher: Excessica Publishing (October 1, 2014)
Language: English

The honeymoon is over and it's time for Sam and Ethan to start the rest of their lives together.
Fate has been kind to the couple so far, but can their luck hold out? Is their relationship strong enough to withstand the challenges ahead?
Fasten your seat belts and hang onto your hats for the final installment in the Matte series.

About the author:
Candace Blevins is a southern girl who loves to travel the world. 
She lives with her husband of 15 years and their two daughters. When not working or driving kids all over the place she can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming. 
Candace writes romance books about characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work.


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The Long Sword (PDF) by Christian Cameron - download

The Long Sword (PDF) by Christian Cameron - download


PDF: 448 pages
Publisher: Orion (November 20, 2014)
Language: English

Pisa, May 1364. Sir William Gold - newly knighted on the battlefield outside the gates of Florence - can look forward to a lucrative career as a sword for hire in the endless warring between Italy's wealthy city states. But when a message comes from Father Pierre de Thomas, Grand Master of the Order of St John - better known as the Hospitallers - Sir William knows he has no choice but to leave his dreams of fame and fortune behind him.
Father Pierre is gathering men across Europe for a crusade, and as a donat of the order, Sir William is pledged to serve him. But before setting out for the Holy Land, Sir William and his companions face deadly adversaries closer to home. In the labyrinthine politics of Italy, not only would some cities rather side with the Saracen than their fellow Christians, but there are powerful princes of the church whose ambitions would be better served if the crusade failed - not to mention two of Sir William's bitterest enemies - the maniacal Bourc le Camus, now in the pay of the ruthless Cardinal Robert of Geneva, and the Count D'Herblay, husband of the woman who still holds Sir William's heart.
With assassins and conspirators on all sides, Sir William and his band of knights must overcome overwhelming odds - but if they survive, can the crusade be anything more than a suicide mission?


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Download The Terror of Thorn (Child of War 2) PDF by Alonna Lissett

Download The Terror of Thorn (Child of War 2) PDF by Alonna Lissett


PDF: 140 pages
Language: English

In the powerful Queendom of Rangel, women have sole control of the government due to their use of powerful magic and men are treated little better than chattel. Rangel is the only nation in the land with Magic users, the powerful witches that give the Queendom her power. Xander is the world’s only Enchanter and has been forced to marry the powerful Rangelian Queen Celeste's only daughter, the manipulative princess Aubrey. Rangel’s bitter enemy, the powerful Kingdom of Thorn is in disarray with civil war looming. Queen Celeste sees Thorn as vulnerable and sends her army along witch her witches and her pet enchanter Xander in order to capture the Kingdom and bring it under Rangel’s power. Xander, eager for war and bloodshed tries to shed his title as The Enchanter of Rangel and instead becomes The Terror of Thorn.


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Download All I Want (Alabama Summer 2) PDF by J. Daniels

Download All I Want (Alabama Summer 2) PDF by J. Daniels


PDF: 269 pages
Language: English

From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author, J. Daniels 
The second book in the Alabama Summer series. 

Luke Evans is a heartbreaker. 
I didn’t want to give mine to him. Not when he kept me out. 
He gave me enough, just enough to make me fall in love with him. I say this to convince myself. But I know the truth. 
I would’ve fallen in love with him at a distance. 
Handing my heart over to Luke was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. I was naive when I wished for more, when I hoped he wanted the same things I did. 
I try to hate him. I try to forget him. 
But it’s not that easy. 
Love is a ruthless bitch, and I’m her latest victim. 

Tessa Kelly is a man-eater. 
When she sets her sights on you, she doesn’t just consume your heart, she goes for your soul. 
What we had was perfect, real, and all I would ever want. 
But she destroyed it. 
She destroyed us. 
I try to hate her. I try to forget her. 
But it’s not that easy. 
Love is for people who have hope, and I have none. 


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Riding the Unicorn (pdf ebook) by Paul Kearney - download

Riding the Unicorn (pdf ebook) by Paul Kearney - download


PDF: 336 pages
Publisher: Solaris (October 28, 2014)
Language: English

Released in the US for the first time, this is Paul Kearney's stunning novel of second chances in a world of battle and danger.
John Willoughby is being pulled between worlds. Or he is going mad, ‘riding the unicorn’ as his prison officer colleagues would say. It’s clear to Willoughby it must be the latter. Disappearing in the middle of his prison shift from among convicts, appearing in a makeshift medieval encampment for minutes before tumbling back to the real world, Willoughby believes his mind is simply breaking apart. 
He finds no solace at home, with a wife who has grown to dislike him and a daughter who can barely hide her disgust. He’s realised he isn’t worth anyone’s time, barely even his own, and falls into drinking and violence guaranteed to bring about his downfall. Except in this other world, in this winter land of first-settlers he is a man with a purpose, a man upon whom others must rely. Persuaded to kill a King so as to save a people, Willoughby finds that in another world, with a second chance he may be the kind of man he had always wanted to be after all.

About the Author
Paul Kearney was born in Northern Ireland. He studied Old Norse, Middle English and Anglo Saxon at Oxford University, and subsequently lived for several years in both Denmark and the United States. He lives in County Down, in a croft with a boat by the door.


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Download Demons in My Driveway (PDF ebook) by R.L. Naquin

Download Demons in My Driveway (PDF ebook) by R.L. Naquin


PDF: 217 pages
Publisher: Carina Press (October 20, 2014)
Language: English

A Monster Haven Story, book five
Zoey Donovan—Aegis and co-opted protector of all things supernatural—is moving up in the Hidden world. Actually, she's being dropkicked onto the front lines of a fight between the newly formed Cult of Imagination and Hidden governments everywhere.
The Cult is opening portals and unleashing demons, vampires and werewolves, growing closer to breaking the lock that holds back the zombie apocalypse with every world they crack open. Oh, and they want every last Aegis in the world dead, and a roving band of Hidden worshippers is only too eager to assist.
On the upside, Zoey finally has her mother back. But having another Aegis around—one with very different ideas on how to run things—is proving difficult. For their own safety, they're stuck inside Zoey's home. What was once a haven is now a prison, further straining maternal relations and alienating her reaper boyfriend. Taking down a cult and saving the world—again—would be a lot easier if she could go farther than her own driveway.


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Measure of a Man (PDF) by Martin Greenfield - download

Measure of a Man (PDF) by Martin Greenfield - download


PDF: 250 pages
Publisher: Regnery Publishing (November 10, 2014)
Language: English

He's been called "America's greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world." Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family, Greenfield came face to face with "Angel of Death" Dr. Joseph Mengele and was divided forever from his parents, sisters, and baby brother.
In haunting, powerful prose, Greenfield remembers his desperation and fear as a teenager alone in the death camp—and how an SS soldier's shirt dramatically altered the course of his life. He learned how to sew; and when he began wearing the shirt under his prisoner uniform, he learned that clothes possess great power and could even help save his life.

Measure of a Man is the story of a man who suffered unimaginable horror and emerged with a dream of success. From sweeping floors at a New York clothing factory to founding America’s premier custom suit company, Greenfield built a fashion empire. Now 86 years old and working with his sons, Greenfield has dressed the famous and powerful of D.C. and Hollywood, including Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, celebrities Paul Newman, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jimmy Fallon, and the stars of Martin Scorsese's films.
Written with soul-baring honesty and, at times, a wry sense of humor, Measure of a Man is a memoir unlike any other—one that will inspire hope and renew faith in the resilience of man.


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Download You Can't Make This Up (PDF) by Al Michaels

Download You Can't Make This Up (PDF) by Al Michaels


PDF: 304 pages
Publisher: William Morrow (November 18, 2014)
Language: English

In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television’s most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports.
No sportscaster has covered more major sporting events than Al Michaels. Over the course of his forty-plus year career, he has logged more hours on live network television than any other broadcaster in history, and is the only play-by-play commentator to have covered all four major sports championships: the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, and the Stanley Cup Final. He has also witnessed first-hand some of the most memorable events in modern sports, and in this highly personal and revealing account, brings them vividly to life.

Michaels shares never-before-told stories from his early years and his rise to the top, covering some of the greatest moments of the past half century—from the “Miracle on Ice”—the historic 1980 Olympic hockey finals—to the earthquake that rocked the 1989 World Series. Some of the greatest names on and off the field are here—Michael Jordan, Bill Walton, Pete Rose, Bill Walsh, Peyton and Eli Manning, Brett Favre, John Madden, Howard Cosell, Cris Collinsworth, and many, many more.
Forthright and down-to-earth, Michaels tells the truth as he sees it, giving readers unique insight into the high drama, the colorful players, and the heroes and occasional villains of an industry that has become a vital part of modern culture.

About the Author
Al Michaels primetime network television than anyone in history, including twenty years as the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football. He won his first Sportscaster of the Year award in 1980, became the second sportscaster in history to receive a News Emmy nomination for his coverage of the San Francisco earthquake during the 1989 World Series, and was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 2011 Sports Emmys. Michaels has covered eight Olympics, and is currently the play-by-play voice of NBC’s Sunday Night Football, TV’s highest-rated show. He lives in Los Angeles.


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Lost Mage (Advent Mage 6) PDF by Honor Raconteur - download

Lost Mage (Advent Mage 6) PDF by Honor Raconteur - download


PDF: 174 pages
Publisher: Raconteur House (November 12, 2014)
Language: English

Freezing mid-step, I stared in disbelief. There, standing very calmly in front of me, was a Gardener. 
Copying what I’d seen Garth do, I slowly sank to one knee and held out a hand. 
“Riicshaden,” he hailed in a surprisingly deep and clear voice, “I greet you.” 
“Well met,” I responded shakily. Busted buckets, his voice and presence in my head was overwhelming. How had Garth done this? And several times to boot! 
“We have a task for you.” 
“Ahhh…” It was probably stupid, but I felt compelled to ask anyway. “You sure you want me? Not Garth?” 
“We have a task for you,” he repeated patiently, a twinkle in his eye. “A young Weather Mage has awakened in Chahir.” 
A thrill of pure joy and relief shot through me. A Weather Mage. A Weather Mage! YES! I’d feared I’d never hear that another would live. 
“You are relieved to hear this.” 
“I am,” I admitted, probably uselessly as he could feel everything I felt. “Chahir just doesn’t look right to me.” 
“The land is not as it should be. We awakened a mage and have given her the task of restoring the land.” 
“Wait, you said ‘her.’ The new Weather Mage is a girl?” 
“Yes. She is lost. We task you, Riicshaden. You must find her. You must protect her. She is very precious and if she dies, there will not be another to replace her.” 


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Download Uncovering You 6: Deliverance (PDF) by Scarlett Edwards

Download Uncovering You 6: Deliverance (PDF) by Scarlett Edwards


Publisher: Edwards Publishing (November 19, 2014)
Language: English

Evil.
That is really the best way to describe Jeremy Stonehart. When he was Stonehart.
Is he that anymore? I don't know. As he reveals more and more of himself to me, I start to see a glimmer of the man beneath the surface. I start to understand, in some small way, that even evil comes from a source, from some initial seed that sprouted and took hold of a person's soul.

Evil is what Jeremy was. But is it what he will continue to be?
I will only find out by sticking to him until the very end. It is my only choice. It is my only option. It is the only way I will get answers, and the only way that I will get...
Revenge.


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Download A Reason To Kill (Reason #2) PDF by C.P. Smith

Download A Reason To Kill (Reason #2) PDF by C.P. Smith


PDF: 285 pages
Language: English

WARNING: Author believes in soul mates and insta-love, proceed with caution if you're not a romantic at heart. 
You've met Jack from "A Reason To Breathe" now meet his cousin and lumberjack Max, Max Hunter or as Mia likes to call him Thor, God of Thunder 
You know what they say about lust at first sight.....It's a seven deadly sin but when you sin . . . you sin hard. 
Max Hunter has a problem, well, two, actually. One he fished out of the river and the other...A killer. 
Mia Roberts has a problem that stands six foot five and swings an axe like a God. On assignment to study the grizzlies of the Alaskan frontier, she stumbles across a body and then stumbles into the arms of a lumberjack she can't resist. 
Throw in Max's mother, a handful of crazy friends and family and you have a recipe for adventure. 
Rated B for Bossy, F for funny, T for Thor, God of Thunder, R for language, explicit sexual content and EDIBLE UNDIES. For mature audiences only. 18 and above.


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H is for Hawk (pdf ebook) by Helen Macdonald - download

H is for Hawk (pdf ebook) by Helen Macdonald - download


PDF: 288 pages
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English

When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer—Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood—she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King author T.H. White's chronicle The Goshawk to begin her challenging endeavor. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity and changed her life.
Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement and a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast, with a parallel examination of a legendary writer's eccentric falconry. Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding literary innovator.

About the Author
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian, and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. She also worked as a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. As a professional falconer, she assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia.


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Download Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind PDF by Yuval Noah Harari

Download Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind PDF by Yuval Noah Harari


PDF: 464 pages
Publisher: Harper (February 10, 2015)
Language: English

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.

Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become?
Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.


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Download Gifted: A Holiday Anthology (PDF) by Kelley Armstrong

Download Gifted: A Holiday Anthology (PDF) by Kelley Armstrong


PDF: 82 pages
Publisher: Traverse Press (November 13, 2014)
Language: English

Two holiday stories for fans of Kelley Armstrong... 
Gabriel’s Gargoyles - (A Cainsville short story) 
Cainsville was where a boy could walk the streets safely at any time, day or night. Where everyone was genuinely glad to see you, and didn’t think you were odd if you wanted to keep to yourself, because Cainsville was odd, too. For one thing, there are the gargoyles. But unlike the others, Gabriel doesn’t believe the carven creatures came to life to protect the town. It’s up to a boy to protect himself. Now he’s determined to find the last hidden gargoyle by winter Solstice. He’s also determined to get the perfect gift for his great-aunt Rose. And when Gabriel Walsh sets goals, he achieves them…one way or another. 

The Puppy Plan (an Otherworld novella) 
When Logan finds an puppy abandoned by the roadside a few days before Christmas, he knows it’s a sign. His sister Kate wants a dog more than anything. Their parents aren’t completely opposed to the idea. It’s just a bad time. A really bad time. Maybe next year. But now there’s this puppy in need of a home and a girl in need of a pet… So how does a boy who always plays by the rules give his sister what she wants most?


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Frog: A Novel (pdf ebook) by Mo Yan - download

Frog: A Novel (pdf ebook) by Mo Yan - download


PDF: 400 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (January 22, 2015)
Language: English

The author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize
In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan’s position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s controversial one- child policy.
Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu—the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist—is revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugu’s own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant.
In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China.

About the Author
Born in 1955, MO YAN is a native of Shandong. He has written ten novels, a number of novellas, and many short stories. He lives in China. HOWARD GOLDBLATT is widely recognized as one of the best translators from Chinese to English and has received the National Translation Award as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work. He lives in Colorado.


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Download Hexed (Gwen Sparks 4) PDF by Stephanie Nelson

Download Hexed (Gwen Sparks 4) PDF by Stephanie Nelson


PDF: 257 pages
Language: English

Everything and everyone has an expiration date, including Gwen Sparks. When Dorian, the Angel of Death, saved her, he did more than bend the rules: he shattered them. 
When Gwen’s memories are stolen, the balance of life and death shifts, and magic goes on the fritz. Dorian realizes that even the angel of Death must face consequences for his mistakes. Everything and everyone has an expiration date, and time is running out for Gwen. If they don’t find a solution, Gwen’s borrowed time will come to an end, and Dorian will lose the woman he risked everything for. 
Both will have to make a life-changing decision. Dorian’s choice will result in either altering his very existence or losing Gwen forever. Gwen will risk everything to right Dorian’s wrong, and her decision may just result in her death. 

This book includes an Aiden Blake short story. You've heard Gwen's side. Now hear his. 
Reading Order 
- Craved 
- Deceived 
- Coveted 
- Hexed 


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