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"Snowstorm Seduction" takes listeners on an electrifying journey with the young couple, Max and Sabrina, as they embark on a road trip to visit Sabrina's sister, Ashley. However, a blizzard had blown in faster than they expected as they were driving and forces them to seek shelter in the most unexpected of places – the remote home of Sabrina's ex-boyfriend, the enigmatic and free-spirited architectural firm owner, Rob. With tensions high and uncertainty in the air, what begins as an uncomfortable reunion soon evolves into a thrilling exploration of newfound desires and passions.

Jack London's The Master of Mystery is set in a Native American fishing village in Alaska. A woman has lost her most valuable possession: the blankets of a deceased Englishman. The culprit must be found, but what makes matters more complicated is that the local shaman has fallen out of favor, forcing a feared shaman from outside the village to come to their aid.

Six weeks ago, Gideon Ryker awoke from a coma in the French chateau where veterans of the Foreign Legion live out their final days in peace. His body is a torturer’s canvas, his mind an empty slate—except for haunting dreams of a young girl’s face. He doesn’t even remember his name. But he knows that a legionnaire’s life is a brutal struggle. The only reward: a new identity and passport. A fresh start. You’d only take that deal if you needed to forget your past life.

A provocative and much-needed book, Class Dismissed paints an intimate and unflinchingly candid portrait of the challenges of undergraduate life for disadvantaged students even in the elite schools that invest millions to diversify their student body. Moreover, Jack offers guidance on how to make students’ path to graduation less treacherous—guidance colleges would be wise to follow.

This book contains the record of a magical experiment relating to the invocation of an elemental, the thereafter of the Goddess or Force called Babalon, and the results thereof. An appendix contains some details of the method, published for the first time. The contents should be clear enough to those who are prepared for understanding, and a little study and effort should make it so for those who desire understanding. For the rest, each will no doubt interpret it in accord with his own predilections.

Jack London, 1876 yılında San Francisco'da doğdu. Asıl adı John Griffith Chaney'dir. İşi gereği çok gezen bir astrologun oğluydu. Babası tarafından terkedildikten sonra California'da annesinin ve London soyadını aldığı üvey babasının yanında yetişti. Çok hareketli ve maceralı bir hayat yaşadı. Ondört yaşında okulu terkederek tayfa olarak çalıştığı bir gemiyle Japonya'ya gitti. Ondokuz yaşında dört yıllık orta öğrenimini bir yılda tamamlayarak California Üniversitesi'ne girdiyse de bir yıl sonra okulu bırakarak Klandike bölgesinde altın arayanlara katıldı.

Jack London az rastlanır anlatı yeteneğiyle kendisini ilgilendiren birçok farklı alanda eserler verdi. Ademden Önce. ilk insanın çarpıcı öyküsüyle genetik kodlanmayı. rüyaları ve ilkel yaşamı keşfe çıkan bir roman. Oldukça sert çizilen karakterler ve sürükleyici dramatik yapı okura büyük bir okuma zevki ve düşünme vesilesi vaat ediyor.

...A great wall of fog advanced across San Pablo Bay to meet us, and in a few minutes the Reindeer was running blindly through the damp obscurity. Charley, who was steering, seemed to have an instinct for that kind of work. How he did it, he himself confessed that he did not know; but he had a way of calculating winds, currents, distance, time, drift, and sailing speed that was truly marvellous...

Jack London'ın kendini anlattığı Martin Eden'in yayınlandığı yıllarda, London zaten çok ünlü bir yazardı. London farklı sınıflar arasındaki zihniyet ve değer farklarını gözlerimizin önüne sererken, statü ve parasal gücün Amerikan toplumundaki önemine işaret eder. Yazdıklarını zaten yaşamıştır yazar. Martin eğitimsiz genç bir işçiden, başarılı ve rafine bir yazara dönüşür. Hedefine ulaştığında ise motivasyonunu ve heyecanını çoktan yitirmiş, trajik bir sona doğru sürüklenmektedir artık.

Jack London’ın öz yaşam öyküsü ve anılarını barındıran "Demiryolu Serserileri" ilk kez 1907 yılında basılmıştır. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin o zamana kadar yaşadığı en kötü ekonomik buhranın yaşandığı 1890’lı yıllarda London, bir 'hobo' olarak yaşadıklarını kaleme almıştır. Ünlü yazar, yük trenlerine kaçak binişlerini, görevliler onu aşağı atmaya çalışırken “tutunma çabasını”, yiyecek ve para için nasıl dilendiğini ve polisleri kandırmak için ne gibi sıra dışı hikayeler uydurduğunu bizlere taşıyor.

One stray dog. One loving family. One cold winter's night. One Christmas miracle. It was two weeks before Christmas, and a stray dog wandered alone in the snow. When she discovered an open front door, she stepped inside with a hopeful heart, wondering what she would find.

Bishop was looking for a boy of his own, but he didn't expect that boy to be his best friend's little brother. When Rory's car breaks down on the way to make the most important delivery of his career, he thinks it is the worst thing that could have possibly happened to him. Little did he know it would turn out to be the best.

A Humorous collection of short stories in the fictional life of Patnude Sheekey, a mortician in the mining town of Globe, Arizona. Working closely with I. M. Best of Best Funeral home, he meets a host of quirky characters, some alive and some dead.

John was already one hundred percent committed to wiping out the witch's curse and restoring the land. With Ellie's news, he'll be one thousand percent. Gert has joined the Dungeon Core Guardians bringing strength, courage, and a healthy dose of beauty.

Henry Matheson owns the drug trade in East London. To his competitors, he’s feared. To his customers, he’s God. To the police, he’s untouchable. But when the smoldering remains of Henry’s closest competitor are discovered dangling from a lamppost in the middle of his estate, one man decides to take him on: Jake Tanner. But he can’t do it alone. And with The Cabal’s clandestine network of corrupt officers threatening him and his family at every turn, Jake doesn’t know who to trust.

With Ravenheart defeated and his regal duties done, Josh and his lovely misfits return to their idyllic home nestled in the shadows of the Hangsane. Will they hang up their weapons, end their monster-hunting days, and settle down for a cozy slice of farming life like so many heroes? Absolutely not!

At first, it appears to be a terrorist attack — a mysterious sound decimates society’s sense of hearing, leaving the world deaf. But as this extraordinary event unfolds, it becomes clear that something of an unknown magnitude is at work, with a purpose to destroy the human race. Hours away from transferring custody, divorced mother Jules finds herself trapped in a remote farmhouse with her daughter, miles from help and without communication. Stranded and facing an unseen threat, Jules must use her remaining senses to keep her child safe. But how do you survive what you can’t hear or see coming?

After a brutally bad breakup with his ex, Simon no longer trusts his own judgement when it comes to men. Especially not men who have trouble written all over them. Men like Gunnar Thompson. Gunnar may look like a grizzly, but the people closest to him know he's really more of a teddy bear. All he wants is a boy to love and cherish, and he wants that boy to be Simon. Convincing Simon to give him a chance to prove he's the Daddy he's been waiting for will take a lot of work and even more patience, but Gunnar has never been one to back down from a challenge.

With his home in order, David is eager to unveil the mysteries of his Bloodline and learn more about his powers. It’s a good thing there’s a feisty catgirl Bloodmage around to help him with that.

Ebenezer Tweezer has spent the best part of 512 years doing whatever he wanted, but that all changed when he met Bethany – a rude, snotty-nosed prankster. Ebenezer has come to care for this strange, slightly smelly little scowler more than he has cared about anyone or anything before. It’s just as well, because when this story begins, Bethany needs a friend. She has just discovered that her parents Augustus and Gemima were dreadful criminals before they died in an only slightly more dreadful fire. Except – it seems her father did NOT die at all.