Ten French scientific romances by Georges de La Fouchardière, Henri Lanos, E.M. Laumann, Francois-Félix Nogaret, Jean Rameau & Régis Vombal. The Mirror of Present Events (1790) is an irreverent political allegory in which a Syracusan beauty, following Archimedes' death, offers her hand in marriage to the inventor who can produce the most innovative homage to the great man's mechanical genius. A series of suitors comes forward, each offering a mechanical device ostensibly more marvelous than the last. Also included are an 1887collection of six futuristic stories by Jean Rameau featuring electric guns, automata and a striking vision of a future Paris in which people have become dependent on industrial pollution; The Immortal (1908) extrapolates the notion of immortality to a conclusion that might not be inevitable, but is no less symbolically dramatic; a hilarious 1910 feuilleton describing the career of an automaton racehorse; and L'Aerobagne 32 (1920), about a French engineer hired by a German company who discovers that its industrial operations are a cover for a rearmament scheme, and who refuses to surrender the formula for a new poison gas. He is then incarcerated in a vast airborne prison. This is the fourteenth in a series of anthologies of exemplary texts in the evolution of the French genre of roman scientifique. Views: 580
Adulting can really suck. Like being tied down to a job. Figuring out what to do with your life. Not to mention the girl problems. Okay, let's be honest-how can you not mention the girl problems? Travel-loving Aurora has had almost as many girlfriends as she has stickers on her luggage. Recovering from yet another relationship implosion, she has bet her pal, Madison, that she can stay single for six months. I mean, how hard can that be? As an aspiring photographer who likes to step back from the scene and catch people as they really are-not how they portray themselves in selfies-Aurora welcomes the opportunity to step back from serial dating and find out who she really is as well. She's tired of being the girl who goes for it first and thinks about it later. But less than two months into the bet her resolve is seriously tested during a trip to Florida where she meets rugby-playing Phoenix who sports adorably tousled hair and a banging bod. As the two lie under the sultry southern stars, Phoenix points out the constellations and explains their mythical origins. And as their relationship deepens, Phoenix seems to offer possibilities that go beyond dating to potential soulmate material-or is that just a myth as well? Determined to avoid a revved up rebound romance that could just crash and burn, Aurora sticks to the bet and returns home where her mind keeps returning to Phoenix. But what about her bet? Then again, if you don't play, how can you win? Views: 580
Since their daughter Kate went missing in May 2016, Brian and Barbara Stone have struggled to keep their heads above water. Their marriage is disintegrating, and it seems like Kate's twin Lydia is hiding something from them. With the support of her secret lover, and with the help of a psychic, Lydia begins to unravel the secrets of her mother's life in America, before she moved to London. And what she discovers is darker than she had ever imagined... Could her twin sister's disappearance be somehow linked to a cult that originated in Texas in the seventies? And how are the Stone family connected to this evil and deluded group of people? Time is running ou Views: 580
A powerful alpha wolf. A gifted witch. Each haunted by death. Can passion drive them to an everlasting love? Or will the enemy forge a hopeless chasm?
The Graveyard was not the place Mark Braden thought he’d breathe his last. He was sure he’d die in the pine forest of Savage Territory, chasing a drug-runner and getting hit by a spray of bullets.
Instead, he’d been ambushed…
~ A Touch of Flame, A Paranormal Romance
About A TOUCH OF FLAME:
Braden should have died in the Graveyard, but the witch, Maeve, saved him. The call of his wolf is on him and he wants her. She can be his alpha-mate. But she has powers that can destroy him and a disrupted memory that holds the answers to his wife’s murder. Can he ever trust a woman who can kill with the power she streams from her bare hands?
Maeve has known only horror, death and destruction since her arrival in Five Bridges as a transformed alter witch. She goes to the Graveyard nightly to rescue those left for dead by the evil rampant in all five territories of her new world. She fears the power she possesses and the gaps in her memory frighten her more than anything else. But when she rescues Braden from an attack in the Graveyard, and she realizes she’s drawn to the handsome wolf, the nightmare really begins.
A TOUCH OF FLAME, A Paranormal Romance, is a passionate, tender, standalone romance set in the Flame Series and the world of Five Bridges.
About the Author: Caris Roane is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine paranormal romances. She loves her desert garden, especially the birds and lizards who like to hang out. But she encourages the scorpions to inhabit elsewhere! Caris’s motto: Live the fang!
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So, are you ready for some steamy wolf-and-witch love? Just scroll back up and grab a copy of A TOUCH OF FLAME today! Views: 580
My life used to be close to perfect, but it all fell apart the day my parents died. Now, everything is different. Except for me.But when I decide to go to Benton's party, everything changes.I know Benton from high school and know he gets into a lot of trouble, so for the most part, I've kept my distance from him. But when I confess to him that I wish I could change my life, it somehow leads to him giving me my first kiss and asking me for a huge favor. A favor that might give me a chance to find out who I really am. That is, if I'm brave enough to agree to do it.This is a YA mysery romance series that follows Zhara as she decides to go on the road with a band, has adventures, and falls in love. Views: 580
The simple things are the ones that stick: a flash of the eyes, the tilt of a head, a laugh. They endure through time, space, even death. Past lives intersect, intertwine and all debts come due and payable in this life or the next. Love is beautiful, and sweet, and cruel, and deadly. It is not mocked. Find out why in The Laughing Lady.Thessalopolis, a place co-habited by two races, the Garanti and the Talian. Lured there from great distances thousands of years ago to escape their own lands where they had suffered famines and epidemics of disease. It was a paradise island fertile and blessed in rich abundance, with reefs brimming with marine life, bountiful building materials and thriving fields of grass. The two races lived in harmonious union, coexisting peacefully but then enemies were formed from neighbours and alliances broken and a war between states consumed them. Neighbours alike fought over land as they tried to maintain control over the oasis and a long bitter history of protracted violence ensued claiming many lives. To end this constant conflict a great majicker placed a curse on the land of Thessalopolis. Every 100 years a single battle would take place on the Krasian Fields, a place that marks the divide between the boundaries of the Garanti from the Talian people. The rules on the battlefield were brutally simple, kill the King and in doing so the greatest riches awaited the victor. The conquering army and their race were gifted 100 years of unrivalled prosperity in their border whereas the loser in battle a 100 years of widespread poverty ensued. To lead each army the majicker decreed that a child born from tragedy yet pure of heart would be chosen from a land and reality not their own. Upon the eve of the child’s first birthday the gateway between realities would be opened and a representative from each race would be sent to collect the chosen child and bring him back to the land to lead the armies in the one great battle for the greatest prize of them all, Thessalopolis. Views: 579
Stolen, shipped and sold into slavery, Gelila escapes to the sea. As a feared captain of a pirate ship, she's continuously looking for a port to call home. She never expected to find it in the arms of an ancient powerful shaman. Views: 579
They're beautiful, accomplished, and they have identical interests...In their spare time, identical triplets the Farris sisters work together to solve cold cases. Lizzie uses her skills as a Criminal Profiler, Nina her Scenes of Crime Officer experience, and Carrie assists through her work as a both a Forensic Scientist and Forensic Anthropologist.Romantic and idealistic, Lizzie is picky about men. But despite the good-natured teasing of her sisters, she refuses to settle for anything less than 'The One'. She loves her life, her job as both a profiler and a university lecturer, and her sisters, and won't make changes for anything less. If that makes her unrealistic, then so be it. Gabe Montcoeur has just moved across Australia from Perth to Cairns and starts a job as a journalism teacher at Cairns University: the same university where Elizabeth Farris works. On the surface, the move seems innocent, but he has an ulterior motive. Gabe wants to... Views: 579
I'd always led a charmed life, but I’d never truly appreciated it until the day my world collapsed.
Sent away to live with my uncle in Los Angeles was the worst possible exile...or so I’d thought. But then the hand of fate decided to drag me more than fifty years back in time and now, I’m stuck in the year 1962.
To return home I must save a woman's life...but the only way that’s possible is if I can Resist Temptation. Easier said than done, when temptation lurks in the shape of Hollywood’s handsome golden boy, Glenn Jackson.
When nineteen-year-old Maya Cruz is inexplicably thrown back in time, all she wants is to get home. Then, she meets Hollywood bad boy, Glenn Jackson, and everything changes. Torn between finding her way back to the life she knew and the man she needs to stay away from, Maya must make her way through an unfamiliar time as she waits to see where destiny leads her next.
Don't miss Resisting Temptation, book one in The Glenn Jackson Saga, the sexy new time travel romance by USA Today's best-selling author, M. S. Parker.
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NateSeeing Sunshine Simmons for the first time was shattering to my ego.It was like popping open an icy cold Coke on a hot summer's day.My body had chilled at the same time that it ignited, all for her.I'd never had my fill of the pretty girl back then, when she'd left me.Her return to small town Alabama didn't go unnoticed, and I'd dowhatever I could to get her to leave again.SunshineThe moment he takes his clothes off on stage, it hits me.Washboard abs, toned pecs, and that fucking V…Belongs to Nathanial Owens, my ex best friend.I'd rubbed my hands all over that alluring body, andI've never felt so dirty because of it. Nate's a stripper,the Owens' outcast, and the man of my dreams. It's my jobto get him to quit, but he's the most stubborn man I know.And no matter what he may claim, I could never forget him.*This book can be read as a... Views: 579
