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A heart-warming charmer featuring a young child and his one great Christmas wish.

This wonderful collection of Christmas classics is a delightful way to enjoy the wit, wisdom, and warmth of the wonderful Christmas season. In "Susy's Christmas Present", a nanny tells her young charges of her fondest Christmas memory; "Santa Claus' Letter" is a charming tale of just what can happen when two young boys don't behave as they should at Christmas time.

A pioneer woman and her children, snowed in their home, wait bravely for the return of her husband on Christmas. As the snow continues to fall it eventually buries the house beneath an icy white blanket, and it's up to the woman's brave son to keep them all safe and their holiday spirits cheerful.

Christmas Tales brings together two favorite holiday stories. "What Happened Christmas Eve" is a charming tale about a youngster and his one Christmas wish, while "A Christmas Mystery" is a delightful story about three cantankerous old men who find themselves thrown together on a journey that leads them to a newborn infant who melts their curmudgeonly hearts.

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From the instance of its first publication, in 1766, Oliver Goldsmith's novel of Christian piety and endurance has stood the test of time. The story is told in the first person by a vicar, Dr. Primrose, who, along with his wife and six children, lives a rural idyllic life in a country parish. It is a very sophisticated work which contrasts the forces that separate religious principal from the actual experiences of life. It is also a delightful, sentimental work whose amusing characters are both wise and foolish, brave and cowardly, rich and poor, as well as honest and knavish.

When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks at first the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern Research Hospital makes the news, Jessica realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Robbed of something as valuable as life itself. The "dumpster girls" are all top of their class, attractive college students, who are drugged and dropped unconscious behind dumpsters. When rape-kits all come back negative, the police are baffled. But when the perp escalates and kills one of his victims, Jessica takes it on herself to solve the bewildering mystery and save herself and her friends as the "thief" closes in on them. Hunting for the predator, Jessica discovers secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past. The solution to the mystery lies in the cowgirl philosopher's boot-cut genes.

They came in peace...or so they said. Here are 18 examples of how they lied. This is an exciting collection of first contact science fiction stories, all completely different! Take a risk - venture into the unknown with us. Who is out there? What will they want from us? Come join us in our adventure to find out how first contact pans out. It will be a great adventure!

I'm going to teach her what happens when you tempt a dominant professor. I shouldn't be looking at her like this. She's my student. She's 19-years-old. I'm way too old for her. Everything about this is inappropriate...The obsession has taken over. I'm its slave now. She's the teacher's pet and I'm about to give her a lesson she'll never forget. She'll learn that her professor is a possessive one and this won't be done after the semester ends. Because I'm never letting my pet go.

1662: Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of a village in the Alps, receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. When the city constable discovers Kuisl alongside the corpse, he locks him in a dungeon, where Kuisl will experience firsthand the torture he’s administered himself for years.

Jessica James is broke and counting down the days until she can defend her philosophy thesis. Desperate to get out of her grubby attic digs, she and her friends break into her professor’s office…only to find her adviser dead in the tub. Scoping the crime scene for clues, she leaves evidence that makes her both a suspect and a target. Suspecting the school's Russian janitor of doing more than sweeping the floors, Jessica mounts an investigation. Her ragtag posse helps her uncover a related date-drug scandal, and she fears she’s the next on the killer’s to-do list.

My dad is in big trouble. He owes money to the most powerful man on the East Coast, and he can't pay. When I approach Mr. Connolly and try to take over the loan, he has a different idea. He's willing to wipe off the debt if I submit to him. I have to do what he commands, when he commands it. I think this over-the-top alpha male is a little obsessed with me. Good thing I love every second of it...

This is the fourth book in the series, but it can be listened to as a stand-alone. Bare for the Alpha is the first, Spread for the Alpha is the second, and Wet for the Alpha is the third. No cheating and a furry HEA guaranteed. Enjoy!

It's my first day as the new reporter covering New Zealand's famous rugby team. I'm an American who knows nothing about rugby, but after taking one step into the locker room after the game, I'm a huge fan. These massive tough men are true alphas. And there's one who stands taller than the rest. Akea Saluni. The Samoan god. Covered in tribal tattoos, this chiseled man has muscles for days. He puts the moan in Samoan. He makes the Rock look like a pebble. He brings me to my knees. And once this possessive man lays his dark eyes on me, that's exactly where I'm going to stay.

For years, Abigail Linton devoted herself to caring for her parents and her siblings’ children. Now, eager to create a life of her own, Abby seizes upon a position as a governess on a neighboring estate. Unfortunately, her absentee employer is Maxwell Bryce, the Duke of Rothwell, the notorious rake who once broke her youthful heart. But since he hasn’t set foot on his estate for 15 years, Abby assumes she’ll never have to lay eyes on him ever again.

Le storie d'amore sono come i libri: si spera sempre che abbiano un lieto fine. La bibliotecaria Penny Callahan potrebbe scrivere un bestseller sulle relazioni finite male a causa di individui bugiardi e traditori, per questo ha deciso: per i prossimi dodici mesi si terrà alla larga dagli uomini. Deve solo uscire incolume dalla serata per single organizzata della biblioteca per Capodanno, poi potrà tornare al suo pigiama e ai suoi amati libri.

Twenty-year-old Katy is thrilled to spend her spring break on the beach with her friends, until strange, muscular beings come forth from the waves, capturing women. When she wakes on a glittering and beautiful alien planet, Katy at first thinks she's dreaming. Soon, however, she realizes the truth of her situation - she's a prisoner. The women on the planet are treated as treasured slaves, and Katy yearns for her freedom, wanting only to escape and return to Earth.

Graphic designer Shannon Murphy struggles to put the tragedy of her sister's death behind her. A decade ago, dragons caused the terror and chaos that claimed her sister's life. Now, she attends therapy regularly and struggles with her fear of water. Firefighter Darren Winters also struggles to move past the tragedies of the dragon war - only in his case, he was the cause of the trouble. The guilt he endures is only alleviated by his heroic work saving human lives. When fate puts Shannon in his path, he'll have to tell her the truth.

Arriving from space, he's part man, part machine, with a rocket in his pants.... Stella runs her business selling "pleasure robots" with organization and efficiency. But the stress of running a business under the thumb of her ex-boyfriend's gangster operation can leave her tense, so she's not ashamed to sample the pleasures offered by her own merchandise from time to time. When one of her pleasure bots disappears from her bed while she's sleeping, an awkward game of hide and seek ensues.

Rebecca is the last hope her mother and sisters have at keeping their home and getting enough to eat. All she has to do is marry the rich man who sent for her to be his bride. While traveling to meet him, her train is robbed, and she finds her heart fluttering for the dangerous bandit with stunning eyes. Now Rebecca is left wondering if the man she was sent to marry will make her heart dance like the dangerous rogue had.