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Four solitary souls. One small town diner. A chain of events that changes everything. Hank Spencer knows what goes on in his diner. He knows which days are best for business and whether the Blue Plate special is selling, and he makes note of the customers who come to drink and make small talk with his servers. Lois is a hardworking waitress pushing fifty who hasn’t forgotten her big city dreams. When opportunity presents itself, she boards the train for Chicago, despite the risks and her boss’s attempts to warn her. Working all the double shifts in the world won’t take care of ...

Regret. It is a feeling that knows no bounds, an emotion that transcends time, place, and the very limits of human achievement. In "Tears of the Titans," you are invited to embark on a groundbreaking exploration of the profound regrets that haunted the lives of some of history's most iconic figures. From the sorrowful reflections of Mahatma Gandhi on the partition of India to the soul-searching of Napoleon Bonaparte on his decision to invade Moscow, each story offers an intimate glimpse into the hearts and minds of those who shaped our world.

A Civil War Novella -- Carrie Wilkes, a Northern woman married to a Southern man, has had enough of stares and shunning. Robert Salinger might be handsome and a friend of her dying husband. But why is he either boring his eyes into her or ignoring her? He blames himself for Ben's death. He swears he will look after Carrie and the children, but they go home from the funeral alone. Will that deaf and dumb stranger, Robbie, be any real help to save her farm?

When the Romans invaded Britain in the first century AD, the warrior Queen of the Iceni led a rebellion that would see London burned to the ground and shake the powerful Empire to its core. Against a backdrop of druid sacrifice and superstition, Boudicca's eldest daughter tells the brutal story of how the Roman soldiers punished her family for daring to stand against them. Yet there is love in the darkest of times, and in the midst of betrayal Ralla discovers some things are worth fighting for. A short but powerful story by Katherine A Roberts published on her signature list for older readers.

Dwight Wilson researched for more than a dozen years to ensure this brilliant historic fiction collection portrayed the very nuanced history of African Americans in the United States. These stories span initial capture of Dwight's ancestors to those who broke the laws in the name of truth, humanity, and kindness.

Le Operette Morali, il libro "più caro dei miei occhi" come lo definì lo stesso Leopardi, sono una raccolta di prose e dialoghi di carattere satirico, fantastico e filosofico, scritte tra il 1824 e il 1832, in cui lo scrittore e poeta tenta di educare un'Umanità incapace di guardare in faccia la realtà e che si culla in vane illusioni. Leopardi si sforza, a volte con spietatezza ed ironia, di "chiarirgli" quale sia il suo destino. Le Operette sono considerate uno dei capolavori della letteratura italiana di tutti i tempi.

An eager groom and a surprise baby are out to change this woman's life! Patience Mallory needs a way to Colorado. There, she can claim the map showing where her father buried the gold trusted to him. She wants it. No! She needs that gold. Royce Maxwell needs a woman. He wants more than a cook for the trail. The man is desperate for someone who can care for his fussy baby. Not just anyone though. He trusts the Lord to send the wife he needs. When Patience stumbles into his life, he grabs her literally and figuratively. He rushes her into marriage before the wagon train leaves. Will life on ...

Take a break from videos and enjoy an uplifting historical novella about a loveable pixie. <>Summer of 1781<> Sweet, naïve — and psychic — pre-adolescent Jenny has just been adopted into a wonderful, yet different family. She knows Mommy and Grannie are from someplace where carriages fly in the air and books have moving pictures, but she doesn’t care if they’re odd – she loves them. Jenny’s adoring new parents try to educate the semi-feral youngster and protect her from problems that arise from growing up half-wild. However, no amount of love can prevent the chatty young girl ...

Grace wants to set off on a great adventure. March 1944, the US has been in war for two and a half years, preparing for the great invasion to Europe. Grace, a twenty-three-year-old intern nurse from Chicago, chooses to enlist to the army. She wants to take part in the war in Europe. She doesn’t want to stay home behind. In Chicago, back home, she only has a drunk dad and a mom who works from dawn till dusk, and Grace wants more than that, she wants to be a part of the war, she wants to save lives. Leaving her house behind, Grace boards a train that will take her to New York Harbor and the...

Her brother's claim brought her west. His honest heart gave her a reason to stay. When Sarah Miller arrives at Idaho's Gold Fork strike wearing her dead brother's clothes and carrying his claim papers, she finds an unexpected ally in Tom Grant, the marshal determined to stamp out claim fraud. But as she struggles to work her brother's claim while maintaining her deception, Sarah discovers that protecting her secret might cost her the one thing she never expected to find in gold country: true love.

In a town built on gold, she discovered the truest wealth lies in a heart of integrity. In 1885 Florence, Idaho Territory, a female assayer with an eye for true gold partners with a haunted former surveyor to expose a deadly claim-jumping ring, only to discover that the richest strike of all might be the love they find in each other's hearts. Ruby Lancaster knows gold better than any man in Florence, Idaho Territory. Running her late father's assay office and supply store, she's earned a reputation for spotting deception—both in minerals and in men. But when Harrison Randall arrives with ...

In 1885 Idaho Territory, widow Victoria Hayes would rather face down claim jumpers with her derringer than lose her late husband's star garnet mine. But when a mysterious prospector with a fighter's grace arrives offering help, she must decide if protecting her claim is worth risking her heart. James "Hawk" Davidson has his own reasons for helping the determined widow—as an undercover agent investigating a string of suspicious mining accidents, he believes her husband's death was no accident. Yet the more time he spends with Victoria, the more he admires her courage and faith in the face ...

Vi sono momenti in cui per coincidenze fortuite, per il genio o l’errore di un uomo o per l'improvviso maturare di processi in corso da tempo, si producono eventi capaci di cambiare il corso della storia. Ed ecco allora, al di là dell’ultimo picco montuoso, il luccicare di un nuovo sconosciuto oceano, l'immenso Pacifico; il crollo delle possenti mura di Bisanzio sotto i colpi dei cannoni di Maometto o il risuonare ardimentoso della Marsigliese.

Glass Stories is a collection of two short stories set in the Muranów neighborhood of Warsaw, Poland over 250 years apart. The two young protagonists—an immigrant servant woman named Paolina, who is being punished for something she didn’t do, and Moishe, a young Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto who wants to fight his Nazi oppressors—struggle against impossible odds.

A collection of short stories about the extremes we often find ourselves in—sometimes of our own making. Each story uses the adverb “so” in its title, emphasizing the extreme function of the following adjectives (tired, snowy, long, alive, dense, rude). McDowell uses fantasy, literary fiction, historical fiction, and speculative fiction genres to capture his explorations of the human experience.

Die tatsächliche Anzahl derer, die wegen ihrer sexuellen oder geschlechtlichen Präferenz verfolgt, misshandelt, deportiert oder getötet wurden, ist bis heute nicht geklärt. Ihnen ist diese Geschichte gewidmet. #gegendasvergessen. Tom ist Architekt. Für ihn zählen messbare Größen, etwas Handfestes, Reales. Er lebt im Hier und Jetzt. Und er lebt gut. Mit seinem Verlobten Jack in New York. Tom war noch ein Kind, als der sogenannte "Unzucht-Paragraph" in Deutschland abgeschafft wurde. Geschichte ist für ihn etwas Abstraktes, worüber alte Männer bei einem Glas Whisky palavern

There might be gold in them thar hills, but curmudgeonly San Francisco business tycoon Caden Caldwell treks to Alaska in a fit of rage looking for his free-spirited son, Colt, who has struck out for the Klondike Gold Rush. What Caden finds is something else altogether. Orphaned children. Wayward women. Quirky prospectors. Tlingit Indians. Isolated with this motley crew when early winter weather hits, he has no choice but to re-evaluate his life in ways that terrify yet intrigue him. Will he ever be the same? Does he want to be?

Escenas sueltas. De un verano en la costa con amigos y abuelas. Trazos. Del esfuerzo por hacer andar un camión como el que el padre usó para escapar junto con un grupo del ERP del asalto a un comando militar. Eso que del recuerdo llega. Otra charla más con alguien que conoció a mamá antes de que desapareciera.

Una anciana cascarrabias está acusada de ayudar a una joven. Una dríada masculina encuentra su lugar en el mundo. Paralizada del cuello para abajo, un adolescente prodigio de la escultura tiene una nueva oportunidad de seguir con su arte. Un profesor victoriano viaja por Inglaterra para dar una conferencia sobre la evolución, solo para meterse en problemas a cada paso. En esta ecléctica mezcla de historias, que abarcan ficción histórica, realismo mágico, contemporáneo y ciencia ficción, El Bardo solo enseña una cosa: viaja con las palabras y descubre adónde te llevan.

Experience a tense 18th-century smallsword duel from the point-of-view of a sly combatant, who has a surprising plan to vanquish his smug opponent.