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Everbound University is the mandatory graduate school for anything that goes bump in the night. Not going isn’t an option unless you want to be hunted down for illegally inhabiting the mortal world. All legacies—the descendants of the Four Houses—are required to attend because we’re all cursed, and the only way to break our curses is through binding our hearts in a quintet. Becoming part of a quintet is a dream come true. Destiny fulfilled. A gods-given, merciful blessing. For me, it’s a hard pass. I can’t be bound to anyone else. Trust me, it wouldn’t end well.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a towering figure in African literature, and his novels A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child; and Petals of Blood are modern classics. Emerging from a literary scene that flourished in the 1950s and '60s during the last years of colonialism in Africa, he became known not just as a novelist—one who, in the late '70s, famously stopped writing novels in English and turned to the language he grew up speaking, Gĩkũyũ—but as a major postcolonial theorist.

At sixteen, Elizabeth encounters the young master of Pemberley, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Sparks fly between the two, and despite their youth, Darcy proposes marriage. However, misunderstandings tore their blossoming love apart, each believing the other had abandoned them. Years later, they meet once more at the Meryton assembly. Quickly realising that lies and deceit have kept them apart, Darcy and Elizabeth refuse to let anything stand between them again and elope to Scotland that very night.

Hi, I’m Mina Karim and I’m... Well, I’m not too sure what I am. Not anymore anyway. But what I am sure of, is never, under any circumstances, offer your soul to a demon while drunk. When performing a summoning ritual, there are just a few rules to follow. 1. Never offer your soul. 2. Be sure to read the written text EXACTLY as shown. 3. Know Latin. 4. Protection, protection, PROTECTION. And lastly, the most important rule of all 5. Never, under any circumstances, summon a demon while drunk.

I’m exactly the type of guy Elena should stay away from. Sweet, innocent women like her don’t look for relationships in motorcycle clubs. Especially one as classy and out of my league as Elena. I can’t resist swiping right on her dating profile for fun. I never imagined we’d be a match. I know I’d only be a quick thrill for her, but I’m getting tired of the women at the clubhouse anyway.

It’s been nearly a year since everything happened between Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine on the steps of the Mandarin Oriental, and since then it seems like everything has changed. Magnolia has a life in New York now and BJ appears to have finally let go and moved on. But when they both wind up back in London and are thrust together once again, they find themselves asking their age-old question: How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime, and, most important—are they each other’s?

Six years ago, I uttered a lie that changed a man’s life. My father banished him from his bratva cell. From the country. Now he’s back to take my inheritance. My life. Not through murder, but marriage. And my own father arranged it.

Before he led Ravka’s Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power. Eryk and his mother, Lena, have spent their lives on the run. But they will never find a safe haven. They are not only Grisha—they are the deadliest and rarest of their kind.

The little, abandoned village of Dunsmore, tucked up in the Appalachian Mountains' woody folds, had fallen heavily that evening. Overgrown gardens and dilapidated streets were covered in thick fog that was like ghostly fingers. After a mystery fire destroyed the center square and claimed the town hall, the library, and numerous houses, Dunsmore had been left mostly empty for over three decades. There was never an official reason found, and shortly after those who stayed silently collected their possessions and headed out without turning around. The town never really collapsed, however.

At the end of When the Side N*gga Catch Feelings, Part 1, all hell breaks loose. The two side dudes that Heaven and Treasure have fallen for pretended as if they could play second to another man. Now, their feelings are in the way, secrets have been revealed, and Vegas and Ross are determined to make sure that the outcome is deadly.

Naia, the daughter of the High Sea Goddess, is an embarrassment. She holds no title and no power but is the key to a curse placed centuries ago on her mother: Naia must form a union with a god from an opposing family. When the day arrives for her arranged marriage, she turns to the High God of Death and Curses for help. He assists Naia under one condition—she must accept a curse, blindly. Willing to do whatever it takes to escape her mother’s kingdom beneath the sea, Naia agrees and flees to the Mortal Land.

Assassinating the headmaster didn’t go as planned. Now Everbound University is on a strict magical lockdown, and the Immortal Quintet has arrived to hunt down the person who killed their mage—which, ironically, isn’t me. I’m also looking for the true culprit so I can find Kenzie. Meanwhile, the four gorgeous, stubborn legacies that I’ve fought tooth and nail to resist are starting to figure me out, little by little…but I’m also starting to understand them. And the more I do, the more I wonder if the gods really did match our broken souls together perfectly.

Advice columnist Amelia Reinhardt had been told her entire life that she was destined for greatness. After gracing the cover of a popular magazine that highlights Black professionals, Amelia knew she’d finally made it. Now that her career was taking off, she no longer had an excuse to ignore the storm brewing between her and the man she’s known her entire life.

I built my billion-dollar business slinging a hammer. Not with a law degree like the rest of my tight-knit family. An entire chain of luxury resorts bears my name. But that’s a cold comfort when the woman I love hates my guts. She should, considering how things ended.

A tragic beginning to life led Jah and Shauka Disciple to homelessness and poverty at such a young age that they grew into men before their time. Yet, they turned their hunger, abandonment, and suffering into diamonds, mansions, and power. The natural hustler instinct they’d inherited from their father was their driving force. Yet, this story starts when Messiah turns 18 and is finally freed from his adoptive parents. Reluctantly, he leaves his twin sister behind as he, Jah, and Shauka run the streets and break yearning hearts along the way.

I was played for a fool by Hades and the Fates, when it was Death they always wanted. I am nothing more than mortal pawn in a game of gods and monsters. Now, they have taken everyone from me. They expect me to be broken, to be compliant. To be woven into their plans. But I refuse to let Death's sacrifice be in vain. I refuse to give up without a fight. I refuse to believe that love cannot win.

After her cheating husband ruins her life, twenty-nine-year-old musician, Alixandria Knight, moves from Chicago to Ironhill, Pennsylvania—a near-abandoned Appalachian ghost town with a fiery history. Officially, she's there to help her aging grandmother. Unofficially, Alix just wants to escape reality. She'll get her wish.

Professor Nathaniel Peaslee erwacht nach fünf Jahren… doch etwas stimmt nicht. Albträume von fernen Welten, uralten Wesen und fremden Städten verfolgen ihn. War er wirklich nur krank – oder hat er als Teil einer außerirdischen Intelligenz existiert, in einer Zeit, die nicht mehr die seine ist?

Rafi is an 8 year old child living on a volcanic island who becomes trapped in a cave when a volcano unexpectedly erupts and covers the child's home and village with lava. On the 77th day, Rafi awakened to tears again, waking up every day crying. Rafi was sad and disillusioned and was beginning to give up hope. One day, Ifar appeared and rescued Rafi. They lived together for a while, fought vultures, constructed a glider based upon the great thinker Leonid's drawings and prepared to fly to a new life in the green land.

Die Geschichte des 16-jährigen Alex Sheppard und seiner Freunde nähert sich dem Ende, und wieder einmal muss Alex' Charakter Scyth das Unmögliche möglich machen. Der Tag des Kampfes zwischen seinen Verbündeten und den Kindern von Kratos markiert das Ende des Friedens in Disgardium. Die Welt wird nie wieder so sein, wie sie war.