Paranormal Romance — slow burn romance, happily ever after, swoony romance reads. A marriage of convenience. A prince who despises her. And a truth that could burn both their courts to ash. For fans of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer L. Armentrout, this enemies-to-lovers shifter romance delivers slow-burn tension, forbidden magic, and a betrayal that cuts deeper than any blade. When Flame Court noblewoman Seraphine Vex receives the summons to wed the cruel Prince Rhysand of the Night Court, she...

Paranormal Romance — slow burn romance, happily ever after, swoony romance reads. Dark fae romance, enemies-to-lovers marriage pact, court intrigue. A half-human fae noble must secure a marriage alliance with her enemy's son to save her cursed brother, but their growing attraction threatens to shatter her court's fragile peace—and his own father's deadly ambitions. Seraphina Valcourt has spent a decade burying her half-human shame beneath iron discipline. As the Thorn Court's reluctant hei...

The dead seldom begin with words. They begin with sound.A knock in the wall.A rap beneath the floorboards.Three sharp blows in the dark when no living hand is near.The Dead Do Not Knock Once is a gripping nonfiction history of one of the oldest and most unsettling forms of haunting: the mysterious sounds said to come from the dead. From death knocks in old folklore to the birth of modern Spiritualism, from the Fox sis...

TIME OF CONTACT Edition 1.8 expanded and updated in 2020 is inspired by the idea that we must try to save ourselves and our civilisation by urgently replacing most of our existing energy-generation and transportation propulsion systems with new, powerful and clean alternative technologies. Many reports of high-performance, alien aerospace and underwater craft suggest they already have everything we need. However, a fresh approach to try to understand (and copy) how the ali...

This poetry book was written specifically to convey personal sentiments and act as an interactive and enlightening literary work, one which sheds light on crucial, and in some cases controversial topics, those to which we need to pay mindful attention. My desire was to give life to the poet within, by using this medium as a catalyst to share insight from a personal, experienced based perspective and inspire each readerAdditionally, the book expresses numerous thought provoking ideas...

According to Wikipedia: "Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 AD 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to (presumably) the death of emperor Domitian in AD 96. There are enormous lacun...

Caius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, is considered one of the greatest historians as well as one of the greatest prose stylists of the Latin language. In The Histories, he describes and interprets the period in which he lived, beginning with the political situation that followed Nero's death in AD 69 and ending with the death of Domitian in AD 96 and the close of the Flavian dynasty. The five books of the history still in existance are part of an original w...

This anthology edited by Philip Schaff, a renowned ecclesiastic historian, includes the most important works by early Christian theologians. Their comportment and sacrifice, their lectures and preaching, their moral values, and their understanding of Christianity and its most precious messages - shaped the foundations of the Christianity, helping it spread throughout the Roman Empire and beyond its borders during the first centuries after the death of Jesus. The edition includes: Volume I:...

Caligula was Emperor of Rome from A.D. 37 to 41. He was the youngest son of Germanicus (nephew of Tiberius) by Agrippina, and was born August 31, A.D. 12, at Antium, and was educated in the camp, where the soldiers gave him the nickname Caligula, from the military boots (caligæ) which he wore..."The profusion of this emperor, during his short reign of three years and ten months, is unexampled in history. In the midst of profound peace, without any extraordinary charges either civil ...

Sir Richard Burton's racy English translation of Latin poetry. This edition includes the original Latin, plus Burton's verse translation, plus Leonard Smither's prose translation. According to Wikipedia: "Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was a Roman poet of the 1st century BC. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art." "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was an English explo...

Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination, and repression.This exciting and innovative edited collection shows how abolitionist ideas have continued topicality and relevance in the present day and how...

Autobiographical works can take many forms, from the intimate writings made during life that were not necessarily intended for publication (including letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, and reminiscences) to a formal book-length autobiography.Reading an autobiography can offer a unique insight into a world and experience very different from your own — and these real-life stories are even more entertaining, and stranger, than fiction. Take a glimpse into the lives of some of the wor...