If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible. List of letters included: Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfr...

Abelard and Heloise – The Love Letters details one of the worlds most celebrated and tragic love affairs.Through their letters we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, from its ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard’s pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret marriage, to their heartbreaking separation after hired thugs attacked Abelard in his sleep and ‘cut off the parts of [his] body whereby [he] had committed the wrong’.

By day, Robin Lessing has a successful career as a university archivist. By night, she blogs about her less-than-successful search for Mr. Tall, Dark and Dominant. Living up to her handle "The Picky Submissive," she's on the verge of giving up and settling for vanilla with a side of fuzzy handcuffs when she discovers her best friend and colleague has a kinky side, too.Sexy, tattooed techie John Sun is an experienced Dom who never lacks for playmates, male or female. If he can't sat...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Rob...

Experience the Power of Love and the Art of Drama: Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse & Plays by Susan GlaspellEmbark on a journey through passionate correspondence and captivating drama with this exceptional 2 Ebook combo. From the timeless love story of Abelard and Heloise to the thought-provoking plays of Susan Glaspell, these literary masterpieces promise to stir your emotions and provoke deep reflection.Book 1: Letter...

Pioneering reporter Randy Shilts fights to expose the truth during the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic. With hospital beds filling up, the clock is ticking. . . . What will it take to wake up the nation?San Francisco, 1981. Drawn from true events, this graphic novel follows Randy Shilts—biographer of Harvey Milk and one of the first openly gay journalists hired by the mainstream press—as he receives a chilling call at the Chronicle: a L...

The "Letters of Abelard and Heloise" invites readers into the intimate, turbulent world of the 12th-century intellectual powerhouses'—H√©lo√Øse and Peter Abelard'—whose correspondence reveals the raw humanity behind historical figures often mythologized by time. This anthology deftly interweaves themes of love, faith, philosophical inquiry, and personal anguish, while anchoring them in a rich medieval context that spans religious reform, scholastic thought, and monastic life. The diversity...

In 'The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise,' readers are transported to the twelfth-century world of medieval intellectuals whose romantic correspondence transcends the ages. This anthology gathers the poignant epistolary exchange between two of the Middle Ages' most celebrated scholars, offering a narrative that oscillates between the realms of secular and sacred love. The collection reflects the diverse literary styles of the time, from philosophical discourse to passionate longing, enc...

Apprentice pastry chef Mélanie does not mind being haunted by her many times great-grandfather, Antonin Carème. But when the vengeful ghost of Carème's apprentice appears and begins to threaten her girlfriend, the stakes are raised, and ice-cream becomes a much more dangerous business than Mélanie had ever imagined.Best Served Cold is a novelette of approximately 9,500 words.

When Heloise Goodley ditched her City job and decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had no prior military experience. On her arrival she was a complete novice: she'd never fired a rifle, she couldn't march; she couldn't make her bed; she couldn't even shine her shoes.An Officer and a Gentlewoman charts Goodley's absorbing journey through Sandhurst and on to Afghanistan and gives an insight into the array of bizarre military behavio...

Veterans of the Confederate service who saw action along the Missouri-Arkansas frontier have frequently complained, in recent years, that military operations in and around Virginia during the War between the States receive historically so much attention that, as a consequence, the steady, stubborn fighting west of the Mississippi River is either totally ignored or, at best, cast into dim obscurity. There is much of truth in the criticism but it applies in fullest measure only when the Indi...

Our contemporary societies are made of meta-organizations — organizations composed of other organizations. These range from international bodies like the International Whaling Commission, to national industry or business associations like the crowdfunding association Finance Participative France, to local associations such as fisheries co-management committees in Catalunya. Meta-organizations have become a defining feature of how actors coordinate, govern and make collective decisions. But...