Sophie was a small-town girl who moved to the big city of San Francisco, to make it big as a lawyer. Landing a dream job, she was ready to take the city by storm, that is until she met Haku Davis. With one look, he had her feelings caught up in a whirlwind of wonder and mystery. But it was something about him that put her on guard, something she couldn’t put her finger on, not knowing that her life was about to change drastically. And a part of her was about to come to light. Sophie is swe...

New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts.This collection of original essays is the first to cover recent trends in foodways archaeology in the Midwest using the concept of cuisine: the selection of food ingredients and methods of food preparation, cooking, and serving/consumption in relation to their social, cultural, and environmental contexts. This work span the Early Archaic (9000 B...

Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North AmericaAcross North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide archaeologists with unparalleled opportunities to explore new questions about the lives of ancient native peoples. For many years the topics of technology, economy, and political...

Paul gets a real magic box as a gift from his aunt. Of course he has to try it out right away!Pixi bedtime stories for children: listen and fall asleep.This is an auto-narrated audiobook.

How exciting! Ethan and Alice have their first day of school today! Parents and grandparents accompany them to school, and the principal gives the welcoming speech. Then, with a song together, the school fun begins: the class teacher is nice, the friends choose their places themselves, and in the end, the first day of school was actually much too short.Pixi bedtime stories for children: listen and fall asleep.This is an auto-narrated audiobook.

Dark, deranged, unhinged...No one's ever gonna want us Bunny, not really.I’m the kind of Omega only good for keeping Alphas out of ruts.Rejected by my own mate.Unwanted.Even though all I dream of is a sketchbook and an alpha to cuddle.Now, I've been kidnapped and dragged on stage for auction: to be sold like a trophy. Everything seems hopeless until I scent match an alpha hidden in the crowd.He’s gotta be...

Obsessive. Manic. Possessive. That’s the Omega I am — no matter how hard I tried to hide it.I once dreamed of Alphas who might love me with all my scars, and now that dream is in reach. These Alphas might need a little stitching together, but they’re dark, dangerous, and just as twisted as I am.Rogue: my mate—the monster I freed from chains.Bunny: the muzzled psychopath I leashed.Knox: the v...

'The Charioteer remains compelling both as a snapshot of a particular - and particularly fascinating - cultural moment, and as a deeply romantic story of love fulfilled against the odds. It has all those qualities that make Mary Renault so memorable as a novelist: craft, subtlety, intelligence, and a terrific natural sympathy with the intricacies of honour and desire' SARAH WATERS'An explosive and courageous book' SIMON RUSSELL BEALE

This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of their religious system and its origins; the relationship of religion and the changing politics ...

Frankenstein - or, The Modern Prometheus - is considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. Written by Mary Shelley, it tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein and the catastrophic consequences of his attempts to create a perfect new being by activating a group of body parts with an electrical charge. The hideous monster that is born of Frankenstein's experiment wreaks havoc when it realises that it will never know the happiness that mere mort...

By turns thrilling and terrifying, Underground in Berlin is the autobiographical account of a young Jewish woman who ripped off her yellow star and survived the war by going underground from 1942 to 1945.Berlin, 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a 19-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie decides to survive. She takes off the yellow star, turns her b...

Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, ...