He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good... so be a good little Vixen.A naughty retelling of the 12 days of Christmas written by A. Alatorre, A. Smith, & C. HebertTROPES: Mafia Romance, Stalking, Kidnapping, Forbidden Romance, Jealous Ex, Touch Her and Die, Praise/Punishment, Possessive MMC, Naughty/Nice, "Who hurt you?", Bondage, "you're mine", Age Gap, Alpha Male, and Dual POV.TRIGGERS: Abusive relationship,...

Everyone seems to think lovely, wealthy Rose Campbell should get married. Everyone, that is, except Rose.In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose returns to the Aunt Hill after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers. But before she marries anyone, Rose is determined to establish herself as an independent young woman. To begin with, she is learning that riches do not bring happiness in themselves. She is also beginning to suspect ...

This treasured classic by one of America's best-loved writers concludes the adventures and misadventures of the March family first introduced in Little Women and continued in Little Men. Jo's Boys is entertaining, surprising, and an overall joy to listen to.Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that "wilderness of boys" that once resided at Plumfield, the New England boarding school still presided over by Jo a...

The Pairing of Beasts (SECOND EDITION)Princess Cyrene has always been locked away in a gilded cage with a habit of using books to escape reality. When she accidentally overhears a conversation that will upend life as she knows it, she decides enough is enough.On the run from the only life she's ever known, she finds an unlikely friend. But life has other plans for her, setting her on a path that she never could have imagined.Jarloth has known that h...

He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good... so be a good little Vixen.A naughty retelling of the 12 days of Christmas.TRIGGERS:Abusive relationship, Alcohol, Anxiety, Assault, Blood, Death, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Profanity, Sexual Harrasment, Sexually Explicit Scenes, Sex Work, Slut Shaming, Stalking, and Verbal Abuse.

The institution of town meeting, the beauty of the landscape, and the enduring qualities of the architecture all give the New England town the power to shape the identity of its inhabitants—in a good way. This premise is put on trial—and to a vote—in Whisper My Name, the third novel in Hebert's Darby Chronicles.The story unfolds as seen through the eyes of three men: the reporter Roland LaChance, the farmer Avalon Hillary, and the founder of a land trust, Raphael "Reggie"...

Erlang is the language of choice for programmers who want to write robust, concurrent applications, but its strange syntax and functional design can intimidate the uninitiated. Luckily, there’s a new weapon in the battle against Erlang-phobia: Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!Erlang maestro Fred Hébert starts slow and eases you into the basics: You’ll learn about Erlang’s unorthodox syntax, its data structures, its type system (or lack thereof!), and basic functional p...

Part Falstaff, part King Lear, but all American, Howard Elman was a fifty-something workingman when he burst onto the literary scene in The Dogs of March, the first novel of the Darby Chronicles. Now in this, its seventh installment, the Darby constable is an eighty-something widower who wants to do "a great thing" before he motors off into the sunset.Maybe Howard achieves this goal, but he manages it in strange, wonderful, and dangerous ways. On his quest he's aided, abet...

A sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most popular political analysts, Chantal Hébert, and one of Quebec's top political broadcasters, Jean Lapierre.Only the most fearless of political journalists would dare to open the old wounds of the 1995 Quebec referendum, a still-murky episode in Canadian history that continues to defy our understanding. The referendum brought one of the world's most successful democracies to the brink of the unk...

Born in England to socially ambitious parents, Elizabeth Taylor was catapulted into child stardom and molded by MGM into the great violet-eyed beauty of postwar America. Along the way, without training or counsel, she became an award-winning actress, dazzling audiences everywhere with spectacular performances.Spoto explores the gripping story of her brutalizing six-month marriage to compulsive gambler and hotel heir Nicky Hilton, her romances with top Hollywood directors, and her m...

In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their eighteen-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four-month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to find their way out of numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded. An emerg...

Resolution evolves from the definition of a "perfect crime" while taking the reader through the planning and execution aspects of an intricate crime underpinning this story.The crime turns one family's peaceful and prosperous lifestyle into a nightmare. "Who" is responsible, and the bigger and more mysterious question is "Why" this family in particular?Puzzling questions that reveal answers as the story develops with twists and turns to engage your interest. As the story un...