On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me . . .Get kissed by Christmas with this twelve-day advent calendar full of sweeping and original festive romances to indulge in every other day.From enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, snowed-in flings, second chances and forever loves, this collection has something for everyone.Brought to you by your favourite and soon-to-be favourite authors, from big bestsellers to new voices to fall in love with.

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

Anthology of short stories from around the world

These beginning to advanced jazz guitar ensembles are written for four and five guitars by some of the best guitar ensemble arrangers in the business. Arrangers include, Barry Greene, Dave Frackenpohl, Steve Schenkel, Andrian Ingram, and Chris Buzzelli. Not only are these fine performance pieces for ensembles, they are good material for sight-reading. These graded volumes follow Mel Bay's guitar grading system. Each chart in all three levels offers students the opportunity to improvise wit...

Brahma, the creator, wants to press the reset button and finish off the world. He is fed up with humans, the gravest mistake he made in his creation. Hemanga, the golden swan of Manasarovar loves humans and is horrified that Brahma is going to erase them. He pleads with Brahma to give him a chance to prove true love exists among humans. Narada, the celestial trouble maker, sends the little bird to the kingdom of Vidarbha. He says Hemanga should unite Nala, the king of Nishadas with Damayan...

For anyone who grew up listening to the old folktales told by their mothers and grandmothers and thought: there must be more to this story…Featuring four Korean feminist writers, thinkers, artists, and educators, Korean Folktales: Four Feminist Retellings reimagines some of Korea's oldest narratives in powerful and innovative ways, centering the stories of intrepid and intelligent women who have, for too long, been relegated to the role of folktal...

A very special reading of the best-known and most-loved Psalms and Parables. Psalms about prayer, forgiveness, goodness, peace, protection and praising God.Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Good Shepherd, the Prodigal Son, the Rich Man and the Beggar and many more.

Luke is a good-looking young man, but he's not very clever with words. Gemma is clever with words, but what does she want? Lucy and Becky are good friends, but what about Sam? He makes wonderful cakes, but does he make mistakes too? Nina and Dragan are in love, so deeply in love, but they live in the wrong place, at the wrong time ...All love stories have moments of happiness, pain, misunderstanding, laughter, and sometimes great sadness. But love will nearly always find a way ...

The Urantia Book – Enhanced Edition contains The Urantia Book, a comprehensive index, a glossary of terminology, and a pronunciation guide. These tools help students not merely read the book, but actually study the book.If you are new to The Urantia Book, you have just discovered the literary masterpiece that answers your questions about God, life in the inhabited universe, the history and future of this world, and the life of Jesus. The Uran...

Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table - the man with short white hair? Nick learns the answers to these questions three long days later - in a police station on Vancouver Island.

It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Café: 'I want to help people and make them happy!' But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Cafe.

It was an age when canals etched the ancient face of Mars, and when Mankind dreamed of life on a far off red planet wandering the night sky. It was an age of exploration, exploitation, and imagination. Above all it was an age chronicled in pulp magazines by strange and beautiful stories of Mars, which, in the end, were stories of human nature.It was, and will always be, The Golden Age of Mars.From the pages of pulp magazines comes 14 stories of Mars by some of the best Scie...