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  Baby for the Off Limits Single...

  Callie Stevens

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  I shouldn't want my little brother's best friend. 
  But now I am going to be her baby's daddy.... 
  I planned a daddy-daughter getaway in our family cabin. 
  The last thing I expected was to run into Juniper—my brother's best friend. 
  The smart thing would have been to go our separate ways, 
  but Mother Nature had other plans. 
  Thanks to some crazy weather we are stuck together for the foreseeable future. 
  I’ve known Juniper for years, 
  and I’ve never seen her more than my brother's best friend…until now. 
  Her silky brown hair, hazel eyes, and curves that go on for miles have me hooked. 
  Not to mention she is so good to my baby daughter. 
  Watching them together it’s hard to imagine it not being like this forever. 
  After weeks of crazy sexual tension, I can’t take it anymore. 
  I have to have her. 
  One mind-blowing night later I’m all twisted up inside. 
  How can something so wrong feel so right? 
  Until I find out she is pregnant with my baby....

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  The Open Boat and Other Stories

  Anónimo

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  "The Open Boat and Other Stories" by Stephen Crane is a collection that plunges readers into the heart of human endurance, solidarity, and the relentless indifference of nature. Among these tales, "The Open Boat," based on Crane's own harrowing experience of shipwreck, stands out as a testament to the comradeship and survival spirit of four men against the vast, uncaring sea. Each story in the collection, crafted with Crane's sharp, naturalistic style, explores themes of fate, isolation, and the struggle for meaning in an often hostile universe, reflecting the profound complexity of the human condition.

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  Living on Provisions of the Holy...

  ROYCE RUCKER

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  Who knew West Virginia would be the promised land for Two to Three Hundred-Thousand African-Americans escaping the hardships of the South after the Emancipation Proclamation? Like the Black Codes and Jim Crow. Freedom comes in many forms. West Virginia became a refuge for individuals looking for a better life, but it sometimes came with a deadly price. This book captures the spirit of one family’s devotion for one another, and the drive to never give up on the “American Dream” at a time in the United States of America when the desires of Black business owners were plentiful, but the reality of Black business ownership was just a dream...

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  Not Betting on Forever

  Natasha Moore

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  What's the fun when you don't bet to win? 
   
   
   
  Single mom Melanie Hayes should absolutely, completely, and totally not be attracted to her next door neighbor. Nick Campagna can be her friend, her secret crush, or just the arrogant—and unavoidably handsome—jerk next door, but nothing more. Because, even though it was a million years ago, he's also her sister's ex. And now, with Lakeside's Battle of the Businesses in full swing, Nick's also Melanie's competition. 
   
   
   
  Their families have always been competitive, so it's no surprise to anyone that Nick and Melanie are playing for more than just bragging rights. With a coveted piece of land on the line, Nick isn't backing down. Maybe he can't help noticing that the tomboy he knew as a kid has turned into a stunning redhead. Maybe he is attracted to Melanie. Ridiculously so. But as real as this feels, Nick knows this is one game he definitely can't win. 
   
   
   
  They've known each other long enough that it's definitely not love at first sight. But attraction can happen in an instant. And this is one wager where winning is nowhere near as fun as playing the game . . . 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Mother Holle - Story Time...

  Brothers Grimm

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  A rich widow lived with her daughter and her stepdaughter. The widow favored her younger biological daughter, allowing her to become spoiled and idle while her older stepdaughter was left to do all the work. Every day the stepdaughter would sit outside the cottage and spin beside the well. One day, she pricked her finger on the point of the spindle. As she leaned over the well to wash the blood away, the spindle fell from her hand and sank out of sight. The stepdaughter feared that she would be punished for losing the spindle, and in panic she leapt into the well after it.

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  Buddenbrooks - The Decline of a...

  Thomas Mann

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  Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations, incidentally portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family, the Mann family of Lübeck, and their milieu.
  It was Mann's first novel, published when he was twenty-six years old. With the publication of the second edition in 1903, Buddenbrooks became a major literary success. Its English translation by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter was published in 1924. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognises an author's body of work, the Swedish Academy's citation for Mann identified "his great novel Buddenbrooks" as the principal reason for his prize.
  Mann began writing the book in October 1897, when he was twenty-two years old. The novel was completed three years later, in July 1900, and published in 1901. His objective was to write a novel on the conflicts between businessman and artist's worlds, presented as a family saga, continuing in the realist tradition of such 19th-century works as Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir (1830; The Red and the Black). Buddenbrooks is his most enduringly popular novel, especially in Germany, where it has been cherished for its intimate portrait of 19th-century German bourgeois life.
  Before Buddenbrooks Mann had written only short stories, which had been collected under the title Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1898, Little Herr Friedemann). They portrayed spiritually challenged figures who struggle to find happiness in (or at the margins of) bourgeois society. Similar themes appear in the Buddenbrooks, but in a fully developed style that already reflects the mastery of narrative, subtle irony of tone, and rich character descriptions of Mann's mature fiction.
  The exploration of decadence in the novel reflects the influence of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (1818, 1844) on the young Mann. The Buddenbrooks of successive generations experience a gradual decline of their finances and family ideals, finding happiness increasingly elusive as values change and old hierarchies are challenged by Germany's rapid industrialisation. The characters who subordinate their personal happiness to the welfare of the family firm encounter reverses, as do those who do not.
  The city where the Buddenbrooks live shares so many street names and other details with Mann's native town of Lübeck that the identification is unmistakable, although the novel makes no mention of the name. The young author was condemned for writing a scandalous, defamatory roman à clef about (supposedly) recognisable personages. Mann defended the right of a writer to use material from his own experience.
  The years covered in the novel were marked by major political and military developments that reshaped Germany, such as the Revolutions of 1848, the Austro-Prussian War, and the establishment of the German Empire. Historic events nevertheless generally remain in the background, having no direct bearing on the lives of the characters.

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