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  Gaia Wept - A Goddess Falls

  Colin Lindsay

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  Gaia wasn’t sure which is more burdensome – having no past or no end. As a newly minted goddess, she coaxes life from the dust of a desolate galaxy and protects it from the universe’s more capricious designs. It’s a rewarding existence but a lonely one. Her work is her sole passion for eons until the unthinkable happens – she falls in love with one of her creations, the handsome and principled Sigil. Whether it’s fate’s way of taunting her with a love she can’t have or just some new torment, there’s no stopping her fall. Their love spans the ages, with each cosmic cycle bringing him back to her, each time a little closer, but to what end? What kind of life can an immortal and a mortal share, despite a love that transcends time? 
  Gaia Wept is a fantastical love story, fresh and resonant.

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  Honoré de Balzac - A Short Story...

  Honoré de Balzac

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  Honoré de Balzac was born on the 20th May, 1799 in the French city of Tours into an upper middle class family.  
   
  At birth Balzac was wet-nursed and often then schooled away from home by parents who seemed remote.  So difficult was life that at 15 he attempted suicide. The family’s intention was for him to have a career in law but Balzac preferred literature.  An avid reader, he began writing but his early attempts showed little promise.  
   
  He thereafter settled in Paris and began to publish anonymously across political, philosophical, and historical novels. 
   
  In 1825, Balzac purchased a printing house.  He was soon bankrupt and forced to return to writing in order to reduce his debts.  But his literary fortunes had changed, and his writing was now to achieve considerable success.  He was accepted among the city’s literary élites and its salons and would play an important role in establishing the copyright law in France.  
   
  Balzac often worked on more than one project at a time and in his magnus opus ‘The Human Comedy’ all types of texts were collected to offer a rare narrative of different classes and social stereotypes of society.  For many Balzac is considered the father of French realism, yet his works also cover philosophical and psychological questions.  His writing was a fundamental source of inspiration for many distinguished and later writers such as Flaubert, Zola and Proust.  
   
  Balzac also tried his hand at magazine publication with ‘La Chronique de Paris’ and ‘La Revue Parisienne.’  Although he was partnered with others such as Victor Hugo, it was another complete financial failure.  
   
  As a committed Catholic, Balzac’s stories also dealt with themes of mysticism, esotericism and spirituality, as well as universality and humanism.  
   
  In politics, he was a staunch defender of the French Crown but unlike his contemporaries he was not an implacable enemy of the republicans.  He often presented disagreements between royalists and republicans as a tolerable difference in political opinion.  
   
  Despite many relationships Balzac married only towards the end of his life and it was in 1833 that he met the Polish Countess Hanska, who only became his wife 17 years later after an extensive relationship by correspondence and, by then, his health was ruinously bad.  
   
  Honoré de Balzac died on 18th August 1850 in Paris.  He was 51. 
   
  >1 - Honoré de Balzac - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - La Grande Breteche by Honoré de Balzac 
  3 - El Verdugo by Honoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac 
  4 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac 
  5 - Etude De Femme by Honoré de Balzac 
  6 - The Atheist's Mass by Honoré de Balzac

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  The Man Who Loved Dogs - A Novel

  Leonardo Padura

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  A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940In The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader.The story revolves around Iván Cárdenas Maturell, who in his youth was the great hope of modern Cuban literature—until he dared to write a story that was deemed counterrevolutionary. When we meet him years later in Havana, Iván is a loser: a humbled and defeated man with a quiet, unremarkable life who earns his modest living as a proofreader at a veterinary magazine. One afternoon, he meets a mysterious foreigner in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. This is "the man who loved dogs," and as the pair grow closer, Iván begins to understand that his new friend is hiding a terrible secret.Moving seamlessly between Iván's life in Cuba, Ramón's early years in Spain and France, and Trotsky's long years of exile, The Man Who Loved Dogs is Padura's most ambitious and brilliantly executed novel yet. This is a story about political ideals tested and characters broken, a multilayered epic that effortlessly weaves together three different plot threads— Trotsky in exile, Ramón in pursuit, Iván in frustrated stasis—to bring emotional truth to historical fact.A novel whose reach is matched only by its astonishing successes on the page, The Man Who LovedDogs lays bare the human cost of abstract ideals and the insidious, corrosive effects of life under a repressive political regime.

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  Bank Robber and My Bottom The:...

  JC Cummings

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  When a young robber arrives at an old southern bank where sweet Anne-Marie Hollister works as a teller, she assumes that money is the only thing he’s interested in. After all, when he discovers that the safe is locked and that only the bank president, who’s out playing golf, has the combination, the furious man decides to take everything in the drawer and rob all the customers instead. It’s better than nothing!
   
  Well, Anne-Marie is too caring a woman to let that happen to all those scared loyal customers. So, after learning how smitten the thief is with her bottom, she decides to be the hero and offer her well-rounded backside to him instead!
   
  As one would expect, being made to take off all her clothes in front of everyone subjects her to an appalling and even cruel degree of public humiliation. The poor, frightened woman can barely swallow or catch her breath—especially given how sleazy and dirty-minded this young crook is.
   
  But that’s the thing. The man is, in fact, a crook—and crooks are greedy. So, if Anne-Marie thinks she’s going to get off with merely a few squeezes to her bare bottom, she is to be sadly mistaken!
   
  Even more appalling: She’s about to learn that, apparently, Mr. Bank Robber isn’t the only dirty-minded butt-lover in the room! Oh, dear, maybe she should have just let him take the money instead!
   
  If cute women, beautiful bottoms, unscrupulous men, and massive amounts of humiliation are your cup of tea, this story is for you! Get your copy today and discover just how much fun a lovely rear end can be when it’s shaking a mile a minute!

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  Haunted by the Shattered Sun

  T.F. Author

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  Without the strongest man in the world, it should have been happily ever after. 
  Anatoly, a roboticist supervillain, finds himself grasping at straws one-handed as he struggles to come to terms with himself and the Soviet commandos that have been alerted to his existence. 
    
    
  Noah, a newly promoted hero, struggles with the guilt and trauma caused by his separation from Captain Miracle, as Ada, Captain Miracle's Wife and their new boss, scrambles to prevent the League from being shut down. 
    
  Both men have to face the consequences of killing the sun and make hard decisions to protect those they care about. 
    
  They killed the sun, will they survive the night?

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  Locust Fields The: Book 3 -...

  Paul Davies

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Destroyer’s creatures had fled into the great desert, or that was the way most would have hoped. But not for Tim, as the Champion Lord, he had tasked Griffins to follow them all the way to the Dark Forest. Now they brought their chilling report.The creatures in their hundreds of thousands were surrounding the Dark Forest, where Faith and all the other Fairies lived!Tim, along with Tagan, had to persuade both the allied army and Mercia it was in theirs and the world’s interest to follow the creatures into the hostile environment and fight the creatures in what seemed an impossible battle to win.

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