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  LOVE UPON KNIVES - A Novel of...

  ANNA GOGOLEVA

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  St. Petersburg, 1795. The glittering capital of Catherine the Great—a city of palatial wealth and abject poverty, where a single misstep can cost a life and a single glance can change a destiny.
   
  Katya is nineteen years old, a floor-washer in the Winter Palace. Orphaned, illiterate, with nothing but her mother's river-pearl necklace and hands raw from lye, she expects nothing from life but more of the same: endless floors, endless servitude, endless invisibility.
   
  Until the night a fortune-teller comes to the servants' hall.
   
  The cards speak of a tower struck by lightning, a moon shrouded in deceit, and two lovers destined to walk on knives. Katya laughs—until she looks up and sees him standing in the doorway.
   
  Baron Karl von Kleist is the Prussian envoy to the Russian court: brilliant, cultured, married to a woman he does not love. He has spent twenty years building a career, a reputation, a life of cold calculation. He has never once looked at a servant as anything but furniture.
   
  But when his eyes meet Katya's across a candlelit room, something cracks inside him. Something he cannot name. Something he cannot control.
   
  What begins as a stolen glance becomes a secret meeting in a moonlit garden. A kiss on a callused hand becomes a duel in a snow-covered forest. A forbidden love becomes a desperate flight across borders—and a choice that will cost them everything.
   
  But in a world where nobles scheme and empresses watch, where Counts hunger for revenge and the Secret Chancellery hunts for spies, can a German baron and a Russian peasant build a life together? Can love survive the weight of empire?
   
  Based on the timeless themes of passion, sacrifice, and the eternal power of the human heart, Love Upon Knives is a sweeping historical romance that asks the oldest question of all:
   
  How far would you go for the one you love?

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  WB Yeats: Selected Poems -...

  William Butler Yeats

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  William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but one of the most widely read. The landscape, myths, legends, and folklore of his homeland lie at the heart of his poetic imagination, and the unique musicality of Ireland adds to the richness of his verse. But the themes of his poetry are universal and timeless: the conflict between life and death, love and hate, and the meaning of man’s existence in an imperfect world. 
  This collection includes such favorites as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “When You Are Old,” as well as two of his longer narrative works, “The Old Age of Queen Maeve” and “Baile and Aillinn.” It traces the poet’s artistry from his early days as a dreamy, late-romantic poet into one of the most individual and visionary voices of twentieth-century verse.

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  Clowns & Acrobats

  Seamus Cashman

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  How close are we to myth, race memory? Do they infiltrate our minds? 
  Seamus Cashman's new collection, Clowns & Acrobats, swerves headily into a modern world of questionings, parenthood, relationships, conscience and death, while eyeing the poet;s close personal sense of history and celebratory myth. The exercise of power, the eccentricity of ideas, the magic of imaginings, the flow of language, an incredible musicality and the use – and abuse – of traditional forms here merge to delight the reader. 
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  Audiobook recorded by Adam Shanahan, Dublin, Ireland.

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  Learn German while you sleep -...

  1000-words.com

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  Learn German anytime, anywhere — while you sleep, drive, walk, study, or work out. 
  1000 Words is your calm and immersive way to master German through audio. 
  Each episode helps you expand your vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and understand real German — without stress, screens, or interruptions. In this audiobook, you’ll hear 1000 phrases for beginners in German, clearly spoken with English translations. 
  Perfect for beginners, travelers, and language lovers who want to absorb German naturally through repeated listening. 
  Listen in bed, at the gym, in the car, or during your daily routine — every minute helps you grow your German effortlessly. 
   Relax. Focus. Learn German anywhere. 
  For more content, games and exclusive video lessons, visit  ⁠1000-words.com⁠.

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  The Owl and the Nightingale - A...

  Simon Armitage

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  Simon Armitage narrates a complete verse translation of this spirited and humorous medieval English poem
  The Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming couplets, line by line and blow by blow. In this engaging and energetic verse translation, Simon Armitage captures the verve and humor of this dramatic tale with all the cut and thrust of the original.
  
  In an agile iambic tetrameter that skillfully amplifies the prosody and rhythm of the original, Armitage's translation moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and ridiculous. Sounding at times like antagonists in a Twitter feud, the owl and the nightingale quarrel about a host of subjects that still resonate today—including love, marriage, identity, cultural background, class distinctions, and the right to be heard. Adding to the playful, raucous mood of the barb-trading birds is Armitage, who at one point inserts himself into the poem as a "magistrate . . . to adjudicate"—one who is "skilled with words & worldly wise / & frowns on every form of vice."
  
  Featuring the Middle English text on facing pages and an introduction by Armitage, this volume will delight readers of all ages.

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  Increase Energy: Hypnosis Downloads

  Craig Beck

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  Do you get that feeling that you could achieve so much more in life if you just had a bit more energy? Perhaps you are constantly feeling lethargic and it's holding you back?You are not broken! All self-limiting beliefs, phobias and bad habits are simply bad programs buried in the unconscious area of the mind. Willpower is entirely ineffective in dealing with these issues because you are prevented from accessing the source of the problem.Craig Beck is a master hypnotist, a world-renowned respected timeline therapist and NLP master practitioner. Craig understands what makes people tick and more importantly how to access and remove the erroneous programs in the subconscious mind that cause us problems in everyday life.  Designed to quickly help you overcome lethargy and achieve your full potential; Use this powerful and proven MP3 hypnosis download to dramatically help increase your energy levels. Unique speed hypnosis technique for rapid resultsEasy to use on any device including smartphonesRapidly develop more energy in day-to-day life.A highly effective solution to long term lethargy.Replace your self doubt with a new constructive habitThis kindle book includes a free MP3 download link for the accompanying hypnosis track.

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