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  One Night with the CEO

  Emily Hayes

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  Will one night with her ever be enough?Wealthy and successful CEO, Genevieve Mitchell has a void in her personal life.She goes to a bar to wind down where she meets a beautiful and mysterious stranger who she is fiercely attracted to.Genevieve ends up letting herself go and having a night of passion with the beautiful stranger convinced she will never see her again.Will she ever see her again? And if she does, and the beautiful stranger's troubled past catches up with her, what will happen then?You'll love this super spicy CEO romance! Escape in it today! 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Blind Owl The (Authorized by The...

  Sadegh Hedayat

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  Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categorization. Lescot's French translation made the Blind Owl world-famous, while D.P. Costello's English translation made it largely accessible. Sadly, this work has yet to find its way into the English pantheon of Classics. This 75th anniversary edition, translated by award-winning writer Naveed Noori and published in conjunction with the Hedayat Foundation, aims to change this and is notable for a number of firsts: *The only translation endorsed by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation *The first translation to use the definitive Bombay edition (Hedayat's handwritten text) *The only available English translation by a native Persian and English speaker *The preface includes a detailed textual analysis of the Blind Owl Finally, by largely preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English reader into the world of the Hedayat's Blind Owl as never before. Extensive footnotes (explaining Persian words, phrases, and customs ignored in previous translations) provide deeper understanding of this work for both the causal reader and the serious student of literature.
  
  “….There are indeed marked differences between Costello’s and Noori’s translations. As Noori indicates, his attempt to preserve the overabundance of dashes gives the reader a more immediate sense of the narrator’s agitation...The first sentence flows on in Noori’s translation, piling sensation upon sensation never allowing us to pause and catch our breath or separate out the images from the sensations. In his discussion of the relationship between his translation and Costello’s, Noori also draws on translation theory and sees Costello’s focus on the fluidity of the text in English as a “domestication” of Hedayat’s original. Noori’s new English translation and his preface are a welcome addition and will no doubt draw the attention of scholars interested in Hedayat’s works. The close textual and comparative analysis of the type Noori offers marks a new and long-overdue critical approach to the translation of the most celebrated work of modern Persian prose.” -Professor Nasrin Rahimieh in Middle Eastern Literatures

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  Caught by Love

  Barbara Cartland

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  Famed for his horse racing successes on the turf and worshipped by London’s Society beauties, the dashingly handsome Marquis of Broome is unjustly renowned as heartless and selfish.
   
  So, when on a night time journey from London to his Surrey estate, he discovers a young stowaway hidden below his carriage seat, he appears to be angry and wants nothing to do with this new problem in his life.
   
  But when the ‘boy’ is revealed to be a feisty but very beautiful young girl, he quickly softens.
   
  Cara, as she reveals is her name, is running away. From what or from whom she will not confide in the Marquis.
   
  With highwaymen prowling the roads and revolution in the air, the Marquis cannot let this young innocent go on alone and defenceless to Paris, which is her intended destination.
   
  Despite her protests he rather reluctantly takes Cara under his wing, finding out eventually that she is fleeing a forced marriage arranged by her cruel and wicked uncle, the Earl of Matlock.
   
  Just as the Marquis saves her from her uncle, Cara saves him from a murderous revolutionary plot.
   
  And, as they manage to escape their enemies, they begin to realise that they have been caught by a deep and inspiring love for one another.

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  The Rescue

  Joseph Conrad

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  This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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  Frightening Phantoms - A Short...

  Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling,...

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  We love control.  The ability to predict and organise our lives as we want them. As we desire them.  It’s quite a shock then when Phantoms, Ghouls and Ghosts play their part too.  They don’t play by our rules.  Our welfare is not their concern.  They will do as they wish.  And they have very vivid imaginations —way beyond the dictionary definition – Phantom. Noun. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion. A model, especially a transparent one, of the human body or of any of its parts. 
   
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  02 - Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins 
  03 - Phantom by Arnold Bennett 
  04 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 
  05 - Mr Testator's Visitation by Charles Dickens 
  06 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

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  Shade of Vampire 11 A: A Chase...

  Bella Forrest

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  "We need to discover what the twins have. Before it's too late." 
  With a black witch hard on their heels, Caleb and Rose embark on a race against time to escape the heart of the Amazon and make it back to The Shade. 
  Little do they know how much more hangs in the balance than their own survival...

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