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The Little Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe name The Little Golden Calf comes from the Bible, the Book of Exodus 32:1-4 Delighted applause from both sides of the Atlantic greeted the first publication of this comic clasic about Soviet life in the early years after the Revolution. Social changes then were so drastic and came so thick and fast that even most Russians were confused... -
Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLiving by their wits in the steamy slums of Bahia, a gang of orphans and runaways, led by fifteen-year-old "Bullet," spend their time stealing from Brazil's rich and privileged until public outcry demands their capture...Categorized as:
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El secreto de Xein by Laura Gallego García
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLos caminos de Axlin y Xein vuelven a cruzarse, pero ambos parecen estar más alejados que nunca. Ella trabaja en la biblioteca y sigue recopilando información para completar su bestiario, mientras investiga lo que parece una presencia anormal de monstruos dentro de los muros de la Ciudadela...Categorized as:
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Gunner by Heather Slade
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFalling for the enemy... K19 Security Specialist Gunner Godet is so deep undercover that nobody on his team knows where he is or what he's signed up for. And now that he's vowed to help a sexy and mysterious woman from the dirtiest Russian organization in all of Eastern Europe, his only chance at survival lies in her hands—and arms...Categorized as:
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Monk by Heather Slade
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis lips are sealed, but she’s screaming for more . . . Silence is his most dangerous weapon… K19 Security Solutions partner, Rhys “Monk” Perrin works hard and keeps his mouth shut. Doing what he’s told, when he’s told, Monk’s missions are the most perilous and extreme. After all, he’s riddled with guilt from years ago that’s left him numb and dangerous...Categorized as:
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Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThis classic tale of the famous Mallard ducks of Boston is available for the first time in a full-sized paperback edition. Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1942, Make Way for Ducklings has been described as "one of the merriest picture books ever" (The New York Times). Ideal for reading aloud, this book deserves a place of honor on every child's bookshelf...Categorized as:
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K19 Security Solutions Team One Boxed Set by Heather Slade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRugged. Dangerous. And mouth-wateringly sexy.They’re the protective and powerful partners of K19 Security Solutions.With bold and beautiful women by their side, our country is safe, sound, and secure.Introducing the daring and dangerous private intelligence agency, K19 Security Solutions...Categorized as:
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Goat Days by Benyamin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNajeeb’s dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape of his village and of his loving family haunt Najeeb whose only solace is the companionship of goats...Categorized as:
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The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.In exchange for her lucky leopard’s claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in her village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shop-keeper...Categorized as:
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Burning Up: A Firefighter Contemporary Romance Series Box Set by K.C. Crowne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven HOT fearless firefighters. One hard to resist collection!Surprise babies. Second chances. Single daddies.Brother’s best friends. Reverse harem flings.And heroes that'll do anything for their special ladies.Hold on tight -it’s going to be a VERY bumpy ride!K.C. Crowne is an International Bestselling Author...Categorized as:
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Grinded by Heather Slade
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the odds are against them, they fight for each other.First loves torn apart…With a Tuscan backdrop of romance and innocence, sixteen-year-olds Miles "Grinder" Stone and Pia Deltetto learn of love and loss. After a whirlwind romance, they return to their separate lives with a hope of reconnecting someday.Broken and battered…Severely wounded in battle, Grinder refuses Pia's sympathy and pity... -
Bucked by Heather Slade
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe's a city slicker. He's a cowboy to the core. Together, opposites may attract but, will sparks fly.BUCK Getting called back to the ranchAfter my dad dies,I know I have my work cut out for me.As a CIA operative, I can juggle it all.Always have.Always will.But when she needs my help,I can't possibly refuse.After all, she's the sexiest city slickerThis BUCK has ever seen...Categorized as:
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Defending Isabella by P.J. Fiala
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA GHOST operative who loves the thrill.A doctor who will do anything for her brother.And the danger and passion that ignites their spark.Dr. Isabella Martinez will do anything to help others. Walking away from her brother, who dabbles on the wrong side of the law, was one of the hardest things she's ever done... -
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe story of a train filled with toys and gifts for little boys and girls that breaks down before reaching the children. After asking several passing trains for help over the hill, a little blue train agrees to help the stranded toys. Even though she is small, the blue train tries her best to bring the toys to the children on the other side of the hill...Categorized as:
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Mountain Men of Liberty Box Set by K.C. Crowne
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFour deliciously heart pumping mountain men and the lucky ladies who capture their hearts. Transport yourself into the charming and magical small town of Liberty Utah, as we follow the rugged, rowdy hot and possessive mountain men in their quests to find lasting love on the peaks and mounts of Liberty.Book One: Baby for the Mountain Man As I watch the single daddy with his baby..Categorized as:
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Álvaro Mutis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMaqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years...Categorized as:
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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsKorean edition of a delightful picture book POLAR BEAR, POLAR BEAR, WHAT DO YOU HEAR? (Brown Bear and Friends) by Bill Martin Jr. and illustrated by award-winning author/illustrator Eric Carle, translated by Lee Hi Jae...Categorized as:
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Martin Marten by Brian Doyle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDave is fourteen years old, eager, and headlong. He is about to start high school, which is scary and alluring. Martin is a pine marten, a small, muscled hunter of the deep woods. He is about to leave home for the first time, which is scary and thrilling...Categorized as:
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Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories (India) by Ruskin Bond
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn enchanting collection of stories from the heartland of IndiaRuskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity...Categorized as:
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsHere is a handsome edition of one of Borges' "ficciones," in a translation first published in "Labyrinths" in 1962. It's an important story in the Borges' canon, incorporating most of the author's philosophical and esthetic preoccupations in a typically brief compass...Categorized as:
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My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgård
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAt eighteen years, old Karl Ove moves to a tiny fisherman's village in the far north of the arctic circle to work as a school teacher. No interest in the job itself, his intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine...Categorized as:
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Edged by Heather Slade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis rebel has a cause…Former M15 agent, Keon “Edge” Edgemon is counting the seconds until he can get back to the one woman who’s piqued his interest. After a perilous mission for the Invincibles, Edge spends months in recovery from a gunshot wound that almost ended his life. Finally back home in Texas, he discovers that Lucy “Rebel” Marks is in jail for murder... -
Serena: Dr. Richards’ Littles 30 by Pepper North
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer movements seduce him. Her Little steals his heart. Serena loves the art of belly dancing. Performing in a Greek restaurant, she knows with one touch that the handsome man at table forty is extraordinary. Choosing to expand his business in the Little-friendly community, Talos Kosta hopes to find his own perfect match... -
Maybe It's Fate by Ajme Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI was on my way in my high heels looking like a boss babe…Ready to prove to the world that I could make it on my own.And then…A hot businessman turned my world upside down.I was shocked too.Mainly because that hot businessman was my brother’s best friend.He lied about being married to me.I lied about not being in love with him.It was like just any other modern mess...Categorized as:
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Mistletoe by Heather Slade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMore is at stake than a holiday surprise or two... The K19 Security Solutions team is typically ready to serve and protect at any given time. But the holidays call for even more vigilance and protection—from each other. As families navigate through Thanksgiving and Christmas, more conflicts arise. Just as Zary and Gunner discover a Christmas miracle, Ava and Razor have a secret of their own...Categorized as:
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Hourglass by Danilo Kiš
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDanilo Kiš was one of the most artful and eloquent writers of postwar Europe. Of all his books, Hourglass, the account of the final months in one man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, is considered to be his masterpiece...Categorized as:
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Defending Keirnan GHOST Prequel by P.J. Fiala
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Keirnan Vickers ever wanted was to be a teacher. Having realized that dream, she’s focusing on helping the local library with desperately needed repairs so she has a place to host her growing reading program. Just when her life is beginning to look like a storybook, an enemy of her father's threatens her very existence.Single father Dane Copeland has known his share of heartaches... -
The Truce by Mario Benedetti
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratings'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.' Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary, and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about to retire. He assumes he'll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people generally do...Categorized as:
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Gone Too Far by Ajme Williams
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy ex doesn’t know that he’s got twin sons… and I’m about to meet him… oops!This reality has haunted me for the last six years.Drew was everything I’d wanted in my life.And in my bed.But my dream job waited for me in London.A huge fight later, I packed my bags and left.But the two pink lines changed everything.I took a deep breath and built from scratch... -
Tales of Fosterganj by Ruskin Bond
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew novel by one of Indias most beloved storytellers.Set in a fictional suburb on the outskirts of Mussourie, which he has made famous with his near legendary stories.Vintage Ruskin Bond that is bound to delight his readers with his understated humour, wit and effortless storytelling... -
OUR TREES STILL GROW IN DEHRA by Ruskin Bond
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFourteen engaging stories from one of India's master story-tellers Semi-autobiographical in nature, these stories span the period from the author's childhood to the present. We are introduced, in a series of beautifully imagined and crafted cameos, to the author's family, friends, and various other people who left a lasting impression on him...Categorized as:
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Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas és Holdvilág) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.'On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice ...'Mihály has dreamt of Italy all his life...Categorized as:
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The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPerfect for fans of Love and Hello, Lighthouse , The Yellow Bus from #1 New York Times bestselling Loren Long is a tender and soulful story about a forgotten school bus that finds happiness and purpose in the most unexpected places--and in the journey along the way.There is a bright yellow bus who spends her days driving. She loves carrying children from one important place to another...Categorized as:
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The Overcoat, and Other Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWith the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else...Categorized as:
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Nomads of the North by James Oliver Curwood
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis 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...Categorized as:
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A Taste of Peace (Malibu #1) by J.J. Sorel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen reformed bad boy Lachlan Peace starts running his dying father’s billion-dollar empire, he inherits shady investment schemes that threaten to tarnish his reputation and destroy the Peace empire. Lachlan Peace’s true passion in life is music and surfing. He also can’t take his eyes off his new admin assistant, Miranda Flowers...Categorized as:
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His Desires by Ajme Williams
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is why I wanted to try and resist the hot maid of honor at my best friend’s wedding…That one hook-up led to one huge decision.And then a complication that neither of us were prepared for.Look, I’m a single dad and raising an 11-year-old is not easy.Lizzie came into my life at a time when I needed her.When my daughter needed her.Yes, it was tough to keep my hands off her gorgeous curves...Categorized as:
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Unexpected Gift by R.S. Elliot
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is Sawyer and Amelia's story and is an Enemies to Lovers Fake Marriage... -
Billionaire Protector by Emma Blake
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeeping things professional with my grumpy, hot AF single dad boss is proving to be VERY hard…Tattoos. Tight jeans. Fat bank account. Arrogant prick attitude.My new boss truly has it all.I know I shouldn’t let myself get too close, but it might be too late.He hired me as a nanny to care for his adorable boys.Categorized as:
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The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing by Joseph Fasano
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeep in the mountains of British Columbia, across an unforgiving landscape, one man’s pursuit of a fabled mountain lion leads him into the furthest reaches of himself... -
Royal Surprise by R.S. Elliot
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Enemies to Lovers Secret Baby...Categorized as:
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Starry, Starry Night by Marcia Willett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPraise for Marcia Willett: 'A warm and engaging read.' Trisha Ashley'A beautifully woven tale of families and their secrets...' Liz Fenwick, bestselling author of The Cornish House'Riveting, moving and utterly feel-good.' Daily Mail 'Sweeping powers of description transport her readers to another time and place...Categorized as:
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His Rules: A Secret Pregnancy Office Romance by Ajme Williams
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA southern stranger for one night? Yes please. Don’t have to see him in the morning? Even better. But what if he showed up again? I could deal with that. And if he showed up as my boss? Oh boy… I think this is one big joke. When I opened the door to his office and saw his face, I knew that my nightmare had come true...Categorized as:
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The Untethered by S.W. Southwick
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat Roble wants to create is illegal...if not impossible.And everyone seems determined to stop him from trying. But when a few unrepentant ladies join his fight to live free, the Las Vegas desert is going to light up like the 4th of July. ----------------------- "If you want a cross-breed between an Ayn Rand novel and a techno-thriller, this is the best you'll read...Categorized as:
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Mount Analogue by René Daumal
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven. Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality...Categorized as:
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The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, Jefferson Mays
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe definitive edition of Calvino’s cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories—including some never before translated—in one volume for the first timeIn Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth’s first dawn...Categorized as:
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Diary of a Cricket by Tô Hoài
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is a bilingual edition of a children's book written in Vietnamese given to me by a student. His grandfather is the author...Categorized as:
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How to Become King by Jan Terlouw
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSeventeen years after the king of Katoren dies, a boy aspires to win the crown and is tested with seven impossible tasks by six Ministers...Categorized as:
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Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s...Categorized as:
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The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsPietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the Dolomites, the mountains that hug the northeastern border of Italy. While on vacation at the foot of the mountains, Pietro meets Bruno, an adventurous, spirited local boy...Categorized as:
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