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The Vitals is Tracy Sorensen's cancer memoir transformed by imagination into something far richer and stranger. Narrated by her internal organs, it will make you infinitely more aware of the peculiar world inside your body and discover all the hidden parts that make you human.

Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity. The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there. The only future they see is an empty life in an enormous room. And then the man from Mars comes along.... Set in the hardscrabble solar system of the Expanse, The Vital Abyss deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed series.

Jane, a Minneapolis restaurateur, is invited to spend the week at Fothergill Inn, a Victorian house-turned B&B. Jane's old friend Leigh has spent years renovating the house and reopening it as an inn and restaurant. The inn has become so successful that people drive the 50 miles from Minneapolis just for dinner. But when Jane and her best friend, Cordelia, arrive for a week of relaxation, they find that the weekend's guests are anything but pleased, and that relaxing is the furthest thing from their minds. Broken glass litters the parking lot, dead animals turn up in the bedrooms, a bomb scare threatens the lives of the inn's guests. Then the pranks turn deadly....

In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers. Their lifelong friend and neighbour, Akhmed, has also been watching, and when he finds Havaa he knows of only one person who might be able to help. For tough-minded doctor Sonja Rabina, it’s just another day of trying to keep her bombed-out, abandoned hospital going.

In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating heart of medicine; through stories we strive to communicate, to understand, to empathize, and perhaps find healing. These Vital Signs is a poignant series of essays—deeply personal stories—inspired by nephrologist Sayed Tabatabai’s medical experience and based on a series of poems he posted on Twitter that began going viral at the height of the COVID pandemic.

Anthony Marra transports us to a snow-covered village in Chechnya, where eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night, accusing him of aiding Chechen rebels. Across the road their lifelong neighbor and family friend Akhmed has also been watching, fearing the worst when the soldiers set fire to Havaa’s house. But when he finds her hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded.

These highly erotic tales of lust tell us of married couples seeking sexual nirvana through the exchange of their lifelong mate. Don’t be shocked by this!

Ancora una volta Andrea Vitali ha fatto centro: Olive comprese è una travolgente giostra di personaggi e vicende irresistibili e divertenti, e insieme il ritratto dell'Italia più vera e profonda. Protagonisti, più o meno volontari, quattro ragazzi di paese, una banda di "imbecilli" che mette a soqquadro l'intera Bellano. Naturalmente finiscono subito nel mirino del maresciallo maggiore Ernesto Maccadò, che avverte le famiglie gettandole nel panico.

In these highly erotic tales of hot and steamy sex, the author's wife cums back for even more of what she loves more than life itself. Only now, Pat has her sister Loretta along to help party with a young lifeguard, a horny young man eager to ball older married women. But first, their hot and horny mother shows us in why the two daughters are both so incredibly hot.

Mysterious blackouts left Kira with precious few memories of events in her life, never mind those worth sharing. Somewhere in those blank spots she acquired skills - skills she was hard pressed to explain. But those skills got her a job as the new navigator for the Rented Mule, a transport ship that plied the Rim Systems at the very edge of human civilization.

Besides being housewives, the women in these 17 stories all have something else in common. They all cheated on their husbands. Luckily for us, these same housewives all wrote down the lurid details of their extramarital affairs. Come join these horny ladies as they tell us in their own words how they all got newer and bigger c--ks.

Being the nice father-in-law, my intentions were purely innocent. After all, no man ever thinks of a daughter-in-law in a sexual way, even if the five foot tall honey is as cute as a button and has a body to die for. There was no way I could ever screw my son's wife, no matter how nice her little hand felt on my dick. A good man just doesn't do what this girl wanted, no matter how nice she was making me feel.

A few days after the annual Christmas party, a 40-year old woman and a 68-year-old man shouldn't be in bed together, but there we are. She is, after all, a happily married woman whose mouth is meant for one man alone.

While investigating a murder, Miss Phryne Fisher, along with Dot and Doctor Mac, go to a seedy downtown bar to seek information. It’s at this place of shady repute where the three women fall prey to the sapphic element that frequents the establishment. None of the three will be leaving anytime soon.

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Vittoria is a noble Jewish woman living in northern Italy. With the onset of World War II, her life changes completely. When the Nazis arrive in the quiet town, the entire family is forced to flee and cross the border to Switzerland using fake identities. But not everything goes according the plan. One of her children is not allowed to cross the border with the rest of the family and must be left behind. Now, Vittoria must make a critical decision that could scar her and the family forever.

Vengeance came at a high cost. Paxton Locke not only lost his job, but he’s also the subject of a Federal manhunt. On the run, with no backup or resources, he still has a mission, albeit a cryptic one, issued by his angelic patron. But his old Division M coworkers aren’t the only threat. Renaissance Gitano—an elite operative from a secretive order of magicians Paxton has faced before—also hunts him. She will go to the ends of any Earth to bring him to justice and satisfy her own need for revenge.

Publicado originalmente en 1996, este hermoso libro de Ida Vitale, situado a medio camino entre la prosa y la poesía, reúne cuentos, fábulas y alegorías que conforman una suerte de bestiario humano en el que la premio Cervantes uruguaya revisita algunos mitos clásicos y da cabida a la fantasía de aliento borgiano.

Siamo negli anni Trenta, all'epoca del fascismo più placido e trionfante. Nella stazione dei Carabinieri di Bellano, sotto gli occhi del carabiniere Locatelli (bergamasco), rivaleggiano il brigadiere Mannu (sardo) e l'appuntato Misfatti (siciliano). Un'anziana signora, "piccola, vestita con un cappotto grigio color topo, una borsetta tenuta con due mani all'altezza dello stomaco", vuole a tutti i costi parlare con il maresciallo Maccadò.

Joyce Barnaby is the wife of Causton DCI Tom Barnaby. Their only child is daughter, Cully Barnaby. DS Scott knows the lovely Barnaby women very well. He’s been shagging them both starting with Cully after drinks one night at a local pub. As for Cully’s mother and the Guvnor’s wife, Joyce Barnaby just happens to come home early from her volunteer job to find Cully and Scott shagging in Cully’s bed. Instead of saying anything, the good Mum just stands outside the opened door listening.