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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, and takes place over the course of 24 hours.

A Christmas story to warm the heart. Sgt. Evans recounts his most infamous case about a stolen Christmas tree.

A small town girl from the Midwest is carried away by her "Prince Charming" to the super charged canyons of modern New York City. Warned by her uptight advertising executive husband to beware of strangers, the newlywed cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive innocence. She eventually befriends many of the offbeat and quirky tenants in her apartment building and enters into their complicated and sometimes tragic lives.

Lady Susan is an epistolary novel by Jane Austen about a beautiful and manipulative widow scheming to arrange wealthy marriages for herself and her daughter. This book is the basis for the film Love & Friendship, written and directed by Whit Stillman, and starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny. This dramatized production is presented by the Online Stage.

Samantha Jacobs, who's still busy in Hazard, selling OxyContin, gets worried when Dwayne takes off on his own. What she finds when she goes looking for him sends her on a new kind of journey.

When feral kitten Hattie is born into poverty in a cult ruled by evil tomcat Scarab Razorclaw, she is destined to fulfill his dream of returning to her wildcat roots by shunning humans. But Hattie can't bear the suffering she sees in her family. When she rebels against every rule in a fight to survive she is banished from her home and everything she knows.

Why, oh why, did Anne Marie Whitehall take her own life, swallowing away her pain and her grief with a handful of Nembutal capsules and a bottle of Merlot? Does Samantha Jacobs, the red-haired vixen grinding away on a pole at the Revue know? Or perhaps Deena Cook, harried mother of four and a regular visitor at Children's Services?

Troy Utter is a successful man who can afford exotic tastes - including an appetite for controlling his "pet" Puppet, a beautiful submissive. Most of the time, Puppet tries to behave and Master doesn't have to punish her. It's just that lately, the Master works hard and Puppet gets bored. Upon seeing two male gardeners making out, she gets hot. She shows herself off to all the gardeners, including a female one, whom she fantasizes about. Master is not happy with his pet's behavior.

This story is pure erotic sci-fi and centers around a dickgirl by the name of Alpha. If you don't like dickgirl stories you should avoid this one, it is intended for the growing "Fan Fic" section of the public. It is also a short story. I'm telling you this because I'm trying to gauge whether or not to write a follow-up. If I find some interest in the story I will write a couple more.

Twenty-year-old college student Jessie Heller wants to go on a Eurotrip with her friends. She needs extra funds though, and responds to a flyer for a pet-sitting job. The job and the pay seem perfect, and the pet owner who interviews her, Troy Utter, is nice. Jessie can’t believe her luck. Things begin to unravel on her first day, however. When she arrives at her employer’s home, charming Mr. Utter’s pet turns out to be a female named Puppet, bound up and kept in a closet!

Nearly everything important in 12-year-old Gabriella's life that summer of 1957 can be traced to the river. Without friends, her mother mysteriously absent, and her father, the general, treating her as if she doesn't exist, Gabriella turns to the river beside the Marine base where she lives in North Carolina. She's determined to learn to swim so she can make the general proud by showing him she's good at something.

"The Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his 12 favorite Holmes stories.

Arthur Conan Doyle once remarked that The Adventure of the Speckled Band, first published in 1892, was his best Sherlock Holmes story. In it, a young woman, Helen Stoner, consults Holmes about her ill-tempered stepfather whom she suspects had some part in the death of her twin sister, Julia. She fears her stepfather has the same plans for her: he has forced Helen to move into the mysterious and disturbing room in which her sister died under suspicious circumstances.

Raymond Kidd is a time traveller. Only he doesn't want to be. He has no say in when or where he goes, or to which time. Plus, he has to die to do it. In The Flaw in the Fabric, the first book in Jim Lindsey's trilogy A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls, a shortcut through a cemetery during a hurricane takes Raymond Kidd the long way around through another century and another identity. In 1860 Halifax, he's ship's captain Oliver Cole, just released from the madhouse.

Evan Hawks was told to do his job and avoid the dumb door. And he almost succeeded. When a careless accident somehow bridges parallel universes, he's left with a lot of questions...and a beautiful woman who insists it's 1978.

In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city.

Pinocchio - the wooden puppet who longs to be a real boy - is loved by children everywhere. As he bungles his way through life from one escapade to another, will he finally realise his heart's desire? Seen as one of the greatest works of Italian literature, this audiobook helps children come to a fuller understanding of this remarkable tale and to enjoy it both as an exciting adventure story and as a moral fable. Follow the mischievous adventures Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.

Covid-19 has heightened career uncertainty in a work landscape dominated by turbulence and change, and it is directly impacting how people are entering—or re-entering—the workplace. But as Lindsey Pollak makes clear, the pandemic merely accelerated trends that have been building. While this new world is complicated, you won’t have to navigate it alone. For twenty years, Pollak has been following the trends and successfully advising young professionals and organizations on workplace success. Now, she guides you through the changes currently happening—and those to come.

Learn how to become confident, ambitious, and undeterred on your leadership journey as a woman in masculine environments. In Determined to Lead, award-winning leader and entrepreneur Nada Ahmed offers women an inspiring guide to break free and create their dream careers today. Through her stories, she provides actionable advice on how women can become successful leaders in today's digital age. By fearlessly sharing her own journey, she reminds us that when women believe in themselves, they become unstoppable game-changers; true pioneers who can achieve anything they put their minds to.

Lila has a life and dreams for her own future, but when her mother begins to lose her battle with cancer, she comes to Lila asking for one last request. She wishes to die in a beach house, listening to the waves and basking on the sand.