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A festive love story blossoms as the new AI world meets old world frescoes, Skye is challenged. AI has come to Heart Greeting Cards, and Skye's corporate creative job is in peril. Skye worries about her bullied daughters, her besties Taylor, and Terry, her aging beloved car, and her cantankerous cat Kitty Beast. AI threatens to take over the creative industry, and all Skye wants to do is escape to Pompeii, Italy, and teach fresco workshops.

Quando, in una grigia giornata autunnale, Joséphine Beauregard esce dal suo monolocale sul canal Saint-Martin, a Parigi, trova due lettere nella casella della posta. Una è dell’editore con cui collabora come traduttrice e l’altra di un notaio sconosciuto. E così, in pochi minuti, Joséphine scopre di aver perso il lavoro, ma anche di aver ereditato una casa, per quanto atipica e un po’ fatiscente: l’amato zio Albert le ha lasciato la sua vecchia houseboat, ormeggiata lungo il quai accanto al pont de la Concorde.

California. Elle Blessing has painted herself into a corner. Desperate to maintain her veneer of success, the twenty-something influencer feels trapped in her miserable job and mostly platonic relationship. And when she reluctantly joins her fiancé on a trip to Alaska, she can't decide if their hunky guide is annoyingly grumpy or drop-dead gorgeous.

For hundreds of years, the Greystone School for Runic Studies has stood in isolation, a hidden institution dedicated to the ancient disciplines of Norse magic. Olivia Grey senses that her time as the school’s director is coming to an end. Now, she prepares her resignation to find her place in the modern world.

It is possible to be blinded by the light of another human being. Especially one you love. The seemingly happiest people are often hiding the darkest secrets. Smiling through pain many of us could not even fathom, let alone survive. All the while continuing to bring joy to the people around them, blissfully oblivious to the suffering of their loved one.

Newly chosen as her town’s apprentice healer, Marla’s future is promising. She might not travel the world now, but she has a place she belongs. But things aren’t always what they seem. When powers within her awaken, she connects to the land in a way deeper than she thought possible. Now she’s part of a secretive group that stays in the shadows, tending to nature. Can they prevent another year of drought? Her people aren’t the only ones with powers, and others are also awakening. The Light Chargers rule the country, and their magic isn’t like hers.

Ci viene incontro come un io, e ci racconta di sé, di un'infanzia dentro le soffici spire di una famiglia agiata, della pratica della menzogna come sofisticata strategia di salvezza, di un'adolescenza che si riconosce nelle notti alcoliche, nel precipizio di sentimenti non governati, nel rabbioso esercizio della violenza.

Days after his emergency hire as principal of Fordson High, Imad Fadlallah discovers enough weed in its parking lot to supply a local dispensary. He realizes he is manning a sinking ship with thousands of young boys and girls aboard, among them, his son Ali. Ali is drowning in a lyrical muse, as no one seems to tune in to his calls for help. Finding himself between stolen dreams and lives lost, Ali becomes yet another victim of Fordson's Prison of Minds.

Keadaan di fakulti perubatan itu begitu menyeramkan. Sebagai pustakawan yang baru bertugas di fakulti itu, Paeng rasa terganggu. Tinggal bersendirian di rumah yang terpencil, ditambah lagi dengan suasana fakulti perubatan yang sunyi dan menyeramkan, membuat Paeng semakin diburu ketakutan. Rasa takut itu sebenarnya tidak seberapa. Kenyataan bahawa lif di dalam bangunan universiti tempat dia bertugas berhantu, lebih menakutkan lagi! Suatu pembunuhan kejam dikatakan pernah berlaku di dalam lif itu.

The nature of money as gates and letters revealed gives light to the nations of humankind to find in troubled times a historic luxury and modern necessity in the FML FIREs. These are the first constitutional centers of foundation money law governance and the prize of digital revolution.

An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks.

A "Blue Carbuncle" is stolen from a hotel suite, and a former felon is soon arrested. However, an acquaintance of Holmes discovers the carbuncle in the throat of a Christmas goose. Holmes traces the owner of the goose, but soon determines that he was not the thief by offering him a replacement goose. The detective continues his search, first to an inn and then a dealer in Covent Garden. The dealer refuses to provide Holmes with information about the source of the goose, but Holmes observes another man trying to find the same information, and confronts him.

Shah Jahan, the Great Mughal Emperor, is hopping mad. Someone has replaced the precious Timur ruby on this throne with .. a plum! What's worse, plums are suddenly turning up everywhere. Who can help the emperor solve this mystery?

The great Mauryan emperor Ashoka is furious. Someone is messing with the messages he wants inscribed on rocks and pillars. What's worse, the messages are now the opposite of what Ashoka wants to say. Who can help the emperor solve this mystery?

In Innocent Until Proven Muslim, scholar and organizer Dr.Maha Hilal tells the powerful story of two decades of the War on Terror, exploring how the official narrative has justified the creation of a sprawling apparatus of state violence rooted in Islamophobia and excused its worst abuses.

An 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley.

Razia Sultan, the dynamic ruler of Dihli, is enraged. Someone is sending her pesky presents—girly dresses and soppy poems on sultanas. What's worse, they come with notes challenging her right to rule, as a woman. Who can help the sultan solve this mystery?

"The Signal-Man" is a story by Charles Dickens. The story begins with the narrator calling "Halloa! Below there!" into a railway cutting. The signalman standing on the railway below does not look up, as the narrator expects, but rather turns about and stares into the railway tunnel that is his responsibility to monitor. The narrator calls down again and asks permission to descend. The signalman seems reluctant.

A short story by Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885 as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.

A short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution.