The Analects (literally: “Edited Conversations”), also known as the Analects of Confucius, is a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius’ followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period (475 BC–221 BC), and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD). By the early Han dynasty the Analects was considered merely a “commentary” on the Five Classics, but the status of the Analects grew to be one of the central texts of Confucianism by the end of that dynasty.During the late Song dynasty (960-1279) the importance of the Analects as a philosophy work was raised above that of the older Five Classics, and it was recognized as one of the “Four Books”. The Analects has been one of the most widely read and studied books in China for the last 2,000 years, and continues to have a substantial influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today. They were very important for Confucianism and China’s overall morals.
Author: William Shakespeare
Rating: 
231 reviews
Lilies on Daybreak Pond (The Men of Lancaster County) by Mindy Starns Clark
This free short story prequel by bestselling author Mindy Starns Clark offers an exclusive bonus to The Men of Lancaster County series by Mindy Starns Clark and Susan Meissner. Fans of the series will enjoy this brief opportunity to revisit a family they have grown to love, and new readers will be introduced to a life-altering act that ends up reverberating throughout the three full novels of the series, The Amish Groom, The Amish Blacksmith, andThe Amish Clockmaker. This e-short story also includes the first chapter of The Amish Groom.It’s coming on spring, and Joel Miller is beginning to understand that his daughter is never coming home again. Three months ago, 18-year-old Sadie snuck away in the dead of night, breaking from the Amish faith to live the life of an Englischer. The family she left behind has been dealing with the loss ever since—especially her father, who is still struggling to comprehend how God could have allowed this to happen. Now the family dog has gone missing as well, and Joel is determined to find him and bring him back home no matter what it takes. As he searches for the missing pet, he wonders how find the strength to let his daughter go and move on with his life. How can he help his family do so as well?
Author: Mindy Starns Clark
Rating:
161 reviews
Mobster’s Baby: A Dark Bad Boy Mafia Baby Romance (Esposito Family Mafia Book 1) by Nicole Fox
I’m pregnant with the mobster’s baby.I broke the rules – I slept with a mobster.One mistake would have been bad enough.But now that I’m carrying his baby… my whole world is about to come crashing down.Because the bad boy is coming to claim what’s his.I’ve always been a good girl.I looked the part, acted like it.The politician’s daughter, as prim and proper as they come…And I f**king hated it.I was dying to know what it felt like to be free.To be wild.To be bad.So I crossed the tracks and did what I never, ever should have done.I let Tony Esposito claim me.He was dark and violent and dangerous – everything I’d been kept far away from since the day I was born.And my god, it was incredible.My throat was raw from moaning.My knees rug-burned and sore.But I felt alive for the first time in my life.Only one problem:My transgression didn’t end when he dropped me off.The mobster left something in me…And he’s coming back to get it.MOBSTER’S BABY is a standalone contemporary bad boy baby heist romance. It features hot sex between consenting adults. It also includes a bonus novel so you never have to stop reading!
Author: Nicole Fox
Rating:
98 reviews
Reckless Heat (Hostile Operations Team – Book 0) by Lynn Raye Harris
He’s my best friend.He’s everything I ever wanted.And he doesn’t know how I feel.I have three weeks left to tell him before he leaves this place forever… There’s only one way I know how to do that.I have to give him what I’ve never given anyone.I’m going to ask him to be my first…Matt Girard is the guy every girl wants. Rich, handsome, and popular, his future is brighter than the sun. Evie Baker comes from the wrong side of town. She loves Matt desperately, but he only sees her as his tomboy best friend instead of the young woman she’s blossomed into.Until one fateful night when a reckless dare changes everything…This is the prequel story to Hot Pursuit, Book 1 in the Hostile Operations Team Series.THE HOSTILE OPERATIONS TEAM SERIES:Prequel: Reckless Heat (Matt & Evie)Book 1: Hot Pursuit (Matt & Evie)Book 2: Hot Mess (Sam & Georgie)Book 3: Hot Package (Billy & Olivia)Book 4: Dangerously Hot (Kev & Lucky)Book 5: Hot Shot (Jack & Gina)Book 6: Hot Rebel (Nick & Victoria)Book 7: Hot Ice (Garrett & Grace)Book 8: Hot & Bothered (Ryan & Emily) Book 9: Hot SEAL (Dane & Ivy) Book 10: Hot Protector (Chase & Sophie) ~ OUT NOW!Each book stands alone and can be read in any order. However, you might best enjoy them in order.Reviews:”…one of those must read black ops series that is as good as Maya Banks & Cindy Gerard!” — Just Plain Sassy”Seriously is there a hotter series out there in this genre? Because if there is, I don’t know about it. I have loved these books from book 1 and they are only getting better and better not to mention hotter!!!” — Goodreads
Author: Lynn Raye Harris
Rating:
87 reviews
The Hunted One (End of Days Series Book 1) by Meg Collett
The fallen have trespassed into Heaven for the first time in eternity. Prepared for battle, Michaela and her Archangels open Heaven’s gates to confront the fallen. Only, Michaela’s Archangels—her brothers and sisters in Heaven—betray her. And when the fallen attack the sanctuary in the skies through the gates Michaela inadvertently left open, the holy angels accuse Michaela of planning the invasion.
One simple mistake with a thousand consequences.
Dragged to Earth by an Archangel turned fallen, Michaela will do anything to return to Heaven and save it. In her fervor, she kills the Archangel—something no angel has ever done before. Wingless, without any hope, Michaela welcomes death when an unlikely human ally, Clark, finds her. With the help of Clark and Gabriel, an innocent Archangel whose friendship deepens into something far more torrid and unexpected on Earth, Michaela must prove the holy angels have their own plan for Heaven, and it is one that may prove to be the End of the Days.
It may be too late to save herself, but Michaela is the only one who knows the truth about the holy angels. If she fails, she may never be able to return to Heaven. But even that may be a hopeless dream.
***End Of Days Series***
The Hunted One
The Lost One
The Only One
Author: Meg Collett
Rating:
140 reviews
Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta
BookSense Pick – Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick – Latinidad’s Chick Lit Book of the Year – Romantic Times Top Rated
Funny, sexy, bright Milagro de Los Santos doesn’t quite fit in anywhere, but still manages to have fun in her haphazard city life of temp jobs, nightclubbing, and arty boyfriends. She writes political horror stories about zombies and hopes to be published. Then one night, at a book party for her pretentious ex-boyfriend, she meets Oswald, a fabulous man who tells her he’s interested in her writing. A mad kissing session leads to cut lips and an accidental exchange of blood.
Then for the first time in Milagro’s life, she becomes sick and develops strange cravings for raw meat. When her ex-boyfriend kidnaps her, accusing her of being a vampire, Oswald’s family comes to her rescue and hides her away to recover at their wine country estate.
The family thinks she’s a trashy gold-digger. She thinks they’re terrible snobs. Can they learn to tolerate one another long enough to defeat their mutual enemies and make it home for cocktail hour?
Author: Marta Acosta
Rating:
142 reviews
The Creator’s Eye: Mover of Fate, Part I (Science Fiction/ Fantasy) by R.N. Feldman
What happens when people can create worlds like gods? The Creator’s Eye will transport you to a marvelous new universe that is literally pure imagination.Get your copy of the new action-packed sci-fi series by award-winning artist, R.N. Feldman.On a hidden archipelago, people known as Movers manipulate matter with their minds while strange Folds in space transform the landscape into wondrous and often deadly anomalies. When a young Mover named Michael Edwards discovers that he is descended from a long line of beings who can not only Move matter, but actually Create it, he finds himself at the center of a cosmic struggle for power. Manipulated by friends, family, and an ominous prophecy, he allies himself with a host of strange creatures and characters as he fights to become Mover of his own destiny.˃˃˃ Heartfelt, witty, and tense, The Creator’s Eye series shreds metaphysical clichés to reach a thrilling climax that blurs the line between good and evil, will and destiny, and even time and space.Scroll up and grab a copy today.
Author: R.N. Feldman
Rating:
82 reviews
Pit Perfect Murder (A Barkside of the Moon Cozy Mystery Book 1) by Renee George
Pit Bulls are Sweet . . . and that’s no mystery!(previously published as Pit Perfect in 2016)When cougar-shifter Lily Mason moves to Moonrise, Missouri, she wishes for only three things from the town and its human population. . . to find a job, to find a place to live, and to live as a human, not a therianthrope.Lily gets more than she bargains for when a rescue pit bull named Smooshie rescues her from an oncoming car, and it’s love at first sight. Thanks to Smooshie, Lily’s first two wishes are granted by Parker Knowles, the owner of the Pit Bull Rescue center, who offers her a job at the shelter and the room over his garage for rent.Lily’s new life as an integrator is threatened when Smooshie finds Katherine Kapersky, the local church choir leader and head of the town council, dead in the field behind the rescue center. Unfortunately, there are more suspects than mourners for the elderly town leader. Can Lily keep her less-than-human status under wraps? Or will the killer, who has pulled off a nearly Pit Perfect murder, expose her to keep Lily and her dog from digging up the truth?Fall in love with Lily Mason, the shifter who only wants to live as a human, and her pit bull Smooshie, a rescue dog who in the end may be the one doing the rescuing! Pit Perfect Murder, Book 1 of the Barkside of the Moon Mysteries from USA Today bestselling paranormal cozy mystery author Renee George, is an exciting tale of mystery and suspense that will have you on the edge of your seat. A clean read full of humor and small town charm.
Author: Renee George
Rating:
111 reviews
The Secret of Seaside (Paige Comber Mystery Book 1) by Agatha Ball
Author: Agatha Ball
Rating:
169 reviews
She Was a Good Girl ‘Til She Knew Me by Kellz Kimberly
The one with the brightest smile is usually the one with the toughest story to tell. This reigns true when it comes to seventeen year old Promyse White. Stuck with a mother who couldn’t care less about her, she takes on the role of an adult. Stealing clothes from Rainbow to working as a bartender under the books at a strip club. Promyse is trying her best to keep her head held high and not let certain choices define her. At twenty years old, Smoke is ready to take the drug world by storm and sit at his rightful place as head of The Throne. Being the only son to the infamous Sha Boogie comes with its perks, but not enough to keep Smoke idly sitting on the side lines. When an opportunity presents itself, he steps up and does what any real n*gga would do; teach his father a lesson on how scared money don’t make no money. Setting a chain of future events into motion, he finally gets the chance to run things. With his new found status, he’s feeling invincible, all the while never expecting to hear the word no.For Smoke, it was lust at first sight, but for Promyse, it was not gonna get it at first words. Not being one to chase but loving the chase Promyse sets him on, his goal is to do one thing & one thing only.Turning a good girl bad comes natural to some, but turning a good girl from the hood into the savage from the block takes a special kind of talent, one that only a few men possess. Smoke believes he’s one of the few, but to be honest… nah, read and find out the rest
Author: Kellz Kimberly
Rating:
91 reviews