Of all the women in the world, I had to be trapped in my cabin with a virgin.A reclusive mountain manAn engaged college undergradThe snowstorm of the CenturyLucyI’m a college virgin. There, I said it. Embarrassing right? How did it happen?Between maintaining my GPA and my grueling track and field practices, I haven’t had time for anything, or anyone else – including my new fiancé, Lawrence. Waking up in a cabin next to the bearded mountain man was a shock, and let’s face it, a little bit scary. What was scarier though, was how good I felt when I was with him. I have been saving myself for the right moment, not necessarily my wedding night, and I can’t help but wonder if the right moment is in front of me, smelling like cedar, musk, and woodstove.MickTalk about irony: a sex addict trapped in a cabin with a virgin. But for some reason, the protector in me is overriding the raw primal animal lurking inside of me.There are two reasons why I won’t sleep with Lucy: the first, and obvious one, I mean, she’s engaged, although that never would’ve stopped me before; the second, I’ve made a vow to myself, to stay away from women. And now I have a third, I am falling for her.When Mick finds out the shocking truth about Lucy’s fiancé, will he be able to get to her in time to save her?**The mountain man’s virgin is an over the top, trope after trope filled love story that could never ever happen in real life, even if we wish that it could.
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Equality is a basic living right to most civilations in the Republic Alliance of stars. But not for Zan Duun, On Zan Duun homosexuality is punishable by death. On Zan Duun everything is controlled by the Society, what you eat, what you do, who you marry.Miranda Ashur had had enough of it and when her personal guard told her that she had feelings for her, Miranda took a chance and fled Zan Duun to the Republic.But she couldn’t just stand by and let the injustices that were going on on her planet stay the way they were so she returned and found out the truth of who was behind all of the Society’s rules.
Ebook comes with main table of contents and interlinked sub table of contents. Each chapter is clearly marked so user knows which book within the boxset is being read. This set contains a large amount of Illustrations in total 22 Illustrated Novels, and 3 Illustrated Non Fiction Books. In addition inline digital footnotes are present in a number of works. Please note due to copyright restrictions certain works can only be presented in Original French text. Please see below description for details. The Novels.•Five Weeks In A Balloon. (Illustrated/Inline Footnotes)•A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. (Illustrated/Inline Footnotes)•From The Earth To The Moon. (Illustrated)•The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras. (Illustrated/Inline Footnotes)•The Children of Captain Grant or In Search of the Castaways. (Illustrated)•Around The Moon.•20000 Leagues Under The Sea. (Illustrated)•A Floating City. (Illustrated)•The Adventures Of Three Englishmen And Three Russians In South Africa. (Illustrated)•The Fur Country. (Illustrated)•Around The World In Eighty Days. (Illustrated)•The Mysterious Island. (Illustrated)•The Survivors of the Chancellor. (Illustrated)•Michael Strogoff – The Courier of the Czar. (Illustrated)•Off On A Comet. (Illustrated)•The Underground City. (Illustrated)•Dick Sand, A Captain At Fifteen. (Illustrated)•The Begum’s Fortune. (Illustrated)•Tribulations of a Chinaman In China. (Illustrated/Inline Footnotes)•The Steam House. (Illustrated/Inline Footnotes)•Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon. (Illustrated)•The Green Ray.•The School For Robinsons.•Kéraban The Inflexible or Adventures In The Euxine.•The Star of The South or The Vanished Diamond.•The Archipelago On Fire.•Mathias Sandorf. (Illustrated)•Robur The Conqueror.•The Lottery Ticket.•The Flight To France. (Illustrated)•The Wreck Of The Cynthia.•North Against South or Texar’s Revenge.•Two Years Holiday or Adrift in the Pacific.•The Purchase Of The North Pole or Topsy Turvy.•Family Without A Name.•César Cascabel.•Mistress Branican.•The Carpathian Castle.•Claudius Bombarnac.•Foundling Mick or A Lad of Grit.•The Adventures Of Captain Antifer.•The Floating Island or Propeller Island.•Facing The Flag.•Clovis Dardentor.•The Sphinx Of The Ice Fields or An Antarctic Mystery. (Inline footnotes)•The Super Orinoco. *Original French Text.•The Will Of An Eccentric.•Second Fatherland or The Castaways of the Flag. *Original French Text.•The Village In The Treetops. *Original French Text.•Yarns Of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin or The Sea Serpent. *Original French Text.•The Kip Brothers. *Original French Text.•Traveling Scholarships. *Original French Text.•A Drama In Livonia. *Original French Text.•Master Of The World.•Invasion Of The Sea. *Original French Text.•Lighthouse At The End Of The World. *Original French Text.•The Golden Volcano. *Original French Text.•The Thompson Agency And Co. *Original French Text.•The Chase Of The Golden Meteor. *Original French Text.•The Danube Pilot. *Original French Text.•The Survivors Of The ‘Jonathan’ *Original French Text.•The Secret Of Wilhelm Storitz. *Original French Text.•Adventures Of The Barsac Mission. *Original French Text.The Short Stories.•A Drama In Mexico.•Martin Paz.•The Blockade Runners.•Dr. Ox And Other Stories.•The Mutineers Of The Bounty.•In The Year 2889.•Frritt-Flacc.•An Express Of The Future.•Yesterday And Tomorrow. *Original French Text.The Complete Poetry. *Original French Text.The Plays.•Michel Strogoff. *Original French Text.•Onze Jours De Siège. *Original French Text.The Non Fiction.•The Exploration Of The World. (Illustrated)•The Great Navigators Of The Eighteenth Century. (Illustrated/Inline Footnotes)•The Great Explorers Of The Nineteenth Century. (Illustrated/Inline Footnotes)
The book contains 50 fairy tales for a sunny mood.Each of them teaches a lesson of wisdom, politeness, diligence, and prudence.A good fairy tale is much more engaging to the child and more efficient than parental nagging.You won’t find the tales in other books since they were first compiled and translated into English in 2015.The variety of tales included in the compilation is wide: charming and scary, kind and warm, fascinating and edifying.Reading fairy tales to your child is a step towards a relationship of trust. Telling tales of brave princes or sly foxes and then discussing them will reveal your little one’s thoughts and worries.
The latest translation of Marcel Proust’s classic novel Un amour de Swann
From the text:
But at the already somewhat disillusioned age Swann was approaching and where one knows to be content at being in love simply for the pleasure of it, without demanding too much in return, this coming together of two hearts, if it’s no longer, as it was in one’s youth, the goal that love, by necessity, tends towards, it has nevertheless stayed tied to one’s love by such a strong association of ideas that if it presents itself first it can itself become the cause. At an earlier age, one dreamt of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later in life, feeling he has already come to possess one’s heart could be enough to provoke his love. So at an age where it would seem – for in love we search above all for a subjective pleasure – that the part played by our tastes in assessing another’s beauty would have become the determining factor in our love, a love can be born, a love of the most physical kind even, without there having been any initial foundation of desire. At this stage in our life we have been touched by love more than once; it no longer evolves on its own, following its unknown, fatal laws before our passive and astonished hearts. We come to its aid; calling on our memories, yielding to suggestion, we act it out. In recognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we recreate the others. As we possess its song, engraved on our heart in its entirety, we need only for a woman to provide the opening strands, filled with the admiration we feel at recognizing another’s beauty, and we know what comes next. And if she starts in the middle, at the part where our two hearts come together, where we talk of existing each only for the other, we know this tune well enough that we can at once join our partner in the passage where she awaits us.
Equality is a basic living right to most civilations in the Republic Alliance of stars. But not for Zan Duun, On Zan Duun homosexuality is punishable by death. On Zan Duun everything is controlled by the Society, what you eat, what you do, who you marry.Miranda Ashur had had enough of it and when her personal guard told her that she had feelings for her, Miranda took a chance and fled Zan Duun to the Republic.But she couldn’t just stand by and let the injustices that were going on on her planet stay the way they were so she returned and found out the truth of who was behind all of the Society’s rules.
