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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.

Frumkin’s latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre-defying stories that range from downright hilarious to brilliantly unhinged. Taken together, they celebrate a wide variety of human experiences. In the title story, a queer young adult with bipolar disorder drops out of college in a fog of depression, aimlessly drifting between maintaining their job at a fast food restaurant and dodging their mom’s texts. But when they fall in with a group of sex workers starring in BDSM films, they find radical freedom, love, and community.

A young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall with her son, Arthur. Clouded in mystery, Helen Graham soon becomes the object of much scandalous gossip. Refusing to believe any of it, Gilbert Markham eventually discovers her dark past.

A brief recap of the story, Marcus and Vicky met Damian at a club in a Fetish club. Damian fancied Vicky, inviting them both, to join his private member’s club. The story continues, with Nadia and Lin collecting their husbands from the BDSM Sub training at Steppingley manor. They get invited to a special party with Marcus and Vicky on Damian’s yacht, moored in Antibes South of France. Enter Yasmin with several other characters from the previous stories. The plot continues with more characters being introduced.

It's the spring of 1887, and Rose Gallagher is finally coming into her own. She's the proud owner of a lovely little home near Washington Square, where she lives with her mother and friend Pietro, and she's making a name for herself as a Pinkerton agent with a specialty in things...otherworldly. She and her partner Thomas are working together better than ever, and mostly managing to push aside romantic feelings for one another. Mostly.

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As the curtain falls on the March family's tale, we revisit the Plumfield clan 10 years later, all grown up and finding their way through life's adventures and misadventures.

Working with my arm in a sling isn’t easy, but if it keeps the military from having access to the team, I’m all for it. Besides, the body count is rising, and magic is in the air - there’s a lot of work to go around. Being injured isn’t the only hardship. My partners aren’t inclined to ask me to read, even to help with a case. Not that I blame them. The last time I read the path, I died. The time before that, I killed someone. Now, I can’t even seem to reach the path. With the damaged I caused, it’s for the best.

So many relationships are difficult for one reason: Someone lies. This is a problem that Emily has faced throughout her relationship with her boyfriend. She can never be quite sure exactly what he means. He might say he loves her, but there’s no way for her to know if he’s telling the truth. He’s young, aggressive, handsome, and so much more. Emily loves him, and she wants to be with him, but she doesn’t know if she can really trust him.

Wild Monsters Dance About is a collection of 21 short stories that will take into author M.J. Sewall’s unruly mind. These finely tuned tales jump through genres, concepts and characters, predicaments, adventures, and conundrums. Whether about everyday-science going terribly wrong in "Unintended Science" to animal evolution suddenly speeding up in "It Finally happened" or the prickly family politics of road trips in "Sibling Warfare", these stories will thrill, delight, and discombobulate your imagination.

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennet sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane meets their new neighbor, Mr. Bingley, but her sister Elizabeth is offended by his haughty friend, Mr. Darcy. This is Jane Austen at the height of her powers, complete with ironic narration, hilariously drawn supporting characters, and romantic suspense.

Originally published in 1906, Pride and Prejudice: A Play, based on Jane Austen's novel written in 1813, brings a new way to experience a much-loved story and characters. Follow the Bennet family through their daily lives as new people move into the neighborhood, romance blossoms, hearts are broken, scandals are had, and, of course, love prevails. This classic story is brought to life while keeping true to the spirit and wit of Ms. Austen herself!

Hidden underneath the small town of Haverly Arms lies an entrance to the Dragons Game, an extensive world where adventurers compete to collect power objects and progress to the next level. Temerity's father and brothers have been down in the game for years, leaving Temerity and her mother, plus their house goblin, Half-pint, to manage their tavern.

Life’s not perfect, but I didn’t realize it could be this good. Family, job, friends, that’s all covered. Caring boyfriend, Ethan, was icing on the cake. As each strand of happiness is ripped away, I’m forced to see how bad things can get. When we’re called into a civilian crime scene, it makes it impossible to hide my secret from Ethan. After a madman and a killer crash our date, Ethan learns more than he can handle, so he’s out the door. For me, there’s no time to stop.

Apprehension and turmoil with those closest to me has me ready to jump back into work. Discovering the body of a colleague before I’m cleared for active duty isn’t a great start, and a video of my power in action has people looking at me sideways. To avoid the stares, I jump at the chance to cart around a group of visiting agents.

After getting kicked off the basketball team for a fight that was absolutely totally not her fault (okay maybe a little her fault), Mara is dying to find a new sport to play to prove to her coach that she can be a team player. A lifelong football fan, Mara decides to hit the gridiron with her brother, Noah, and best friend, Quinn - and she turns out to be a natural. But joining the team sets off a chain of events in her small Oregon town - and within her family - that she never could have predicted.

We’re on bigfoot’s trail, trying to catch up to him before a hunter does. Rider is distant, Vincent is uneasy, and Ethan is way too excited about meeting a bigfoot. When we find traces of the stalker, the scent Rider is tracking and what I see in the path don't line up. Something strange is happening in the mountains. Are we tracking a hunter, or something else altogether different?

Beware of the Knockers. They come in the night, searching for the one that wronged them. Lenore waits all year for Halloween to descend on the small Appalachian town of Hiraeth Hollow. A mortician and the town’s only professional pumpkin carver, Lenore spends her autumn weekends carving gruesome scenes in gourds while sipping hot beverages at the local Halloween attraction.

Joddelyn Anderson used to spend everyday hiding from her childhood and living under a false identity to escape her painful life. She suffered tremendous loss as a young girl, then allowed herself to be catapulted into fame at only 18 and lost what remained of who she once was. Using that false identity she achieved the fame she had desired and managed to be the star she once never saw herself as.

Silbrey returns to the port city where she was first taught to kill. While there, she discovers there is more to her troubling past, something magical and foreboding, far beyond the familiar cobbled streets. Silbrey must decide if she'll take her revenge against the cruel guildmaster who trained her—or is mercy even an option? What begins as a fairy tale transforms into a sweeping multi-generational epic about love and loss—and a woman with a strange connection to the natural world.