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Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances - blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects - hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook - as precious icons.

We begin with one of Hardy’s best regarded stories, 'The Fiddler of the Reels'. Here Hardy exposes a supernatural and demonic theme, against a realistic and historical background of the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the first trains. A typical Wessex girl is gripped by the power of music and dance when a lone fiddler casts his spell on her, causing her cloying but plain suitor to leave suddenly for London.

After a painful breakup with my cheating ex, I'm ready to flirt with someone who gives me tingles in all the right places. For the first time in months, I'm going to have some fun, no strings attached. Leave it to me to go from a hot fling to profound heartbreak in one night.

James, Viscount of Paendly, has had enough of women. Bored with his traditional, constrained life as a Viscount, he is on his way home with nothing but 27 years of life experience to his credit. The one thing he could never have predicted was the entrance of Miss Rowena - known to him as Rebecca - entering the carriage, raging about an elopement gone wrong and desperate to save her reputation.

It is 1650 and a baby lies raw and cold, dead before it even drew breath. A young servant girl, terrified and alone, is accused of its murder and sent to the gallows. Protesting her innocence in the chill air of a December morning, Anne Green is hanged. Moments later, her lifeless body is lifted down from the scaffold and carried to the College of Physicians for brutal dissection.

Luke, the marquis of Dewsbury, is a complete rogue. Bested by none and adored by many, he finds himself sent away from town by his embarrassed father where he discovers the young and innocent Miss Adena Garland. At only 18 years old, she becomes his unlikely companion as they become trapped on an island after high tide. The night is long and likely to be cold - but the heat rising between Miss Garland and the marquis of Dewsbury could keep both of them warm.

Les filles sont partout dans ce roman. Elles mènent la danse. De New York à Paris, de la Bourgogne à Londres ou à Miami...

On the morning of the bell tolls, Cynn Jade wakes to find her world shattered. The baron and his wife, murdered. Hexed by powers she doesn't understand, Cynn is forced to flee all she knows. Hexed by enigmatic powers, she becomes a demon, an outcast shunned by the very world she could save. Changing her name to protect the family line will only go so far as she discovers the true depth of the war she’s fighting.

Prince Éduard of Aviroux is hunting down the Great Whisperer, the spy helping the French nobility escape the guillotine, and he’s so close when thwarted by the delectable Giselle. In all his years, he has never seen a woman like her: resourceful, cunning, and ready for a fight. What he doesn't realize is that she's just the spy for whom he's looking. Now trapped on an island together with food running out fast, Giselle is attracting his notice for all the wrong reasons, and it surely won't be long before secrets, as well as clothes, start to fly.

In a world ruled by faceless, uncaring mega-corporations, Frankie, a young woman who has resisted cybernetics, becomes the victim of a lethal Jacker Gang attack. Shot and left to die in the slums of Neo-London, she is found by a genius cybernetic doctor who is on the run from a powerful Corporation. Seeing an opportunity to finish his latest cybernetic masterpiece, he transplants Frankie's brain into a powerful prosthetic body. Frankie has barely woken up when the Corporation's forces attack and kidnap the doctor, forcing Frankie to go on the run in her new cybernetic body.

In this selection of some of Saki's best short stories, we enter a fictional world in which the Edwardian gently are pitched against the rude forces of nature and maiden aunts struggle unsuccessfully to contain the merciless antics of children in their charge. Saki is perhaps the ultimate master of writing complete stories in just a few pages and his sublime craftsmanship is accompanied by a wicked black humour.

A shy beauty in distress: When Guineveve Holland arrives in London, she's full of apprehension. Mrs. Holland has no great affection for her daughter, but she still has grand ambitions. Guin is to be married off for wealth and position. Guin's own hopes are ignored. Stammering, shy and gauche, Guin does not shine in society. Sir Frederick Hawkesworth pities the beleaguered beauty. He has a soft spot for damsels in distress. As the London Season progresses, his interest in Miss Holland becomes far more personal than he ever anticipated.

Lizzy is the newest instructor at Netherfield Academy, and strange noises have her searching the corridors of the drafty old castle to discover the source. The previous headmaster disappeared under strange circumstances, and when his replacement, Mr. Darcy, catches her in the corridors, he warns her. The first time. The next time, he kisses her, and she sees something different about him. Darcy is as mysterious as the surroundings, and she fears for her life, her sanity, and her heart as she strives to resist the pull he exerts on her.

"Il n'y a que trois règles ici, Rosa. La première : ne jamais tomber amoureuse. La deuxième : ne jamais voler l'homme d'une autre. La dernière : ne boire que du champagne millésimé." Seule l'une de ces trois règles sera respectée. J'avais quinze ans quand j'ai pris la route ce matin-là, et une seule idée en tête : rejoindre le Pays Basque, devenir couseuse d'espadrilles, et échapper à mon destin.

The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness. The sadness and often depression, the lack of will to continue may swamp us all. Unquenchable, undeniable. But loss can, after mourning, give the opportunity to reappraise the lost and how we can each move forward. In the literary world an accessible balance can be given.

Em, c’est le fifil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l’opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c’est celle qui aime.

Le mois qui suit l'accouchement est l'un des plus beaux moments de la vie d'une femme. Ces semaines sont pourtant éprouvantes pour la mère comme pour le nouveau-né : manque de sommeil, fatigue, douleurs, baby blues... Les jeunes mères se retrouvent souvent seules, les émotions à fleur de peau, pour affronter une phase de bouleversements. Cette période représente un enjeu majeur pour la santé future de la mère. Dans de nombreuses cultures, elle fait ainsi l'objet de soins adaptés (bandage du bassin, massages, conseils en nutrition...).

Beatrix Manning, cousin to the beautiful Lady Cordelia, wants to be a famous novelist. Although she enjoys reading out her silly stories to the Literary Gathering of Dubious Merit, she has secretly been working on a book that she hopes will change her fortunes, but it requires a rewrite due to some unflattering caricatures of the Ton within the pages. Felix Drake, a budding publisher and printer intent on growing his business, is flattered and grateful when an old friend invites him to read to her wealthy friends.

Juliette a un amoureux, un appartement, un bon job et trente-et-une paires de chaussures. Mais toutes les bonnes choses ont une fin : du jour au lendemain elle se retrouve célibataire, chômeuse et sans logement ! Elle déprime pendant des jours devant Gossip Girl en engloutissant des kilos de Chococookies. Jusqu'à ce qu'une série de quiproquos rocambolesques la contraigne à affronter sa plus grande terreur, l'avion, et à s'envoler pour les Maldives à la poursuite de son ex et de sa mystérieuse nouvelle copine. Evidemment, là non plus, les choses ne tournent pas comme elle l'avait imaginé.

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event - which lasted eight days and resulted in 38 deaths and almost 500 injuries - through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history and illuminates the thin line between the past and the present.