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This brilliant collection of France’s foremost nineteenth-century novelist and playwright delivers four of his most fascinating works - stories of love, rivalry, horror and adventure - all brought to life by a stellar cast included Stephen Fry and Alex Kingston. A huge influence on many of the most famous writers from Proust to Kerouac to Dickens, Balzac delivers beautifully observed and complex characters with an unsurpassed attention to the details of society at the time, making him an exemplary of realism in European literature.

Here are three important but very different Dialogues from the Middle Period. Symposium, the most well-known in this collection, is concerned with the theme of love. In the house of Agathon, a group of friends - each very different in personality and background - meet to consider and discuss various kinds of love. Each one, Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes (the playwright) and Agathon (a prize-winning tragic poet), presents his particular view in a short discourse.

America. The 1960s. Stuck on a remote farm with her awful aunt, twelve-year-old orphan Ruth spends every night gazing at the stars, dreaming of adventure. One night she spots a flying saucer blazing across the sky…before crash-landing in a field. When the spaceship opens and reveals a mysterious alien, all Ruth’s dreams come true. But does this visitor from another planet have a giant secret?

For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America's favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom. In this warm and candid memoir, filled with loving recollections from the award-winning Happy Days team - from break-out star Henry Winkler to Cunningham "wild child" Erin Moran - Ross shares what it was like to be a starry-eyed young girl with dreams in poor, rural Minnesota, and the resilience, sacrifices, and determination it took to make them come true.

Cloud Atlas features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death row; and Zachry, a young Pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation.

Numerology is a practice that provides direct knowledge of the inner self through numerical information and your birth chart. It can help you to relate better to other people, become more emotionally and financially secure, maintain good health and live a thoroughly loving life. Above all, it can offer you a determined, successful and joyous course through life.

A wolf howls through the forests of Transylvania, the murky graveyards of H.P. Lovecraft, the mythic marshes of Count Stenbock and the ghostly vaults of English cathedrals in these timeless stories read by award-winning actors from The Story Circle company.

Lookout Omegas! A pack of sexy and fertile alpha-male shifters are headed your way! This male pregnancy box set includes: Bear's Baby, Wolf Trail, Impregnated by the Wolf, Secret of the Wolf, and bonus stories!

An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal - and a detailed playbook for how we can win it - including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini Prakash, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more.

Having lost his intended mate in an accident years ago, werewolf alpha Kane has been slow to consider another chance at love. With his business struggling, his pack going hungry, and a rival pack pressing in on them, he may not need to worry about it - choosing a mate from the rival pack will set tensions at ease. A complication comes in the form of a beautiful younger man Kane is immediately drawn to, who he soon realizes is his true mate, and who has fallen pregnant with his child.

Only the true alpha werebear can impregnate a human male. Are you ready for him? Charlie is looking forward to college in the sultry steam of New Orleans. Without his conservative parents, he can finally be open about his sexuality. Eager for a hook-up, he visits a gay bar where he meets a rugged biker, and goes home with him for a wild one-night stand. Of course, nothing is as it seems, as Charlie's biker is part of the underground world of shapeshifters that inhabit the Louisiana Bayou.

Spinster Chastity Hamilton is the Duke of Roxburgh's heir. Her father insists she marry. She insists that the man who wins her hand must first find matches for her three younger sisters. Sir Stirling James takes up the challenge, and the sisters are shocked when he announces the engagement of their youngest sister to the Devil of Delny. Lady Chastity didn't believe a man who could make such matches in one month's time existed.

In Stories Are What Save Us, Chrisinger shows - through writing exercises, memoir excerpts, and lessons he's learned from his students - the most efficient ways to uncover and effectively communicate what you've learned while fighting your life's battles, whatever they may be.

A moment of drunken disrespect sets the stage for the battle for the soul of a man in this Rudyard Kipling classic! A multicast, fully soundscaped audio drama!

Drew's marriage had ended in shambles. Stuart, his husband of five years, had not only denied him his dream of children, but had added insult to injury by cheating on him. Finding some peace in hiking the mountain ranges that surround his Kentucky home, he encounters his fate in the form of a hunter named Zebe. Throwing caution to the wind, he finds himself in the arms of this hunky alpha male for a hot night of unparalleled passion, but things quickly take a turn for the worse when he encounters the members of Zebe's biker gang and ends up their hostage.

Fleeing an abusive relationship, Jake embarks on one of his lifelong dreams - hiking the Appalachian Trail. He was in search of solitude, but what he found was a mysterious and handsome alpha, Jameson. When the two hike the trail together, sparks fly, but Jake soon finds his sexy hunk pulls away from him. What did Jake do wrong? Or does Jameson have secrets he is not willing to share? Once Jake finds himself being stalked by his abusive ex, he wishes Jameson never left his side.

Most people think EMT Jaime Escobar is a player, but the truth is he wants a serious partner - he just can't justify wasting time on guys he knows aren't a match. But when he treats a gorgeous redhead after a fight, he finds the spark he's spent so many years looking for. Jaime wants to take the next step with Tate, but it's clear Tate's not going to curb his impulsive behavior - his next fight sends him to the hospital. Jaime's relationship with a near criminal isn't something his family is ready to accept, not any more than Tate is willing to be kept a secret.

Two years after his life fell apart, Will Dawson moved to Florida to start over. His job in the tech department of Idyll Fling, a gay porn studio, is ideal for him. When his boss forces him to take on a new hire, the last person he expects is Dallas Greene - the man who cost him his job and his boyfriend back in Connecticut. He doesn't know what's on Dallas' agenda, but he won't be blindsided by a wolf masquerading as a runway model. Not again.

Darkness falls. The undead rise to feast on the succulent blood of the living. For years vampires have fascinated great writers of the occult such as De Maupassant, Count Stenbock, E Nesbit and EF Benson. This is The Story Circle's collection of some of their spine-chilling tales told by award-winning actors.

Naxos AudioBooks presents the history of the Plantaganets as seen through the eyes of Shakespeare. These easy-to-understand introductions feature key speeches and scenes from the plays themselves, and are very accessible for children approaching Shakespeare for the first time, as well as being an invaluable aid to the history of the Plantaganets, from Richard II to Richard III. This set covers Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI parts 1, 2, and 3, and Richard III.