Author: Costanza Casati [Casati, Costanza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Published: 2024-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

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When kings fall, queens rise.

Nothing about Semiramis's upbringing could have foretold her legacy or the power she would come to wield. A female ruler, once an orphan raised on the outskirts of an empire - certainly no one in Ancient Assyria would bend to her command willingly. Semiramis was a woman who knew if she wanted power, she would have to claim it.

There are whispers of her fame in Mesopotamian myth- Semiramis was a queen, an ambitious warrior, a commander whose reputation reaches the majestic proportions of Alexander the Great. Historical record, on the other hand, falls eerily quiet.

In her second novel, Costanza Casati brilliantly weaves myth and ancient history together to give Semiramis a voice, charting her captivating ascent to a throne no one promised her. The world Casati expertly builds is rich with dazzling detail and will transport her readers to the heat of the Assyrian Empire and a world long gone.

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Author: Rhiannon Barnsley [Barnsley, Rhiannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008646141
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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There’s only one way to join their society. If someone leaves, or dies…

High-flying lawyer Sara O’Neil had it all; the career, the money, the prestige.

And then she jumped to her death.

Cassandra Harlow never expected to see her friend fall from their office rooftop. Someone knows what really happened. But the only people who might know the truth are a secret women-only society, Inside, whose promise is to fast-track your career.

But if Sara was part of it and they helped facilitate her rise to the top, could they also be the reason she came crashing down to earth?

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Author: Penelope Paige [Paige, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 2 of a Kind, LLC
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Amelie Evans hates crowds. Loud noises, too many people crushed into a small space, people touching her...it's just too much. For years, her family and those closest to her called her weird. Crazy. Strange. But she isn't any of those things. Okay, maybe she is a little different, but it makes her endearing and quirky, not weird.

One night, in the middle of a club in Nashville, a man she'd never met causes a shift in her reality, and Amelie finds herself craving the touch of Carter Ortiz, a musician and the friend of a friend. His touch gives her tingles instead of prickles, shivers instead of shudders. When Amelie's rudimentary small-talk skills don't immediately turn Carter off, they share a dance or five, but too quickly, her normal apprehension catches up with her.

A flat tire and a missing phone create the perfect solution for Carter to swoop in and save the day...for the second time. A drive in the country, a make-out sesh under the stars, and a night of really great sex aren't enough...for either of them.

Will Carter's confession the morning after change Amelie's mind, or will she laugh at the absurdness of it all and bask in his touch a little longer?

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Author: Holly James [James, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Olivia Martin and Chuck Walsh have chemistry. Too much chemistry, perhaps. Their every interaction as a couple either lights the house up with sexual tension or burns it down with anger. After one huge, very public fight, they finally break up for good. Or so they think. Someone was filming their dramatic argument in the street and—because Olivia’s parents were Hollywood royalty, and because Chuck’s an actor whose star is on the rise—the video goes viral. When Name Your Price, a reality game show, sees the footage, they invite Olivia and Chuck to shoot a very unusual challenge: Live locked in a house together for one month and they will be paid a million dollars. Each.

Olivia really needs the money if she's going to keep her beloved grandmother in her nursing home, and Chuck is desperate for any chance to win Olivia back. So the game is on—even as the show tries to pluck every nerve with only one bed, one bathroom, and a set of rules that will lose them money if broken—including no touching. With stakes that have never been higher and their explosive chemistry at a fever pitch, can Chuck and Olivia keep it together (and their hands off each other) for one month? Find out next week on Name Your Price!

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Author: Cara Blaine [Cara Blaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Slice Publishing
Published: 2024-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

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In the gripping conclusion to Luxe's Lullaby Trilogy, time slips away as war looms and possible allies dwindle. Just as Luxe believes she's mastered her fae power, crippling side effects mysteriously resurface at the worst possible moment.

A haunting prophecy whispers of sacrifice: "two to live, one to die." Amidst alliances forged and shattered, Luxe and the guys are devastated by a betrayal, disrupting the hard earned and delicate balance of their connections with each other. With all their lives on the line and prophecies closing in, can they outwit the fae queen before it's too late?

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Author: Amy Neff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Park Row Books
Published: 2024-05-16T14:48:42+00:00

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Author: Katia Rose [Rose, Katia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

Description:

One summer can change everything.

At least, that’s what Naomi has heard. Personally, she’s not interested in changing anything. With the start of university looming like the Ghost of Adulthood Yet to Come, Naomi is ready to spend the most uneventful summer of her life house sitting for her dad’s boss.

Her friends might be making epic summer bucket lists, but to Naomi, two months alone in a giant mansion sounds like just the escape she needs from the anxiety that’s spent her whole life telling her change can’t be anything but bad.

Andrea is ready for a change. Sure, she might have taken things a little too far by dumping her boyfriend, quitting her job, and breaking into her dad’s seemingly empty house to spend the summer plotting her next move, but Andrea has never done anything by halves.

When she discovers the house is not, in fact, empty, and that the mysterious house sitter with the biggest blue eyes she’s ever seen is hiding a secret summer bucket list, Andrea hatches a plan to tick the items off together.

It’s the perfect trade: Naomi gets an accountability buddy, Andrea gets an excuse to avoid planning her own future for just a little longer, and once the list is complete, they go their separate ways.

It’s simple, it’s effective, and it definitely doesn’t leave room for them to fall in love—no matter how many times they stay up all night talking, or how good it feels when their hands touch, or how much they both wish September would stay far, far away.

One summer can change everything...for better or for worse.


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Author: Evelyn Hyde [Hyde, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Frelia Valerius has lost too much.

Her kingdom, her family and friends, her noble title—gone. The only things left are her sword skills and the blood in her veins. But now the Unseen, a secretive dark magic cult, are hunting down the ancient magic that runs in families like Frelia's, and she's running out of places to hide.

Vendrick Caecillion has too much to lose.

He’s the former imperial spymaster, Frelia’s former crush, and now, her new boss at the Silverwood Military Institute. He’s the mastermind behind the spy network thwarting the Unseen’s plans, but he’s losing this silent war, and Vendrick knows it.

It will take every skill in their combined arsenal to root out the Unseen—and maintain Silverwood’s standard of academic excellence. For the only thing more merciless than the Unseen are the Silverwood students’ parents—and some of those might just be one and the same.

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Author: Darcy Burke [Burke, Darcy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oliver Heber Books
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

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After being viciously stabbed and left for dead, Hadrian Becket, Earl of Ravenhurst struggles back to health only to discover he is cursed with a vexing ability to see visions he can’t explain. Terrified he may be going mad, he must keep the disturbing skill secret. But when it proves helpful in tracking his would-be killer, he has no choice but to embrace the newfound power. The retrocognition leads him to the house of a man recently deceased, where he encounters the clever and intriguing Miss Matilda Wren—who may be able to help him solve the many questions raised by the attack.

The death of Tilda’s cousin has left her and her beloved grandmother in a precarious financial position when she discovers their investments have gone missing. Between the lost money and the mysterious Lord Ravenhurst’s incessant queries, Tilda begins to wonder if her cousin may have been murdered. Desperate to determine what happened, she’ll exhaust every possible line of inquiry to stave off destitution. For a price, Tilda agrees to work with the earl to uncover the truth, though she suspects he’s hiding a dark secret.

As their investigation grows, so does the body count, but can they trust each other enough to expose the puppet master pulling the strings? Or will the villain’s malevolent machinations end with more than a whisper of death?

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Author: Sherri Fulmer Moorer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sherri Fulmer Moorer
Published: 2024-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The year is 2124 and Senara and Killian are newlyweds excited to work toward being the first convergence community to relaunch Artificial Intelligence five years after the Prion Pandemic which almost wiped out humanity across the globe. Achieving ‘singularity’ is the best way to increase their chance of survival and rebuild this strange new world into something better than the one that almost died along with two-thirds of the population. As the survivors gather into convergence communities across the country to rebuild reality from the remnants of the old world, they all ask themselves the same question – this time, will we be safe?

And they were beginning to think they were until a young woman died from an infection that the AI should have cured, just weeks after the Phase One rollout. It’s dismissed as a random failure until someone else falls ill, then another … and another. Senara and Killian work to stabilize the AI and are shocked to discover that it might have contributed to the pandemic that almost killed the world. Worse yet, it might not have been completely dormant over the past five years and is just waiting for them to flip the switch to give it full control of what’s left mankind.

Will Artificial Intelligence help humanity achieve evolution, or drive it to extinction?

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