Stories from the Iliad - formato ePub

In the days of long ago there reigned over Ithaca, a rugged little island in the sea to the west of Greece, a king whose name was Odysseus. Odysseus feared no man. Stronger and braver than other men was...

More than three hundred years ago there lived in England a poet named Edmund Spenser. He was brave and true and gentle, and he loved all that was beautiful and good. Edmund Spenser wrote many poems, and...

In the days of long ago there reigned over Ithaca, a rugged little island in the sea to the west of Greece, a king whose name was Odysseus. Odysseus feared no man. Stronger and braver than other men was...

In the deep forest that clothes Mount Ida, not far from the strong city of Troy, Paris, son of King Priam, watched his father's flocks by night. Suddenly through the dim woods he saw a light, as if the...

More than four hundred years ago there lived in England a poet named Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599). He was brave and true and gentle, and he loved all that was beautiful and good. Edmund Spenser wrote...

'Stark captures female solidarity, a shared maternal understanding and the sacredness of keeping each other's secrets... An extraordinary debut that insists that we can - and must -mend each other.' Kirkus,...

A powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by an international bestselling author.War has torn their love apart . . . can fate bring them back together?When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives...

Hell-cats and demons and destiny collidein this pawsitively impurrfect match made in Hell...Lucinda is as much of a hell-raiser as her two brothers, but when one is the King of Vampires and the other...

 A demon and a witch locked in a vendetta... and in the same safehouse. What could go wrong?I, Azrael, known as the Demon Rebel thrives amidst chaos. An existence that defies both celestial and infernal...

Masterful #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag is back with a riveting, emotionally powerful new thriller!Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape...

Murder at sea!Olivia Ocean's dream job aboard the Moonlit Majesty turns into a nightmare when she witnesses an attempt to dispose of a helpless kitten at sea. Rescuing the kitty entails a chase, which...

'A powerful and absorbing story that stayed with me long after I'd finished reading. A writer at the top of her game' Elly Griffiths'One of our most interesting crime writers' Daily Mail<H3/>'Admirers...

"Behind the Curtains" is a captivating crimer thriller that follows Detective Sarah Blake as she ivestigates the mysterious disappearance of a magician's assistant during a high-stakes performance. As...

It's time for Babaroga to crawl out of her cave and set her story straight… so to speak.Getting a job at a plastic surgery clinic working with a man everybody calls "Butcher" wasn't bad enough for Kaja—she...

No good deed goes unpunished, as television star Marla Dane learns the hard way. The recently fired TV detective, trying to figure out her next move at her sister's Minnesota condo, reluctantly agrees...

A soldier travels through Europe on a doomed mission to track down his fiancée in this masterful and vivid evocation of life between the wars__________'A concise, powerful writer who brilliantly evokes...

What price would you pay for love? Esther Williams is thirty and single. She has been nowhere, done nothing, loved no one except her recently deceased grandfather. Her life is one of routine and order,...

< A classic meditation on artistic creation and the quest for spiritual transcendence from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Siddhartha__________'A great writer... complex, subtle, allusive.' The...

Owen Linton-House grows up living his parents' hopes and dreams, but when he is expelled from school, he leaves home in shame, the day before his eighteenth birthday. Living in a squat in Battersea, he...

HALLOWEEN. The night when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. When ghosts walk and corpses writhe, and innocent souls had best beware.Let acclaimed storyteller Brice Stratford...

Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he sees a stagecoach leave a passenger stranded. The man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help...

I have no idea why I kissed the sexy stranger in a perfectly fitted suit right there in the corner of a deserted bar in the middle of the day. But I needed that kiss. I'd been lost for so many reasons...

Celestial Bodies is the International Booker-winning and internationally bestselling novel from Jokha Alharthi.  Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries...

This is the story of the world after it ended . . . Five thousand years after the apocalyptic event known as The Death, Per Hiero Desteen - priest, telepath, assassin - has been working to find ancient...

When the best night of your life ends in betrayal and the only one who can save you is your new mate…but everyone's trying to stop him. Forrest Carlisle, the middle son of a family of powerful witches,...

Love, heroism and the supernatural collide in the midst of war. There's a tradition in the Sharp family that some possess the Second Sight. But is it superstition, or true psychic...

'Do you ever just read a story and know that you could happily exist in the world on page? Well Look Up, Handsome is the world that I think I would love to live in. It’s cozy and quaint and cutesy and...

From the number one bestselling author Catherine Doyle comes the most fiery enemies-to-lovers romantasy of the year. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Leigh Bardugo and Stephanie Garber.  In the dark...

‘Chillingly compelling and expertly assembled. An immersive piece of thriller writing of the sort late-night-reading binges are made of’ B. P. WALTER  ‘Dark, intense, and expertly crafted. Kate Rhodes...

From the author of House of Salt and Sorrows comes the breathtaking fairy tale retelling readers have been waiting for When death calls, she must answer. Hazel has always known she was different from...

When in service of money and power, is love a deadly game of an eye for an eye? In this politically charged thriller, Leona, an internationally renowned Sudanese-Nigerian model was in her youth asked...

Step into a world where betrayal cuts deeper than a knife and vengeance burns hotter than wildfire.  My life took a sharp turn when the White Wolf unleashed his fury upon my family's once-glorious estate,...

Jax is beginning to question this whole doing the right thing, thing.While laying low after their last adventure, Naomi gets a call from her estranged parents. They need her help. Going to the rescue...

She wants to find his match...Meredith Drake has sworn off marriage after her disastrous union with a much older man. But when her best friend returns from war, the young widow pledges to help him find...

He can't get her out of his mind.  She is drowning in her own self doubt and secrets. Raptor thought it would just be a few steamy nights and nothing more—but he can't seem to get Mallory out of his mind.   But...