Steam & Sorcery

2011-03-07
Steam & Sorcery
Author: Cindy Spencer Pape
Publisher: Carina Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2011-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426891288
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Sir Merrick Hadrian hunts monsters, both human and supernatural. A Knight of the Order of the Round Table, his use of magick and the technologies of steam power have made him both respected and feared. But his considerable skills are useless in the face of his greatest challenge, guardianship of five unusual children. At a loss, Merrick enlists the aid of a governess. Miss Caroline Bristol is reluctant to work for a bachelor but she needs a position, and these former street children touch her heart. While she tends to break any mechanical device she touches, it never occurs to her that she might be something more than human. All she knows is that Merrick is the most dangerously attractive man she's ever met—and out of reach for a mere governess. When conspiracy threatens to blur the distinction between humans and monsters, Caroline and Merrick must join forces, and the fate of humanity hinges upon their combined skills of steam and sorcery... 76,400 words

Immortal Cravings

2012
Immortal Cravings
Author: Cindy Spencer Pape
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012
Genre: Erotic stories
ISBN: 9781419965500
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Exploring Ari Ariana Stephanopoulos has led a fairly quiet life-especially for a vampire-until she meets sexy werewolf Jackson Marceski. The instant attraction between them is hotter than anything she's ever experienced, so when Jack offers to help fulfill all her sexual fantasies, she just can't tell him no. As Ari and Jack explore bondage, toys and even a menage, Ari discovers the self-confidence she's always lacked along with a passionate side that's sure to keep her lover on his toes. Dani's Demons Bored with her life in Chicago, vampire Dani DuBois heads to Las Vegas for a little fun. Then she meets demons Kaz Elgin and Ty Cole, and things start to get really interesting. Torn between the attraction she feels for each of them, Dani at first has no idea that the two men know each other. When she runs across the two of them having an argument, she can't believe they're both being such men, but they're both so incredibly hot. After they take care of their rogue demon problem, they decide to take care of Dani-together. Through a dungeon sex club and bondage games in a private room, they set out to discover just how much fun three immortals can have in Sin City. Just for Jess Vampire Jessamy Maitland is a classic workaholic, until her friends team up to buy her a weekend with the incredibly sexy vampire Dermott McMahon on his luxurious private island. Dermott is determined to get Jess to kick back and relax, so he's enlisted the help of three lion shifter friends. Jess finds herself faced with three days of no phone, no computer and four sexy, horny males, all determined to wait on her hand and foot and show her a scorching good time. Naked. Together. In ways she's never imagined. With those odds, what's a vampire to do? There's nothing for it but take them up on their offer and discover that sometimes it's okay to play.

Interview with the Vampire

2010-11-17
Interview with the Vampire
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307575853
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The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

Photographs & Phantoms

2011-04-25
Photographs & Phantoms
Author: Cindy Spencer Pape
Publisher: Carina Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2011-04-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426891539
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Brighton, 1855 As a member of the Order of the Round Table, Kendall Lake is overqualified to be investigating strange phenomena at a seaside photography studio. But since the photographer is related to the Order's most powerful sorcerer, Kendall reluctantly boards a dirigible to Brighton. Amy Deland is haunted by a shadow that appears in some of her recent portraits. In each case, the subject died within days of the sitting. Does she have her grandmother's gift of foresight, or has she somehow caused the deaths? As Kendall and Amy search for answers, their investigation draws them together in a most improper way—but it seems the evil presence in the studio is determined to keep them apart… 20,000 words

Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development

1883
Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1883
Genre: Ability
ISBN:
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The word Eugenics first appears in this book. Also, in this book, Galton shows mathematically "the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of abstract thought."

The Road to Wigan Pier

2024-04-26
The Road to Wigan Pier
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Modernista
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2024-04-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9180948650
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George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

London Labour and the London Poor

2009-01-01
London Labour and the London Poor
Author: Henry Mayhew
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1605207330
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Assembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.*

Rochester

1884
Rochester
Author: Jenny Marsh Parker
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1884
Genre: Art museums
ISBN:
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