Maria: 6239 books

It’s Valentine’s Day Eve and Mina is in Las Vegas for a conference about shelters and refuges for abandoned cats. And the conference is at The Venetian Hotel. Love is in the air. Unfortunately so is the love of her life, Diego, who is flying to a distant meeting. Or is he? Cats, lovers, gondolas...

I am Arial Rosaline Steele..... A successful lady with more money than I needed in this lifetime, more connections than the president itself and I don't care what people think of me because I have no need to impress them.... I have crossed hell itself to reach where I am today.......... some fear...

Two crocodiles, Victor and Al have one wish: to buy some video games and play with them during rainy afternoons. After counting the savings in their money-boxes, they arrive at the local shopping mall on their bikes ….only to find that they don't have enough money to buy their favourite games. In...

Published in 2011 and its first edition was sold out, "Strange Urban Humans", a book of short stories and free commentaries, was the literary debut of the writer Maria Prado de Oliveira, who is also an actress, a producer and a cultural manager whose academic background is in Philosophy....

Scott’s been putting off his annual physical far too long. If he can’t prove he’s fit for duty, who knows what’ll happen? God forbid he should be put on desk duty. The powers that be wouldn’t boot him from the force just for missing an appointment, would they? His wife Zelda knows...

Samantha Parker is back with a new job as a private investigator and new cases to solve. Frank, her boss, has finally assigned her a big case, one that will surely help her to prove herself. All she has to do is discover what could have happened to a college girl that has been missing for seven months,...

Mating Dance is not a step-by-step manual on how to disco or merengue. It’s a chronicle filled with tales of love in unexpected places, stories of women with secret pasts, and yarns about men who don't know what’s good for them or even what they want. Add to that a bit of tantalizing celebrity...

Discover what happens when lovers mix business with pleasure - working nine to five has never been such a thrill! Taking passion out of the bedroom and into the boardroom, this collection of twenty erotic stories explores sex in the workplace. In a world of mergers and acquisitions, hostile...

A collection of five erotic stories with a central theme of sex in foreign places. The Warmth Of His Touch by Viva Jones When Belinda accepts her friend’s dare to date the intellectual and straight-laced Alistair, who is about as far from her usual rugged and sporty type as he possibly...

Maria Kvilhaug has researched the archeaology and background to the Eddas, Poems and Sagas of Northern literature and Historical folk lore data. In translating the original ancient Norse manuscripts the book approaches the Poems as metaphor for traditional ritual and rites of passage in the ancient...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have original fiction from David Sklar ("Rules for Killing Monsters")...

New York Times bestselling author Maria Dueñas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story “destined to become a classic” (Armando Lucas Correa, bestselling author of The German Girl) about ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in Mexico, Cuba, and Spain in the 1860s—perfect for fans of Kate...