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Memento: An Illuminae Files Novella (The Illuminae Files)
by Amie Kaufman Jay KristoffFrom New York Times bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes an Illuminae prequel digital novella that gives readers a hair-raising glimpse into the calamity that befell the invincible AI system known as AIDAN--and the daring young programmer who would risk her life to keep it from crashing. AIDAN is the AI you'll love to hate. The advanced AI system was supposed to protect a fleet of survivors who'd escaped the deadly attack on Kerenza IV. AIDAN was supposed to be infallible. But in the chaotic weeks and months that followed, it became clear that something was terribly, terribly wrong with AIDAN...
Memo: Marry Me?
by Jennie AdamsWhen I agreed to be Zach Swift's secretary, I was expecting demanding and high-flying-not seriously gorgeous and generous! I usually don't like working in an office, because of how the accident affected my memory, but with Zach it feels different. And now he's asked me to go on a business trip with him!Nine-to-five is hard enough for me to hide my feelings, and Zach's bound to guess that I'm not as perfect as he seems to think I am. And he's also mentioned he has a proposal for me. I'm meeting him for dinner-tonight!
The Memo: A Novel
by Rachel Dodes Lauren Mechling"The perfect summer read: a novel both quick and funny." —Airmail “A total joyride of a novel. The Memo is a funny, fascinating exploration of love, friendship, ambition and what it truly means to live a good life. I loved it.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Commencement, Maine, and Friends and StrangersIf you could rewrite your life story, would you dare? That’s the question at the heart of this funny, sharp and propulsive debut novel about love, life, and a woman finding herself and what it means to be happy and successful.Do you ever feel like your life doesn’t measure up to everyone else’s—and wonder if you just didn’t get the memo helping you make the right choices?Jenny Green dreads her upcoming college reunion. Once top of her class, the thirty-five-year-old finds herself stuck in a life that isn’t the one she expected. Her promising career has flamed out (literally) and her deadbeat boyfriend is cheating on her (again). All her friends seem to have it all figured it out, enjoying glittering lives and careers that she can only envy from the sidelines. Did she just not get the memo they all did?As it turns out, she didn’t!When she arrives at her alma mater for the festivities, she receives a text from an unlisted number.“Jenny Green: please collect your memo.”Somewhere on campus, a discreet female-led organization provides comprehensive memos to select students, a set of instructions that are a blueprint for success.The first time around, Jenny didn’t receive hers. Now, she’s being given the second chance she wants—an opportunity to relive her life and make all the right decisions this time around. But at what price?Smart, addictive, bittersweet, and ultimately triumphant, The Memo will enchant readers of In Five Years and Cassandra in Reverse as well as fans of Emma Straub and Maria Semple.
Memo: the Billionaire's Proposal
by Melissa MccloneNote to self: when stepping back into your billionaire boss's world: - Remember why you turned him down all those years ago: because infamous playboys like Drake Llewelyn are trouble with a capital "T!" - He plays to win. You can't afford to take a gamble on love and lose, no matter how much he says he's changed. - So arm yourself against his movie-star looks, devastating charm, intoxicating smile... Oh, no! This is going to be so much harder than I thought!
Memo
by Melissa MccloneNote to self: when stepping back into your billionaire boss's world: -- Remember why you turned him down all those years ago: because infamous playboys like Drake Llewelyn are trouble with a capital T! -- He plays to win. You can't afford to take a gamble on love and lose, no matter how much he says he's changed. -- So arm yourself against his movie-star looks, devastating charm, intoxicating smile. . . Oh, no! This is going to be so much harder than I thought!
Memoirs Are Made of This
by Swan AdamsonHow to Get Ahead in Journalism, by Venus Gilroy 1. Take a job as PA to a glamorous writer, like Susanna Hyde, author of the wildly popular sex column Nothing to Hyde. 2. Spend your days walking Susanna's dogs, running errands, and delivering 'you've been dumped' notes to lovers who are yesterday's news. Realise life in Manhattan is not as glamorous as you expected. 3. But when the boss asks you to cover her column, do not, repeat, do not prove better at writing about sex than she is... 4. ...And when one day you accidentally hit it off a little too well with Susanna's latest ex-toy-boy, sexy young writer Josh O'Connell, keep this information very, very secret from her...
Memoirs of a Dragon Hunter (Dragon Hunter #1)
by Katie MacAlisterDragon Hunter Wanted:Sword supplied. No experience necessary. One moment, I was a normal (if somewhat germaphobic) math teacher getting ready for summer vacation. Then my sister died in a pile of black ash, leaving me with a sword... and her destiny as dragon hunter. It turns out there's a whole other world out there filled with demons, dragons, and spirits. Now my job is to protect mortals - and I haven't got a clue what I'm doing. Then there's tattooed hotness Ian Iskander. Part dragon hunter and part demon, Ian's got some seriously creepy business associates and keeps trying to steal my sword. So why do we keep getting lost in hungry, crazy-hot kisses? Ian is the only person who can help me figure out who - and what - I am. But trusting a half-demon is dangerous... because when you play with dragon fire, someone always gets burned.
Memoirs of a Millionaire's Mistress
by Anne OliverCameron Black is everything that quirky artist Didi O'Flanagan loathes in a man--his arrogance, charm and business tactics have her hackles rising. But when Cam offers her the commission of a lifetime, Didi can't refuse--even though it means she'll be at his beck and call 24/7!Soon they are sharing hot nights in Cam's luxury penthouse, and the chemistry is electric. And though she started off despising him, Didi's starting to wonder whether she'll ever be able to give up her position as the millionaire's mistress....
Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress
by Elizabeth BoyleLady Philippa Knolles has loved Captain Thomas "Dash" Dashwell since he first stole a kiss from her on a smuggler's beach near Hastings. Now after what seems like a lifetime of waiting, Pippin is offered a chance to renew her scandalous affair with Dash. But the man from that first heady kiss and the man she rediscovers all these years later are hardly the same. Tucked away in the back of her closet is a red dress, the one she wore long ago to win his heart . . . . Could it have enough memories left inside it to rekindle a passion she's never forgotten?
Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress
by Elizabeth BoyleLady Philippa Knolles has loved Captain Thomas "Dash" Dashwell since he first stole a kiss from her on a smuggler's beach near Hastings. Now after what seems like a lifetime of waiting, Pippin is offered a chance to renew her scandalous affair with Dash. But the man from that first heady kiss and the man she rediscovers all these years later are hardly the same. Tucked away in the back of her closet is a red dress, the one she wore long ago to win his heart . . . . Could it have enough memories left inside it to rekindle a passion she's never forgotten?
Memoirs of Fanny Hill
by John ClelandMemoirs of Fanny Hill is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel." One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity.
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
by Amanda ElyotIn this lush, compelling novel of passion and loss, Helen of Troy, a true survivor, tells the truth about her life, her lovers, and the Trojan War. This is the memoir that she has written--her legendary beauty still undimmed by age.Gossips began whispering about Princess Helen from the moment of her birth. A daughter of the royal house of Sparta, she was not truly the progeny of King Tyndareus, they murmured, but of Zeus, king of the gods. Her mother, Queen Leda, a powerful priestess, was branded an adulteress, with tragic consequences. To complicate matters, as Helen grew to adulthood her beauty was so breathtaking that it overshadowed even that of her jealous sister, Clytemnestra, making her even more of an outcast within her own family. So it came as something of a relief to her when she was kidnapped by Theseus, king of Athens, in a gambit to replenish his kingdom's coffers. But Helen fell in love with the much older Theseus, and to his surprise, he found himself enamored of her as well. On her forced return to Sparta, Helen was hastily married off to the tepid Menelaus for the sake of an advantageous political alliance. Yet even after years of marriage, the spirited, passionate Helen never became the docile wife King Menelaus desired, and when she fell in love with another man--Paris Alexandros, the prodigal son of King Priam of Troy--Helen unwittingly set the stage for the ultimate conflict: a war that would destroy nearly all she held dear.I learned that I was different when I was a very small girl: when the golden curls, which barely reached my shoulders at the time, began to turn the color of burnished vermeil. Your grandmother Leda, whom you never knew, told me that I was a child of Zeus. Since I thought my father's name was Tyndareus, her words upset me. Seeing my pink cheeks marred by tears of confusion, my mother handed me a mirror of polished bronze and asked me to study my reflection. "Do you look like me?" she asked.I nodded, noting in my own skin the exquisite fairness of her complexion, and her hair the same shade as mine that tumbled like flowing honey past the hollow of her back."And do you resemble my husband Tyndareus?" she said to me.I looked in the mirror and then looked again. For several minutes I remember expecting the mirror to show me my father's face, but Tyndareus was olive complected where I was not, his nose like the beak of a falcon where my own was straight and fine-boned, and his cheekbones were hollow and slack where, even then, beneath a child's rosy plumpness, mine were high and prominent."It's time for me to tell you everything," my mother said . . .--From The Memoirs of Helen of TroyFrom the Hardcover edition.
The Memoirs of Laetitia Horsepole
by John FullerDiscovered in the secret compartment of a North Italian cabinet, this enchanting manuscript may or may not be complete, and it may or may not be intended for posterity. Undeterred by these uncertainties, John Fuller gives us the early nineteenth-century 'memoirs' of Laetitia Horsepole, painter, philosopher and femme fatale. Shelley, apparently, came across this formidable woman, aged ninety, on his travels through Italy, and became her confidant and neighbour. Why, the reader may wonder, is she not better known? Why indeed? That long spell in Madagascar certainly interrupted her career. She was prickly and disinclined to ingratiate herself with the arbiters of fashionable taste. And then her virtual disappearance to Italy didn't help matters. But her obscurity gives added piquancy to the memoirs which - her idiosyncratic art theory and philosophy apart - are above all a dramatic eighteenth-century adventure in five acts which reflect her tempestuous involvement with the five 'husbands' of her life, from the brutish Crowther and the dull and the rich but louche Count Chiavari. Laetitia reflects on the vagaries of love and erotic involvement, on art and men, on flora and fauna, and reveals for the first time what actually happened in Madagascar. Shamelessly enjoyable, teasingly allusive, irresistibly funny and sometimes sad, Laetitia's is quite simply a brilliant and bewitching romance full of truths that lie deeper than fact.
Memorable Kiss: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Shui WenHe is the president of the cheng group she s just a commoner and she has amnesia he loved the girl very much life is so cruel when you like a person he is very far away from you but when you do not like him she is always in front of you when a person loves you he will only take you for himself it is impossible to give up so say like you but can t be together of all just ambiguous say love you and want to leave of all have small three
A Memorable Man
by Joan HohlMR. JUNEThe Memorable Man: Adam Grainger had never met the beautiful woman named Sunny until now, yet she claimed they knew each other intimately.The Woman He Forgot: Strong, tough men from Wyoming didn't forget women they'd been involved with-it was the code of the West.Their Supposed Passion: She did seem privy to his every desire....If Adam Grainger had ever made love to Sunny, let alone ever seen her, he would have remembered. The lovely lady had delusions of a love that had never existed. Yet Adam couldn't deny she had impossible knowledge of his innermost soul....MAN OF THE MONTH: He'll find out firsthand if their passion feels familiar....
A Memorable Man
by Joan HohlMR. JUNEThe Memorable Man: Adam Grainger had never met the beautiful woman named Sunny until now, yet she claimed they knew each other intimately.The Woman He Forgot: Strong, tough men from Wyoming didn't forget women they'd been involved with-it was the code of the West.Their Supposed Passion: She did seem privy to his every desire....If Adam Grainger had ever made love to Sunny, let alone ever seen her, he would have remembered. The lovely lady had delusions of a love that had never existed. Yet Adam couldn't deny she had impossible knowledge of his innermost soul....MAN OF THE MONTH: He'll find out firsthand if their passion feels familiar....
Memoria
by Louise DupréMemoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria’s multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma’s outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep sadness, bewitchingly beautiful images, and, ultimately, "the small circle of new beginnings."
La memoria de la lavanda
by Reyes MonforteReyes Monforte, autora de Un burka por amor y Una pasión rusa, regresa con una gran novela sobre la pérdida, el duelo, el amor y la esperanza. «Morí un 3 de mayo. Ese día dejé de respirar, de sentir, de oír, de pensar, de reír. Lo mejor que te puede pasar en la vida es amar y ser amado. Y perder esa sensación es mucho más doloroso que no tenerla nunca.» Dos meses después de la muerte de Jonas, Lena, fotógrafa profesional, reúne el valor necesario para cumplir la última voluntad de su marido: esparcir sus cenizas en los campos de lavanda del corazón de la Alcarria. Allí se reúne con el grupo de amigos de Jonas, entre ellos Daniel, su primo hermano, un sacerdote con el que comparte los sentimientos de amor y pérdida, y que guarda para sí muchos silencios. Sin embargo, igual que se heredan los afectos, se heredan también los odios. Lena deberá lidiar con la presencia amenazante de su cuñado Marco, un hombre envidioso y mezquino que no está dispuesto a respetar su duelo. Coincidiendo con el Festival de la Lavanda, recordará su historia de amor con Jonas y todo lo que se llevó consigo, reforzará lazos de amistad y desvelará secretos familiares escondidos durante demasiado tiempo.
La memoria de la lavanda
by Reyes MonforteReyes Monforte, autora de Un burka por amor y Una pasión rusa, regresa con una gran novela sobre la pérdida, el duelo, el amor y la esperanza. «Morí un 3 de mayo. Ese día dejé de respirar, de sentir, de oír, de pensar, de reír. Lo mejor que te puede pasar en la vida es amar y ser amado. Y perder esa sensación es mucho más doloroso que no tenerla nunca.» Dos meses después de la muerte de Jonas, Lena, fotógrafa profesional, reúne el valor necesario para cumplir la última voluntad de su marido: esparcir sus cenizas en los campos de lavanda del corazón de la Alcarria. Allí se reúne con el grupo de amigos de Jonas, entre ellos Daniel, su primo hermano, un sacerdote con el que comparte los sentimientos de amor y pérdida, y que guarda para sí muchos silencios. Sin embargo, igual que se heredan los afectos, se heredan también los odios. Lena deberá lidiar con la presencia amenazante de su cuñado Marco, un hombre envidioso y mezquino que no está dispuesto a respetar su duelo. Coincidiendo con el Festival de la Lavanda, recordará su historia de amor con Jonas y todo lo que se llevó consigo, reforzará lazos de amistad y desvelará secretos familiares escondidos durante demasiado tiempo. La crítica ha dicho...«Pese a la continua y acertada tensión que nos hace regresar a nuestras propias lesiones, su lectura, tan intimista, está dominada por una celebración de la vida, aunque flote durante toda la historia el pensamiento mágico de lo que pudiera no haber sucedido. [...] La autora logra contar desde las entrañas lo mil veces narrado de forma tan primitiva e íntima como su propio daño con una estructura altamente cinematográfica, tan hiriente como balsámica. Y acierta de pleno.»Ángeles Lopez, La Razón En los blogs...«La memoria de la lavanda es un cuaderno de bitácora para atravesar el duelo, que nos acerca unos a otros, que nos despoja de banalidades, que nos humaniza y nos iguala. He salido de este viaje a Tármino con ganas de visitar los campos de lavanda y hacerle una visita a Jonas y así decirle que yo, al igual que Lena, nunca lo olvidaré.»Blog Lecturápolis
La memoria de una pasión
by Ana María SánchezEres tan maravillosa que todo lo conviertes en un arma mortal, y tan tierna que apenas se siente la herida. El amor puede parecerse a muchas cosas: locura, deseo, ternura, culpa, infidelidad. ¿Qué sucede cuando la edad y las circunstancias conspiran contra las promesas de cariño? Marina es inteligente, hermosa, culta, con un gran talento para la ciencia y la música, además, por fin ha alcanzado la mayoría de edad. Félix es un geólogo maduro e interesante, casado y jefe de familia. La pasión llega a la vida de ambos a pesar de la diferencia de edades y de que Félix es el padre de Virginia, la mejor amiga de Marina. A finales de la década de los sesenta, el miedo y los prejuicios transforman esta historia de amor en una amalgama de sinsabores.
Memorias de un amigo imaginario
by Matthew DicksQuerido lector: La novela que tienes en tus manos es especial, como Max.La novela que tienes en tus manos es única, como Max.La novela que tienes en tus manos es valiente, como Max. Max solo tiene 8 años y no es como los demás niños. Él vive para adentro y cuanto menos le molesten, mucho mejor. No le gustan los cambios, las sorpresas, los ruidos, que lo toquen y que le hagan hablar por hablar. Si alguien le preguntara cuándo es más feliz, seguro que diría que jugando con sus legos planeando batallas entre ejércitos enemigos. Max no tiene amigos, porque nadie lo entiende y todos, hasta los profesores y sus propios padres, quieren que sea de otra manera. Solo me tiene a mí, que soy su amigo desde hace cinco años. Ahora sé que Max corre peligro y solo yo lo puedo ayudar. El problema es que Max es el único que puede verme y oírme. Tengo mucho miedo por él, pero sobre todo por mí. Los padres de Max dicen que soy un «amigo imaginario». Espero que a estas alturas tengas claro que no soy imaginario. Reseñas:«Dicks toma algo de El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche, lo cruza con Nunca me abandones y convierte una historia enternecedora en una aventura para morderse las uñas.»Psychologies «Un entrañable cuento sobre el amor, la lealtad y un niño con un poder de la imaginación extraordinario.»Glamour «Un tenso thriller psicológico sobre el amor, la muerte y la amistad.»Daily News «Una historia fascinante y conmovedora.»Cosmopolitan
Memorias de una geisha
by Arthur GoldenUna sensación literaria y bestseller internacional presenta con perfecta autenticidad y exquisito lirismo las fieles confesiones de una de las geishas más famosas de Japón. EnMemorias de una geishaentramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desdeñado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción única y triunfal- al mismo tiempo romántica, erótica y de suspenso -absolutamente inolvidable.
Memorias del corazón (Secretos del alma #Volumen 3)
by Victoria MagnoLa esperada tercera entrega de la serie «Secretos del alma». La vida de Zarah se vuelve complicada y peligrosa cuando el asesino de su madre vuelve para no dejarla escapar. Zarah tendrá que alejarse de su familia para comenzar a vivir una vida colmada de costumbres desconocidas y reglas sumamente estrictas. El mundo de La Capadocia es complicado, pero no tanto como el tener que enfrentarse al pasado de una vida de la que nada recuerda. Y cuando el verdadero entrenamiento comienza, las cosas parecen ir de mal en peor. Allan sabe que el amor que siente por Zarah está prohibido, pero no está dispuesto a dejarla ir, ya ha esperado suficiente por ella. Y cuando el peligro que una vez amenazó la vida de su amada vuelve a acechar, esta vez de forma más peligrosa, Allan sabe que tendrá que dar todo de sí para protegerla. No obstante, las cosas no parecen ir bien, y es seguro que, si ella no se prepara para enfrentarlo, puede que esta vez no escape con vida. Allan hará todo lo posible para convertir a Zarah en una guerrera Capadocia, aunque implique tener que ser duro con ella. Es el momento para que Zarah aprenda a confiar en sí misma si es que quiere sobrevivir.
Memorias del pasado
by Gabriella R. HayesUna terca joven del siglo XXI y un duro guerrero druida se verán arrastrados por un viaje en el tiempo hasta las tierras Altas de Escocia del siglo XVI. Cailean MacLeod es un duro y apuesto druida guerrero original de las tierras Altas de Escocia del siglo XVII, el cual ha sido escogido para llevar la importante misión de velar por la seguridad de la joven española Lena Lagos, del siglo XXI. Tras los acontecimientos en los que Lena ha de viajar a Escocia por motivos laborales se verá arrastrada desde su moderno siglo en el que acababa de conseguir el trabajo de sus sueños, junto al atractivo e irritante Cailean hasta las mágicas y salvajes Highlands del siglo XVII, para ayudarlo a encontrar la legendaria Arpa de Dagda. La relación entre ambos comenzará con cierta tensión y a pesar de sus desavenencias y las ganas que tienen por perderse de vista y seguir con sus respectivas vidas por separado, ambos se encaminaran en un viaje plagado de peligros y magia que los hará replantearse muchas cosas. A veces el destino es caprichoso y el azar puede jugar poco cuando el camino de dos almas ha sido trazado ya.
Memories
by Lisa JacksonMEMORIES MAY FADE, BUT THE HEART NEVER FORGETS... A HUSBAND TO REMEMBER Nikki Carrothers wakes in an island hospital with no memory of her past, how she got there or of Trent McKenzie-the man claiming to be her husband. Though she's undeniably attracted to him, Nikki's not sure he can be trusted. Even as her memory returns, he's the one piece of the puzzle that remains a mystery. But when Trent finally reveals the shattering truth, the bond between them only deepens. Because Nikki's part of an ongoing investigation that's placed both of them in danger, and she'll have to keep Trent close if she wants to live to see tomorrow.... NEW YEAR'S DADDY Veronica Walsh is haunted by the memory of her late husband, having lost him years ago in a ski accident. Now she focuses solely on her daughter, Amy, certain that no man could ever fill the void in her broken heart-until Travis Keegan comes along. Travis has been burned before-his ex-wife walked out on him, and his son Bryan is heading down a bad path. Desperate to make up for his own past mistakes, Travis moves them to an old mountain lodge right in Veronica's backyard. Sparks fly when the single parents meet, but can either of them ever truly leave their past behind?