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Originally published in 1896, Thomas Power O’Connor’s intimate portrait of Napoleon covers everything from his military campaigns to his questionable table manners.
Far from a stuffy account of Napoleon’s battles and governance, O’Connor’s conversational style reveals the man behind the Emperor. This biography remains an important addition to the study of Napoleon with its personal and, at times, visceral details of the public and private life of the Emperor.
Examining contemporary French sources such as Hippolyte Taine, and with quotations from those closest to Napoleon such as Claude François Méneval, Étienne-Denis Pasquier and Josephine, O’Connor’s depiction of Napoleon is informative and entertaining in style, and far-reaching in scope.
As O’Connor guides the reader through these sources – either from devotees or detractors of Napoleon – a conflicting portrayal of the man arises that can only be expected from such a divisive and monumental figure. Brilliant but volatile, domineering but juvenile, but always – the violence of his campaigns appears rooted in his chaotic personality.
Nevertheless, O’Connor shows that one link remains unbroken throughout Napoleon’s life: his fierce ambition.
Perhaps this is what drew the leader of the United Irish League and the “Father of the House of Commons” to his subject.
T. P. O’Connor (1848-1929) was a journalist and MP. His mastery of French and German led him to report from the Franco-Prussian War following his sub-editorship of The Daily Telegraph. He was elected into the House of Commons in 1880 and was then continuously re-elected for 49 years and 215 days running as a proponent for Home Rule and Irish nationalism.
Legal thrillers with a twist
Two kickass lawyers take on a handful of colorful clients—and murder—from San Francisco Bay to the Big Easy.
Tubby Dubonnet is a simple man with a refined palate, a maverick New Orleans lawyer with a penchant for fishing, Old Fashioneds, off-track betting…and fighting evil while passing a good time. Rebecca Schwartz is a nice Jewish girl who just so happens to be a smart, savvy lawyer, with a few too many fantasies … and no qualms about telling it like it is. Tony takes on drugs, the Mob, and his impossible daughters while Rebecca wrestles with murder mystery at the aquarium and the most dangerous serial killer San Francisco’s ever seen. Four refreshing, page-turning legal puzzlers for a deal so reasonable, no one can object!
CROOKED MAN
The FIRST offbeat mystery in the TUBBY DUBONNET series by Anthony- and Edgar-nominated author Tony Dunbar
Tubby Dubonnet’s clients are all renegades from the asylum (aka Orleans Parish). His newest client is Darryl Alvarez, the manager of a local nightclub who's been caught unloading marijuana from a shrimp boat. At their first meeting, Darryl entrusts Tubby with an ordinary-looking blue gym bag. But after Darryl's unfortunate demise, Tubby realizes he must tighten his grasp on the gym bag -- and its million-dollar contents.
TOURIST TRAP
The THIRD book in Edgar-winner Julie Smith's Rebecca Schwartz series.
So what’s a nice Jewish girl doing at an Easter sunrise service? Lawyer Rebecca Schwartz would pick the one with the body nailed to the landmark cross! Coincidence? Not so much. She's there because her boy friend's covering the service for the San Francisco Chronicle. The body's there because someone's making a statement he doesn't want the press to miss.
Next: mass shellfish poisoning at Pier 39. A very different kind of serial killer is operating here—one who seems to have a grudge against the whole city.
CITY OF BEADS
The SECOND deliciously sneaky mystery in Anthony- and Edgar-nominated Tony Dunbar's Tubby Dubonnet series
Tubby Dubonnet is bored. He wants to bill enough hours to pay his alimony and keep his daughter in college, with enough left over for an occasional drink and a good meal, but he longs for something different and exciting. Sure, researching licensing law for the new casino will keep trout meunière on the table, but what could be more tedious? Meanwhile, there’s the estate of an old friend who controls some dock leases on the wharf. And he agrees to help his daughter’s environmental group stop illegal dumping in the river.
Suddenly all three cases begin to converge in an entirely ominous way–the toxic dumping, the dock leases, and the too-good-to-be-true casino job. How is that possible? Could it be Tubby’s been set up as the fall guy in a Mob effort to expand its gambling empire? NOW it's exciting — he's running for his life!
DEAD IN THE WATER
This is the FOURTH book in Edgar-winner Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series.
San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz has occasion to wonder when she and her weekend hostess, Marty Whitehead, find a body floating in the 30-foot kelp tower at the Monterey Aquarium, and Marty's promptly dragged off to the slammer.
Rebecca quickly grasps the Emily Post solution—sign on as Marty's lawyer, try to keep her client's two young kids out of the deep end, and somehow avoid drowning in the sea of lies gushing from Marty's mouth--and everyone else’s. There’s a lot of intrigue among the aquarium's oceangoing primates, as well as rumors of a pearl beyond price.
Charlotte Halliwell has a secret.
But before revealing it to her sister Audrey, she's found dead. At first glance, it appears to be nothing more than a skiing accident, until the medical examiner discovers poison coursing through Charlotte's body.
Audrey hires Sloane Monroe, a sassy, headstrong private investigator. As Sloane gets close to solving the case, a second body is found. With the killer aware that Sloane will stop at nothing to find him, he tracks her every move. Will Sloane uncover the truth before he strikes again?
If you're a fan of Agatha Christie and Mary Higgins Clark, you'll enjoy this fast-paced, page-turning mystery.
A New York Times and USA Today bestselling series.
He would do anything to keep her safe. Except tell her the truth...
Detective Deborah Turner is pissed. Her friend and corrections officer is found dead in a landfill—and the prison staff are hiding something.
Prison Officer Jamie Brock—a man she knew for one wild, passionate night—is her only ally. As Turner digs deeper and threatens to unearth the prison’s darkest secrets, she finds Jamie Brock at the center of it all.
Her heart wants to trust him, but her brain screams for her to run the other way. And behind the barbed wire and towering concrete walls, she’s about to find out that some secrets are worth killing for…
The icy cold mountains have nothing on Camillo.
He has a thirst for dominance. Control. Power.
Three years ago, I got a taste of what it meant to be with a real man.
Those few hours of ecstasy were worth losing my virginity to a stranger.
I've kept a BIG secret from him, and now he's come to take what's his.
Rose
I was a changed woman after Camillo.
But, when I learned the truth about him I left without a good bye.
Now he's shacked up in a cabin at the outskirts of town and I'm scared he knows my secret.
Something tells me I can trust him, but I can't take any chances...
No matter how badly I want to.
Camillo
I left a world of violence and murder for a clean slate.
But, there's one person that still haunts me.
For one perfect night, I owned her in every way imaginable.
Years later, I've discovered she has a little girl - our little girl.
But, a dark past is coming back to haunt me - and everyone I love.
They have no idea the hell I'm about to release.
Because no one is laying a finger on my family.
65,000+ words in this full length standalone romance. Bonus content included after the main story, including a never before published full length reverse harem Christmas Romance. Grab your copy today.
She may be pure, but she's not innocent.
Her name is Bethany Lewis.
She's a nightmare in heels and while she's never been touched, she definitely isn't innocent.
She left my twin brother's life in ruins, but now I'm back after a three year stint in prison, and I'm going to show her that things are about to change.
She needs discipline and I'm the man to give it to her.
Then she becomes more than just a brat over my knee. She haunts me. It isn't right, but I don't care.
I want her.
I will have her.
She has used her gorgeous body to get what she wants long enough. She's teased the wrong man and now she's going to be mine.
Kelli's Note: This is a steamy 50,000 word novel with a HEA and no cheating! I'm a girl that likes wild and crazy romances, so that is exactly what you get from me. My heroes might be a little over-the-top with a touch of caveman and you'll get some angst along the way, but I promise that the good parts will give you a plenty of reasons to read this all by yourself!
If Assana looked up the word “nymphomaniac” in the dictionary, she might expect to find her own image in place of the definition, especially after meeting the immortal red dragon, Gavra. The timing couldn’t be worse for her to discover the mate that Fate intended—the one she’d be willing to let go of her tightly bound hold on her deepest sexual desires for—the one who literally drives her mad with lust. Now that she needs her sanity more than anything to regain control of her race’s home from her insane mother, she’s faced with the inconvenient desire to lose control and be that primal nymph she keeps locked inside.
Thank Gaia for Silas. The handsome young ursa male is blessed with magic that can calm the lust-filled madness threatening to consume Assana’s mind. She needs him more than ever now that she has no choice but to spend her days in close proximity to the dragon she desires, yet doesn’t dare touch lest she give in to that ancient, primal need all nymphaea are born with.
For red dragon Gavra, he can only put off having the beautiful nymph maiden for so long, or the ursa male who Fate has promised him. Once Assana’s crazy mother is out of the way, nothing will stop Gavra from claiming and marking them both as his.
For many senior leaders, promotion is just the start of a whole new set of unexpected challenges. There are executive leaders to please and junior leaders to lead. Many for the first time are asked to work on multiple teams with peers who have competing priorities. They might now be responsible for areas of the organization in which they don’t have technical expertise.
Some senior leaders seem to have advanced through the sheer force of driving results, often at the cost of high employee compliance and burnout. Others appear to have attained senior roles through the influence of their charismatic personality, without producing much in the way of sustained business outcomes. Too many leaders are promoted because of what they know or how long they have worked, rather than their skill in managing others. As the complexity of the senior leader role increases and the consequences of a leader’s behaviors are multiplied, how can one successfully make the transition to senior leadership? What does it take to succeed at that level?
Unite! The 4 Mindset Shifts for Senior Leaders explores the four shifts in mindset that help a senior leader balance both results and relationships so they can ultimately unite the people around them. Audiences will walk away with new insights and distinctions of how to transition successfully into senior leadership roles. Senior leaders will learn to fine tune how they function with their team and other senior leaders and to build a strong succession framework.
Ages 9-12: Kitty grows up at sea and learns to understand humans. Kitty lives a funny and adventurous youth and even learns a little geography and history on the way. This middle grade book is descriptive, informative, and heartwarming.
Kitty learns to protect the big boat, Betty, and travels from the Gulf of Mexico to the Chesapeake Bay with Captain, Momma, and Rod. Kitty also longs for adventures he will one day find on land. That one day comes on the Mobjack Bay. Find out how Kitty's decisions shape his life changing adventure! Let Kitty warm your home and heart!
ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME! Includes over 11,000 words of bonus material, including bonus scenes from Gage's POV!
Nothing is black and white when everyone has secrets.
Broke and desperate, Kayla Sutton siphons thousands from her employer to pay for her daughter's treatment, but when her boss finds out, he demands repayment...in the form of her submission.
What started as a game turns into so much more when the past returns, testing the chains that bind Gage and Kayla's hearts together.
She fell for his wicked ways after he blackmailed her, stayed after he kidnapped her, went back to him after he almost destroyed them both with his fury. Now she wants to give him her future.
Willingly.
INCLUDES: The Devil's Kiss, The Devil's Claim, The Devil's Wife, The Devil's Spawn, and over 11,000 words of bonus material, including bonus scenes from Gage's POV!
NOTE TO READERS: THE DEVIL'S KISS SERIES BOXED SET is a dark romance with a BDSM edge that does NOT conform to safe, sane, and consensual practices. Includes explicit content and subject matter that may offend some readers. Intended for mature audiences.
Santa knows I have been a naughty little girl,
Touching myself to my stepbrother fantasies.
And now, Santa wants to punish me.
The punishment shouldn’t feel so good, right?
How can the one person I can’t have be the only one I need this Christmas?
My crude, arrogant, filthy rich stepbrother!
Those Greek God looks and that panty melting, devilish smile…
Shhh…you didn’t hear that from me, okay?
He’s teasing me, tormenting me, hurting me…
And I am loving every moment of it.
Then he tells me that he’s going to protect me.
That he’s going to be loyal.
He wants me,
I need him.
The problem?
He’s my boyfriend stepbrother, and I want to please him – in every way possible.
How do I let Santa know that I don’t want forgiveness?
I just want my HOT Stepbrother for Christmas.
This is a 35,000 words novella length, over the top filthy romance that is sure to melt your kindle. No cliffhangers and an HEA you will love!
Steamy bonus content included for extra pleasure.
Every decision you make today will have an impact on the decisions you make tomorrow, regardless of where you fit in this game of life.
Note: This is not your typical get up, be positive and do it self-help book.
It’s a book written, in depth, for us to gain a better understanding of why we do things the way we do, the driving factors behind our fears and how to best deal with all of these problematic areas.
Bold, Informative and storytelling. This book will help you start writing a new, happier life.
In this book, you’ll learn:
One cool-as-ice veteran player
One smoking hot rising star
And little old me in the middle
All wrapped up in an all-star ménage a trois
I’ve been sent to write a piece on two NHL stars
Joel Palmer and Dante Drake
On the ice they’re too hot to handle.
In the locker room they can’t stand each other.
And now it’s my job to get to the bottom of it all.
The rivals might have already dropped the gloves
But I’ll give them something to bond over.
I may be just a simple reporter, but I’m about to go all-in.
Tonight, I’m down to puck.
This is a full-length romance, with steamy love scenes, a beautiful HEA and utterly no cliffhangers.
A Murder. A Kidnapping. The tragic loss of his wife. Jericho Quinn is in the fight of his life to save a missing child and prove his son's innocence.
Sheriff Jericho Quinn's life in the Outer Banks of North Carolina is shattered following the mysterious death of his wife. A broken man, Jericho is forced to emerge from the depths of his despair when his only son is suddenly accused of an unspeakable crime. Murder.
With his son shrouded beneath a cloud of suspicion, Jericho finds himself deeply immersed in the investigation and connects the murder with the recent disappearance of a child. A crab pot and a sunken duffle bag lead Jericho to the gruesome discovery of a second missing child. He soon untangles a string of kidnappings and murder, revealing a chilling timeline--a deadly tide, a cycle that is set to repeat.
Peeling back the layers of deception and cruel betrayal, his wife's mysterious secrets begin to surface and have a disturbing connection to the case. Time is running out, and Jericho is in the fight of his life to prove his son's innocence and to unmask the killer before another child dies.
From the very beginning of the war, German U-boats targeted the merchant convoys, sinking millions of tons of essential produce and threatening Britain’s war effort.
Were it not for the heroic efforts of the Q-ships, the naval war could have proven disastrous for the allies.
Between 1914 and 1918, nearly 200 commercial vessels were transformed into armed decoy ships that lured U-boats into attacking them at close range before responding with their own deadly fire at the very last moment.
From tramp steamers to sailing ships, from fishing boats to tugs, every type of ship was used in this great act of deception.
The demands on the crews of these ships were immense – requiring supreme bravery, exceptional patience, a high degree of cunning and excellent seamanship.
In this book, E. Keble Chatterton takes us through the story of these ships in an entertaining narrative, highlighting one of the lesser known aspects of World War One.
Writing with narrative flair and a passion for the subject, Chatterton places the reader in the middle of the tense war for the Atlantic.
Edward Keble Chatterton (1878-1944) was a sailor and prolific writer from Sheffield. His voyages across the English Channel, to the Netherlands, around the Mediterranean and through the French canals led to many articles and books. Joining the R.N.V.R. at the outbreak of WWI he commanded a motor launch flotilla, leaving the service in 1919 as a Lieutenant Commander. Between the wars his output included works about model ships, juvenile novels, and narrative histories of naval events; from 1939, his writing focused upon WWII.
When it comes to acting the gentleman with Miss Abbott, this marquess is damned if he does…and damned if he doesn’t.
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‘The catastrophe of the fall of Rome, with all that its fall signified to the fifth century, came very near to accomplishment in the third. There was a long period when it seemed as though nothing could save the Empire. Her prestige sank to the vanishing point. Her armies had forgotten what it was to win a victory over a foreign enemy. Her Emperors were worthless and incapable. On every side the frontiers were being pierced and the barriers were giving way...’
Constantine the Great is a fascinating and in depth historical examination of the reorganisation of the Empire after its catastrophic fall, and the subsequent triumph of the Christian Church.
Firth, in a grounded approach to the period, questions whether Constantine really did deserve his epithet ‘the Great’ in real life, leaving it to his readers to make up their own minds.
What he does assert, though, is that under Constantine’s auspices, one of the most momentous upheavals in history took place. Constantine’s conversion to Christianity – the first of any Roman Emperor – caused shockwaves across the Roman world, and it is this that makes this period such an exciting and important area of study.
John B. Firth, a scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford, authored several other titles including Augusts Caesar, studied closely vast and numerous original authorities, all of whom, he jokes, ‘were bitter and malevolent partisans’. With the truth thus so distorted by personal agendas and decayed through the annals of time, Firth made it his priority to meticulously research with an impartial eye in order to produce the most historically accurate account. Constantine the Great is wonderful feat of scholarship, and a must-read for any Roman enthusiast.
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'The Borderlands - Journey' A MAGICAL FANTASY ADVENTURE
The Borderlands: Journey is the first book in 'The Borderlands' trilogy.
'It is urgent for you to reach the Borderlands. There, you will learn everything you need to know.'
Dale has never felt a sense of belonging. She despises the bullies and snobs at school, and her family are difficult to like, let alone love. Rhys, a new boy at school seems to take an interest in her. But can she trust him? When the only friend she has ever had, Old Man Gareth, is murdered before her eyes, she is set on a frantic journey and a lonely adventure; the Borderlands beckon. But what are the Borderlands? Will she make it to them? And if she gets there, will she belong?
'The Borderlands: Journey' is a magical fantasy adventure that fantasy fiction fans, particularly older teens and the young at heart, will enjoy. It is the first book in the Contemporary Fantasy series 'The Borderlands'.
