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Only a baby, Lillian Trevlyn suffers the death of her father under unknown circumstances. Raised by her mother—who nearly dies herself—Lillian grows up with the hope that she will leave the shadows of her past behind. The Mysterious Key and What It Opened is a novel by Louisa May Alcott.

Juggling multiple affairs alongside a lucrative, exhausting gambling career, Giacomo Casanova is blindsided by a terrible betrayal. As he attempts to get his life back on track, a man presents him with a promising business opportunity. As the two grow close, Casanova lets his guard down, revealing his secrets to Manucci, who turns out to be a spy for the state.

Back in Paris, Casanova has found success as a spy and diplomat for France. On a mission for the treasury, he travels to Holland to sell government bonds, building a massive fortune and founding a garment factory with his earnings. As wasteful spending and sexual improprieties increase, Casanova finds himself on the wrong side of the law once more.

As his brief-yet-heated love affair with Madame F., a beautiful noblewoman, comes to an end, Casanova leaves his military life in Corfu behind him. Returning to Venice, he attempts to live as a professional gambler. After losing most of his money, he turns to music, pursuing a career as a violinist by day while partying with friends by night.

Following the disgraceful conclusion of his career in the church, Casanova looks to the military as a way of redeeming himself. Joining a Venetian regiment at Corfu, he soon finds the life of duty to be a boring one and spends his time gambling instead. Abandoning his military service, he catches the eye of Madame F., a beautiful noblewoman of Corfu.

Still a young man, though one already familiar with the excesses of life, Casanova attempts to enter the seminary to devote himself to God. Despite his best efforts, he finds it hard to resist the pleasures of the flesh for long. Eventually, he manages to secure a position with a prominent Bishop, but soon finds himself in trouble with the law.

Arrested for crimes against religion, Casanova is sentenced to five years imprisonment in the infamous prison of the Doge of Venice. Held in solitary confinement, he suffers in darkness and silence, through unbearable heat and an infestation of fleas, longing for nothing more than freedom. With the help of a fellow prisoner, and after months of planning, Casanova makes his escape.

After two years in Paris, a city teeming with life, Casanova finally wears out his welcome with local authorities. He makes his way to Vienna, a city of immense wealth and stuffy morals, unsuited to such a free-spirited man. As his reputation in Austria grows, he is compelled to return to Venice, where he makes and loses fortunes as a gambler.

Casanova is forced to flee Venice under threat of imprisonment, leaving behind his closest friends and ending his career as an aide to a powerful senator. He makes his way to Parma, where he meets the love of his life, a Frenchwoman named Henriette, whose beauty and wit compel him to remain loyal—for a time.

In the Republic of Venice, a boy is born who will achieve both fame and infamy, whose life will be a story of fortune and misfortune alike. In the early 18th century, Venice is the capital of European pleasure-seekers, a city known for its limitless offerings to gamblers, revelers, and criminals. For Giacomo Casanova, this environment proves both enticing and formative.

In a series of dreams, a woman visits Mars, where a society run by women faces an uprising of oppressed men. Unable to leave their homes, the Martian men, enabled by recent technological advances, use their freedom to organize against the women in power. Man's Rights, or, How Would You Like It? is a feminist utopian novel by Annie Denton Cridge.

Kiona, the Maid of the Heart, had a relaxing week before experiencing treachery, heartbreak, and miracles within the quiet forest town of Shenandoah. Nascha from The Great Western Lands had arrived to discover the whereabouts of her proposed future husband, Achak. Now one with Kiona's heart as Levtiqvah, awaking her true self as Tiqvah, the angel who represents Hope. Kiona had also been invited with her friends to attend the ball in Belladina,...

At eighteen years old, Holly, the youngest of the Krindle family shouldn't have to bear the burdens she does. But since the death of her mother she's had to take on the responsibility of caring for their large family home, helping her dad take care of things and making sure her dad still has good meals and not work himself to death. On one hand she loves tending to her father and their large home, so she tries not to think of the disappointme...

How can we learn to relate better to one another across the differences and diversity that we find in our church communities? This five-session course is designed to help identify the roadblocks that can so easily hinder us from understanding each other better and loving each other more deeply.

A feisty stand alone friends with benefits romance from USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde. With new characters set in the bestselling world of the Wrights, this is a perfect jumping on point for new readers! I shouldn't have hooked up with my one night stand... again. To be fair, I was having the worst day of my life. I was sure that nothing else could go wrong. Then in walks Jordan Wright. We have a heated history, and I've been...

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Die Bundesrepublik in den turbulenten Siebzigern. Während an den Universitäten die Revolution geprobt und bundesweit nach den Mitgliedern der RAF gefahndet wird, sitzt ein junger Mann vor dem muffig-engen Elternhaus und trifft eine Entscheidung. Er packt ein paar Sachen, greift seine Gitarre und geht. Wenig später steht er an der Straße und reckt den Daumen in den Wind. Ohne Geld und Plan schlägt sich der selbsternannte Nichtsnutz nach Süden d...

A sexy, sensational novel with intoxicating vengeance and an unexpected tenderness' No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter

Lamb was a writer for Adventure magazines and an excellent historical novelist, being considered an expert on the periods he wrote about. Tamerlane is a Westernization of the Persian tale of Tamer Lenk. When the baby was first born, his parents took him to a holy sheik to be blessed. As they arrived, the sheik was reading a section of the Koran with that word, and instantly upon seeing him declared that his name would be Tamuru. During his lif...