Nina: 1774 books

Crashing waves, intense heat, body oil, and men who give new meaning to a day at the beach, in three sizzling stories that’ll make you sweat. Three of today’s hottest and most talented authors deliver three of the sexiest stories ever—of the hunks who work and play at the sizzling seashore....

Deeply unhappy at the recent divorce of her parents, Mary is sent away to live by the sea with her distant grandfather and the detestable Aunt Alice. Feeling abandoned, without even the company of her beloved pet cat Noakes, the summer looks set to become one long stretch of unendurable loneliness....

When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the beautiful and charismatic Skye Butterfield, daughter of the famous Senator Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is in love with danger and...

The year is 3048, Earth is no longer habitable, and man has fled to the stars where they've discovered the secret of immortality-Meridian. Unfortunately, the radioactive mineral is exorbitantly expensive and only available to a select few. A new class comprised of the super rich and immortal soon...

Ever read someones diary? Now you can…without feeling too guilty.  Take a journey through one year of this mothers life by reading her thought-provoking entries. Travel through her mind and observe her inner thoughts. Witness her frustrations of job-hunting and separation, her questions about relation-ships,...

Welcome to Lava Landing, population 27,454, a town just this side of Mexico, where Miss Magma reigns and rockabilly and mariachi music are king. Enter our protagonists, Natalie and Consuelo, self-described “like-minded individuals.” They spend their days at The Big Cheese Plant and their nights...

13 auteurs stars de la romance. Une histoire torride Provinciale de vingt-deux ans fraîchement débarquée à New York, Verity Michaels est réceptionniste dans une boîte où les heures supplémentaires sont monnaie courante. Pratique pour son patron, qui ne rate pas une occasion de la reluquer....

"It's like carrying around a backpack. It's heavy and it's on your shoulders. It hurts. It weighs you down."The world has just come down around Mae. Her father unexpectedly died, and her despondent mother has no other choice but to take Mae and her two sisters to live with their loving but unprepared...

Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher...

Piper the Poodle is about a spirited, little puppy that is hoping to find a forever home with a loving family. She is not quite sure however that she will always be part of her current family as her little black nose can get her into a lot of trouble. Does adoption last forever? Are there limits to love? Will Christmas work its magic?

The Ring Is Not Enough ... ... not if, like Paris Montague, you come from a long line of women whoknow how to marry. In her family, the unspoken rule has always been:never wed someone who's not as well off as you, and her mother wants herlast unattached daughter to find a wealthy "Mr....

A baby cries. A bottle breaks. A window smashes. Over the course of one night, a man and a woman try to still their screaming infant – but as the hours grow longer, the world becomes elastic around them, and the horrors that scar our planet crash into the baby’s room. Should they ever have...

A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century. Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright It's Bella's 29th birthday. Friends and former...

This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...