Christopher rivera

Modern

Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

Fantasy

Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you be an elf, orc, dwarf, or human?

Literature

Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley Byne

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preservin

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Christopher and the Clockmakers by Sara Ware Bassett

Fantasy

Noir Rivera, a convict hanged to death wakes up in the fantasy world of Dominus Continent, being transmigrated to the body of Zeno Lockhart, a village boy who just lost his father. A World where the land and, water and air are filled with magical Beasts, fighting for their own survival Where Dungeon

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Christopher Columbus, Complete by Filson Young

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This classic biography should be mandatory reading for all academicians. Winsor, a historian, poet, literary critic, and fiction writer, retraces every important aspect of Columbus' fascinating life, from his family origins to his beliefs and convictions. Columbus emerges as a living, breathing huma

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Christopher Columbus, Volume 7 And The New World Of His Discovery, A Narrative by Filson Young

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Christopher Columbus, Volume 3 And The New World Of His Discovery, A Narrative by Filson Young

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Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 3 by Filson Young

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Kathleen by Christopher Morley

Fantasy

A werewolf stronger than any before her. A vampire with secrets buried in blood. And a prophecy that could doom them both. For centuries, Lupendralis and Sanguival have been locked in an endless war, werewolves claiming the night, vampires ruling the day. No truce. No surrender. No hope. But hidde

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Oberheim (Voices): A Chronicle of War by Christopher Leadem

Modern

The past and present are on a collision course, when the fates of two women, born hundreds of years apart, intertwine in a story of magic and the power of love... In the present, Faye Bennet, haunted by dreams of a woman burning at the stake, returns to the village of her childhood, to seek answer

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The Mantooth by Christopher Leadem

Horror

"When you sell a man a book," says Roger Mifflin, protagonist of these classic bookselling novels, "you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue you sell him a whole new life." The new life the itinerant bookman delivers to Helen McGill, the narrator of Parnassus on Wheels, provid

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Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.

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Shandygaff by Christopher Morley

Romance

Sophie has had a secret crush on Benjamin Hayes for four years. Initially captivated by his charm and appearance, she fantasizes about a future with him. However, when Benjamin finally notices Sophie and they begin to interact, she discovers that he is not the ideal man she imagined but a notorious