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We're not seeking to win one nightly. If that were the case, this book would be titled Winning the Nightly. We want more than that. We want to conquer. For those who don't know, I win a lot of nightlys. I'm going to share my secrets with you.

Written by 18-year-old Mary Shelley, the novel follows scientist Victor Frankenstein as he recounts his story to Captain Walton, who found a gravely ill Victor adrift at sea. Victor tells of his creation of a being so horrible that he abandoned the Creature, much to his own shame. Not to be forgotten, the Creature's quest for revenge and understanding from its master leaves a trail of devastation in its wake.

Alice Gerstenberg (1885-1972) was an American playwright, actress, and activist. She is best known for her many feminist plays, which often feature female lead characters and all-female casts (a rare occurrence at the time). This is a collection of ten one-act plays, which cover a wide range of topics -highlights include a lighthearted farce involving gossiping women, a satire about dinner parties, and a comedy about the pretensions of conventional theater, but some plays also touch on more serious themes such as death, war, and the effects of an unhappy marriage.

Cutting Room is set in the "Town Welfare Department" of a town in the Midlands, Burtonwood, during public sector cuts. Four characters (David, Lucy, Ian, and an intern, Anne) have to take calls from members of the public complaining about the loss of public services, with the boss Harry coming in occasionally to offer cheerful but often useless encouragement. As the cuts continue, tensions run high, with Ian in particular taking his anger and frustration out on the secretary, Tilly. At the play's conclusion there is a surprising twist.

The little known first novella of Charlotte Bronte, The Green Dwarf is a story of adventure, subterfuge, romance, and danger. Lady Emily Charlesworth is awaiting the return of her lover, Leslie, who is a down-on-his luck artist. However, the dastardly, coldhearted Colonel Percy is also vying for her heart and will stop at nothing to make Emily his own.

West Vanderhall is more than content living his life on a strict schedule. He thrives on plans and going to bed early. So when his upstairs neighbor, Halle Parker, has a habit of being loud at night, he’s determined to figure out a way to get back at her. Trying to get her evicted hasn’t worked, so his only option is to give her a taste of her own medicine.

Nash Carter is devastated when a skiing accident leaves his wife with severe memory loss, erasing him and their three-year marriage from her mind. Not only is Nash a stranger, but Sadie remembers being in love with her ex-boyfriend and can't understand how she ended up living in a new city, estranged from her family, and married to a man she doesn't know. It's up to Nash to win back his wife and prove that their love is worth fighting for. Can Nash's unwavering devotion help Sadie rebuild what was lost, or will he lose her love forever?

I, Amelia Quinn, am dating again. I must be out of practice though because I sat down at the wrong man’s table…and kissed him. And now I’m wrapped up in the middle of an FBI case… DREAM COME TRUE! Except the super sexy agent doesn’t want my help solving this case. I, Caleb Harris, am a stupid, stupid man. Nothing says rookie agent like kissing a civilian just to get rid of her.

My dream job just got snapped up by the one man who rejected me… That’s right. I’m an unemployed twenty-something stuck sleeping on my grandmother’s old futon while Hudson Blaine, the guy who shot me down, gets to manage The Beachfront Inn. Talk about life being unfair. I’m about to flee town with what’s left of my pride when Mr. Rejection begs me to stay. Apparently, he needs my help resuscitating the inn’s reputation before the grand reopening.

Mike Carver has spent most of his adult life sleepwalking. He goes through his marriage, his routines, and his days on autopilot, doing everything he is supposed to do and almost nothing he actually wants. When his best friend Derek dies in a COVID ICU, the shock tears open all the feelings Mike has spent years pushing down.

Soren Stapley is a professional thief. He is prepared for every scenario and has a plan for every situation. But he never planned for her. The painting he needs? It’s being guarded by the woman he once loved and the nine-year-old terror she’s nannying. What’s worse? He’s not the only one hunting it down. Christmas is about to get complicated…

Elijah and I were childhood best friends turned totally love-struck teens who swore we’d elope the summer after graduation. It was supposed to be forever. Then came the photos of him with other girls—posted all over social media. And his sudden refusal to talk about our wedding in public? Yeah, I panicked. So when a mysteriously convenient out-of-the-country internship landed in my lap, I took it. Oh, and I left on our wedding day.

Despite Dorothy's many tales of her adventures in Oz, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry never quite believe her stories. Upon finding out the tornado that destroyed their farmhouse in book 1 (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) is the cause of her Uncle Henry's horrible debt, Dorothy is determined to help her family. She makes plans with Ozma to bring her aunt and uncle to Oz where they may live happily ever after. Unbeknownst to Ozma and our friends in Oz, the Nome King is plotting to take over the Land of Oz and retrieve his magic belt that Dorothy took from him in book 3, Ozma of Oz.

Camilla and Nick fall hard. She's finally ready to find love. He is not expecting to. Nick's enemy has been threatening him for a while now. And now that he has Camilla, he's concerned for her safety. He reveals to her the truth of things, but she stays at his side against his better judgement. But when the threats become too much, Camilla gives him an ultimatum. Either he reaches out to his estranged family for help with the matter or she can't do this.

Kate doesn't know what to expect when Simon crashes her family vacation. She hasn't seen or heard from her childhood love since he and his family's sudden departure years before, leaving Kate completely confused and devastated. Simon's return has reopened the wounds of heartbreak. As Kate cautiously lets Simon in again, she finds out all sorts of secrets which led to their parting. Being in familiar places takes Kate back, as she relives the memories of her childhood sweetheart and finds that even as a grown woman, she just might not be over him.

Here, it was almost inevitable that this subject would attract the interest of H.G Wells in the batch of sci-fi novels that he wrote between 1895 and 1901. In Well's story, the vehicle is not a balloon, as in many of the previous accounts, but a sphere made of a mysterious substance, named "cavorite" after its inventor, Cavor, who accompanies the narrator, Bedford, on the trek to the moon. The ascent is made possible by the fact the "cavorite" is, in Well's words, "transparent to gravity."

The Invisible Man was the fourth sci-fi novel written by Wells in the 1890s. The main character, Griffin, is one of the intimidating villains in all popular literature. The archetypal "mad scientist," Griffin devotes himself to an obsessive study of optics and realizes his ambition to render livings things permanently invisible. After making a cat invisible, he successfully applies the procedure to himself. After causing chaos in London, he travels to the village of Iping in Sussex and takes up residence in a local hotel.

When a large deposit of an immensely valuable mineral has been located on Earth's moon, an expedition has been sent to mine it in secret. But when the secret gets out, underhanded elements of the people of Mars, Venus, and Earth launch their own secret plot to hijack the claim and make a fortune. It is up to our hero, Gregg Haljan, and his trusted ally Snap Dean to safeguard Earth's acquisition of the Moon treasure and protect the brave men of the expedition from... the BRIGANDS OF THE MOON!

Having only just recently reconnected with his old military friend, Aaron, William was devastated upon hearing the news of his passing. But when a delivery driver arrives the next day bearing several boxes of journals from Aaron, William realizes there was so much more to learn about his now-deceased friend. Meet Aaron as a young boy growing up in Kellas, Washington, during the 1970s, and follow him and his friends through the decade. Join them on their misadventures in love, mischief, woes of virginity, and mayhem.

In 1896, H.G Wells was stimulated to compose this dystopian fantasy about an obsessed scientist and his efforts to artificially accelerate the intellectual development of animals using bizarre medical procedures involving vivisection. Wells described the book as "an exercise in youthful blasphemy."