Sophi

Sophi Miller has loved fashionable shoes ever since she was a little girl playing in her mother’s closet. So it’s really no surprise to anyone when Sophi shows early promise of becoming a shoe designer. Success seems inevitable, her dreams well within reach, until tragic loss throws Sophi’s aspirations way off course. Sophi inevitably regains her “passion for fashion” in The City of Light where she finds herself changing her image...and her name. In grand Paris, Sophi finds the offerings of a new life and love when she meets a rough-hewn Frenchman whose free-flowing good looks leave her charmed from the moment he says bonjour. Sophi Arriver—her sexier, more sophisticated alter-ego—seems ready to take on the world. But first...she must decide whether or not to take a chance on love.

As a single father, Aulus raised Sophi-An with unconditional love. Aulus encouraged Sophi-An to follow a nontraditional path in life after she received a master’s degree in nursing. Aulus was shocked when his daughter told him that she was going to travel abroad to provide medical care to people in a country that was torn apart by civil war. Even though he didn’t approve of her decision, Aulus let Sophi-An go. Once in country, Sophi-An cared for the victims of the conflict between the army and the rebels. Sophi-An was kidnapped and tortured by the rebels. Throughout her ordeal, Sophi-An relied on her faith in God, the help of others, and her wits and smarts to survive. As she recounted her story, she realized that there are great people everywhere, even in hell.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

A group of LGBTQ+ college students find themselves, and a whole lot of trouble, as they search for a retired professor’s hidden, immensely valuable coin collection. Clues come from decoding classic lesbian and sapphic books—but in six years no one has found the treasure. Second-generation lesbian Maze Lister planned to skip the treasure hunt. She’s read all the books—they’re in her moms’ library—and doesn’t need the money. But a late night spent with charismatic athlete Lys Neil changes her mind. The two of them bond over their neurodivergent minds, even though they handle their ADHD in sharply different ways. Maze and Lys decide to compete in the treasure hunt together, but chance puts them on competing teams within a group of students just as determined as they are—and willing to bend the rules. Secret teams form, accusations fly, and everyone starts to learn much more about themselves than they bargained for. Can they decode the stories and find the prize before a malevolent classmate turns them against each other and takes the treasure for herself?

One creature chose the knowledge of good and evil and was called man. The other creature chose life and was called malakim. For thousands of years, the elder brother race has protected the fallen, younger race from the darkness released upon the world by his own choosing. ***** The angry wolf snarled, and the girl choked out an involuntary, terrified cry. Her back found the base of a tree, and she slid herself against it, trying to envelope herself in the strong wooden arms. The wolf pressed in as the child curled against the tree roots, one tiny foot raised to strike the beast again. The protector's chest heaved with pride as he witnessed the courage of the overmatched child. Her other foot lie twisted on the ground, slowly becoming saturated with fluid from her mangled flesh. The fight was almost over, and the wolf innately understood the way it would end. The protector's sword emerged. But he was still too far away. He would be too late. In the slow instants of time and space, he knew that this child was beyond his immense speed. The wolf was out of reach of the beautiful power of his upraised sword of lightfire. Then a brilliant flash shattered the darkness.

Eighteenth and nineteenth century European, British and American newspapers constitute a rich and largely untapped source of contemporary, often eyewitness accounts of historical events and opinions concerning Iran from the late Safavid (1712) through the Qajar (c. 1797-1920) period. This study collects and annotates thousands of articles published in the Colonial and early Republican American newspapers, from the first mention of events in Persia in the American press (1712) to the death of Mohammad Shah (1848), unlocking for the first time a wealth of information on Iran and its place in the world during the 18th and early 19th century.

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