Showing results for "Offerings" in Literature & Fiction

With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon - also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his father so loved - the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School - educated, Dae Joon is a jangnam, a firstborn son, bound by tradition to follow in the footsteps of his forebears.

In a quiet corner of a rural Irish-Scottish settlement, a young girl named Bridget McDonald tended to her family's sheep. Her sturdy boots squelched in the damp earth, and she hummed a lilting tune as the animals grazed around her. The sky above was a canvas of shifting grays, hinting at rain but holding its tongue for now. Bridget's red hair was tied back in a loose braid that danced in the breeze, and her freckled cheeks bore the rosy hue of a life spent outdoors. Her eyes, a deep blue, mirrored the sky's indecision.

A short fiction work, The Offering is a psychological thriller and a chilling exploration into an unhinged mind.

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it’s an offer that’s too good to refuse. There’s only one catch: Behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals.

Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion. Kate’s professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: Her husband’s company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business.

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The Offering of Broken Things, the second audiobook in The Agency of Dust and Power series, plunges the survivors deeper into a fractured world where safety is fleeting and power comes at a cost. After the collapse of the manor sanctuary, Bip, Sam, and their found family take refuge in spaces that flicker between memory and magic. The Agency’s pursuit grows more ruthless, unveiling new technologies and ancient rituals designed to crush resistance.

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most listeners, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown - until now. In this utterly captivating audiobook, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.

Nora Thompson is out of time. Her daughter is dying, and only Kindred medicine can save her. But it’s reserved for the families of bonded warriors—and Nora has no mate. Until she makes an offer to her boss: a marriage of convenience, in exchange for her complete submission. Xarex is a Dark Kindred—a fearsome, emotionless warrior. At least, he should be. But Nora makes him burn. He’s fantasized about binding her wrists, hearing her beg... and now, she’s offering herself to him freely.

Brianna's stunning beauty is captivating, but no one can shatter her ice-queen reserve until she falls in love with Connor during an unexpected cross-country trip. But Brianna will never be satisfied with just one man. Can Connor accept her voracious hot-wife lusts as she seduces both men and women right in front of him?

A shadow has fallen at the edges of the Empire of Gis. The city of Kulaba is threatened by an enemy that has been pushed too far. They have embraced a dark God only bent on destruction. The Empire sends the Burner Mashda with an army of conscripts to secure the city and stop this evil from spreading. Zizi finds himself as one of the conscripts, pulled from his home, and searching for why they fight. But what they find will challenge the very foundations of their beliefs.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Offerings of the Mind and learn about poetry in motion.

Anne Mason thinks she'll be safe living in the Midwest building a wind farm. She may be dead wrong. Someone is dumping bodies in her corn field and telling Anne they are gifts - for her! As the body count rises, Anne realizes a cold-blooded serial killer is patiently waiting and watching her every move. And he won't stop until he ends her life. It is clear there are no limits to this killer's thirst for revenge or how far he will go to get it.

Gitanjali (song offerings) is a collection of 103 devotional poems written originally in Bengali and first published in 1910. In 1912 a translation into English by the author was published in 1912, and led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

An ex model struggling to lose the weight. A wounded veteran on a mission to gain her heart. Will they find a balance before time runs out? Reed Cannon may be a numbers guy, but being minus one arm due to enemy fire hasn’t slowed him down. Now he’s faced with a new challenge - find a bride so he can stay on the rehabilitation ranch that has given him and his squad back their lives. With the ranch becoming zoned strictly for families, he’ll have to find a girl, woo her, and marry her in less than two months.

A physically challenged cast off girl, a mysterious Greek physician, and a Hollywood party to die for. All come together for a tale of horror, friendship, betrayal, and redemption. The undead Texas Ranger, Sam McCord, travels the world, seeking justice for the murder of a teenage prostitute. The clues he finds takes him to Amsterdam, Jerusalem, and to the hidden catacombs beneath the Vatican itself. Finally, there he must come face to face with his worst nightmare.

Josiah awakens with no memories of his past and finds himself in a world where the dead walk, the sky burns, and monstrous creatures called “abominations” threaten the innocent. Soon, he discovers that he, too, has a grotesque and monstrous form, though he’s told he can become human again if he does enough good works. In hopes of regaining his humanity, he joins Judge Priscilla Danforth and her posse as they travel the land hunting down abominations and wiping them from the face of the earth.

I’d always had a hidden desire…a naughty thought I imagined would stay forever in my head, never to see the light of day. How could it? Something so forbidden, yet so tempting.... But still, something drove me to pursue that lingering in my loins. A lusty craving I couldn’t extinguish. I had to do something about it! And my sexy husband would never dare cheat on me, or stray even in the slightest. He was always so supportive and doting.

Nate is a man who builds worlds. For his partner, Tabby, he decides to construct his masterpiece: a single, overwhelming night designed to shatter her every limit. It is an offering born of a deep, obsessive devotion, a meticulously planned event where 20 screened, handpicked men will push her to the very edge of sensation, fear, and surrender.