The ways of men is a thoughtful collection of essays that examines the intricacies of human nature, national identity, and the humor found in everyday life.
Wings of the wind captures the emotional turbulence of postwar return as it explores the quiet unraveling of identity and purpose in the wake of conflict.
Under one sceptre or Mortimer's mission: The story of the Lord of the Marches examines how individuals shaped by vastly different origins confront the expectations imposed by a deeply stratified society.
Name and Fame: A Novel BOOK III by Adeline Sergeant transports readers to the dramatic world of Victorian England, where ambition, social status, and familial relationships intertwine in a captivating tale of love and ambition.
In the Socialist Utopia of the People''s Republic of Britain a routine criminal investigation spirals out of control with world-shattering consequences.
Cuentos crueles reune una cuidada seleccion de los relatos mas brillantes e inquietantes de Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, maestro del simbolismo y uno de los grandes renovadores del cuento fantastico.
Paris, 1794: the Pimpernel goes back into the city to bring out the Dauphin from the Temple prison, and Chauvelin has learned enough to bait a trap with the one thing Blakeney cannot refuse.
Stories about the thing a life is spent looking for: a knight who follows a legend, a Persian magus who follows a star, a man who finds the blue flower and does not recognize it.
Am einen Anfang, noch wahrend Rauchschwaden uber den chilenischen Prasidentenpalast ziehen und die Nachricht vom Tod Salvador Allendes die Runde macht, ertont der erste Schrei eines Kindes.
A minor poet joins a farming commune of high-minded reformers and finds himself watching, rather than living - a magnetic agitator, a woman who worships him, and a girl with a secret nobody will discuss.
In a Dorset hamlet where everyone lives by the trees, a timber merchant educates his daughter above her station and marries her to a doctor who despises the place.
A painter, his friend, and a girl at Baden-Baden - one man asks the other to inspect her and report whether she will do as a wife, and the report changes both their lives.
David Lockwin: The people's idol is a novel centered on a man caught between political ambition and personal struggle as he campaigns for a congressional seat in a bustling city.
A tale of a lonely parish reflects on the quiet tensions of rural life, where intellect, ambition, and social standing intersect within the constrained world of a small English community.
Lupin announces a theft, is arrested, escapes, and conducts his next case from a cell - and then a certain English detective arrives and has his name changed by the lawyers.
A bear cub and a pup, orphaned the same week, take up together in the northern forest - and a man and a woman are running from the Mounted Police through the same country.
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Best of Everything, a female assistant to a Hollywood agent navigates celebrity lifestyles and romance.
A twentieth century idealist examines the contrast between inner conviction and external perception through a narrative shaped by reflection, subtle tension, and philosophical inquiry.
Life in Brazil brings passion and marital strife to three American couples in a novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Best of Everything.
The Hunted Woman by James Oliver Curwood is a gripping adventure novel that immerses readers in a thrilling tale of romance and survival set amidst the rugged Canadian wilderness.
A self-made paint millionaire from Vermont builds a house on the water side of Beacon Street and discovers that Boston's old families will accept his money and not his daughters.
The life of a novelist as his friend saw it: years of rejection, a father who despises the work, a girl who waits, and the slow arrival of a reputation.
An epic, transformative novel following a young woman as she navigates a series of romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds.
