Dive into the delightful world of Jacob Abbott's Cousin Lucy at Study, a charming narrative that brings the innocence and curiosity of childhood to life.
Rae Malgregor went into the profession of nursing with the best of intentions, but she soon finds that her expectations were vastly different than the reality of her new job.
Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, was host to riverboat travelers from around the world, providing a vigorous and variable atmosphere for the young Samuel Clemens to absorb.
In this unique book first published in 1916, Romanian Jew ALEXANDER AARONSOHN documents for the world the struggle that went on in Palestine during the early years of the Zionist movement, when his parents helped found the village of Zicron-Jacob and worked to transform the desert into a fertile garden.
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MARK RYLANCE'As disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting' Eimear McBride, New Statesman'A literary triumph' Adam Thorpe, Guardian1066.
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING READER FAVOURITE'Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real' SARAH WATERS'Rambunctiously funny' THE TIMES, Book of the Year'I can't think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLYWho do you choose when the cracks begin to show?
A quiet revolution runs through this book, revealing how the Anglican establishment shaped lives, loyalties, and dissent in eighteenth-century England.
A Black couple leaves their downtown Chicago condo for a new suburban subdivision, only to find themselves at the center of a maelstrom in this gripping page-turner from the award-winning author of Three Girls from Bronzeville.
For fans of Pachinko and Half of a Yellow Sun, an intimate debut novel about immigration, marriage, and vengeance politics told through the eyes of four Bengali teenagers in two vastly different time periods.
n post-war Germany, two extraordinary children are destined to meet: Heinrich Weiss, born during a summer storm with a "e;Sacred Fire"e; burning within him according to his grandmother's prophecy, and Sophia Hoffman, whose birth is marked by her great-aunt's prediction that she possesses "e;the sight.
First published as Hanamushiro in 1948, the setting for The Flower Mat is eighteenth-century Japan, a time when familes were bound together by a rigid code of honor and individual lives were of necessity valued far less than the interests of the group.
Evan's CatalogThirty years after the night Evan Ryder drowned, Firelake is back onstage for one final reunion tour — and Jake Sullivan, the man who has carried Evan's songs across decades, feels the weight of every note.
'MADELEINE GRAY IS A DAZZLING WRITER - A HUGE TALENT' GILLIAN ANDERSON'BEAUTIFUL, DEVASTATING, HILARIOUS AND FULL OF LIFE' JESSICA STANLEY'ALL KINDS OF GORGEOUSNESS' JENNIE GODFREY'GRAY WRITES SO ACUTELY ABOUT THE MESS OF DESIRE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION' NIGELLA LAWSONBooks about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one.
A novel needs to contain 50,000 words and more if you wish to be in the good graces of Publishing, which I don't, don't give a hoot, suggesting that if you question my label your answer becomes the misfortune of the question.
'Inventive' THE TIMESFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes the highly anticipated, heart-pounding thriller with twists you'll never see coming'Dark, twisty, and wildly addictive.
In the quiet western valleys of the kingdom, Lord Bernhard lives as his people do, working the fields, settling disputes, and sharing in the hardships of every harvest.
