"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective can...
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Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seem...
Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, a man from the post-apocalyptic future, James Cole, travels to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will decimate the human race. But as he and virologist, Dr. Cassandra R...
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Born into poverty yet taught to live generously by their mother, the sisters encounter the classic struggles all girls face.
Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, a man from the post-apocalyptic future, James Cole, travels to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will decimate the human race. But as he and virologist, Dr. Cassandra R...
Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, a man from the post-apocalyptic future, James Cole, travels to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will decimate the human race. But as he and virologist, Dr. Cassandra R...
Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love touched the world. Together for the first time in one collection, 15 short stories by bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher. A Place Like Home is a collection of Rosamunde Pilcher's most enduring shor...
Detroit gave the world soul music through the success of Motown Records, who were scoring hits from 1959 onwards. Their latest sound would be studied and aped by hundreds of acts around the city. Includes the songs I Cried For My Last Time; End Of Time; Nosey Folk; and more.
At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina, former West-African slaves who adopted many of the ancestors Yoruba traditions, struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while...
A collection of stories, all written by women, that probe the dark heart of crime in the name of two of the deadliest sins, lust and greed.
Rhyming words help a grade-schooler deal with his angry feelings in a more constructive way.
"Bold, audacious, and colourful, Joyce Wieland was the first woman living artist to have a solo exhibition at both the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She was a major figure in the avant-garde film scene of the 1960s and '70s, and together with Michael ...
"A little boy named Claus worries that he is different from other kids: he likes to wear red all the time and his favorite hangout is the workshop with his grandmother. His grandmother tells him his differences make him special and a Christmas snowstorm helps Claus appreciate his...
A collection of stories, all written by women, that probe the dark heart of crime and deadly sin.
In "Two of the Deadliest", Elizabeth George has gathered nearly two dozen tales that probe the dark heart of crime in the name of a pair of particularly wicked transgressions, lust and greed. Includes Laura Lippman, Susan Wiggs, Marcia Muller, Carolyn Hart, Nancy Pickard, S.J. Ro...
From one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light , a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the south pacific in 1912. Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but de...
Profiles the life and work of celebrated African American actor, singer, athlete, writer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976).
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert have sent to the orphanage for a boy. So when a skinny, red-haired girl turns up, she is not quite what they had in mind. Anne Shirley soon sets the quiet island community of Avonlea talking of little else. With her incessant chatter and intense imagi...