"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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This new anthology brings the female crime writers who inspired Agatha Christie out of her shadow and back into the spotlight they deserve. The success of writers like Anna Katherine Green in America; L. T. Meade, C. L. Pirkis, the Baroness Orczy, and Elizabeth Corbett in England...
Soothe your baby to sleep with this illustrated collection of 30 classic lullabies and rhymes to be read aloud.
"It's a good thing when your dad gets married again, right? But what if your new stepmother can't stand you, your real mum's not around, and people go nuts? This is where Marty finds herself: trying to stay part of some sort of family, however messed up it might be"--Ransom.co.uk...
The story of Trinidad-born Ulric Cross, who became the RAF's most decorated West Indian airman of WWII. His life took a dramatically different course when he followed the call of history and joined the Pan African independence movements sweeping the world in the '50s and '60s.
Britain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids but small, strange places and objects that hint at a deep and enduring relationship with the mystic. This book unearths more than seventy of our most intriguing mysteries: archaeological sites and artefacts ...
Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago, an 84 minute documentary, follows a diverse group of pilgrims, ages 3 to 73, from all over the world as they attempt to cross an entire country on foot with only a backpack, a pair of boots, and an open mind.
Marty tries to cope after her father remarries as she documents her life in a diary, which is contrasted by letters written by her stepmother.
"If you ever go to great city of Delaunay, take a left at the Duchess's palace and cross the Bridge of Spires, and there you will find The Incredible Hotel. Everything runs like clockwork, thanks to Stefan the kitchen porter, who brews the coffee every morning, and dreams of bein...
"Bridgerton meets Gossip girl with a dash of Jane Austen, in Reputation, a Regency-era historical romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from a hilarious new British voice, Lex Croucher. Abandoned by her parents, bookish and sheltered Georgiana Ellers is spending the ...
"The field of digital humanities-and the way in which libraries and library workers support and engage with it-continues to expand and evolve with technological innovations and global and national events that have had a large-scale impact on the world. There are productive new wa...
When aging janitor Harlan Williams is accidentally exposed to exotic chemicals in a lab explosion, he undergoes an extraordinary change, which the government wants to study at any cost. Soon, Harlan, his wife Gina, and the lab's security chief are on a cross-country race to evade...
In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface), Julian Barnes examines the British, French, and American writers who have shaped his own writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures.
"A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history. Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in s...
"Margit Kassai is a Jewish woman living in Budapest, Hungary, when the Nazis invade in March 1944. The book is written in diary form during World War II, starting in February 1945, so she refers to her writing on the previous year as a "retrospective diary." Her story is addresse...
"Bridgerton meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Jane Austen, in Reputation, a Regency-era historical romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from a hilarious new British voice, Lex Croucher. Abandoned by her parents, bookish and sheltered Georgiana Ellers is spending the ...
"Bridgerton meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Jane Austen, in Reputation, a Regency-era historical romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from a hilarious new British voice, Lex Croucher. Abandoned by her parents, bookish and sheltered Georgiana Ellers is spending the ...
These are stories of P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags-or their bras, of crime victims, homeless women, and housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. This collection brings several brilliant international authors to American readers for the first t...