Lucy Pevensie, along with her older brothers Edmund and Peter, and her older sister, Susan, are in London during the initial bombing raids of WW II. Like many families, their parents decide to send them to the country for safer keeping. Peter, the oldest, is told to watch over th...
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Hathorn, Elizabeth
When he offers the Duke of Windemere's niece, Messalina Greycourt, a devil's bargain to avoid an arranged marriage, Gideon Hawthorne, who has performed the Duke's dirty work for years, finally has the chance to win her affections.
Covers the Civil War from January 1862 to January 1863, describing the events of that year through messages, proclamations, newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and poems from people who lived through it.
Dale Carnegie was raised on a poverty-stricken farm in back woods Missouri, twelve miles from the nearest railroad. Yet this farm boy became one of the best-known men of our time -- a success in business, teacher of millions, famous author. How did he do it? Though beset by feeli...
"An anthology of short stories has been designed specifically as an instructional text for first-year university students. To explore the many dimensions of short narrative fiction, the collection includes traditional classics from European culture, from Chaucer to Gogol and Che...
England. 1770. Marcus Ashford exists solely to protect the Crown, surrounded by a world of spies and secrets. Yet when he once again crosses paths with Elizabeth Hawthorne, his former fiancee, he risks everything to make her his love once more--no matter how hard she tries to fig...
"From James M. Cain to Stephen King, from Sophocles to the Marquis de Sade to Iceberg Slim, here are stunning and sometimes macabre visualizations of some of the greatest crime and mystery stories of all time. Rick Geary brings his crisp style to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment...
The American Canon gathers five decades of Bloom's essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from several of his books, weaving them together into an unrivalled tour of the great American bookshelf. Always a champion of aesthetic power, Bloom tells the stor...
Presents stories, poems, journal writings, and letters together with Typee, Billy Budd, and portions of four of Melville's novels.
Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories: readers, writers, and teachers will get an anthology, a course's worth of writing exercises, a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digit...
"Since the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, books and print culture have been central to the shaping of culture and society. 'The Book History Reader' is the first comprehensive volume to bring together a variety of work - much of which is now out of prin...
England, 1770. Beneath the silk and lace of London society lies a secret, elite organization of spies. Protecting the Crown from its enemies is hazardous, but for Marcus Ashford, protecting his heart from an unyielding passion is the far greater peril... A MATTER OF DANGEROUS INT...
"Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the pandemic sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. Obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt, she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Mas...
"Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the pandemic sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. Obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt, she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Mas...
A Matter Of Dangerous Intrigue... As an agent to the Crown, Marcus Ashford, the Earl of Westfield, has fought numerous sword fights, been shot twice, and dodged more than any man's fair share of cannon fire. And yet nothing excites him more than the primitive hunger his former...
Beloved author Donna Kauffman tells the spellbinding story of two lost souls, one remote Idaho ranch, and a love threatened by dark truths. Kane Hawthorne has no ties, nothing to anchor him, which is essential in his line of work. Except for a truck and a few horses, the bou...