Nicholas is beautiful, wealthy and hopelessly vain. With his older brother in tow, he jets from one glamorous scene to another. Whether it's in Rome, Madrid, or Mexico, what matters to him most is the admiration of others. Then one day, not even forty and his beauty faded, his life comes to an early end. His brother is left to pick up the pieces and make sense of Nicholas' untimely demise. "I Look Divine" is a precisely told and moving tale about what lurks beneath the ripples of Narcissus...

Another stunning prequel set in Andrea Cremer’s internationally bestselling Nightshade universe.Learn how Bosque Mar and his terrible wraiths unleashed dark magic upon the village of Dorusduain . . . bringing terror and destruction that Jean and her younger brother Rabbie must survive.The Nightshade saga continues in Rift.Praise for RIFT“A bit different from Nightshade, this is a book for historical and paranormal r...

A divorced father and his small son wait at an airport departure gate, bracing themselves for the separation that lies ahead. If only they could always be together ...In this heart-rending story about fathers and sons in the age of divorce, critically acclaimed author, Simon Worrall, gives voice to feelings that millions of men have - but don't always share.

Gene Stratton-Porter was an American author and naturalist. Porter was also one of the first women to make a movie studio and a couple of her novels have been turned into movies multiple times. This edition of The Song of the Cardinal includes a table of contents.

A rich, sultry, ambitious novel about a young American writer/curator, fleeing a crumbling marriage in New York who travels with her nine-year old daughter to one of the remote islands in the north of Scotland, birthplace of her grandfather.Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write the biography of the island's celebrated poet and chronicler, Mhairi McPhail is slowly drawn in by the complicated life she is uncovering and writing about--the Bard of Fascaray...

With over three million copies sold, this collection of cowboy wisdom and words to live by is "worthy of a book rustler" ( South Bend Tribune).In the tradition of humorist Will Rogers, Don't Squat with Your Spurs On takes a look at life through the eyes of the cowboy. It's filled with quips and quotes that represent the Code of the West, like: "Always drink upstream from the herd" and "The easiest way to eat crow is while it's st...

Every version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in one beautifully formatted e-book with historical footnotes, audio links and stunning original art.The Eleanor Mure pamphletThe Robert Southey versionScrapefootSilver-hair and the Three BearsThe Three BearsThe Story of the Three BearsAnd more ...*Stunningly illustrated with original art from renowned artists John Batten, L. Leslie Brooke, H. J. Ford, Peter Newell, Kay Nielsen, Charl...

By the author of Waiting in Vain: "A sparkling gift, the tale of a meager, shoeless, raggedy abandoned Cinderella whose hardships make her all the wiser" ( The Washington Post).Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos—a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica—this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's...

Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story filled with adventure and unforgettable characters that no one who has read it will ever forget.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.

Life is short in the old village where Muira has spent all her days, but her life truly begins the day she steps into Castle Campbell as a servant. The aging fortress and its cold laird feel a world away from the warmth of her mother and home, yet the innocent young woman is about to discover a much deeper, more dangerous heat within its stone walls.Stumbling upon the castle's darkest secret, Muira is drawn into a forbidden world controlled by the laird’s mysterious, rumored son, T...

Zeke shares the fate of many modern university graduates: A job in retail and a feeling that he could be doing more with himself. He also finds himself at the end of a long-term relationship, one that had sustained him throughout his university career.  So, left with nothing to keep him in his rut, Zeke decides to try something completely different: He decides to teach English in South Korea.  Zeke finds the work fulfilling enough but it's not long before Ji-Hye (...