Can she save herself from a witch's fate?Martha is a feisty and articulate young woman, the daughter of a wheelwright, living in a Herefordshire village in Elizabethan England. With no mother Martha's life is spent running her father's meagre household and helping out at the local school whilst longing to escape the confines and small-mindedness of a community driven by religious bigotry and poverty.As she is able to read and is well-versed in herbal reme...

Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand’s Gold Rush, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. Dickens meets Deadwood in this internationally celebrated phenomenon.In January 1866, young Walter Moody lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the wes...

'Eleanor Porter is a major new voice in historical fiction.' Tim Clayton Where will her loyalty lead her?Once accused of witchcraft Martha Spicer is now free from the shadow of the gallows and lives a safe and happy life with her husband, Jacob. But when Jacob heads north to accompany his master, he warns Martha to keep her healing gifts a secret, to keep herself safe, to be a good wife.Martha loves Jacob but without him there to protect her, she soon c...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

For fans of The Push and The Undoing, an edge-of-your-seat thriller that peels back the layers of a family that's not as perfect as it seems.“My Name Was Eden is a compulsive, didn't-see-it-coming thriller.”—Abigail Dean, international bestselling author of Girl AOne twin vanished. The other twin remained. Until now...When her daughter Eden came home from the hospital, Lu...

How amazing is grace?Eight short stories trace the path of grace through the lines of a well-known hymn that was birthed in tragedy.◆ "The Sweetest Sound" by Stacy MonsonIn this prequel to When Valleys Mourn, book 2 of the My Father's House series, teenagers Wendy and Jimmy want only to raise their unexpected blessing in a home filled with love, but they are faced with an impossible dilemma. What's best for their daughter—living a h...

'The Greatest Christmas Novels, Stories, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)' presents a rich tapestry of yuletide narratives, each weaving its own unique thread into the vast fabric of Christmas literature. Spanning a spectrum of genres and styles—from the whimsical charm of children's fables to the profound depths of philosophical explorations—this collection captures the myriad ways our greatest literary figures have interpreted the essence of Christmas. The anthology includes semina...

HOLIDAY Ultimate Collection gathers more than four hundred Christmas novels, tales, poems, carols, and legends into a capacious archive of Anglophone and European holiday writing. Its range extends from domestic realism and moral fable to fairy tale, gothic fantasy, devotional verse, children's literature, and seasonal folklore. Canonical narratives of generosity, memory, poverty, wonder, and communal reconciliation stand beside lesser-known period pieces, while illustrations reinforce the...

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“How could a mother not know?” This is a question often asked about families where incest has occurred, and Eleanor Cowan’s gripping memoir, A History of a Pedophile’s Wife, steps up with answers that are courageous and heartbreaking. Cowan grew up in Quebec in the 1950s, in a large Roman Catholic family with a lethal mix of violence, addiction, and toxic pedagogy. Cowan details the dance of a survivor moving into adulthood: one step forward towards freedom, two steps back into conditionin...

Winner of the National Book Award"What an elegant book this is, starting with that most elegant of creatures, the Belon oyster. . . . [Clark's] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and literature both." — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewOn the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel, is the little town of Locmariaquer (pronounced "loc-maria-...

Eleanor Porter's classic well-loved children’s tale Pollyanna has been enjoyed by readers of all ages around the world for almost a century. It tales of a young orphan girl with a wonderfully optimistic attitude to life.