If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

In the shadowed heart of the American frontier, vengeance rides with a name... Jed McAllister. After his family was brutally massacred and he was left for dead, Jed was found by the Crow people, who nursed him back to life and gifted him with an otherworldly power. Beneath his eyepatch lies the 'Eye of Vengeance', a force that can rip a man's soul from his body and drag in straight to Hell. Jed is willing to use it on any of Blackwood's men stupid enough to stand in his way.

The walls remember everything in Ravenswood, an award-winning supernatural horror that doesn't let go.Ghost hunters seek to contact the restless spirits of Ravenswood Asylum, an abandoned building devoid of hope. The decaying walls of this long-abandoned institution hide more than just memories of suffering; they conceal a force that defies comprehension. When contact is made, an unspeakable evil is found, an entity that feeds on fear and despair. As reali...

This Audiobook contains the following works The Sky is the Limit Vol 1 Think and Grow Rich [Napoleon Hill] - Starts at Chapter 1 The prophet [Khalil Gibran] - Starts at Chapter 19 Eight Pillars of Prosperity [James Allen]- Starts at Chapter 47 As a Man Thinketh [James Allen] - Starts at Chapter 58 An Iron Will [Orison Swett Marden] - Starts at Chapter 67 The Art of Money Getting [P.T. Barnum] - Starts at Chapter 74 The Game of Life and How to Play it [Florence Scovel Shinn] - Starts at Cha...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of almond growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective, covering botany, production, processing and industrial uses. Almonds are an important crop; they are highly regarded for their flavour, nutritional properties and culinary uses, and almond oil is used widely in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical production. They are easy to transport and have long storability, facilitating global dissemination. Demand is constantly increasing and g...

Introduction by Derek Brewer.The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Germany and Russia, as well as India, where it was once claimed that they orig...

The Classic Victorian Ghost Story-Annotated and ContextualizedTHE TURN OF THE SCREWThe Turn of the Screw presents Henry James's original 1898 text together with an original editorial introduction, more than 60 explanatory annotations, and a curated further reading guide.First published in 1898, The Turn of the Screw remains one of the most celebrated and enigmatic ghost stories in the English language. When a young...

The only annotated edition of M. R. James’s writings currently availableCount Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James’s ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century work in this genre. Included in this collection are s...

James Arthur Anderson takes a structuralist approach to dissecting the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). This book offers both scholars and fans alike new insight into the work of the best-known American horror writer of the first half of the 20th century. As critic S. T. Joshi states: "Anderson's thorough familiarity with Lovecraft's texts (essays and letters, as well as stories), and with the best scholarship on Lovecraft, is evident on every page; and the fluidity with whic...

Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke of the pre-pandemic status quo and a stark exposé of the buried weaknesses in our soci...

The Ghost Who Wouldn't Leave, the award-winning romantic comedy with a ghostly twist."Some houses have history. Hers came with the ghost of a Victorian playwright who refuses to leave..."When Lesley Tierney moved into a quaint Yorkshire cottage, she was looking for peace, solitude, and maybe a little inspiration to finally finish her novel. What she didn't expect was for the cottage to come with a permanent... and very ...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the...