Robert Louis Stevenson emerges here as a writer of uncommon warmth, vitality, and moral force, moving with ease from lyrical celebration to searching reflection. These essays and poems explore memory, beauty, fame, nature, and the hidden life of the mind, while tracing a larger philosophy of joy grounded in simplicity, observation, and courage. Stevenson contrasts the cramped habits of city routine with the liberating pleasures of open air, walking, travel, and the disciplined imagination ...

From the New York Times’s former chief classical music critic, a tribute to one of the great singers of modern times and a national treasure who broke racial barriersThe night before Marian Anderson performed her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial, she called her manager with grave doubts. What had started as a plan to sing a recital in Washington’s largest concert hall had turned, she feared, into a protest rally after she was barred from appearing ...

This incendiary political pamphlet turns the Peace of Paris into a battlefield of reputation, diplomacy, and national loyalty. It opens with the Devonshire instructions, where freeholders claim the right to direct their representatives and demand inquiry into grave public grievances, then follows Dr. Musgrave of Plymouth as he urges an impartial investigation into a hidden national injury. Musgrave says he brought secret intelligence and documents from Paris to Lord Halifax in 1765, only t...

The Four Corners of Power is a guide to the relationships that shape your life and your leadership. Drawing from an ancient account in the Gospels where four people carried their paralyzed friend and lowered him through a crowded rooftop so he could get help, Louis L. Reed uses that moment as a practical model for how support works in real life. From that scene comes a framework for the four kinds of people every future needs: the Believer who sees your potential, the Reliever who steadies...

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by life's unpredictable challenges? Do you want to build an unshakeable foundation that allows you to thrive under pressure, rather than survive?True resilience isn't about avoiding adversity—it's about mastering your internal landscape so you can handle whatever comes your way. This book offers a transformative blueprint for breaking free from stress, cultivating fierce self-discipline, and unlocking your true potential.This is a highly...

Authentic Voice and Speech by Louis Colaianni and Peter Marciano offers a ground breaking, student-centered approach to voice and speech training that celebrates individuality and diversity.This book moves beyond traditional, prescriptive methods to empower readers to embrace their unique voices as reflections of their identity, culture, and personal journey. Drawing inspiration from Kristin Linklater’s transformative teachings, Rosina Lippi-Green’s sociolinguistic insight...

From Edgar Wallace's relentless pacing to John Buchan's espionage classic The Thirty-Nine Steps, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of danger, pursuit, and hidden agendas. Erskine Childers's proto-spy intrigue, Louis Joseph Vance's gentleman-crook capers, Mary Roberts Rinehart's had-I-but-known suspense, and William Le Queux's invasion thrillers sit alongside contributions from Henry Rider Haggard, G. K. Chesterton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, tracing the suspense and thriller s...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAT LOSSThe Science, Psychology, Nutrition, Exercise and Practical Strategies Behind Sustainable Fat LossWhat if successful fat loss was not about finding the perfect diet—but about finally understanding how the whole system works?The Encyclopedia of Fat Loss is a comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to lose body fat, improve their health, become more active, and build results that can actually last.A...

Secrets simmer in a small town, longing stirs beneath the surface, and something wild waits to break through.Bradley Holt's life is coming apart. His husband is gone, his Silicon Valley job is slipping, and the future he counted on no longer feels secure. Then, at Beltane, an ancient spring festival marking one of the cross-quarter days between seasons, he meets Daniel, a warm, enigmatic presence from a seaside monastery in San Lucca, Bradley's old hometown.

This is the first book with a full biographical scope on Brown's life, not just his controversial Harper's Ferry raid of 1859.John Brown: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works is an overview of Brown's life and the social and political aspects of his legacy in U.S. history. It contains a chronology, an introduction, a dictionary of persons and places essential to the study of Brown's life and times, as well as a substantive bibliography, letter ...

Bound by Blood: Chosen by Magic.Welcome to Ravenbrook! A charming little town tucked away in picturesque and occasionally ominous woodlands surrounded by rivers and streams. Pay attention to the roads, they can be fairly unpredictable, but pay no attention to the signs. Those tend to not be very helpful. In fact, in Ravenbrook most things are not quite what they seem.Seth Bennett was just your average 17-year-old living in Boston. The son of Alice ...