Pastor Konrad Fromm is thirty-four years old, has been in office for four years, and is exceptionally good at his job. He sits with the dying who would otherwise die alone. He conducts funerals after which the bereaved hold his hand for just a little too long. In an Eifel village with eight hundred and twenty inhabitants, they were fortunate to have him.One afternoon in April, he reads a poorly printed circular. A missionary organization is looking for staff for a social center in Pattaya....

Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin Pierce.

Paris, 1948. Captain Alistair Croft follows every rule the Service ever wrote for him. Extract the asset. Do not improvise. Do not share a bed. Do not let a cover require his mouth.Elodie Voss has already rented the attic as Mrs Croft.She is a French master of disguise with a laugh that comes through locked doors and a file full of gaps. He is a British intelligence officer who burns forged papers in alleys and writes the dead in the third person. London wants them to pose ...

If you get your health coverage through work and you are stuck with medical bills that should have already been paid, this book is for you.When the plan underpays or denies a claim, the doctor or hospital still wants to be paid. They send the invoice straight to you. That bill becomes real money out of your pocket. It can lead to collection calls, pressure on your household budget, and unnecessary stress. Most people never get told the simple truth. The employer is responsible for t...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

Buried in the CIA's public archive sits one of the strangest documents the U.S. government ever released: a 1983 report on leaving your body, traveling beyond time, and reading a "universal hologram." The Monroe Institute Files traces the true story behind it—from Robert Monroe, a radio executive haunted by out-of-body experiences, to the Hemi-Sync sound technology, the Cold War psychic-spy program at Fort Meade, and the mystery of the missing page 25. Separating documented fact f...

In a small Puritan settlement bound by silence and suspicion, Hester Prynne steps onto the public scaffold with a scarlet letter "A" stitched to her chest, and refuses to name the father of her child. Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 masterpiece follows three lives fractured by one unconfessed sin: a proud, isolated mother; a vengeful husband hiding in plain sight; and a minister slowly consumed by the guilt he cannot speak aloud. Dense with symbolism and psychological tension, The Scarlet Lette...

Colour is one of the most meaningful and expressive elements that can be used in the design of buildings. It is also the most neglected: students are rarely taught about it, and many architects are fearful of it.Chromatic Architecture explores the beauty of colour. How it is crafted into the fabric of buildings, opening our eyes to the sensuous and delightful world that exists when it is embraced in the making of space.By featuring intriguing and rich examples of architectu...

Every life is shaped by connection.Some are forged through love, family, and friendship. Others emerge from loss, memory, technology, chance encounters, or the choices we make in moments that seem insignificant-until they change everything. Whether they bind us together or pull us apart, the threads connecting one life to another are often invisible until we look back and see where they have led.Where Connections Lead brings together twenty-six original stories by ...

History Echoes.Three artifacts hidden throughout the dimensions form the Adjunct Machina, a means to unshackle the Revenant Army; a merciless force that would hand the Kriva Rasturna control over all the dimensions.With the Kriva Rasturna already holding one of the artifacts, the race is on to locate the remaining two and stop the darkness from rising. Ethan and his coalition's best lead points them to the swamps of Alchemilla and into Helenium, a dimension well behind enem...

National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil warIn January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history, as hundreds of thousands raced west in pursuit of sudden wea...