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...

In her lyrical fifth collection, I Am Trying to Love the Whole World, Jenny Browne fearlessly confronts grief without sentimentality and beauty without denial. For nearly a year, Browne began each poem with the line “I am trying to love the whole world,” letting it guide her through loss, love, and survival. The result is a striking meditation on human fragility and the sustaining power of art, even as life—and the world around us—can be made and unmade in an inst...

Grab a pencil and join P.I. Hartigan Browne to unravel riddles, crack codes, and catch the culprit in this fun, interactive three-book eBook gift set of puzzle adventures.Calling all sleuths! Explore the first three books in Hartigan Browne's Cluedle series, now packaged in an eBook box set for your favorite young gumshoe! Search for hidden meaning in paintings in The Case of the Dumpleton Diamond, sail the high seas in The Case of the Golden Pomegrana...

Congratulations on your promotion!Now, if you'll just sign here so we can begin the soul extraction process, that'd be fantastic!So, here you are. Promoted, trained, and introduced to your new team, ready to take on the world. Leading people through customer service is easy, right? Of course, it is. You just have to ensure that your overworked and underpaid employees don't walk into traffic after the shift from hell, keep your highly unrealistic in-the-real...

Interested in growing your own food? From the author of the award-winning Little Farm in the Foothills homesteading memoir comes a friendly, down-to-earth little guide for starting and maintaining a thriving food garden. In Little Farm in the Garden, Susan Colleen Browne shares the evolution of her own homestead garden with warmth and humor.Whether you’re starting with a pot, a small plot, or dedicated garden beds...

My husband has been keeping secrets for a long time. He thinks I don’t know what he does outside of this house. But I know everything… Karla watches silently as Jason hurriedly packs his belongings into a suitcase. She knows that her stillness is unnerving him as she watches his every move from the doorway of their bedroom.Clothes are screwed up and packed into the case, along with a watch she bought him for his last birthday and his precious laptop. He takes everyth...

( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot sh...

In 2012 when young Polish immigrant Agnieszka visits fellow countrywoman Krystyna in a Peterborough care home for the first time, she thinks it a simple act of kindness. However, the meeting proves to be the beginning of a life-changing experience.Krystyna's stories about the past are not memories of the good old days but recollections of war-ravaged Europe: The Warsaw Ghetto, Pawiak Prison, Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, and a death march to freedom.The losses and ordeals K...

In Gerald A. Browne's spellbinding New York Times bestseller, a man bent on vengeance infiltrates a cabal of blue-blooded bankers that have taken over the MafiaIn a quiet suburb of New York City, a mansion on a gated estate houses one of the most powerful crime syndicates in the United States—an elite Mafia whose dons belong to the finest families that the WASP establishment has to offer. Millions of dollars flow in and out of 19 Purchase Street, toted by b...

The classic New York Times–bestselling tale of suspense and intrigue that takes readers behind the scenes of the secretive billion-dollar diamond businessFrom a centuries-old building on a narrow street in the heart of London, a firm known as the System, the world's most lucrative and least-known cartel, maintains a stranglehold on the world's diamonds. The company selects the stones a customer can buy and decides how much he must pay for the privilege. One...

The autobiography provides a detailed account of Martha Browne Griffith's experiences as a slave in the United States. Through her narrative, she offers a personal and harrowing insight into the life of an enslaved woman, including the brutal realities of slavery, the struggles for survival, and the quest for freedom.Griffith’s account is both a personal memoir and a broader commentary on the institution of slavery. It highlights the harsh conditions, the emotional and physical toll, and t...

"Granny's Wonderful Chair" serves as a framing device for the collection of fairy tales. The story begins with a little girl named Snowflower, who lives with her grandmother, Dame Frost. Snowflower loves to sit in her grandmother's old armchair, which has the magical ability to transport her to distant lands and times.As Snowflower settles into the chair, Dame Frost regales her with tales of fairy times—stories of kings and queens, princes and princesses, and magical creatures that inhabit...