Penelope Hamilton arrives in Edinburgh with Salemina and Francesca, a sharp-tongued trio whose "triangular alliance" is held together by affection, compromise, and a shared talent for comic self-awareness. From their departure on the Flying Scotsman to their arrival in the haar-veiled city, Kate Douglas Wiggin turns travel into social comedy, pairing practical anxieties about money, lodging, and class with warm banter and quick observations. Francesca's impulsive leadership, Salemina's sch...

From the moonlit canals of Venice to the reforming classrooms of Yverdon, this witty travel narrative turns sightseeing into a sparkling test of taste, language, and character. The narrator, a painter shaped by years of teaching and child care, travels with the dignified Salemina, the wealthy Francesca, and the pedantic Miss Celia Van Tyck, finding delight in beauty while never losing her comic eye for human absurdity. In Venice, she revels in the city's rare wonder, its festivals, gondola...

Polly Oliver's Problem opens with a warm portrait of Kate Douglas Wiggin herself: a beloved New England writer whose light-filled Quillcote home, affection for children, and quiet domestic world fed her humor, tenderness, and vivid sketches of family life. The biographical sketch shows how her gifts grew out of practical childhood energy, reading, storytelling, and a lifelong devotion to education, including her work founding the first free kindergarten west of the Rocky Mountains. That sa...

Kate Douglas Wiggin's Irish travel tale begins with three unforgettable companions: Penelope, newly married and irrepressibly witty; Francesca, transformed by love and on the edge of marriage; and Salemina, the practical friend whose steadiness holds them together. In Dublin, their banter turns travel into comedy as they debate whether Ireland should be explored through literature, history, or the delightfully odd music of place names. Penelope's playful reflections on "three-volume" lives...

In the spring-lit world of Stoke Revel, a lonely young widow arrives from America hoping to find family, only to meet the chill of old wealth, old rules, and old resentments. Yet Robinette Loring is no sentimental victim: her wit, courage, and stubborn brightness make her a force in the very house that would rather not be disturbed. Around her, Kate Douglas Wiggin builds a domestic novel of inheritance, class tension, and emotional awakening. Mrs. de Tracy guards the manor's traditions wit...

Pinafore Palace is a tender, whimsical nursery poetry collection by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, inviting readers into a child's kingdom ruled by a queen mother and filled with song, rhyme, and make-believe. Framed as a tribute to babies, mothers, and the magic of childhood, it celebrates nursery verse as something far richer than nonsense: a way to awaken a child's ear, mind, heart, and imagination. From cradle songs and finger-plays to classic Mother Goose favorites, the...

Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.And on and on and on.Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.Those c...

From an award-winning historian, the gripping, singular story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna as seen through the letters and diaries of an extraordinary woman who witnessed it all.In 1922, Hugo Bettauer published the novel The City Without Jews, a satirical critique of Austrian antisemitism. Three years later he would be killed by an early follower of the Nazi Party. More than a decade later, in March 1938, the novel's terrifying vision of a Vienna em...

Magic is never a free pass...Step into a hidden supernatural ecosystem operating just beneath the surface of our daily routines. In this captivating volume, fifteen urban fantasy storytellers pit their characters against real-world issues in settings that are simultaneously arcane and all-too real. Play along with a gambler who discovers the terrifying cost of his lucky streak, listen in as a musician learns a hard lesson at the hands of a trickster, and ride shotgun with a detecti...

WINNER — AURORA AWARD — BEST YA NOVELWINNER — Juried IAP AWARD — BEST YA NOVELVanishing street kids. An ancient evil. The end of the world.Our only hope? A hero who can't leave home.At seventeen, Will Dreycott is a superhero…in his dreams. And in yours.Eight years ago, Will's parents, shady dealers in ancient artifacts, disappeared on a jungle expedition. Will, the ...

The legend and the lore surrounding the vampire runs deeper than an ocean of seething blood. We love them, fear them, are fascinated and spellbound by their undead existence. Here are thirteen stories of the most dreaded monster in all of supernatural literature.MOVING LINES - A heartsick gypsy con-artist reads the palm of a beautiful vampiress.THE NIGHT KILLERS - A squad of vampire hunters fight to protect the post-apocalyptic remnants of civilization.GROWING SHADO...

As First Officer on the part passenger ship, part space freighter, The Fiscal Restraint, Jack Dexter (Dex to his friends) thinks he knows all there is to know about "Murphy’s Law": If anything can go wrong, it will. And on the perpetually under-staffed, under-funded Restraint, it generally does.But he never expected to actually meet Murphy. The real Murphy. Dex hires Orville Sod onto the Restraint just before the ship makes the jump to deep space. Unfortunately, by the time that De...