"A tender, beautifully told true story about a soul‑deep connection that arrives without warning and lingers long after loss. As I read it, I found myself feeling the author's grief, hope, and quiet moments of recognition in my own heart.What moved me most was the way she describes a bond that doesn't end with death — how love can continue to show up in small, unexpected ways. It's reflective, emotional, and left me thinking about the people who have touched my life in the same way...

**Acclaimed chef, TV host, Top Chef fan-favorite, and author Carla Hall returns to her first culinary love story—baking—with over 80 sweet and savory recipes.“For years, I have had the pleasure of sitting next to Carla and listening to her explain the science and the art of baking. Now you get to experience her knowledge, wisdom, and humor as well in Carla Bakes.”—Duff Goldman**For Carla Hall, baking is a creative outlet, her source of play, and her first ...

A fun, vibrantly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of a natural history museum and all the incredible people who work there!Welcome to the Science and Natural History Museum! Here you’ll see all kinds of cool things, from a whole Dunkleosteus skeleton to a tiny dwarf seahorse to a glimpse of the Andromeda Galaxy. You’ll also meet all kinds of cool people—like volcanologists, paleontologists, squid biologists, and many more—who resear...

Two hearts, two callings, and a city that will test them both. Leaving the Isle of Man for London, John Storm and Glory Quayle carry very different hopes. John, an idealistic young clergyman, longs to devote his life to the poor and outcast. Glory, spirited and ambitious, yearns for independence and finds herself drawn to the excitement of the stage. As Glory enters the world of entertainment and John confronts the suffering beneath London’s glittering surface, their paths diverge—but thei...

He’s a marine figuring out how to be a dad. She’s out of work and moves in with her mom. A surprise reunion brings the old friends together. Will a dare turn them into something more?Eisley Higgins is laid off and needs a fresh start. Her mother offers her the loft space at her new beach cottage. The last thing she wants to do is move to a retirement community in coastal Florida. She gets a job at a local restaurant and her coworkers insist she follow through with ...

On the frontier of a savanna-spanning empire, Keita, the disgruntled son of a goat herder, braves the wilderness, monsters, and vile magic to save his older brother from becoming an enslaved weapon of a scheming mchawi. In the process, he is granted with a divine burden--the long-lost legacy of an ancient god. Under the guidance of a bush witch and old griot, Keita learns the true nature of his newfound power, lest he become a weapon himself."Donovan Hall knocks this one out of the...

ADVENTURES IN TOYLAND:WHAT THE MARIONETTE TOLD MOLLYBY EDITH KING HALL

A groundbreaking account of how politics and economics have interacted in Western democracies over the past eighty yearsHow do capitalist economies change over time? And what political consequences follow? In Governing Growth, Peter Hall traces the interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years, identifying a series of profound shifts in the political economies of Europe and the United States. Hall develops th...

Corvus Thorne is a reclusive witch who values her quiet forest sanctuary—and her solitude—above all else.Princess Phaedra Golding is an endlessly cheerful, slightly accident-prone knight who loves people and weaves mystical stories into everyday life.When Phaedra accidentally crashes through Corvus’s poor door, the grumpy witch wants nothing more than to send the sunshine knight packing. But in a land of waning magic, the unlikely pair find themselves bound together by the ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 1st volume contains the following 50 works...

Abigail Hurst and her friends moved to Grand Junction, CO, to make their own clan. They dream of building a close-knit clan where all members are accepted for who they are. However, someone doesn't want them there. A curse has been placed on the land and the buildings, but no one can break it.Samantha Winthrop, a Daimon, was sent to help break the curse. Samantha's spirit animal, Nolan, helps her uncover secrets and channel her powers. Their search reveals only dragon blood can bre...

Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book. Never out of print since its publication, it is constantly being reevalua...