The rich diversity of Arkansas’s amphibian and reptilian species comes alive in this thoroughly updated second edition of The Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. An indispensable resource for both professionals and enthusiasts, and praised for its accessible language and scientific rigor, this field guide not only reflects the latest in taxonomic research but also celebrates the surge in herpetological studies in Arkansas over the past two decades, showcasing a thriving academic ...

In 1986, one of television's most ambitious adventure programmes ended in the Patagonian wilderness.Its field reporter vanished. Its final episode was destroyed. Its researcher, Inez Bell, was blamed for sending the expedition in the wrong direction.The truth was never broadcast.Forty years later, Inez's fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Mara Bell, receives an invitation to complete the journey her grandmother abandoned. Determined to clear Inez's na...

Mara Doyle has travelled to France to support her older brother Finn in one of Europe's most demanding junior cycling races. She expects five days of crowded start lines, exhausting climbs and endless conversations about gears.She does not expect a rider's brakes to fail.After reviewing footage taken before the crash, Mara spots a stranger interfering with a race bicycle. Before she can prove what she saw, her camera is stolen—and the memory card becomes th...

My Brilliant Career is a classic Australian work published in 1901 by Stella Miles Franklin, with an introduction by Henry Lawson. A thinly veiled autobiographical novel, it paints a vivid and sometimes grim picture of rural Australian life in the late 19th Century.Sybylla Melvyn is the daughter of a man who falls into grinding poverty through inadvised speculation before becoming a hopeless drunk unable to make a living from a small dairy farm. Sybylla longs for the intel...

William Sydney Porter, known to readers as O. Henry, was a true raconteur. As a draftsman, a bank teller, a newspaper writer, a fugitive from justice in Central America, and a writer living in New York City, he told stories at each stop and about each stop. His stories are known for their vivid characters who come to life, and sometimes death, in only a few pages. But the most famous characteristic of O. Henry's stories are the famous "twist" endings, where the outcome comes as a surprise ...

This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa: My...

King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring Henry Rider Haggard's writing or building a library of enduring books.

A spiritual awakening can transform the way you understand yourself, reality, and the meaning of your life. But how do you explore profound experiences without losing your connection to the world around you?In The Grounded Awakening, Henry Morrison offers a thoughtful guide to navigating spiritual transformation with openness, discernment, and balance. The book explores vivid dreams, synchronicities, intuition, changing perceptions, spiritual identity, and the search for meaning wh...

He was the last person anyone would choose. And that was the point. Eighteen-year-old Jamie Vale has never stood out.His A-level results are disappointing. His friends are moving on without him. A place at a good university seems increasingly unlikely, and Jamie has no clear idea what he is supposed to do with the rest of his life.Then he finds an unusual job advertisement.No degree required. Full training provided. Surprisingly good pay.The position at Meri...

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring Henry James's writing or building a library of enduring books.

Henry Slesar's offbeat, unsettling tale introduces Etienne Dauphin, a cultivated young man raised in a household unlike any other: his mother is a refined Frenchwoman, and his father is a large, intelligent cat named Dauphin. Shaped by old-world manners, literature, and a touch of feline grace, Etienne travels to America, where he falls in love with the lively Joanna and brings her home to meet his mysterious parent. What follows is a deliciously tense comedy of manners, where romance, sat...

In a razor-edged near-future where publicity has become its own form of power, Tom Blacker's career begins with a stunt so outrageous it lights up the sky: a movie star's face and singing voice projected across the heavens. The spectacle wins attention, then outrage, and Tom is swiftly condemned by his boss and the police commissioner, losing his job and stumbling into a night of drunken chaos. That collapse sends him into the orbit of Livia Cord, a beautiful, unsettling woman who rescues ...