e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

The America of the early republic was built on an experiment, a hopeful prophecy that would only be fulfilled if an enlightened people could find its way through its past and into a future. Americans recognized that its promises would only be fully redeemed at a future date. In Revolutionary Prophecies, renowned historians Robert M. S. McDonald and Peter S. Onuf summon a diverse cast of characters from the founding generation—all of whom, in different ways, reveal how their unders...

In the rugged, wind-swept dunes of Noosa Heads, a young girl named Cheryl grows up in the shadows of secrecy and survival. Her mother, known only as the Worm Lady, scrapes together a living by the sea, harvesting beach worms and selling them to tourists. But behind her mother's weathered face lies a life of sacrifice, lived out in the hidden alleys of Brisbane. As Cheryl comes of age, her world is shattered by a single night of violence that leaves her alone to bury her past-both literally...

Elements: Thirteen Stories by Peter Freeman is a richly layered collection that explores the quiet power of human resilience and the profound impact of connection. Spanning genres and settings-from speculative fiction and contemporary realism to psychological drama and cultural commentary-each story is a standalone gem, yet together they form a compelling narrative arc about facing adversity and making courageous choices.Across these thirteen stories, Freeman offer...

In Alchemy Alive: Twelve Screen and Stage Plays, Peter Freeman transforms his acclaimed short stories from Elements: Thirteen Stories into compelling scripts for screen and stage. Organized around the four classical elements-Fire, Air, Earth, and Water-this collection brings twelve vivid narratives to life in dramatic form.Each script captures the emotional depth, social insight, and human complexity of the original stories while adapting them for visual and perfo...

This book is a phrase-oriented, light-hearted account of how the author navigated through and survived childhood trauma, being raised in a dysfunctional family and over a decade of daily alcohol and drug abuse. This book has a wide appeal to anyone from teenagers to adults, who need a little inspiration when life gets too heavy or when things aren't going the way they like. There are 144 insights and from what I understand, the number 144 carries a powerful message of spiritual awakening a...

In Elements: Thirteen Stories, Peter Freeman weaves a tapestry of tales that explore the themes of caring and resolution. From the extraordinary to the deeply personal, these stories offer a thought-provoking journey through human connections and resilience:Four skateboard punks stumble upon the paradoxes of time travel.A political activist faces an uneasy alliance while sharing a cell with a murderer.A young boy conquers fear and a giant r...

Educating Anxiety explores how anxiety can be transformed from a debilitating force into a creative and formative presence in students' lives and offers practical ideas for doing so in the context of higher education.Taking anxiety as an intrinsic part of the human experience, the book examines the impact of neoliberal pressures, social media and institutional structures on students’ anxiety. Through five insightful essays, it provides readers with concrete frameworks to u...

In The Holdco Guide, Peter Kang distills the strategy, structure, and decision-making behind building a durable, multi-business holding company. Drawing from his work building Barrel Holdings, along with a wide study of leading holding companies across industries, Kang offers an accessible blueprint for designing a “holdco” that can grow, adapt, and endure.Rather than relying on academic theory or Wall Street jargon, this book makes the mechanics of ownership, governance, ...

During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.

If you liked the movies Elf and Shrek, you’ll love THE ENCHANTED FILES—a magical, hilarious comedy series about fantastical creatures in the modern world by the bestselling author of My Teacher Is an Alien: Bruce Coville!Any troll worth their farts knows that a proper troll should:Avoid thinking or feeling! (Feelings? Blech!)Love burping and farting! (But who doesn’t?)And, most important, despise humans!

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...