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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world.The Heroka walk among us. Unseen, unknown. Shapeshifters. Human in appearance but with power over their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd is a Heroka of the wolf totem. Once he led his people in a deadly war against the Tainchel, the shadowy agency that hunts his kind. Now he lives alone in his wilderness home, wolves his only comp...

Get the entire multi-award-winning trilogy in one volume! This ebook includes all three books in The Dream Rider Saga:The Hollow Boys (Book 1)The Crystal Key (Book 2)The Lost Expedition (Book 3)Plus get this exciting bonus material:Deleted scenesAlternate plot linesCharacter notesSetting background…and more!Series Description:At seventeen, Will Dreyco...

Magic. It hides under our unsuspecting noses, and swirls all around us.In STREET MAGIC, fifteen urban fantasy authors invite you to walk with one foot in the mundane world, and one in... another world.And if what you see there seems a little out of the ordinary, it's probably magic.Contains stories by Meyari McFarland, Mike Jack Stoumbos, Douglas Smith, J.L. Madore, Travis Heermann, Jessica Guernsey, Jena Rey, Taylen Carver, Tina Back, C.E. Barnes, Leigh Saunders, S...

AURORA AWARD WINNER from a multi-award winning author.The Heroka are an ancient race of shape shifters, drawing their powers and vitality from their animal totems.Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle years ago with the Tainchel, the covert government agency that hunts the Heroka--a battle that cost him the only woman he ever loved.But when Gwyn is asked by the head of the Heroka to stop an old friend...

Aurora Award FinalistThe people we meet in Impossiblia are like any of us. They have secrets…fears…desires. Things they keep hidden. Things they keep locked away. Or try to. Only their things are a little…different.A dead wife that won’t leave.A wolf with a past.The secret to being the luckiest man alive.In “Bouquet of Flowers in Vase, by van Gogh,” remote viewing drives a search through the past for lost masterpieces. An ex-CIA agent, haunt...

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 ...