Doctor Spechaug, a psychology professor in a small provincial town, wakes with blood on his hands and clothes and no memory of what he has done. As he makes his way through the woods toward the college, his hatred of the local peasants, his urge to escape Glen Oaks, and the forest's strange hold on him all suggest that his rational, scientific mind is beginning to fracture. Deep in the trees, that buried self stirs. He feels a sudden freedom and vitality, then encounters Edith Bailey, a br...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

A journey through heaven and earth for the questing mind. Navigating from the clockwork music of the spheres to the “melismatic celebration of disaster” that is the blues, these are poems that map the places where orderly cosmic harmony and dissonance converge.“If only the world were as orderly as Bach, if there were no need for gospel, no need for jazz, no need for the blues.” As Anthony Walton writes, centuries ago, Johannes Kepler observed that the univ...

The history of mission has often focused on foreign missionaries with little acknowledgement of the important role of indigenous people. In this book, Dr. James Kweku Gyekye Walton highlights the role of indigenous lay agents in the leadership structure of Ghana Methodism between 1835 and 1950 with a particular focus on catechists, the professional non-ordained assistant ministers. As he outlines the formation of the Methodist Church Ghana, Walton rigorously engages in archival research, l...

A Relaxing Pet-sitting Gig in Mexico... Until Danger Strikes at DawnViviane Masters is celebrating her sixties with a new lease on life as a globetrotting pet-sitter. But her inaugural assignment in a sleepy ex-pat town in Mexico turns sinister when threatening notes appear at the casa.Against her daughter’s wishes, the spunky senior has embarked on this adventure seeking excitement and freedom. But Viviane quickly senses a dark undercurrent in the seemingl...

Fresh start? Check. Quirky neighbors? Check. Finding a dead body? Absolutely NOT in the plan.Forty-something divorcee Anne Freemont traded her high-pressure city life for the charming mountain town of Carolan Springs, Colorado. Her plan: renovate a Victorian fixer-upper, breathe some fresh mountain air, and enjoy zero drama.Then a runaway chicken changes everything.When Anne's goofy and sweet neighbor, Kandi, is accused of murdering the neighborhood...

A cozy mystery where Texas grit, homemade pie, and quiet faith meet small-town secrets.Hospice nurse Christie Taylor trades hospital hallways for hay bales and returns home to Texas, thinking she’s there to rest, help Pop, and finally have time to try out some pie recipes. What she finds instead is a community with long memories, a mystery that keeps pulling her in, and people who became family before she’d quite noticed it happening. Set against the warm, wide...

Sunday at 11 a.m. remains America's most segregated hour—but healing won't happen in the pews alone.In this timely and hopeful book, pastor Nathan Walton calls readers to embrace a multiethnic lifestyle between Sundays. He argues that it's not enough to have a diverse-looking church if we live separate lives the rest of the week. When advocacy for justice doesn't lead to relationship, and when diversity is performative rather than embodied, true multiethnicity rema...

Times are hard. Perhaps not quite hard enough for Arthur to awaken from his long sleep, but other characters from mythology and history may still be here to lend a hand. Are you having trouble with an unscrupulous landlord? Is your village or wildlife reserve being threatened by a multi-national corporation? Is funding being cut for the very services that allow your community to thrive, or function at all?Throughout history, from the Chartist movement to the formation of the NHS vi...

besieged by the trials of a tumultuous childhood, marked by the departure of a loving mother and the shadow of a narcissistic stepmother. Alongside her sisters, Jean and Desiree, Ashley endured the hardships imposed by their stepmother, Lenna, grappling with the complexities of such toxic relationships early in life. The loss of her father, Dale, at the age of 49 to an overdose, and her younger sister, Desiree, at 21 due to spina bifida, brought profound sorrow and challenges. Ashley's jou...

Some books are written at desks. This one is written from a thorn throne: the highest hard branch above the farmyard, where the Mad Crow King keeps watch over dog, cat, owl, raccoon, fox, spider, human, landscape, murder, and weather.The Thorn Throne Book: Ravings of the Mad Crow King is the final, darkly luminous volume in K.G. Walton's Animal Sense septenary: a series of animal-minded observations that travels from the dog's loyalty, through the...

From New York Times bestselling mother-daughter duo Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton and bestselling illustrator Eva Byrne comes an empowering tale of finding your voice—starring a shy puppy who discovers the magic of musicShy is the smallest and quietest pup at the shelter. The world feels big, loud, and a bit scary to her sweet and gentle soul.But when a man with kind eyes brings her home, she feels safe with...