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To the Precipice
By Judith Rossner. 1966
From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar comes an enthralling tale of money, love, and…
one woman’s quest to have both in a world that wants her to have neither.Young, beautiful Ruth Kossoff is drawn dangerously by two equal desires—the love of her best friend David Landau, and wealth enough to take her from her family’s tenement home. When she sacrifices one to marry the wealthy Walter Stamm, she finds herself still greedy for life and love and willing to risk everything she has worked towards for a chance to be with David again.Amherst: A Novel
By William Nicholson. 2015
From an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and the author of Motherland, a novel about two love affairs set in Amherst--one in the…
present, one in the past, and both presided over by Emily Dickinson.Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive in London, decides to take time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of the scandalous, adulterous love affair that took place between a young, Amherst college faculty wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson, in the 1880s. Austin, twenty-four years Mabel's senior and married, was the brother of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, whose house provided the setting for Austin and Mabel's trysts. Alice travels to Amherst, staying in the house of Nick Crocker, a married English academic in his fifties. As Alice researches Austin and Mabel's story and Emily's role in their affair, she embarks on her own affair with Nick, an affair that, of course, they both know echoes the affair that she's writing about in her screenplay. Interspersed with Alice's complicated love story is the story of Austin and Mabel, historically accurate and meticulously recreated from their voluminous letters and diaries. Using the poems of Emily Dickinson throughout, Amherst is an exploration of the nature of passionate love, its delusions, and its glories. This novel is playful and scholarly, sexy and smart, and reminds us that the games we play when we fall in love have not changed that much over the years.ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The compelling, semiautobiographical story of an artist and his relationship to his culture, his…
family, and his inner self. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSONAn Echo of Murder: A William Monk Novel (William Monk #23)
By Anne Perry. 2017
In this riveting new William Monk novel, Anne Perry delves into the diverse population of Victorian London, whose disparate communities…
force Monk to rethink his investigative techniques—lest he be caught in the crosshairs of violent bigotry. In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through the chest with a bayonet and eerily surrounded by seventeen candles, their wicks dipped in blood. Suspecting the murder may be rooted in ethnic prejudice, Monk turns to London’s Hungarian community in search of clues but finds his inquiries stymied by its wary citizens and a language he doesn’t speak. Only with the help of a local pharmacist acting as translator can Monk hope to penetrate this tightly knit enclave, even as more of its members fall victim to identical brutal murders. But whoever the killer, or killers, may be—a secret society practicing ritual sacrifice, a madman on a spree, a British native targeting foreigners—they are well hidden among the city’s ever-growing populace. With the able assistance of his wife—former battlefield nurse Hester, who herself is dealing with a traumatized war veteran who may be tangled up in the murders—Monk must combat distrust, hostility, and threats from the very people he seeks to protect. But as the body count grows, stirring ever greater fear and anger among the Hungarian émigrés, resistance to the police also increases. Racing time and the rising tide of terror all around him, Monk must be even more relentless than the mysterious killer, or the echoes of malice and murder will resound through London’s streets like a clarion of doom. PRAISE FOR ANNE PERRY AND HER WILLIAM MONK NOVELS Revenge in a Cold River “The storytelling is dazzling, as it always is in a Perry novel.”—The New York Times Book Review Corridors of the Night “[A] suspenseful, twisting narrative.”—Historical Novels Review Blood on the Water “One of Ms. Perry’s most engrossing books [gallops] to a dramatic conclusion.”—The Washington Times Blind Justice “[Perry’s] courtroom scenes have the realism of Scott Turow.”—Huntington News Acceptable Loss “Masterful storytelling and moving dialogue.”—The Star-LedgerBeyond the Bright Sea
By Lauren Wolk. 2017
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts.…
Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow’s only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn’t until the night a mysterious fire appears across the water that the unspoken question of her own history forms in her heart. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger. Vivid and heart-wrenching, Lauren Wolk’s Beyond the Bright Sea is a gorgeously crafted and tensely paced tale that explores questions of identity, belonging, and the true meaning of family. 2018 Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionKristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath (The Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy #1)
By Sigrid Undset, Tina Nunnally. 2005
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of…
one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty. As a young girl, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, a kind and courageous man. But when as a student in a convent school she meets the charming and impetuous Erlend Nikulaussøn, she defies her parents in pursuit of her own desires. Her saga continues through her marriage to Erlend, their tumultuous life together raising seven sons as Erlend seeks to strengthen his political influence, and finally their estrangement as the world around them tumbles into uncertainty. With its captivating heroine and emotional potency, Kristin Lavransdatter is the masterwork of Norway's most beloved author--one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and engaged literary minds--and, in Nunnally's exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath (The Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy #1)
By Sigrid Undset, Tina Nunnally. 2005
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of…
one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty. As a young girl, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, a kind and courageous man. But when as a student in a convent school she meets the charming and impetuous Erlend Nikulaussøn, she defies her parents in pursuit of her own desires. Her saga continues through her marriage to Erlend, their tumultuous life together raising seven sons as Erlend seeks to strengthen his political influence, and finally their estrangement as the world around them tumbles into uncertainty. With its captivating heroine and emotional potency, Kristin Lavransdatter is the masterwork of Norway's most beloved author--one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and engaged literary minds--and, in Nunnally's exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.The Betrayal of the Blood Lily: A Pink Carnation Novel (Pink Carnation #6)
By Lauren Willig. 2010
A New York Times extended list bestseller in hardcover-the sensational sixth book in the national bestselling Pink Carnation series. Whisked…
away to nineteenth-century India, Penelope Deveraux plunges into the court intrigues of the Nizam of Hyderabad, where no one is quite what they seem. New to this strange and exotic country- where a dangerous spy called the Marigold leaves venomous cobras as his calling card-she can trust only one man: Captain Alex Reid. With danger looming from local warlords, treacherous court officials, and French spies, Alex and Penelope may be all that stand in the way of a plot designed to rock the very foundations of the British Empire...Watch a VideoEl Club Luz de Estrellas 7: Juego final.
By Joe Corso, Zoila Canales. 2018
El Club Luz de Estrellas 7: Juego Final. La fuerza especial contra el crimen esta detrás del Gran Red. No…
se van a detener ante nada para capturarlo, y el asesinato no esta fuera de la discusión. El Club Zebra 1962: Después de su baja del ejército, los chicos del vecindario estan celebrando el regreso de su amigo Renato. Sin embargo cuando lo ven del otro lado de la calle siendo golpeado casi hasta la muerte por el jefe de pandilla Marinero Burke, ellos lo persiguen. Cuando lo alcanzan, sin embargo, la situación cambia rápidamente, como era posible en esos día. El Club Luz de Estrellas 1965: Tarzán necesitaba otro cantinero y sugiere a Renato Mielina, a quien Red recuerda. Los problemas pronto vienen a tocar el la puerta de Red en la forma de Aldo Zintera, la nueva cabeza de las fuerzas especiales del F.B.I contra el crímen organizado. Zintera rápidamente informa a Red que tiene intensiones de procesarlo poe sus crímenes y enviarlo a prisión. Dándose cuenta en el real peligro en el que se encontraba y sabiendo que los cargos podían proceder, Red se embarca en una lucha por su vida. Red siempre cuidó de sus hombre, ahora tiene que ver por él y su nueva esposa.Él pronto se da cuenta de que solo hay un camino de acciones abierto hacia él, que pudiera parar al vengativo Zintera. Pidiendo favores y sabiendo que es el momento de acciones sin arrepentimientos, trama un plan drástico que incluye a su amigo Trenchie y no pierde tiempo en implementarlo. Una vez puesto en marcha, las cosas se calientan mientras Red y sus hombres luchan literalmente por sus vidas. La pregunta es... incluso con la influencia necesaria y la capacidad de tirar de las cuerda correctas... ¿Puede Red sobrevivir la embestida de Zintera?.El Club Luz de Estrellas 7: Juego final.
By Zoila Canales, Joe Corso. 2018
El Club Luz de Estrellas 7: Juego Final. La fuerza especial contra el crimen esta detrás del Gran Red. No…
se van a detener ante nada para capturarlo, y el asesinato no esta fuera de la discusión. El Club Zebra 1962: Después de su baja del ejército, los chicos del vecindario estan celebrando el regreso de su amigo Renato. Sin embargo cuando lo ven del otro lado de la calle siendo golpeado casi hasta la muerte por el jefe de pandilla Marinero Burke, ellos lo persiguen. Cuando lo alcanzan, sin embargo, la situación cambia rápidamente, como era posible en esos día. El Club Luz de Estrellas 1965: Tarzán necesitaba otro cantinero y sugiere a Renato Mielina, a quien Red recuerda. Los problemas pronto vienen a tocar el la puerta de Red en la forma de Aldo Zintera, la nueva cabeza de las fuerzas especiales del F.B.I contra el crímen organizado. Zintera rápidamente informa a Red que tiene intensiones de procesarlo poe sus crímenes y enviarlo a prisión. Dándose cuenta en el real peligro en el que se encontraba y sabiendo que los cargos podían proceder, Red se embarca en una lucha por su vida. Red siempre cuidó de sus hombre, ahora tiene que ver por él y su nueva esposa.Él pronto se da cuenta de que solo hay un camino de acciones abierto hacia él, que pudiera parar al vengativo Zintera. Pidiendo favores y sabiendo que es el momento de acciones sin arrepentimientos, trama un plan drástico que incluye a su amigo Trenchie y no pierde tiempo en implementarlo. Una vez puesto en marcha, las cosas se calientan mientras Red y sus hombres luchan literalmente por sus vidas. La pregunta es... incluso con la influencia necesaria y la capacidad de tirar de las cuerda correctas... ¿Puede Red sobrevivir la embestida de Zintera?.Escape from Aleppo
By N. H. Senzai. 2018
An Indie Next List Pick Nadia’s family is forced to flee their home in Aleppo, Syria, when the Arab…
Spring sparks a civil war in this timely coming-of-age novel from award-winning author N.H. Senzai.Silver and gold balloons. A birthday cake covered in pink roses. A new dress. Nadia stands at the center of attention in her parents’ elegant dining room. This is the best day of my life, she thinks. Everyone is about to sing “Happy Birthday,” when her uncle calls from the living room, “Baba, brothers, you need to see this.” Reluctantly, she follows her family into the other room. On TV, a reporter stands near an overturned vegetable cart on a dusty street. Beside it is a mound of smoldering ashes. The reporter explains that a vegetable vendor in the city of Tunis burned himself alive, protesting corrupt government officials who have been harassing his business. Nadia frowns. It is December 17, 2010: Nadia’s twelfth birthday and the beginning of the Arab Spring. Soon anti-government protests erupt across the Middle East and, one by one, countries are thrown into turmoil. As civil war flares in Syria and bombs fall across Nadia’s home city of Aleppo, her family decides to flee to safety. Inspired by current events, this novel sheds light on the complicated situation in Syria that has led to an international refugee crisis, and tells the story of one girl’s journey to safety.The Fires Of Spring
By James A. Michener. 1949
Al Capone Does My Homework
By Gennifer Choldenko. 2013
Alcatraz Island in the 1930s isn't the most normal place to grow up, but it's home for Moose Flanagan, his…
autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards. When Moose's dad gets promoted to Associate Warden, despite being an unlikely candidate, it's a big deal. But the cons have a point system for targeting prison employees, and his dad is now in serious danger. After a fire starts in the Flanagan's apartment, Natalie is blamed, and Moose bands with the other kids to track down the possible arsonist. Then Moose gets a cryptic note from the notorious Al Capone himself. Is Capone trying to protect Moose's dad too? If Moose can't figure out what Capone's note means, it may be too late.Era Uma Vez Um Beijo
By Tanya Anne Crosby, Tânia Nezio. 2016
Ela veio para se casar com o irmão dele e acabou roubando o coração do Dragão... Para resolver uma disputa,…
Dominique Beauchamp foi obrigada a se casar a fim de resolver os problemas das suas terras. Oferecida em casamento por seu irmão para o Lord de Drakewich, ela veio para adicionar d'Lucy ao seu nome... mas ela não contava em perder seu coração para o irmão de seu noivo..--o Dragão Negro. Blaec d'Lucy desconfiou dela desde o início, acreditando que ela fizesse parte das perfídias infinitas do seu irmão, mas ele foi incapaz de resistir a jovem raposa de cabelo flamejante que andava tão orgulhosamente no meio deles. Era Uma Vez Um Beijo... e o amor deles foi selado.Era Uma Vez Um Beijo
By Tanya Anne Crosby, Tânia Nezio. 2016
Ela veio para se casar com o irmão dele e acabou roubando o coração do Dragão... Para resolver uma disputa,…
Dominique Beauchamp foi obrigada a se casar a fim de resolver os problemas das suas terras. Oferecida em casamento por seu irmão para o Lord de Drakewich, ela veio para adicionar d'Lucy ao seu nome... mas ela não contava em perder seu coração para o irmão de seu noivo..--o Dragão Negro. Blaec d'Lucy desconfiou dela desde o início, acreditando que ela fizesse parte das perfídias infinitas do seu irmão, mas ele foi incapaz de resistir a jovem raposa de cabelo flamejante que andava tão orgulhosamente no meio deles. Era Uma Vez Um Beijo... e o amor deles foi selado.The Outside Child
By Tiffany L. Warren. 2018
All of Chenille Abrams’ dreams came true the day she married NFL star Brayden Carpenter. He’s the down-to-earth, loving, and…
protective man she never thought she'd find. And with her own successful career, Chenille plans to be more than just a famous athlete’s wife. She's determined to balance work, marriage, and motherhood, as the couple awaits their first child . . . Until their son is born with a crippling heart ailment. Until a devastated Brayden starts putting his career above everything else. And when tragedy strikes, Chenille struggles to find a reason to go on—as Brayden takes comfort from anywhere but home . . . Little by little, Chenille picks up the pieces as she and Brayden try to make their marriage work once more. But when he fathers a baby that the mother can’t keep, will this be the final blow? Or can they find a way past betrayal into unexpected hope—to at last have a future worth everything?Hannah of Fairfield (Pioneer Daughters #1)
By Jean Van Leeuwen, Donna Diamond. 1999
The Pioneer Daughters series is "a heartwarming portrait of a colonial girl and her family struggling to meet the challenges…
of pioneer life during the Revolutionary War. " --Kirkus Reviews In Hannah of Fairfield, Hannah would rather be nursing a fragile spring lamb back to health than counting stitches. How can she concentrate when the war is so close? Everyone in Fairfield is doing all they can to help the colonial army. What can Hannah do to help? .A Reason to Die (A Perley Gates Western #2)
By William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone. 2018
From bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone—the explosive adventures of Perley Gates, who’s carving out his own legacy in…
the violent American frontier . . . Restless cowpoke Perley Gates wanted nothing more than to track down the grandfather who abandoned his family years ago. What he found was the crazy old sidewinder barely hanging on after a Sioux massacre. The old man’s dying wish was to make things right for deserting his kin—by giving his strong-willed grandson Perley clues to the whereabouts of a buried fortune in gold. Finding his grandfather’s legacy will set up his family for life. But it won’t be easy. The discovery of raw gold in the Black Hills has lured hordes of ruthless lowlifes into Deadwood and Custer City—kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians—armed with a thousand glittering reasons to put Perley six feet under. All Perley wants is what was left to him, what he’s owed. But with so many brigands on his backside, finding his grandfather’s treasure is going to land Perley Gates between the promise of heaven and the blood-soaked battlefields of hell . . .Swimming Home: A Novel
By Mary-Rose Maccoll. 2015
From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow, a beautifully written, heartwarming novel of a young woman swimmer…
in 1925 London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she’s done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away from her. Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she herself did. Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to what her own heart tells her.From the Trade Paperback edition.White Fang
By Jack London. 2016
This thrilling adventure story from the celebrated author of The Call of the Wild traces a wolf-dog's epic journey from…
savage beast to man's best friend Three men traverse the frozen landscape of the Yukon Territory on a sled--two stand upright, one lies dead in a coffin. Stalked by a pack of starving wolves, the travelers are out of ammunition and low on food. When night falls, the wolves will make their final assault. The men's time is running short, but White Fang's story is just beginning. Part wolf, part dog, White Fang is a hunter without a pack, at home neither in the camp nor in the wilderness. From the banks of the frozen Klondike river to the teeming streets of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, White Fang never stops fighting--first to survive, and then to find a home. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.