Claudia: 2015 books

Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This collection seeks to answer those questions...

From the author of Ground to a Halt comes a special holiday Hemlock Falls Mystery. Hemlock Falls is one of the most picturesque villages in upstate New York, with the Hemlock Inn, owned by the amateur sleuths, the Quilliam sisters, as its center piece. The Quillliam sisters would love the show...

Kieran's croak sounded scary, but when Tanner looked into his bright eyes he could not help liking him. At the pet store where he always used to get the special food for the ducks in town, he asked about the food habits of ravens. The store keeper did not understand why Tanner wanted to feed a raven...

Love Valentine’s or hate it, we have a story for everyone. **A 272 page ebook short story collection** From heart-wrenching proposals to naughty little Chihuahuas; unexpected secret pregnancies to wicked love-potions; serendipitous brief encounters that change the hands of fate to bitter ghostly...

The inspirational story of a pregnant young Nigerian woman and the horrors she endured to save her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram. When she was nineteen, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several...

En este volumen de la serie Viajes al siglo XIX de la Biblioteca Americana dedicado a Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera se incluyen muestras de las mejores incursiones en la literatura, la crónica, la correspondencia, la ensayística y la crítica social del autor. Como parte de la serie, continua con el...

Recipient of the Americas Narrative Prize, one of Latin America's oldest and most prestigious literary prizes.

Nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award! Eugenia Ledoux, nine years old, wakes to a note from her father: ‘gone to save the world. sorry. yours, sheb wooly ledoux. asshole.’ Eugenia is left behind with her mother, the shar

For Good Friday and the Easter season, this scalloped altar cloth edging has the acronym INRI, or "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews", which was an inscription put on the cross. It was designed in 1918 by Geneva Korta, and includes a chalice with a ribbon bow to separate the main...

This set of seven charming animal and insect insertions--a happy dog, busy bees, a butterfly, a mother duck and duckling swimming along, an owl, a pony, and a pair of playful cats--were designed by Ethel Herrick Stetson in 1912. Use them anywhere you would use a lace insertion: for towels, curtains,...

Roses, butterflies and winding leaves decorate this summery filet crochet lace edging. Designed in 1927 by Olive F. Ashcroft, it can be used as a border for a tablecloth or a dresser scarf. Make the narrow leaf border as long as you need, or omit it for a faster project. This is not your usual scanned...

Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0/A, University of Dusseldorf 'Heinrich Heine' (Anglistik II, Amerikastudien), course: Latino/a Literature, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the following paper I want to examine the...

A thrilling and passionate debut about a sheltered landowner’s wife whose life is turned upside down when she visits the royal court in seventeenth-century Mexico. When Josefina accepts an invitation from the Marquessa to come stay and socialize with the intellectual and cultural elite in...

Singles K é uma série de ebooks semanais que trazem para o leitor cotidiano as melhores crônicas de colunistas e escritores da KBR publicadas no blog da editora. Nesta edição, a nossa corrupção, os assaltos, prosa poética, viagem à China, a crônica como gênero, reencarnação e desejos, entre...