Holmes: 1214 books

Move over Jennifer Lawrence, there's a new heroine and Soraya is her name. As a pre-med student, it's her worst nightmare. A stalker, who could be a man or a woman, is after her and the cops can't catch him/her. As the threat grows each day, she'd better do something and fast.

Impoverished eighteen-year-old student, Mim, is thrilled when a Solicitor contacts her with the surprise inheritance of a lifetime: a terrace in a prestigious city suburb not far from the art college she’s scholarshipped to attend. But number seven Bligh Street is a derelict ruin hiding a wrathful...

Abigail Hammond has been raised as a lady by her guardian, Lord Edmund Hammond. However, her sheltered life ends when he falls ill. His heir, Frederick, returns to force her into a marriage of convenience. Abigail has to flee to York with her lifelong maid, Martha, at Lord Hammond’s insistence....

Maggie Chase discovers an injured stranger fleeing for his life on the beach. Her father, Captain Chase is away at sea. Maggie is living in their cottage on her own. Trusting her instincts, she helps Montgomery to evade capture. Little does Maggie realise that this rash act will jeopardise her plans...

The author's biography is included in this version. McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader is a part of the McGuffey Readers, a series of graded primers that were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private...

Jen, a teacher, has broken away from a stifling relationship with Harris, who runs a gym. Naively, she tried to help him sort out his life, but did not realise that the man was a liar and a control freak until it was too late. Jen walked out on him determined to enjoy her independence once more when...

Texas offers tremendous angling opportunities—and its nearly 400-mile coast along the “Mediterranean of the Americas” offers everything from flounder, speckled trout, redfish, and other species inshore, to kingfish, cobia, and blue-water big game offshore. In this all new addition to The Lyons...

Attachment theory is on the leading edge of a conceptual revolution. It offers a new paradigm that can synthesize into a more coherent whole the best ideas from psychoanalysis, cognitive science, and neurobiology. With its emphasis on relationships, attachment theory is determinedly humanistic, while...

Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally. Using a range of evidence and a corpus of data collected largely from New Zealand, Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness...

1812, in the North Yorkshire market town of Gorebeck, Miss Molly Mason is approaching her twenty-first birthday. After her father died her care was left in the hands of Mrs Dorothea Cresswell who owns a successful dressmaker’s establishment in the newer part of the town. The two women resent and...

Lydia works hard at Bagby Hall to keep her father, an ailing tenant, from the poorhouse. She is racked with guilt as she has to watch her friend, Georgette, being abused by Lord and Lady Bagby. Lydia longs to aid Georgette as she fears her life may be in danger - but how? The arrival of the mysterious doctor, Samuel Speer, adds to her dilemma as Lydia's concern for her friend grows.

Felicity Moon strikes the Lord of the manor in self defence and is forced to leave his household. Squire Moon, her father, is in gaol charged with bank-rolling smugglers and storing contraband. Felicity has one last chance to save herself from ruin in the form of a reference to Mr Lucas Packman, a man her father dislikes. She has a stark choice to make: trust Packman or her obey her father.

A rural western Kentucky community is rocked on its' foundation as they face the question: do we believe our pastor or do we believe the child that says he molested her?This book looks to the readers to answer the question, when and how is justice served? And, at times, does finding justice mean doing nothing?

Hannah, a cosseted daughter, has grown up in the sheltered world of Harpham Hall. Headstrong and blinkered to dangers, she triggers the dismissal of her personal maid and is saved from harm by a tenant’s son, Tobias Jenkins. Her avaricious stepmother, Lady Alicia Harpham, uses this incident to add...