Jessica Knauss: 10 books

A teacher controls her students with an edible microchip. A reporter turns into a rhinoceros. A couple's efforts to eat local go frighteningly awry. If you're looking to be surprised, puzzled, or just plain entertained, pick up this omnibus. There's something for everyone!  More than...

Emma isn't sure what to do with her life. She isn't sure what her Shakespeare professor wants from her, even after they get married. Even after he dies. Their country estate becomes a kind of prison. Then Geraldine appears. She kills the cat, aims for thestable boy, sleeps in the trees,...

These poems represent the most formative years in the creative life of the author. Moving ever closer to a different reality, Knauss presents the reader with a world in which anything is possible. Experience the horror, the laughter, the sorrow and the joy as she takes us on a physical, psychological, and spiritual journey through words.

TOP 5 BESTSELLER — The harrowing tale of loyalty and disaffection you won't forget! Barcelona, 1986: The dictatorship is over and life is free and easy. But what if you can’t forget the seventies? Elisa’s troubled past comes back to her in the form of her ex-husband, Arnau, who...

Available to the reading public for the first time in this collection, the long short story Threads Woven is a masterpiece of dialogue, artistic inspiration, and self confidence: Miriam seeks artistic inspiration in a writing class. Feeling ever more alone, with her husband busy in a career and with...

A heartwarming tale of love and friendship in a time when no one could imagine anything but war. This is a classic story of the exotic landscape of medieval Spain, written about 1551, in a new, easy to read English translation. Abindarráez is so in love with beautiful Jarifa that when he is taken prisoner...

In order to describe the miracles of the Virgin Mary, Alfonso X el Sabios Cantigas de Santa Maria show life at its worst, and this often includes violence, which may disconcert a modern audience even more than its original medieval one. This essay examines the lyrics and the miniatures of these songs...

Both books in the Sailing Italy Series in one handy volume! 1. What if the Princess of Italy had only the help of her friends to solve the mystery of her father's murder? What if the Prince of Germany wanted to marry the Princess of Italy in a coldhearted grab for power? This book answers these and other...

Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have...

These three charming stories celebrate and defend some of the world's largest and rarest animals. "Rhinoceros Dreams" tells how Allie, a woman fascinated with rhinoceroses, finds true love in the human world with a bookworm. Can he ever truly understand her? Can she make her rhinoceros dreams come true?...