Joan: 2841 books

The Congress of Vienna provided international society one party after another. But Lord Moncrief had more diplomatic duties to do in restraining his cousin from purchasing the famed (and stolen) Blue Tavernier diamond. Would the mysterious but suspicious Frenchwoman, Cécile Feydeau, or the enchantingly...

Holly McCormack had no beauty but combined a beautiful voice with a witty tongue and a sensible approach to life. She lived with her aunt and beautiful cousin Jane near the Abbey, Lord Dewar’s home. He announced he would produce Romeo and Juliet, with Jane to star. Holly found herself immersed with...

Miranda Vale had learned that Lord Rotham was a rake, when her sister’s heart was broken. But Miranda couldn’t resist being charmed by the man, who had such courage and daring. She and Rotham’s brother, Pavel, got caught up in the adventure Rotham was involved in. But Miranda insisted on protecting...

Lizzie Warwick was now a do-gooder who had mistaken Lord Carbury’s flirtation for the real thing five years ago. Now she solicited his help for his cousin Tommy, who had been accused of stealing a ruby necklace. Lizzie knew he hadn’t done it and knew who had. But Carbury was confused by the change...

Belle Savage, American romance writer, rents a cottage in England for inspiration. And she finds her Regency hero. Only hes a ghost, who entangles her in the past, where Arabella Comstocks tragic story pours from Belles pen. When the Lord Raventhorpe of Regency days finally learns the truth, will...

Lady Helena, whose father was an English lord, had spent her whole life in Spain, but she was sent to England to find a proper English husband. She found England dull and its men less than sterling. Her cousin Edward, for example, was a tyrant and disposed to ignore her, if not overset her plans. She...

Cassie Newton once again joins forces with John Weiss, an investigator for Lloyds of London, when he shows up in Montreal on the track of ten fake Van Gogh paintings. The forger is murdered, with the cast of suspects including Hot Buns, a museum curator and a sheik. Along with the luxury and excitement...

Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today.  It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientific community and consisted of an elite school...

With the ancient practice of Eucharistic Adoration being rediscovered in today's modern parishes, In The Presence provides the perfect guide to the history, practice, and meaning of this tradition. In a series of brief, accessible, and theologically rich essays, Sr. Joan Ridley connects the private devotion...

In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long “working honeymoon” in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping...

Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges. Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the...

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can provide interesting and useful insights into the nature of language acquisition and expression. In this volume, Joan Kelly Hall gives a perspective...

Very little in this world stays fresh and life-giving for 1,500 years. But when that happens we should ask ourselves why and what that had to do with us. In this book, The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict, Joan Chittister encourages us to look at that question. In an introductory...

The original title of my book was, “I Heard the Chocolate Mousse Cake Call My Name.” That title comes from a long time ago – back to the mid 1980’s. I was attending the Toronto Psychic Fair at the International Centre on Airport Road in Toronto. Right next to the hall where the show...