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Australian outback had always fascinated the British colonial imagination when rags to riches stories of the British convicts and other social outcasts transformed the image of Australia as a gold digger's paradise (remember Abel Magwitch's story in Charles Dicken's Great Expectations?). This interaction...

Wycliffe investigates the disappearance of a young girl - and becomes involved in a major criminal investigation . . . Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to stay with a Penzance lawyer and his family,...

**In two stunning novels, C. W. Gortner brings to life two of history’s most intriguing and courageous women: Catherine de Medici, the last legitimate descendant of the illustrious Medici family of Italy, and Juana of Castile, daughter of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand of Spain, who would be the...

From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture! Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary...

Jack and Joey are best buds . . . until they both fall for Chrissy. Then betrayal assumes a friend’s smile on a tropical island where friendship is fleeting and the truth depends on who’s telling the story.Also included is the short-short story The Gulf: Who are you when the thing you’ve prepped...

Lone Star Love is Book #3 in the Tuscany, Texas Series. From award-winning author Patricia W. Fischer, the Tuscany, Texas series continues on with Lone Star Love featuring Ethan Parker and Tish Martin. Former mean girl, Tish Martin, had it all growing up. Perfect house, great family,...

Invisible aliens invade the bucolic English countryside in Brian W. Aldiss’s Nebula Award–winning science fiction novella, plus nine other stories of the fantastic and the odd A meteor shower in the skies above the rolling English countryside late in the nineteenth century fires the imagination...

Manuscript and Recorded Collections Acquired and/or Indexed by Robert Winslow Gordon in the Archive of Folk Culture Robert Winslow Gordon was the first head of the Archive of American Folk-Song, Library of Congress, 1928-1932. Compiled by Joseph C. Hickerson and Gregory Jenkins Arthur Mss. See Odum-Arthur...

A mysterious death in the Cornish art world - and a murder investigation for Chief Superintendent Wycliffe... When Edwin Garland dies of a heart attack, no one outside the expectant circle of his relatives is concerned, but the situation changes dramatically when, on the evening of the funeral,...

“Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride” is a comic musical opera written by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert in 1881. Gilbert and Sullivan were a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Together they collaborated...

So you want to hear my miserable tale? Bad idea. Go live vicariously through a girl whose life worked out the way she planned. A girl who didn’t wake up one morning and find that her relatively simple, albeit disconnected life had been turned upside down and filled with the darkest of magic and worst...

Faith Beyond Reason, a book by A.W. Tozer, is a compilation of sermons on the book of John. It is within this series of sermons that you will find A.W. Tozer addressing the whole truth that all things are possible with God. Tozer takes us in Faith Beyond Reason to a new understanding of our spiritual...

Are you dying?Or, are you anxious about the anticipated demise of a loved one?Most people stuck in such situations find themselves bombarded with relentless, intermittent and growing anger, fear, denial and frustration.Since childhood a vast majority of us have known death eventually would occur.Yet...

Publicada originalmente en 1993, Cultura e imperialismo es una obra indispensable que restablece el diálogo entre la literatura y la vida, y permite comprender uno de los procesos históricos y culturales más complejos de la modernidad. En el siglo XIX y principios del XX, mientras las grandes...