Lane: 1880 books

James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 - February 18, 1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers...

ATEMLOS AM STRAND von ETHERINGTON, WENDY Sie ist so gar nicht sein Typ - der reiche Abenteurer Jared steht nicht auf kühle Karrierefrauen! Und doch: Victorias verführerische rote Lippen gehen ihm nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Aber sie lebt für ihren Beruf, Liebe interessiert sie nicht. Das muss Jared...

ZWISCHEN RACHE UND VERLANGEN von CREWS, CAITLIN Eine skrupellose Erbschleicherin ist seine blutjunge Stiefmutter Kathryn, glaubt Luca Castelli. Er müsste sie hassen, weil sie das Castelli-Imperium an sich reißen will! Trotzdem raubt er ihr schon am Grab seines Vaters einen ersten heißen Kuss …...

Tommy is a Central Systems Postal Service captain tasked with returning the dead letters to their senders. On this trip a casket malfunctions. When he investigates he discovers a young woman who has been frozen for sixty-three years is thawing out. Once she awakens without any memories of her past...

A la conquête d’un papa, Soraya Lane Autoritaire, désagréable, sûr de lui… et incroyablement séduisant ! Pour qualifier Harrison Black, papa célibataire de deux de ses petits élèves, Poppy Carter ne manque pas de vocabulaire. Mais, tandis qu’elle regarde s’éloigner celui qui vient...

Rebecca is a personal assistant to billionaire poison merchant, Gilly Clay. Clay has trapped her in a ruinous employment contract, and Rebecca’s life flashes past through a mane of ginger hair and stress. She keeps her sanity through a secret love affair with psychologist and author, Tom Snowdon....

Anton Vorlov runs the world's biggest company, Between Destinies, from an island off the coast of Dubai. Officially, he's a billionaire from Ukraine, but he's actually a trillionaire spaceman from Parrathea and his real name is Zem. Zem never sleeps and his vast organization spends $100...

When heiress and philanthropist Cara Hawthorne Wells is framed with a heinous crime, her reputation, marriage, and life are jeopardized. As she and handsome, brooding private investigator Jake Gold battle to prove her innocence, they uncover shocking revelations about the city she serves, the people...

Discover the floral heart of New York City in this companion to the popular Paris in Bloom by acclaimed photographer Georgianna Lane. New York in Bloom leads you on a beautiful floral tour of the metropolis—past stylish floral studios and corner shops overflowing with fresh-cut blooms, through...

In the past 30 years the use of assistance dogs for people with various difficulties and disabilities other than blindness and hearing loss has developed enormously, thanks to the inspiration, foresight and hard work of a few key people. Dick Lane, now retired as a vet, has been closely involved in the...

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham LincolnThere's no escaping the fact: if you want to win chess games, you have to attack at some point. Many players are happy solving combinations in winning positions, when the hard work is...

The 4-volume Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, Second Edition, represents the current state of a dynamic and crucial field of study.  The Encyclopedia pulls together over 500 articles that help define and explore contemporary biochemistry, with content experts carefully chosen by the Editorial...

This third volume of the series Changing the Global Approach to Medicine explores the programmed command and control functions in a biologic cell. Command and control functions facilitate the intricately organized bio computer systems internal to the cell. Guidance of command and control functions...

Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a history celebrated here in all its irreverent glory. Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on...