Ashton: 495 books

The Flowers of Tumaini is a fictional story that describes the challenging journey of a young girl who is seeking a better way of life. The setting is east Africa, where Felicity has been living in a temporary camp for displaced persons after her parents both died. She decides to strike out on her...

Detailed textual analysis of the tales by the Miller, Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, as well as the General Prologue invites you to sharpen your critical faculties, extend your knowledge and engage with the text itself in order to fully appreciate the work of this fascinating, complex...

In the quirky Southern town of Cherico, Mississippi, a new library means an exciting new chapter for librarian Maura Beth McShay—and for the friends and book lovers known as the Cherry Cola Book Club… The construction of Cherico’s cutting-edge library has been an epic struggle worthy...

In the colorful small town of Cherico, Mississippi, librarian Maura Beth McShay is preparing for an exciting new installment in her own life story—with some help from the Cherry Cola Book Club. Overseeing the opening of Cherico’s new library has been a labor of love for Maura Beth McShay,...

“Travellers see strange things,” more especially when their writing about, or delineation of, them is not put under the microscope of modern scientific examination. Our ancestors were content with what was given them, and being, as a rule, a stay-at-home race, they could not confute the stories...

Curiously enough, it has never been practically settled whence the ancestors of Napoleon Bonaparte came. He, himself, cared little for the pride of birth, and when, during his Consulate, they manufactured for him a genealogy descending from a line of kings, he laughed at it, and said that his patent...

Rather than a work of science, this richly illustrated volume offers fare for the imagination with its fascinatingly odd menagerie. Historical accounts of centaurs, unicorns, and lesser-known fantastical creatures provide abundant amusement.

While bondage is often thought to be the special interest of the male partner in such relationships, the gratifications for the female should not be overlooked. This full-length erotic novel is full of hot, steamy, erotic action. Fans of bondage and sensual erotic should not miss out!  

"Forensic tour de force" • "Monumental achievement" • "Couldn't put it down" • "Magisterial" There was no "first break-in" at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate over Memorial Day weekend 1972. There were no electronic...

Most of the anecdotes presented here are centered around actual events that took place in the island of Jamaica, West Indies. Hence, the humor may be more apparent to fellow Jamaicans. However, the book is full of laughs for just about everyone.

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...

Notting Hill: ein Ort für Liebe, Familie, Freundschaft – und herzerwärmende Schicksale Eigentlich wohnt Sarah gerne in der Ivy Lane im Westen Londons. Die Hausgemeinschaft ist bunt, man hilft sich aus. Doch seit kurzem ist die Idylle zerbrochen, denn Sarahs Exmann wohnt jetzt ein Stockwerk tiefer...

The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with the process of economic growth.

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your...