Harriet: 793 books

From the bestselling author of Going Home, which Sophie Kinsella hailed as “fabulous,” comes a novel sure to touch and delight anyone who believes in love. Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. Her friends know it, her parents know it—even Laura acknowledges she lives either with her head...

From the author of A Hopeless Romantic and Going Home comes an engaging new novel about a young woman who suffers loss and heartbreak—only to regain a chance at happiness when she least expects it. Thirty-year-old Kate Miller fled London two years ago when her life fell apart spectacularly....

Drawing on traditions of American Renaissance the work dwells on the themes of life morality politics romance and culture. With skilfully presented mystery and great detective work this is one of Spofford's masterpieces.

Exchange student Jamie Penich left her small Pennsylvania hometown to see the world, but her journey ended with a brutal attack in a shabby motel room in Seoul, South Korea, where the raven-haired 21-year-old was found naked and stomped to death. Investigators zeroed in on soldiers, turning out barracks...

Als Martha, moeder van drie volwassen kinderen, op een avond de uitnodigingen voor haar tachtigste verjaardag begint te schijven, weet ze dat haar plan om eindelijk haar grote geheim te onthullen haar familie tot op het bot zal schokken. Vijftig jaar lang hebben zij en haar echtgenoot David samen...

The heroine of this 1862 historical novel is Agnes, a country girl living amidst the spiritual tranquility of an Italian convent. With her hand sought by a cast-out Italian prince, she is torn between the prospect of love and her sense of duty to the charismatic monk Savonarola, the instigator of the original and actual fifteenth-century “Bonfire of the Vanities.”

BIGOTRY. Obstinate or blind attachment to a particular creed; unreasonable zeal or warmth in favor of a party, sect, or opinion; excessive prejudice. The practice or tenet of a bigot. PREJUDICE. An opinion or decision of mind, formed without due examination of the facts or arguments which are...

A fascinating account of the separation of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, defending her role in the controversy. Lord Byron is best known as a poet, as well as being the father of the world's first computer programmer, Ada Countess of Lovelace.

Excerpt SLOW through the solemn air, in silence sailing,      Borne by mysterious angels, strong and fair,    She sleeps at last, blest dreams her eyelids veiling,      Above this weary world of strife and care.     Lo how she passeth!--dreamy, slow, and calm:      Scarce...

Maine coast is the setting for this beautiful novel of conflicting aspirations written by one of the most prolific and influential writers in American history.

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas...

Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have moved from looking for meaning in texts alone to seeing texts as providing clues that lead hearers to discover the speaker’s intended meaning. Hearers use other inputs...