Howells: 452 books

Where to Retire offers the best advice not only on where to relocate in the retirement years, but why people should pick up and move just as life is settling down. Retirement guru John Howells provides well-researched and completely revised and updated information on how to find the ideal home base...

The Flight of Pony Baker is a novel for children which tells the story of a young boy named Pony Baker who, throughout the book, attempts to run away from his home where he lives with his mother, father, and five sisters. The setting of the story is "fifty years ago" in the Boy's Town of...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Chance Acquaintance (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Chance Acquaintance is a realist novel that tells a story of a small-town girl Kitty Ellison, who goes on vacation with her family on a tour...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...

This book is about a young women who pursues her ex boyfriend in order to tell him the truth about the liaison that she had with him. Only to find out that whilst using Facebook, she was to succumb to the charms of an unemployed layabout. Who over time woes her to her death, after he had finished using...

The bride was brutally murdered on her wedding day. The Inspector called out to the crime scene was most surprised by the events that followed. The ghostly figure that died by the lake comes to the Inspector in a dream. It was in this dream; he would hear her tale of events that happened.

Would Rachael be able to survive after being diagnosed as having cervical cancer? And if so at what cost? A powerful novel that shows an emotional tale of having to deal with cancer and other things that life throws along the way.

Kirsty Black finally wins the National Election for the Purple Party, as she claims victory, a sniper is waiting in the wings. She tries to reflect on her life, before she got involved in politics. A love affair develops, sexual abuse at the hands of her campaign manager, fraud, and the way that she...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...

"It was their lovely ways, far more than their monuments, that made the Florentines delightful. I would rather have had a perpetuity of the cameriere's smile than Donatello's San Giorgio." Tuscany is arguably the most alluring and iconic region of Italy. It is a place of breathtaking...

  Why is it forbidden to borrow someone else’s tea mug? How is home-baking related to promotion and what is a ‘cake rota’? When Hollie Cooper walks into her first job after graduating, she realizes that the world of work is going to take some getting used to.  ...

In this short comic play from William Dean Howells, a widow, Amy Somers, goes through the motions of hosting a tea party and is unexpectedly swept off her feet by the eccentric and charming Willis Campbell. The married pair are featured in a series of farcical plays that Howells would go on to write.