Josephine: 532 books

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for ""literary comment," Jane loved everything about...

 Memoir   In 1987, Sara Niles fled for her life from a violent abuser with her five young children in tow, this the story of their journey of survival. Excerpts "She made thirty suicide attempts before the age of thirty. Some unseen and unknown inner...

New York’s Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of children. Sweatshop babies with smallpox and typhus dozed in garment...

Downton Abbey in de eenentwintigste eeuw: het verhaal van een droombaan op een kasteel in Schotland Als de Nederlandse Josephine Rombouts met haar gezin aan de Schotse westkust gaat wonen, grijpt ze de kans om housekeeper op het plaatselijke kasteel te worden met beide handen aan. Zonder enige...

Lily Proctor has come a long way from the weak, sickly girl she used to be. She has gained power as a witch and a leader, found her way home, chosen to face battle again, and (after losing her first love and being betrayed by her new love) she has learned more about loss and grief than she ever wanted...

I'm a Witch and Witches burn. Lily is back in her own universe, and she's ready to relax with Rowan. True, she almost died in the Pyre that fueled their escape, and must hide her magic for the safety of the world, but compared to fighting the monstrous Woven and leading armies in the alternate...

A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith...

The inspiring true story of an extraordinary young woman who triumphed in a man’s world, making history in the process. Signing up to the Fire Brigade in 1981, Josephine Reynolds was Britain’s first ever female firefighter. Her life of service saw her fight the fiercest forest fires in a generation,...

Corvette Ford and Brody Andrews have been best friends since the day she recruited him to be her personal hero on her first day of Kindergarten. Now they're both much older, but it appears as if only Brody has grown wiser. Corvette is the one constant in Brody's love-life, because every one...

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...

Measuring performance and improving profitability are essential for successful business growth. However, authors Patrick M. Georges, who created the widely used Management Cockpit system, and Josephine Hus demonstrate clearly that standard key performance indicators can be overly complex and therefore...

A practical, straightforward book showing readers how the Lord’s Prayer can be a powerful spiritual guide for daily living. Drawing from her own life as a theologian and young mother, Josephine Lombardi fills the pages with personal reflections, spiritual meditations, and insightful anecdotes. This...

Simplicity. In order to find it, people declutter, downsize, and destress. They start a garden, stop watching television, and boycott breadmakers. All of that is good, but none of it brings true simplicity. How do you find true simplicity? Simple living does not start with an act or...

When the boat's a rockin', don't come knockin'! Out-and-proud travel writer Dan Taylor is a city boy who can’t steer a boat to save his life, but that doesn’t stop him from heading into the English countryside to write up a narrowboat holiday. Compared to London, the canal seems dull as...