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Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the Midwestern United States shortly...

A harrowing thriller from the author of the acclaimed Cutter and Bone, “one of the truly great American writers of the 20th century” (The Guardian). After losing his wife, his parents, and his family farm, Tom Kohl is staying with his cousin Ken in Seattle as he tries to put his life back...

A post-apocalyptic doomsday novel from**“one of the truly great American writers of the 20th century” (The Guardian).** In the dystopian future, the government has collapsed, cities are burning, and a roving gang called Mau Mau is marauding across America. A drifter named Walter Stone finds...

Independence Day, 1871. The Civil War is finished, but in "Bleeding Kansas", old wounds heal slowly. The shooting started in Kansas long before Ft. Sumter, and if some men have their way, it will continue, even six years after Appomattox Court House. Crill Falkner, a volunteer Union...

Gail is a newly retired teacher and she’s restless. Spotting her doppelgänger on a webcam starts her wondering about that woman’s life and sets her thinking about how she can find a new path to make her life meaningful. Emily is a young lorry driver with a passion for horses whose ambition is...

In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science. One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towards scientific theories--whether we should regard them as true or merely empirically adequate, for example. The other concerns the nature of scientific...

Living and operating in Manchester, UK, Dino and David work the drug scene for the students of the city. Out of the blue an opportunity presents itself that could make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. Do they stick with what they know, or go with the biggest gamble of their dangerous lives?...

A perfect book for learning Chinese and at the same time learning better conduct for the coming years. "Raising our children is our most important job ... create a climate in our country that is good for children." -- Former U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton "an excellent...

This book engages with, and contests, the ‘new sociology of nature’. It moves beyond existing debates by presenting new social theory and working across current fields of interest, addressing the debate on new genetics and genomics, taking human biology seriously, and the issues of interdisciplinarity...

This book comprises of several short stories. This is the authors first published book.

Newly promoted DS Julie Kite is at a crossroads. Her husband’s new job takes her away from urban Manchester and its inner city problems to a new life in tranquil mid-Wales. It is to be a new start for them both. On her first day at Builth Wells police station, Julie is thrust unexpectedly into the...

Rarest of the rare. One of the first Ophelia's, published circa '58 in Paris. Without Shame is the tale of a British lad driven by his own desires, and unhindered by any of society's taboos when pleasure's to be had... with schoolchums, grown men or women of any kind.

This book presents the development of Wool and Textile industry in America. "Until the year 1840 the wool manufacture of the United States was exclusively confined to the woolen form. In that year the first delaines made in this country were manufactured at a mill in Ballardvale, Mass. All the...

Usually, things cant just disappear. You may think this has happened before when youve lost a pen, your keys, your homework, or maybe even your baby brother. But that is not actually what happens at all. Usually, you have simply put it down somewhere and, afterward, forgotten where. However, in this...