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“If you’ve ever enjoyed a visit to Mitford, you’ll relish a visit to Fairacre.” —Jan Karon Miss Read once again transports readers to the picturesque English village of Fairacre with her Village Diary. Having received a beautiful diary for Christmas, she proceeds to set down a year’s...

Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment....

From “What the Experts Say”, by Michael J. HAWLEY, Esquire: At a time when an assured security presence is of foremost concern in virtually every sector of civilized society, in boardrooms as well as bedrooms, this work is both timely and of momentous practical value. Novices will find...

Tristan grew up a human among aliens. Now he must used his alienness to survive among humans. Tristan isn't quite two when the transport, in which he and his mother are traveling to join his fighter pilot father, is captured by the masuki: fierce, non-human slavers. Tristan and his mother,...

This is a collection of thirty short stories by one of the best story-tellers of the 19th century. The majority are one-chapter long, but many have two and three chapters. Almost without exception, are based in the backwoods and mountains of Kentucky, and provide a very realistic look at what life...

7 works of Opie Read American journalist and humorist (1852-1939) This ebook presents a collection of 7 works of Opie Read. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - A Yankee from the West - An Arkansas Planter - Bolanyo - Old Ebenezer - The Colossus - The Jucklins - The Starbucks

Two novels in the beloved Fairacre series, full of “delicious wit, quirky characters . . . and certainly love and laughter” (Jan Karon). In the English village of Fairacre, retired schoolteachers Dolly Clare and Emily Davis enjoyed a remarkable friendship. Childhood playmates in Beech Green,...

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date of the engraver, editor, and arts enthusiast R. H. Cromek. Though he is best known today as William Blake's nemesis, Cromek made significant contributions to the vitality of the arts...

...“Oh my word! Did she really just say that?” Recently those were words that I heard upon entering a very small bread store. Startled I glanced over to the register at the employee. What was he going on about? My child hadn’t said anything wrong – and there was no one else in the store... Parenting...

The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered control of social and political institutions, acquired much of their descriptive power from contemporaneous medical and...

After being held hostage on a world called Issel, Tristan, the hero of Ganwold's Child, has been reunited with his military family. Now a soldier himself, he and Lujan Sergey, commander of the special forces and the father he has never known, try to find some common ground on which to build a...

The saga which began with Ganwold's Child and continued with Echoes of Issel is the story of one military family at the center of politics and war on a cluster of worlds far away in space and time. The patriarch of the family, Admiral Lujan Sergey, is commander of the special...

“Here you’ll find delicious wit, quirky characters, the colorful intrigues of daily life, and certainly love and laughter. . . . Delightful.” —Jan Karon Throughout her years as schoolmistress, Miss Read has gathered excellent accounts of the rich and varied history of her beloved English...

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. When storms roar and orcas are on the prowl, it's the seal gardens of the Great Bear Sea that provide safety and shelter to sea lions, otters, a variety of seals and other sea mammals. Ian McAllister's glorious photographs reveal the beauty and...