Susanna: 642 books

He watched her, and he did not want to admit how foolish he felt playing this game. Since the start of the dare he felt strange unseen presence around them and he wanted to quit, but he would not give in. He wanted to be the victor this time even if it meant he would be injured or worse. The...

The prodigiously gifted John Fleming and Hugh Honour were the last titans of art history, living in a beautiful, secluded Italian villa that cocooned their private lives as their world fame grew. To Susanna Johnston, however, they were simply John and Hugh, an inseparable couple and two of her closest...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The World Before Them A Novel (Volume 2). It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important...

In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times. Invaluable...

Roughing It in The Bush chronicles Susanna Moodie’s harsh and often humorous experiences homesteading in the woods of Upper Canada. A frank and fascinating account of how one woman coped, not only with a new world, but with a new self, this unabridged text continues to justify the international sensation it caused when it was first published in 1852.

Women everywhere feel pressured to have perfect Christian lives, perfect family lives, and to look perfect in their jeans. Instead of feeling good about themselves, most of them just feel like tired supergirls, living in the gap between who they are and who they long to be. Susanna Foth Aughtmon...

EIN MÄDCHEN UND EIN JUNGE. EINE LIEBE MIT HINDERNISSEN. EIN SOMMER, IN DEM SICH ALLES ÄNDERT. Neue Stadt, neue Schule, neue Leute. Leo ist heilfroh, sein altes Leben hinter sich zu lassen. Als er die stille Marie kennenlernt, ist er von ihr fasziniert. Doch was, wenn sie sein Geheimnis erfährt?...

Die Geschichte einer tiefen Verbindung in den Wirren des Nachkriegs-Deutschlands. Ein rührender Liebesroman voller großer Gefühle. Erfurt, April 1945: Als sich der neunjährige Erik an Plünderungen beteiligt, wird er schwer verletzt. Der afroamerikanische Soldat Sam rettet ihm das Leben und kümmert...

In der Anthologie "Sommernachtsküsse: Die schönsten Liebesgeschichten" erzählen 15 erfolgreiche deutsche und internationale Autorinnen in herzerwärmenden Kurzgeschichten von den magischen, witzigen und schönen Momenten, in denen ihre Heldinnen und Helden die Liebe suchen, finden und...

Headline-grabbing murders are not the only cases in which sanity has been disputed in the American courtroom. Susanna Blumenthal traces this litigation, revealing how ideas of human consciousness, agency, and responsibility have shaped American jurisprudence as judges struggled to reconcile Enlightenment rationality with new sciences of the mind.

The Queen of the Never Never as never seen before! In the 1890s, when a woman's role was seen as marrying well and raising a family, Daisy Bates reinvented herself from humble governess to heiress-traveller and 'woman of science'. She would become one of the best-known and most controversial ethnologists...

The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that the chemical was dangerous, it was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole banana...

The book the military censors banned As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipoli, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first-hand. On his return to Australia he detailed what he saw in his book, the Straits Impregnable. Hoping to avoid military censorship, his publishers dubbed Sydney's...

New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...