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“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood...

Basculez avec Olivier dans un univers fantastique enchanteur, celui du Petit Peuple des elfes, forcé d'utiliser la magie pour faire venir le jeune adolescent à leur secours. À la suite d’un accident de la route, Olivier vit avec ses grands-parents. En vacances dans les Vosges, Olivier...

In the 18th century Dutch plantation colony of Suriname, where wealth is measured by the number of slaves one owns, the educated Free Negress Elisabeth Samson, owner of several flourishing coffee plantations, desires the one thing her wealth cannot buy: a legal marriage with her consort, a white colonial...

Thousands of families faced the realization that after the Newfoundland government declared a moratorium on cod fishing their lives would never be the same. Generations of fishing families were torn apart when the young men and women were forced to find employment out west. This is a story of one...

This is a scene from William Shakespeare's Macbeth; Act 1, Scene 7 in ordinary English language. This scene was translated by the author with his well knowing that many will feel that doing this was a travesty on his memory. This translation was made to help determine whether there is any need for this kind of effort. In this play, the scene takes place at Macbeth's castle.

Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies...

In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives...

When amateur sleuths Hattie Collier, Bea Bell, and Connie Palmer win a trip to Las Vegas, they decide that crime solving can take a holiday. It’s fun in the sun for the adventurous widows, and Hattie’s cantankerous mother-in-law, Miss Fanny, until the devil’s playground proves too much for Hattie....

20 Kinds of Stupid: An Anthology of Idiot Heroes and Ridiculous Heroines twenty fatally flawed flash stories by Holly Lisle and students If there’s one thing more fun than writing awesome stories, it’s occasionally indulging in the worst excesses and writing awesomely bad stories....

This time there are no rules… An unputdownable new thriller from E. V. Seymour, introducing hired assassin Josh Thane, perfect for fans of Lee Child, Mark Dawson and Alan McDermott. One moment of weakness can cost you everything… Rogue assassin Josh Thane is an artist in murder. His next target...

A mother and her child were speaking about life, love, truth, and God. "Tell me about God," the child asked. She had heard the answer many times before but never tired of hearing the answered. I think you'll like reading the conversation that mother and child had on this subject.

Now a major Lifetime movie event, from New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes the fourth installment in the classic story of the Casteel family saga. Stunned by tragedy, a young woman finds herself desperate and alone,...

This eBook boxed set contains the previously published bestselling Dollanganger series by V.C. Andrews, including: Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, and Seeds of Yesterday.

Hidden Jewel is the fourth thrilling novel in the V.C. Andrews Landry series. Following All That Glitters, the spellbinding story of Ruby Landry's daring struggle to find a happy life with Beau Andreas and to protect their precious daughter. Sheltered from sorrow, innocent young Pearl thrives in the...