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Bestselling author Melody Carlson (more than 5 million books sold) continues her Homeward on the Oregon Trail series with this second romantic adventure. Elizabeth Martin and her two children have made it through the easy part of their journey, but now their wagon train faces high mountain passes, dangerous river crossings, and decreasing supplies. Desperate circumstances bring out the best and worst of the travelers, including Will Bramford, the wealthy widower who is pursuing Elizabeth, and Eli Kincade, the independent and solitary guide who has stolen Elizabeth’s heart. As the group reaches the Oregon Country, the emigrants part ways to find their new homes. Elizabeth and Will and their families have made arrangements to board a ship that will take them south along the coast. Will Eli change his plans and accompany Elizabeth to her new and permanent home? Or will his mysterious past continue to keep them from love?
Originally published as weekly articles under the BYGONE TIMES headline of the Tri-City Ledger in Flomaton, Alabama; Life With the Top Down captures the sweet, sentimental flavor of life in the American South of yester-year. Some of the stories in this book will make you bust a gut laughing; others may touch your tender spot and leave you dewy-eyed. But all the stories will make you feel like you just finished visiting with a life long friend.
Speaking to You explores the work of four important poets writing post-1960 - Don Paterson, Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Graham, and C.H. Sisson - in order to show how contemporary British poetry's creative handling of addresses to 'you' are key in its interactions with readers, critics, lovers, editors, fellow poets, and deceased forebears.
Someone is killing off Wall Street's shadiest financiers, and only Silas Cade can get to the bottom of it With breakneck pacing, nonstop action, and cutting-edge details of today’s financial intelligence technology, Clawback offers a thrill-a-minute narrative set in the world of Too Big to Fail. Silas Cade, a black-ops vet and gray-zone contractor, is no stranger to gunslinging or shady finance. After coming home from America’s wars abroad, he becomes an “accountant”—the go-to for Wall Street financiers who need jobs done quickly, quietly, and by any means necessary. Hired by a major player to visit a tanking hedge fund manager and extract ten million dollars in clawback—the mandatory return of compensation paid on a deal that goes bad—Silas instead discovers that someone is killing off bankers all over New York.
Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics.
Exploring works by Djuna Barnes, David Jones, F.T. Prince, Denise Riley, Paul Muldoon, and Ted Hughes, this volume traces the relationship between twentieth-century poetry and art to question the role of art in society.
Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.
In the book, Guesswork written by krishnan Srinivasan, Dipak a street smart Anglo-Indian meets an elderly lady in Libya on his way to meet his sister in Europe. This reclusive lady claims to be the descendant of an European Royal family. Dipak persuades his sister's husband, who happens to be a well-known film director to make a film about this mysterious woman. Meanwhile, the film director is taken hostage in Libya which is followed by a diplomatic crisis involving the United States, Israel and the Arab world with fears of a nuclear catastrophe.
From Agatha Christie’s favorite American author, the first three mysteries starring gentleman sleuth and antiquarian book dealer Henry Gamadge. Unexpected Night: New Yorker Henry Gamadge is vacationing in coastal Maine when the police there need his help. It’s a strange case involving a seemingly natural death, a large inheritance, a mysterious nighttime rendezvous, and a troupe of summer stock actors who start dying off . . . “Daly offers the reader a challenging case with a believable pair of sleuths, all set in a beautiful and distinctive context.” —Margot Kinberg, author of A Matter of Motive Deadly Nightshade: Gamadge’s friend, Detective Mitchell, invites him up to Maine to ...