Literature and Fiction ebooks

Be transfixed by photos of old New York with this 16-month mini calendar from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each month features a vintage photograph of a New York City landmark by renowned photographers including Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, and Weegee. From the Empire State Building to the icon...

This book consists of 10 chapters, which, from different aspects, teaches you to be an accommodating, flexible and mature man, learn to maintain moderate elasticity in interpersonal communication, know the nicety, and learn to be indirect and implicit, so as to maintain a balanced relationship. In d...

“I’ve gained deeper understanding listening to Rupert Spira than I have from any other exponent of modern spirituality. Reality is sending us a message we desperately need to hear, and at this moment no messenger surpasses Spira and the transformative words in his essays.”—Deepak Chopra, author of Y...

Pennsylvania. November 1866 –Lucy Garner is a recent widow who just buried her stillborn. Grieving the loss of two people she loved the most in her world, she decides to journey out West and escape her adopted father’s stepson whose intentions strike terror into her being. She goes to work for a dif...

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BASED ON A TRUE STORY. In 1994 Misha Defonseca joined up with tiny Mt Ivy Press to produce a book about her childhood experiences during the Holocaust. A Jewish war orphan who lost her identity when her parents were arrested by the Nazis, she set out on foot at age 7 to find them, walking 3,000 acro...

This book is the first to focus on the theme of tradition as an integral feature of the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Just as ancient athletes and spectators were conscious of Olympic traditions of poetic praise, sporting achievement, and catastrophic shortcoming, so the revived Games have been ...

After the discovery of lead along Joplin Creek in southwest Missouri, a rowdy boomtown sprang up overnight. Named after the creek, it paid homage to itinerant minister Harris Joplin, who had settled there briefly in the 1840s. Two rival towns developed: Murphysburg, west of the creek, and Joplin to ...

The Spanish Dances, Op. 12, are probably Moszkowski's most famous piano works. These five duets are beautifully conceived for the piano and have a winning appeal. They often sound more difficult than they are and lie well under the hands. This edition includes historical information, as well as help...

A science experiment gone terribly wrong, a killer searching for atonement, a fugitive on the run, a vigilante delivering extreme justice...and a Spider-Man?! When the imperfect clone of Peter Parker, former supervillain Kaine, attempts to start his life over, he relocates to Houston...and promptly ...

Collaboration and communication are important 21st Century skills and key science practices. Using accessible examples, readers will discover how scientists work together, and share ideas and information. Children also learn how and why scientists record information and put this practice into action...

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The second volume of the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning GOTHEM CENTRAL series is collected in hardcover, brought to you by acclaimed writers Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka, and artist Michael Lark, with additional art by Greg Scott, Brian Hurtt and Stefano Gaudiano. This volume also features an introdu...

Theyre the cutest things in the animal kingdom, and you should appreciate them up close now before they become imposing and ferocious. Youll find tiger cubs, a panada cub, and many more animals in the 2018 Animal Babies Calendar, which includes the last four months of 2017. The spacious grid provide...

In the spirit of A Man Called Ove and Good Grief--a poignant, funny, and utterly believable novel about life and loss. Give grief a chance . . .Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thought...

A young woman's heart and soul are captured by the lyrics and melody of of song. The voice that carries them to her heart is warm and seductive. She now begins a heartfelt journey to try to win his affection....

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According to Netlix's original series Narcos, "there's no business like blow business." Set in the '80s, Narcos is the true-life story of the infamous Medellín drug cartel, and centers around cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. Fans of the runaway hit will love this Narcos wall calendar, featuring gritty...

Recipe for good living: 1 part hope 3 parts unreasonable expectations a dash of fear 2 shakes heartache garnish with love play on words (poetry lives) is life through the filter of poet Nicole Marie Vilencia. The human experience is rife with a commonality of emotions and these poems seek to capture...

The prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight returns to the darkening shadows of nineteenth-century Scotland to track a killer on a profane mission of revenge.A wicked Scottish winter has just begun when pioneering female physician Sophia Jex-Blake calls on Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton to inve...

Excerpt from Nineteenth Annual Report of the Woman's Missionary Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1928-1929After a beautiful solo, sung by Dr. George Saxon, Mrs. Stephens, graciously introduced the speaker of the evening, the Rev. Charles Clayton Morrison, an advocate of world peace,...

A fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into a beautiful urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were calling Kansas City "the filthiest in the United States." The drainage of many houses emptied into gullies and cesspools. There was no garbage collection ser...