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In Chemical Crimes: Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction, Cheryl Blake Price delves into the dark world of Victorian criminality to examine how poison allowed authors to disrupt gender boundaries, genre, and the professionalization of science. Tracing the role of the chemical crime through the works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ellen Wood, Edward Bulwer Lytton, L. T. Meade, Charles Warren Adams, and Wilkie Collins, Price argues that p...

In Chemical Crimes: Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction, Cheryl Blake Price delves into the dark world of Victorian criminality to examine how poison allowed authors to disrupt gender boundaries, genre, and the professionalization of science. Tracing the role of the chemical crime through the works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ellen Wood, Edward Bulwer Lytton, L. T. Meade, Charles Warren Adams, and Wilkie Collins, Price argues that p...

Alice Haper is an ordinary woman with a good career, handsome husband, and a comfortable home. But her life is suddenly thrown into turmoil when she begins to experience terrifying nightmares of a young soldier. These dreams set in motion a chain of events that irrevocably change her life. As the nightmares intensify and merge with reality, Alice begins to sustain physical injury and to see the ghostly figure of the soldier in her waking ho...

Julie Heart has just turned ten years old and is at the point in her life where she is losing her belief in Santa Claus. It's the week before Christmas, and her magical Dream Pony, Algonquin, is determined she not lose her belief entirely. With his guardian, Mickey Bright, Algonquin sweeps Julie away in the middle of the night. During their first journey, they met the evil Magnifico, and his follower, Billy Green Hat, they returned victorious....

On May 8, 1944, the B17 climbed and joined other bombers in the cloudy skies over England. It had been a smooth takeoff.Thomas L. Thomas adjusted his navigator's seat in the plane's nose section and glanced out toward the clouds that quickly enveloped the ground beneath the plane. In one sense, he felt somewhat sheltered when the plane joined other planes 25, 000 feet above the English Channel. He imagined that the layer of clouds hid the Flyi...

On May 8, 1944, the B17 climbed and joined other bombers in the cloudy skies over England. It had been a smooth takeoff.Thomas L. Thomas adjusted his navigator's seat in the plane's nose section and glanced out toward the clouds that quickly enveloped the ground beneath the plane. In one sense, he felt somewhat sheltered when the plane joined other planes 25, 000 feet above the English Channel. He imagined that the layer of clouds hid the Flyi...

Carol Johnson is seven years-old and is about to embark on journeys that will take her around the world. She will go back in time and also visit the present - with the aid of a magical "dream pomy." The dream pony's name is Algonquin. He has lived in the real world but he now provides Carol with an opportunity to visit places she never dreamed existed. During these visits she learns that dreams can inspire. She also discovers that there are ru...

The Golden Aspen is a story about kindness and friendship. Friendship can take many forms but kindness and caring for others is not limited. In this story a little tree grows up and because of a single act of kindness to a human being he is rewarded beyond his dreams. And, this reward is something that marks the tree and its descendents even today.