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I loved it! It was funny and written in the sort of voice I engage with easily. Evocative of place, and amusing in its rendition of Billy, Dakota, Jeter and Old Lady Phipps. I envision a rather comic summer coming. The collision of Florida, Switzerland, Pennsylvania, etc. in one place promises energizing conflicts." -Will Blythe, New York Times best-selling author and former literary editor of Esquire magazine

After being threatened by a dog with a killer instinct, a couple from the City (Darm and Evo) are trapped for the night in a gentrified farmhouse after their neighbors appear to have declared war against on them. Throughout the evening, they cope by painting, writing, playing the piano, having moments of intimacy and comedic bickering that are juxtaposed with moments of violence, hatred, fear, and the possibility of death. A thoughtful comment...

Who killed Princess Diana on August 31, 1997? TALKING ABOUT DIANA'S DEATH is a comic murder mystery that explores the various hypotheses and rumors surrounding the death of Princess Diana by using the lives of five New Yorkers, two of whom happened to be in Paris on the weekend that Diana succumbed to injuries sustained in a car crash. This royal murder mystery is provocative, timely, and irreverent.

Hello! My name is Lydia Barrow. I'm nineteen years old. And I'm in the way. But I've always been in the way, and when my half sister goes to London to find a husband, my stepmother decides to get rid of me so that I don't mess up their plans. And as far as I'm concerned, that's fine. I'm used to being ignored...or worse. I can take care of myself. In fact, I've got plans. If things go well, I'll have a source of income and be independent...e...

Hello! My name is Lydia Barrow. I'm nineteen years old. And I'm in the way. But I've always been in the way, and when my half sister goes to London to find a husband, my stepmother decides to get rid of me so that I don't mess up their plans. And as far as I'm concerned, that's fine. I'm used to being ignored...or worse. I can take care of myself. In fact, I've got plans. If things go well, I'll have a source of income and be independent...e...

Hello! My name is Lydia Barrow. I'm nineteen years old. And I'm in the way. But I've always been in the way, and when my half sister goes to London to find a husband, my stepmother decides to get rid of me so that I don't mess up their plans. And as far as I'm concerned, that's fine. I'm used to being ignored...or worse. I can take care of myself. In fact, I've got plans. If things go well, I'll have a source of income and be independent...e...

A storm brews in the illustrious town of Elsinore, Massachusetts, and no one knows it yet. Not Hamilton "Ham" Dane III, who's angry because it's only been one month since the untimely death of his billionaire father, and Ham's uncle, Claude, has already taken control of the family's empire. And that's not even to mention the blooming romance between Claude and Ham's mother, Gretchen. Not Harry Yeoh, who's desperately in love with his best ...

If you could leave it all behind, would you?Fifteen year old Beth Burnham has just discovered her cousin Charlie Davis in her woodshed. He's a welcome distraction from the stresses of her everyday life, but things get complicated when they both discover that they are cousins whose relationship spans a hundred years! Charlie is a teenager in 1895. Beth is a teenager in 1995. Whose time are they in, Beth's or Charlie's? And when they finally fig...

If you could leave it all behind, would you?Fifteen year old Beth Burnham has just discovered her cousin Charlie Davis in her woodshed. He's a welcome distraction from the stresses of her everyday life, but things get complicated when they both discover that they are cousins whose relationship spans a hundred years! Charlie is a teenager in 1895. Beth is a teenager in 1995. Whose time are they in, Beth's or Charlie's? And when they finally fig...

It isn't every day that you bump into legendary monsters, ancient witches, and stoic elves on your walk to school. But as fourteen-year-old Abbie is about to find out, the world is a lot more exciting-and dangerous-than she thinks.¿Abbie Matsuda-Walsh has never thought much of herself-or of her dull, directionless life. But that life is about to burn down to the ground. In one disastrous night, her family, her home, and her sense of reality ar...

A beautiful New England town. An old New England family. An albatross of a house. When you've lived your entire life in the shadow of failed expectations, you don't take risks and you don't expect payoffs.Beth Burnham is in trouble. She's broke, underemployed, and her house is falling down around her. Down to the last $20 bill in her grocery jar, she approaches the local law firm, hoping that they'll hire her as a part-time attorney. But when ...

A beautiful New England town. An old New England family. An albatross of a house. When you've lived your entire life in the shadow of failed expectations, you don't take risks and you don't expect payoffs.Beth Burnham is in trouble. She's broke, underemployed, and her house is falling down around her. Down to the last $20 bill in her grocery jar, she approaches the local law firm, hoping that they'll hire her as a part-time attorney. But when ...

A beautiful New England town. An old New England family. An albatross of a house. When you've lived your entire life in the shadow of failed expectations, you don't take risks and you don't expect payoffs.Beth Burnham is in trouble. She's broke, underemployed, and her house is falling down around her. Down to the last $20 bill in her grocery jar, she approaches the local law firm, hoping that they'll hire her as a part-time attorney. But when ...

A second chance at her stolen future. A first chance at love. A long-held secret that could destroy it all… England, 1800. Lady Catherine Claverton shed no tears over the death of her cruel father. Banished from his household for her crippled leg, it shocks the young woman to discover he'd deprived her of her late mother's title of Countess. Determined to take back her rightful place, she need only find a husband and bear a son. Convinced none...

A second chance at her stolen future. A first chance at love. A long-held secret that could destroy it all…England, 1800. Lady Catherine Claverton shed no tears over the death of her cruel father. Banished from his household for her crippled leg, it shocks the young woman to discover he'd deprived her of her late mother's title of Countess. Determined to take back her rightful place, she need only find a husband and bear a son.Convinced none c...

A second chance at her stolen future. A first chance at love. A long-held secret that could destroy it all… England, 1800. Lady Catherine Claverton shed no tears over the death of her cruel father. Banished from his household for her crippled leg, it shocks the young woman to discover he'd deprived her of her late mother's title of Countess. Determined to take back her rightful place, she need only find a husband and bear a son. Convinced none...

The first list to cover the entire European fauna of butterflies and moths since the famous "Staudinger-Rebel Catalogue" which was published as long ago as in 1901. A large number of European specialists have been working on the family/subfamily treatments, and the list has been checked by leading experts in the national faunas. The higher classification used in the checklist is in accordance with the most recent research as it will be present...

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The Geometridae is one of the most species-rich families of Lepidoptera. This outstanding book is the first comprehensive catalogue of the 35, 000 names of these insects. The primary purpose of the work is to provide a substantial body of taxonomic information, much of it previously unpublished, on the available names of the Geometridae. The catalogue is based on the most complete world classification of the geometrids, the card index to gener...