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Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849¿1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett declared her ¿best story¿ to be A Marsh Island (1885), a little-known novel. Why? One reason is that it demonstrates Jewett¿s range. Known primarily for her vignettes, Jewett accomplished in these pages a truly great novel. Undoubtedly, another reason lies in the novel¿s themes of quee...

David Gwyn traces the radical evolution of the early iron railway and the profound impact it had on human society. As railways began to wind their way across the world, Gwyn shows how they carved out the shape of a newly global economy?laying the foundations for today's globalized world.

The Grizzly Sin, King, is alive! Unfortunately, King not only refuses to help Meliodas, he declares Ban as his mortal enemy for having attained eternal life at the cost of the life of his sister Elaine. During a gripping confrontation between King and Ban, the fearsomely skilled Holy Knight Gila comes bearing startling disaster and devastation!"--Publisher.

The most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate to specific political issues

Taking place against the backdrop of 1925's Scopes evolution trial, Reaping the Whirlwind is a serial killer mystery set in a quirky and historic small town.

Collected in print for the first time, discover how Arthur Pendragon became the scourge of skellies everywhere in this supernatural swashbuckling adventure! Before the Blackwyche became a relic in Shipwreck Bay, it was home to one of the noble and legendary pirates the Sea of Thieves had ever known. Follow the rise of Sir Arthur Pendragon as he forges his name as the Champion of Souls, striking fear into the bones of every skeleton who dares t...

Luke O'Neil is the fiercely leftist writer and journalist behind the popular newsletter Welcome to Hell World and two published collections of its best pieces,  Welcome to Hell World: Dispatches from the American Dystopia and Lockdown in Hell World. Known for his unflinching perspective on the issues plaguing America, from healthcare nightmares, police and gun violence, and labor abuses, O'Neil is a former writer-at-large for Esquire and colum...

By the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game.Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That’s what Jacy’s mom always told her. And Jacy felt like she finally did. Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy and her new husband, Jed, embark on their first road trip together to visit his fa...

T'Challa has been banished from his homeland! Searching for purpose, the Black Panther returns to the Avengers - just in time for a mysterious group of terrorists to seize control of global communications! And when that organization proves to be eerily connected to Wakanda and T'Challa himself, his standing even among Earth's Mightiest Heroes comes into question - as does everything he has come to know and trust over the course of recent event...

Forget what you thought you knew about porn stars, you're about to hear a tale too shocking to be true . . .Once upon a time in the beautiful land of Laguna Beach, CA, lived a girl named Rachel. She was curious, clever, and like any hopeful heroine, committed to forging her own path in life. She yearned for more than an ordinary existence and a boring nine to five, so she joined the world of adult entertainment, where she finally felt fulfille...

A splendid contribution"This volume captures the Old Testament's celebration of God the Creator and the Creator's relentless efforts to bring the world into harmony with God's intentions."Ollenburger synthesizes and expands his career-long investigation of biblical concepts of creation. On display are the author's finest characteristics: keen attention to primary texts, breadth and depth of scriptural engagement, restraint of other scholars' o...

Zac Topping's Wake of War is a timely account of the lengths those with power will go to preserve it, and the determination of those they exploit to destroy everything in the name of freedom anew."I just hope I'm on the right side of history."The United States of America is a crumbling republic. With the value of the dollar imploding, the government floundering, and national outrage and resentment growing by the hour, a rebellion has caught fi...

For decades, the Campbell women have reunited at the family's rambling seaside cottage known as Beech House to celebrate life's many occasions. But this year, they will be called back to Martha's Vineyard for a celebration of a different sort: their beloved matriarch Cora is getting remarried. And all the town gossips are calling him the one who got away, years ago... For renowned chef Mickey Campbell, this wedding isn't just a welcome excuse ...

In this electrifying thriller from the author of Red Warning and The Night Agent, an attack on the White House sends the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top secret government facility buried deep underground?but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them. Assume the worst. Code Black.The day that every secret service agent trains for has arrived. The White House has been breached, the President forced to flee to ...

A sweetly humorous middle grade novel packed with action, basketball, and a dash of magical realism about friendship and family, first crushes, and belonging, from acclaimed author Gary Soto.Thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza has a huge crush on his classmate, Sierra, but he's never going to win her affections if he stays a C student and keeps embarrassing himself on the basketball court. And it doesn't help that his best friend, Antonio, likes ...

Lara finally lands the guy of her dreams, only to have her unexpected(ly female) summer fling transfer to her school, in Dahlia Adler's beloved award-winning YA queer romance, now in paperback!Lara's had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He's tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Oh, and he's talking to her now. On purpose and everything. Maybe...flirting, even? No, w...

Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect each other in this electrifying debut thriller.New Year's Eve, 1999.Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight, a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. But in order to protect each other, they have to find out who did.The ex, who drowns out her darkes...

[Grand Hotel Europa] calls to mind Nabokov, Tom Wolfe, Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, Wes Anderson . . . [A novel of] incorrigible high spirits." -Rand Richards Cooper, The New York Times Book ReviewA sweeping, atmospheric novel about European identity, centered on a hotel that encapsulates the continent's manifold contradictions.The love of my life lives in my past. Despite the alliteration it's a terrible line to have to write. I don't want to co...

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read."My perfect ten of a book!"-Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and Book Lovers"With speedy pacing and sexual tension for miles, this tale packs a punch."-PeopleShe's got his back.Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine...

A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II.On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II-centuries of earthquakes, landslides, and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain, including the widows Serafino-three eccentric sisters and their steely centenarian mother-who live quietly in ...