Adrian: 1834 books

As she leaned forward and kissed his lips her right hand moved down towards his groin. Nibbling his ear she could feel her warm breath upon his cold, stiff neck. She clenched his penis and knew instantly that rigor mortis had set in. She took off her panties and skirt letting them drop on the cold...

Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole. Both plays are highly charged emotional works, full of Lope de Vega’s vitality. This adaptation of Fuente Ovejuna was performed in Declan Donnellan’s directorial debut at the Royal National Theatre.

In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the war, Gob suffers a change of heart, and Tomo is forced...

This volume contains eleven poems. The subject matter generally lies in the realm of love found, love lost or some other aspect of love.

An “outstanding” mystery set in the Australian Outback (Publishers Weekly, starred review). After leaving the Outback to get an education, Emily Tempest—half-aboriginal, half-white—returns to her birthplace as an Aboriginal Community Police officer. Emily’s first assignment is a murder...

“An epic and ambitious mystery set against the vast backdrop of Central Australia, where indigenous and white people live side by side in an uneasy truce” (Vogue). Emily Tempest, part aboriginal and part white, is back in Moonlight Downs after a long absence. She left to get an education...

Olivia’s chance to prove herself as a spy hasn't gone well. She knows the rogue Portal and Clan Alpha’s illegal artwork sales suggests someone has an agenda for BloodDark that doesn’t accord with its peoples’ future. Could Earth billionaire Roland Grundfest be behind it all? Hernando...

It’s good to return home—or is it? A year after Olivia Brown’s abduction by vampiric aliens, she isn’t sure where she belongs anymore. On Earth, she’s told to forget her adventures and go to college. But evidence of wrongdoing by the Pure Bloods prompt fellow Resistance fighter Annara to...

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. This ancient proverb of the Kikuyu people, a tribal group in Kenya, Africa, is as true today as when the words were first spoken, perhaps thousands of years ago. Its essence is simplicity: when the large fight, it is the small who suffer most. And...

These great and highly-praised American Catholic Readers, originally published by Benziger Bros. in the 1930s, were the mainstay and backbone of the Catholic parochial schools during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. They still form part of the core curriculum for homeschoolers and private schools lucky enough to have old copies of these books.

Long used by most Catholic schools and countless homeschooling families, the American Cardinal Readers are tried and true, well-loved companions for children developing their reading skills. The American Cardinal Readers begin following the family adventures of John, Jean, and Baby, with simple...

Join a tour of Melbourne with Sam the Tram. Make new friends. Find gold.

**People used to live in places called countries. They raised flags and elected governments to rule them. They had a nationality.  But that was a long time ago. ** The words ’nation’ and ‘government’ are relics, things of the past. It has been centuries since the last tattered...

In the heart-stopping finale of the Dead trilogy, tough guy Michael Forsythe -- bad-boy antihero of the critically acclaimed Dead I Well May Be and The Dead Yard -- returns to his native Ireland, where a dangerous and beautiful old flame forces Michael to look for her daughter, who has mysteriously...