Elaine: 1438 books

'Feinstein's triumph is to write so well that she makes Lena's predicament not only moving, in a perfunctory dismissive way, but also painful ... [she has] an accurate and acute feeling for language, and pauses, and silence.' Guardian Lena's seemingly contented family life is coming apart at...

View love and marriage from every angle except Happily Ever After in these five stories and two novel excerpts. Ford sympathetically captures the emptiness of faded love, the disappointment of affection misplaced, the humor of narrowly-escaped misalliance. Many err but none are mocked in this sparely-written, humane collection.

This book is about spiritual experiences and lessons to be learned and explored.

This is the true story of my great-great grandfather, Calvin Potter who ran away from home at the age of 12 from Beaver, Pennsylvania. He made it as far as the Minnesota area where he was found near death by a Sisseton Sioux hunting party. They took great pains nursing him back to health and he chose...

Napoleon has fallen and the Austrian Empire sweeps the continent. Dashing revolutionaries, traitors and spies lurk in every quarter in the turbulent Italy of the 1820s. Italian patriot Angelo Bartolini is a man of many faces: a devoted son and brother, a noble friend and a stalwart nationalist....

From the national bestselling author of Checked Out**, Helen Hawthorne must pose as a painter at Fort Lauderdale’s famous Bonnet House Museum to catch an artful killer . . .** The art world is a happening place—but a brush with death shouldn’t be in the picture. Unfortunately that’s...

There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world. The market for this book includes...

When people are in a certain mood, whether elation or depression, that mood is often communicated to others. When we are talking to someone who is depressed it may make us feel depressed, whereas if we talk to someone who is feeling self-confident and buoyant we are likely to feel good about ourselves....

Sixteen-year-old Glendora Stamford was raised by her older brother, Thomas, after their parents died of a fever that raged through their village in Northern Wales. He adored and spoiled her. But now, the only world she knows is turned upside down when her brother receives a letter from America and...

Modern day doctor Elisabeth Douglas never expected to find herself accused of witchcraft by a 16th century Scottish earl **A Warrior's Life...**Meets a Healer's Art Laird David Murray would give his life to pull his clan through this time of strife and conflict. With enemies both inside...

Maybe it wasn't accidental; maybe it was meant to be… Sarah James can't believe that her brother sold the family home out from under her. That house was going to be her livelihood after she fixed it up. But the new owner Cimarron Cole plans to restore it to its former glory—and sell the...

Marty was never happier than the day she drove away from Prescott Hall for the last time. She had moved into the spooky old mansion with her aunt Martha when her parents died in a car accident when she was a very young girl. The clock ticking behind the wall sent goose bumps down her spine, and the...

Can a real estate appraiser in a New Jersey beach town get in this much trouble? If your name translates to "pretty nice" in French, you've probably gotten used to teasing. It doesn't prepare you to find out that your soon-to-be-ex-husband has a gambling problem, raided your assets, and...

From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author of the Dead-End Job mysteries—a gritty series featuring a no-nonsense female journalist who follows her stories wherever they may lead…especially if they lead to big trouble. Francesca Vierling is always on the lookout for new fodder for her...