Hughes: 1804 books

In accordance with the terms of her father's will, Corinda Chaste has been brought up by Arabella in complete isolation from men. But at the age of eighteen, when a yacht she's aboard is wrecked in a storm, she finds herself the prisoner of a Greek sex trafficker. And as well as being a highly...

Charity Goswick thinks she is escaping an arranged marriage to a brute when she slips onto a ship unnoticed. Little does she realize that this is no honorable vessel of the King's Navy - it is a pirate ship. It's just a matter of time before she is discovered by a handsome rake of a pirate, who locks...

Eastbend has a dark secret and newcomers to the town are left guessing about the distant whispers and rumors of missing people. When 5 kids unearth a black casket in a deteriorating shed hidden in the deep woods, they discover there is more to the town they live in and have grown to despise, they...

Not all portals take you to nice places; some times they lead you to places you never expected. Even worse, you might end up somewhere you definitely didn't want to go...and you might never get home from. Dimensional Abscesses is a collection of ten stories that explore a few of these "bad" portals.

My butler, Chives, had gone to answer the door.I made a great show of nonchalance, as I always do when unexpected visitors arrive during a period of crisis, and I took my oboe down from its shelf and played a sad melody. I heard the tramp of feet, five feet in total, which meant only a single visitor,...

Housemaid Rebecca Bailey would do anything to help her father. Even masquerading as an heiress and crashing a ball held by one of the most influential families in the city. There's just one problem—one of the guests could expose her and ruin everything. The handsome, charismatic Christopher Black...

China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated theirannee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived inL'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and theTel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took th

Belding is located in the northwest corner of Ionia County along the Flat River. The land was first settled by Charles Broas in 1837 and became known as Broas Rapids. The name was later changed to Patterson Mills, and in 1871 the small village was renamed Belding in honor of the Belding family. The Belding...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

After being tasked with the creation of the world and everything in it, God begins to lose control over his creations. Through his chain smoking, whiskey fueled journey, he must reassert Himself as man's creator whilst finding time to deal with his problematic teenage son. Even with his faithful but...

This is an unexpected input from the remarkable mystical teacher, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, over thirty years after his passing in 1949. A method of transmission was devised, through a trance medium, with multiple means for pursuing and checking the authenticity of the material and demonstrating...

Detective Inspector Roger Watson is getting nowhere. A forty-year-old spinster is in a coma in the hospital, and he is convinced she has been raped by the Reverend Thomas Wright. The investigation is floundering for lack of evidence, so the Inspector is persuaded to join forces with a scientist who claims to be able to download information directly from the human brain.

Architecture/Interior Design An in-depth look at the most innovative aged care facilities today With the world's population aging at a rapid pace, there is a growing need for new ways to provide residential care for older people. Design for Aging explores some of the most successful...

Australia is the only country in the world where you can see a crocodile in the middle of a town where the locals are remarking in English, if they’re acknowledging it at all. It’s their laid-back approach to everything from drunk driving to foreign policies that makes Australia one of the greatest...