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Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the major first- and second-generation...

Kate Simmons and her mother, Lady Simmons, are amazed to find Lady Lorna, who has been missing for twenty years, on their doorstep. Though Kate was an infant when Lady Lorna disappeared, presumed to have been kidnapped by gypsies, her mother recognizes her old friend immediately. Lady Lorna’s younger...

For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil – the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over those years, however, was the differential...

Re-experience Joan Johnston's beloved story of finding love in unexpected places Previously published in February 1995 as The Unforgiving Bride Rancher Falcon Whitelaw always swore he'd never get married, until he found himself saying “I do” to widowed mother Mara Ainsworth. And...

Joan Beck Coulson was lucky enough to meet Judy Garland at the party after the last show at the Dominion in November 1957. She greeted Judy at the Press Reception in 1960 and invited to attend recording sessions (London Sessions) with her. Later in the summer, she witnessed the two one-woman shows...

Si tuviéramos que designar un heredero de la poesía clara y difícil de Salvador Espriu y de la poesía bondadosa e intensa de Miquel Martí i Pol, Joan Margarit sería, sin duda, el elegido. La dureza y, al mismo tiempo, la ternura del refugio contra la intemperie que es su extensa y reconocida...

“The wisdom of cultures that live harmoniously with nature spoken through the heart and mind of a true gnostic intermediary.” —Ram Dass In this “masterwork of an authentic spirit person,” Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax Roshi delves into “the fruitful darkness”—the...

Lettie Beddoes was twenty-seven and past the age of longing for love. She was also the guardian of a trust for Lord Havergal, notorious fellow that he was, and impervious to his requests for more money. When he dropped in on her for a face-to-face encounter, he was surprised to learn that she was a woman....

What's an innocent young African American girl to do when a charming white billionaire with a flair for the kinky takes an interest in her? This 10,700 word story tells the tale of one young woman's naughty adventures with a kinky playboy billionaire.

With a double wedding on the cards, Liverpool's best-loved neighbours plan for an unforgettable day. In Down Our Street, Joan Jonker brings us another instalment of her hugely popular Molly and Nellie series, as the two friends get up to more mischief in their beloved Liverpool. Perfect for...

In hilarious and often heartbreaking detail, Joan Heartwell recreates her youthful determination to achieve an unremarkable life after having been placed by rascally fate at the center of a super-dysfunctional, chaotic, and downwardly mobile family. In Part 1, Heartwell leads readers into a lively “coming...

The three spunky ladies who so charmed readers in The Ladies of Convington Send Their Love and The Gardens of Covington welcome us back to the small Southern town of Covington, to their quaint white farmhouse with yellow shutters on Cove Road. Life lessons abound throughout From the Heart of...

The Gardens of Covington joyously celebrates women and friendships, families and love, laughing through the tears, thinking with the head and the heart. The ladies, so real and inspiring, will make you wish they were your neighbors. If this is your first visit to the small town of Covington,...

Having captured readers' hearts and imaginations in three USA Today*-bestselling books, the irrepressible Ladies of Covington again delight us in Joan Medlicott's richest and most warmly affecting novel yet.* If you're meeting the Ladies of Covington for the first time, prepare to fall in love with...