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**“Ingenious . . . Mary B is a tribute not just to [Jane] Austen but to defiant women of any era.”—USA Today The overlooked middle sister in Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel.** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...

A short tale of Queen Boudicca's rebellion against the Roman Empire, seen through the eyes of her eldest daughter. When Ralla's father dies, leaving half his wealth to his queen and two daughters, the Romans send soldiers to seize the Iceni lands and punish his family. Ralla's mother Boudicca...

Travelling to London for her first Season, Persia Davenant has a disturbing encounter with Lucien, Lord Cavenham. When he makes his dislike for her family plain, she is thankful that she will never meet him again. However, she does meet Lucien again, and Persia discovers just how little she knows...

Meet Kari True. You'll get along fine with her, as long as you obey the law. Because Kari is an officer of the Watch.  Along with her colleagues, she's in charge of keeping the mean streets around the Palace in the City free of troublemakers, wrongdoers and crime, and when the bowstrings begin to...

Strangers in a Strange Land: Immigrant Stories is an anthology that explores immigration in poems, essays, and short stories by a diverse collection of authors who offer their own experiences, observations, and speculations. From searing poetry drawn from a Native American perspective to essays...

Who doesn't love a Cinderella story? Fashionista is the first in the Modern Magic series, a 21st century fairy tale retelling in novelette length (71 pages) for readers with fast-paced lives! Allegra Zangari is the granddaughter of the founder of the House of Zangari, a name that was...

The secret dream home of a poor teenaged boy…The recurring nightmare of a federal agent…Stolen dreams sold as drugs…Forbidden dreams running rampant into the waking world…Dream lovers, dream captors, dream saviours and dream kings…Dreams can be hopes, dreams can be visions, dreams...

Die neuseeländische Autorin Katherine Mansfield hielt sich Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts einige Zeit in Bad Wörishofen auf und lernte dort typische deutsche Kurgäste kennen. Ihre Eindrücke und Beobachtungen verarbeitete sie unterhaltsam und amüsant in der Geschichte: „In a German Pension“.(Text in englischer Sprache)

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Rosalie Kerr. Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen!...

Ellen stood at the nursery window looking out at the gray sky and the wet, blowing branches of the trees. It had been raining and blowing all day. The roof pipes poured out steady waterfalls; the lilacs bent over, heavy with the rain. Up in the sky a bird was trying to beat its way home against the wind.

Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception. Wales has famously celebrated its poets and novelists,...

After a longed-for pregnancy ends in heartbreak, Caitlin Ross plummets into grief and despair she believes can never heal. Worse, her husband and partner, Timber MacDuff, pulls away instead of offering her the solace she craves. When he leaves to attend to a magical problem he claims only he can remedy,...

Q is not on a quest. She’s not. She just wants to get out of her home town and discover the lands with no other goal in mind than to quench her curiosity. Or so she thinks. “May the good spells follow you home.”

What lurks beneath the surface of small-town propriety? These stories of small-town life in the American South evoke a pleasant and polite community feeling, and some of them are blessed by strong family ties. But the stories, some comic, some dark, and some both comic and dark, all reveal secrets and...