Maria: 6239 books

You pierce my soul. Before Jane Austen wrote that romantic letter from Captain Frederick Wentworth to Anne Elliot, she crafted a masterful story of heartbreak and longing that still resonates with readers today. But what of those scenes that Jane Austen never wrote?  What Persuasion...

Winner of the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel -- Nominee for the 2017 Anthony Awards for Best Children's/YA Novel in Mystery Writing In this "whole 'nother nightmare before Christmas," teen genius and skeptic Charity Jones discovers she should not only...

Eliza Swann, a butter merchant's daughter, wants to be a fine lady like the ones she reads about in novels. When landed gentleman Edward Dean proposes, she is only too eager to say yes. But marriage to Edward turns out very different from what she expected.

Finally following the theme which looks forward to the triumph of open minded and altruistic attitudes over their opposites, this last tale uses the allusion of open source vs proprietary software as a vehicle to explore some of the great failings and deep contradictions of human society. On the one...

... Ich wusste, ich sollte Hilde wieder auf die müden Schultern setzen und weiterlaufen, aber ein seltsames Gefühl machte sich in mir breit. Ich musste wissen, wer dort im Bett lag. Leise schlich ich näher und hörte mit jedem Schritt lauter das gleichmäßige Atmen des Schlafenden. Bereits auf...

Dora ist nahe daran, den Verstand zu verlieren. Die Träume, die sie vor zehn Jahren verfolgt haben, sind mit einem Mal wieder da. Damals hatte sie, um sich zu retten, etwas Schreckliches getan. Doch nun sind die Visionen zurück und mit ihnen die Sehnsucht und der Schmerz. Dora kämpft mit aller...

Zehn preisgekrönte Nachtthriller, nach deren Lektüre man nur noch schwer Schlaf findet ... "Klaustrophische Psycho-Spannung auf höchstem Niveau." Bestseller-Autor Sebastian Fitzek über den Kurzthriller "Redrum kommt nach Hause" von Jana Oltersdorff. Außerdem in der Anthologie...

The first third of this short entry is surmised from the attitude, habits, actions and demeanor of this wonderful cat. The balance is based on events that occurred from the time he came into our home. He apparently had a very loving home and was given excellent care, then abandon. A story of intelligent survival, adaptions, and acceptance by a caring loving family.

A book of poems with an amount of experimentation among them.

Parlourmaid Annis Jones falls in love with handsome cornet William Dean, though she knows a young officer with a career to make can't marry a penniless servant. But when his colonel rapes her and leaves her pregnant and disgraced, the young couple must find a way to build a life together - somehow.

Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civilization. In Meteorite, Maria Golia tells the long history of our engagement with these sky-born space rocks. Arriving amid thunderous blasts and flame-streaked...

An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture. Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the...

Part biography, part art history -- a thoroughly engaging look at one man’s life and his phenomenal influence on the world of contemporary art. Bill Reid was at the forefront of the modern-day renaissance of Northwest Coast Native art; but his art, and his life, was not without controversy....

Henry Fuseli is famous for his paintings and drawings of nude figures caught in strained and violent poses suggestive of intense emotion. He also had a affinity for inventing chilling fantasies. His sketches or designs numbered about 800; they have admirable qualities of invention and design, and...