Porter: 1504 books

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - The ability of focus comes naturally to young children and they get so absorbed in what they are doing that it's impossible to switch their attention to something else. It's a very big challenge for adults to focus and most of us struggle with our inability to focus on...

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - Mental and physical stress are two of the most common side effects of our modern lifestyle. Stress can be experienced at work, and can lead to excruciating physical pain or can simply lower your morale. Sometimes it may feel like you can do nothing to stop your worries...

In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Americans had never heard of held the largest IPO in history – bigger than Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over ten years, while building a customer base more...

Simone has lost her trust in men. The one exception is her best friend Jace Prescott. In the twenty years they've known each other, they've made a lot of pinkie promises. Jace has always had feelings for Simone. But she was with his brother for three years before they split. With James...

Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations.  All our books contain a linked table of contents. A Girl of the Limberlost, written by American naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, is the sequel to Freckles. The book is considered a classic of Indiana literature.

“Andrew Porter is a born storyteller . . . He makes his own space instantly and invites you in. Hats off!” —Barry Hannah From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an American family trying to cope in our world today, a story of...

A brand new emotional and steamy novella featuring the beloved hero and heroine of the Lock & Key series, Lock and Grace. Everything that could go wrong just did. T’was the night before Christmas in Meager, South Dakota, and Grace’s plans for the perfect holiday for her new family...

When you lose all hope, what's left to live for? There was no escaping it and no one to bring Raine out of it. The burden of loss weighs heavily on her, reminding her every day that there are no guarantees in life. Every day is a struggle. Every day she puts on a facade just to get through....

Teaching In The Spirit If there is going to be a difference in this world, it will not come from rules, demonstrations, educational workshops and public service announcements. While these things may make a brief shift in behaviour, in the end they will not last. The only hope for real change lies...

As East Germany collapses, a former Stasi agent is caught in the crossfire of international espionage in this “tour de force on par with John le Carré” (Library Journal, starred review). Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award September 1989. In the tense final days before...

Drug dealing can be dangerous. Other dealer... police investigations... self indulgence. Those are just the more glamorous hazards. But the insidious threats of greed and arrogance can do far more harm in the end, as one grower/dealer discovers. One in a series of stories from a compilation entitled A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.

Un grupo de mujeres se reúne en una clínica belga de fertilidad, donde la Dra. Margherita Dumas ofrece un tratamiento revolucionario y experimental para sus problemas de infertilidad. Un año más tarde, cada una de las mujeres da a luz bebés sanos. Treinta años después, un misterioso...

Designer Tony Duquette’s legendary Dawnridge, located in Beverly Hills, is one of the most creatively designed private homes in America. Built in 1949 by Duquette and his wife, Elizabeth, the original structure was a modest 30 x 30 foot box. Hutton Wilkinson purchased the home following Duquette’s...