Mara: 417 books

We may remember their equations and discoveries from school, but do we remember who the men behind the maths were? From the theories of Pythagoras (and did you know he ran a secret brotherhood that studied maths, music and gymnastics?) to coining the term 'Googol', "Fom 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries:...

Gabrielle has never had trouble garnering male attention. In her twenty-five years, she’s left a path of broken hearts behind her, without thinking twice. So when the handsome new hand on her father’s ranch ignores her, she is determined to have him in her bed by any means necessary. But is she...

For the first time in weeks, Isabella Lupton feels safe. With the confident and assured billionaire Nick Pacelli to protect her, how could she not? With each passing day Nick challenges Isabella's sexual boundaries, introducing her to a world of pleasure that she had only read about and never...

Book 2 in the New York Times bestselling Worth Series All Katie ever wanted was a baby. Be careful what you wish for. Katie Lipton is the town beauty, but that never got her what she wanted most—a baby. And, oh yeah, a faithful husband would have been nice, too. Reeling...

A startling exposé of crime and corruption, in which private eye Marlowe - alias Les Dawson, fresh from his conquests in Come Back With the Wind - takes the lid off the underworld to reveal gangsters, shysters, traffic wardens, good time girls, bad time girls who get better, traffic wardens . . . Meet...

The travelling storyteller combined many talents: scholar, educator, linguist, poet and musician. He showed learning, curiosity and judgement, but most of all he could not resist a good story. True to their original telling and stripped of the sanitization of later centuries, these powerful tales...

Arguably the greatest of all the English Romantic poets, John Keats left behind him an astonishingly large body of work almost as remarkable for its maturity as for its beauty. Whether in longer narrative works like ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, or in such sonnets as ‘On First Looking Into Chapman’s...

How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A Classical Education...

It's the classic gags that keep people laughing time after time, and Nick Harris has collected together a bumper batch of the best jokes that are guaranteed to have anyone rolling in the aisles. With jokes ranging from the classic subjects (man walks into a bar, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman,...

Life's way to short to fret about waistlines, ex-lovers or whether you've got the latest 'it' handbag. It's time for a return to old-fashioned glamour, to start enjoying life at full-throttle and have men falling at your feet. The Naughty Book for Girls shows you how to achieve all this, including:...

An amusing and scholarly look at the fascinating stories behind old-fashioned legends and superstition This collection investigates the origins of history's most intriguing old-fashioned superstitions, many of which people still find themselves abiding by today. Hundreds of the beliefs passed...

There's only one Essex - and due to the phenomenal popularity of the hit reality-show The Only Way is Essex, the county has transformed from somewhere to be scoffed at to somewhere to be celebrated. 100% Essex is a hilarious book that does just that! Crammed full of bling, banter, Essex birds and blokes,...

An absorbing collection of Jane Austen's sharpest, most profound, and most amusing observations   *"A lady without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world."  -*Persuasion   Featuring wry insights on human nature, money, marriage, life,...

A fascinating collection of some of the finest examples of Dickens' wit, humor, and comedy, containing wry reflections and razor-sharp remarks on such subjects as childhood and family, women and love, politics and wealth, and many more   *"Mr. Squeers's appearance was not prepossessing....