Maria: 1071 books

Meba was a rather graceful humanoid, always in a good mood and very proud of his important profession and his powerful motormembrane which took him fluttering off to work each morning... he had nothing less than a Nebula550! He lived in a luxurious apartment among all the comforts and entertainments...

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...

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.

The Handbook for Catholic Moms, Lisa M. Hendey’s eminently practical and award-winning resource, has helped new parents balance and integrate the deeply personal needs of their hearts, minds, bodies, and souls with the demands of family life and faith commitment. Since the first edition was...

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...

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, (1833 –1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He was closely involved in the renewal of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain. In addition to painting and stained glass, Burne-Jones worked...

Hans Holbein the Younger was German painter, draftsman, and designer renowned for the precise rendering of his drawings and the compelling realism of his portraits. Holbein was one of the greatest portraitists and most exquisite draftsmen of all time. He was associated early on with the Basle publishers...

Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the pre-eminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened...