"In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent trying to outrun the humiliation her own book caused her, Henrietta has reluctantly agreed to a reissue of "The Inseparables," the salaciously filthy and critically despised bestseller she wrote decades earlier. At the same time, her daughter, Oona, has moved back home to the house that Henrietta needs...

"At bayonet point, the tall sister and the short officer headed for the mortuary where the prepared body lay. "If you lived in England, you should know how civilized people behave," said Sister Mary Curry. The officer looked into the eyes of Sister Curry: "Do English women never cry?" "Not when we have work to do," she replied. This is a short, sharp, punchy treatment of what happened that dreadful Christmas Day. It touches on expat eccentricities,...

Two women competing for a man's heart Two queens fighting to the death for dominance The untold story of Mary Queen of Scots New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself...

Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents

[The Modern library of the world's best books] Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely...

"A mother's secret past and her daughter's present collide in this richly atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor. In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings--and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth's house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that...

Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock search in the polar regions for a vast meteorite containing a valuable new metal.