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"The Odd Women" by George Gissing. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
| Автор | George Gissing |
George Gissing (1857-1903) was an English novelist of the late-Victorian era. Gissing's career as a novelist, at least until the late twentieth century, has been assessed in the framework of the nineteenth century realism and naturalism. Like many writers at the end of the nineteenth century, he was caught between the sociological realists with reform instincts and the adherents of an aesthetic movement with their emphasis on the attainment of ideal beauty. Gissing never achieved fame or...
| Автор | George Gissing |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Gene Stratton-Porter<br><br>At the Foot of the Rainbow <br>A Daughter of the Land <br>Freckles <br>A Girl Of The Limberlost <br>The Harvester <br>Her Father's Daughter <br>Laddie <br>Michael O'Halloran <br>Moths of the Limberlost <br>The Song of the Cardinal
| Автор | Stratton-Porter Gene |
An existential novel set in a dystopian, post-industrial America.
| Автор | Strat Boone's Douthat |
"Embracing the Fool" is the first book in a series featuring Cassie Thornton, an art history professor and aspiring writer in New York City with more secrets than she can hide in a storage unit.
| Автор | Dawn Leger |
War tore his family apart, now the young merchant must learn to create his own life in a new land. Making friends along the way and getting involved in technological advancements as well as politics, there's always quite a bit on his mind. He is soon presented with a choice; live in safety or help those suffering the effects of war.
| Автор | Alistair Nunamaker |
First published as a weekly serial in 1841, «The Old Curiosity Shop» is a novel that details the life of a young orphaned girl named Nell Trent. She lives with her loving grandfather in his London curiosity shop, until a gamble for wealth forces them to leave for the English countryside, penniless. After their departure, they are sought by both friends who wish to help them and cruel men with harmful designs. The pair of beggars ultimately experience the extremes of human loyalty and villainy in...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Duty – or desire?Revered businessman Falco Orsini has left life in the Special Forces behind – though he uses his powerful skills occasionally, when duty calls. But duty is always on Falco’s terms! When his estranged father asks him to protect a young model who is being stalked, he begrudgingly agrees…only because of the vulnerability he can see in her eyes.Elle Bissette won’t be a victim – she can take care of herself! And surely big, dark, devilish Falco is dangerous? Because one kiss from a...
| Автор | Sandra Marton |
He will claim his son! Gabriella Ramos Viera fell for Dante’s raw masculinity and ended up pregnant and alone – with no choice but to return home in shame. Tough corporate raider Dante Orsini has set his sights on a huge Brazilian ranch.However, he discovers it’s to be inherited by Gabriella, the one woman he’s never been able to forget… But where’s the New York career woman he once knew? And who’s the dark-haired little boy who calls her Mummy?The Orsini Brothers Darkly handsome – proud and...
| Автор | Sandra Marton |
Raffaele Orsini doesn’t want a wife… But when he meets his arranged bride Raffaele feels honour-bound to marry her. Though she’s not quite what he was expecting… Her plain, dowdy clothes can’t hide her lusciously feminine figure, nor her wildcat temperament!Chiara Cordiano will not love her husband! She tries everything to avoid her fate, but in the blink of an eye Chiara is swept away from her quaint Sicilian town to New York! She wants to hate Rafe, but seduction is in his blood.With his dark,...
| Автор | Sandra Marton |
Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American writer of children's books, best known for creating the marvelous Land of Oz in «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz». This fanciful kingdom was catalogued in a series of children's books beginning with the publication of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz». Baum's Oz series compasses the first fully developed fantasy world created by an American author. In 1900, Baum and Denslow, famous illustrator with whom he shared the copyright, published «The...
| Автор | Лаймен Баум |
The Eavesdropper's Pen is about the adventures of a young boy growing up in the Caribbean in the 1950's. It follows his early years in a strictly Catholic country where is bravely eavesdrops and questions everything around him with the intention of documenting everything for the future.
| Автор | A R Magaron |
When WWII was over the world felt at ease because the evil of Nazism was extinguished. But was it? There were many question that were unanswered because information was lost or destroyed, or so everyone thought. But was it? The Nazi Party was being reborn over the last many years and now has a new birth birth and a new view on how to finish the job they started 72 years ago. Isn't science wonderful?
| Автор | Don Boshard |
The new Earl of Haloran Hall is seeking a wife to provide an heir. Shalan Kiley is determined that she not be chosen as the Earl's bride, as she desires to be no man's Lady. She feels she is saved from that fate, however, when a message arrives that the ball has been cancelled due to the Earl being recalled to London due to an urgent matter.
| Автор | Myrna G. Raines |
While James Fenimore Cooper’s 1840 novel «The Pathfinder» is the fourth installment in «The Leatherstocking Tales» series, the action takes place third chronologically. Set amongst the wilderness of the Great Lakes region of the United States during the French and Indian War, «The Pathfinder» is a classic tale of early American frontiersman Natty Bumpo in which he finds himself rather uncharacteristically falling in love, a romance which pits him against his fundamental mission in life. «The...
| Автор | Джеймс Купер |
The Pioneers enters of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates most fully his own experience of growing up in a town of the American frontier. The heart of the novel is a conflict over who owns America, and by what concept of right. The competing claims of Native Americans, Tory loyalists, roving hunters, and visionary cultivators are pitted against one another in the area of history, and the magical village of Cooper’s youth becomes the scene in which a nation’s destiny is...
| Автор | Джеймс Купер |
The fourth and last work chronologically in Cooper's Leather-stocking Tales, «Pioneers» is a historical novel that follows the later life of Natty Bumppo. Already introduced by the previous novels as the archetypal American frontiersman and friend to Indians, Natty now struggles with hunting and new societal laws that restrict the freedom of the wilderness he has always known. He finds allies of his rebellion in a local landowner's daughter and a mysterious young visitor in this rich...
| Автор | Джеймс Купер |
The second book in the Cassie Thornton mystery series finds Cassie helping her friend Michael unravel an old family secret in his mother's attic, while her own past continues to encroach on the new life she's trying to establish in New York City. Sparks fly between Detective Friday and Cassie when she starts researching two mysterious sisters.
| Автор | Dawn Leger |
“Experimental College: My summer in Serendip” is a lighthearted comedy with tragic overtones, which asks some ominous questions. Aiming at your heart, it may unexpectedly grab at your crotch but hopes to offer something to your head.
| Автор | Glynda Shaw |
When the Nazis declare war on California's Jews, film producer David Howarth declares war on them. And while he's tracking down crazy Adolph Schleisser and his gang, a quiet, retiring psychopath by the name of Rita Goren is on his trail. Not to mention the mafia and the police… David's War is under way!
| Автор | Herbert Kastle |
It's just a simple surveillance job, right? Former marine and FBI agent Linc Williams is monitoring his target's ex-girlfriend, Regina Dodson. But nothing is simple when he's watching a woman who makes him forget everythingâ € " except for the need to know Regina as thoroughly and wickedly as possible….After all, the best way to observe someone is to get as close as possible. And Linc can't get any closer–the sex is absolutely mind-blowing! Unfortunately,...
| Автор | Tori Carrington |