SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS' ASSOCIATION HISTORICAL ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARDA gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War.'the only fault I can find with this book is that I've already finished it' Jodi Picoult'truly enthralling' Scotsman'breathtaking' Harper's Bazaar1945. After disgracing themselves at a high society party, spoilt young Philadelphia socialites Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off from the family without a penny. Ellis decides their salvation will be to hunt down the Loch Ness Monster, a venture his father very publicly failed at. So, oblivious to WW2 raging around them, they make their way to the Scottish Highlands, where Maddie has to face reality and decide just who the real monsters are.

This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales. This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. From the Hardcover edition.

It all begins with an ad in the newspaper. When Jean Sasson, a young Southern woman, answers a call to work in the royal hospital in Saudi Arabia, what should have been a two-year stay turns into a life-changing adventure spanning over a decade. Jean is plunged into the hidden lives of the veiled women in Riyadh, where women are locked in luxurious homes and fundamentalist mutawas terrorize the streets. Jean meets women from all walks of life--a feisty bedouin, an educated mother, and a conservative wife of a high-ranking Saudi--all who open a window into Saudi culture and help to reshape Jean's worldviews. What follows is a heartfelt, inspiring memoir about Jean's new-found conviction to fight for women's rights in a country of limited personal freedom. PRAISE FOR JEAN SASSON'S BOOKS: “Fascinating...an intimate account of a family life that became steadily more dangerous and bizarre...in forced pursuit of Osama’s jihadist dreams.” --Washington Post "The startling truth behind veiled lives...frank and vivid" Sunday Express "Anyone with the slightest interest in human rights will find this book heart-wrenching." --Betty Mahmoody, bestselling author of NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER "A fascinating narrative...devasting" Robert Harris, Sunday Times "Absolutely riveting and profoundly sad..." --People "A chilling story...a vivid account of an air-conditioned nightmare..." --Entertainment Weekly "Must-reading for anyone interested in human rights." --USA Today "Shocking...candid...sad, sobering, and compassionate..." --San Francisco Chronicle Jean's first book THE RAPE OF KUWAIT, based on her eye witness reporting on the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops, was an immediate bestseller. Shortly thereafter she became a full-time writer. Her next three books, PRINCESS, PRINCESS SULTANA'S DAUGHTERS, and PRINCESS SULTANA'S CIRCLE, became international sensations as they were the first books to bring to the western world the shocking stories about life for women in Saudi Arabia. Jean is also the author of MAYADA, DAUGHTER OF IRAQ, about the prison experiences of an Iraqi journalist praised by Saddam Hussein; LOVE IN A TORN LAND: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance which tells the story of a beautiful Kurdish woman; GROWING UP BIN LADEN: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us into Their Secret World; and FOR THE LOVE OF A SON: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child. Her work has been featured in People, Vanity Fair,The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The Sunday London Times, The Guardian, CNN, FOX, NBC, and many other news organizations. Still traveling the world, Jean has made her homebase in Atlanta, Georgia where she is a passionate animal rights and women's rights supporter. You can learn more by visiting her website at http://www.jeansasson.com

Table of Contents List of Works by Genre and Title List of Works in Alphabetical Order Honore de Balzac Biography La Com?die Humaine: Scenes From Private Life: The Ball at Sceaux The Purse Madame Firmiani A Second Home Domestic Peace Paz or The Imaginary Mistress Study of a Woman Another Study of Woman La Grand Breteche (Sequel to "Another Study of Woman") Albert Savarus Letters of Two Brides A Daughter of Eve A Woman of Thirty The Deserted Woman La Grenadiere The Message Gobseck The Marriage Contract A Start in Life Modeste Mignon Beatrix Honorine Colonel Chabert The Atheist's Mass The Commission in Lunacy Pierre Grassou Scenes From Provincial Life: Ursule Mirouet or Ursula Eugenie Grandet The Celibates: - Pierrette - The Vicar of Tours - The Two Brothers or A Bachelor's Establishment Parisians in the Country: - The Illustrious Gaudissart - The Muse of the Department The Jealousies of a Country Town - An Old Maid - The Collection of Antiquities The Lily of the Valley Lost Illusions (Les Illusions perdues) *- The Two Poets - A Distinguished Provincial at Paris - Eve and David * Scenes From Parisian Life Scenes from a Courtesan's Life - Esther Happy - What Love Costs an Old Man - The End of Evil Ways - Vautrin's Last Avatar A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business Gaudissart II Unconscious Comedians The Thirteen - Ferragus - The Duchesse de Langeais - The Girl with the Golden Eyes Father Goriot The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau The Firm of Nucingen The Secrets of a Princess Bureaucracy or The Government Clerks Sarrasine Facino Cane Poor Relations - Cousin Betty - Cousin Pons The Lesser Bourgeoisie or The Middle Classes Scenes From Political Life An Historical Mystery or The Gondreville Mystery An Episode Under the Terror The Brotherhood of Consolation or The Seamy Side of History - Madame de la Chanterie - Initiated or The Initiate Z. Marcas The Deputy of Arcis or The Member for Arcis Scenes From Military Life The Chouans A Passion in the Desert Scenes From Country Life The Country Doctor The Village Rector or The Country Parson Sons of the Soil or The Peasantry Philosophical Studies The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin) The Alkahest or The Quest of the Absolute Christ in Flanders Melmoth Reconciled The Hidden Masterpiece The Hated Son Gambara Massimilla Doni Juana or The Maranas Farewell The Recruit or The Conscript El Verdugo A Drama on the Seashore or A Seaside Tragedy The Red Inn The Elixir of Life Maitre Cornelius Catherine De Medici - The Calvinist Martyr - The Ruggieri's Secret - The Two Dreams Louis Lambert The Exiles Seraphita Analytical Studies The Physiology of Marriage Novels: Adieu Beatrix The Country Doctor Petty Troubles of Married Life Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan Vendetta Short Stories: At the Sign of the Cat & Racket Domestic Peace Droll Stories Volume 1 Droll Stories Volume 2 Droll Stories Volume 3 Folk-Tales of Napoleon, The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant Plays: Mercadet: A Comedy In Three Acts Pamela Giraud: A Play In Five Acts The Resources of Quinola The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts Vautrin: A Drama in Five Acts

Bestselling author Susan Vreeland returns with a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world Instantly recognizable, Auguste Renoir's masterpiece depicts a gathering of his real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a café terrace along the Seine near Paris. A wealthy painter, an art collector, an Italian journalist, a war hero, a celebrated actress, and Renoir's future wife, among others, share this moment of la vie moderne, a time when social constraints were loosening and Paris was healing after the Franco-Prussian War. Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure and a yearning to create something extraordinary out of life. Renoir shared these urges and took on this most challenging project at a time of personal crises in art and love, all the while facing issues of loyalty and the diverging styles that were tearing apart the Impressionist group. Narrated by Renoir and seven of the models and using settings in Paris and on the Seine, Vreeland illuminates the gusto, hedonism, and art of the era. With a gorgeous palette of vibrant, captivating characters, she paints their lives, loves, losses, and triumphs in a brilliant portrait of her own.

With over 15 million sold, this modern-day classic is now available in a new edition for young readers ages 9 to 12, complete with illustrations that bring the story to life. Inspire the young people in your life with this the real-life tale of a young country preacher who risks his life to bring the Good News to the most dangerous street gangs in New York.

He's your perfect date. You're his next victim.When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it's not her case. While she fights to secure her place on the investigation team, Erika can't help but get involved and quickly finds a link to the unsolved murder of a woman four months earlier. Dumped in a similar location, both women have identical wounds – a fatal incision to their femoral artery. Stalking his victims online, the killer is preying on young pretty women using a fake identity. How will Erika catch a murderer who doesn't seem to exist? Then another girl is abducted while waiting for a date. Erika and her team must get to her before she becomes another dead victim, and, come face to face with a terrifyingly sadistic individual.Gripping, tense and impossible to put down, Last Breath will have you on...

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Andrew Garvald is a young Scottish merchant who has bravely come to make his fortune in a newly colonised America. Outlawed from Virginian society for opposing the London traders’ monopoly, his friends are Red Ringan, a pirate and gentleman adventurer and Shalah, an exiled Indian prince. When Garvald is faced with a deadly foe, the stakes are high - the love of a beautiful lady and the existence of Virginia. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a British novelist and Unionist politician who, between 1935 and 1940, served as the Governor General of Canada. He was born and primarily educated in Scotland, and further schooled in England, obtaining a degree in Literae Humaniores, and befriending a number of influential future writers while studying at the University of Oxford. After a brief career in law, Buchan began writing and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in South Africa, and eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort following the outbreak of the First World War. Once back in civilian life, Buchan was elected the Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but spent most of his time on his writing career. He is the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction.

The novel tells the story of Roman Emperor Julian who during his reign (331–363) was trying to restore the cult of Olympian gods in Rome, resisting the upcoming Christianity. Christianity "in its highest manifestations is presented in the novel as a cult of absolute virtue unattainable on Earth which is in denial of all things Earthly," according to scholar Z.G.Mints. Ascetic to the point of being inhuman, early Christians reject the reality as such. As the mother of a Christian youth Juventine curses "those servants of the Crucified" who "tear children off their mothers," hate the life itself and destroy "things that are great and saintly," the elder Didim replies: a worthy follower of Christ is to learn to "hate their mother and father, wife, children, brothers and sisters, and their very own life too." The author (who sees Christ as "life's sworn enemy") sympathizes with his doomed hero. The advent of Christianity in the novel is presented as "the victory for evil and blind mob," who treat "Julian as not just an Apostate, but Antichrist," according to modern critic and biographer Oleg Mikhaylov. Biographers saw Julian's spiritual quest as something parallel to the ideas Merezhkovsky started to develop in the 1880s–1890s. The Emperor in the novel, acknowledging the "beautiful loftiness of Christian sermon," refuses to accept it, seeing it as a denial of the human sensuality and humanity as such. One of the novel's main ideas is that man's suffering stems from the conflict between the spirit and the flesh. The author conceded later that his initial philosophical approach was too straightforward and explained the way it changed: As I was embarking upon the trilogy Christ and Antichrist, it seemed to me that there were two truths: Christianity, the truth about Heaven, and Paganism, the truth about Earth. I considered the merging of the two as a way of attaining the higher religious truth. As I was finishing it, I knew already that the union of Christ and Antichrist was blasphemous lie. I understood that both truths, those of heaven and Earth, have been already united in Jesus Christ. But now I am also sure that I had to walk this misguiding path to its very end to finally see the truth.

Agile denote nimbleness. Agile methodology is a light weight development methodology which relies on iterative development where solutions evolve from tightly collaborated cross functional teams. Agile methodology recommends building a project in small increments cycles. This book facilitate readers to know about different concepts of Agile and its practices.To The One I Love depicts twelve letters filled with romantic prose that captures and seals the love between Jonathan and Emily from their first date until their final goodbye.Excerpt:(Part of a letter from Jonathan)The scent of you still lingers about my rooms, distracting my thoughts and teasing my senses. I want you, Emily. I want you so much it verges on insanity. Only your sweet kisses can lure me from the brink.The hours until tonight stretch on endlessly and I catch myself cursing the clock. It mocks…no it punishes me with its constant ticking and hands that move too slowly.

Nick Jemand wants a quiet life, but on a plane from Bristol to Newcastle he ends up sitting next to a loud, belligerent drunk.This new short story from the bestselling author of Gull Rock is an amusing, touching story for anyone who has judged a book by its cover ...A new short story from the bestselling author of Gull Rock:Nick Jemand could be any one of us. He's a normal person on a plane from Bristol to Newcastle who wants a quiet, uneventful flight, but he ends up sitting next to a loud, belligerent drunk.However to his surprise, he grows to like the man on the short flight and when they touch down in the north-east he feels like he's saying goodbye to an old friend.This short story is a taster for the full-length e-book, Meaningless by RR Gordon.

Return to Rabbit Island for the heart-pounding conclusion to Red and Wolfe's story. Don't forget your extra panties - but this time, you might also want to bring your gun. This is a serial novella of approximately 30,000 words.

A short fiction sampler. Each story is a quick and economical read - seven or fewer pages in length.In releasing this short-fiction sampler, I'm sharing my Southern roots.The American writer and literary critic Alfred Kazin once said, "The South has produced writers as the Dark Ages produced saints," and I believe there's truth in his words, for the writers who fired my imagination when I was growing up all hailed from down South.Each story is a quick and economical read - seven or fewer pages in length - and was inspired by true events.