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Like Anne, Emily Starr is a quick-witted and imaginative orphan who is sent to live with her two maiden aunts at New Moon Farm after her father dies. Though initially disheartened by her strict and conventional Aunt Elizabeth, Emily slowly grows to love her new family and New Moon Farm. There she makes friends with Ilse Burnley, a tomboy with a blazing temper; quiet, artistic Teddy Kent; and Perry Miller, the hired boy, who Aunt Elizabeth looks down upon because he was born in the impoverished “Stovepipe Town”.

This brilliant new treatment of the world's oldest epic is a literary event on par with Seamus Heaney's wildly popular Beowulf translation. Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell energizes a heroic tale so old it predates Homer's Iliad by more than a millennium.

In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City. His enduring, no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler also served as an antidote to the insufferably romantic travel books of the period.

A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab's Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville's novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction.

Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint - Abel, for short - is a rich and silly mouse. He spends most of his days just having fun, going to picnics with his wife, playing croquet with friends, and dancing at parties. Unlike most other mice, Abel has never had to work for anything. All that changes one blustery fall day when his wife’s scarf flutters away in a gust of wind. Abel races off to rescue it and is swept away in a rainstorm. When the storm is over, Abel finds himself washed up a deserted island.

The crew of a European ship discovers the utopian island of Bensalem, having gotten lost in the Pacific Ocean somewhere near Peru. The crew spend time learning about the ways of the people of Bensalem, a very chaste group of Christians. The most important part of the island is their university, a state-sponsored scientific institution known as Salomon's House. The narrator is chosen from amongst the crew to get a one-on-one explanation of the way their society works, and he learns about the various buildings and jobs that exist on Bensalem.

"Meditations" offers timeless reflections from Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. This text draws from his personal notes, written as a guide to self-discipline, virtue, and tranquility. This new translation by Filibooks Translation provides a clear, accessible approach to the core of Stoic thought.

Emily Starr, a young orphan girl growing up in the town of New Moon, acclimates to her new surroundings and gets to know the other children around her. An avid writer, Emily works hard to hone her skills and also learns more about the skills of her newfound friends.

You enjoy historical mysteries? You love Sherlock Holmes? This is for you. Four new novels in one collection set. All are part of the best-selling series of sixty New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Craig Stephen Copland. In this set you can read The Stock Market Murders in which Holmes and Watson solve the mysterious murders of several young men who worked in The City; The Glorious Yacht, when on the morning after the Titanic disaster, Holmes recalls a much earlier sea voyage when they were accompanied by a crew of famous pirates; The Most grave Ritual, where a young man is accused of murder ...

This book is an executive summary and commentary on the best authors who taught the secrets of abundance who understood the ancient strategies of wealth, health, and peace of mind. Includes conceptual and advanced insights on the greats of New Thought, Mental Science, and Mind Sciences such as: Wallace Wattles, Rober Collier, Dr. Thomas Troward, Dr. Charles Haanel, Dr. Napoleon Hill, Prentice Mulford, Dr. Joseph Murphy, William Walker Atkinson, Esq. and many many more.

The Republic poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? What form of education provides the best leaders for a good republic? What are the various forms of poetry and the other arts, and which ones should be fostered and which ones should be discouraged? How does knowing differ from believing?

Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of "half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form." He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens - a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize, and a figure of blinding brilliance - bringing the couple to ruin. Now, on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about the great man and the radiant, elemental creature he married, who viewed the renowned genius through undazzled eyes.

Here, we have a glorious ensemble of Woodhousian characters knocking elbows to foreheads in the elegant and grand Blandings Castle. Meet Freddy Threepwood, the vagrant son of doddering old Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle. Freddy has recently become engaged to Aline Peters, the American heiress of an irascible father. The snag is that Freddy seems to have at one point become enamored of a struggling actress, Joan Valentine, and written some impetuous and imprudent letters to her.

Here is the incomparable Dr. Seuss' story of an unnamed "you" whose travels through the world involve a series of ups and downs. His ultimate success, however, is "98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed!"

More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.

Ten Compelling Sherlock Holmes Crime Mysteries In One Complete Book: VOLUME TWO. SPECIAL OFFER FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY AT JUST $2.99. {Now available in paperback, Audio book coming out soon. STORY ONE: Double Trouble in York. Upon hearing that I had to consciously resist the temptation that I had to peek through the drapes to see if I could catch a glimpse of that scoundrel. “Holmes continued, it is time, Watson.” “Time for what?” “Time for you to be viciously murdered in cold-blood. STORY TWO: NOT SO MERRY IN GOOD OL' SCOTLAND. I awoke groggily, the surroundings looking dim. My ...

Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, Never Satisfied is a story about envy and how it possesses the power to demolish anything standing in its path once one becomes consumed by it. Twenty-two-year-old Jasmine learns this lesson the hard way once her covetousness for the lavish lifestyle of her best friend, Kyrielle, spirals out of control. With Jasmine’s insatiable appetite for a life that isn’t her own, she won’t let anything – or anyone – stop her from getting what she wants. However, just when Jasmine thinks she has reached the pinnacle of the status that she has underhandedly worked...

From the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery - Emily of New Moon (published in 1923) takes us on a journey of loss, friendship, bullying, family dynamics, acceptance, and self-discovery with Emily Byrd Starr, an orphan who must move in with her reluctant Aunt Elizabeth, her loving Aunt Laura, and her jovial and friendly Cousin Jimmy at New Moon on Prince Edward Island.

Black Magic, High Magic, Goetia, Thaumaturgy, Alchemy, Kabbalah, the Druids, the Egyptian Hierophants, the Astral Light, the Ancients, Sorcerers of the Middle Ages, Pythagoras, the Tarot, the I Ching, Curses, Spells, Mediums, the Black Mass, the Sphinx, Blood rituals, telekinesis, telepathy, The Knights Templar, Freemasonry, ancient androids, The Illuminati, the sacred geometry, Apollonius of Tyana, The Magi-- the French Transcendentalist Eliphas Levi tackled all of these subjects and more between the covers of his exhaustive History of Magic, and indeed was one of the first to do so. Levi ...

Just $0.99 for a limited time! LEXI I know I shouldn't, but I can't help myself. I didn't know Everett was going to offer me a job as his nanny. Living in his house, taking care of his little boy... Can I do it? I need the money to finish college, but the temptation may be too much for me. The way he stares at me burns holes right through me. But he's so stern, so right and proper... there's no way he would ever want someone like me. EVERETT Something comes over me when I'm around her. I need to protect her, to shelter her, and ultimately... I must possess her. It must be wrong to want ...