Emily Brightwell presents the first novel in a delightful mystery series set in Victorian England, featuring the most charming characters ever to crack a case.
Manners and customs
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Author:Brightwell, EmilySummary: - Author:Cheung, KarenSummary:
In a place where time is running out, sometimes the most radical act is remembrance. Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian,...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
The residents of 44 Scotland Street grapple with problems both trivial and severe, but none so great as when six-year-old Bertie Pollock--who longs to be seven--mislays his mum and learns a valuable lesson about wish fulfillment.
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think...
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Author:Cochet, CharlieSummary:Sequel to The Auspicious Troubles of Chance The Auspicious Troubles of Love: Book Two Eight years after leaving the deserts of Africa and the French Foreign Legion behind, Jonathan Wolfe has settled into life at Hawthorne Manor in the...
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Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary:Prince Myshkin, the last of his royal bloodline, suffers from epilepsy and a trusting nature. His saintlike purity of soul makes him suspect in the eyes of sinful St. Petersburg, but he finds a friend in passionate Rogozhin, and through...
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Author:Hugo, VictorSummary:Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel, Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by...
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Author:Wharton, EdithSummary:Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite. Although she desires a comfortable life and has received generous proposals from wealthy suitors, Lily remains single with hope for an honest and loving marriage....
- Author:Beanland, RachelSummary:
A "wildly entertaining" (NPR), "gripping" (The Washington Post) work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night, from the author of...
- Author:WELLS, H. G.Summary:
Mr Polly is a middle-aged man, tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as a gentleman's out fitter in a small town. Facing bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his...
- Author:L'AMOUR, LouisSummary:
The story of the rock-hard men who ripped fortunes out of the rock-hard mines in the old West.
- Author:Shupe, JoannaSummary:
USA Today Bestselling Author "Nothing makes me happier than a new book from Joanna Shupe!" -Sarah MacLean High society reprobate. An unconventional heiress. Childhood friends . Is it too late... Knickerbocker scoundrel...
- Author:Kangarlou, TaraSummary:
In today's interconnected global village, Iran remains a mystery to much of the rest of the world especially to those living in the United States and the west. While the country is often synonymous with rogue behavior on the world stage...
- Author:LeRoy, J. T.Summary:
This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops,...
- Author:Garland, RobertSummary:
The ancient Greeks, more than any other early culture, have given us the template for Westerncivilization, as seen in their superlativeachievements in the fields of architecture, political theory, philosophy, science, and art--not the...
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Author:Robson, JenniferSummary:Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. Balancing behind-the-scenes details with a sweeping portrait of a society left reeling by the calamitous costs of victory,...
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Author:Buck, Pearl S.Summary:In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers--but they will soon meet their downfall.
- Author:RAPHAEL, FredericSummary:
Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In this second of the Bridgerton prequel series, following Because of Miss Bridgerton, we go back to where it all began. . . from #1 New York Times bestselling...
- Author:Klassen, JulieSummary:
In an abandoned gatehouse on an old estate, Mariah Aubrey lives in seclusion. She supports herself by writing novels in secret--at a time when such writing is considered improper and unladylike. Soon the wealthy and ambitious Captain...
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