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It's Christmas Eve, 1867. Abigail Caldwell anxiously awaits the return of her husband, Dr. David Caldwell, who left that morning to deliver a baby far from the outskirts of town. A snowstorm threatens his safety as he attempts to return home for his first family Christmas. "Christmastide" is a short story that follows the main characters of "The Healing Year". It can be read as a stand-alone story or in concert with the novel, set in Virginia after the Civil War.

America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life. The key streams of thought that gave rise to the intellectual traditions associated with African Americans emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. These same traditions continue to develop and influence social and political processes today.

Contiene: La muerte de Iván Ilich, El diablo, Felicidad conyugal, El cafe de surat, De lo que vive el hombre.

Renowned Jewish vocalist and writer Elizabeth Schwartz’s first book of fiction “The Sweet Fragrance of Life & Other Stories” is a meditation on historic European Jewish Culture seen through the lens of a woman’s point of view. As if Sholem Ale­ichem and Angela Carter had a child, The Sweet Fra­grance of Life & Oth­er Hor­ror Sto­ries explores Euro­pean Jew­ish his­to­ry, cul­ture, and real world events through a fem­i­nist, shtetl perspective. This is an eerie collection of new Jewish-themed horror stories from a world that was.

Are you a dreamer yet? Meet the Rivers Brothers! Cassandra Wolfe is a woman burdened with a secret she was taught to hide—a unique ability that others perceive as a curse. But when gold is discovered on her family's land, her life takes a deadly turn. The allure of gold sweeps across the land, ensnaring everyone in its grip, and no one is immune to the sickness it brings. Cassandra pleads with her father, but the allure of gold stirs greed, envy, and an insatiable desire for more in the hearts of those around her. As tragedy befalls her family, Cassandra finds herself devastated by grief ...

Lost dreams. New beginnings. Ethan McAllister's first wife's death left him scarred, determined to focus solely on preserving his family's ranch. But with his bitter brother threatening to sell to the railroad, he needs a wife's legal claim to protect his land. He arranges for a mail-order bride, expecting nothing more than a business arrangement. What he doesn't expect is Caroline Winthrop. Caroline flees Boston's high society after her brother's betrayal destroys her teaching career. A marriage of convenience to a Montana rancher offers escape and security. She knows nothing about ranch ...

After losing his wife in last year's Christmas blizzard, Matthew Carson struggles to connect with his silent eight-year-old daughter Lucy, who hasn't spoken since that tragic night. When the town's toy shipment is delayed, threatening Eagle Creek's Christmas festival, Matthew knows he needs help - both with the mounting orders and his wounded family. Enter Beatrice Woodworth, a Boston lady fleeing her own secrets, who arrives as his mail-order bride just as the first snow falls. But Beatrice carries more than just emotional baggage. Hidden in her suspiciously heavy trunk are the tools of a ...

A Mixture of Frailties is so much more than the story of Monica Gall's life in London and her education as a singer. It is an account of her education as a human being, and the result is an absorbing novel, comic in the true sense, vivid and frequently moving.

To repay a debt, Flynn takes on a dangerous mission, and he won't let Becky help. London, 1898. Becky watches from a distance as Flynn agrees to crash a duchess's high-society costume ball in order to help a young friend. Then they both see Flynn's friend being murdered. Becky tries to talk sense to Flynn, but he won't let his friend down, even though that friend is dead. He might have listened to Sherlock and Lucy, but they're away on another case. Then Flynn goes missing. Becky now knows how right she was, but that's no comfort. Somehow, she has to find him. Flynn knows Becky was right as...

Flynn's holiday mission becomes a fight for survival. It's December in Victorian London, and Flynn, our favorite Baker Street Irregular, is about to take shelter on a freezing night. But when a bad landlord grabs the tiny room Flynn and his mates have rented, the boys are on the streets again. The next day he's working for Sherlock Holmes, shadowing a mysterious stranger - but he loses his quarry in the midst of the Christmas shopping crowd. To make matters worse, his friend Becky sees him fail. As always, Flynn won't admit defeat, and he's soon on the trail again--only he finds another man...

Sherlock and Lucy must juggle a circus of suspects to find a killer. On a cold March morning in London, Sherlock and Lucy are called to The Olympia Amphitheater, where a clown, lifeless, hangs suspended from the high wire. They have only a few hours to find the killer before the next performance. If they fail, the circus grounds will soon be filled with angry and fearful spectators, and the killer may strike again. The circus world is close-knit and secretive, so Lucy and Jack masquerade as the replacement act for the clown. Dressed as magicians, they bring the ever-inquisitive little Becky...

Una de las obras capitales del autor japonés Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, de la cual el director Akira Kurosawa tomó varios detalles a la hora de adaptar su película homónima, narra el encuentro de un sirviente humilde que acaba de ser despedido por su señor y una anciana pícara que roba el pelo de los cadáveres y vende carne de serpiente haciéndola pasar por pescado. El cuento, de final inesperado, supone una reflexión sobre los límites de la moral que sacudió a los lectores de la revista universitaria Teikoku Bungaku (Literatura imperial), donde fue publicada por primera vez.

German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as in an impressive selection of novels, plays, and short stories. This exquisite collection revives Remarque’s unforgettable voice, presenting a series of short stories that have long ago faded from public memory. Eight Stories offers a beautiful tribute to the pain that war inflicts on soldiers and civilians alike, and resurrects the work of a master author whose legacy will endure for generations to come.

Sherlock and Lucy meet their wildest case yet. At the London Zoo, Sherlock and Lucy must discover how an enormous cobra escaped its cage and killed a rhesus monkey. Dr. Watson's old school chum is doing research on anti-venom treatments for the military. He was responsible for all the reptiles at the zoo. Unless Sherlock and Lucy can learn the truth, he'll be blamed and his career will be ruined. Then Lucy discovers the same cobra coiled in the researcher's zoo office, ready to strike. Nearby, the man who reported the death of the rhesus monkey lies dead. Watson's researcher friend is ...

The gold drew them into the wilderness, only to test them with the most trying and thrilling experiences of their lives. It held them in the boom town of Dawson with a fever that would not break as long as nuggets, flakes, and dust could still be dredged from the muddy creeks, as long as there was even a chance at getting rich off the yellow metal as it spilled to the scales for services rendered, or found its way secreted into one’s pockets for the same.

Will their love conquer the shadows of the past, or will dark secrets tear them apart? Texas 1885. Lizzy Lupo thought she had escaped the worst when she and her brother found refuge in Troy Wellan’s Texas encampment. As the camp’s farrier, she’s rebuilding her life and falling for the rugged man who saved her. Just when love seems within reach, a stunning blonde arrives, revealing a past connection with Troy that Lizzy never knew existed. Tensions rise as Lizzy navigates this unexpected love triangle, but the true danger is just beginning. A catastrophic explosion and a ruthless ...

In stories that are more personal than any that she's written before, Alice Munro transforms her family's history into gloriously imagined fiction.

She was sunshine. He was clouds. Until a sprig of mistletoe changed everything. Griff Marcello must live with the shame of the crime he once committed for his mobster father. As he grows into a man, he's found security as a cowboy living in Glory Hill, Nebraska, but the memory of his sin never leaves him. Joyanna Hollinger is devoted to the community of Glory Hill, and with Christmas approaching, her plans for a special Christmas Eve service consumes her. All her efforts are falling into place--until she loses a key part of the celebration. When Griff receives an unexpected gift from his ...

An eager groom and a surprise baby are out to change this woman's life! Patience Mallory needs a way to Colorado. There, she can claim the map showing where her father buried the gold trusted to him. She wants it. No! She needs that gold. Royce Maxwell needs a woman. He wants more than a cook for the trail. The man is desperate for someone who can care for his fussy baby. Not just anyone though. He trusts the Lord to send the wife he needs. When Patience stumbles into his life, he grabs her literally and figuratively. He rushes her into marriage before the wagon train leaves. Will life on ...

The fascinating characters that roam in Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present.