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The Age of Witches: A Novel
by Louisa MorganA MAGICAL TALE OF FAMILY, AMBITION AND LOVE, SET IN GILDED AGE NEW YORK AND LONDONIn 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on in the scions of two very different lines: one dedicated to using their powers to heal and help women in need; the other, determined to grasp power for themselves.This clash will play out in the fate of Annis, a young woman in Gilded Age New York who finds herself a pawn in the family struggle for supremacy. She'll need to claim her own power to save herself - and resist succumbing to the darkness that threatens to overcome them all. Praise for Louisa Morgan:'Rich with historical detail and threaded through with magic' Sharon Shinn'A deeply satisfying and magical work of great craft' Carol Goodman'Will sweep you away to a time of magic, love and loss . . . Mesmerising' Tish Thawer 'Epic in scope and heartbreakingly tender' Booklist'Completely engrossing and hard to put down' Bibliosanctum
The Age of Misadventure
by Judy LeighYou’re never too old to live dangerously… The gloriously funny new novel from the author of A Grand Old Time.
The Age of Light: A Novel
by Whitney Scharer'A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman’s self-transformation from muse into artist.' Celest Ng, author of Little Fires EverywhereModel. Muse. Lover. Artist.‘I’d rather take a picture than be one,’ Lee Miller declares, as she arrives in Paris one cool day in 1929. Lee has left behind her life in New York and a successful modelling career at Vogue to pursue her dream of becoming a photographer. She soon catches the eye of renowned Surrealist artist Man Ray and convinces him to hire her as his assistant. Man is an egotistical, charismatic force, and as Lee becomes both his muse and his protégé, they embark upon a passionate affair.Lee and Man spend their days working closely in the studio and their nights at smoky cabarets, opium dens and wild parties. But as Lee begins to assert herself, and to create pioneering work of her own, Man’s jealousy spirals out of control, and leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy them both . . . Transporting us from bohemian Paris to the battlefields of WWII, The Age of Light is a powerful and intoxicating story about love, obsession and the personal price of ambition. In her immersive debut novel, Whitney Scharer brings a brilliant and revolutionary artist out of the shadow of a man’s legacy, and into the light.‘Whitney Scharer’s storytelling is utterly immersive and gorgeous in its details . . . powerful, sensual and gripping.’ Madeleine Miller, author of Circe
The Age of Innocence: The Wild And Wanton Edition, Volume 1 (Macmillan Collector's Library #194)
by Edith WhartonEdith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist, Rachel Cusk.As the scion of one of New York’s leading families, Newland Archer has been born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. A sensitive, intelligent young man, he still respects the rigid social code by which his class lives. As he contemplates his forthcoming marriage to the striking and equally well-born May Welland, he gives thanks that she is ‘one of his own kind’. But the arrival of the Countess Olenska, a free spirit who breathes clouds of European sophistication, makes him question the path on which his upbringing has set him. As his fascination with her grows, he discovers just how hard it is to escape the bonds of the society that has shaped him.
The Age of Innocence: Webster's Chinese Simplified Thesaurus Edition (Collins Classics #312)
by Edith WhartonHarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Age of Innocence (The Penguin English Library)
by Edith WhartonA moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high societyNewland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence.Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.
The Age of Grief
by Jane SmileyIn this brilliant collection of five short stories and a novella, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley presents six unforgettable portraits exploring the perils of domestic life. I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have reached the age of grief. Others arrive there sooner. Almost no one arrives much later . . .In the title novella, a man who has reached the 'age of grief' slowly realizes that his wife is in love with someone else. Unsure whether his marriage is best protected by confronting her or by feigning ignorance, he struggles to repress his anguish and to prevent his wife discovering that he is aware of her infidelity . . .Accompanying this novella are five short stories, including The Pleasure of Her Company, in which a lonely, single woman befriends the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret to their happiness. And Long Distance, in which a man finds himself relieved of the obligation to continue an affair that is no longer compelling to him, only to be waylaid by the guilt he feels at his easy escape.
Against The Tide: Against The Tide Witness Pursuit Countdown (Mills And Boon Love Inspired Suspense Ser.)
by Melody CarlsonEXPOSING THE TRUTH
Against the Wall (Mills And Boon Vintage Intrigue Ser.)
by Lyn StoneOne minute she was tending an injured patient. The next, her familiar world had vanished and Dr. Solange Micheaux was on the run with Special Agent Jack Mercier, his reluctant partner in a deadly race against time. But his powerful sensuality posed a far graver threat.
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism
by Tristram WolffIn this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers including Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Henry David Thoreau offer a radical chronopolitics in reaction to the "uprooted word," or the formal analytic used to classify languages in progressive time according to a primitivist timeline of history and a hierarchy of civilization. Before the bad naturalisms of nineteenth-century race science could harden language into place as a metric of social difference, poets and thinkers try to soften, thicken, deepen, and dissolve it. This naturalizing tendency makes language more difficult to uproot from its active formation in the lives of its speakers. And its "gray romanticism" simultaneously gives language different kinds of time—most strikingly, the deep time of geologic form—to forestall the hardening of time into progress. Reorienting romantic studies to consider colonialism's pervasive effects on theories of language origin, Wolff shows us the ambivalent position of romantics in this history. His reparative reading makes visible language's ability to reimagine social forms.
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism
by Tristram WolffIn this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers including Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Henry David Thoreau offer a radical chronopolitics in reaction to the "uprooted word," or the formal analytic used to classify languages in progressive time according to a primitivist timeline of history and a hierarchy of civilization. Before the bad naturalisms of nineteenth-century race science could harden language into place as a metric of social difference, poets and thinkers try to soften, thicken, deepen, and dissolve it. This naturalizing tendency makes language more difficult to uproot from its active formation in the lives of its speakers. And its "gray romanticism" simultaneously gives language different kinds of time—most strikingly, the deep time of geologic form—to forestall the hardening of time into progress. Reorienting romantic studies to consider colonialism's pervasive effects on theories of language origin, Wolff shows us the ambivalent position of romantics in this history. His reparative reading makes visible language's ability to reimagine social forms.
Against the Sun (The Raines of Wind Canyon #6)
by Kat MartinMillions of lives are on the line. But for him, only one truly matters.
Against the Odds: Against The Odds Against The Edge Against The Mark (The Raines of Wind Canyon #7)
by Kat MartinThis case may prove to be too hot to handle.
Against the Night: Against The Storm Against The Night Against The Sun (The Raines of Wind Canyon #5)
by Kat MartinHe knows what goes on in the dark. She’s got the face of an angel and the body of…well, isn’t that what he’d expect from an exotic dancer?
Against the Mark: Against The Odds Against The Edge Against The Mark (The Raines of Wind Canyon #9)
by Kat MartinIn one catastrophic instant, Haley Warren’s estranged father was taken from her. She never got the chance to reconnect with him, so now she’s doing it the only way she’s got left: by proving the explosion that killed him was no accident.
Against the Edge: Against The Odds Against The Edge Against The Mark (The Raines of Wind Canyon #8)
by Kat MartinA child he’s never met.
Against The Rules: Against The Rules; Fatal Affair (Mills And Boon M&b Ser.)
by Linda HowardRevisit this engrossing fan-favorite story from New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard
Against The Odds: The Eleventh Hour / Yours To Seduce / Against The Odds / Blazing Midsummer Nights (Mills And Boon Blaze Ser.)
by Donna KauffmanMisty Fortune is a famous erotica author - a convincing one, too, despite her considerably more tepid real-life sexual experience.
Against Her Nature: 'A modern day Vanity Fair' Mail on Sunday
by Elizabeth BuchanLove, money and children... Life is a risk, however much we try to protect ourselves...Unlike the Frants living their quiet ordered lives in the village of Appleford, Tess and Becky are of the generation that believes it can have everything. Highflyers in the high-octane world of London's high-finance, they move through the opportunists, the short-termists, the sharks, the bullies and the very, very rich to face many choices, not least the one presented by biology: children.As the different generations balance the challenges life throws at them, a tender and unexpected love story emerges alongside a journey to maturity in this bold and beautiful novel.'A modern day Vanity Fair ... brilliantly done' - Mail on Sunday
Against All Odds (Mills And Boon Kimani Arabesque Ser.)
by Gwynne ForsterStruggling to keep her corporate-recruiting firm afloat, Manhattan executive Melissa Grant has no time for love. Then Adam Roundtree walks into her life. But the charismatic businessman is no ordinary client. He's the man who can bring Melissa's career–and her heart–to life…until a shocking discovery jeopardizes their blossoming relationship.
Against All Odds
by Danielle SteelDanielle Steel proves she is the world's favourite storyteller in this powerful story of a mother's unconditional love in Against All Odds.Style. Success. Secrets. Kate Madison’s stylish boutique has been a big success in New York, supporting her and her four kids since her husband’s untimely death. Now, her children have grown up and are ready to forge lives of their own. Isabelle, a dedicated attorney, falls for a client in a criminal case. She tells herself she can make a life with him – but can she? Julie, a young designer, meets a man who seems too good to be true. She gives up her job and moves to LA to be at his side, ignoring the danger signs. Justin is a struggling writer who pushes his partner for children before they’re financially or emotionally ready. And Willie, the youngest, makes a choice that shocks them all . . . For Kate – loving, supportive and outspoken – the hardest lesson will be that she can’t protect her children from their choices, but can only love them as they make them.
Again the Magic (Bride Series)
by Lisa KleypasShe gave him innocence . . .Lady Aline Marsden was brought up for one reason: to make an advantageous marriage to a member of her own class. Instead, she willingly gave her innocence to John McKenna, a servant on her father's estate. Their passionate transgression was unforgivable - John was sent away, and Aline was left to live in the countryside . . . an exile from London society.. . . and he took her love.Now McKenna has made his fortune, and he has returned - more boldly handsome and more mesmerising than before. His ruthless plan is to take revenge on the woman who shattered his dreams of love. But the magic between them burns as bright as ever. And now he must decide whether to let vengeance take its toll . . . or risk everything for his first, and only, love.
Aftertime (An Aftertime Novel #1)
by Sophie LittlefieldTHE WORLD IS GONE. THE DEAD ARE WALKING. HER DAUGHTER IS MISSING.
Aftershocks (Code Red #19)
by Nancy WarrenEarthquake aftershocks trap Mayor Patrick O'Shea and his assistant Briana Bliss in an elevator. But emergency services are stretched to the limit with 911 calls. The mayor and Briana wait. And passions flare….
Aftershocks
by A. N. Wilson"It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn." ScotsmanOn The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and the seasons pass. The town of Aberdeen is no different, until the earthquakes. These seismic ripples tear down houses, forge bonds, and shake the foundations of humanity and religion. And in the midst of it all, Nellie and Ingrid fall in love.In Aftershocks A. N. Wilson offers a portrait of nature, death and morality. Moved by the real losses of the Christchurch earthquake, this is an extraordinary novel about a community profoundly linked to the land it lives on."Witty, erudite and artful." SpectatorCountry & Townhouse's the best books for Christmas, 2018