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Tod Hackett is a gifted young artist who is also on the verge of losing his heart. When he is hired as a set designer at a LA studio, he is quickly immersed in a dream world ruled by the celebrity cult. But when he falls in love with Faye, a beautiful aspiring actress and occasional call girl, his ideal quickly turns into a nightmare. Tod's frantic devotion will only lead to frustration, despair, and fury because she has nothing in the way of ...

The Well of Loneliness" is a lesbian novel written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Jonathan Cape in 1928. It recounts the life of Stephen Gordon, an upper-class Englishwoman whose "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is evident from a young age. She falls in love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness is tainted by social isolation and rejection, which Hall portrays as comm...

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery is a popular children's book series that has recently been made into a Netflix series. Anne of Green Gables is a skinny, freckled girl with brilliant red hair who surprises Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert when she arrives on Prince Edward Island. Instead of a quiet boy to assist them with their farm chores, they were greeted with a chatty girl full of hope and wonder. Anne of Avonlea takes place five years ...

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An utterly gorgeous romantic read. It made me want to pack my bags for Paris!' Sandy Barker Irena and Sacha come from two very different worlds.An heiress to a fortune, Ren's home-from-home is the Ritz, while the handsome and brooding Sacha has grown up in Paris's less salubrious suburbs. So when an accident brings them together, romance seems an unlikely outcome.When Ren's society engagement reaches a very public end, Irena's over-protective ...

One of the all-time best self-help books. The book has sold over two million copies. 'Wake Up and Live!' is a helpful guide for everyone looking for success and pleasure in life. It explains how to overcome the barriers that are holding you back in a straightforward and easy-to-read manner. It will show you that it is the USE of your brains, not the amount of them, that determines your level of success. Thousands of readers have been inspired ...

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Paul Cook takes on the case of a wealthy client's missing daughter and uses his Corporation swagger to effect a quick resolution. He's barely making progress, though. Yet he rejects the idea of needing fresh eyes on his team. Layla Barkley is content with her Baltimore practice and occasional law enforcement consulting gigs. She despises working with her former employer, the Corporation. But neither Paul nor Layla hold the cards. Their journey...

This book of poems reflects the poet's spiritual exploration and physical transformation after a cancer diagnosis. The poems, cathartic and healing in their creation, integrate the poet's life experiences with his personal belief in natural theology.

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Sir Max Pemberton published the first half of this story in the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, encouraging a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their abilities to solve the mystery of the murder recounted. Chesterton's solution appeared in the November issue as a Father Brown fiction.

The stories in "Winner Take Nothing, " written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative abilities, gleam with the mark of his singular ability. Hunters, wives, wise old men, waiters, fighters, loved and lost women: they're all here, living on the edge, making love, and facing death's unavoidable truth. Characters, language, situations, and the extraordinary insight could only have come from Hemingway's mind. It is a spectacularly succe...

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Sir Max Pemberton published the first half of this story in the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, encouraging a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their abilities to solve the mystery of the murder recounted. Chesterton's solution appeared in the November issue as a Father Brown fiction.

Rilla of Ingleside is the eighth and final book in the Anne of Green Gables series. This book focuses on Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe, who is the main character. It is set during World War I, and the three Blythe boys - Jem, Walter, and Shirley - as well as Rilla's sweetheart Ken Ford and playmates Jerry Meredith and Carl Meredith - end up fighting in Europe.

Though set in a period and location far removed from 1922 Germany, the novel is permeated with Hermann Hesse's sensibility, combining different philosophies-Eastern faiths, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism-into a unique picture of life as expressed through one man's search for meaning. It tells the story of Siddhartha Gautama, a wealthy Indian Brahmin who abandons a life of luxury and comfort in search of spiritual satisfaction and in...

This official, unabridged edition of Anne of Windy Poplars contains the unforgettable character of Anne Shirley as well as personal memories from L.M. Montgomery's granddaughter. Anne Shirley has a habit of causing a sensation wherever she goes. That includes her new post as principal of Summerside High School. The Pringles, the town's ruling family, wants one of their own in the position, so they've made it their mission to force Annie out.

Winston Smith follows the Party line, rewriting history to meet the Ministry of Truth's demands. Winston begins to despise the Party that pursues power for its own sake and persecutes individuals who dare to commit thoughtcrimes with each lie he writes. Winston can't avoid the fact that Big Brother is always monitoring as he begins to think for himself... 1984 is a striking and unsettling work that establishes a perfectly plausible imagined un...