This collection of short stories or "portraits" of artists - in the world of opera, the theater, and art, in New York and on the international stage - written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather was published in 1920.
These stories are a unique, early study of celebrity and the vast emot...
Fans of Grace Livingston Hill's The Enchanted Barn will thoroughly enjoy the story of Cornelia Copley, whose plans to finish college and get her degree in interior decoration are thwarted when she is unexpectedly called home due to her mother's illness. Heartbroken at the interruption and not unders...
River Rules is a small-town environmental suspense novel with a deep heart and powerful conscience. What the housing bubble didn’t break in Bridgeville - a small New England community blessed by the Connecticut River - greed, double-dealing, and rapid-fire change just might. Peter Russo, a part-time...
Vietnam vet, award-winning audiobook narrator, and producer, Mike Vendetti, reads Sun Tzu's The Art of War taken from, The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East, by Sun Tzu (active sixth-century BCE) and Wu Tzu, translated by Everard Ferguson Calthrop.
Written in the fifth century BCE,...
In the dirty '30s jobs were hard to come by. Having lost her father and her home in southern Alberta, Tilly McCormack is thrilled when her application for a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Banff Springs Hotel, one of Canada’s great railway hotels, is accepted.
Tilly loves her new life...
Lyrical Ballads: 1798, by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Narrated by Sarah Mitchell, Sarah Bacaller, and Denis Daly
In this collection, the authors were striving for a natural and unaffected style of verse that sought to avoid the elaborate structures and artifice that they consi...
Two star-crossed lovers, whose families fought and killed each other during a civil war in France, try to find their way to forgiveness and reconciliation. The heroine's plan? Sleeping on St Catherine's Couch - a terrifying ledge above the Loire where the faithful may dream of Heaven's advice. Despi...
Guy de Maupassant, France's gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre. His complete collection numbers just under 200. Volume VII contains the following titles:
This early novella by Clifford Simak includes many elements which have become staples in science fiction literature: alien invasion, time travel and the multiverse.
The future entire Earth is threatened by the invasion of a phantasmal force known as the Black Horror, which appears to be impervious...
Solomon Owl lives in Pleasant Valley. As with most owls, he is a loner. He doesn't have many friends and instead, often sees others smaller than him as food rather than friends.
We discover how Solomon deals with other animals in the Pleasant Valley woods such as Mr. Frog the Tailor, Cousin Screec...
This 1924 classic Agatha Christie Mystery features the exciting exploits of the young Anne Beddingfield.
After her father, a renowned professor, dies suddenly, she goes out on her own for the first time to London in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargains for when sees a man die in a...
Through her fiction, Ayn Rand sought to popularize her self-created philosophy of Objectivism, which advocated a libertarian individualism as the ideal foundation for a healthy society and which staunchly opposed any form of authoritarian control.
The classic dystopian novella, Anthem, is one of t...
