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Prosperous Friends follows the evolution of a young couple’s marriage as it is challenged by the quandaries of longing and sexual self-discovery. The glamorous and gifted Ned Bourne and his pretty wife, Isabel, travel to London, New York, and Maine in hopes of realizing their artistic promise, but their quest for sexual fulfillment is less assured. Past lovers and new infatuations, doubt and indifference threaten to bankrupt the marriage. The Bournes’...

This story told in the first person starts with a child's interest in the night sky. A telescope starts a lifetime's interest in science. The narrator goes up to King's College, London to study. As a fellow at Cambridge he embarks on love affairs and searches for love at the same time as career success. Finally, contentment in love exhausts his passion for research.

Beautifully rendered and psychologically astute tales of life, family, and art from a true American master "The Sunday Painter," a surprisingly comic tale, is the account of an amateur artist whose obsession with distilling his work to its most basic form-light-leads to a mental breakdown. "The First Day of School" is a moving and intimately observed portrait of the courage summoned by an African American family in the early days of integration. In...

This special expanded edition of Freeman Wills Crofts' classic crime novel includes a unique commentary by Superintendent Walter Hambrook of Scotland Yard, never before published in book form. The Carrington family, victims of a strange poisoning, take an Olympic cruise from Glasgow to help them recover. At Creuta one member goes ashore and does not return. Their body is next day found floating in the Straits of Gibraltar. Joining the ship at Marseilles,...

International Thriller Writers Award–winner and bestselling author Brian Freeman has established himself as a master of psychological thrillers. In Season of Fear, Freeman returns to the sun-drenched beaches of Naples, Florida, and the idiosyncratic world of Detective Cab Bolton.Attractive and popular politician Diane Fairmont is running for the Florida governorship, but a chill is cast over the campaign when she receives an anonymous note announcing...

È passato quasi un anno dalla morte della bella e imprudente Rosemary Barton, quando una serie di lettere anonime fa balenare il sospetto che non si sia trattato di un suicidio, come avevano concluso gli inquirenti, ma di un assassinio. Chi poteva avere interesse a uccidere la donna? Un marito tradito, una sorella invidiosa, una rivale incattivita o un amante annoiato? O forse Rosemary aveva veramente deciso di togliersi la vita perché tormentata...

She dwelt on the hillside by the edge of a maize-field, near the spring that flows in laughing rills through the solemn shadows of ancient trees. The women came there to fill their jars, and travellers would sit there to rest and talk. She worked and dreamed daily to the tune of the bubbling stream. One evening the stranger came down from the cloud-hidden peak; his locks were tangled like drowsy snakes. We asked in wonder, "Who are you?" He answered...

Set in fifteenth century Switzerland this play is based on a legend characteristic of the Austrian domination period. Schiller exhibits enthusiasm for freedom and natural life in this historic play. The story unfolds on Lake Lucerne with the fateful enmity of the tyrant Gessler, Governor of the Swiss cantons, and William Tell, an obscure huntsman, trying to row to safety a peasant who is pursued by the Governor's horsemen.

Two lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery.

"The shooting of Kaito has triggered a Flood in the normally emotionless Nagai, releasing a massive number of IBMs. Not wanting to miss out on the fun, Sato has matched his pace, and Iruma Base is overrun with countless black ghosts. Dr. Ogura, the worldís leading IBM researcher, makes his way toward the heart of the chaos, even as the story barrels toward a moment of truth regarding the origin and very nature of Demi-Humans."-- Publisher's description....