Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world. In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explore how Sayers used her fictional her...

Don’t miss the next Cristy Ward thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis!A dead husband. A missing wife. Will they find her in time?Romy Kaplan has vanished from her home.Or has she?When Romy begins posting on her social media accounts asking everyone to stop looking for her, the police are certain she is safe. But Romy's nearest and dearest are far from convinced.Her husband died in the bath under inconclusive circ...

Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by hersister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she hadpeeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures orconversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice,"without pictures or conversations?"

Recipes and stories of the bakers of the heartland—from family kitchens to county fairs to iconic businesses.Discover how the Midwest refined the nation's sweet tooth through a delicious mix of immigrant traditions and American ingenuity. Chef Jenny Lewis dips a spoon into generations of homemade desserts, and examines the cogs and wheels of some of the biggest brands of the baking industry—taking us on a journey that evokes nineteenth-century flour mills, state-fa...

In todays busy world, its hard to slow down and pay attention to the things that really matter. And the busyness of day-to-day activities often dulls our senses to the needs, hurts and miracles that happen in our very midst.In Simply Rejoicing, Patsy Lewis uses biblical examples and contemporary stories of God at work to guide readers through a year of truly paying attention to the Lords work in their lives and the world around them.Simply Rejoicing is designed to be read throughout the year....

The Bible contains numerous models of prayers offered to God by His people. Even Jesus prayed to His Father and spent significant time in solitude listening to Him. Yet it seems that today very few Christians actually spend time with the Lord. For many, prayer has been reduced to squeezing in a few seconds to give thanks before meals and listing requests at bedtime. Still, many Christians long to develop a disciplined and meaningful prayer life but find it difficult to know where or how to be...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, shamanism and ancient knowledge. Our Books are available in digital format. We have approximat...

The virtues of the citizen-soldier are prominent in the history of the American Revolution, but less attention has been given to the citizen-sailor. However, there were state navies during the war, the seaward equivalent of the state militias, and the state of South Carolina put to sea the most important of these.Under the leadership of Commodore Alexander Gillon the South Carolina navy secured the services of the largest warship under any American’s command, the frigate South Caro...

Here in Vermont the affair was not so picturesque as it might have been on the Western prairies. Oh, it had its points: there was a skit in which Medary Cole (grist mill & feed store) and Louis Rotenstern (custom tailoring—pressing & cleaning) announced that they were those historic Vermonters, Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, and with their jokes about imaginary plural wives they got in ever so many funny digs at the ladies present. But the occasion was essentially serious. All of America ...

When CC Cippolini is offered a temp job driving a custom car across the country, she leaps at the chance to leave Chicago, put her past in the rearview mirror, and make a fresh start. But one car crash and broken cattle fence later, CC ends up at the home of ruggedly handsome rancher Reese Brockbank.Reese doesn’t hesitate to rescue the reckless woman who has crashed into his life, but when circumstances require him to put CC up in his house for a few days, he vows to remain aloof—a...

In 1927, Sinclair Lewis published Elmer Gantry, a scathing satire that follows its titular antihero's rise from a drunken, womanizing college football star to a powerful and corrupt evangelist. Gantry drifts from job to job and church to church, charming congregations and exploiting the fervor of the revival movement while indulging every vice he publicly condemns. Lewis drew on his own observations of American religious life, including stints attending revival meetings and consul...

I have deep dived into a schizophrenics mind; the difficulties people go through with this mental health condition, love, the dark and twisted side of their mind that tries to come out, a narrator narrating the schizophrenics life.