A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order.In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father’s will, and with nothing but a dream an...

Nobody really knows who these men are- men in black dropped off by a helicopter on the outskirts of a small Afghan village; wading through swamps in Croatia, intent on killing a war criminal; who ensure the protection of a Canadian General in Rwanda; who subdue hostage takers in Peru; and who prove, on-site, the Serbian disarmament lies told by President Milosevic. DENIS MORISSET was part of the initial sixteen-member Joint Task Force 2 (JTF 2) unit from 1993-2001. His extensive and rigoro...

One step behind a chameleon Islamic terrorist known only as Omar, Laura Atwood, a beautiful CIA agent, teams up with journalist Chris Clayborne. Together they race across three continents in this page-turning novel that is guaranteed to have you sitting on the edge of your seat.An all-powerful Mexican drug cartel, threatened by the newly elected US President’s promised initiative to wage a real war on drugs as soon as he takes the oath of office, finances a radical Islamist group t...

The Experiencing God ministry is even more vibrant today than when it began. As it continues to rise, and the world continues to change, the Experiencing God book has been revised and expanded with more than seventy percent of its material newly written.A modern classic that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Experiencing God is based on seven Scriptural realities that teach us how to develop a true relationship with the Creat...

This Christmas a little dog is in for a BIG adventure…Meet Claude. He’s a loveable, big-eared, permanently hungry French Bulldog, who loves his humans – the McCawley family of number 11 Maple Drive to be precise.When Daisy and Oliver McCawley start using new words like, ‘ferry’, ‘chateau’ and ‘France’, Claude realises they won’t be spending this Christmas at home. Only, when he finds himself on the street, as the family car pulls away, Claude realises he is...

The 'British Mysteries Boxed Set: 560+ Thriller Classics, Detective Stories & True Crime Stories' is a monumental collection that weaves together the intricately plotted worlds of mystery and suspense from the golden age of British literature. This anthology spans a wide array of literary styles—from tightly knitted detective stories to sprawling true crime narratives, offering readers an immersive journey into the depths of human psychology and the complexities of crime. Noteworthy for it...

British Murder Mysteries assembles more than 560 tales, novels, and crime narratives tracing the extraordinary range of British detective and thriller writing. From locked-room puzzles and police procedurals to sensation fiction, espionage-inflected adventures, psychological suspense, and purportedly factual crime accounts, the volume maps murder as both narrative engine and social anxiety. Its standout forms include the ingenious whodunit, the gentleman-thief adventure, and the unsettling...

Acclaimed historian Ross King paints the most nuanced, riveting and humane portrait yet of Claude Monet, arguably the most famous artist of the 20th century.We have all seen—live, in photographs, on postcards—some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world, and are among the most admired paintings of our time. Yet nobody knows the extraordinarily dramatic story behind their creation. Telling that story is the brilliant ...

This capacious illustrated anthology surveys the formative richness of British detective fiction through more than 270 murder mysteries, suspense thrillers, and crime tales. Ranging from clue-centered puzzles and scientific detection to urban adventure, psychological menace, and tales of international intrigue, it charts the genre's movement from Victorian sensation toward the sophisticated popular fiction of the early twentieth century. Celebrated investigations involving the consulting d...

This collection consists of the greatest British mystery novels and detective stories, all concocted by the masterminds of the mystery genre: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Other Mysteries True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men Series Mr. J. G. Re...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80...

BRITISH MYSTERY CLASSICS—Ultimate Collection gathers more than 560 detective novels, thrillers, and true-crime narratives into a capacious survey of British popular suspense. Its pages range from clue-centered investigations and locked-room puzzles to sensation fiction, imperial adventure, domestic menace, and criminal memoir, revealing how mystery writing continually adapted to modern anxieties. Standout modes include the deductive brilliance of the consulting detective, the gentleman-thi...