In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel of domestic suspense, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?A Belletrist Book Club Pick • An Amazon UK Best Book of the Year • Winner of France’s First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Vogue • theSkimm • Oprah Daily • The MillionsAt forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successf...

AN INDIE NEXT PICK“The exact thing we need right now: a fierce, fearless, and funny novel about celebrity and our almost pathological obsession with it.” —Boston GlobeDaisy Jones and the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive, intense novel about the brutal and ferocious road to glory, from the award-winning author of My Husband, for fans of Yesteryear and My Husband....

One heiress. Two princes. A summer that changes everything.Vanora "Vanna" Morgan never imagined she'd become the center of a royal love triangle. But when she arrives in London for her best friend’s wedding, twin princes turn her world upside down.Dashing and carefree Prince Duncan is already making moves to win her heart. But when his older twin—heir to the throne and ever-dutiful Prince Robbie—realizes Vanna might be his perfect match, everything...

Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for CanadiansWe are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water — water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, including long-outdated water laws, unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves, agricult...

It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. in The big living-room at ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction hovering about her like an aura; it was four o'clock and Susan, who had been working incessantly since six that morning, felt that she had fairly earned an hour of repose and gossip. Susan just Then was perfectly happy; everything had gone almost uncannily well in The kitchen that day. Dr. Jekyll had not been Mr. Hyde and so had not grated on her nerves...

Similar to the very successful tales of Anne of Green Gables the novels in this book tell the story of another young Canadian orphan called Emily Starr. In three beautifully written novels the reader follows her teenage years, her first romances and adventures. A wonderful read not only for young women. Contains the novels: Emily of New Moon Emily Climbs Emily's Quest

Anne of Avonlea is a classic story written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and first published in 1909. At age sixteen Anne is grown up, almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job a the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along ...

“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC“It’s time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world.” — CNNIn this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism. She has been a linchpin in three major movements in her life: second-wave feminism, the battle against free trade and globalization, and the global fight for water ...

For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood.Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly sti...

This book contains several HTML tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. Here you will find the Anne of Green Gables complete collection. - Anne of Green Gables: Anne ages 11-16. - Anne of Avonlea: Anne ages 1...

Just two years after rowing solo across the North Atlantic at the age of twenty-five, Maud Fontenoy was ready for a new challenge-crossing the Pacific Ocean. Leaving from Lima, Peru, and traveling 4,400 miles in seventy-three days, Fontenoy landed in Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, becoming the first woman to complete what is known as the Kon-Tiki” route. Alone at sea for days and nights on end, Fontenoy’s story relates the ups and downs of her time at sea, from circling sharks to the celebr...

The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery gathers the fiction through which Montgomery transformed the landscapes of Prince Edward Island into enduring literary territory. From Anne Shirley's imaginative self-fashioning to the emotional intricacies of Emily, the Story Girl, and the Avonlea tales, these works combine domestic realism, romantic comedy, pastoral description, and moral Bildungsroman. Written within the context of late Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction, they nevertheles...