Diverse perspectives on Lincoln's assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today's leading Lincoln scholars.The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their ...

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but dee...

You’d stop accidentally hurting your loved ones with uncontrollable emotional outbursts. You’d finally give up that boring job of yours and find the courage to start a business. You’d make your dreams come true – well, most of them.In this book you will learn:• What is self-discipline or control?• Foundational habits• Always priori how to be self-disciplined• Soldiers that you should try• Create valuable habits by ap...

A new house. An old phone book. A number that should not exist.When Daniel Mercer, a former newspaper editor adrift after his career collapses, moves with his wife Claire into a century-old house on Briar Hill Road, he expects a fresh start. What he finds instead is a small, undated phone book tucked in a closet. And inside it, a name that belongs to the man who lived there before him.Henry Vale.The book has no date.Most of the numbers are d...

After the Ice Age, the world as we know now looked quite different. While glaciers began to melt all over the planet, water levels started to rise 300 feet, swallowing any evidence of cultures living near the ancient coastlines. However, in the last five decades, archeologists have found new civilizations older than the Egyptians and Sumerians, dating back twelve-thousand years. As history has to be rewritten, we have to ponder who were the heroes and antagonists of a forgotten time of the...

An International battle is brewing between two countries and their two respective city governments for the right to govern themselves. Who wins is up to you!

On Alder Street, nothing unusual ever happened.Until the mail stopped.No letters.No bills.No packages.Every house went silent.Except one.At the very end of the street, Elena Ward is still receiving mail every day—like nothing has changed. At first, it feels like a mistake. Then the letters begin to feel… wrong...

Lena Morris is tired of being invisible. She is offered a chance that seems impossible: success in exchange for something she can live without.No contracts.No money.No catch she can see.All she has to do is choose what to surrender.At a mysterious company known as Pareto Dynamics, ambition is treated like currency, and everything comes with a price. Some people trade memories. Others sacrifice emotions, talents, or pieces of themselves they barely no...

A new house. An old phone book. A number that should not exist.When Daniel Mercer — a former newspaper editor adrift after his career collapses — moves with his wife Claire into a century-old house on Briar Hill Road, he expects a fresh start. What he finds instead is a small, undated phone book tucked in a closet. And inside it, a name that belongs to the man who lived there before him.Henry Vale.Vale was a mystery in the quiet town of Harlow. A lo...

"When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.Tess's life becomes entangled with the manipulative Alec d'Urberville, the son of Mrs. d'Urberville. One night, Alec takes her...

For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic style, the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader and writer are intellectual equals, and the occasion is informal. This general style of presentation is at home everywhe...

Willie Thompson, a young, black preacher who has begun to lose his faith returns home to find his adoptive, white father dying from cancer. He also re-discovers a lost and forbidden love there with Sarah Townsend, the white daughter of the richest man in town. Not only is the young preacher toting a Bible these days; he's also toting a shiny, steel Colt on his hip. What his adoptive family doesn't know, is that he's running from a violent past, where he has become a hunted outlaw...a wante...