Christmas past meets Christmas present in this holiday whodunit set in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, featuring reporter and sleuth Lucy Stone—and a not-so-cold case of murder. For fans of cozy mysteries and the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author’s ever-popular Lucy Stone series.Twenty-some years ago, Lucy Stone arrived in Tinker Cove, Maine, and discovered her knack for solving mysteries. It happened when she met Miss Tilly, the town librarian, whose moth...

Lucy Cane presents the first full-length study of Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015), an influential theorist of democracy and prescient critic of "inverted totalitarianism" in the United States. She traces the development of Wolin’s thinking over sixty years, offering an overarching interpretation of his central preoccupations and shifts in perspective. Framed around themes of loss and mourning, this is not only an intellectual biography, but also a critical engagement of Wolin’s work with democra...

Alexandra returns from her ballet training to stay with her guardian, Sir Richard, at Ravenscourt Abbey. Her ballet master, who is guesting as a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, accompanies her. The house is luxurious, the gardens are beautiful and the weather is fine. But Alexandra's late father asked Sir Richard to take his daughter in hand and it is not long before trouble looms on the horizon. After a reckless riding accident, Alexandra faces a painful encounter with the cane.

A look at the antebellum history and architecture of the little-known sugar industry of East FloridaFrom the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was concentrated in East Florida, between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. Producing the sweetest sugar, molasses, and rum, at least 22 sugar plantations dotted the coastline by the 1830s. This industry brought prosperity to the region—employing farm hands, sla...