Rapunzel Meets Jane Eyre in this fairy tale romance!I’m a Tower Tithe with a Rapunzel problem. That’s not as weird as it sounds.Ever wonder how Rapunzel survives without leaving her home? After all, someone must stock groceries, buy hair products and fix the plumbing. Witches don’t wield toilet brushes, so “Rapunzel care” becomes the job of Tower Tithes like me. Not that we choose this gig. We’re just unlucky elves who get magically chucked into servitude. ...

Ethan is back home and the babies are on the way. With the way his life has gone, he's terrified he's not going to be a good Papa, if he even lives to see them...Ric is pretty good at being a Daddy to his little psycho at this point, or at least he's not terrible at it. But is he prepared to be Dada?Fate had brought everyone to this point. Ethan needs to rely on his newfound family get him though what she has in store. He'll need to overcome his fears and face down the true...

Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. A unique spiritual journey influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism Herman Hesse's Siddhartha tells the story of a young Brahmin's search for reality after a meeting with the Bud...

“Lively, informative ...offers wide-ranging evidence of alternative frameworks for disease." ―Science"Allows readers to practically experience firsthand how humans have adapted to and dealt with disease throughout history...necessary and timely...engaging and entertaining. Highly recommended." ―Library Journal, starred"[A] splendid examination...Deeply insightful i...

Placing himself at the mercy of Egyptian smuggler gangs in Alexandria and at sea, journalist Wolfgang Bauer went undercover to document first-hand the flight of Syrian refugees crossing the Mediterranean. The book, the first of its kind, is an incisive portrait both of the lives behind the crisis and the systemic problems that constitute it. "The last words of this book are 'Have mercy.' There is no more to say. Bauer's impressive depiction speaks for itself."—Tagesspiegel

"Scottish vampires, a marriage of convenience, and a lost king. This luscious romance is impossible to stop reading, between all the political intrigue of vampire mobs and the developing relationship between Lexa and Caelin.” - Monet, GoodreadsLexa Uznetsov is trappedTo save my sister, I take on my father’s massive debt to Konstantin the Rus, leader of the New York Bratva. My life becomes a never-ending (and incredibly illegal) stak...

'A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form' Sunday Times 'It's hard to think of a more recent novel that has sung so eloquently the joys of being alone' Guardian An inspirational classic from Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha is a beautiful tale of self-discovery Dissatisfied with the ways of life he has experienced, Siddhartha, the handsome son of a Brahmin, leaves his family and his friend, Govinda, in search of a higher state of being. Having exper...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

A history of one of the world’s greatest armoured warfare commanders, Hermann Balck (1897–1982). During World War II, he commanded panzer troops brilliantly, and we follow his exciting journey through the fields of France, mountains of Greece and steppes of Russia. It is also the story of a cultured and complex man with a great love of antiquity and classical literature, who nevertheless willingly fought for Hitler’s Third Reich while remaining strangely detached from the horrors around hi...

A collection of bright, bold and beautiful knitting patterns based on Hönsestrikk, a Danish knitting movement that broke away from traditional rules.Hönsestrikk, which loosely translates as "chicken stitch" was influenced by the radical social and political movements of the 1970s, including the women's rights movement, and this can be seen in the personal and political messages of the some of the pattern designs. Instead of the more traditional fair isle colorwork ...

When a female soldier is deployed to a remote planet, she finds herself on the frontlines of an interstellar war in this sci-fi military adventure.Situated in the buffer zone between two rival human empires, the colonists of the planet Montana are used to being left to themselves. Even as a provisional member of the Republic of Aligned Worlds, Montana merits little consideration—until it becomes the flashpoint in an impending interstellar war.In the face of...

In this beautifully written story set in the north woods of Minnesota, four healthy wolf pups—Leader, Sniffer, Runner, and Thinker—are born one spring. And then one final, undersized pup emerges—Runt.Despite his size, Runt manages to keep up with his brothers and sisters and learn the ways of the pack. But he finds it impossible to please his father, the pack’s leader, and gradually withdraws from the others. When he ventures into forbidden human territory, Runt at last comes to und...