This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Marriage here is revealed as far more than a private romance: it is a system shaped by kinship, religion, class, economics, and authority. From arranged unions controlled by parents, elders, rulers, and matchmakers to the modern American ideal of choosing one's own mate, the book traces how marriage has long served property, diplomacy, status, and social order. It follows the shadchan from traditional Jewish...

Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's epic ranges from stirring depictions of historical events to intimate portraits of family life, moving between public spectacles and private lives to offer a tale of both panoramic scope and closely observed detail. From the breathless excitement of 16-year-old Natasha Rostov's fi...

This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Cather, Willa: My...

From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes a heartrending tale of all-consuming love, family secrets, and overcoming unbearable loss.Jack and I had everything. Then in one brutal instant, the universe tilted on its side, discarding us into black nothingness.Now Jack is obsessed with revenge, and I’m desperate to leave the night of our anniversary behind me. When we’re not fighting, the only way we communicate is in the bedroom....

In Forever Ours, New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo breathes life into the Shattered Hearts Series, a fresh and brilliantly emotional coming of age love story.The day fifteen-year-old Claire meets sixteen-year-old Chris is like any other day. She’s been kicked out of yet another foster home. The moment she sees the piercing in his lip and the tattoos on his skin, she’s certain she won’t last long in this placement.But sh...

How to play the game:Rule 1: Never apply for a promotion while drunk.Rule 2: Never spill your margarita on your laptop and accidentally hit send on an email telling your boss to shove his promotion up his…Rule 3: Never attempt to salvage your career by pretending to be your boss’s wife.Rule 4: Never, ever fall in love with your boss**.*****From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo com...

Five pages...A letter holding a secret buried for more than five years...A secret neither of them wanted to know.Will the truth tear them apart… again?I’ve loved my best friend's brother, Houston Cavanaugh, since I was eleven years old. But my friendship with Hallie Cavanaugh meant too much to me to risk taking a chance with Houston.Until one snowy...

This highly accessible and practical third edition provides medical students with the information needed to build the skills that will aid them in studying for their neuroanatomy courses, clinical rotations, and board exams. It is also indispensable for residents looking for a refresher in neuroanatomy. This edition has been significantly updated with new chapters, including sections on lesions of the peripheral nerves, as well as many revised and improved figures.To that end, the ...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Tolstoy on Art gathers Leo Tolstoy's essays, letters, prefaces, and critical writings into a single searching account of what art is for and why it matters. Edited and contextualized by Aylmer Maude, the volume traces Tolstoy's thought from early reflections on literature and education to the major statement of his later years, What is Art?, while answering critics who misunderstood his views. At its core is...

What if you woke up one night and discovered you were a dinosaur?In Once I Was a Dinosaur, a child drifts into a soft, dreamlike world where everything suddenly feels wonderfully different. Familiar hands and feet have changed, each step feels enormous, and a long dinosaur tail follows close behind. Rather than feeling frightened, the child explores this surprising transformation with curiosity, delight, and a growing sense of wonder.As the night unfolds, each new ...

Their love was unbreakable, until his stardom tore them apart.Now he’s back, and her shocking secret threatens their second chance.Fifteen-year-old Claire, a troubled foster child, unexpectedly finds solace and love with her foster brother, Chris, and his caring mother. Their bond becomes her lifeline until a life-changing opportunity for Chris puts Claire in a difficult position.Following Chris and Claire's devastating breakup, her...

Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, “Anna Karenina” is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-n...