This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Vernon Louis Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought is a sweeping, combative history of the nation's ideas, tracing how colonial conflict, religious authority, economic change, and democratic aspiration shaped American literature and politics from the beginning. In The Colonial Mind, he argues that early America was not intellectually barren but alive with struggles over liberty, law, theology, and s...

I'd always wanted to leave small town Illinois, I just didn't know I'd leave it for the stars.I needed to get into Columbia College. I'd do anything to get in. With no other choice, I had my dad help me get an internship at Circe Operations Center.Only it's not an ordinary operations center.Getting attacked on my first day on the job wasn't exactly stellar, but staring into the eyes of the dark eyed boy who saved me, made me re-think every single thought I'd ever ha...

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • A scintillating thriller with an emotional punch: “The tension builds to unbearably claustrophobic levels. To say more would rob readers of the 'no, he didn’t' suspense that makes Bath Haus an unexpectedly twisted, heart-pounding cat-versus-mouse thriller" (Los Angeles Times).Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partn...

In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. The first man died as a gust of wind harrowed the meat from his bones. A root,flung like a dirty javelin, cut a second man down. Many more deaths followed. The Preacher Fell impaled the witch upon her very own broom but she dragged him down into the field to wait for three more ce...

In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. The first man died as a gust of wind harrowed the meat from his bones. A root,flung like a dirty javelin, cut a second man down. Many more deaths followed. The Preacher Fell impaled the witch upon her very own broom but she dragged him down into the field to wait for three more ce...

Your child looked you in the eye and said no. You asked three times. Nothing moved. And somewhere in that moment, you realized—you're the parent, but you're not the one in charge.That's not a small problem. That's the whole problem. And it didn't happen because you're a bad parent. It happened because good parents were handed the wrong instructions—told that firmness might harm a child's spirit, that every "no" needed a negotiation, and that keeping the peace mattered more than hol...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80...

After ONE WILD NIGHT in Vegas, publicist Valerie Wilder woke up next to a male stripper named Wild Wes. A trip to the court house should have solved the problem, but legalities forced them to go back to Chicago together to start the process. But the more Valerie and Wes get to know each other the more they realize their WILD HEARTS can't be tamed and they may be falling for each other. Even though Wes is THE WILD ONE Valerie can't resist taking some time on THE WILD SIDE, but when she fina...

Dr. Mike Carrigan practiced medicine for forty years, witnessing the suffering, faith, and death of many patients and the sustaining nature of that faith. He has also personally suffered through the loss of his first wife in an auto accident, a son and a grandson, the near death of another son in an accident, and his own near death in an accident in which he had an encounter with his God. He was sustained by his own faith and by the love of friends and family. From these tragic life experi...

Where We Softened Each OtherA Novel of What Remains When We Finally Let GoBy ALICELIN VERNONSome loves don’t arrive like storms. They arrive quietly, changing everything before we realize they’ve begun.After the end of a long relationship, map conservator Maeve Carvalho inherits half of a crumbling farmhouse in the Portuguese countryside. The other half belongs to Julian Ferreira

One Northshore PrincessOne Male StripperA Rooftop Hook-upA Murder?Frrenemies with benefits, Brick and Paige, witness a murder in action and are forced into Witness Protection at the Forever Sweet bakery in Friendship, Texas. They may both hate the situation initially, but as their time lingers, so do their feelings and they have to figure out if they'll be a sweet nothing or stay Forever Sweet.

From the creator of Dragonbreath comes a tale of witches, minions, and one fantastic castle, just right for fans of Roald Dahl and Tom Angleberger.When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail's doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle's minions are understandably dubious. After all, she is twelve years old, barely five feet tall, and quite polite. (The minions are used to tall, demanding evil sorceresses with razor-sharp cheekbones.) But the castle des...