The Emporium��California�s Largest, America�s Grandest Store��was a major shopping destination on San Francisco�s Market Street for a century, from 1896 to 1996. Shoppers flocked to the mid-price store with its beautiful dome and bandstand. Patrons could find anything at the Emporium, from jewelry to stoves, and it was a meeting place for friends to enjoy tea while listening to the Emporium Orchestra. Founded as the Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar, the store flourished until the disastrous...

For many years, visitors traveling to San Francisco came via ferry, and the Ferry Building, one of San Francisco's most famous landmarks, stood ready to welcome them. In the 1920s, the Ferry Building was the world's second-busiest transit terminal (after Charing Cross, London), with more than 50,000 people a day passing through the elegant structure, designed by architect A. Page Brown and opened in 1898. When the 1906 earthquake struck and the ensuing fire was destroying the city, the ven...

In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up--hats, gloves and stockings required--and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's de...

With Hicksville, local historians Richard and Anne Evers take us on a journey back in time from the area�s 1648 land purchase from Native Americans and associations with Elias Hicks, the Jericho antislavery leader, to its transformation into a thriving twentieth-century Long Island suburb of New York City. Through evocative images and insightful text, we learn how the Long Island Railroad was dead-ended here in the Panic of 1837 and how German immigrants created a village and vacation spa ...

In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco's merchant princes built grand stores for a booming city, each with its own niche. For the eager clientele, a trip downtown meant dressing up—hats, gloves, and stockings required—and going to Blum's for Coffee Crunch cake or Townsend's for creamed spinach. The I. Magnin empire catered to a selective upper-class clientele, while middle-class shoppers loved the Emporium department store with its Bargain Basement and Santa for the kids. Gump's def...

I love falling in love.Only I’m the worst at it.My friends call me a serial first dater and I can’t blame them.All I want is a happy ever after, yet all I find are happy ever nevers.This is my last chance. After this set up with my friend’s tattoo artist, I’m done.No more dating. No more chances.If I don’t fall in love with Leo Johnson, I’ll give up on dating.Even if it shatters my dreams in the process.**Happily Ever ...

It was only supposed to be one job.I know the rules.Get in. Get out.Protect the girl, then move on.Only it never works out the way it should.Now Jennifer and I work with each other and there’s no going back to normal.Then it turned into something more.Gus isn’t for me. I know that.Only the chemistry that burns between us won’t fade away.We promise it will only be one night.Then...

Happy Ever After is Only the Beginning.Find your fate between the lines in this collection of steamy and special romances from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan.Fate can change in an instant.But love can be everlasting.Includes EIGHT short stories and novellas never before in audio or print.Inked Kingdom (A Montgomery Ink Romance)Montgomery Midnight Kisses (A Montgomery Ink Romance)Inked Fantasy (A Montgomery Ink: Boulder Romance...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Montgomery Ink and Talon Pack series comes an anthology filled with eleven bonus After-the-HEA novellas and short stories in most of her series.Their Wicked Future (A Redwood Pack and Talon Pack Novella)Quinn and Gina almost sacrificed everything to save their Pack and their mating. They’ve spent their lives putting others first, as well as raising Quinn’s son from his first mating, now it’s...

Happy Ever After is Only the Beginning.Find your fate between the lines in this collection of steamy and special romances from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan.Fate can change in an instant.But love can be everlasting.Includes EIGHT short stories and novellas never before in audio or print.What if It’s You (A Montgomery Ink Legacy Romance)— Jess & DemiOver the Bridge (A Montgomery Ink Legacy Romance)— Kate & Saw...

Bibliothecaris Nina weet precies wat mensen moeten lezen. Op goed geluk maakt ze een keuze: welk boek helpt tegen liefdesverdriet en welk verhaal de eenzaamheid kan verjagen. Maar als de bibliotheek sluit en Nina werkloos wordt, helpen boeken haar ook niet. Of toch wel? Nina opent haar eigen, heel bijzondere boekwinkel: ze rijdt met een boekenbus door de Schotse Hooglanden. Maar een happy end is in het echte leven ietsje ingewikkelder dan in een roman. Gelukkig is er de ietwat knorrige, ma...

Boston heiress Sophia Vanderwahl has come to realize her fiancé is a rotten philanderer. Looking for retribution, she sets out to find the wastrel to give back his engagement ring, hiring an old rival of his to take her to Mexico.Although suspicious of her motives, Jack MacCauley needs the money to finance his expedition. In this light-hearted seafaring romance, Jack and Sophie learn to trust each other as lovers and friends.“Crosby (On Bended Knee) stays true to form in th...