What more could there be to know about FDR, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? As it happens, there is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the queen of her Washington social circle, later FDR's friend and love-and Eleanor's rival, as the title of Christine Totten's work points out. In Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Eleanor's Rival, FDR's Other Love, Totten presents a carefully structured case for a deep and lasting but chaste love between Lucy and FDR, against th...

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the pessimistic vision of a post-apocalyptic w...

Do you remember your first love? Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had a second chance to follow your heart? In this collection of novellas written by award-winning and bestselling authors, come home to Echo Ridge as summer winds down and hearts once broken and lost are given one more chance, a second chance to love.A Brand New Second Chance by Lucy McConnellWith a broken heart and an unsure future, Abigail Martin moves home to Echo Ridge to capture t...

The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable presents a captivating reimagining of John Bunyan's classic allegory, bringing the illustrious journey of Christian to contemporary readers in its most accessible form. This anthology merges the richness of Bunyan's narrative with the linguistic clarity of Lucy Aikin's adaptation, inviting reflection on timeless themes such as faith, redemption, and perseverance. By rendering the original text into monosyllabic language, this collection ensur...

In recent years, countless arguments have been made for and against the enduring value of literature: reading improves mental health and offers refuge from the news cycle; the novel is dead, poetry obsolete, writers replaceable by AI. Too Little, Too Hard adds nuance to these discussions by examining a topic that tends to be left unexplored: the working conditions of professional writers. What does it mean to write under a neoliberal economy? What can writers afford to work on - and what c...

From New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters, comes a brand new Dark Romance full of darkness and depraved hearts.This 13,000 word prequel is recommended to be read before RUBY TEARS (Book One of The Jewelry Box Series). It's short but it's spicy.I’ve fought a curse all my life.A curse inherited by my sick father.There is no cure.No antidote for what I am.For years, I existed alone. Fighting the urges, doi...