Nicholas Craigdon always thought the reason he was continuously overlooked by his father was because he’s the fourth-born son. Now he’s discovered the truth. Henry Craigdon treated him so unfairly because Henry always believed Nicholas wasn’t his. Now Henry has issued the final insult on his deathbed. He’s given the family company Nicholas put his heart and soul into to someone else.Logan Craigdon has never had any interest in his uncle’s company. He’s as shocked as anyone when Hen...

A road trip through Steinbeck’s America—revisited, reimagined, and reinterpreted.Steinbeck’s Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck’s best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America’s troubadour of ordinary people, the conscience of the country. But weakened by two sma...

  Two thousand years have passed since the War of Generations came to a standstill. Since then, tension has risen, kingdoms have fallen and the land is at a crossroad. House Evindass, along with the rest of the Pawdin Empire, is in a life-and-death struggle to free the land and themselves from the Iumenta. Now, in the last book of the Legon series, everything will come to a head. Who will stand triumphant? The Elves or the Iument...

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is a key figure in contemporary debates about the self and the problems of modernity.This book provides a comprehensive, critical account of Taylor's work. It succinctly reconstructs the ambitious philosophical project that unifies Taylor's diverse writings. And it examines in detail Taylor's specific claims about the structure of the human sciences; the link between identity, language, and moral values; democracy and multiculturalism; and th...

Join Legon and Sasha in the second book in the Legon series. Mere weeks after the battle at the Precipice, Legon and Sasha find themselves thrown into the world of being the heads of a great house. Join them as they delve into a new world, completely different from the one they grew up in, and as they unravel an Iumenta plot that will shake everyone in the land. Come along with Keither and Sara as they set out to makes lives for themselves. This story spans land, sea and air as our heroes ...

In this sequel to Harmony in Flesh and Black, the debut of Kilmer’s mystery series set in the Boston art world, we’re reacquainted with the passionate non-collector Fred Taylor. Fred, prowling the antique and jumble shops of Boston’s Charles Street, enters a favorite old haunt—Oona’s—run by a woman unafraid to deal in art with a questionable past.Oona offers Fred a painting, the image of a common gray squirrel on a chain, which he discovers has been cut from a larger canva...

Epic fantasy with Dragons and Elves.Set in a world that is not our own, Legon Awakening takes you through an epic journey into a land full of wonderment, illusion, and innovation.From the AuthorHello I'm Nicholas Taylor. I just wanted to take a moment to talk about why I wrote the Legon Series. With the Legon books I wanted to pull readers into another world with Elves, Dragons and a race that no one has seen before, the ...

Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that have produced the anthropogenic ecological crisis that threatens the planet and uses the ethica...

Stillton Academy, a small art college on the New England coast north of Boston, is in financial trouble, and its days are numbered unless someone provides extraordinary help. The final straw may be the sudden disappearance of an instructor with a female student—the daughter of the Academy’s only significant donor.Art critic Fred Taylor, called in to troubleshoot, goes undercover as a member of the faculty and shortly finds himself enmeshed in the conflicting motives and designs of ...

A heartfelt and personal tribute to legendary musicians Kenny Rankin and James Taylor, this book blends biography, music history, and the author's own life experiences. Through albums, concerts, and memories, it explores how their music shaped a lifetime of passion, emotion, and inspiration.

Nickleby is a young man of nineteen, handsome and hot-headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the death of Nicholas’s father, they find themselves penniless and travel to London to seek help from his uncle, Ralph Nickleby, a heartless, cunning rogue. He grudgingly finds employment for Nicholas in Dotheby Hall, a school in Yorkshire run by the brutal Mr. and Mrs. Wackford Squeers. Appalled at the condition and treatment of the school children, Nicholas rebels, escaping...

Society still finds itself reeling from magic coming out into the open. As the world comes to grips with the fact that old legends are true, Homicide Detective Alison Kaur still has a job to do. After the corpse of William Lanner is found, Alison must delve into the ugly world of prostitution, gangsters and murder. All while she and her partner deal with the dangers of Mages, Werewolves, Succubi and others. Will Alison be able to track down the killer of William Lanner? Or will she become ...