JoEllen Bynum enjoys working at SmarteePantz, a bustling tavern in a small Arkansas town. The single mother’s only dissatisfaction with her employment is the very presence of the arrogant former baseball player Jerrold Warren. His manner of speaking, his self-confidence and his very existence grates upon her like fingernails on a chalkboard.When the tavern owner retires and sells the business to her nemesis, JoEllen is beside herself with frustration. Even though she is promoted, s...

Few twentieth-century authors can compete with J.R.R. Tolkien. More than three-quarters of a century after the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, his works continue to captivate millions of readers across the world. As a collection of papers delivered in 2012 at the Tolkien Society’s international conference of the same name, The Return of the Ring is representative of the wide and varied responses Tolkien’s works have generated over the decades. The first volume focuses ...

This translation makes this deceptively lively Middle English verse romance available in modern English for the first time, enabling it to be studied and read by anyone with an interest in medieval romance in its own right, and also by non-specialist students of medievalism. Its interlaced plots and often ironic dialogue would appeal to general readers of 'heroic' tales. It would also be of use to all those engaged in Tolkien studies as it displays many of the features familiar from The Si...

Few twentieth-century authors can compete with J.R.R. Tolkien. More than three-quarters of a century after the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, his works continue to captivate millions of readers across the world. As a collection of papers delivered in 2012 at the Tolkien Society’s international conference of the same name, The Return of the Ring is representative of the wide and varied responses Tolkien’s works have generated over the decades. The first volume focuses ...

In Slumber Party, four women reliving their youth after a 25th high school class reunion find that extreme mischief during their traditional post – reunion sleepover does not go unpunished at any age. After all, the hostess for the slumber party is married to their retired high school principal.In Another Typical Morning, a newly married music teacher finds a novel use for her metronome while she and her husband are tucked away in their mountain home.In The Tutor, a 27-year...

Union Army Major Charles Morrow has been ordered to escort the daughter of a well-connected Ohio couple from the recently captured town of Cynthiana, Kentucky to her parents’ home. Along the way, he must protect her from remnant bands of Rebel soldiers and hostile Confederate sympathizers. He does not relish the assignment, but at least the journey will take him to within a few hours ride of his own homestead.Emily McAllister enjoys spending much of her time with her aunt and uncle...

This title was first published in 2000: Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils, and to comment upon sensitive cultur...

Helen Briscoe learned to never throw rocks at a western lawman....unless you want to end up across his knees and in love with him. What else happens when the new nurse for the town doctor arrives and captures the heart of the marshal? A bustling Missouri town sets the scene for a rousing romance.

“Author duo Hayley have crafted a decidedly unconventional erotic heroine..." ~Library Journal“Elizabeth Hayley surprises and delights with this fast-paced, passionate contemporary romance that tugs at the heartstrings." ~RT Book ReviewsBlake Monroe hasn’t had the easiest life, but she’s never been one to dwell on her misfortunes, preferring to see the world as a place where you get what you give.Having had an espe...

***WARNING! EXPLICIT CONTENT!!!***They're short but they're sexy!Adults Only: Seven Erotica Shorts is a collection of stories dealing with themes of sexual exploration, submission/dominance and voyeurism as well as a longing for passion.Combining eroticism with a literary edge, Bebe Wilde takes this volume of short erotica to a whole new level. These stories will not only titillate but fascinate as well. Sizzling accounts of an unusual but satisfying sexual...

Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpants... and did outlaws never wear trousers?Terry Jones and Alan Ereira are your guides to this most misrepresented and misunderstood period, and they point you to things that will surp...

The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and was hailed as Rex totius Britanniae: 'King of the whole of Britain'.Tom Holland recounts this extraordinary story with relish and drama, transporting us ba...