Cornish folklore is a vibrant tapestry, ever-changing yet deeply rooted in the past. The History of Cornish Tradition: A Folkloric Journey examines the rich tradition of the West Country, providing a definitive historical analysis of how the region’s legends, language, and customs have transformed over the last four centuries. This essential volume traces the evolution of Cornwall’s most famous stories, including Ann Jefferies and her fairies, the shifting identity of pixies/piski...

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain. The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century. The novel's mix of sexuality and violence was startling in its time and caused it to be banned in Boston.

One act of betrayal will unleash a trail of blood across the frontier.Cuchillo Oro has survived war, prejudice and the relentless pursuit of men who see only the Apache warrior—not the man. When a trading-post owner pays him with counterfeit money and leaves him to face the wrath of a hostile town, Cuchillo discovers that justice is something a man must sometimes take for himself.Determined to reclaim what is rightfully his, he sets out on a relentless hunt...

All's fair in love and war.The problem is, I want no part of either.I want peace with the Bratva. Safety for my wife. And love?That's never played a part in any of this.But the harder I fight against it, the more she pulls me in. And now I know that she's carrying a secret.One that could change both of our futures forever.I made Sofia a promise.They're all about to discover just how ruthless of a man I can be.

A romantic and endearing novel perfect for fans of Rachel Vincent, Julie Kagawa, and Alyson Noel, from bestselling author Syrie James and her son, Ryan M. James, Forbidden is book one in an exciting paranormal romance series.When Claire Brennan begins to get psychic visions and mysterious warnings that she’s in danger at the start of her junior year of high school, she isn’t sure what to think. But the truth is stranger than anything she could have imagined.Alec MacKenzie h...

The thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s Apollo moonshot: an Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world.In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans, and science itself still lacked a universal theory of electricity. But h...

Why Postliberalism Failed offers an indictment of one of the most consequential ideological movements reshaping American and European conservatism today. With leading politicians among its adherents and major conservative institutions captured by its agenda, postliberalism demands serious scrutiny and this book delivers it.Drawing on deep historical research, the book traces postliberalism's intellectual roots to two traditions: an extreme papalism that subordinates all po...

Is almost losing everything enough to change a man?My husband is about to lose everything he's worked so hard to keep.His empire.His daughter.Me.I can't love a man who does the things that Viktor does. I can't belong to him, not in the way I want to. It doesn't matter what he's awakened in me, or how much I crave him. How much my heart wants him.Or at least, that's what I tell myself.But the danger Viktor poses to my ...

Marriage to Luca was supposed to be my salvation. Now it's just a prison I can't escape.Marry him or die.That was the choice.When the Bratva attack on our wedding forces my new husband into the position of Don, all his promises to me are on hold. Now I'm in a gilded cage, locked away from everything that might harm me—except for the man who holds the key.Until one passionate night makes me question everything I believed about the man I married ...

What if Giovanni Ferretti was never murdered?What if he never extracted that vicious promise from his best friend?What if Luca Romano wasn't kind to Franco Bianchi on that playground when they were young?What if everything was different?All my life, I, Caterina Rossi, have known my life could only go one way. The college degree, the four years of freedom, all of it has led back to this—my re...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to ...

What could be better than selling lemonade to stave off the summer doldrums? Try swashbuckling adventure on the high seas!Captain Gabriel has done both before, the lemonade and the adventures, so he's pretty good at it despite the fact that he still has no idea what a swash even is, nor how one would buckle it. Never mind that -- he's setting sail with his quirky crew to embrace the unknown, including a magical unicorn and her warrior-girl companion, a harrowing side quest in searc...