An extraordinarily photographed culinary travel book featuring profiles of the stewards of the world's traditional foodways—farming, fishing, and herding methods—along with 40 recipes.James Beard Award-winning journalist Shane Mitchell and photographer James Fisher have traveled the world on assignment for food and travel publications such as Travel + Leisure and Saveur. Along the way, they have encountered the fascinating people who are keeping s...

Silas is a boy who had spent almost his entire life on the streets. But when the law catches up with him after a clumsy snatch and grab, he is busted out of jail by an organisation known only as the 'Thieves Guild' and recruited into their ranks. Silas soon finds out that they are participants in a rebellion against the country's tyrant Queen.

The inspirational true story of an Aussie bloke from the outback, crippled with depression, who challenges himself to swim the English Channel as a way of managing his mental health struggles.Brendan Cullen manages Kars Station, a 10,000-head sheep property 65 kilometres outside Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 2022, despite his nearest beach being more than 600 kilometres away, he swam the English Channel.Taking up swimming was part of Brendan's recovery from severe depres...

It’s one year later and a LOT has changed.Audiobook superfan Vera is “in the industry” now, and Cameron is not so sure he’s onboard.Jennifer has rocketed to narrator fame, but not everyone is comfortable with her newfound status. Neil and Georgia are happily married, but their HEA is wreaking havoc on her writing career.With The Audie Awards just around the corner, all these tensions are higher than ever. But you know who’s feeling just fine?The Narwhal....

In "Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals," the pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell unveils her multifaceted life through a rich tapestry of personal correspondence and reflections. The book intricately blends memoir, biography, and scientific discourse, presenting a vivid portrait of a woman who navigated the 19th-century male-dominated scientific landscape. Mitchell's clear and thoughtful prose captures her groundbreaking observations of the stars, her advocacy for women's educati...

The most comprehensive Mark Twain collection—over 150 short stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims from America’s greatest humorist.Arranged chronologically and containing many pieces restored to the form in which Twain intended them to appear, this special Library of America volume shows with unprecedented clarity the literary evolution of Mark Twain over six decades of his career.The nearly two hundred separate it...

This book-collection file includes books of Mark Twain's speeches and letters, plus 3 book-length collections of essays: What is Man? Sketches New and Old, and Christian Science. It also includes the following short collections and individual essays: Editorial Wild Oats, Essays on Paul Bourget, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, and In Defence of Harriet Shelley. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humori...

"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on The occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of Their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of The brief career during which, for ten years, The writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with The fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into The abyss of madness and death.....in The month o...

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Illustrated) is a comprehensive collection of the engaging and humorous short stories penned by the American literary master, Mark Twain. Known for his satirical and witty writing style, Twain's stories often explore themes of human nature, social injustice, and the complexities of life in the American South. This anthology showcases Twain's versatility as a writer, ranging from his iconic tales of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to lesser-known ge...

According to Wikipedia: "Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 March 27, 1918) was an American novelist, journalist, historian and academic. He is best-known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family.... He published The Education of Henry Adams in 1907, in a small private edition for selected friends, which curiously omitted the years 1872-'91 and his entire marriage. The work concerned the birth of forces Adams saw as repla...

The American Way - The childhood of a 'self-made man' — How a newspaper is founded without money and without collaborators - Apprenticed to Magic - How electricity is transformed into money - Science and Business - Edison the Napoleon of Modern Times - The Fairyland of Menlo Park - Edison at Work and Edison at Play - Distance is Abolished - Edison starts upon the Conquest of the Old World of Europe - Recording the Voice - Is it a Ventriloquist? - Glory and Harmony imprisoned in a Cylinder ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe Helen Hunt Jackson Lucretia Mott Mary A Livermore Margaret Fuller Ossoli Maria Mitchell Louisa M Alcott Mary Lyon Harriet G Hosmer Madame de Staël Rosa Bonheur Elizabeth Barrett Browning "George Eliot" Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Thompson Butler Florence Nightingale Lady Brassey Baroness Burdett-Coutts Jean Ingelow