"Perhaps I will cut your throat as you tried to cut mine. Will I still want to touch you when your blood is on my hands? Or will it chase your ghost from my thoughts?"He held his hands out and considered them for a moment, shaking his head."I think not. I think still you would haunt me."TIME WALKERSMaggie is a modern day woman with all her flaws, thrust back into a time when men were carving out the history of America. She has just en...

"The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of the soul, discerning the thoughts of the heart.""So proclaims the Letter of the Hebrews. Yet for many persons biblical word of God is less a sharp sword than a crutch, supporting rather than piercing them. Interpreted as they have 'always' heard it, Scripture tells exactly what they want to hear. Modern critical investigation of the Bible can change that radically."Raymond E. Brown, a Catho...

The life, loves and hates of an individual church in New Testament times. Considers the life and writings of St. John.

Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only on the far fringes through most ...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Complete Edition) presents Robert Browning's celebrated narrative poem in its full whimsical and unsettling force. Based on a medieval German legend recorded in Hamelin's civic memory, the poem transforms folklore into a brisk, musical tale of civic greed, broken promises, and supernatural retribution. Browning's rollicking rhymes, vivid color, and dramatic momentum make the poem accessible to children, yet its moral irony and social satire place it firmly within...

A vacation to the far North...Heather is gifted a week away at a resort in the Arctic Circle by her grandmother, a chance to finally move on after finding her fiancé in bed with another woman.With two Nordic hunks to keep her company...The two sexy studs make is easy to get over her failed relationship. That is, until they tell her their secret.Are the two men really extraterrestrials or just a fantasy created by her lonely soul?

The Complete Poetry gathers the full range of Robert Browning's verse, from early experimental works to the great dramatic monologues that secured his place in Victorian literature. Restless, intellectual, and psychologically acute, Browning's poetry turns inward upon motive, conscience, faith, ambition, and artistic creation. Poems such as "My Last Duchess," "Andrea del Sarto," and "Fra Lippo Lippi" reveal his mastery of voice: speakers disclose themselves not through confession but throu...

Granny's Wonderful Chair is a luminous Victorian fairy-tale sequence framed by the fortunes of the gentle orphan Snowflower, whose enchanted chair transports her through hardship into realms of moral trial and imaginative wonder. Combining Christmas warmth with the older cadence of oral folklore, Frances Browne's prose is graceful, didactic, and richly symbolic. The original illustrations deepen its period charm, while the interwoven tales of generosity, vanity, justice, and perseverance p...

The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Poems, Plays, Letters & Biographies in One Edition gathers the astonishing range of Browning's achievement: dramatic monologues, lyrical meditations, verse dramas, correspondence, and biographical materials that illuminate his art. From the psychological intricacy of "My Last Duchess" to the ambitious architecture of The Ring and the Book, the volume reveals a poet of intellectual daring, moral ambiguity, and densely allusive style, central to Victori...

Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin retells the medieval German legend of a mysterious musician hired to rid the town of rats, only to exact a haunting revenge when its citizens break their promise of payment. Written in lively, galloping verse, the poem combines comic exaggeration, moral fable, and Gothic unease. Its vivid rhymes, shifting rhythms, and theatrical voices place it within Victorian narrative poetry while preserving the atmosphere of folk tradition and oral storytelli...

Robert Browning's My Last Duchess (Unabridged) presents one of Victorian poetry's most chilling dramatic monologues: the Duke of Ferrara, displaying a portrait of his deceased wife, inadvertently reveals his vanity, possessiveness, and moral corruption. Written in tightly controlled heroic couplets whose polish masks psychological violence, the poem exemplifies Browning's mastery of voiced character and indirect confession. Set against Renaissance Italy, it reflects Victorian fascinations ...

Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett gathers one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated epistolary courtships into a volume of unusual literary intimacy. Moving between ardent confession, aesthetic reflection, domestic hope, and intellectual companionship, these letters illuminate love as both private experience and creative force. Their style ranges from lyrical tenderness to sharply attentive literary discussion, placing personal correspondence within the br...