"Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that's not good, it's just not good at all"--Publisher.
"Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein over Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, college life doesn't bring the happiness she expected. She becomes infatuated with a married professor and feels lost and overwhelmed. Little by little, Natalie is no longer certain of anything--even where reality ends and her dark imaginings begin"--Back cover.
Contains a selection of writings by twentieth-century American author Shirley Jackson, including sixteen short stories, three lectures delivered at colleges and writers' conferences, and the novel "Come Along with Me," which was unfinished at the time of Jackson's death in 1965.
Presents the classic novel by seventeenth-century British author, Daniel Defoe, about department store manager Octave Mouret who uses charm and deceit to exploit his female customers and staff until Denise Baudu becomes an assistant and Mouret becomes charmed by her.
The fragile society in which a British couple and an American couple live in pre-World War I Europe is ruptured, revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal.
In seventeenth-century France, Gascon soldier the Baron de Canolles fights his own personal battle as he falls for two powerful women on opposing sides of the civil war.
An annotated translation of Roman statesman, author, and orator Cicero's writings "Against Verres, I," "The Second Philippic against Antony," "On Duties, III," and "On Old Age," and twenty-three of his letters.
Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip grower, is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival who wants to keep him from achieving the goal of cultivating the elusive black tulip, but Cornelius is able to pursue his passion from prison when he is befriended by the jailer's beautiful daughter, Rosa.
