Publisher: Charles River Editors
Upton Sinclair was a prolific American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. Sinclair wrote many well known books across different genres but his most famous is The Jungle, an influential novel that caused a public uproar and led to the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. This edition of Jimmie Higgins includes a table of contents.
Paris in 1968 - seething with revolutionaries and spies - sees Will Flemyng's world turned upside down, after a mysterious encounter on the metro and a chance revelation from a rival operative. In a city alive with talk of revolution, Will finds himself in the thick of the action. But now he gets news that threatens the closest and most complicated relationship in his life, with his younger brother.Show book
After losing her husband in the Rocky Mountain wilderness, young widow Joanna Watson is struggling to makea new home for her five-year-old son, Samuel, in the little mountain town of Settler’s Fort. When she returns homefrom work to find Samuel and the woman watching him missing—and the sheriff dead—she enlists a man she prayshas enough experience in this rugged country to help.Isaac Bowen wants nothing more than a quiet, invisible life in these mountains, far away from the bad decisionsof his past. But he has a strong suspicion of who’s behind the kidnapping and murder, and if he’s right, he knows alltoo well the evil they’re chasing.As they press on against the elements, Joanna fights to hold on to hope, while Isaac knows a reckoning is coming.They find encouragement in the tentative trust that grows between them, but whether it can withstand the danger andcoming confrontation is far from certain in this wild, unpredictable land.Show book
A seventeenth-century English teenage dwarf is tasked with spying on a beautiful queen in this historical novel based on a true story. It’s 1629, and King Charles I and his French queen Henrietta Maria have reigned in England for less than three years. Young dwarf Jeffrey Hudson is plunged into the Stuart court when his father sells him to the most hated man in England—the Duke of Buckingham. Buckingham trains Jeffrey to be his spy in the queen’s household, hoping to gain intelligence that will help him undermine her influence with the king. Desperately homesick, Henrietta Maria surrounds herself with her “Royal Menagerie of Freaks and Curiosities of Nature”—a “collection” consisting of a giant, two other dwarves, a rope dancer, an acrobat/animal trainer and now Jeffrey, who is dubbed “Lord Minimus.” Dropped into this family of misfits, Jeffrey must negotiate a labyrinth of court intrigue and his own increasingly divided loyalties. For not even the plotting of the Duke nor the dangers of a tumultuous kingdom can order the heart of a man. Full of vibrant period detail, Ella March Chase’s The Queen’s Dwarf is a thrilling and evocative portrait of an intriguing era. Praise for The Queen’s Dwarf “A feast for readers told by a masterful author. The seemingly fantastic—yet historically accurate—collection of characters will tug at your heart.” —Tasha Alexander, New York Times–bestselling author of The Counterfeit Heiress “Enthralling, unexpected, and mysterious . . . a fascinating tale of an unlikely hero and his companions’ hunt for a royal assassin, even as an infamous love affair threatens to overturn the kingdom. The Queen’s Dwarf proves that Ms. March-Chase has a very bright future in historical fiction!” —C.W. Gortner, author of The Tudor Conspiracy “Rich in detail and brimming with intriguing characters, Chase’s novel will please fans of historical fiction.” —Kirkus ReviewsShow book
"The Last Great Epic Poem in the English Language"- Dale Ahlquist"The ending is absurd. The brilliant smash and glitter of the words and phrases (when they come off, and are not mere loud colours) cannot disguise the fact that G. K. C. knew nothing whatever about the 'North', heathen or Christian."- JRR TolkienThe tale of King Alfred, the Christian king who in 878AD battled a Viking invasion that had conquered the rest of England and burnt some cakes. He then became the last holdout of resistance against the invaders and forced the conversion of the Danish king Guthrum to Christianity after the battle of Ethandun. Chesterton says "This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical. All of it that is not frankly fictitious, as in any prose romance about the past, is meant to emphasize tradition rather than history. That is the use of tradition: it telescopes history."Named after the chalk horses carved into English hills (and partly set at Uffington), it begins with an exhortation to true Christianity in the face of despair and defeat, and ends with a prediction of more barbarian invasions. It focuses on the nature of faith in times of despair, and on the true strength of local kings in the face of empires."... you and all the kind of ChristAre ignorant and brave,And you have wars you hardly winAnd souls you hardly save...."In some far century, sad and slow,I have a vision, and I knowThe heathen shall return...."They shall come mild as monkish clerks,With many a scroll and pen;And backward shall ye turn and gaze,Desiring one of Alfred's days,When pagans still were men."Show book
This sweeping comic novel examines the public and private upheavals of life in a small Southern town from the Civil Rights era to the new millennium. Famous All Over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, is a comically candid multi-generational account of two Jews, a lowcountry native and a Northern transplant. Their lives interweave through the momentous events of a sleepy coastal hamlet based on Schein’s native Beaufort, South Carolina. Schein’s cast includes Southern Jewish lawyer Murray Gold and his foil, displaced New York psychiatrist Bert Levy. There’s also an emotionally scarred drill sergeant and his alluringly unconventional wife; a corrupt sheriff and his violent son; an African American madam and her two brilliant children; a fallen Southern belle; a transvestite Vietnam veteran; and many others. With their conflicted identities, burgeoning ambitions, and romantic entanglements, they live through the turbulent 1960s into the 1990s, confronting the ramifications of the civil rights era, Vietnam, Watergate, and—closer to home—a deadly version of the infamous Ribbon Creek incident. Foreword by Janis Owens.Show book
From the author of Blossom and Moonsong—a historical western romance of a righteous quest for justice and of a desire set free . . . The lovely widow Lacey Spencer has launched a solo campaign to expose the crooked cattle ranchers that are threatening to overtake her hometown. Even her sophisticated beauty and elegant demeanor cannot erase the townspeople's evident disapproval of her most unladylike behavior. When a dark stranger arrives in town, Lacey discovers that she may not be alone in her battle. But she doesn't understand why this handsome, mysterious man is helping her. Morgan is every woman's dream: powerful and compelling, yet calm and levelheaded. But when his brutal past comes back to haunt him, Lacey begins to question the truth of his intentions. She can either fight the corruption by herself, or trust Morgan—and build an explosive love that knows no limits.Show book
