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The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

by Jonathan Rauch

Published: 2018-05-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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"In this warm, wise, and witty overview, Jonathan Rauch combines evidence and experience to show his fellow adults that the best is yet to come.” ?Steven Pinker, bestselling author of Enlightenment NowThis book will change your life by showing you how life changes.Why does happiness get ...

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Murder Crops Up

by Lora Roberts

Published: 1998-07-29

Mass Market Paperback: 230 pages

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A GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVILIn the cheerful community garden where struggling freelance writer Liz Sullivan grows her veggies, someone is raking up old, hurtful scandals. So when a dead body turns up in nosy Lois Humphries's meticulously maintained plot, Liz is labeled a murderer!With her rel...

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Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

by Mary Oliver

Published: 2005-03-02

Paperback: 120 pages

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Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal. And that i...

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Breathless: (Steel Brothers Saga Book 10)

by Helen Hardt

Published: 2019-06-25

Paperback: 0 pages

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Marjorie Steel is still healing from the events of the past year, and she’s happy to put her plans to study culinary arts on hold to help her best friend deal with a difficult pregnancy and two recently adopted troubled boys. The fact that Bryce Simpson spends a lot of time at the Steel ...

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2015-06-20

Paperback: 120 pages

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Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, and is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.The...

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)

by Dante Alighieri

Published: 1995-08-01

Hardcover: 798 pages

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This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli'...

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Only One Life: A Novel

by Ashley Farley

Published: 2019-04-23

Paperback: 298 pages

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A reunion between an estranged mother and daughter opens a world of secrets in a poignant novel by the bestselling author of Magnolia Nights.Julia Martin grew up wealthy, but it wasn’t until she met her husband, Jack, that she knew true happiness. He made her feel worthy and loved. Their...

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Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)

by Franz Kafka

Published: 1993-10-26

Hardcover: 568 pages

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Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their...

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Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep

by Eleanor Farjeon

Published: 2017-02-07

Hardcover: 96 pages

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Skip for joy! The exuberant classic returns in a compact hardcover edition that makes a perfect gift.Little Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. When she is scarcely five, she can outskip anyone in her village. By the time she’s six, her name and fame have spread to all the villages in the c...

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A White Bird Flying (Bison Book S)

by Bess Streeter Aldrich

Published: 1988-01-01

Paperback: 222 pages

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Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the har...