Emily: 3337 books
by Emily Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The definitive account of the love affair that has captured the nation - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
After much speculation in the national media, Prince Harry finally confirmed the rumours about his relationship with American actress Meghan Markle. Now, on the news of their much-anticipated...
Katie and Peter: Too Much in Love
The Inside Story of Their Break-Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
When Katie and Peter met in the jungle, sparks instantly flew. Their whirlwind romance soon developed into something more permanent and led to a lavish wedding at Highclere Castle in Buckinghamshire. The couple also chose to share the ups-and more recently the downs-of their relationship by making...
You Will Make Money in Your Sleep
The Story of Dana Giacchetto, Financial Adviser to the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
...I was enthralled with Giacchetto. "You must meet him, he is inspired," I told a successful friend. "Oh, if you have any money you should invest it with him." Now this friend says to me, "Emily, I'm glad I didn't listen to you."
I knew Dana before the time of the celebrities and I watched...
by Emily Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Imagine that you are seven years old – a mere child – alone in the house after your parents leave for work. The clock on the mantle ticks loudly, ominously counting off the seconds. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
Quite suddenly, your ears are pricked by the sound of chains dragging heavily across...
by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Austen, Jane: “Northanger Abbey” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Listener” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows” Brontë,...
The Greatest Empire
A Life of Seneca
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
By any measure, Seneca (?4-65AD) is one of the most significant figures in both Roman literature and ancient philosophy. His writings are voluminous and diverse, ranging from satire to disturbing, violent tragedies, from metaphysical theory to moral and political discussions of virtue and anger. Seneca...
The Power of Meaning
Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.
Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit—that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life’s...
Tyrannicide
Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the midst of the American Revolution, thirty-four South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer and survived several...
by Emily Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong Sisters: Eling, Chingling and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the...
China to Me
A Partial Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II.
Deemed scandalous at the time of its publication in 1944, Emily Hahn’s now classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her...
Masterless Mistresses
The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance...
by Emily Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The New Yorker contributor’s fascinating account of Irish history from legendary kings to occupation, independence, and modern political strife.
The author of The Soong Sisters and China to Me turns her observant and discerning eye to the oft‑troubled land of Ireland. In a magisterial...
Mr. Pan
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Mr. Pan is no highly-placed official. Mr. Pan is the Mr. Smith of China—an ordinary man with extraordinary reach—and China, like America, depends as much on its Mr. Pans as on its powerful and world famous officials. Here, in a series of linked vignettes, you'll get a glimpse into a new way of...
The Blondes
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The Blondes is a hilarious and whipsmart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women, all of whom must go to great lengths to conceal their blondness.
Hazel Hayes is a grad student living in New York City. As the novel opens, she learns she is pregnant (from...