Louisa: 1139 books

A sweeping historical saga that traces five generations of fiercely powerful mothers and daughters -- witches whose magical inheritance is both a dangerous threat and an extraordinary gift. Brittany, 1821. After Grand-mère Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die...

“Something is rotten in the state of Berkeley” --1881 Blue and Gold Yearbook, University of California: Berkeley In Scholarly Pursuits, the sixth full-length novel in the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco mystery series, Locke explores life on the University of California:...

Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden-plat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal...

"Christmas wont be Christmas without any corpses." The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since you last read their tale, and now they have (much)...

The Author is quite aware of the defects of this little story, many of which were unavoidable, as it first appeared serially. But, as Uncle Alec's experiment was intended to amuse the young folks, rather than suggest educational improvements for the consideration of the elders, she trusts that these...

'They tried to make me go to my sister's funeral today. In the end I'd had to give in ... I'd been walking in her shadow for sixteen years and I liked its cool darkness. It was a good place to hide.' How would you feel if your twin sister died suddenly? Particularly if she was the beautiful...

A brooding warrior of enormous sexual appetites succumbs to the powerful forces of his dark nature when he abducts a novitiate in a plan to avenge his wife's death. In a wild and wicked place, where no rules govern civilized behavior, Geoffrey de Sage forces Aeschine to leave innocence behind...

Would YOU say no to your mother? What if that same mother just happened to be the world’s most powerful sorceress and a necromancer to boot? At seventeen, Abigail Crumb wants no more than a normal life and a good cuppa tea, not that difficult to find in 1850 London. But when Abby receives...

A powerful necromancer. An unexpected ally. The wild, wild west has never smelled so . . . um . . . sweet? When Abby Crumb finally meets up with her mother, her situation goes from disturbingly violent to utterly rotten. Stuck in a mining camp in the middle of nowhere with a family...

The definitive guide on everything one needs to know about commissioning contemporary art In an age of blockbuster exhibitions and public art projects, the most exciting artworks are often those that have been specially commissioned for a specific site or event. This invaluable guide reveals...

Miss Loveday Brooke was one of the of the very first fictional female detectives -- an unheard-of profession for a woman in Victorian London. This volume collects seven of her classic adventures: "The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step," "The Murder at Troyte's Hill," "The Redhill...

This brief illustrated piece gives the history and lore of the hand fan.

Monolingual, monolithic English is an issue of the past. In this collection, by using cinema, poetry, art, and novels we demonstrate that English has become the heteroglossic language of immigration – Englishes of exile. By appropriating its plural form we pay respect to all those who have been...

Noël ne sera pas Noël si on ne nous fait pas de cadeaux, grommela miss Jo en se couchant sur le tapis. — C’est cependant terrible de n’être plus riche, soupira Meg en regardant sa vieille robe. — Ce n’est peut-être pas juste non plus que certaines petites filles aient beaucoup...