Anna Fields

This classic book contains the first installment of Annie F. Johnston's eponymous children's series, "The Little Colonel". It is a semi-biographical story of a girl who becomes known as the little Colonel due to her bullying, which resonates with the personality of her grandfather, a former colonel on the confederate side. A charming and timeless tale, "The Little Colonel" would make for a great addition to any family collection, and is not to be...

It! is a smart, hip handbook on how to become a major player in any professional or social circle. Well-known New York Post columnist Paula Froelich goes to some of the top fame experts in the country to provide listeners with the keys to their success.

Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time. Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village resisting an arranged marriage. The Potts are a family of ex-patriots trying to cobble a life together, at odds with one another and the world. Two young tourists engaged to be married confront each other's weaknesses for the first time,...

Carly grew up in the late twentieth century in the home of her independent mother. Scarred by a childhood trauma, Carly decides to face her fears head on by joining the Army, where she finds love. Wounded, she is sent home to Ivy Manor and the care of three generations of women who endured their own types of war.

This is the first of six Pulitzer Prize-winning volumes on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson written by distinguished historian Dumas Malone. It is based on vast sources, which cover Jefferson's ancestry, youth, education, and legal career; his marriage and the building of Monticello; the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the Notes on Virginia; his rich, fruitful legislative career; his highly controversial governorship; and his...

This lushly detailed historical novel tells the story of the tenth-century Byzantine princess Theophano, who ruled as Empress during the last days of the Roman Empire. Her story is told through the eyes of her companion and advisor, Aspasia, a widow and a royal princess in her own right. At 18 years old, Theophano is sent to become the wife of Otto II, the Holy Roman Emperor, and must win the devotion of her new husband and people. Meanwhile, Aspasia...

Sofie’s a young Greek-American woman working and living in Astoria, Queens. If you’d asked her a few months ago what she’d be doing now, she’d have replied, “I’m going to be married to the man of my dreams and working at my father’s Greek restaurant. Or maybe my grandfather’s Greek restaurant.”

But that was before Sofie caught the groom doing a lot more than kissing the maid of honor moments before the wedding. Before she punched

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Kamoj Argal, young ruler of an impoverished province, is forced into marriage with a mysterious stranger from a distant planet, throwing her world into utter chaos.

The legendary “Love Goddess” was a huge box-office star, and her sultry beauty and sensational figure turned her into the ultimate sex-symbol. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. Extremely shy as a child, Rita Hayworth was forced by her vaudevillian father to be his dancing partner—and he abused her as well. Her need for protection led her into five disastrous marriages. If This Was Happiness...

Sauscony and Jaibriol, in exile on a deserted planet with their children, find that the fate of much of the known universe rests on the shoulders of their fragile young family. Interstellar war erupts, and Jaibriol is snatched away to the Highton Aristos.