Instead he is there for the long haul, bringing up his three children, and doing his best for his small community

    King Charles VII, Agnes Sorel - his mistress, Jaques Coeur - the king's moneyman - history's first great merchant prince.

    How could a prominent Washington attorney and top aide to the President of the United States during a contentious re-election campaign simply vanish?

    Historical novel playing in the eighteenth century: story of the pauper adventurer, bastard son of an English lord, who rose to power and position among the rulers of Europe by his sword, his wits and his charm: a journey from the gutters of Venice to the boudoirs and pleasure palaces of France and England and to the American continent: intrigue, romance and adventure.

    In the south of the island lies Port Victoria, dominated by the Governor’s palatial mansion; in the north, a settlement of mud huts shelter a hundred thousand natives; and in dense jungle live the notorious Maula tribe, kept under surveillance by a solitary District Officer and his young wife. When Chief-designate, Dinamaula, returns from his studies in England with a spirited desire to speed the development of his people, political crisis erupts into a ferment of intrigue and violence.

    In the first hard pinch of the Civil War, five siblings of an established Confederate Virginia family learn that their father is the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. The family's story, and the story of their descendants, is presented in this tale that includes both soldiers and civilians—complete with their boasting, ambition, and arrogance, but also their patience, valor, and shrewdness. The grandnephew of General James Longstreet, the author brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in history, and details war as it really is—a disease from which, win or lose, no nation ever completely recovers.

    Manning in her Afterword to this new paperback edition, is a jewel of American literature and deserves recognition as a masterpiece of the Southern Renaissance. It is a remarkably unsentimental look at the old South, a society that blindly holds to past values enforced by a strict code of conduct, being overtaken by the new age of industrialization.Ellen Glasgow's career-long attempt to expose the cruelty of the cult of beauty worship and the philosophy of evasive idealism that she saw as prevalent in the South's conversations, manners, customs, and literature reaches its zenith in The Sheltered Life.

    Kirsty Barnes, an orphan indentured to a lecherous old farmer, escapes from his advances with the help of her childhood sweetheart, Craig Nelson. With little money and still strangers to each other, they travel to Glasgow. Marriage takes second place to survival, although their fortunes improve when a churchgoing widow befriends Kirsty. Still not legally married, Kirsty gives birth to a son, and Craig establishes his reputation as a policeman. Ambitious and impatient to get on, Craig falls in with a gang of sly and vicious thieves and soon sinks into a life of drink and crime. Meanwhile, Kirsty has met the handsome and charming David Lockhart, a medical missionary soon to return to China. But she is bound by loyalty to Craig, a less than ideal husband who can only bring her hardship and heartbreak...

    Douglas, was an American minister and author. He was born in Columbia City, Indiana, spent part of his boyhood in Monroeville, Indiana, Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky, where his father, Alexander Jackson Douglas, was pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church. Douglas was one of the most popular American authors of his time, although he did not write his first novel until he was 50.

    He strikes in broad daylight, yet no one ever sees him.His target?Garden gnomes ...

    These memorable characters and their vital stories add up to a large-scale social chronicle of America, in what is perhaps the most ambitious work of O’Hara’s career. “The range of O’Hara’s knowledge of how Americans live was incomparably greater than that of any other ?ction writer of his time,” judged The New Yorker. “One would have to go back to Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Theodore Dreiser to ?nd a novelist who had even the intention of acquiring knowledge on the scale that O’Hara acquired it.”

    In this issue, he confronts "The Devil Genghis", a mad genius armed with incredible scientific inventions stolen from Doc Savage's "Fortress of Solitude". This volume reprints both appearances of Doc Savage's greatest enemy, the diabolical John Sunlight, and features the classic pulp cover art, along with the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban.

    It was Saturday and a half-holiday; it was that one day of all the year when the seasons change places when winter is visibly worsted and summer with warmth and relaxation bathing and tennis and motor trips in the moonlight becomes again a reality.

    He thirsted for money, power, and all the elegant and willing, hot-blooded women they could buy. He hadn't reckoned on Sharon and Esther. Sharon was shy but sensual, everything Pride had ever desired in a woman, and he knew he'd never stop loving her - not even when Esther came along. Esther was a passionate heiress with a body to match her fabulous fortune, an attractive stepping-stone to success whom he married for more than money and less than love, a sensuous predator who gave him everything he wanted - and made his life a living hell.

    Can Emily and Roger befriend these seeming upstarts without offending their own families and associates?