John Harding Libri

New England, 1891. È notte fonda nell'antica dimora di Blithe House. Per Florence, giovane orfana di dodici anni, è finalmente giunto il momento che aspetta con ansia. Attenta a non far rumore, sale le scale ed entra nella vecchia biblioteca. Nella grande stanza abitata dalla polvere e dall'abbandono ci sono gli unici amici che le tengano davvero compagnia, i libri. Libri proibiti per lei che non potrebbe nemmeno toccarli: da sempre le è vietato leggere. Così le ha imposto lo zio che l'ha allevata insieme al fratellino Giles. Ma Florence è furba e determinata e ha imparato a leggere da sola. Ha intuito che nei libri è racchiusa la strada per la libertà. Perché proprio in quella biblioteca, tra i vecchi volumi di Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot e Shakespeare, si nasconde un segreto che affonda le radici in un passato legato a doppio filo alla morte dei suoi genitori. Una terribile verità che, notte dopo notte, getta ombre sempre più inquietanti sulla vita di tutti…

Jack Kid Berg dominated boxing in the early 1930s like no other British-born boxer before or since. The Whitechapel Whirlwind features exclusive interviews with Berg in the years before his death in 1991, and makes deft use of eyewitness accounts, newspaper cartoons, statistics and photos of Jack's 200-plus fights.

Nick and Laura, a thirty-something couple married for 10 years, face turmoil in their relationship. Laura desires children as her biological clock ticks, but Nick is hesitant, feeling that having a child would add too much responsibility to their lives.

Frank Barson's story is one of hardship and hard-won fame. His strength in the tackle and prowess in controlled aggression earned him a reputation that lives on today. Rising from the factory floor to become a footballing giant, Barson lifted the fortunes of Aston Villa and Manchester United while earning more cautions than anyone before or since.

On an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific, Managua - the only native who can read or write - is busily translating Hamlet into pidgin English when a plane interrupts his noble work. Strapping on his false leg, he makes his way to the landing strip to greet the unexpected arrival: William Hardt, a young American lawyer driven by his misguided ambition to win reparations for the island's inhabitants. Hardt is not the first white outsider to pay a visit; the British came earlier, bringing their language, the small pigs that run wild in the jungle, and Shakespeare . . . and the Americans followed with guns, land mines, and Coca-Cola. But in this place of riotously logical ritual, Hardt's determined quest to do good could make him the most devastating visitor of all. Profoundly moving and achingly funny, One Big Damn Puzzler brilliantly explores the collision of the twenty-first century with unsullied pagan reality—and establishes John Harding as one of the most imaginative contemporary chroniclers of the human condition.

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher

The book traces the lineage of the Rounds and Pfeffer families, encompassing several related families such as Ballard, Cooper, and Whitaker. It highlights the Pfeffer ancestry, which extends back an impressive 39 generations to Duke Bernard Nase Narbonne, who was born in 795 AD in Jutland, Denmark. This extensive genealogical exploration provides a detailed account of familial connections and historical roots.

Exploring the influence of an Anglican parson, the book delves into the origins of Welsh Methodism and its impact on contemporary Evangelicalism. It highlights the parson's contributions to revitalizing the Welsh language, emphasizing its significance in both spoken and written forms. The narrative underscores the cultural and religious transformations that shaped Welsh identity and resilience through faith and language.