| Wuthering Heights *Original Version*
| Wuthering Heights is a gothic novel, and the only novel by Emily Brontë. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte.The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective; wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine E...More
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| Daughter of Time: A Time Travel Romance (The After Cilmeri Series)
| A medieval man with an uncertain destiny, Llywelyn, the Prince of Wales, faces treachery and deceit at the hands of friends and foes alike ... A modern woman with a troubled past, Meg's life is in tatters when she slips through time and into medieval Wales ... Only by working together can Meg and Llywelyn navigate the shifting allegiances that threaten the very existence of Wales--and create their own history that defies the laws of time. Daughter of Time is a stand-alone prequel to...More
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| Best Foot Forward: A 500-mile Walk Through Hidden France
| A touching and inspiring tale of the Texan pioneering spirit, English eccentricity, and two women old enough to know better. When Susie Kelly decides, on a whim, to trek alone across France from La Rochelle to Lake Geneva, she entrusts her French farmhouse full of assorted animals to a total stranger from San Antonio, Texas. For each of them it will be a life-changing experience. Both will find their resourcefulness and ingenuity tested to the limit as, in their own ways, they explore and enjoy ...More
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| George & The Magic Radio
| “Hi, I’m George. I’m 10 and a half years old. I live in London, where I just had the coolest adventure ever. Let me tell you about it. Well, I bought this old radio you see, a 1930s radio from a shop where I live. Incredibly, the radio turned out to be, well, like it says in the title, magic! The first night I used the radio something amazing happened. It turned out to be a time machine. I was whizzed from the year 2010 all the way back to 1951! Well you can imagine how shocked I was. Unfo...More
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| Tea is for Terror (The Claire Gulliver Mysteries)
| A Claire Gulliver MysteryThe first book in the Claire Gulliver Mystery series, Tea is for Terror, finds Claire co-sponsoring a tour of England with her friend and travel book author, Lucy Springer. Lucy’s latest book, An Armchair Traveler’s Adventure, and the tour, are aimed at wannabe travelers who haven’t yet ventured out of the United States. The “untour,” as they call it, follows the book’s agenda, testing the itinerary while verifying the data contained in the manuscript for the...More
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| How I Travel to Europe Every Year on a Teacher's Salary
| Every year I travel to Europe, and I do it on a teacher's salary. This short guide will give you all the tips and tricks I use to manage to travel on such a tight budget in a no-frills format. Every tip in here is easy to implement and, most importantly, every tip works!What others have to say: The first trip I ever took abroad, with my dear friend Kristie Dean was to England and Scotland. I wanted to go to Ireland, but the airfare for this trip was absolutely incredible & could not be passed up...More
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| Eat, Pray, Love
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| Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| Bumped to Berlin
| It all started with a dream. During a semester abroad in Europe, Savannah Page visited Berlin, got lost in a former East German neighborhood, and made a discovery…and a promise. She was enamored of the multikulti city that offered her everything she wanted in a home: big city-life, rich history, on continental Europe, and a diverse community. She was determined to call Berlin home some day.Five years later, she and her husband found themselves making the giant jump from the heart of America in...More
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| Rick Steves' Paris 2012
| You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the City of LightParis.With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll explore the grand Champs-Elysées, the eye-popping Eiffel Tower, and the radiant cathedral of Notre-Dame. Learn how to save money and avoid the lines at the Louvre and Orsay Museums. Enjoy the ambience of Parisian neighborhoods, and take a day trip to the glittering palace of Versailles, or to the Champagne-soaked city of Reims....More
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| Rick Steves' Italy 2012
| You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Italy.From the beaches to the Alps, from fine art to fine pasta, Italy has it all. With this book, you’ll trace Italian culture from Rome’s Colosseum to Michelangelo’s David to the bustling elegance of Milan. Experience the art-drenched cities of Venice and Florence, explore the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum, and learn how to avoid the lines at the most popular museums. Discover the vil...More
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| The Mystery of Edwin Drood
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| Lessons From Madame Chic: The Top 20 Things I Learned While Living in Paris
| Have you ever wondered what everyday life is like inside a modern, aristocratic Parisian household? The French are notoriously secretive when it comes to their private lives but Jennifer L. Scott’s Lessons from Madame Chic: The Top 20 Things I Learned While Living in Paris, uncovers the very secrets and lifestyle traits that allow Parisians to live such fulfilling and passionate lives. Each chapter reveals a valuable lesson Jennifer learned while living behind Famille Chic’s doors in the e...More
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| A Tramp Abroad (Penguin Classics)
| Twain's account of travelling in Europe, "A Tramp Abroad" (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, "A Tramp Abroad" includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an...More
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| Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities
| A chic and humorous visual homage to two of the world's most iconic cities. When Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, Paris versus New York, he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet-it garnered more than a million and a half page views in just a few months, and the attention of savvy online critics. Now Muratyan presents his unique observations in this delightful book, featuring visually striking graphics paire...More
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| Made in Italy
| Frank Avetta, an ex-Olympic cross-country skier weary of the glitzy Aspen scene, is short on friends and money. He inherits a ruined farmhouse high in the Alps, and goes to Italy to sell it and make a quick buck. Once there, he meets a feisty innkeeper and a striking art historian who open his eyes to the possibilities of his ancestral home, a valley with a culture stretching all the way back to the original Paleolithic tribes. Caught up in a battle among preservationists, real estate developers...More
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| Summer Secrets
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| Sleeping with Paris
| *Sleeping with Paris won first place in the Women’s Fiction category of the 2010 Washington Romance Writers Marlene Awards and was a finalist in the 2010 Valley Forge Romance Writers Sheila Contest.Charlotte Summers is a sassy, young French teacher who is two days away from moving to Paris with the love of her life and from fulfilling her dream of studying at the prestigious Sorbonne University in France. But when she discovers her fiancé’s online dating profile and has a little chat with t...More
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| Footsteps in Time: A Time Travel Fantasy (The After Cilmeri Series Book One)
| In December of 1282, English soldiers ambushed and murdered Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales. His death marked the end of Wales as an independent nation and the beginning of over seven hundred years under the English boot.Footsteps in Time is the story of what might have happened had Llywelyn lived. And what happens to the two teenagers who save him.Footsteps in Time is the first book in the After Cilmeri Series. Other books in the series include Book Two, Pr...More
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| History of Julius Caesar
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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