From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

Opera tra le più amate della letteratura di tutti i tempi, "I dolori del giovane Werther" venne pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1774 e subì un secondo rimaneggiamento che gli diede forma definitiva nel 1782. Immediatamente fece del venticinquenne avvocato francofortese uno dei più famosi scrittori europei. Semplice solo in apparenza, l'opera di Goethe nasconde in realtà notevoli difficoltà e vaste problematiche che la critica ha discusso e messo in evidenza: dalle ambivalenze romantiche notate da Mittner al velato e ammiccante umorismo messo in luce da Chiusano, dalla descrizione di aspetti più legati alla rappresentazione del mondo familiare e sociale alle insistenze sul solipsismo del protagonista.

Jeanette, orfano sensibile, intelligente e ribelle, viene adottato da una famiglia di evangelisti e cupo nord industrializzato della Gran Bretagna. La sua infanzia diventa un mix surreale di prediche, catechismo, rantolo di tamburello in chiesa orchestra e l'adattamento tardi per i rigori del sistema educativo. Tuttavia, come l'adolescenza Jeanette si avvicina, una carriera missionario di iniziare a preparare i genitori a perdere la loro aura, i giovani scoprono la loro sessualità a tutti gli ortodossi e il silenzio la famiglia va in pezzi. Jeanette dovrà scegliere tra la verità e la verità della Bibbia anima lei e coraggiosa decisione che sarà l'inizio di un percorso tortuoso tra punti di riferimento originali e insolite del destino

In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid.

In the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's wrought - perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching. Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to be found: The Twin Alders. If they are going to find it before the Solstice and cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it, they will need to journey beyond the dangerous mist-cloaked forest that surrounds their kingdom. And the only one who can lead them there is the monster that shares Elspeth's head. The Nightmare. And he's not eager to share any longer.

In this steamy cowboy romance, a grumpy ranch owner and a sunny horse trainer must learn to work together—the second novel in the Silver Pines Ranch series.Wade Ashby doesn’t let anyone in. With the death of his father and his failed marriage, plus the weight of the family business on his shoulders, Wade has plenty to deal with. He thrives on being the one constant and steady thing in his family’s life and on their ranch, Silver Pines.Ivy Spencer knows two things for Animals make better friends than people and she can only count on herself. After a turbulent childhood and a string of bad luck since, Ivy is excited to start fresh at Silver Pines Ranch and live out her dream of training a racehorse en route to the Kentucky Derby. Wade needs help on the ranch, but with two entirely different views on how to train his star horse, it makes absolutely no sense why he allows her to stay on. She’s chaos and he’s control, but it doesn’t take long for the levee to break and their passion to ignite.