A dual language edition of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera’s masterpiece: set in Havana in the mid-19th century, the drama presents the obstacles to a mixed-race relationship between a son of the nobility and a woman of African ancestry.
When Judith Potts, a seventy-seven-year-old crossword setter, witnesses a brutal murder while swimming in the Thames, the local police dismiss her claims. Determined to uncover the truth, she embarks on an investigation, joined by a dog-walker named Suzie and the Vicar's wife, Becks. Together, they form the Marlow Murder Club, quickly realizing that they are entangled in a dangerous game with a real-life serial killer.
First published in 1883, Howard Pyle's "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" is arguably the most popular rendering of the legend of Robin Hood, the yeoman-thief of Sherwood Forest.
When Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved Southwestern desert threatened by industrial development, it’s up to him to take the noxious bull by the horns.
With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the background of conflict, analyzed the emotional climate at the time, pointed up the social and military organization in Utah, and revealed the forces which culminated in the great tragedy at Mountain Meadows.