A 400-year-old puzzle, a modern-day hunt to the death.

Abandoned by her husband after receiving a fatal medical diagnosis.

"From between the two shuffling dancers padded something on four feet. The canine-feline creature was more than just a head; it was a loose-limbed, graceful body fully eight feet in length, and the red eyes in the prick-eared head were those of a killer.... Words issued from between those curved fangs, words which Dane might not understand....

Elegant and edgy, vixen is a tense tango cutting through the jungle of the urban underground.

Charlotte Bronte's Villette is the gothic tale of Lucy Snowe, who travels to the fictional town of Villette in Belgium to teach at a girl's school.

♥ "Victor’s cold!" An artful blend of story and play for pre-primary school kids♥

♥ "Victor’s cold!" An artful blend of story and play for pre-primary school kids♥

Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.

Utilitarianism is philosopher John Stuart Mill's defense and advocacy of utilitarian ethics.

Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin.

Nancy Whitney-Reiter survived the attacks of 9/11, left her job at a Fortune 500 company.

John Holt, the "grandfather" of homeschooling, shook up the education establishment.

Conrad reputedly wrote Under Western Eyes (1911) in response to Crime and Punishment, which he detested.

Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu.

Benj Gallander has among the highest short- and long-term returns in North America.

Uncle Vanya is one of Anton Checkov's four major plays.

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

A collection of poetry and short fiction by Benice Lever, Caroline Davidson.

Isabella L. Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveler, writer.