Christmas at Maplewood will be special this year... Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy are celebrating Christmas in Meryton at Maplewood Stables, this time with their infant twins by their side. It is a momentous holiday, as Elizabeth's family will be meeting George and Emma for the first time. They are all filled with Christmas joy at the prospect of spending the season with the newest members of the family. But a stranger has different plans for the Darcys when they arrive in Meryton... One week before Christmas, a strange man shows up on the door step of Maplewood, claiming he has the legal rights to the farm that Elizabeth has grown to love. The fear of losing their second home and Elizabeth's dear horses quickly casts a pall of fear and disappointment over their visit. Who is this man? And can he truly take away Maplewood? Christmas at Maplewood brings a bit of mystery to the holiday season, along with unexpected surprises and plenty of Christmas cheer!

Elizabeth Bennet was hoping for a quiet Christmas… When Elizabeth elected to spend the holiday with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner, she thought it would be just the tonic she needed after a vexing year. But when an unexpected discovery in the woods and a snowstorm lead her to Fitzwilliam Darcy’s door, Elizabeth finds that she may get exactly the Christmas she needs… Even if it is a Christmas she never imagined. Dreaming of a Pemberley Christmas is a sweet and clean holiday Pride and Prejudice variation full of seasonal cheer, unexpected gifts, and a dash of romance!

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.

Rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness

An enthralling virtuoso debut that eloquently captures the loves and losses of a dying man 'All the elements of great storytelling are here, the mystic transports of Ben Okri with the intimate charm of Arundhati Roy ... enchanting' Sunday Tribune 'Beautifully captures with great tenderness and depth the eternal war between duty and desire. This is a love letter to Bombay and its people' Sunday Express Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold - the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy as his life draws to a close.

A collection of essays which attempt to capture the raw emotions and candid words which often surround race relations in the United States.