We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Muddy Waters invented electric blues and created the template for the rock and roll band and its wild lifestyle. Gordon excavates Muddy's mysterious past and early career, taking us from Mississippi fields to postwar Chicago street corners.
Welcome to Eureka, Colorado, a small town with a big heart--and a cast of characters as homespun as their community and as beloved as family... With preparations for the annual Founder's Day pageant underway, Eureka is bustling with activity when bank teller Shelly Frazier's sister shows up with a reporter in tow. Shelly has a past no one in Eureka knows about, except her husband Charlie--and she's not eager to share it now that she's made a whole new life for herself as a wife, mother, and enthusiastic volunteer for the local historical society. That said, if anyone is going to tell the story of her days as a media darling, it will be Shelly herself. But she's not the only one wrestling with questions or looking for answers... While a private investigator is looking for clues to the whereabouts of the swindler mayor Lucille used to date, Maggie Clark is wondering if new husband Jameso is really ready for a lifetime commitment. And Cassie Wynock is all-too-willing to share her family's history with the wider world. Soon enough, the entire town of Eureka will also have to face its past--caverns, ghosts, and all--to understand where the future is going to take them...
When private detective Ransom Stone embarked on the investigation of a missing congressional intern, he suspected the trail would lead to murder -- only not his! Suspended on Earth as a ghost, he finds that he is capable of assisting Detective Tory Alston in her quest to find his murderer. That the two investigations would become linked is inevitable. With a tapestry of unexpected plot twists and a fair share of twisted characters in play, the story harkens back to the days of solid Noir fiction.
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
From beloved author Molly Harper comes the first novel in the contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, about a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town. Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia is the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. (What, you have a problem with one-stop shopping?) Two McCready brothers started two separate businesses in the same building back in 1928, and now it’s become one big family affair. And true to form in small Southern towns, family business becomes everybody’s business. Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. As an elite event planner, Margot’s rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society, and made elegance and glamour her business. She’s riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. Now she’s blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start—and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation. As Margot finds her footing in a town where everybody knows not only your name, but what you had for dinner last Saturday night and what you’ll wear to church on Sunday morning, she grudgingly has to admit that there are some things Lake Sackett does better than Chicago—including the dating prospects. Elementary school principal Kyle Archer is a fellow fish-out-of-water who volunteers to show Margot the picture-postcard side of Southern living. The two of them hit it off, but not everybody is happy to see an outsider snapping up one of the town's most eligible gentleman. Will Margot reel in her handsome fish, or will she have to release her latest catch?
Growing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George,and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at their school made the three boys aware of the opportunities available to them in the medical and dental professions, they made a pact among themselves that they would become doctors. It took a lot of determination—and a lot of support from one another—but despite all the hardships along the way, the three succeeded. Retold with the help of an award-winning author, this younger adaptation of the adult hit novel The Pact is a hard-hitting, powerful, and inspirational book that will speak to young readers everywhere.
The interwar British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning international espionage and intrigue. This comprehensive eBook presents the most complete edition possible of Oppenheim’s works in the US, with numerous illustrations, rare novels and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Oppenheim’s life and works * All 80 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Features novels not available in any other collection * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are illustrated with their original artwork * Rare short story collections * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Oppenheim’s rare non-fiction * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, later novels, story collections and the autobiography cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available in your public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels Expiation A Monk of Cruta The Peer and the Woman A Daughter of the Marionis False Evidence A Modern Prometheus The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown The Postmaster of Market Deighton The Amazing Judgment Mysterious Mr. Sabin A Daughter of Astrea As a Man Lives Mr. Marx’s Secret The Man and His Kingdom The World’s Great Snare A Millionaire of Yesterday The Survivor Enoch Strone A Sleeping Memory The Traitors A Prince of Sinners The Yellow Crayon The Betrayal Anna the Adventuress A Maker of History The Master Mummer A Lost Leader The Tragedy of Adrea The Malefactor Berenice The Avenger The Great Secret The Governors The Distributors The Missioner The Kingdom of Earth Jeanne of the Marshes The Illustrious Prince Passers By The Lost Ambassador The Golden Web The Moving Finger Havoc The Court of St. Simon The Lighted Way The Tempting of Tavernake The Mischief Maker The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton The Way of These Women A People’s Man The Vanished Messenger The Black Box The Double Traitor Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo The Kingdom of the Blind The Hillman The Cinema Murder The Pawns Count The Zeppelin’s Passenger The Wicked Marquis The Box with Broken Seals The Curious Quest The Great Impersonation The Devil’s Paw The Profiteers Jacob’s Ladder Nobody’s Man The Evil Shepherd The Great Prince Shan The Inevitable Millionaires The Mystery Road The Wrath to Come The Passionate Quest Stolen Idols Gabriel Samara, Peacemaker The Golden Beast Prodigals of Monte Carlo Harvey Garrard’s Crime The Interloper Miss Brown of X. Y. O. The Short Story Collections The Long Arm of Mannister Peter Ruff and the Double-Four For the Queen Those Other Days Mr. Laxworthy’s Adventures The Amazing Partnership The Game of Liberty Mysteries of the Riviera Aaron Rodd, Diviner Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat Hon. Algernon Knox, Detective The Seven Conundrums Michael’s Evil Deeds The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Cray The Little Gentleman from Okehampstead The Channay Syndicate Mr. Billingham, the Marquis and Madelon Madame and Her Twelve Virgins Nicholas Goade, Detective Miscellaneous Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Prince of Storytellers Tells His Own Story Who Travels Alone Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.
According to the cliche, California is the place where anything goes and everyone does their own thing. Maybe that's because everyone knows that in California there's no terra firma: earthquakes, mudslides, fires, and the occasional civil uprising cause constant upheaval and change. It is also legendary as fertile ground for creativity, freedom, and social consciousness, where the status quo undergoes constant renovation. This book is the first to capture the enormous body of distinctive and visually ecstatic graphic design that emanated from this great state throughout most of the twentieth century. Edited and designed by graphic designer Louise Sandhaus, this raucous gathering of smart, offbeat, groundbreaking graphic design from the Left Coast will amaze readers with its breadth and richness.