When Rachel, the beautiful widow of his cousin, arrives at his Cornwall estate, Philip Ashley is enchanted despite his doubts regarding his cousin's death, and must decide whether she's out to destroy him or is an innocent victim of suspicions.

After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. There she finds Patience a changed woman, downtrodden by her domineering, vicious husband Joss Merlyn. The inn is a front for a lawless gang of criminals, and Mary is unwillingly dragged into their dangerous world of smuggling and murder. Before long she will be forced to cross her own moral line to save herself.

An ambitious smalltown girl, unlucky in love, is called back home from New York City upon inheriting her eccentric aunt's estate, but the will is fraught with off-the-wall clauses involving work, family, and having to find a husband by next year.

"The bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning cohost of ABC's The Chew takes the intimidation out of cooking and shows you how to savor life fully every day with this gorgeous cookbook featuring more than 125 easy, healthy, and delicious timesaving recipes. For many people, especially those who aren¿́¿t quite at home in the kitchen, the idea of cooking a homemade meal can be terrifying, uninspiring, or just feel like a chore. In The Happy Cook,...

Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko try to save the library from the villain Romeo, who is using a nefarious machine to erase the text from library books and replace it with his own photographs.

"Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice, a behind-the-scenes player who enabled his plundering and helped him outpace his enemies. That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a well-to-do woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson in reinvention and resourcefulness. Twice widowed by twenty-one and operating within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century...

Extrait : "CHLORIS, AMINTE. Allons dans cette prairie : C'est un tranquille séjour ; Jamais les larmes d'amour N'y baignent l'herbe fleurie ; Les moutons y sont en paix, Et les loups n'y font jamais D'outrage à la bergerie." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares, dans les domaines suivants : • Fiction : roman, poésie, théâtre,...