The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road) (163 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

An indispensable biography of the world's most famous detective from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Vincent Starrett In a boarding house at 221B Baker Street, a genius is at work. With the help of his tireless companion, Dr. Watson, the peerless Sherlock Holmes solves one impossible mystery after the next. Many of his adventures, such as "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Red-Headed League," are world famous, while others, including "The Adventure of the Tired Captain" and "The Singular Affair of the Aluminum Crutch," remain strictly private, simply because Watson cannot find the time to write them down. This glimpse into the secret case files of England's greatest detective is just one of the fascinating tidbits included in Vincent Starrett's landmark book of Sherlockiana. A founding member of the Baker Street Irregulars, Starrett enriches his meticulous research with a true fan's delight. Whether he is discussing Arthur Conan Doyle's real-life criminal investigations or detailing the layout of 221B Baker Street and its surrounding neighborhood, Starrett's deep appreciation for the stories and their inimitable hero is infectious. Countless companion volumes to the series have been published, but none offers as much insight and entertainment as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes does. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Genre: Essays & Correspondence

Intersections by Nicki Salcedo (Sentena Books) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Intersections are stories. I'm not a storyteller. I don't tell stories. Stories tell me. I've been told I'm not Southern, because I'm not Southern by birth or ancestry. But I want to be. I've lived some easy striking distance from Atlanta most of my life. There were those San Francisco years. I admit it. I left and brought my heart back with me. I came back for the trees and the grass and the stories. Intersections are connections. Intersections are people. Nicki Salcedo writes a weekly column called Intersections for Decaturish.com, a locally sourced news site based in Atlanta. Each week she watches the world and captures what she sees. She is drawn to opposites. When she sees snow and pollen, she looks for similarities. These columns are her observations. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always looking for a bit of goodness. Nicki is an Atlanta native. She is a novelist, blogger, and a working mom. Chances are good she is the room parent for your child's class at school, and she is doing a terrible job. Despite her West Coast education, she considers herself Southern by sensibility, if not by birth. Southern things include talking to ghosts, saying hello to strangers, and waving to drivers with nice manners. She loves Star Trek, football, poetry, church, romance novels. She will never ask for your permission or forgiveness. She finds something in common with just about every person she meets. That's the untold story. That's why she writes.

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100 (Because Lists Are Better In Triple Digits) by Thought Catalog (Thought Catalog Books) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

If you've ever wondered how to be a 20-something, you're not alone. Through articles, columns, and the lists that fly across our screens and social media feeds, we're bombarded with advice on how to be our best selves. But there's one list that smashes them all, and that's the list of 100 things. If you've ever needed advice on how to be happy, look at the world optimistically, annoy your significant other, be a woman, or apologize, there's something in this book for you.

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Lois' Little Essays by Lois Vidaver (9 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Deep in my junior year at Hunter College in New York City, I began the semester with a new professor in the Creative Writing department. By then, we students had all been through a course or two: yes, we had scripted a play and plumbed a poem or three."For your first assignment in this class," she announced, "I want you to write in a genre you had never tried before. Try something new."I took the assignment seriously, realizing with a start that I had never written an essay, so write one I would. Opinionated as I was, it seemed a natural. I do not even remember my theme. But I do recall her words several days later as she was returning our submissions."I received two essays," she stated, "and they were not good, not good at all." When I look back on it, I distinctly recall, or, given my over-active imagination perhaps, that she dramatically crossed the room and tossed the offending pages into the wastebasket beside her desk.I got the point. This from a teacher I thought I would like. After all, hadn't she declared on that first day of class that "I climbed into bed last night with John Updike," and gave an impish laugh. Well, did she or didn't she? I had harbored thoughts that this woman had possibilities of holding our attention.So much for getting out of one's comfort zone. Now I was really uncomfortable.Once in the publishing game, though I worked as a journalist for years, I kept my focus on writing feature articles for newspapers and magazines. Very few essays saw the light of day on my keyboard. Scared away? Youbetcha. It seemed strange then, that when we moved to Western New York, the "My View" section of the Buffalo News attracted my attention. I grew to look forward to reading those homespun tales of hometown heroes, travel anecdotes, aha moments and family reminisces, all encapsulated in 600 words. They ran the gamut of Life as We Know It.Being very much up on my venting, pouting, and yes, sentimental skills, I have written and published more than a few ...

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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 by Lewis Carroll (KTHTK) (1,429 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street London, Jack: The Call of the Wild Lovecraft, H.P.: At the Mountains of Madness Mann, Thomas: Royal Highness Maugham, William Somerset: Of Human Bondage Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick Poe, Edgar Allan: The Fall of the House of Usher Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa Sand, George: The Devil's Pool Scott, Walter: Ivanhoe Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Quo Vadis Sinclair, May: Life and Death of Harriett Frean Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle Stendhal: The Red and the Black Stendhal: The Chartreuse of Parma Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island Stoker, Bram: Dracula Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels Tagore, Rabindranath: The Home and the World Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina Trollope, Anthony: The Way We Live Now Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth Wallace, Lew: Ben-Hur Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine West, Rebecca: The Return of the Soldier Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray Xueqin, Cao: The Dream of the Red Chamber Zola, Émile: Germinal

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Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson (24 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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The Best American Series 2017: 16 Short Stories & Essays by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Mariner Books) (76 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. This special edition contains selections from the following 2017 editions: The Best American Short Stories edited by Meg Wolitzer The Best American Essays edited by Leslie Jamison The Best American Mystery Stories edited by John Sandford The Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Sarah Vowell The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Charles Yu The Best American Travel Writing edited by Lauren Collins The Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Hope Jahren The Best American Sports Writing edited by Howard Bryant Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. The special guest editor then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected - and most popular - of its kind.

Genre: Essays & Correspondence

Songs out of Doors by Henry Van Dyke (2 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

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Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Henry Van Dyke (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (14 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

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Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki (33 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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When William Came by Saki (63 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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