Emily Wilson

Trapdoor spiders get their name from the trapdoor-like entrance they make to their underground burrows. Made of silk, soil, and plant matter, a trapdoor spider's habitat is an interesting study in bug behavior. Readers will be fascinated to learn all about the trapdoor spider through this volume, which is written to support elementary science curricula. The information-rich text explores the life of a trapdoor spider with a special focus on their...

"Inanna is an impossibility, the first full Anunnaki born on Earth in Ancient Mesopotamia. Crowned the goddess of love by the twelve immortal Anunnaki who are worshipped across Sumer, she is destined for greatness. But Inanna is born into a time of war. The Anunnaki have split into warring factions, threatening to tear the world apart. Forced into a marriage to negotiate a peace, she soon realises she has been placed in terrible danger. Gilgamesh,...

Green Smoothies: 100 Recipes for Your Daily Energy Boost (Detox Cure with Lasting Weight Loss & Feel-Good Effect) As a nutritionist, I am delighted to present my new book, "Green Smoothies: 100 Recipes for Your Daily Energy Boost (Detox Cure with Lasting Weight Loss & Feel-Good Effect)". This book is your ultimate companion on the road to a healthier, more vital lifestyle, full of flavor and joy. In my extensive collection, you will find 100 refreshing...

Emily Herring Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Eleanor Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1938, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped Roosevelt build a cottage on Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. There, the three women-the 'three graces,' as FDR called them-were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family,...

"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...

Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Passion is...

Photographer Holly Logan (Jana Kramer) returns to her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi for Christmas. The town is resurrecting their traditional holiday light show and now Holly must spend the next few days with the man who broke her heart.