Enchanted Island Mysteries

Born to immigrant parents in Minnesota just before the turn of the century, Frances Frankowski grew up coveting the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel. And yet, decades later, when the women reconnect in San Francisco, their lives have diverged. Rosalie is a housewife and mother, while Frances works for the Office of Naval Intelligence and has just been given a top-secret assignment: marry handsome spy Ainslie Conway and move to the Galápagos Islands to investigate the Germans living there in the build-up to World War II. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor—from their friends, from their enemies, and even from each other—may be their undoing.

In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big city is no hero's journey. Ietsy loses himself in the immediate pleasures of body and mind. Weighed down by his privilege and the legacy of his name, Ietsy struggles to find a foothold. Only a return to the "Enchanted Island," as Madagascar is lovingly known, helps Ietsy stumble toward his destiny. This award-winning retelling of Madagascar's origin story offers a distinctly twenty-first-century perspective on the country's place in an ever-more-connected world.

A 40-year-old Witch with a New CareerA Gargoyle Sheriff Raising a Teenaged DaughterAnd an Enchanted Island Full of Secrets Someone on Enchanted Island is roaming around killing people, and it's up to Shayla, Needles, and Alex to stop him or her. But first, they need to figure out what kind of supernatural they're dealing with. Turning to Black Forest King for help...the crime-solving team learns the answer to their question is far worse than anything they imagined! Between setting a wedding date, moving houses, and comforting Zoie on her first big relationship issue, Shayla is struggling for control. Add in a killer the likes Shayla has never encountered before, and it's enough to send a witch over the edge! Can Shayla, Needles, and Alex take down this elusive monster before he strikes again somewhere on the island? Or will the citizens of Enchanted Island continue to live in terror?

Reproduction of the original: Tales o9f the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Reproduction of the original: Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Who was Shakespeare? In an intellectual sensation that went through three printings in the first year, a Moscow scholar presents a solidly documented work showing how, and why, the 5th Earl of Rutland wrote most of the Shakespeare oeuvre. Gililov has studied watermarks and printer's type, registration dates, and documented biographical details of Shakespeare contemporaries, considering the physical evidence as well as the personalities and motives of the suspects.