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  Follow the Stars Home

  Diane C. McPhail

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  It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of the United States Capitol—fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Lydia is fiercely independent despite her youth. She's also accustomed to defying convention. Against her father's wishes, she married his much older business colleague, inventor Nicholas Roosevelt—builder of the New Orleans—and spent her honeymoon on a primitive flatboat. But the stakes for this trip are infinitely higher. 
   
   
   
  If Nicholas's untried steamboat reaches New Orleans, it will serve as a profitable packet ship between that city and Natchez, proving the power of steam as it travels up and down the Mississippi. Success in this venture would revolutionize travel and trade, open the west to expansion, and secure the Roosevelts' future. 
   
   
   
  Lydia believes herself ready for all the dangers ahead—growing unrest among native people, disease or injury, and the turbulent Falls of the Ohio, a sixty-foot drop long believed impassable in such a large boat. But there are other challenges in store, impossible to predict as Lydia boards that fall day. Challenges which—if survived—will haunt and transform her, as surely as the journey will alter the course of a nation . . .

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  Artists On Art - A Short Story...

  H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan...

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  Art. The greatest standard bearer of what the human condition really is?  Or Emperor’s Clothes, cheap gimmicks displayed as all-knowing? 
  When it comes to writing we have our favourite authors.  But what of the authors themselves. What are they keen to write of? 
  For our classic authors; from Poe to Lovecraft, from Woolf to Fitzgerald art in their words, is something to be admired.  From many angles, many views, their stories, their characters interact with art and the consequences fall as they may. 
   
  01 - Artists on Art - A Short Story Volume 
  02 - Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft 
  03 - The Mezzotint by M. R. James 
  04 - Psyche's Art by Louisa May Alcott 
  05 - Fun In An Artist's Studio by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  06 - Blue & Green by Virginia Woolf 
  07 - The Oval Portrat by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury -...

  Kinley Bryan

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  In 1913, a powerful and dangerous storm descends on the Great Lakes — and three sisters find their lives transformed amid the chaos in this "superb character-driven adventure" (Publishers Weekly). 
  Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream—to open a restaurant back home—but knows she'd never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life he loves. 
  In Sunny’s Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.S. Life-Saving Serviceman who died in an accident she believes she could have prevented. Burdened with regret and longing for more than her job at the dry goods store, she looks for comfort in a secret infatuation. 
  Two hundred miles away in Cleveland, the youngest sister, Cordelia Blythe, has pinned her hopes for adventure on her marriage to a lake freighter captain. Finding herself alone and restless in her new town, she joins him on the season’s last trip up the lakes. 
  On November 8, 1913, a powerful storm descends on the Great Lakes, bringing hurricane-force winds, whiteout blizzard conditions, and mountainous waves that last for days. Amidst the chaos all three women are offered a glimpse of the clarity they seek, if only they dare to perceive it. 
  Kinley Bryan's debut, a Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice, is inspired by actual events during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, as well as her own family history. "This is historical fiction at its best" (Molly Gartland, author of The Girl from the Hermitage).

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  Winds of the Old World: Book...

  Margot Langley

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  Winds of the Old World is a sweeping tale of forgotten realms, ancestral legacies, and the whispers of a past that still shapes the present. As the winds shift across crumbling cities and ancient highlands, a young scholar stumbles upon a hidden map that unveils the secrets of a civilization lost to myth. Drawn into a journey that spans haunted ruins, sacred forests, and age-old rivalries, they must decipher cryptic messages and face truths buried deep within bloodlines and time. Blending lyrical storytelling with rich world-building, Winds of the Old World captures the magic of rediscovery and the courage it takes to listen to the voices of those who came before. Ideal for listeners who cherish atmospheric fantasy, deep lore, and the timeless struggle between history and destiny.

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  The Ladies' Paradise

  Émile Zola

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  Step into the bustling world of "The Ladies' Paradise" by Emile Zola, where commerce and desire intermingle in a vivid exploration of capitalist ambition. Denise Baudu, a young saleswoman, arrives in Paris to find herself immersed in the glittering realm of a revolutionary department store. As she navigates ambition, love, and rivalry, Denise witnesses the triumph and turmoil of burgeoning consumer culture. Zola's masterful narrative unveils the seductive allure and societal shifts of a rapidly changing world.

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  The Custom of the Country

  Edith Wharton

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  The Spraggs, a wealthy family of Midwesterners, are visiting New York City to marry off their beautiful daughter Undine. While Undine's beauty catches the attention of several high-society men, she finds it difficult to fit in with the old-money social circles that rule New York. When she finally marries Ralph Marvell, she embraces a life full of frivolities, which eventually leads to her tumultuous demise. Best known for inspiring the hit series Downton Abbey, this classic novel is a scathing critique of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature.

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