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The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: 1874-1920: Years of Adventure is the first volume of the former President's autobiography, published in 1951, detailing his early life, rise as a world-renowned mining engineer, and pivotal role in international relief efforts during and...
In The Way of the Cross, Caryll Houselander accomplishes two things: first, by her imaginative re-creation of the Passion and Death of Our Lord, realized with intensity, detail, and depth, she brings a drama of anguish and tragedy to our immediate awareness; secondly,...
Madeleine Verchere's story is based on a true account of colonial French Canada of the 1690's. Harassed by Iroquois, the Verchere family's fort (seigneury) must keep a continual guard. 14-year-oldMadeleine is left alone with two younger brothers and few others when the...
Winifred Fortescue was born in Suffolk in 1888. At the age of 17 she decided to help the family's ailing resources by taking a career on the stage, and starred in a number of productions. In 1914 she married John Fortescue, the King's Librarian and Archivist, and in...
A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to modern sporting rifles and how to use them, cartridges for small, medium and big game, barrels, stocks, sights, scopes, shooting techniques, where to hit them, modern shotguns and how to use them, double, pump, automatic,...
The tenderly funny story of a modern girl's growing up. Cress Delahanty, growing up on a California ranch, might have been you at sixteen, your teenage daughter or niece, or the girl next door. You will watch her progress, as her parents did, with amusement and an...
Vo Nguyen Giap, Southeast Asia's most successful Communist general, Minister of Defense and Commander in Chief of North Vietnam's army, shares with Premier Khrushchev a conviction that the future holds many "just wars of national liberation." This volume stresses the...
In ''Deep Is the Hunger,'' Howard Thurman explores the profound yearning within the human soul for connection, meaning, and spiritual nourishment. Through a collection of meditations and reflections, Thurman delves into the depths of the human experience, offering...
The Unknown Conan Doyle. This volume includes thiry-three stories, ten of them never previously identified as the work of Doyle, which appeared in periodicals between 1879 and 1930. Beginning with his first story—The Mystery of Sasassa Valley (1879)—to the posthumous...
The Golden Ham, first published in 1956, recounts the career of entertainer and comedian Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) from his beginnings in show-business to the mid-1950s when he was at the peak of his early success withThe Honeymooners. In his foreword, author Jim...
A novel about the discovery of a sunken city of Atlantis by a team of explorers led by Professor Maracot. He is accompanied by Cyrus Headley, a young research zoologist and Bill Scanlan, an expert mechanic working with an iron works in Philadelphia who is in charge of...
Originally published in 1556, Agricola's "De Re Metallica" was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation--what today we would call the "scientific method." It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate...
From the foreward -- Every citizen has a duty to learn more about the menace that threatens his future, his home, his children, the peace of the world - and that is why I have written this book. Communism is more than an economic, political, social, or philosophical...
In "On Being Ill," Virginia Woolf explores the intricate relationship between illness and consciousness, presenting a poignant meditation on the human experience of sickness. Written with Woolf's characteristic lyrical prose, the essay navigates the often-overlooked...
"What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Southern Cooking" is a cookbook published in 1881 by former slave Abby Fisher who moved from Alabama to San Francisco. A wonderful collection of 160 authentic and tasty recipes of the Old South. It is one of the first cookbooks written by...
Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located one of the last surviving captives of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. Hurston, a known figure of the Harlem...
Ehrengard is a delightful fairy-tale set in the early nineteenth century in the grand Duchy of Babenhausen. The story revolves around the desire of the court portrait painter, Herr Cazotte, to seduce Ehrengard, maid-of-honour to Princess Ludmilla. The artist's ambition...
First published in 1931, ''Alter Your Life'' by Emmet Fox is the self-help classic explaining the relationship between thought and reality. It asserts that the mind is the starting point of all action and experience. The ideas we hold, the beliefs we nurture, and the...
This espionage thriller with a love twist, “Without Armor” also known as “Knight Without Armour,” is a gem every bit as good as James Hilton's “Lost Horizon'' and “Random Harvest.” Marlowe, initially a journalist, is recruited by British intelligence due to his fluency...
This is one of the darkest of the Billabong books, as Norah and Wally’s gaily adventurous spirits come up against real pain... In the aftermath of sending a brutal man to prison... Wally starts to suffer from “nerves”—in other words, depression. Norah takes him and...
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