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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

John Lionel Stretton, born on 20th September 1860, was the third generation of surgeons in the family. Following his grandfather, William Birch of Barton-under-Needwood, he started his medical career as apprentice to his father, Samuel, in 1877, before...

Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand...

A prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her successes sparked his rage, Barbara silenced her voice for...

After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac...

In this startlingly funny and wonderfully honest book of essays, Mimi Schwartz describes what it means to be married for almost forty years. She writes with a keen and amused eye about growing up in an immigrant Jewish family, coming of age in New York...

As more and more people are discovering, Alzheimer's disease is the worst kind of thief. Over time, it robs those who suffer from it of the treasure of their memories and the sharpness of their minds. In The Long Good Night Daphne Simpkins chronicles the...

If your self-worth is at rock bottom or close to it, you may do what Jo did, and almost sell your soul in a desperate attempt to find some form of approval or love. This ended up in a relentless erosion of her self-worth due to compromising what was true...

This personal narrative about life in a remote desert region of western India tells of how love of place and love of person find their equilibrium in a world far removed from modernity. Yet this small, distant land of kingship and pastoral life is...

There are two kinds of classic car buffs: those who have restored an old car, and those who want to. For anyone who has looked at a rusty heap in a field and seen only the gleaming new machine it once was, the urge is powerful, but also intimidating...

Dorothy Dore was born in the Philippines to a British father who served there in the Spanish American War, and to a Filipina mestiza mother. This young woman was attending an exclusive private school when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941...

If you love EMILY IN PARIS, you will love Shay Stafford's adventures in the City of Light.Shayleen Ann Stafford was the middle child sandwiched between two sporting brothers. Her dad was a former rugby player and a welder by trade, her Mum was a nurse...

It's 1961 and deep in the Australian outback, the country town of Albury is about to go to war with itself. Putting fluoride in the water supply isn't exactly a straightforward proposition - in fact, it's a secret ploy by the communists to poison the...

ALL FOR MY CHILDREN is Sally Faulkner's unforgettable true story, showing how one Australian mother's life fractured in the moment she kissed her kids goodbye. This is a book Sally had to write, because it is the only way her children Lahela and Noah...

A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen Wilson grew up in Western Sydney. It was a tough childhood. Illegitimate, fatherless - her mother in and out of psychiatric hospitals; it would have been easy for anyone to despair and give up. Yet Gwen had hope. Despite it...

Born nearly deaf in a Chicago ghetto, Loren contends with poverty, drugs, prejudice, and terrifying violence. This murky landscape initiates his lifelong search for love, God, and truth. Answers to his insatiable curiosity about life, death, and war are...

The book is a memoir of a field surgeon written in the first person as it happened.  From his receipt of his draft notice until his return after the war, the book reveals William C. Kintner, Sr.'s epic struggles as a field surgeon.  A...

‘You know, if this is it, then I’m ready for Heaven. I’ve had a good life, have a wife and a beautiful family. I’ve known people who have been worse and they survived. So I’m not giving up. But I am a number now. When God...

Lynette Chennell delivers a compelling, multifaceted narrative that goes well beyond the recounting of her childhood traumas. Disturbed by something haunting, wailing from the very depths of her soul, she journeys through the dark tunnels of her hidden...

She suffered an unimaginable loss. Her journey back from darkness would make her whole again.Isolated in a small country town, Veronica is already struggling with motherhood, trapped under the yoke of an ordinary life. After her second daughter,...

Universal Predator is the incredible inside story of Esther Rockett's campaign to expose Serge Benhayon, the multimillionaire leader of Universal Medicine - a female-focused 'esoteric healing' enterprise marketing dubious services like Esoteric Breast...

John Newman's memoir about his entertaining life with theatrical star Tikki Taylor, and the establishment of the first theatre restaurant in Australia. Their careers paralleled the development of Australian theatre and the golden age of musical...

HOW IT ALL STARTED:TUESDAY JANUARY 1,1952THE MELBOURNE SUN'BABY STOPPED MOTHER'S FUN'Mrs Vida Willmott of Brighton went to a New Years Eve party with a group of friends but she did not stay till the end. At 11 o'clock Mr Willmott drove his wife to...

With sharp wit and keen insight, Bonnie J. Morris opens new perspectives on the gender and generation gaps on campus, exploring the negative stereotypes that keep many students from taking women's studies courses. Since 1993, the George Washington...

Sallyann J. Murphey and her husband did what a lot of us have dreamt of but never quite built up the courage to do. In 1990, Murphey, who was a successful BBC producer, and her husband, Greg, a commercial photographer, left their high stress, hectic life...

"You are a girl, you can't be a pilot." Those words resonated in Myriam's head throughout her teenager years while growing up in a small Swiss village. Nourishing her dream in silence, a dramatic event triggered the start of her commitment to turn her...

This is the life account of my happy but interrupted childhood in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (feudal system, fascism, post-war struggles with Tito's Yugoslavian Communism), my journey from my homeland to Germany and, finally, my immigration to Canada...

When Randall Jarrell died in 1965, he left behind a critically acclaimed body of poetry, fiction and literary criticism that has earned him a permanent place in American literature. In these seven essays, his widow writes lovingly and knowingly about the...

Title: The life and letters of Washington Irving.<br /><br />Author: Pierre Munroe Irving<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed...

""De Arcos a Roma en 1761"" es un libro escrito por Clemente Antonio de Baena en 1893. La obra relata un viaje que realiz������ el autor desde la ciudad espa�����ola de Arcos hasta Roma en el a�����o 1761. A trav�����s de sus p�����ginas, se describe el...

Davidis Humii De Familia Humia Wedderburnensi Liber (1839) est liber historico-genealogicus, scriptus a Davide Humio. In hoc libro, Humius describit historiam familiae Humia Wedderburnensis, una ex familiis nobilibus Scotiae. Liber continet genealogias...

Dassiana (1891) er en bok skrevet av Petter Dass. Denne boken er en samling av dikt, og er dedikert til Dass' kone, Dorothea. Boken best������r av 67 dikt som er delt inn i fire avdelinger. De fire avdelingene er ""Til Dorothea"", ""Til minne om min...

Das Buch ""Das Verbrechen Des Hochverraths"" von Wilhelm Ernst Knitschky wurde 1874 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine historische Abhandlung �����ber das Verbrechen des Hochverrats, das im 19. Jahrhundert in Deutschland begangen wurde. Der...

Das Buch ""Das Rothe Kreuz Im Weissen Felde"" wurde im Jahr 1867 von Robert Volz geschrieben. Es handelt sich um eine historische Erz�����hlung, die w�����hrend des Drei�����igj�����hrigen Krieges spielt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um eine Gruppe von...

Das Necrologium: Des Ehemaligen Augustiner Chorherren Stiftes St. Polten (1865) ist ein Buch von Theodor Wiedemann. Es handelt sich um ein historisches Werk, das sich mit dem ehemaligen Augustiner Chorherren Stift St. Polten besch�����ftigt. Das Buch...

Das Buch ""Das Mississippi-Gesenke"" von Eduard Pelz wurde im Jahr 1871 ver������ffentlicht und beschreibt die Landschaft und die Menschen entlang des Mississippi-Flusses in den USA. Pelz, ein deutscher Geologe und Naturforscher, bereiste den Fluss und...

Das Jahr der Kirche (1854) ist ein Roman von Ida Gr�����fin Hahn-Hahn. Das Buch erz�����hlt die Geschichte von zwei Schwestern, die in eine religi������se Krise geraten, als sie sich in denselben Mann verlieben. W�����hrend die eine Schwester sich...

A good life is when you smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realize how blessed you are for what you have.If you are an introvert or someone who experiences bouts of depression, do you want to laugh more and be more engaging with people in your...

Feeling so lucky to move into such a grand home, the family excitedly looked forward to a new chapter in their lives that beautiful autumn season. After all, a home is a haven and a shelter from the storm, or is it? For one unsuspecting family, this...

Journey of My Life started many years ago. My journey had great veils of years, but also many joyous memories. In my journey, I did not understand why a loving, caring, and gracious God would take a little girl's daddy at such a young age. What was the...

This book is about the times God has whispered to me. I called it “whispered” because no one else in the room heard him but me. I call the voice God’s because God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one.The words are the times God uses me...

The royalties that come from this book will go towards cancer-related social science research and provide financial assistance to cancer sufferers in Nepal. यो पुस्तकबाट उठेको रकम क्यान्सर सँग सम्बन्धित सामाजिक अनुसन्धान तथा नेपालमा भएका क्यान्सर...

If I'd Known I Couldn't, I Wouldn't've is a chronicle of a man's extraordinary journey from a farm in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase, where he lived without modern amenities, through struggles with dyslexia and hearing loss. Overcoming adversities, he...

Dr. Teresa Ethridge, a native Louisianian, was born on January 6, 1962. I arrived in the state of California in 1963, unfortunately, transitioning from a small town to the metropolis of Los Angeles came with many pitfalls. By the age of 16, I had been...

"The Christmas Door Prize" tells the story of a retired professional athlete coming to grips with changes in his personal life, he never saw coming. Follow this fascinating journey featuring issues ranging from teenage rejection, marital downfalls and...

Rogue Attorney tells the story of how County Office protocols allowed for my father's Last Will and Testament documents to be lost or stolen. This book lays out the entire case, complete with documents and public records, of my experience. I wrote this...