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This is the story of the author's escape to Vietnam a few years ago. She was living in great comfort in middle-class Surrey, the green belt of South London but life had become intolerable... So, one day, she just took off to Vietnam with...

Laurence (Larry) Hanna, author, grew up on a farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression and the Dust Storms of that era. He has compiled short stories of incidents in his life as well as in others during that time. He served his country...

The darkest of nights and the fiercest storms only come to make us stronger. Often times the gravity of our trials attempt to eclipse our faith and shake the foundations of our greatest belief. The trauma of tragedy can be devastating but as with...

When Diana Richards Golden went for a routine doctors visit, she learned she had borderline diabetes and hypoglycemia. If she didnt change her diet, shed probably get full-blown diabetes. Golden, who loves baking and making sweets, knew shed fallen into some bad eating habits....

This is a true story from deepest Africa. In 1954 a healthy baby girl is born in unusual circumstances and her mother dies, never regaining consciousness. Neither is able to make even the briefest eye contact with the other despite having been as one...

Southern aristocrat, mayor of Savannah, congressman for three terms, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, James Moore Wayne made love of the federal union the governing principle of his political and judicial career. Here is shown the impact of this southern...

Author: John F. MerchantISBN-10: 1469164833ISBN-13: 9781469164830Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/23/2012Pages: 578Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.29d

This is the story of a young woman (the author) who knew next to nothing about homosexuality, and a young minister (Maurice) who suppressed his homosexuality for 55 years. It is about their friendship, love, marriage, and eventual revelation of his homosexuality. It is...

This book is in homage to Flora Tristan, the great pioneer of the first years of the 19th century. She was more than the first feminist, she was the pioneer of the worker's demands against the injustice of the factorie's owners in the industrialization...

"Evelyn Peterson was a most remarkable and courageous woman. Born with a hereditary muscular disease she was forced to spend almost all her life in a wheelchair. This disability, however, in no way affected her intelligence or her determined motivation to achieve the best...

Since Frédéric Chopin's untimely death at the age of thirty-nine, all of his numerous biographers have concluded he suffered from the ravages of tuberculosis. This ingrained belief has become so much a part of the enduring legend of his fascinating life that the bold...

Author: Kodell ParkerISBN-10: 1453501371ISBN-13: 9781453501375Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2010Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

This book is dedicated to those persons everywhere who seek to find true happiness. Especially those who are at the point of giving up but have not tried finding the love of their life on the Internet, or have ventured into cyberspace but are...

Author: Jack PuschISBN-10: 1450087256ISBN-13: 9781450087254Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2010Pages: 62Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Author: Ailiang Xie,Ben Dempsey BaISBN-10: 1450096395ISBN-13: 9781450096393Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2010Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

This book tells the events that lead to my husband's death. He passed away July 30, 2009 at the age of 24 years old. He died as a result of testicular cancer. This book goes through his life before we met, our life togther,...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Gordon McNeil RushforthISBN-10: 1446070042ISBN-13: 9781446070048Publisher:...

This classic book contains the biography of the 19th Century American novelist and short-story writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works...

Book about the National Parks by HORACE M. ALBRIGHT AND FRANK J. TAYLOR. Originally published in 1928. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION 1946: THE satisfaction and pleasure we have had in the continuing acceptance of this book by visitors to the national parks and...

The start of World War I is seen as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria but who came after him in the line of succession. This is fascinating historical love story of the couple thrust into the limelight of the most turbulent...

This title presents the European Reformation as seen through the life of an important but little-known participant--Philipp of Hesse, a nobleman who became a Reformation leader in Germany. The Reformation was the most cataclysmic event in Western Christianity. An ideal resource for undergraduate history...

Did you ever wonder what your ancestor's lives were like? This is an account of an actual family that homesteaded in Nebraska in the19th century. They struggled through a prairie fire, blizzards, dust storms and opposition to their very existence. Although they lived on...

I chose the title of the book because of our emotional ties to this particular tree...and because of the uniqueness of the Catawba tree, its strength, beauty and nurturing quality. The Catawba tree is the only tree whose leaves nourish the Catawba worm...fabulous fishing...

This book is not written by any great writer who wants to capture your attention with simple words. This book is written by a simple person who wants to capture you with the word of God. This book is what I was told in...

Author: Grace J. Nathan M. S.,John A. Friedman Ph. D.ISBN-10: 1436387450ISBN-13: 9781436387453Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2009Pages: 110Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Teri BrooksISBN-10: 1436310687ISBN-13: 9781436310680Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2008Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d

Author: James GuglielmoISBN-10: 143491769XISBN-13: 9781434917690Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2013Pages: 658Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d

Focusing on the power of media theories, the text explains, describes, interprets, and evaluates the Internet in insightful, useful, and thoughtful ways. An overview of the Internet's past and anticipated future is providedAuthor: Steve Jones,James W. Chesebro,David T. McMahanISBN-10: 1433123037ISBN-13: 9781433123030Publisher: Peter Lang Inc.,...

This is a story 'based on' the life of Doris Dixon who had a burning ambition to become a professional jazz singer during the 1930's. Doris came from a privileged English background and was highly educated with her parents expectations of her going into...

This is the story of a young man who was born in The East, grew up there and in the Pacific Northwest (USA), and was educated in Mexico, and the East Coast (USA). Thereafter, he trained to become a general surgeon in the Mideast...

Who I am Today - Who Was I Yesterday? As a young person, born and living in the freedom of America, I was innocent and harmless, living in a Jewish neighborhood more than 65 years ago. Although my parents escaped from Czarist Russia in...

The True Story of A Woman-Child who lost her ?Self? in the USA; Then found it, again, after two trips to UK. (With a lot of help from her friends). I survived an unhappy childhood, marriage with a controlling spouse, and even deportation from...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Alexandria Vodarsky-ShiraeffISBN-10: 140676812XISBN-13: 9781406768121Publisher: Kosta...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Ludwig MarcuseISBN-10: 1406770663ISBN-13: 9781406770667Publisher: Beston...

The history of the philosophers we know, but who will write the history of the philosophic amateurs and readers? Who will tell us of the circulation of Descartes, who read the book and who understood it? Or do philosophers, like the mythical people on...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Herman KleinISBN-10: 1406765988ISBN-13: 9781406765984Publisher: Klein...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: H. H. ChangISBN-10: 1406758183ISBN-13: 9781406758184Publisher:...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Charles R. McCabeISBN-10: 1406761516ISBN-13: 9781406761511Publisher:...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: H. F. M. PrescottISBN-10: 1406741965ISBN-13:...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: H. W. HeinsheimerISBN-10: 140673585XISBN-13: 9781406735857Publisher:...

This vintage book contains Alice Hegan Rice's wonderful little work, 'My Pillow Book'. This text is full of interesting, inspiring, and thought-provoking explorations of many different topics, including spirituality, philosophy, happiness, courage, guidance, forgiveness, and much more. A wonderful book to peruse at one's...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

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 States,...

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 States,...

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 States,...

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 States,...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

A short biography exploring the life and rise of the historical master of military science, Sun Wu (aka Sun Tzu). This book details how he took command over the kingdom of Wu's army, previously a semi-barbaric state, and helped them become a 'super-power' of...