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I imagined him in his beloved Brooklyn, strolling in Prospect Park and preaching to chance comers about his gospel of good books."When you sell a man a book," says Roger Mifflin, the sprite-like book peddler at the center of this classic novella, "you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and i...

Volume 1 of the classic narrative of the voyages of Captain James Cook, the British explorer and naval officer, aboard HMS Endeavour....

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally impor...

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All's quiet on Granny and Grandad's farm as night falls. But Tim's Ted is missing and Tim can't sleep without him...This wonderful story of a torchlit midnight adventure, within the comforting surroundings of Tim's grandparents' farm, will thrill children and is perfect for reading aloud with its rh...

The watch Aunt Beatrice has given Bernard is no ordinary one. When it stops, everything stops. It's a neat trick if you want to finish your homework in a hurry, but it does more than that. Ages 8 to 12....

Piglets love bouncing in the mud. Bounce! Bounce! Bounce!...

Excerpt from Twenty-Second Lincoln Birthday Service: Memorial Hall, Chicago, Saturday, February 12th, 1921, 2: 30 O'clock P. MMr. Loesch: Mr. President, and ladies and gentle men: I appreciate the honor very highly of being asked to deliver the address of the day and I hope that it will be of a char...

Excerpt from The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, Vol. 6: January-December, 1878 M. Gamma, the inventor of the well known magneto-electric machine, has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Twenty years ago, M. Gramme was, we believe, an carrier.About the PublisherForgotten Books ...

Excerpt from The Johns Hopkins Medical School: Established by the Johns Hopkins University in Connection With the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; Announcement for 1894-95Applicants for admission will receive blanks to be filled out relating to their previous courses of study.About the P...

"Think with the few and speak with the many," "Friends are a second existence," and "Be able to forget" are among this volume's 300 thought-provoking maxims on politics, professional life, and personal development. Published in 1637, it was an instant success throughout Europe. The Jesuit author's t...

Trying to avoid his day-to-day struggles and unable to remember his life before nuclear war, Chaos attempts to live as one of the mutated survivors, until he is told that the bombs never fell and sets off on a journey for the truth. Tour....

Following on from We Are Celtic Supporters, Richard Purden tackles a variety of subjects in his second book Faithful Through and Through. Here he takes a fresh look at the people who have added to the wider culture, reputation and traditions on and off the park which have strengthened Celtic's posit...

Celebrating a half century of design in posters, flyers and advertising ephemera, The Art of British Rock highlights the UK’s distinct contribution to rock’n’roll graphics. From custom designed posters for provincial ballrooms in the late 50s to the computer-generated images of today, rock music ill...

Miriam Hastings has her future plans in place...But Trygve Knutson is intent on changing them.Just a few short weeks into her year-long training at the Blessing Hospital, Miriam Hastings is called home to Chicago, where her mother is gravely ill. With siblings to care for, Miriam pleads to be allowe...

Night's Landing by Carla Neggers released on Apr 25, 2006 is available now for purchase....

When we are stressed in any given situation our brain engages fight, flight or freeze. This ancient shut down response switches off all other internal activity. This protected our gene pool from vicious predators and savage attacks. As we fall down into the brain's primitive Limbic System, we experi...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

Catherine is struggling with an aging mother whose dementia causes contrasting moments of incoherency and vivid clarity. In one of those clear moments, her mother begins to unlock the truth of Cat's biological father. At the heart of this story is Cat’s need for connection to her family of the past ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preservin...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally impor...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally importa...

Additional Contributors Are T. C. Chao, King-Chau Mui, O. K. Yui, And Others....

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so th...