Sixty Stories

Reducere. Open this book to all the joys and troubles, the triumphs and disappointments, of being an American girl. Here is the chance to read selections fro...

Reducere. The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic tale set in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet....

Reducere. DescriptionFinally it's time for Lauretta to get a new wheelchair. But she isn't satisfied with a regular 5- or 10- speed model. Nothing will do bu...

Horses + mystery + rescuing abused animals = a triple crown of perpetually popular preteen genres Thirteen-year-old Jasmine is found guilty of assa...

Reducere. Elder Orphan Care provides help and hope for older adults in need, both in western Romania, where our ministry was birthed, and in Rowan and Cabarr...

DescriptionFor 2, 000 years, men and women have been following Christ. Since 1900, the Catholic Church has recognized over 650 of them as Saints an...

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a celebrity--acclaimed as a leader in the feminist movement and castigated for h...

Reducere. Have you ever stopped to consider what the angels who look in on our lives might think? Angelicus is a collection of sixty-four poems, all of which...

Lawrence Block's new collection assembles seven works of fiction written over a period of sixty years. "Hard Sell, " a story ghost-written under Cr...

Reducere. Hot SEAL. Hot spy. Hot reunion. Can they work together to find a notorious terrorist without killing each other first? When SEAL Spencer Newman acc...

``A charming and challenging adventure.`` -- Wordplay, the Crossword Blog of The New York TimesAlice and her friends return for another romp throug...

Reducere. Looking for a quick & compact summary of each book of the Bible? See key information about all 66 books of the Bible at a glance with the compact h...

Reducere. Two great grandmothers find each other after sixty-five years and put their heads together to write and to illustrate a children's book with an edu...

Martin Sheen, best known for his role as a Catholic president in the prestigious television series The West Wing, returned to the practice of his C...

Reducere. Dear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, sixty-five years old in 1997, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in...

Horizons is a series specifically written for Caribbean readers aged 11-14 years. The stories are selected both for their appeal to young people an...

Reducere. Now you can color along with the master, Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light. And what could be better than coloring these paintings with the timeless...

Contributor(s): Author: Zakaria TamerWry, satirical, and bawdy, Zakaria Tamer's microfiction is always informed by his dark view of humanity and of...

Reducere. Whether you like sleeping among spirits or simply enjoy reading a good ghost story, Haunted Inns of the Southeast is your guide to ninety mysteriou...

Castles are the most familiar medieval landmark across the Irish countryside. Their often romantic appearance belies their turbulent history and th...

Reducere. Not unlike his literary forebearers Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover, Damian Dressick brings us a crackling series of dispatches fresh from the p...

Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time. After the tragi...

Initiation is a memoir that reflects on the moral and ideological changes of the last sixty years. Written in a perennial voice de Angeles, witch, ...

Reducere. Children ages 5-8 are introduced to God's special friends--the saints and blesseds--and are inspired for a lifetime! Spanning various cultures, his...

A literary masterpiece by a Polish traveller, aristocratic adventurer, political activist, ethnographer and publisherAlphonse, a young Walloon offi...

Reducere. "Start a story by Conan Doyle and you cannot stop reading, whether you are ten or sixty." -Michael Dirda "The immense talent, passion and literary ...

Reducere. President Russell M. Nelson, the seventeenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is sustained by millions around the worl...

Reducere. A piercing expos of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in ...

Reducere. With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors. Fitzgerald beg...

Reducere. Part fable, part folklore, The Fastest Hound Dog in the State of Maine is Yankee story telling at its very best. A man needs a dog to catch long-le...

Reducere. History and folklore abound in these twenty-five true stories about lost ships along North Carolina's storm-washed Outer Banks. Learn the haunting ...

Reducere. Hexagon Comics isn't merely Wampus, Zembla, Phenix, and the Strangers. For well over sixty years, they published a number of anthology comics in th...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the award-winning author of Washington's Immortals, The Unknowns takes readers into the heart of combat in the Great War to tell th...

New York Times Bestseller! Now a Netflix original series Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emi...

Reducere. The epic story that began with Heir to the Empire reaches its dramatic conclusion in this essential Star Wars Legends novel. The embattled Republic...

Reducere. From David Carr (1956-2015), the "undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist" (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bests...

Reducere. At sixty-six, Jake Walker thinks he's ready for some peace and quiet. He's a Vietnam veteran, former POW, recent widower, and retired SWAT team com...

Reducere. Inspiring, mystical, and often surprising Chassidic tales combine with teachings and favorite Jewish recipes to nourish body and soul. Stories and ...

Reducere. A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "...

Reducere. Planet Heartbreak is a compilation of sixty-two stories written by women who have experienced Wife Abandonment Syndrome - when a husband leaves wha...

Reducere. Have you ever needed a Bible lesson QUICK? This resource solves your problem. Super Simple Bible Lessons contains sixty Bible lessons covering both...

Damon and Johnny here. Motorsport's answer to Ant and Dec, just a lot more comprehensible and, all in all, a wee bit taller. Between us we have abo...

DescriptionFrom rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging ...

DescriptionScience world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about t...

Reducere. Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection un...

Reducere. "From the 1950s through the 1980s, John Dann MacDonald was one of the most popular and prolific writers in America. He was a crime writer who manag...

Reducere. In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened ...

At The Lucky Hand is an account of the different love stories that revolve around a very peculiar book: My Legacy, by Anastas Branica. At first gla...

Reducere. Put a little meow in your stocking with these tales of Christmas romance from four New York Times bestselling authors. Lora Leigh, Nalini Singh, Er...

Reducere. Here is a book to thrill and chill you! It brings together sixty-nine stories of haunted houses, ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, and other eerie...

Reducere. DescriptionBaby Boomer AlertGet ready for the next prime of your life Today we're living so much longer and more productively that age sixty has tr...

Reducere. Run Like A Girl is about the impact that participating in sports has on women--how the confidence and strength that it helps to build makes us stro...

Reducere. A giant in the field of illustration and children's books, Howard Pyle (1853-1911) published some 3, 300 illustrations during his thirty-five-year ...

Reducere. Daddy Is Still Here! is the back story to the author's first book of the Still Here series, Mama Is Still Here! This book is about a son in his for...

Reducere. This amazing book chronicles sixty plus years of a modern mystic's experience of the subtle worlds of spirit. Taking the attitude of a field biolog...

Although even today there are plenty of stretches of open, uninhabited space throughout South Dakota, literally just below the surface lies evidenc...

Reducere. A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Austra...

For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his "business." In A Cast of Friends, he offers an enga...

Reducere. Auschwitz/Birkenau, Kaufering, Dachau ... In 1945, Yacob (Jack) Adler was sixteen years old-the average age of an American high school student-yet ...

Reducere. DescriptionA memoir of Betty White's first five decades on television--as irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herself. Betty White f...

Over the decades, countless thousands have traveled to India's Maharashtra State to honor or worship Avatar Meher Baba at His Samadhi in upper Mehe...

When we don't place limitations or labels on who or what we must become by a certain age, we have the power to compose the most profound chapters i...

Reducere. In late 2018, in the wake of the Me Too Movement and midterm elections deemed the Women's Wave, two Harvard-educated woman writers, Kerry Garvin an...

Reducere. Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to sele...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this collection of almost sixty tales, Indians themselves--Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Seminoles, and others--tell us ab...

Reducere. In a career spanning nearly four decades, Bill Crider published more than sixty crime fiction, westerns, horror, men's adventure and YA novels. In ...

Reducere. New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize. Known internationally for his novels...

Reducere. Scientifically based and emotionally charged, this book demystifies the new epidemic, called 'Long Haulers Syndrome' in America and 'Long Covid' gl...

Reducere. "An astute and absorbing study of personal growth, human connection, and the nature of reality." -Kirkus ReviewsOn the cusp of sixty, after a lifet...

Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator ...