Alden: 218 books

Since his father’s death, Lawrence Hammond has cared for his mother and younger brother and sister, just as his father asked him to. Though he dreams of a college education, Lawrence knows his place is on the family farm, working hard to support the family he loves. Soon the farm prospers...

Christie Tucker’s parents have given her the most wonderful Christmas present ever. For the first time in her life, Christie will ride the train to town to spend Christmas Day with her rich Uncle Daniel and his family. For Christie, it’s a dream come true, and a day of surprises. For that...

Docia Myers just received the best birthday gift a girl could get: a new journal of her very own. Now, if only something exciting would happen in her life to write about!  In due course, wonderful things happen for Docia as she grows to womanhood in the arms of a loving Christian family....

Andrew Forbes is in love with Ilsa Harmon, but is he ready for marriage? With the impetuousness of youth, Andy asks Ilsa to marry him, and then sets out to prepare for their life together. He buys a ring and purchases a home . . . but he ignores every opportunity to ensure God is present at...

The subject of all these calls that needed instant attention was a girl of thirteen, Mag Jessup, little maid of all work in the boardinghouse of Mrs. Perkins. There was a time in her life, when she was called Margaret. I think her mother used that name when she first looked at her. Once, when she...

Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related by the poet and his characters,...

Jeremiah was born in Anathoth, about sixteen hundred and twenty years before the birth of our Saviour. Anathoth was one of the thirteen cities that were given to the priests in the time of Joshua. It was situated about three miles north of Jerusalem, within the limits of the tribe of Benjamin. Jeremiah...

It's Christmastime, 1950, in the affluent Manhattan suburb of New Canaan, Connecticut. Bennie Grant leaves her life as a trophy wife of a successful man to follow her dream of being a director on Broadway. The rub is a custody battle over her young daughter. There are hurdles: Will's meddling mother,...

Grounded in research, Vibrant Learning, focuses on language-rich, literacy-based, collaborative classrooms as the foundation for transforming content area learning. The authors emphasize three areas: (1) strategies to support student understanding of concepts, (2) ideas to encourage student engagement,...

Building on the success of the first edition, this revised volume re-invigorates the conversation between foreign policy analysis and international relations. It opens up the discussion, situating existing debates in foreign policy in relation to contemporary concerns in international relations, and...

Demilitarization of conflict and society is crucial to building sustainable peace in countries emerging from the scourge of civil war. As longstanding conflicts come to an end, processes which facilitate the potentially volatile transition from formal peace to social peace are critically important....

Thousands of lawsuits continue to be filed in federal and state courts each year to seek recovery from manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. These lawsuits include individual actions, actions consolidated into federal multidistrict litigation, multi-plaintiff cases, and class actions....

Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West, as well as a home to the ultrawealthy. This transformation was due in part...

Ester Ried's Namesake by Pansy A Christian Fiction As Esther exchanged her street dress for one that did duty in the kitchen there was a cloud on her face; she could not get away from the contrasts. The girls were at home by this time; they had a suite of rooms in one of the most expensive...