Carleton: 92 books

A collection of about 2000 questions asked by children forms the foundation on which this book is built. Rather than decide what it is that children ought to know, or what knowledge could best be fitted into some educational theory, an attempt was made to find out what children want to know. The obvious...

Excerpt: "There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy are unequal to the task of soothing or dispelling them. Such was the grief of Ellen Duncan, who was silently weeping in her lone cottage on the borders of Clare—a county at that time...

• Since The Da Vinci Code was published in 2003, there has been a growing interest in the tension between the Cathars and the Roman Catholic Church. • 25% of Americans believe in reincarnation, and The New York Times reports that number is rapidly growing. • A growing number of Americans have...

The historical novel Winning His Way recounts the life and times of one Paul Parker, beginning with his idyllic childhood in a newly established Ohio farming town, continuing with his brave service in battle, and concluding with his peaceful golden years.

Many years ago, before railroads were thought of, a company of Connecticut farmers, who had heard marvellous stories of the richness of the land in the West, sold their farms, packed up their goods, bade adieu to their friends, and with their families started for Ohio.

»Zurück in Berlin« Ein großer verschollener Nachkriegsroman Zwischen Stunde null und Wirtschaftswunder: Ein jüdischer Exilant kehrt nach Berlin zurück, um sich seiner Vergangenheit zu stellen. In der zerstörten, doch lebendigen Stadt erwartet ihn eine Aufgabe, mit der er nicht im Geringsten gerechnet...