Cyrus: 217 books

Clichéd though it may be, a human being’s true strength of character is reflected in the most difficult of times. The world had to sit up and take note of just how strong a woman could be when the two world wars hit. Even taking the side of the traditionalists, one could deny that women...

War is perhaps that one occurrence that has held captive the attention of man for eons after it is over. This is quite natural as well, for the repercussions of war are such that the aftershocks are felt long after the last bomb was dropped and the last cannon boomed. We as human beings find...

In the late 1800s, playwright and actor William Gillette captivated American theater audiences with his dramatic portrayal of a daring Civil War plot to gain access to a Confederate telegraph office, which is considered to be one of the most suspenseful wartime plays ever staged in the United States....

Cyrus Townsend Brady was a late 19th century American journalist and historian, but some of his best known works were adventure fiction. Today, his most famous work is the history Indian Fights and Fighters.

If there is one thing that can be said about humanity, it is that we are true survivors. From wars to natural disasters, man has managed to bring himself back from the brink of destruction. We have thrived over the millennia we have inhabited this earth; from the caveman to the modern civilization...

Finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize, 2018 Finalist for the Helen C. Smith Award for the Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters, 2019 Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature in Poetry, 2019 Consisting of two dynamic song cycles, Cyrus Cassells’s sixth...

A Little Book for Christmas Cyrus Townsend Brady [ZHINGOORA BOOKS] TABLE OF CONTENTS I.— A CHRISTMAS GREETING "Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men" II.— FROM A FAR COUNTRY A story for grown-ups Being a new variation of an ancient...

This remarkable book by the distinguished journalist Cyrus Sulzberger is in a modern sense comparable to Burton’s famous The Anatomy of Melancholy. My Brother Death is a thoughtful and finely written effort to discern just what death is, to define both it and its relationship to man, to discuss...

Canadian Fairy Tales is a collection of 26 of Native American folk tales gathered from across Canada by Professor Cyrus MacMillan, who did not indicate the origin tribe of each story. The collection was originally published in 1922, and several tales within contain themes of creation. This is MacMillan’s...

A book by Cyrus Townsend Brady with an unusual plot; adventure and shipwreck and a very unpredictable chain of events. (Goodreads)

Of the three great captains whose magnificent fighting has added such glorious chapters to the history of our naval campaigns, but one, George Dewey, the last of them all, is purely an American by birth and generations of ancestors. Farragut, the greatest of the three, was but one remove from a Spaniard....

Gunneson City Sheriff “Doc” Cyrus Wells Shores (1844-1934)—nicknamed after the doctor who delivered him in Hicksville, Detroit in 1844—became well-known as a Colorado lawman for bringing down local criminals without parading his authority or a display of guns. Born in the village of...

4 Sci-Fi novels in 1: Exiled: Autumn's Peril by Rosalie Skinner...Hunted by off world assassins, haunted by ghosts, homesick for a planet light-years away, Caleath’s quest is to survive and escape. / Becoming NADIA by Cyrus Keith, Epic Winner..."What's one more little white lie?" Inspector of the...

Day Symbols of the Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas - The Original Classic Edition Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic...