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Mellie's Pond is about frogs who are being bullied by Mr. Winters. Well one day Rusty, the main character in the book gets so excited that he jumps so far and does not stop until he comes across a field with a big pond in it. That is just the start of Rusty's adventure. Along the way, he meets some interesting characters.

The writing of this book has been to me no joyful task, as its making has been at the expense of much-needed rest and peace of mind. In returning to my dear native land after a long imprisonment, I cherished the hope that I might as quietly as possible be permitted to take up the threads of outward...

Handbook for Hospital Sisters is a thorough guide to nursing, first published in 1874.

This acclaimed, darkly funny debut for fans of Jesse Andrews and Robyn Schneider about a teen who's consumed by love, grief, and self-destructive behavior is now in paperback. Freshman year at college was the most anticlimactic year of Danny's life. She's failing pre-med and drifting apart...

A Junior Library Guild Fall 2017 Selection An Amazon's Best Children's Books of 2017 A Beverly Clearly Children's Choice Award Nominee An Evanston Public Library's 101 Great Books for Kids List 2017 A Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books 2017 A 2017 Nerdy Book Club Award Winner A We Are...

The Price I Paid for a Cup of Sugar is being told by a young woman locked up in a mental institution from having an emotional breakdown caused by heartbreak in her life. The Price I Paid for a Cup of Sugar is just the beginning of Ree’s Chronicles, which are true events based on a little girl growing...

When jazz journalist Virginia Farrell interviews reclusive singer Betty Brown, Betty shows Virginia priceless tapes from the legendary 1957 Thelonious MonkJohn Coltrane gig at the Five Spot. Betty asks Virginia to get the tapes to their rightful owners, and Virginia promises to help. When Betty...

Friday morning Frau Müller and Ferdinand jumped into a fiaker and drove to the railroad station to meet Teresa Runkel. She was a fine-looking child, with round, rosy cheeks; quite tall, with the fair complexion, sunny hair, and soft, Austrian blue eyes that makes the women of that land famed for their...

An American author of popular and religious fiction.  The influence of her early Wellesley days were captured in her books: "And So They Were Married", and "To the Highest Bidder". CONTENTS Those Brewster Children (1908) To the Highest Bidder (1910) And So They Were Married (1908) Stephen: A...

SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW, SOMEONE YOU KNOW NEEDS THIS BOOK. (Family members, friends and others) In this world, full of stages that we go through in life, there are times that we get wounded heart, disturbed, worried, grief and mourn for one thing or the other. The content of this book (inspirational...

Hamlet forces the sanguine Gertrude to regard herself in the mirror of his understanding and to compare two sovereigns. She is deeply affected by what she is made to see. Such an experience Shakespeare would have his audience undergo when he presents a Silver casket of Christian zeal to their representative...

This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated...

Fleeties Crossing will reveal events and upheavals in the lives of two families who stumbled upon the heartbreak of the beginning of the out-migration in the Appalachians. The devastating results of this period in history, beginning in the late forties, continue to some degree still today. This author...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.  Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons is an overview of the ancient Amazons.