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After losing his wife and daughter: oppressed by the political climate and worried he may be conscripted by the Nazis, Doctor Thomas Friedrich Schmidt enlists in the Wehrmacht Medical Corps at the start of World War II. His main focus in life is to care for the wounded troops, but is unable...

SUMMATION OF A POPULAR WAR Author V. I. Brown wrote this memoir from authority. He grew up with the war, participated as a member of the military and then observed its aftermath. He provides a penetrating, chronological examination of the wars policies, politics, judicial decisions, public...

Based on a true story, this novel is a witty, zingy story of Dodi Hastings who impulsively one day leaves a violent husband, taking her three young daughters with her. She discovers cottage country in which to hide in. If you love to laugh, this book is for you. It pulses with wit and wily wisdom,...

What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you’re tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Book of Curiosities. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by I. Platts,...

Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...

In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in American history, he explores the ideological and political journey of Henry Washington Hilliard...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 1 - A1/A2 Starter (1) Word count: 8,087 Learn useful homestay phrases through a story! Erina Adachi is from Nagoya. She is nineteen. She is a university student. She studies English at university. It is August. Erina is travelling...

A memória coletiva marcará 2011 como o ano em que as pessoas tomaram as ruas de diversos países em uma onda de mobilizações e protestos sociais: um fenômeno que começou no norte da África, derrubando ditaduras na Tunísia, no Egito, na Líbia e no Iêmen; estendeu-se à Europa, com ocupações...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 4 - B1/B2 Intermediate (2) Word count: 8,840 One day, Akira Fujihara receives a letter from a man in Nakashige, a small village in Japan. Something is very wrong with Setsu, his elderly aunt. Akira goes to visit her. Strange things are happening...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 3 A2/B1 Intermediate (1) Word count: 11,730 Our first book featuring the detectives Jed and Glenda! The woman was young. She was wearing a beautiful dress. She looked like a sleeping princess, but she was lying in a dark, narrow street. And...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 3 - A2/B1 Intermediate (1) Word count: 6,680 Japan is a modern country with a strong traditional culture. It has a long, interesting history, myths, legends… and some of the scariest ghost stories in the world. About 120 years ago, a man...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 4 - B1/B2 Intermediate (2) Word count: 28,808 Old Secrets – Modern Mysteries Series Book 3 James Winchester, the British diplomat, is planning his retirement when he is given someone else's secrets. When a friend is...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 1 - A1/A2 Starter (1) Word count: 5,679 Learn useful business trip phrases through a story! Carlos Castro is from Buenos Aires. He is a business man. He works for an American company. Carlos is travelling to New York for a business...