Jacobs: 1412 books

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Meriel grows up in England a tomboy, helping her beloved grandfather with DIY projects. At school she discovers a talent and love for art, but her mother forces her to become an accountant. She’s good at that too, but her heart just isn’t in it. When she wins some money, her lifelong dream suddenly...

Tale of a young woman who inherits a ranch in Texas, but wants to go east and sell the ranch.  Something along the way changes her mind.  

FINE FEATHERS Mr. Jobson awoke with a Sundayish feeling, probably due to the fact that it was Bank Holiday. He had been aware, in a dim fashion, of the rising of Mrs. Jobson some time before, and in a semi-conscious condition had taken over a large slice of unoccupied territory. He stretched himself...

Half a man is a simple story that highlights the true strengths of great mateship. It also endeavours to recall the struggle that returning soldiers faced after the Great war and describes the challenges, the way of life and the ways of the Australian bush in the 1920s and glories in the absolute...

Dis verby tussen my en Alex Swart. So verby soos Britney Spears se loopbaan. So verby soos die 80's. So verby soos Friends en Seinfeld en Prison Break. So verby soos die Anglo-flippen-Boereoorlog. Want Alex was die ou van my drome. Ek was mal oor sy band en oor die liedjies wat hy spesiaal vir my...

From the author's introduction:"Summer on a Mountain of Spices" (the title derives from the "Song of Solomon) is a novel, i.e. a fiction, based on life at The Spring Lake House, a small family hotel, in the summer of 1945 during the last week of World War II. Spring Lake was a mile from Monticello,...

What Remains Behind is a contemporary novel based on a true but little-known practice employed by some large American corporations. It is not uncommon for them to take out life insurance policies on highly valued employees, naming the company as the beneficiary. The novel explores the scenario that...

A well-to-do doctor wakes up to find himself on a ship at sea. How did he get there, and how will he get home? But before those questions can be answered, the crew begins to succumb to a mysterious illness, one by one -- and questions about the doctor's true identity are never settled.

A guard, driving through the woods finds a long lost campground. What he finds will give him nightmares for the rest of his life.

A quarter of the tales in this volume, have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published. Up to 1870 it was equally said of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected...

Poor little Ezra. He wants to be a member of his school track team but his legs are too short so he's not very fast. Will something happen to Ezra that will make him the best he can be? This is a story about going for your dream and believing in yourself.