Paterson: 307 books

“A vast amount of information on the German Naval Security Fleet, sicherungsstreitkräfte, producing what is a unique review in depth.” —Firetrench.com   This study of the Kriegsmarine’s Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in...

When Vanessa received the quilt, she was very disappointed. She was expecting something more valuable. Would the quilt drive a wedge between Vanessa and her mother? This is the story about a Mother's love, and a daughter's discovery of what is really important.

Randy was a senior in high school, and everything was going great, or so he thought. When he wished to read other people's thoughts, he got his wish. It was not as great as he thought it would be. He realized that everybody thought he was a jerk, or used him to get what they wanted, including his...

An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical symphony...

The scars left by the 1984/85 "Great Strike for Jobs" are still raw in Nottinghamshire, thirty years later. There, the majority of the National Union of Mineworkers did not support their union, working throughout the strike, later forming the breakaway Union of Democratic Miners. Look Back...

A heart jerking true story of how a young boy of one-year-old was abandoned by his Mother who thought that it was better to be out partying and taking drugs, His father is killed in a car crash and leaves guardianship to an old friend who was also his ex-girlfriend, until the child's birth mother comes back and a court case ensues for custody of the child.

Vendetta Against Innocence from the IRA is based on a true story, It's about a family in West Belfast whose young sixteenyear-old son gets kidnapped by the IRA and forced to participate in a crime. Ultimately, he gets arrested and charged by the police while his family's life disintegrates within...

James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he does. Beyond that, it gives an account of life in that class-bound country as a whole. For it is in places like this rather than Manila...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is publishing a monthly series of e-only essays to correspond with Katherine Paterson’s two-year term as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. The subjects of the essays include: writing and literature for young people, the wonder and imagination found...

When the tsunami hit Asia on Boxing Day, 2004, it claimed hundreds of thousands of lives - but changed, and probably saved, the life of Donny Paterson. the former army engineer, with a history of chronic injuries, depression and addiction, was floating somewhere above rock bottom - aimless, traumatised,...

Nikki is sad that her boyfriend,Roger will be out of the country on business,and won't be able to be with her on her twenty-fifth birthday. However, her spirits are lifted a little, when she discovers that her good friends will be taking her on a long weekend outing that Roger had planned before he found out about his trip to Europe.

In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Bridge to Terebithia follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro’s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read. When thirteen-year-old Lora...

Richard Paterson has Scotch whisky running through his veins. His grandfather and father were both prominent in the Scotch whisky industry in Glasgow for decades before Richard joined a competing whisky brokerage firm to start his apprenticeship. But this is no dry textbook on blending. Far from it....

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is publishing a monthly series of e-only essays to correspond with Katherine Paterson’s two-year term as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. The subjects of the essays include: writing and literature for young people, the wonder and imagination found...