Robert W : 999 books

In this novel we have not only a thrilling romance—the very heart of it is a love story—but have the best book of historical fiction that appeared in 1902. The opening scenes are laid in the frontier village of Marsbronn, in the province of Alsace, at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War....

The story of a poverty stricken poet and his eight gorgeous daughters. The poet orates on how having less is greater than having more, but reveals his true belief by trying to marry off his daughters to wealthy men. His plot fails as several of his daughters fall in love with average men.

A "North Woods" adventure with royal jewels, romance, and mystery!

A young girl, companion to the Russian royal family, renounces God, the Church, and marriage after seeing the fall of the Czars.

This eBook edition of the American Revolution history has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book on the American Revolution consists of three parts-a brief narrative history of the war, a chronology of military events, and a bibliography....

Developed from years of teaching psychiatry to medical students and residents, this comprehensive text devoted solely to describing the mental status examination (MSE) fills a void in the teaching literature and will be valuable to both students first learning about the MSE and seasoned clinicians...

Young men and women are vanishing into thin air, leaving clothing behind, layered just as though their bodies evaporated. Julie, a virginal farm girl, is one of the abductees. She suddenly finds herself naked and surrounded by dozens of other naked young adults. She has been snatched and transported...

Setting the Stage for Murder tells the story of a brutal murder that cuts short a plan to bring opera to the shores of Crooked Lake. On the day of the dress rehearsal, the leading man is found strangled to death on stage. In true operatic fashion, the cast is a veritable hothouse of passions. Several...

Summer residents return to Crooked Lake after a long, cold winter and are horrified to find the body of a beautiful young woman in the cellar of their cottage. The sheriff identifies her as an exchange student from Sweden who went missing back in January. But how did her body come to be in a cottage...

The scarecrow guarding the vineyard on Crooked Lake is not the usual strawman but the body of a man nobody seems to know. Before the sheriff can catch his killer, she must first find out who he really is and who might want him dead. Her investigation leads to a small town church in New England, a gambling...

Book 13 in Bob Gregg’s series of Crooked Lake mysteries poses a different challenge for Sheriff Carol and Professor Kevin, murders which appear to have their roots in racial hatred, a rare source of violence around the lake. The investigation begins when a cyclist disappears after a biking event and has much to do with a young African-American boy

Russian terrorists pirate a nuclear missile, and conceal it in an abandoned mine shaft in the barren and remote Canadian Arctic. The missiles target: an entire seat of government. The terrorists intend to wipe out the old world political order and establish the new order, with themselves in control....

The poems in this book are selection of Tanka poetry, written by the author in a period of a little over one year. The book is divided into six seasons, The First Late Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, Early Winter, and The Second Late Winter. During this period of fourteeen months the ebb and flow of...

This short book is a distillation of a series of Haiku written by the author over a period of one year. It was an enforced exercise in meditation, spending a portion of each day in quiet contemplation, during a very difficult year in his life. This selection provides one poem for each week of the...