Wheeler: 743 books

More often than not, support programs aimed to prevent abuse unintentionally exclude individuals with physical disabilities. The likelihood that children and women with physical disabilities will experience abusive encounters is seven times greater than those without disabilities. This heightened...

Deadwood Dick is a fictional character who appears in a series of stories, or dime novels, published between 1877 and 1897 by Edward Lytton Wheeler. His stories are well plotted adventures and his slang and dialect heavy narration is funny as hell. Deadwood Dick was an orphan who was adopted, mistreated...

When a living history museum turns deadly right before Thanksgiving, armchair historian, Miranda Lewis, becomes an amateur sleuth.  At Plimoth Plantation, the famous seventeenth-century village  where her niece works as an interpreter, Miranda discovers protesting Indians, hostile Pilgrims, and finally...

I found this book in an antique shop in Fremantle, Australia and picked it up, out of curiosity. When I flicked through the pages I was fascinated by the clarity and relevance of the few sentences I had read. I asked myself: “More than one hundred years ago they had already books about self-development?”...

Talleyman Ghost and Other Short Stories for Girls is the latest short story collection from the anthologizer Joe Wheeler. Joe has complied 12 of the best short mystery stories ever written for girls. These stories are sure to entertain, inform, and even raise an eyebrow or two. From Glory Haddon's life-changing...

The Secret of Creeping Desert and Other Mysteries for Boys is the latest short story collection from anthologizer Joe Wheeler. Joe has curated 12 of the best short mystery stories ever written for boys.These curated 12 of the best short mystery stories ever written for boys. These stories are sure to...

Tourists is a satire. When the CIA wants to build a secret air strip in the bush north of Ottawa, a lobbyist is recruited to get the deal done. The plan is threatened by publicity generated by the Taylor brothers whose land is to be expropriated.The CIA plans an alternative event in case of failure, in clandestine meetings held in a van driven on the Rideau Canal during Winterlude.

ATLAS: the largest interplanetary ship ever built. It's an asteroid mining vessel, a refinery, a manufacturing plant, and a public relations statement all rolled into one massive vehicle. With it, the future of Belt Group's influence in an increasingly exploited Solar System is nearly assured. Until...

Josh Billings on Ice and Other Things By Henry Wheeler Shaw. WITH COMIC ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. H. HOWARD. Published by  NEW YORK: Carleton, Publisher, Madison Square. LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO. M DCCC LXX. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1868, by G. W. CARLETON &...

William J. Demeter received the news of his death with the same stoicism that he demonstrated in all areas of his life. When the doctor told him that he had pancreatic cancer he accepted it with stoic resolve, and when the doctor told him he had only six months left to live he accepted that news the...

Deadwood Dick is a fictional character who appears in a series of stories, or dime novels, published between 1877 and 1897 by Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854/5–1885). The name became so widely known in its time that it was used to advantage by several men who actually resided in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Historian Miranda Lewis is invited to a Civil War reenactment at Gettysburg by her old college friend Ginny and her father, a distinguished Virginian. When Ginnys  estranged husband dies during the reenactment under suspicious circumstances, Miranda plunges into the bizarre world of Civil War reenactors,...

Welcome to Christmas, a.k.a. Hell. For Huddersfield housewife Hazel Wheeler, whose popular diaries span the second half of the twentieth century, Christmas is not just a time for goodwill, mistletoe and bulging stockings. Santa, in his munificence, also brings with him a sleighful of suffering and...

Dr. Wheeler is providing a much needed update on the topic of critical care medicine for the pediatrician. He organized the issue to give a full overview on those topics that most pertinent to practicing clinicians. His authors are top experts in their fields, and they are writing clinical reviews...