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This book is a collection of writings by early Reformation radicals that illustrates both the diversity and the areas of agreement in their political thinking. The texts are drawn from the period 1521-1527, centering on the German Peasants' War of 1524-1526. The thinkers represented--Muntzer, Karlstadt, Grebel, Hut, Denck, and others--differed on important theological issues, yet all rejected the magisterial Reformation as serving the interest...

I can't believe they found my secret place." As he drove along the highway, a voice in his head began to speak, "let's kill again Kelvin...let's have some fun on the way to Tampa!" He looked in the rearview mirror at a set of bloodshot eyes looking back at him. "If I'm going to go down, I'm going to go down swinging, " he said. His mind raced as he wondered if he'd make it to Tampa to see Candy again. The voice began to speak to him again, "we...

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Excerpt from Juan and Juanita This story of two unfortunate fortunates - mice let us say, seized by a tiger and escaping from under his very claws - is true in its essential facts. That is, two Mexican children were really captured some years since on the other side of the Rio Grande by the Indians, and carried off to the Llanos Estacados. After four years spent in captivity they made their escape, and safely accomplished the almost impossibl...

Colorful story about snow and all the wonderful things you could do if it came down in different colors. Great way to introduce colors for art, as well as descriptive writing.

Bea is living a life of being fabulous and realizes that people often blossom out of hopelessness and despair. At other times, they are driven by anguish and painstaking work. In this inspiring memoir and self-help book, you'll learn how the author met adversity, overcame the harsh circumstances of life and created a fulfilling life of joyful bliss and abundance. As Bea wrote this book, she realized how many authors, healers, leaders, teachers...

Excerpt from On Both Sides: A Novel ON both sides originally appeared in Lippincott's Magazine in two stories, or rather a. Story in two parts called The Perfect Treasure and On this Side, supposed to be illustrative of certain phases of so cial life in England and the United States. These are row bound together (as I earnestly trust that John Bull and his cousin Jonathan may be in the future, however divided in the past), and have been rechr...

Little girl counts down her sleeps until she visits Grandma's house (telling time, numbers, counting)

Excerpt from Remaking a Man: One Successful Method of Mental Refitting The writer's one object in his psychological work has been to obtain results. He has there fore explained his ideas to his patients in the language each individual. Would understand. Since his experience has been that of a layman talking almost entirely to laymen, he has not acquired a technical vocabulary. This he re grets, as he is perfectly conscious of the value of tec...

Excerpt from Bull Run to Bull Run: Or Four Years in the Army of Northern Virginia, Containing a Detailed Account of the Career and Adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B, Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., With Leaves From My Scrap-Book With a just pride in the leadership of so gallant a band of soldiers, with high appreciation of the cheerful and ready manner in which so many dangers were shared, and with a grateful sense of the un...

Excerpt from A Georgian Bungalow A vast stretch of country set in Debatable Land. The sea, brimming high above miles and miles of marshes, sending by a mighty impulse its spray flying over sand dunes, and palms, and palmettoes along every beach, puffing its salty whiffs, winnowed by all the winds battling between Africa and America, across wide stretches of half-sub merged land, throwing its long arms far, far inland around richly wooded isla...

Pieces of broken pots are scattered over the desert hillsides of the Southwest. The Indians there treat them with respect -- "Every piece of clay is a piece of someone's life, " they say. And the children try to imagine those lives that took place in the desert they think of as their own. Clay has its own small voice, and sings. Its song has lasted for thousands of years. And Byrd Baylor's prose-poem as simple and powerful as the clay pots, si...

On the hottest summer afternoons when desert creatures look for shade and stay close to the earth and keep their voices low I sit high on a cactus and fling my loud ringing trill out to the sun... So sings the Cactus Wren, one of the ten desert creatures that speaks for itself in the evocative and lyrical verses of Desert Voices. In both text and illustration, Desert Voices conveys a message of spirit and courage from the shy and quiet creatur...

Excerpt from Behind the Blue Ridge: A Homely Narrative The road was now a turnpike, but dead it was not more alive than ever, on the contrary, in one way, for all its heart was broken, and it was only the stone emgy of its old self. The ever-changing, ever-moving procession went on over its grave at least, as it does over all graves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ...

The Caldecott Honor author/illustrator team that brought readers "The Desert Is Theirs" and "The Way to Start a Day" returns with this tale of truly listening to the world around us. In "The Other Way to Listen, " a young boy is eager to learn and an old man is happy to share his wisdom. Full color.

Baylor provides ten rules for finding a rock. "Not just any rock, Baylor is careful to note, but 'a special rock that you find yourself and keep as long as you can--maybe forever.' . . . As fresh as Baylor's concept are Parnall's striking illustrations."--"School Library Journal, " starred review.

Murders occur in every city but nothing ever happened like this before. No one imagined that a serial killer could come into the community and blend in with society. Kelvin Kettle, the monster from Montclair, was a chameleon and master of manipulation. Death was his companion and friend as he took lives everywhere he went. In Book 3 of the Montclair Murders series,  Kelvin has managed to escape law enforcement's grasp as he continues to te...

Did you know there are two laws of God? Both laws have a priesthood and a high priest. Both laws tell us how to live, how to treat each other, and how to relate to God. But... One law leads to judgment, curse, and death. The other law leads to forgiveness, grace, peace, and eternal life. The Lord has revealed in the Scriptures the law of the priesthood of Melchizedek, of which Jesus is high priest. It is the law by which the L...

Did you know there are two laws of God? Both laws have a priesthood and a high priest. Both laws tell us how to live, how to treat each other, and how to relate to God. But... One law leads to judgment, curse, and death. The other law leads to forgiveness, grace, peace, and eternal life. The Lord has revealed in the Scriptures the law of the priesthood of Melchizedek, of which Jesus is high priest. It is the law by which the L...