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The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. H...

Excerpt from A Land of Romance: The Border, Its History and LegendMithras, also a soldier, teach us to die aright! Rudyard kipling.From sea to sea the line of hills stretches, a jagged ridge, with here and there a peak towering above his fellows. Round-shouldered foothills, green in summer, in winter bleak and brown, are huddled beneath a range that is almost mountainous.Here and there, where volcanic forces rent them asunder, are hills parted...

Excerpt from North and South of Tweed: Stories and Legends of the BordersNow in writing the legendary tales of the Borders, one feels that it is almost impossible not to produce a collection calculated to satisfy the melancholy requirements of the aged spinster who had loved a poet. The intense sadness of the Dowie Dens of Yarrow may not pervade all Tweedside, the whole region of the Cheviots and the Lammer muir uplands, yet, in all its legend...

This book, all 395 pages of it, features 34 fascinating stories of both famous and not-so-well-known mythical entities - Pygmalion, Adonis, Lorelei, Beowulf, Echo and Narcissus, Prometheus and Pandora, Niobe, and Roland the Paladin, among others. Some of the stories come with beautiful drawings by Helen Stratton, illustrating the antics and exploits of the main character. Why a book filled with stories that has already been told and retold in ...

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Two American tourists arrive in Milan, Italy September 5, 2001 for a planned 30 day vacation and tour of Italy. Six days later, 9/11 occurs and everything changes. Learn how Italians helped them deal with the tragedy so far from home.

Two American tourists arrive in Milan, Italy September 5, 2001 for a planned 30 day vacation and tour of Italy. Six days later, 9/11 occurs and everything changes. Learn how Italians helped them deal with the tragedy so far from home.

Originally published in 1913. Contents Include: The Story the Jester Told The Lady With the White Cockades TheTragedy of Mary Ann Dodd The Reverend Nicol Edgar The False Alarm of 1804 The Minister of Spott Midside Maggie The Lover Who Rode On Suppersteetions The Cowie Of Goranberrry By The North Sea The Murder at Linthill The Lady At Swinton Murder, or Manslaughter? Madge and Jean Gordon The Return Treasure Trove Bertha of Badlieu Pearlin Jean...

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Excerpt from North and South of Tweed: Stories and Legends of the Borders Many years ago the writer took an old lady to see an Ibsen play. The lady had, so it was reported, been jilted in her youth by a famous poet-artist, since when she had remained plunged in gentle melancholy. It was, perhaps, the gloomiest of Ibsen's plays, for mise en scene a place where "the children are never known to laugh, " and in which suicide trips upon the heels ...

This book, all 395 pages of it, features 34 fascinating stories of both famous and not-so-well-known mythical entities - Pygmalion, Adonis, Lorelei, Beowulf, Echo and Narcissus, Prometheus and Pandora, Niobe, and Roland the Paladin, among others. Some of the stories come with beautiful drawings by Helen Stratton, illustrating the antics and exploits of the main character. Why a book filled with stories that has already been told and retold i...

Excerpt from A Land of Romance: The Border, Its History and Legend Three crests against the saffron sky, Beyond the purple plain, The kind remembered melody Of Tweed once more again. Wan water from the Border hills, Dear voice from the old years, Thy distant music lulls and stills, And moves to quiet tears. Like a loved ghost thy fabled flood Fleets through the dusky land, Where Scott, come home to die, has stood, My feet returning s...

The first book Gasport Girl was written primarily for the Degan Family members and friends, but since it was so well-received by other Western New Yorkers, Gasport Girl II was born. It picks up where Gasport Girl left off as the writer moves to Lockport, but contains flashbacks of her life in Gasport as she tries to adjust to her new home and high school. Comparisons of a small town to the big city take the reader along a journey of nostalgia ...

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En 1952, l'un des grands théologiens du XXe siècle, le futur Cardinal Hans-Urs von Balthasar, écrit: «L'avenir de l'Eglise [...] dépend d'une question: trouvera-t-on les laïcs disposés à vivre et à façonner le monde à partir de la force inentamée de l'Evangile? Que clergé et ordres n'y suffisent plus, n'échappe à aucun être lucide. Ce n'est pas de leur faute. C'est la «faute» du monde qui accède à sa majorité.» Quelques années plus tard a lieu...