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Robert Michael Morrissey teaches history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Join Sammy, Swifty and Newsome ... three young otter brothers ... as they find excitement, adventure and some hard-learned lessons in the San Juan Islands. Sammy, Swifty and Newsome join their mother in the daily life of an otter, hunting for food, learning how to find tools for opening clam shells, rafting together on the open seas to sleep, and where to find the best tasty urchins and abalone. All goes well, but along the way they have to hi...

Journalist Chris Baxter is at a crossroads. He has an enviable life as a journalist in the U.S. and the prospect of an exciting new post in Thailand. But his needs aren't the only ones he must consider. His daughter is struggling with the effects of his divorce and her mother's remarriage. So Chris abandons dreams of Thailand and returns with his teenage daughter to his mother's house in the beautiful township of Neverend, where Chris comes to...

It is a lot easier to be brave with the lights on! Everything becomes very spooky and scary in the middle of the night when Robbie's room is dark and he just can't get to sleep....

Even a Princess can have a cranky day....

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Cassie Holloway escapes her unhappy city life and moves to the coast, to the little town of Whitby Point. Here she meets the Aquino family, whose fishing business was founded by their ancestor, Giuseppe, some ninety years before. Cassie sets up a successful restaurant, and her life becomes even sweeter when she falls in love with Giuseppe's great-grandson, Michael. But when the head of the Aquino family dies, a devastating secret is revealed w...

It would be the death of them both. Brother Sabon, pious servant of the Sun God, could never succumb to the charms of a young witch. He overcomes undead minions, vile cultists and assassins, the evil brood of the Death Goddess, how could his heart fall for an unbelieving, head-strong woman? His church wouldn't allow it, his fight against the forces of darkness would suffer for it, and his closest companions would chastise him. The world is fil...

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Paper cut art has decorated Chinese homes for centuries. These delicate pictures show the lunar calendar animals in their finest moments. Read the story of the animals' race to Buddha's court. Then delight your child with the monkey's mischievous grin, the horse's dancing hooves, and the boar's sweet life.

Excerpt from Noted Men and Women: A Profusely Illustrated Book, Containing the Humor, Wit, Sentiment and Diplomacy in the Social, Artistic and Business Lives of the People Herein Set Forth About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally...

During the Easter Week insurrection, 1916, John Delaney SJ walked from one point of military activity to another, chronicling all he saw in his diary. This volume contains extracts from his eye-witness accounts of the effects of 1916 on ordinary people in Dublin and its suburbs.

The new novel from Australia's favourite writer and author of bestsellers such as TEARS OF THE MOON and THE OPAL DESERT.

Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-source overview of these ongoing arguments. Many of these contributions to this debate have achieved 'canonical' status themselves, through the focus on the canon, the full spectrum of approaches to literary studies can be seen in the essays. Therefo...

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I looked out at the rising sun. It formed a beautiful, translucently violet horizon where the curve of Andowhan ended and space began. I wondered if there might be something better beyond that horizon. There must be some real meaning, out there, but I felt isolated and constrained from it. Caleb Lonnergan is the youngest son of a family anxious to shield him from the civilization that has already claimed the life of his oldest brother. Althoug...