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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 'There's only one thing I must really implore you, Edith, ' said Bruce anxiously. 'Don't make me late at the office!' 'Certainly not, Bruce, ' answered Edith sedately. She was seated opposite her husband at breakfast in a very new, very small, very white flat in Knightsbridge - exac...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - An appalling crash, piercing shrieks, a loud, unequal quarrel on a staircase, the sharp bang of a door.... Edith started up from her restful corner on the blue sofa by the fire, where she had been thinking about her guest, and rushed to the door. 'Archie - chie! Come here directly! ...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Because Edith had not been feeling very well, that seemed no reason why she should be the centre of interest, and Bruce, with that jealousy of the privileges of the invalid and in that curious spirit of rivalry which his wife had so often observed, had started, with enterprise, an i...

My Tongue Fell Out, " was written about or inspired by family. My mother was very much the lady of the house. There never was a time that her hair was not in place, or her make up wasn't on. Sometimes I think she slept standing up, because, no one could look that good when they get out of bed in the morning. Dad, my hero, seemed to be serious all the time. He worked hard to provide for his family and said things like they were. I didn't know h...

My Tongue Fell Out, " was written about or inspired by family. My mother was very much the lady of the house. There never was a time that her hair was not in place, or her make up wasn't on. Sometimes I think she slept standing up, because, no one could look that good when they get out of bed in the morning. Dad, my hero, seemed to be serious all the time. He worked hard to provide for his family and said things like they were. I didn't know h...

Collar is a novel, the story of an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Kit Whitney, Jr. told with humor, intense drama, great joy and bitter pain, Kit tells his story from the early 1930s to 1981. Kit forms and directs the University band. Joins a fraternity. At seminary someone asks, "Is that your sporty red Chrysler?" Loads bags for a major airline. Kit ministers to victims of devastating Hurricane Audrey in Louisiana. Becomes a pilot. Stars in a pla...

While telling life stories, particularly about my involvement in three wars, and reading to my beautiful Grandchildren, one of them asked, "Grandpa, would you tell us about when you were a little boy in Switzerland, before you came to America?" Robili was written to do just that, to tell stories of what happened to me as far back as I could remember until I arrived at the front door of my family's first home in America.

While telling life stories, particularly about my involvement in three wars, and reading to my beautiful Grandchildren, one of them asked, "Grandpa, would you tell us about when you were a little boy in Switzerland, before you came to America?" Robili was written to do just that, to tell stories of what happened to me as far back as I could remember until I arrived at the front door of my family's first home in America.

32-Red" and "Berlin by Christmas" combine to become "The Enigmatic Mr Phelps" The sequel to the late 1990's set "32-Red", brings Oscar Phelps into the new century with a certain gusto and a very personal mission to be relentlessly pursued. "32-Red" and the previously unpublished "Berlin by Christmas" provide in combination for the delivery of a Vintage Story of Elaborate Subterfuge, Contemporary Murder, Moot Conscience and Guiltless Precision....

This book addresses the crucial issue of healing by Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Scriptures teach that the Lord Jesus Christ is God [Isaiah 9:6, John 1:1-5, Matthew 1:21, Hebrews 6:1- 13]. God sent His Son to save us [John 3:16]. The Lord lived on earth, He healed peoples [Luke 8:26-36] and He raised some from the dead [John 11:38-43, Luke 8:40-56]. Furthermore, Scriptures attest that The Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead [Matthew 28: ...

The purpose of this book is for the saving of the souls of sinners and the strengthening of the souls of saints. That all may come to the truth and knowledge of what god has prepared for his creation through His Son Jesus Christ.

Rotweiß karierte Zebras und fliegende Kühe, Martha Schönlich und Frau Sonne, ein kluger Klabautermann, alle diese lustigen Gestalten erleben in den Liedern von Cathleen Holz kleine Geschichten. Ulrike Müller hat diesen Figuren in entzückenden Bildern Leben eingehaucht, und die Kinder können mitmachen, indem sie die Zeichnungen ausmalen.

This is a book about relationships: ours with each other, and with the natural world. Ken McCullough demonstrates a profound understanding and acceptance of the balance between light and dark in the universe. These poems span a lifetime, from the glories of childhood to the embracing of mortality, his words are passionate and elegant, and meditate on life from the perspective of one who has lived it fully. Considering the title of the book, Wa...

Bob Lenon came from Nebraska to Yuma, in 1914, just two years after Arizona had become the 48th state. He remembers seeing the Colorado River when it had no highway bridges and traveling on a plank road across dunes where an Interstate Highway now runs. Because Bob grew up listening to neighbors' tales of gold in the hills, it was natural for him to make mining his life-as a prospector and as a mining engineer. He became an intrinsic part of t...

In the early 1950's, in Los Angeles, at 6 AM, John West, vice-president of the National Broadcasting Company in charge of west coast, gets a phone call from New York City on the NBC tie line. The caller is General David Sarnoff, chairman of the Board of RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, NBC's parent company. Awakened from sleep, Mr. West groggily says "Hello" "John, this is General Sarnoff." Mr. West swiftly clears the cobwebs. "Good morn...

Fay & Eddy is a story of lovers gone crazy and wild and poetic. It's also a psychological study of broken hearts, daydreams, and drifters trying to find some truth that will last. It's pornographic and pleasing and infinitely teasing.

Bob Lenon came from Nebraska to Yuma, in 1914, just two years after Arizona had become the 48th state. He remembers seeing the Colorado River when it had no highway bridges and traveling on a plank road across dunes where an Interstate Highway now runs. Because Bob grew up listening to neighbors' tales of gold in the hills, it was natural for him to make mining his life-as a prospector and as a mining engineer. He became an intrinsic part of t...

In the early 1950's, in Los Angeles, at 6 AM, John West, vice-president of the National Broadcasting Company in charge of west coast, gets a phone call from New York City on the NBC tie line. The caller is General David Sarnoff, chairman of the Board of RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, NBC's parent company. Awakened from sleep, Mr. West groggily says "Hello" "John, this is General Sarnoff." Mr. West swiftly clears the cobwebs. "Good morn...

When Pawns Rebel is a journey that a pawn takes through the demanding environment of the board while a game is in process. The pawn changes his mind and his sense of right and wrong with every convincing argument that he hears. After making up his mind on what his life should be about and events and his status do not satisfy his newly found goals, does he cave in and let life take its usual course or will he attempt to alter his destiny and th...

In 1881, when their apple tree is felled by a storm just before Christmas, a young farm girl and her family discover that the tree was important to each of them for different reasons.