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Old Truck is home alone when the Tongariro River bursts its banks."What will happen to me?" he thinks. I am not a duck! I'm a truck. And I'm stuck!"
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Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (26 October 1864 - 24 July 1916) was a Scottish novelist. With the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross Society and was sent to Russia and eventually Armenia. She wrote extensively about the plight of the Armenian refugees of... the Armenian Genocide. She died due to an illness she contracted while abroad. London. There she would embark on a career as a writer, with her first novel, Selah Harrison, published in 1898. The best known of her works were The Fortune of Christina M'Nab (1901), A Lame Dog's Diary (1905), and The Expensive Miss Du Cane (1900).
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Book Excerpt: ...w on the water as well as on the land, and then boldly put to sea to meet the Carthaginians.There was one part of the arrangements made by the Romans in preparing their fleets which was strikingly characteristic of the determined resolution which marked all their... conduct. They constructed machines containing grappling irons, which they mounted on the prows of their vessels. These engines were so contrived, that the moment one of the ships containing them should encounter a vessel of the enemy, the grappling irons would fall upon the deck of the latter, and hold the two firmly together, so as to prevent the possibility of either escaping from the other. The idea that they themselves should have any wish to withdraw from the encounter seemed entirely out of the question. Their only fear was that the Carthaginian seamen would employ their superior skill and experience in naval maneuvers in making their escape. Mankind have always regarded the action of the Romans, in this case, as one of the most strikin...
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work! Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four The Sign of the Four is the second novel featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A lady named Mary Morstan comes to consult Holmes. Her father sen...t word to her to meet him at his hotel but when she came, he has disappeared and was never seen again. A few years after, she received six pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor, and with the last pearl came a letter asking for a meeting. Holmes, his friend Watson, and Mary meet Thaddeus Sholto who turns out to be the son of Mary's father's colleague. Thaddeus reveals the truth of the death of Marys father and shares a note found when his father died. The note reads, The Sign of the Four . Thus, begins Holmes's investigation. Add to Cart and get your copy now!
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Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion. It was first published in 1903. Keller was the first deaf-blind person to attain a Bachelor of Arts degree, became well traveled and ...a prolific author, and was outspoken in her campaigning against war and for many other progressive causes. This story shows how Annie Sullivan helped Keller break through her isolation and absence of language to blossom and learn to live in the world of people.
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Book Excerpt: ...men and squaws left outside the words that were spoken within.Proudly Opechanchanough began to tell how he had tracked the Monachans to a hill above the river, and how he and his war party had fallen upon them, driving them down the steep banks, slaying and scalp...ing, even swimming into the icy water to seize those who sought to escape. And The Powhatan nodded in approval, uttering now and again a word of praise. When Opechanchanough had finished his recital the shaman, or medicine-man, rose and sang a song of praise about the brave Pamunkeys, brothers of the Powhatans.Then, one after another, Opechanchanough's braves told of their personal exploits. I, sang one, I, the Forest Wolf, have devoured mine enemy. Many suns shall set red between the forest trees, but none so red as the blood that flowed when my sharp knife severed his scalp lock. And as each recited his deeds his words were received with clappings of hands and grunts of approval.Powhatan gave orders to open...
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Twelve Years a Slave is a 19th century memoir by American Solomon Northup. Northup, a black man born free in New York state, tells how he was tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana ...before he was able to get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release aided by the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, providing important information about cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.
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Twelve Years a Slave is a 19th century memoir by American Solomon Northup. Northup, a black man born free in New York state, tells how he was tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana ...before he was able to get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release aided by the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, providing important information about cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana.
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Detective Super Skunk takes on COVID-19 in Tales of Detective Super Skunk, Saving America, I. The novel superhero comes to aid America in the fight a
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