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Subtitle: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form - compiled by Henry L. WilliamsThe Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago is accepted as the typical Westerner of the forum, the rostrum, and the tribune, as he stood to be inaugurated under the war-cloud in 1861. But there is another Lincoln as dear to the common people--the Lincoln of happy quotations, the speaker of household words. Instead of the erect, impressive, penetrative platform orator we see a long, gaunt figure, divided between two chairs for ...

OTRA VUELTA DE TUERCA: Otra vuelta de tuerca es una historia de suspenso psicológico que sigue a una joven institutriz encargada de cuidar a dos niños huérfanos en una remota mansión inglesa. A medida que pasan los días, la institutriz comienza a percibir extrañas presencias y eventos sobrenaturales que la llevan a creer que los niños están bajo la influencia de espíritus malignos. Con una narrativa ambigua y una atmósfera cargada de misterio, James deja al lector cuestionando la realidad de los eventos: ¿son los fantasmas reales o producto de la mente perturbada de la protagonista?

Was wäre, wenn du nicht mehr Motivation bräuchtest, sondern einfach ein System, das selbst an deinen schlimmsten Tagen funktioniert? Schiebst du wichtige Aufgaben immer wieder auf, obwohl du weißt, dass sie wichtig sind?

Beautiful on the outside, deadly evil on the inside. Throughout Eddie's childhood, two things remained constant: cold, hateful violence and the vicious smiles of the Scary Lady who haunted him. The love of his adoptive parents shielded him from her horrible influence—at least for a time. Years...

" . . . each page is well-spun with action [ . . . ] a masterpiece."—Romuald Dzemo, Readers' Favorite Reviews The cold waters of Lake Genosgawa hide a terrifying secret. After his first encounter, waking dreams torment eleven-year-old Greg Canton. The creature in the lake feeds on his emotions...

Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The third volume, published in 1918, contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. ( Algy Pug)

This special anthology, published in 1885, is formed of seven stories, together with an introductory chapter setting up a framing narrative by Henry Norman, which is returned to at the end of each subsequent tale. This connecting narrative concerns a group of travelers on a transatlantic crossing. When their ship, the Bavaria suffers a ‘broken shaft’, they are forced to remain becalmed mid-ocean, telling stories to pass the time. - Summary by Ann Boulais

The author of this book, Ralph Henry Barbour, was a prolific writer of scholastic and college sports and adventure fiction for boys. Here is a departure from that niche. This is a story about the good, and not so good, adventures of Fritz the dachshund, as a puppy (Part 1) and an adult dog (Part 2), as told by ... Fritz the dachshund. A very heart-warming story for children. - Summary by Donald Cummings

Each summer, in the ancient hill town of Siena, Italy, there erupts one of the most extraordinary, exciting, and dangerous horse races in the world— the Palio. So furious is the rivalry that it is often said the Palio is more battle than race, and that "Fate is the Queen of the Palio." This magnificent book is a true story of the Palio —a thrilling, heart-stirring tale of a boy and a beautiful half-Arabian mare who won undying fame. Marguerite Henry tells—as only she can—how the life of Giorgio Terni, a boy of the Maremma marshes, became linked in strange and dramatic fashion with that...

The Brownies of the Mansion at Hillside are under siege from Pixie forces. The Pixies, whose treacherous weavings mimic those of our own useful backyard spiders, are determined to claim Hillside for their own. Will the faithful Brownies, along with their allies, be able to protect their homeland and dear loved ones, and drive the Pixie forces back? The tale not only provides an entertaining story but also brings magic to the ordinary spiders, insects, and other creatures of nature that thrive in the same spaces where we humans make our homes. - Summary by Catherine Arwine

In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is the autobiographical account of Royal Engineer Lt. Col. J.H. Patterson's African adventures. Among them, his hunt for the two man-eaters. This book was the basis for the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness. (Summary by James Christopher)

Misty is a Chincoteague pony mare who is close to foaling, and the Beebe family is anxious about it. Unfortunately, a terrible storm system arrives first, setting up over Chincoteague with floods, hurricane winds, ice, and snow. The story is fictional, but is based on historical characters, human and equine. Stormy describes events on Chincoteague Island during the Ash Wednesday Storm that hit the Eastern Seaboard March 6, 1962. This is the sequel to Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

One day, ever so long ago, it struck me that I should like to try and write a book about Cats. I mentioned the idea to some of my friends: the first burst out laughing at the end of my opening sentence, so I refrained from entering into further details. The second said there were a hundred books about Cats already. The third said, “Nobody would read it,” and added, “Besides, what do you know of the subject?” and before I had time to begin to tell him, said he expected it was very little. “Why not Dogs?” asked one friend of mine, hitting upon the notion as though by inspiration. “...

During the later part of his life Hudson lived in southern England, where he was involved very early on with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). Birds and Man is a slow moving work where Hudson discusses his love of birds, and the need for better protection of them. - Summary by clarinetcarrot

A comprehensive study of the behavior of the American beaver, based on the author's first-hand observations. - Summary by Joanne Turner

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Bobby Joe Jones was supposed to be hunting criminals. Instead, he became one. Growing up in a family of lawmen and influenced by the badge, Bobby Joe is the best undercover cop in the department, until one mission goes sour. A diamond robbery. Fingerprints on the door. Looted jewels in his possession. And then, the distinction between cop and crook blurs. Suspended, badge-less, and pursued by the very institution he once protected, Bobby Joe has only one way to prove his innocence: track down the true ring leader of the robberies before the city chooses him as the scapegoat.

Build a Personal Defense System Against Procrastination and Overthinking. What if you didn’t need more motivation, just a system that works even on your worst days? Do you keep delaying important tasks even when you know they matter? Are you tired of promising yourself you’ll change and then repeating the same cycle? You tell yourself you’ll begin tomorrow. Tomorrow turns into next week, and next week turns into quiet guilt. You’re not lazy, you care too much. That’s the problem. You overthink the decision, imagine every possible outcome, plan every angle, and wait to “feel ready."

In the book, Salt argues against the idea of speciesism, though the term was not coined for another 76 years. The book also argues against vivisection, misuse of horses and wild animals, hunting and fishing, and the fur trade, and in favor of vegetarianism. It is widely considered to be the first explicit treatment of the concept of animal rights. - Summary by Angus Taylor and James Hyslop