Curtis: 1287 books

In 1965,Londoners Chris and Ken Davies went looking for fresh air and a different lifestyle. They bought two windswept acres on the tiny Feudal Island of Sark in the British Channel Islands, just off the French coast. Chris and Ken quickly mastered new rules of survival; they learned to milk goats,...

“[A] terrific book about a visionary post–food bank project.” —**Michael Pollan THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** British super chef Jamie Oliver called it "amazing," writing that he'd traveled all over the world and never seen anything like it. New York Times food writer...

Roulette Junkie offers 5 fantastic tried and tested methods for playing roulette, unlike other books we don't promise to make you a millionaire we just show you some great easy to use strategies.

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (9780137047680) by Curtis Faith. Available in print and digital formats.  Your concise step-by-step guide to becoming...

In her eighty-four years, Arlynn Swope endured many of lifes greatest challenges. She knew illness, poverty, a near-death pregnancy, mental illness in her immediate family, and the suicide of her husband. She lived through the Great Depression and dropped out of school in the ninth grade to help her...

In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo. From the moment of its discovery a battle for possession ensued and was won, eventually, by the French....

Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft...

With its roots as a small community known as Log Town in the 1750s, agriculture was the way of life for people in Gaithersburg. Today most of the farmland has been developed into shopping centers, businesses, and housing developments. With growth, Gaithersburg has become a center of science and technology...

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader (9780137047680) by Curtis Faith. Available in print and digital formats.  Use your brain’s rational side to prepare...

In her previous books Chris tells of her move to the tiny Feudal Island of Sark, in the British Channel Isles with her husband Ken, to run their guest house and smallholding. They then journey out to New Zealand to explore and finally settle there. Over the years the marriage starts to falter and...

Greatness is a Choice! We search for the American Dream, but the American reality is that before you can realize your dream you need to make a plan. Choose Greatness: Seven Steps to Reach Any Goal will help you embark on your journey of a lifetime. Choose Greatness: Seven Steps to Reach...

Chris tells of her years as a district nurse, first in London in the early sixties and then New Zealand in the late seventies. She tells of the rough living conditions in London, where we meet people like the solo mother dying of cancer and longing to give her children a good Christmas and the 90...

Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consolation For The Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). John Bull Washington Irving (1783-1859)....

The killer code-named Rooikat was ready to deal.The Colonel was dead and buried and so were the rest of the co-conspirators.The bomb, stolen years before from the secret nuclear facility at Pelindaba near Pretoria was waiting to be dug out of its hiding place, and the buyers were queuing up.Rooikat...