Frederick: 2206 books

Una epopeya sin héroe que da cuenta, con humor y furia, del lado más áspero de la vida. Forsyth, uno de los grandes nombres de la novela de intriga política y espionaje, consigue concentrar en El emperador todas sus grandes dotes de narrador para contarnos cómo Murgatroyd, un director...

A true account of a soldier's life in the First World War. He spent sixteen months in four German prison camps.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This narrative was originally written without the least idea of publication, but to gratify the oft-repeated requests of my children. During the work, the ubiquitous newspaper reporter learned of it, and persuaded...

This is a book of short stories of fishing, hunting, and other miscellaneouscategories,that cover a period of friendship forover 45 years. The storiesrelate experiences that are humorous and sometimes serious, that will probablyappeal toa reader of various subjects and willbring back memories to readerswho have had similar experiences.

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable.                 The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy,...

Area Code 212 is the journey's end in ice and flames of Seidel's brilliant Cosmos Poems trilogy. Reversing the order and outlook of Dante's Divine Comedy, Seidel's three-book series begins in the heavens (with The Cosmos Poems) and then descends steeply--through the Purgatory of Life on Earth, the second volume--to at last arrive at home, in Manhattan, with its famous area code.

The book One Hundred Simple Prayers represents my beliefs and experiences that have evolved over many years. Addressed to God, these prayers are meant to be a source of inspiration and hope, for those of us who seek to live a spiritual life in a chaotic world. Each prayer has been written in simple,...

This volume is a thematic exposition of love, the seasons and life experiences. The elegant sonnets and poems captured within are testament to the poet's trials and tribulations of love and love's wit.  I have bestowed the great honour of the title of this humble to my keenest tragedy; The Shadow of the Rose

By the summer of 1866, America was a changed nation. The Civil War has ended, and the West was calling as a place where the fresh wounds of a nation divided could heal. Many set out to heed that call and explore the land that the terrible war had not touched. Amid the beauty of the region, they found...

Braccus is a fourteen year old street urchin. He lives on scraps and sleeps with the pigs. One evening, while the warriors of his clan celebrate a recent victory, he finds himself on the receiving end of a brutal beating at the hands of his chieftain's drunken son. He would have been killed if not...

Alexander Musgrave narrates his own yarn as a legalized pirate, sailing under a letter of marque to harass the enemy. The story includes the capture of a French ship, shark attacks and slavery, and Musgrave’s journey into the arms of a beautiful woman—this last (1846) of Marryat’s naval stories delivers vintage high-seas adventure.

"Keep My White Sneakers, Kit Carson" is a book about the Blackfeet Indians and the mountain men, trappers who tried to survive in the same, stunningly beautiful land just northwest of the Great Plains in what is now Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana. That they would get in each other's...

Ike Schwartz, Sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancée Ruth Dennis, the President of a local university, seek asylum from a trying year of academic and local politics on Scone Island, four miles off the coast of Maine. Its lack of electricity, reliable water supply, and phone service guarantee...