Hall: 2949 books

Victoria & Abdul tells the extraordinary true story of Queen Victoria's relationship with Abdul Karim, her Muslim manservant, who travelled from India to present a ceremonial medal as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee but within months became her personal teacher of Urdu and dedicated spiritual...

An anecdotal, rollicking tour through America's most colorful region. From the Tidewater through Appalachia, down the Blue Ridge country and into the sunbelt, B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood take us through the American South, inviting us to listen to its music -- blues, country, gospel, and rock --...

This book describes accounts of the five most important voyages to America: The account by Jennie Hall of the Viking adventures of Leif Erickson, which showed that travel to the new world was possible. The account by Filson Young of the four voyages of Christopher Columbus, originally...

Traveling is something people do on a regular basis. However, if you are not sure how to take great travel digital pictures, you stand a good chance of missing out on some great memories of the trip that you might never get a second chance to recover!   In this book you will learn how to master digital...

In some ways, the successor of vaudeville and an extension of the opera and operetta, the stage musical has evolved into a worldwide juggernaut. Musicals are staged not only across the globe but are offered in a variety of settings, from the high school stage and major theater to the big screen. The...

Delicious, affordable, and fun recipes from the hit ABC daytime television show, which stars Mario Batali, Michael Symon, Carla Hall, Daphne Oz, and Clinton Kelly.

In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports...

Angelo Hall wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.

Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there,...

In these four lectures Peter Hall reveals a lifetime of discoveries about classical theatre, Shakespeare, opera and modern drama. The central argument is that form and structured language paradoxically give freedom to power of thought and feeling, much as the masks of early Greek drama enabled actors...

Why You Should Write e-Books, e-Novels, e-Shorts. (Electronic Publishing versus Traditional Publishing). We examine the time and effort required to get a traditionally published book onto the public bookshelf, in comparison to the ‘instant gratification’ of the e-Publishing industry. We study...

An Akathist (from the Greek Akáthistos ýmnos, unseated hymn) is a devotional hymn to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons of the Holy Trinity, which is said in churches or by the faithful in private devotion. This volume contains thirty Akathists, including those to our Lord Jesus Christ,...

In his career as a newspaper reporter, British author Hall Caine often traveled to engage in on-the-ground documentation of important world events. His experiences on the battlefields of World War I were documented in a breathtaking series of articles that are reproduced in this volume.

This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious...