L R: 1906 books

From the Blackest Cloud begins with a young, postWorld War II couple, floating on the proverbial Cloud 9. Their hopes and dreams are to fulfill a dual commitment in lifeto have a family, and to provide a home for them. The billowy, white cloud is overshadowed by a touch of gray as anxiety grows concerning...

An underground trap. A magic gift, waning. Death, waiting in the wings. Arthur, Maude and twenty-four children are trapped beneath the earth when the portal to their underground home is destroyed by one of the king's men. Now they face certain death, though death is what they hoped to avoid...

A hunger for gold is never satisfied. Homer, one of the lost children of Fairendale, finds himself in the most unusual of circumstances—transformed into a dwarf, utterly alone, in the middle of a strange wood. The wood leads to a walled village, which leads to a storage shed, where the daughter...

Strength comes in numbers of merry men. Philip, one of the lost children of Fairendale, wakes in the woods outside the village of Lincastle, surrounded by the forest's most frightening creatures. Thus begins his daily battle to outsmart the creatures that would like nothing more than to eat...

The Were creatures prowl on a full moon. Anna, one of the lost children of Fairendale, has never been all that brilliant at practicing magic. A vanishing spell has transported her to a lonely forest outside Eastermoor, and her limited skills in sorcery offer her no help in constructing a safe...

The woods are a dangerous place for a girl in red and a boy in fur. Jasper, one of the lost children of Fairendale, wakes from a Vanishing spell well-equipped for the freezing cold of the White Woods. He is astonished—and somewhat pleased, considering the temperature—to learn that he is...

Never underestimate the power of greed. Ruby, one of the lost 12-year-old children of Fairendale, has been transformed into an old woman—but at least she has her magic. She uses this magic to help grow a garden outside the land of Rosehaven, as she used to do in her homeland of Fairendale....

This book was written to enable physicists and engineers to learn, within a single course, some topics in variational calculus, theory of elasticity, molecular models, and surface properties of nematic materials. It prepares graduate students for studies that require a simple knowledge in the physics...

Descriptions of the Regions Studied Cisco Lake Region. In the Cisco Lake Region there are many lakes, mostly small, but several of a length of one to three miles. The water-level in the Cisco Lake chain has been raised six or ten feet by a dam across the outlet, and this change in water-level has killed...

A collection of 13 short essays on a variety of topics in Philosophy that I've written over the years, dealing with morality, epistemology, scientific curiosity and responsibility, and a whole lot more. Hopefully you'll agree that this laid-back mish-mash of philosophical ideas is not quite as bad as hemlock poisoning.

A book about premonitions and predictions of our future but also that we have the ability to change our future.

"A handy book like this," noted The Mathematical Gazette, "will fill a great want." Devoted to fully worked out examples, this unique text constitutes a self-contained introductory course in vector analysis for undergraduate and graduate students of applied mathematics. Opening...

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU’s entire land territory plus large marine areas. This vast EU-wide network, which aims to conserve Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and habitats,...

Bedwarmers. It's the name that Rayna chose to call the men that she shared her bed with when the need was too great. It was a safety measure. A person couldn't get their heart shredded if they allowed no one near it. Rayna Norton's sisters and mother were the only ones allowed in her heart. Life was...