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Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life-hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never...

Mary Rice Somerville wrote this book for her six sons, to capture some of the memories of their old home place in Boone County West Virginia. Its plot is set in the future, which of course we do not really know, and is written from the viewpoint of son Jim who is an Eagle Scout, with badges in the trunk, each one bearing the motto: BE PREPARED!

Life long ago settled into a comfortable routine for Robert and Eliza Evans, the Marquess and Marchioness of Stowe. Robert is active in politics in Regency London, while Eliza remains on their estate in Devon with their children. But when Eliza unexpectedly becomes pregnant, cracks appear in their...

A winner of the 85th Writer's Digest Writing Competition in the category of Mainstream/Literary Story, author Mary Elizabeth Leach (Raines) has written a sometimes salacious, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, and always entertaining collection of short stories and modern-day fables that are subtly...

Martine's 16-year-old daughter Amelie is busy faking a science experiment with the help of her older brother one Saturday when they accidentally poison Martine. Amelie and her brother deal with the possibility that they may have committed involuntary manslaughter in this darkly funny tale from Mary Kitt-Neel.

In her book He Has Always Been There Mary Swain tells how God was with her even when she was not so worthy. She tells how she went through many ordeals not knowing how she made it. She tells how from childhood through adulthood God has guided her path and kept her safe from harm. Mary also reveals...

A shadowy and mysterious character in Tudor history, Margaret Douglas now takes center stage in this tale of the bitter struggle for power during the reign of Henry VIII. Margaret is Henry's niece, and finds herself in favor with her uncle. In 1536, when the King turns against his second wife Anne...

"The Parvenue" is told in first person by a narrator named Fanny. She begins by explaining that she has been so bewildered by the events she is about to retell that she leaves it to the reader to judge her actions. The money troubles that plague the narrator's family and their constant demands...

The Dream was written in the year 1832 by Mary Shelley. This book is one of the most popular novels of Mary Shelley, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the...

Posthumous Works Mary Wollstonecraft, an eighteenth-century English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights (1759-1797) This ebook presents «Posthumous Works», from Mary Wollstonecraft. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF...

Every day stories from American history that are not true are repeated in museums and classrooms across the country. Some are outright fabrications; others contain a kernel of truth that has been embellished over the years. Collaborating with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Mary Miley Theobald...

Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt was an Australian novelist. Gaunt had difficulties at first but eventually established herself, and was able to travel in the West Indies, in West Africa, and in China and other parts of the East. Her experiences were recorded in five pleasantly written travel books: Alone...

Roots of empathy—an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon—has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Now, as The New York Times reports that “empathy lessons are...