DescriptionWhen the beautiful and outrageous Lady Barbara Childe meets Charles Audley, her joie de vivre knows no bounds - until the eve of the fateful Battle of Waterloo.
DescriptionIn the summer of 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts organized a series of writing workshops, led by prominent authors, to encourage U.S. troops and their families to record their experiences and reflections on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The…
DescriptionGeorge Hazard, from a wealthy Pennsylvania industrial family, and Orry Main, the son of a prosperous South Carolina plantation owner, meet at West Point. Their friendship is the beginning of a fateful link between their families. The Hazards and the Mains - their lives entwining, their futures irrevocably connected - achieve their triumphs and suffer their tragedies against the panorama of the turbulent growth what will eventually split the nation. This is volume 1 of the North and South Trilogy .
DescriptionMaster storytellers and motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen have collected the best-loved stories from their ABBY award-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling book Chicken Soup for the Soul on this heart-warming tape. You will feel hope spring eternal from your heart each time Jack and Mark share these stories of love, courage, and perseverance with you. Ideal for your car or home, this captivating tape will enlighten and entertain you.
DescriptionConrad's Fate is part of the clever and humorous Chrestomanci series. Twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic is in disguise as a servant-in-training at Stallery Mansion in the town of Stallchester. He wants to figure out what evil he caused in a past life. He and his friend Christopher Chant are trying to repair Conrad's very bad karma and to discover what mysterious entity is haunting the town.
DescriptionFrom the author of the bestselling E=MC2 comes a mesmerizing journey of discovery illuminating the wondrous yet unseen force that permeates our world and the scientists who've probed its secrets. Before 1790, when Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that spurred an explosion of knowledge and invention, electricity was perceived as little more than a property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Now we know that this force is responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. Bodanis, a superb storyteller, tells a story filled with romance, divine inspiration, fraud, and scientific breakthroughs revealing how we learned to harness electricity's powers. The great scientists such as Michael Faraday and Samuel Morse come to life, complete with all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy.
