John Quincy Adams 
John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 1 1779-1821 (LOA #293) [EPUB ebook] 

”I was stunned into stillness” Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist ”I”ve had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies – once by a white undercover cop, once by a young …

A series of thoughts written to provide distraction and comfort during a difficult time in the author”s …

Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to …

Toot-Toot: In My Write Mind, is a collection of writings by author and poet Frank Tannahill. The writings in this book span the course of twelve years and document a man battling alcoholism, law …

The year is 1942, the British are stoical but fearful, the war could go either way. A boy is born in middle England on a small tenanted farm that might be lost to the Germans. He knows nothing of …

Editorial Reviews Product Description Surviving Auschwitz tells the moving and inspirational story of three young girls who survived Auschwitz, Adolph Hitler”s most notorious death camp. With …

Teffi was one of twentieth century Russia”s most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people – from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin – …

This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental …