Ronald West has a brilliant idea for his next novel, but to do it right, he wants to spend the next six months tramping around central Africa to experience the setting first hand....
John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this...
Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection shares but 7 of them.
In 1979, I was three months pregnant with my second child and in excruciating pain, pain I’d been dealingwith every day for almost 15 months. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t...
Alles beginnt mit einem tragischen Unglück: Bei einem Hubschrauberabsturz kommt das Fürstenpaar Leopold und Elisabeth von Sternberg ums Leben. Zurück bleibt ihr einziger Sohn,...
First published in 1916, ‘Mary Louise’ by popular children’s author L. Frank Baum is the first in a series of children’s detective stories about the courageous young Mary...