The Columbia Slough in Portland, Oregon, often gets a bad rap. It's been called a "swamp," an "open sewer," even the "slough of despond." But clean-up efforts in recent years have begun to rehab...więcej »
Each and every life has a story to tell. We all have to figure out how to navigate through life with the pain and the struggles that come with it. But. there are invaluable moments of love and b...więcej »
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never f...więcej »
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never f...więcej »
THOMAS EDISONThomas Edison was an incredible pioneer, inventor and entrepreneur. Best know for his invention of the commercial light bulb, Edison has literally cha...więcej »
THOMAS HARDY'S TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES: A CRITICAL STUDY
A detailed and incisive analysis of Thomas Hardy's classic 1891 novel, using the latest research in feminism, gay, lesbian and queer...więcej »
With no memories of her mother and brought up by an abusive stepmother, her life journey took her through many storms. These storms included the death of her daughter, rejection, false accu...więcej »
This is the first book of a trilogy. Each book will be a collection of short stories about: boats, cultures, blue-water cruising, some history and my thoughts.The dream was to ...więcej »
Through the Brazilian Wilderness is Theodore Roosevelt's biographical account of hunting, camping and "zoogeographical reconnaissance" with his son Kermit in the Brazilian jungle.
Following his p...więcej »
This is the story of Liam FitzGerald, who as a young man in the late-1960's, more or less stumbled into the exciting and often hazardous life of an avalanch...więcej »
This is the first of three memoirs written by Eartha Kitt. Thursday's Child was originally published in 1956 and covers Eartha's childhood and early career. This book is what inspired the name o...więcej »
Former political and war correspondent, Karen Frances McCarthy, was on assignment when she received the news that her partner had suddenly died in New York. Skeptical by nature and numbed by the...więcej »
"Why are people looking for escape in movies? . . . Because it's . . . a form of recapturing not a 'childish' impulse, but a way of looking at the world as if it were fresh and interesting."
Star...więcej »
Time and Tide Adventures on Alaska's Copper River Delta is a story about a duck cabin on Alaska's Copper River Delta-and much more! In 1959 the Shellhorns built their place on Pete Dahl...więcej »
Times Ten - (Urban definition) to the extreme; expresses magnitude. Merry-go-rounds are supposed to be fun and exciting. Times Ten chronicles a different kind of merry-...więcej »
Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five ...więcej »
Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five ...więcej »