Stars In The Bright Sky - Prijzen

Ida May

The sentimental antislavery novel Ida May appeared so like its predecessor in the genre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that for the month of November 1854 reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe's hand in the...

All the lights

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after...

Sherlock Holmes

'I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart'. Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress,...

Poor Caroline

Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christi...

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Louis Draw has always been accident prone, with something violent befalling him every year, but when he falls of a cliff and into a coma on his ninth birthday, it may not have been an accident, and th...

The Other Dog

The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household--an inferior breed with no tail and little hair known as Baby.

Novelas Y Relatos Políticos- República Populista

The Patriots' Club

Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he's managed to put his past behind him, find the woman he wants to share his life with, and carve out a succ...

Meet the Presidents

Get to know the Presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama. Visit the only surviving residence of James Polk in Columbia, Tennessee, or the Lyndon Baines Johnson ranch nea...

Cannon

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Party Animals!

It's the hoopoe's birthday today, and all the animals have come together to prepare a great feast. Gathering for the fun is the gorilla, the cow, the bear, the camel, the crocodile, the giraffe, the b...

Inside The Crips

The personal memoirs of a surviving member of one of Los Angeles's most dangerous gangs describes the home environment that contributed to his gang membership at the age of ten, his violent confrontat...