Yesterday's People

Yesterday's People
Author: Goran Simic
Publisher: Biblioasis
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2005-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1897231830

These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them, where the reality is often much more surreal than fiction.

Poems

Poems
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2024-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387321392

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Stoic: A biography of Seneca

The Stoic: A biography of Seneca
Author: Francis Caldwell Holland
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1329778499

Fabulous wealth, literary fame, exile, an amazing come back to the height of political power and a tragic ending - the life of Lucius Annaeus Seneca - aka Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca - is one of the great untold stories of Ancient Rome. In 'The Stoic, ' Francis Holland presents a riveting portrait of the prolific but mysterious Roman statesman and philosopher whose works - especially 'Letters from a Stoic, ' 'Dialogues' and 'On the Shortness of Life' - remain popular and vital two thousand years later. Modern followers of Stoicism, the immortal ancient philosophy so eloquently espoused by Seneca, will glean new insight into the influences and events that shaped the most famous Stoic's mind

But that was Yesterday

But that was Yesterday
Author: Kathleen Eagle
Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2015-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1611946476

Can he live up to her dreams?Sage Parker dragged himself up from an alcoholic pit and now focuses on rebuilding his ranch on the Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota. He's rebuilding his life and helping others do the same by forming a recovery group that honors the Lakota tradition of seeking the Red Road, walking in a good way. And Sage knows his way around roads. Ranching is his hope for the future, but road construction pays the bills now.Into his life walks Megan McBride, white and blond and idealistic. She's an engineer; she's there to build a much-needed road on the reservation. Sage struggles with his attraction to her just as he battles his addiction0́4one day at a time.They're from different worlds. He's embracing the tribal heart, defending his people from the forces that threaten to destroy them. There's no way she'll stay with a lightning rod like him, once her job is done. And yet she's the courageous soul mate he's always wanted0́4and exactly what he needsTheir slow, simmering, red-hot romance builds to a heart-wrenching question0́4what happens if he can't live up to his ideals and her dreams?Kathleen Eagle has published more than forty books, including historical and contemporary, series and single title, earning her nearly every award in the industry. Her books have consistently appeared on regional and national bestseller lists, including the USA Today list and the New York Times extended bestseller list.

The Complete Works of G. A. Henty

The Complete Works of G. A. Henty
Author: G. A. Henty
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 15652
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This edition includes: Novels: A Search for a Secret All But Lost Out on the Pampas The Young Franc-Tireurs The Young Buglers The Cornet of Horse In Times of Peril Facing Death, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit Winning His Spurs Friends Though Divided Jack Archer Under Drake's Flag By Sheer Pluck With Clive in India In Freedom's Cause St. George For England True to the Old Flag The Young Colonists The Dragon and the Raven For Name and Fame The Lion of the North Through the Fray The Bravest of the Brave A Final Reckoning The Young Carthaginian With Wolfe in Canada Bonnie Prince Charlie For the Temple In the Reign of Terror Orange and Green Captain Bayley's Heir The Cat of Bubastes The Curse of Carne's Hold The Lion of St. Mark By Pike and Dyke One of the 28th With Lee in Virginia By England's Aid By Right of Conquest Chapter of Adventures Maori and Settler The Dash For Khartoum Held Fast for England Redskin and Cowboy Beric the Briton Condemned as a Nihilist In Greek Waters Rujub, the Juggler Dorothy's Double A Jacobite Exile Saint Bartholomew's Eve Through the Sikh War In the Heart of the Rockies When London Burned A Girl of the Commune Wulf The Saxon A Knight of the White Cross Through Russian Snows The Tiger of Mysore At Agincourt On the Irrawaddy The Queen's Cup With Cochrane the Dauntless Colonel Thorndyke's Secret A March on London With Frederick the Great With Moore at Corunna Among Malay Pirates At Aboukir and Acre Both Sides the Border The Golden Cañon The Stone Chest The Lost Heir Under Wellington's Command In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers No Surrender A Roving Commission Won by the Sword In the Irish Brigade Out With Garibaldi With Buller in Natal At the Point of the Bayonet To Herat and Cabul With Roberts to Pretoria The Treasure of the Incas With Kitchener in the Soudan With the British Legion Through Three Campaigns With the Allies to Pekin By Conduct and Courage Short Stories Historical Works ...