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... the sea where they had adventures with mermaids and other fantastic creatures. It was followed by Sky Island (1912) and then Baum returned to the Oz titles. He brought Trot and Cap'n Bill to Oz in the Scarecrow of Oz (1915). (Summary by Judy Bieber)...

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...28 delightful, short, well written and whimsical stores by the famous storyteller Abby Phillips just beg to be read aloud by adults or children. With titles like THE REVENGE OF THE FIREFLIES and SALLIE HICKS'S FOREFINGER how can you go wrong? Turn on the nightlight, tuck 'em in, settle down in the rocking chair and ... enjoy. (Summary by phil chenevert)...

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...This is the sixth and final volume of the Angel Food Series by Father Brennan. This volume consists of 28 charming selections with titles such as Six Red Roses, The Three Little Angels, A Surprise From Santa Claus and The Boy Who Dusted the Devil's Tail. (Summary by Maria Therese)...

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...These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in these common blossoms, their old friend will not have made her Garland in vain. - L.M. Alcott, September, 1887...

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... fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.[3] Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. (Summary from Wikiped...

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...simple, delightful sermons for children. The stories cover a full school year, all Sundays and a few holydays in between. Under such engaging chapter titles, as Chasing Rainbows, Caterpillars, The Best Christmas Gift, and Breakfast of Champions, the book entertains while it instructs. Here Heaven takes on a new closeness as “God’s Home”; the Bible is a collection of “Lette...

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...i Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei are well represented here. Recordings in this volume are in Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin and Taiwanese, as indicated in the titles; some are spoken, others are sung. (Summary by David Barnes)...

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...Sky Island (1912) was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap’n Bill. Baum had hoped to end the Oz series in 1910 and the following year he introduced Trot and Cap’n Bill in T...

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...ooks for children in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He wrote numerous juvenile biographical saint books for children, as well as several children’s fictional titles – of which this is one. (Summary by Maria Therese)...

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...This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a revolver, a bulldog with a mind of ...

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...uous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent years and is now eager to become part of the aristocracy by acquiring estates and titles through advantageous pairings. Clarissa's relatives attempt to force her to marry a rich but heartless man (Roger Solmes) against her will and, more importantly, against her own sense of virtue. Desperate to remain fre...

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...Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one fact is certainly true when dealing with Sir Francis Bacon.The youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Francis was born in Strand, London, on Jan. 22,...

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..., occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called New Psychology or New Thought. These titles include Thought-Force in Business & Everyday Life (1900), Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World (1906) and Practical Mental Influence (1908). Due in part to Atkinson's intense personal secrecy...

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...ifth October, at Versailles, swears the Guards, Feuillant, on abolition of Titles, at Champ-de-Mars Federation, at De Castries’ riot, character of, in... ...to be gagged, astir, how to regenerate France, police and, on abolition of titles, would gibbet Mirabeau, bust in Jacobins, concealed in cellars, in s...

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...nt his art, And thou like Adamant draw mine iron heart. II AS due by many titles I resigne My selfe to thee, O God, first I was made By thee, and... ...re Our helpes, so are her prayers; nor can she sue In vaine, who hath such titles unto you. VI. THE ANGELS And since this life our nonage is, ... ...r Engine, can Bring man to heaven, and heaven againe to man? These are thy titles and preheminences, In whom must meet Gods graces, mens offences, ...

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...ides, he has no for- tune. And, after all, papa, none of these people have titles. I want, at least, to be a countess like my mother.” “Have you seen ... ... not like lawyers either; so that if you refuse men of wealth who have not titles, I do not quite see in what class you are to choose a husband.” “Esp... ... I cared very much for dignities?” said she with keen archness. “I have no titles to offer my wife,” he replied, in a half- sportive, half-serious ton... ...of heaven and the carpet of a meadow.” “He is rich,” she reflected. “As to titles, perhaps he only wants to try me. He has been told that I am mad abo... ...les, perhaps he only wants to try me. He has been told that I am mad about titles, and bent on marrying none but a peer’s son. My prig- gish sisters h...

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... originally called, with a still more Early Roman- tic avidity for baroque titles, Wann-Chlore) has caused it, I believe, to be more commonly read tha... ... impossible, have existed chiefly in the form of project. Nearly a hundred titles of such things are preserved. *Balzac was throughout his life a ferv... ...re added, some years later, by the Edition Definitive. The original French titles are followed by their English equivalents. Literal translations have...

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...s grace would fain have done, The severals and unhidden passages Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms And generally to the crown and seat of Fr... ..., or bow your reading, Or nicely charge your understanding soul With opening titles miscreate, whose right Suits not in native colors with the truth; ... ...e, And rather choose to hide them in a net Than amply to imbar their crooked titles Usurp’d from you and your progenitors. KING HENRY V : May I with ... ... thy ceremony give thee cure! Think’st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation? Will it give place to flexure and low bendin...

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...” “There’s some trouble among the villages down the river about their land-titles. It’s good goin’ ground there, too,” the Inspector said. The next me... ...s; for a third, though Judges down the river issued signed and sealed land-titles to all lawful owners, yet public opinion along the river never held ... ...n Ethiopia, the letting in of waters, and the getting out of troops. “Your titles are good,” said the Governor. The Inspector confirmed with a nod. “T... ...down the river soon to lead us to kill.” “Fools!” said the Governor. “Your titles are good. This is madness!” “It is so written,” they answered like a... ... river and will give tongue about the beatings.” “Will he impeach our land-titles? An evil day for him!” “Go slow, Baker,” the Governor whispered. “Th... ...nd that he is afflicted of God: being mad. He is in God’s hands.” “But our titles—are our titles to our lands good?” the crowd repeated. “Your titles ... ...pays us to kill mad jackals,” said Farag’s uncle. “And he who questions my titles to my land “ “Aahh! ‘Ware riot!” The Governor’s hunting-crop cracked... ...bdul replied. “Ask him,” said Farag’s uncle, “what he knows about our land-titles. Ye young men are all alike.” He waved a pam- phlet. Mr. Groombride ... ...ort. Make him say the mirth-moving speech.” “What did he say about my land-titles?” Farag’s uncle was not to be turned. “He says,” Farag interpreted, ...