Author: Lacey Baldwin Smith
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Keywords: royalty, mask, viii, henry
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 1973-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0897330560
ISBN-13: 9780897330565

Author: J. E. Neale
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Keywords: elizabeth, queen
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1992-08
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0897333624
ISBN-13: 9780897333627

Author: Olga Lengyel
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Keywords: auschwitz, story, chimneys, five
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0897333764
ISBN-13: 9780897333764

Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel’s work in the prisoners’ underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. Despite her horrifying closeness to the subject, FIVE CHIMNEYS does not retreat into self-pity or sensationalism. When first published (two years after World War 2 ended), Albert Einstein was so moved by her story that he wrote a personal let

Author: George Sand
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Keywords: valentine
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-02
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0915864592
ISBN-13: 9780915864591

George Sand, écrivain française, est le pseudonyme d’Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804-1876), plus tard baronne Dudevant. Elle écrivit des romans, des nouvelles, des contes, des pièces de théâtre, une autobiographie, des critiques littéraires et des textes politiques. Elle est née à Paris, mais a passé la plus grande partie de son enfance à Nohant dans l’Indre. En 1831 paraut son premier roman Rose et Blanche qu’elle a écrit en collaboration avec Jules Sandeau, de qui elle s’inspire pour son pseudonyme Sand. Dans ses premiers romans, autobiographies transpo

Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Keywords: shakespeare, children
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 2000-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 089733485X
ISBN-13: 9780897334853

In her touching introduction to this collection, Britain’s beloved children’s author E. Nesbit shares with us her very personal inspiration for The Children’s Shakespeare. As a writer, she understood that the stories are the least part of Shakespeare, but as a mother she also understood the need for simplicity. Her daughters were far too young to handle such complex language, yet certainly they must be capable of appreciating, indeed enjoying, the stories hidden within. Envisioning this simplified introduction to works such as The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Mid

Author: Dorothy Middleton
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Keywords: travellers, lady, victorian
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 1993-07
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0897330633
ISBN-13: 9780897330633

A lively, amusing retelling of the adventures of seven unique women, who fearlessly travelled to remote corners of the earth: Isabella Bird Bishop, Marianne North (a botanist who painted in Brazil), Fanny Bullock Workman (photographer and mountaineer), Annie Taylor, May French Sheldon, Kate Marsden, and Mary Kingsley.

Author: Rebecca G. Haile
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Keywords: ethiopia, rediscovery, distance
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0897335562
ISBN-13: 9780897335560

"Part travelogue, part history, part memoir, Rebecca Haile’s Held at a Distance shines a bright and unique light on Ethiopia, a country in whose fortunes we as Americans and Westerners have been concerned for some time, but which remains in large part a mystery to many of us. . . . Today, Ethiopia, for far too many people, is synonymous with poverty and warfare; but for generations of African Americans, it was the font of black civilization itself, the spiritual source of visions of a united and prosperous Pan-Africa, the living testament to the glories that were Black Af