Books For The Letter B. Page 1 Of 56

A Backward Glance At Eighty

  [english | ]  

Charles Murdock

Excerpts: [... Twenty years difference in years seemed no barrier. He was fond of companionship in his travels, and I often accompanied him as he was called up ...... never missed one since. Fifty-seven consecutive celebrations incidentally testify to unbroken health. In looking back on what I have gained from ...... he served on the board of trustees of the church and for seven years was ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 36

A Ball Player Career

  [english | 1900]  

Adrian Anson

Summary: [A Ball Player S Career by Adrian C Anson. The personal experiences of Adrian C. Anson manager and captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club CHAPTER III. SOME FACTS ABOUT THE NATIONAL GAME. Just at what particular time the base-ball fever became epidemic in Marshalltown it is difficult to say for the reason that unfortunately all of the records of the game there together with the trophies accumulated ...]
Genres: [biography | games] Downloads: 62

A Batalha De Toro

  [english | ]  

Antonio Francisco Barata

Excerpts: [... de linho, 80 em papel d'algodo. N.___. Por muitas vezes hei escripto, e mais uma ainda aqui o fao, embora com isso se possam morder uns tantos ...... manusear da opulenta lingua patria, predicado hoje to raro at entre os nossos escriptores de primeira plana, reune uma acendrada probidade litteraria, ...... Historicas escreveu sobre a Batalha de Toro, o sabio academico hespanhol o ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 285

A Battery At Close Quarters

  [english | 1909]  

Henry Neil

Summary: [A Battery At Close Quarters A Paper Read Before The Ohio Commandery Of The Loyal Legion October 6 1909 by Henry M Neil. This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. A Battery at Close Quarters - A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion - October 6 1909 is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Henry M. Neil is in the English language. ...]
Genres: [essays | war] Downloads: 377

A Beautiful Possibility

  [english | ]  

Edith Ferguson Black

Summary: [A Beautiful Possibility Dodo Press by Edith Ferguson Black. Edith Ferguson Black 1857- 1936 was the Canadian author of A Princess in Calico 1903 A Beautiful Possibility 1904 Allan Ruthven Knight 1907 and Shipmate 1915 .]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 224

A Belated Guest

  [english | ]  

William Dean Howells

Summary: [William Dean Howells (March 1 1837 ? May 11 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He was known for the Christmas story Christmas Every Day and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham.]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 441

A Bells Biography

  [english | 1837]  

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Summary: [A Bell S Biography Penny Books by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation s colonial history. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4 1804 in Salem Massachusetts where his birthplace is now a museum. William Hathorne who emigrated ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 160

A Biblia Da Humanidade

  [english | 1895]  

Antero De Quental

Excerpts: [... Editor-R. V. 1895. Tiragem apenas de 100 exemplares: 20 em papel de linho. 80 em papel d'algodo. N.__. Collaborou Anthero do Quental, assiduamente, ...... do homem est o reino dos ceus. undo, altissimo, accordo de dois genios to distantes pela patria, pela raa, pela tradico, por todos os abysmos ...... do primeiro e innocente ideal humano. Esse templo tiveram-no. Naquella palavra ...]
Genres: [religion] Downloads: 375

A Bibliotheca Nacional

  [english | 1910]  

Xavier Da Cunha

Excerpts: [... Date: December 11, 2010 [EBook #34622]. Produced by Mike Silva. BIBLIOTHECA NACIONAL DE LISBOA. SUAS DEFICIENCIAS. E REMEDIOS D'ESSAS DEFICIENCIAS. THESE ...... DE 1910. POR. Xavier da Cunha. Propriedade e edio da. Secretaria Geral das Bibliothecas e Archivos Nacionaes-Lisboa. COIMBRA Imprensa da ...... deficiencias, escolhi de preferencia, para objectivo de minhas consideraes, a ...]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 274

A Bicycle Of Cathay

  [english | 1900]  

Frank Stockton

Summary: [The book description (above)is a spoiler because it tells you what happens in the end. Nevertheless I read and enjoyed the book. It takes a simple story and tells it entertainingly. My only disappointment was the ending chapter(s). It seems like the author runs out of steam and wants to finish the book in a hurry. Id still recommend the book however. The rest of it is very good.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | romance] Downloads: 449

A Bid For Fortune

  [english | 1895]  

Guy Newell Boothby

Summary: [Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortune is a French literary fairy tale written by Madame dAulnoy.]
Genres: [mysterydetective | pulp] Downloads: 339

A Bier For Baby

  [english | ]  

Dean Evans

Excerpts: [... grunted. This killing? said Gomez. Yeah. This killing. A bawdy house-in front of it, I mean. North Angeles Street. Four thousand block. You probably ...... Identification in the form of a little packet of business cards. Driver's license made out to the same man. Gomez stood again. A couple of ...... pain in the abdomen for us. Okay, come along. The girls are all up back. Gomez ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 367

A Bihari Remete

  [english | 1920]  

Aurl Krpti

Excerpts: [... patrciusnak, mint Licinus borblynak. Kezben pergamentekercset szorongatott, taln Theokritosz egy idilljt, taln egy adslevelet. Elegancijhoz s pomps megjelenshez ...... s azok megkettztettk lpteiket. Az t nemsokra a Tiberis fel kanyarodott s attl alig egy kdobsnyira prhuzamosan haladt tovbb a part blogat fzesei mellett. ...... hajtanak a part fel s az idegenek meglik a rgi erklcsket,...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 118

A Biographical Sketch Of The Life And Character Of Joseph

  [english | 1869]  

Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless

Excerpts: [... so long shrouded them-–and come forth, more beautiful than the hyacinth, to bloom forever on the borders of the river of life. And may you, my sweet ...... off excepting a little bunch on the top of their heads which they reserved as a fastening for their feathers and other head ornaments, of which they ...... of it. There is a Friend who sticketh closer than a brother, to ...]
Genres: [biography | correspondence] Downloads: 68

A Biographical Sketch Of The Life And Character Of Joseph Charless

  [english | ]  

Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless

Excerpts: [... the omissions to which I have alluded. You remember, I mentioned to you the fact, that your grandfather commenced life, as a business man, ...... him for his accumulated business, which, nevertheless, he continued to prosecute with avidity. This was about the year 1841. I do not recollect how ...... creditors for the firm not to close up, but to continue the business, each binding ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 401

A Bird Calendar For Northern India

  [english | 1916]  

Douglas Dewar

Excerpts: [... or absence of the voices of these latter which imparts distinctive features to the minstrelsy of every month of the year. In January the sprightly ...... The shape of the tail, however, enables the observer to distinguish between the two species at a glance. The tail of the kite is long and forked, while ...... and March are the months in which to look for the eggs of the wood-owl. ...]
Genres: [nature] Downloads: 292

A Bird Eye View Of The Bible

  [english | 1914]  

Frank Nelson Palmer

Summary: [A Bird S Eye View Of The Bible by Frank Nelson Palmer. A straightforward easy-reading rendition of the vintage book by Frank Nelson Palmer. Published in 1914 it was intended as a learning device to challenge and test the Bible reader.]
Genres: [religion | instructional] Downloads: 157

A Bird Out Of The Snare

  [english | ]  

Dorothy Canfield

Summary: [Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17 1879 ? November 9 1958) was an educational reformer social activist and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the United States. Dorothy Canfield brought the Montessori method of child-rearing to the United States presided over the countrys ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 328

A Birding On A Bronco

  [english | 1896]  

Florence Merriam

Excerpts: [... with a gleam in his eye and later, when I had done that, from the top of a peak at the foot of the valley he pointed out the distant blue mountains ...... about the branches, darting up for insects or chasing down by his nose after falling millers. One morning the ranchman's little girl rode over to ...... and his mate, and I must turn my glass on them. She came first, with long ...]
Genres: [nature | non fiction] Downloads: 236

A Bit Of Old China

  [english | 1911]  

Charles Warren Stoddard

Summary: [The Kine Saga is a heroic fantasy trilogy written by British author A. R. Lloyd (Alan Richard Lloyd). It comprises Kine (also published as Marshworld) Witchwood and Dragon Pond (first published as Dragonpond) and chronicles the life of a wild Least Weasel named Kine. The name Kine comes from an Old English word for the weasel.]
Genres: [travel] Downloads: 413