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A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains,
Isabella L Isabella Lucy Bird(isabella Lucy),1831-1904
"A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) represents a series of the author’s letters to her sister, written during her journey to Colorado. In a six-month period of time she covered over a thousand miles alone, riding a horse, often without any appointed destination. The book is actually a detailed record of this fascinating experience filled with beautiful, vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people she met, their way of life. Among others was "Rocky Mountain Jim" Nugent, a rough man, whom she portrayed as an "awful looking a ruffian as one could see”, but who became her guide and companion, and appears in the book in a romantic outlook. A well brought-up young lady, she rode through the American West, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, climbed mountains and helped with grazing.
The Royal Path of Life Or Aims And Aids to Success And Happiness,
Thomas L HainesConduct of Life
The theme of this book is obviously world-old. And it presents the thoughts and ideas that are never out of date, being both so old and present-day. Success and happiness, striving of people for the better, values of life – the author shows us, how little has changed for the ages. The book was published in 1877, since when we can add this experience of the past to our own.
Angels & Demons,
Dan BrownScience Fiction & Fantasy
Have you fallen in love with «Da Vinci Code» and its characters? Have you been waiting for new eminent works of talented writer? Here you go, you will meet them now again and live together for 24 hours, the time that you will not forget.
Robert Langdon wakes up to answer the phone call. Who can it be, in the middle of the night? Director of CERN, Maximilian Kohler, tells him he needs to immediately meet him to make an expertise. Fax with an awfully killed person makes Robert believe it is serious. On the body he sees the Illuminati symbol. In an hour he is already at the physics lab of CERN in Geneva. The murdered man is Leonardo Vetra, the physicist who was on the threshold of making a discovery that could change the planet and out minds forever… but someone prevented that, they don’t want it to happen… but why? And who are they? That’s what Langdon and Vittoria, Leonardo Vetra’s adopted daughter, have to find out. They realize that the antimatter canister was stolen and go to Vatican to find it. They also need to rescue four kidnapped cardinals during the conclave.
So, who has done all that?.. The Illuminati is responsible for the tragedy, but they won’t stop at anything till they have their vengeance – the Catholic Church ruin.
Robert Langdon wakes up to answer the phone call. Who can it be, in the middle of the night? Director of CERN, Maximilian Kohler, tells him he needs to immediately meet him to make an expertise. Fax with an awfully killed person makes Robert believe it is serious. On the body he sees the Illuminati symbol. In an hour he is already at the physics lab of CERN in Geneva. The murdered man is Leonardo Vetra, the physicist who was on the threshold of making a discovery that could change the planet and out minds forever… but someone prevented that, they don’t want it to happen… but why? And who are they? That’s what Langdon and Vittoria, Leonardo Vetra’s adopted daughter, have to find out. They realize that the antimatter canister was stolen and go to Vatican to find it. They also need to rescue four kidnapped cardinals during the conclave.
So, who has done all that?.. The Illuminati is responsible for the tragedy, but they won’t stop at anything till they have their vengeance – the Catholic Church ruin.
One Hundred Years of Solitude,
Gabriel Garcia MarquezLiterature
The best work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, the novel is translated into many languages. This captivating story of four family generations is considered to be a book of human life and an encyclopedia of human love. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” follows the history of the Buendia family: origin, bloom, decline and disappearance. It is a story of loneliness, which one way or another presented in the life of every Buendia. Solitude, disconnection of the members of family, their inability to understand each other get a mythological streak in the novel, as well as the whole history of the family turns out to be somewhat ancestral myth. This “magical realism” of the prose appears an important instrument that creates a unique picture of America.
Old Mother West Wind,
Burgess Thornton WaldoJuvenile Fiction
In these merry, funny stories children will meet many different kind and cute animals like Reddy Fox, Meadow Mouse, Johnny Woodchuck and many others. Almost every story about them starts when Old Mother West Wind comes from the mountains. Accompanied by her Merry Little Breezes. They played in the meadows and Old Mother West Wind helped sailors by tilling their sails.
Do you want to start your wonderful journey to this merry land?
Do you want to start your wonderful journey to this merry land?
The Silence of God,
Robert AndersonSocialism
The book written by Sir Robert Anderson who was a famous theologian is dealing with the question of the God's role in the life of the world and why He has been silent for two thousand years. The author studies the progress in the development of the religion and the place it took in people's lives. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IX IN Christ's grand and simple creed, expressed in His plainest words, eternal life was the assured inheritance of those who loved God with all their hearts, who loved their neighbours as themselves, and who walked purely, humbly, and beneficently while on earth. In the Christian sects and churches of today, in their recognised formularies and elaborate creeds, all this is repudi-ated as infantine and obsolete; the official means and purchase-money of salvation are altogether changed; eternal life is reserved for those, and for those only, who accept, or profess, a string of metaphysical propositions conceived in a scholastic brain and put into scholastic phraseology" To any one who aims at having clear thoughts and well-based beliefs nothing is more helpful than adverse criticism. Hence the value of the words here quoted. They may be taken, moreover, as expression of opinions of a large and important class by whom the writer, though no longer with us, may still be claimed as a champion and representative...
The Solitary Summer,
ElizabethLiterature
The Solitary Summer saw the world first in 1899 and made its author Elizabeth von Arnim very popular and acknowledged, even more popular than she became after publishing the first book of the sequel called Her German Garden. While the first book was created in the form of a diary, the second novel narrates about one summer in the life of Elizabeth who spends a lot of time in her garden taking care of plants. Readers get carried away from the very first scene of the book when Elizabeth decides to have a free summer without guests and devote it fully to her family and her garden. She loves nature a lot and wants to be closer to it. Also in the novel you will find the description of Elizabeth's relationship with her husband to whom she is fully dedicated. All readers who like nature and are fond of nice and kind stories will definitely enjoy the book.
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860 69,
Edward WhymperBooks
The book written by Edward Whymper, a famous illustrator, writer, explorer and climber, is a real discovery for those readers who love nature and especially mountains. The author focuses not only the English history of mountaineering in the Victorian epoch, but also on the beauty of the mountainous regions and the possible risks in mountaineering. Edward Whymper is known as the first who has conquered Matterhorn so his impressions about his ascend are especially valuable. In his description other peaks of the Andes and the Alps with their fascinating beauty are included.
The Enormous Room,
Cummings Edward EstlinBooks
Edward Cummings, the author of the book, was suspected of treason and put, without any due reason, to prison camp. Those several months influenced him a lot and all those people, all unique characters who he met there, in the «Enormous room», became part of the plot of this brilliantly written masterpiece. Sometimes merry, sometimes maddening… but always fascinating. Reading it you will feel the sense of humor an intelligence of its author and will have a chance to look into his soul…
Children of the Dead End the Autobiography of a Navvy,
Macgill PatrickChildren's Books
“Children of the Dead End” by Patrick MacGill, an Irish novelist, known as "The Navy Poet", appears to be his own autobiography, though written as a fiction novel. The book transports readers to the end of the 19th century, the author’s childhood times in Ireland; and continues the narration of the journey and events of his further navying life. Exhausted by the grinding poverty, the hero leaves home and at the age of 12 in search of work ‘beyond the hills’; works to exhaustion for indifferent tenant farmers, and runs away, joining the emigrants headed for Scotland. The book, a moving tale of lost love, published in 1914, still remains fresh and exciting reading.