Product Description: Unseen Hero, by Cynthia Wall, is a compelling, inspirational story that takes you into the life of Katharine Harris as she trades a life of pain and misery for one of love and mystery. I have to get out of here before he kills me, thought Kathairne in desperation...read more

Product Description: In September 1666 the Great Fire destroyed four-fifths of the ancient commercial City of London. All that had been familiar, settled, known, was suddenly swept away, and Londoners faced an emptiness that was not only physical but also historical, social, financial, and conceptual...read more

This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century. Crosses conventional disciplinary lines. Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by literature.

Product Description: This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets...read more

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Product Description: This book tells the furthur adventures of the author, a former nursing professor and her nurseryman husband on his wholesale nursery in Oregon. This is an account of all the people who populate their lives told with humor and a dash of wisdom...read more

Product Description: Marc Lawrence only communications were his broken ham radio transceiver and a VHF hand-held radio that was useless because of the terrain.

Product Description: This edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem — both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version — together with a broad selection of documents. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

While babysitting aboard a cruise ship, Kim Stafford and her friend Marc must use their skill as amateur radio operators to help save the life of a four-year-old boy who is being held for ransom.

Product Description: Fires explode everywhere in Oregon's tinder-dry Cascade Mountains. The fire lookout person was Kim Stafford, KA7SJP