Qarie Marshall

Children build various traps, trying to catch the leprechaun as he brings mischief to each of their houses.

In this unique insider account, John H. Sununu pays tribute to his former boss -- an intelligent, thoughtful, modest leader -- and his overlooked accomplishments. Though George H.W. Bush is remembered for orchestrating one of the largest and most successful military campaigns in history -- the Gulf War -- Sununu argues that conventional wisdom misses many of Bush's other great achievements. During his presidency, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet...

A collection of short stories by one of the great American authors of the twentieth century Originally published in October 1927, the second short-story collection published by Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway contains the following fourteen stories: The Undefeated In Another Country Hills Like White Elephants The Killers Che Ti Dice La Patria? Fifty Grand A Simple Enquiry Ten Indians A Canary for One An Alpine Idyll A Pursuit...

"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explain."--

An explosion outside his speakeasy draws Jimmy into a life-or-death chase
Young Jimmy Quinn is delivering a bribe for the infamous racketeer Arnold Rothstein when a bomb goes off on Wall Street, killing thirty people and scaring every banker in the city right down to his spats. Twelve years later, Rothstein is dead, and Jimmy is doing his best to stay out of trouble, running a quiet little Manhattan speakeasy. At a particularly bad

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A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.

An introduction to the history and customs of Thanksgiving.

When a young boy happens upon a book about redwood forests, his ordinary subway trip is transformed to include dinosaurs, ancient Roman citizens, and the forest itself!

Two episodes of the television series I shouldn't be alive. In Lost in the snow, a family is caught in a blizzard and must survive for days with no provisions and little hope for rescue. Jaws of death: after his plane crashes on an African game reserve, an injured pilot's only refuge from predators is his wrecked, fuel-soaked plane, which could ignite at any moment.

On June 4, 1944, the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossible--capturing German U-boat U-505. Called Operation Nemo, it was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, one of the greatest achievements of the US Navy and a victory that shortened the duration of the war.