After graduating from Murphy High School in Murphy, North Carolina, Hedyleft home for Western Carolina College—now Western Carolina University—in Cullowee, North Carolina. She was an A student—school was always easy for her—but she was ...
Ballad of the Bones and Other Poems
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw ...
"Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska" is a travel narrative written by Charles Warren Stoddard. In this work, Stoddard recounts his journey through the Rocky Mountains and his exploration of Alaska.
Three generations of the Demas family face the ups and downs of the twentieth century after their fathers leave the coal mines that drew them from Greece to America, become...
The underground history of the American education will take you on a journey into the background, philosophy, psychology, politics, and purposes of compulsion schooling.
This carefully researched work of historical fiction is set in the rural Georgia foothills shortly after World War I--just as the new village of Helen was becoming a rough-and-ready sawmill town and power companies were building dams on the ...
Written by storytellers for storytellers, this volume offers an entirely new approach to word finding. Browse the pages within to see what makes this book different: ~ Entries arranged in chapters by topic.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon, and California, 1865-1881