When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diphtheria.
Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN.
Trying to hold the family together after her mother's death, Hannah worries about her sense of purpose when her father returns to the sea and her younger siblings become self-sufficient, and Hannah decides to make a wonderful quilt.
John Lawson, ATown Grammar School Through Six Centuries (1963), Hull, p83. 13. Mr SmirkeorThe Divinein Mode (1676), Grosart,Vol.IV,p15. 14. Samuel Parker, A Reproof,p227. 15. The Rehearsal, p41. 16. L.2. 17. Wood, pp230–2. 18. John Cook ...
In this second volume, author Andrew Och continues his travels to "to nearly every city, town, village, home, school, church, birthplace, cemetery, train station, farm, plantation, library, museum, general store, town center and cottage" ...
Ian McDonald weaves a love story across an endless expanse with his science fiction novella Time Was A love story stitched across time and war, shaped by the power of books, and ultimately destroyed by it.
Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, Book Was There is an elegantly argued and thoroughly up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world.
When Uncle Al is kidnapped by Dr. Kron-Tox and sent to prehistoric times, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot try to use Uncle Al's latest invention, the Time-A-Tron, to rescue him, and learn first-hand about the origins of the ...
clockmaker John Harrison built five experimental sea clocks between 1735 and 1772, and with them he demonstrated the feasibility of accurate timekeeping at sea. With regular grants from the Board of Longitude and with the help of his ...
Beyond the Time Barrier
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