Frank Carlson Library

Miller's Antiques Handbook & Price Guide remains the essential and trusted guide to the antiques market. It has earned the reputation of being the book no dealer, collector or auctioneer should be without. Compiled by Judith Miller, world-renowned antiques expert and co-founder of the book, the guide features more than 8,000 antiques. Comprehensive sections cover Ceramics, Asian Antiques, Furniture, Glass, Silver and Metalwares, Jewellery and objets...

Our heroine in these two volumes which total 18 chapters, Mary Eliska Girl Detective Girl Aviatrix, is a well-off young lady whose grandfather Albert Stricklin is a newspaper publisher in Piedmont, California, who supports her as a reporter for his paper The Piedmont Star, aware that she likes to dabble in detective work. Flying in her airplane and driving her jalopy "Calamity Jane", Mary Eliska joins with her three best friends: nieces Jacqueline...

Calvin Lee Tolbert authored "A Most Unique Storyteller" to capture his past experiences, history and youth in Baltimore Maryland. The story is told through Calvins poems, anecdotes, thoughts, short stories and even an original play. His work was the result of influence by the group of senior citizens at the Waxter Center in Baltimore in 1994. Their project was to capture the past before it is ALL forgotten.

Make money with hidden finds from Garage Sales to Storage Unit Auctions and everything in-between! In this Chapter Book you'll learn how to value the treasures you buy, as well as learn how to increase their value!

Excerpt: "It has been my endeavour to provide in this book a concise, yet sufficiently complete, account of the physical characters of the mineral species which find service in jewelry, and of the methods available for determining their principal physical constants to enable a reader, even if previously unacquainted with the subject, to have at hand all the information requisite for the sure identification of any cut stone which may be met with. For...

This book delves into the life and teachings of the Islamic prophet, Prophet Muhammad. The author meticulously explores Prophet Muhammad's life from his birth to his prophethood, his time in Mecca, the Medina period, and his post-prophethood life. Additionally, the book focuses on Prophet Muhammad's ethical values, moral teachings, and the universal message he conveyed to humanity, aiming to draw lessons from his life. It serves as a comprehensive...

The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d'Artagnan and his three loyal friends. The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth's acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas's greatest adventures is Blood Royal, the second half of what Dumas originally published as Twenty Years After. In this volume all the plots and schemes set up in the previous novel come...

From Lowney Handy's scandalous small-town open marriage to author James Jones's extraordinary apprenticeship with Maxwell Perkins (legendary editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald), Star-Crossed Lovers illuminates an unforgettable love story. She was an eccentric small-town self-taught rebel, driven by creative zeal and a non-conformist streak. He was a distressed ex-GI (flat broke, without prospects, damaged by war), 17 years younger than she, consumed...

Living on the banks of the Withlacoochee River in Crackertown, Florida was a great place to live. I was either in the river or on the river as much as possible with my friends. That was our playground. I attended elementary school in Yankeetown. Then high school in Crystal River. Good old Crystal River high school. I will never forget you. After graduation I married my boyfriend and moved to Atlanta. He was a student at Georgia Tech. We had 3 children...

Sumptuous treasury of 320 lavish examples of architectural ornamentation from the 1920s and '30s by Paul Kiss, Raymond Subes, Edgar Brandt and other artisans. Meticulously reproduced photographs from three rare portfolios depict magnificent designs for doors, grilles, gates, lamps, balustrades, chandeliers, screens, mirrors, and other objects.