Frank Carlson Library

A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king. To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German Kaiser condemned him as "an old peacock." King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography. Shedding new light on the scandals that peppered...

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Christophe Colomb et la découverte de l'Amérique en moins d'une heure! Le 3 août 1492, Christophe Colomb prend enfin la mer après de longs préparatifs. Son objectif est de taille: trouver une route pour atteindre les Indes depuis l'ouest. Après deux mois d'un long et dangereux périple, il aperçoit des terres. Serait-ce enfin l'Asie? Tout en nous faisant découvrir la vie de Christophe Colomb...

Back to love is an autobiography that tells the story of a teenager's decision to have a child and the direction that decision will swiftly take her, a journey of emotional healing and self-rediscovery. The text reads like a detective story, an Inner World Detective Story, as she begins to uncover and take more seriously the past-experiences that had truly shaped her. Back to love is therefore a triumph over adversity story; a simple, yet extraordinary...

Pioneer, patriot, politician... John Harris Jr. was a true visionary in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania-during a time in history when taking a risk meant putting your life on the line. He proudly took bold steps in supporting monumental changes that now define history. His legacy is strong in Pennsylvania, but his story has never been told, until now. Visionary Road to the Capital sheds light on Harris' journey-filled with both tragedies and triumphs-during...

From the Thirty Years' War to the formation of Great Britain, the royal mother of the House of Hanover comes to life in this historical biography. Princess Sophia of Hanover was born to greatness and yet fated to obscurity. The 1701 Act of Settlement made her the heiress presumptive to the thrones of England and Ireland, and yet she died mere weeks before becoming queen. Granddaughter of James I and mother to George I, she was perhaps the finest...

This first book by Pennie Morehead chronicles the life of Judith, the wife of Gary Ridgway, the infamous serial killer of more than 48 women. It contains 112 original photographs and letters, many published here for the first time, and reveal the relationship between Gary and his unsuspecting wife, Judith, who was living some of the happiest years of her life while married to a killer. Ms. Morehead also gives an in depth analysis of Gary's handwritten...

A memoir of one young woman's decade-long adventure with her husband in one of the most uninhabitable and inhospitable places on Earth. Raised as a well-to-do Virginia girl, Edna fell head-over-heels in love with a semi-literate and restless young man whose dreams of adventure and freedom were as wide as the California sky. "I can't take a soft life," he told his bride. "It rots a man." Thus began an uncommon love story. For ten happy years, 1931...

A vivid, varied account of a globally-minded woman's intriguing adventures and evolving worldview, Santha Rama Rau's "informal" autobiography covers a life defined by almost perpetual motion-from her birth in India to an upbringing in England and South Africa, from her education at Wellesley College in the United States to far-flung travel to China, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Spain, and beyond. Part memoir, part journalism, Gifts...

I was the 35th President of the United States and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. I am John F. Kennedy. Just in time for the 50th anniversary of his assassination, learn all about the youngest-ever President of the United States in the continuation of Scholastic's biography series, I Am. Each book features a full-color illustrated cover, one-color illustrations throughout, a detailed timeline, introductions to other notable people from the story,...

A fascinating, insightful, and nail-biting account by a World War One veteran-a Grub Street Classic previously out of print for more than thirty years. In these exciting memoirs, "Tich" Rochford writes about his two action-filled years as a World War I fighter pilot with the famous No. 3 (Naval) Squadron when he flew planes such as the Sopwith Pup and the Sopwith Camel. While flying many hundreds of hours in operations he was credited with many...