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Published in 1928, Millions of Cats is an American classic, the first modern picture book. It received the 1929 Newbery Honor Award and has sold more than a million copies.
If you KNOW what you WANT you can HAVE IT!This unconventional little book presents a concise, definite plan for bettering your conditions in life. It shows you how to use the Mighty Power within that is anxious and willing to serve you if you know how to use it. Many thousands before you have done so. Your turn is now.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately," wrote Henry David Thoreau, "to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." In what is perhaps the greatest classic of American literature, Thoreau describes his woodland experience and the lessons he learned in a tiny cabin at the immortal Walden Pond. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
In the labyrinthine cellars of the grand Paris Opera lurks a mysterious figure. Is he a madman, a genius, or a ghost? Finally he reveals himself to Christine Daae, a beautiful actress and singer, who believes he is the Angel of Music her father promised to send her from heaven. But when she falls in love with someone else, she learns the terrible truth. Based on a true story, and filled with suspense, mystery, and romance, this ingenious novel will both terrify and delight. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
In this quintessential western novel, the foreman of a large cattle ranch on the Wyoming frontier lives by the honor code of the West, even though it means lynching a friend and possibly losing the woman he loves. Published in 1902, the book became hugely popular for decades, inspiring five movies and a long-running TV series (1962-1971). All the classic elements are here: the handsome cowboy hero; the pretty schoolmarm; the villain who must finally face justice at the end of a gun. In 1977, the Western Writers of America voted this the top western novel of all time. For anyone wondering how the myth of the western hero came into being, this is the book to read. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
From the introduction: "In a letter dated December 12, 1920, Deems Taylor wrote, 'I have finished Jurgen; a great and beautiful book, and the saddest book I ever read. I don't know why, exactly. The book hurts me--tears me to small pieces--but somehow it sets me free. It tells me everything I am, and have been, and may be, unsparingly.' Jurgen wrestles, in its odd way, with the fundamental tragedy of human life in general and male life in particular: We are doomed to age and die; meanwhile happiness will prove elusive. Jurgen isn't for everyone. Some will "get it" and some won't. It's a story of fantastic adventures, but it will be fully appreciated only by those who are stirred by symbol and metaphor. We may not be prancing through a magical world as Jurgen does, but some of us will see echoes of our own dreams and nightmares in his story. If you're such a person, then Jurgen may hit you like a ton of bricks. For those who are interested, some rabid fans (of which there are many) put together a collection of explanatory footnotes in 1928, and these have been included in this edition. It's worth noting that Jurgen is obscurely suggestive without being explicit; it went over the heads of some, but others saw what was going on, and they either guffawed or objected vigorously. There were serious attempts to suppress it, which of course only made the text notorious. It was (and still is) politically incorrect, and it garnered something of a counter-cultural following for all the wrong reasons. Well, so be it. The book is among the greatest works of fantasy, and that's all there is to say." Along with the notes, this edition of Jurgen includes the classic illustrations of Frank C. Pape and a map of Jurgen's land, making this the most complete version of the book ever published. Newly designed and beautifully typeset in a 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
Bullied at school, friendless and misunderstood, Broadie Bennett learns to trust the loving, sincere people who come into his life. When January, a girl his age, moves in next door, a fragile friendship grows, and through the sting of a first crush he is helplessly pushed aside as she soon suffers dire challenges of her own. His circumstances deteriorate through the disintegration of his family and an increasingly violent environment, but he holds on to a vision of the life he wants, one small symbol of what he desires most: a gold coin that belonged to his great-grandmother. As he is torn away from the only stability he has ever known, the home of his grandparents, he faces a choice between escape and the selfless care of his younger siblings. Little does he know how great and far-reaching his small choices will become for his life and those around him.
For more than twenty years, Editor's ToolKit Plus has been the premier editing add-in for Microsoft Word, easing the workload of editors all over the world. With the release of the 2023 version of the program, the documentation for the program is at long last available as a printed book, with wide pages that make it easy to leave the book open on your desk for ready reference, and expansive margins with plenty of room for notes.The book includes detailed instructions for all of the program's features, including such new ones as: Projects. Save (and then later reopen) all the documents related to a specific project.Switcheroo. Instantly switch between words or phrases, such as last and past, or loose and lose.Lookups. Automatically look up the currently selected text in online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works.Document Converter. Export documents in a different format (such as ePub or Markdown).Of course, a searchable, hyperlinked PDF of this book is included with the program itself, but for ease of use, it's tough to beat paper pages. This printed edition of Editor's ToolKit Plus 2023 User Manual gives them to you.
Published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon was the first novel in what would become Jules Verne's "Extraordinary Voyages" series. It recounts the adventures of scholar and explorer Dr. Samuel Fergusson, accompanied by his manservant Joe and his friend Richard "Dick" Kennedy, who make a 4,000-mile trip across the African continent-still not fully explored-in a hydrogen balloon. When the books was published, public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the novel was an instant hit; it made Verne financially independent and led to long-term contracts for some sixty books over the next four decades. Mixing adventure, comedy, and science fiction, the book has all the ingredients of a classic Verne novel: sly humor, cheeky characters, scientific invention, a tangled plot, suspense, surprise, and visions of an unknown realm. More than 150 years after its first publication, it retains its ability to intrigue and entertain.Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.
One night at his gentlemen's club, staid Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his companions half of his fortune that he can travel around the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand-whether train or elephant-overcoming impossible setbacks and always racing against the clock. But will he succeed and collect on his bets? This well-loved novel by science-fiction writer Jules Verne wonderfully captures the spirit of adventure that was bubbling around the beginning of the twentieth century. Entertaining and enthralling from beginning to end, this classic adventure tale is impossible to put down.
Bambi, a Life in the Woods traces the life of a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father, and the experience he gains about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest. Combining innocence, realism and a profound respect for nature, the novel teaches the importance of thinking for oneself and the fact that no living creature is all-powerful. Regarded as one of the first environmental novels, Bambi is a true literary classic, an exploration of life's meaning, written not just for children but for adults as well.
One of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces, The Sun Also Rises is the quintessential novel of the "Lost Generation"-American expatriates living in Paris after World War I.
Written just after the American Revolution, Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are two thoroughly American tales of fantasy and the supernatural.Rip Van Winkle follows the strange adventure of a Dutch-American villager in colonial America. He meets mysterious Dutchmen in the Catskill Mountains, imbibes their liquor, and falls asleep. He awakes twenty years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow features Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher who lives in a village on the Hudson River. A suggestible man, Ichabod believes the ghost stories about the place, particularly the tale of a headless horseman. When he begins courting the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, a rival suitor, Brom Bones, begins playing tricks on the schoolmaster. Late one night as Ichabod rides home from Katrina's house, he is pursued by the legendary headless horseman. The specter hurls at him a round object that he takes to be a head but is later revealed to be a pumpkin. The schoolmaster is never seen in Sleepy Hollow again.These two gothic masterpieces are among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity.
The author writes, "Zen culture's primary lesson is that we should start trying to experience art and the world around us rather than analyzing them. When we do this, we find that everything suddenly comes alive. If we can take this power of direct perception, sharpened by the devices of Zen art, back to everyday activities, we will find a beauty in common objects that we previously ignored. Flowers-indeed individual petals-become objects of the most intense loveliness. When we see the world with a Zen-honed awareness, our sense of the beauty in objects supplants our desire to possess them. If we allow the ancient creators of Zen culture to touch our lives, we open wider the doors of perception."Includes chronology, glossary, and bibliography for in-depth study.Lavishly illustrated with artwork and photographs. Printed on acid-free, archival-quality paper. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.
If you've already finished Netflix's Lupin, never fear-the Arsène Lupin books have plenty of mystery to keep you occupied while waiting for the next part of the series. The French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin is both a brilliant detective and a dashing master criminal with his own strong code of ethics. Slender, elegant, refined, brilliant, and seductive, he is the model of the "Belle Epoque" dandy. His intelligence, culture, and talents as an illusionist are all at the service of his astonishing nerve. But this accomplished man of the world is also an anarchist at heart, playing with social conventions with marvelous insolence.In The Hollow Needle, Arsène Lupin is opposed by Isidore Beautrelet, a young but gifted amateur detective who is poised to give Arsène a big headache. The Hollow Needle hides a secret handed down by the kings of France since the time of Julius Caesar-a fortune in pearls, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds. But who can unlock the treasure? And how?Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.
If you've already finished Netflix's Lupin, never fear-the Arsène Lupin books have plenty of mystery to keep you occupied while waiting for the next part of the series. The French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin is both a brilliant detective and a dashing master criminal with his own strong code of ethics.Slender, elegant, refined, brilliant, and seductive, he is the model of the "Belle Epoque" dandy. His intelligence, culture, and talents as an illusionist are all at the service of his astonishing nerve. But this accomplished man of the world is also an anarchist at heart, playing with social conventions with marvelous insolence.In this collection, featuring a battle of wits between the nimblest French thief and the shrewdest British detective, Lupin finds himself pitted against aging Herlock Sholmes (a transparent reference to Sherlock Holmes, the hero of Conan Doyle's detective stories). Who will emerge as the victor? Who is the mysterious "blonde lady"? And what will happen to the elusive Blue Diamond? Only Lupin knows!Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.
If you've already finished Netflix's Lupin, never fear-the Arsène Lupin books have plenty of mystery to keep you occupied while waiting for the next part of the series. The French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin is both a brilliant detective and a dashing master criminal with his own strong code of ethics. In this intriguing novel, adapted from a Lupin tale penned for the stage, Lupin finds himself at the center of an unusual romance. But is his love interest really what she seems to be, or is something more dangerous going on? Lupin will always find out!
If you've already finished Netflix's Lupin, never fear-the Arsène Lupin books have plenty of mystery to keep you occupied while waiting for the next part of the series. The French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin is both a brilliant detective and a dashing master criminal with his own strong code of ethics. Slender, elegant, refined, brilliant, and seductive, he is the model of the "Belle Epoque" dandy. His intelligence, culture, and talents as an illusionist are all at the service of his astonishing nerve. But this accomplished man of the world is also an anarchist at heart, playing with social conventions with marvelous insolence. The first tale in this collection was published in July 1905 in the newspaper Je Sais Tout-the first story ever to feature Lupin. Encouraged by its success, author Maurice Leblanc continued the adventure in several more short stories. This classic collection is the result. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.
In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway's first novel, published in Paris in 1924, launched his career as a major literary talent. This edition includes the eighteen short but powerful vignettes included in the original edition. In 1925, Hemingway published a much-expanded edition that included some of his most famous stories.
First published in 1917, Little Brother & Little Sister is a mix of forty well known and less known Grimm fairy tales, including "Snow-White and Rose-Red," "The Cunning Little Tailor," "The Young Giant," and many more, all selected by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham. The deep forest settings of many of these German stories, based upon folklore, harmonize beautifully with Rackham's beautiful and intricate black-and-white drawings, fifty-five altogether, which depict gnomes, trolls, giants, mischievous fairies, animals that talk, and trees with more personality than people. This wonderful collection will become a favorite treasure of any child who loves to read.
If a zombie pandemic broke out, turning your friends and neighbors into lurching hulks of the living dead, would you be prepared? Would you have what you need to protect your family and survive? And what if an ACTUAL pandemic broke out? (Note: It ALREADY HAS!)This entertaining and educational publication produced digitally in comic-book format by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services explains what you need to do to be safe, both now and in the future. This edition from Waking Lion Press makes the publication available in printed form for easy reference. Keep it in your bug-out bag!
Based on author E. M. Forster's real-life experiences, A Passage to India is a mind-opening tale set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement of the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th-century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its "All-Time 100 Novels" list.
Based on a real-life murder case, An American Tragedy is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who longs to escape the impoverished life of his fanatically religious parents and achieve financial and social success. On a more profound level, the novel is a masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his wretched fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream. Extraordinary in scope and power, vivid in its sense of wholesale human waste, unceasing in its rich compassion, An American Tragedy stands as Theodore Dreiser's supreme achievement.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. An exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s, it recounts the haunting story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his obsession with the beautiful Daisy Buchanan at a time when, as the New York Times observed, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession." The book explores themes of wealth, decadence, idealism, social upheaval, and resistance to change. It is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel.
Pepper and Salt, by Howard Pyle, is a wonderful collection of children's stories and poetry. Written at the turn of the century when children's literature was at its peak, its charming illustrations and fascinating tales impart valuable lessons in a way that is meant to both entertain and elevate young readers. The author writes, "One must have a little pinch of seasoning in this dull, heavy life of ours; one should never look to have all the troubles, the labors, and the cares, with never a whit of innocent jollity and mirth. Yes; one must smile now and then, if for nothing else than to lift the corners of the lips in laughter that are only too often dragged down in sorrow." The illustrations, drawn by one of the greatest artists who ever lived-the author himself-are both rollicking and lovely, and perfectly complete this clever and altogether delightful book. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.
The Richest Man in Babylon gives timeless financial advice through parables set in ancient Babylon. Let them guide you away from the stringencies of a lean purse to that fuller, happier life a full purse makes possible.
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