Frontiers of Mortality, the singular memoir by Robert Biederman, is a collection of 21 unforgettable and extravagantly diverse personal experiences.Biederman examines life at inception, at death, and the many moral choices in between. His focus is on family relationships, their evolution and devolution as well as a few comic moments that reflect some of the absurdity in our judgment. What results is an uncompromising look at life's hardest moments,...

Provides information on the history of marbles, how they are made, different kinds of marbles, and the games you can play with them.

Tired of following the strict rules of their grumpy replacement principal, second-grader A.J. and his classmates try to find a way to bring back eccentric but lovable Principal Klutz, who was fired for bringing a wild turkey to the school's Thanksgiving Day assembly.

In 1999, a terrified three-year-old hides and listens while his neighbors are being murdered. Soon after, the young boy escapes from Chilapa, Mexico with his parents under the wooden bed of an old truck. Arriving illegally in El Paso that night, his father gives Alex three marbles saying that they are very important and that someday he would understand why. That same night, his father disappears. At age five, Alex doesn't yet understand his environment....

"A lively and welcome account of a charismatic woman," drawing on the personal correspondence of Lady Mary Bruce, wife of the Earl of Elgin (People).
The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East, struck a seemingly...

How intricately interwoven is the fabric of this title from the author's perspective, endowed by a broad spectrum of fun stuff beginning with and ending with that "soup to nuts" encounter, the reason the title is such. Now at sweet sixteen, the time has come to unpack the childhood memories from this disreputable old box with only three worn flaps. The cardboard container has been my faithful traveling companion in motion with my family's moving. Within...

This book is perfect for your next trip to a coffee shop, for your next airplane ride, or just to leave in your bathroom. Its a feel-good companion, a box of chocolates for the mind! A follow-up to 365 Random Thoughts. This book has jokes & comics and remarks on language, philosophy, psychology, politics, economics, and more. It delivers the goods on every page and does not waste your time with preamble, clutter, and fluff! Stimulating! Thought Provoking!...

This is the true story of two young Jewish brothers in German occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage and ingenuity, will be forced to fend for themselves in order to survive the enemy invasion and try bring their family back together. The heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s enduring memoir tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of the two young Jewish boys.

The heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo's enduring memoir tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of the two young Jewish boys.