Anne: 9570 books

It's Christmas Eve and Santa's sleigh is stuck in a great big snowdrift! Luckily Santa spots a nearby house where Mark and Martha live with their parents. But dad doesn't believe the kids when they tell him Santa is outside and needs his help, and even when dad meets him, he still doesn't think the...

“Truffaut fans will love this English translation of Gillain’s work drawing on the psychology and cinematography of the acclaimed filmmaker.” —Booklist For François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through...

The history of the Enchanted Forest is one of magical beginnings. When it first opened in 1955, Ellicott City's storybook land became the first children's theme park on the East Coast. Young visitors could climb aboard rides like the Little Toot tugboat, Mother Goose and Ali Baba or encounter animals...

October 2017 marked one hundred years since the Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the Romanov Dynasty. But as the anniversary approached, there appeared to be some ambivalence in the Kremlin as to how the event should be celebrated, if indeed, celebrated at all. The mood in Russia was captured...

Often called the sport of kings, horse racing dates back at least to the chariot races of the ancient Olympic Games. Arriving in Britain with the Romans in the first century BC, its popularity among the elite led to the breeding of thoroughbred racehorses and prompted the establishment of a formal...

More than two decades ago noted author artist and teacher Mary Anne Radmacher was beginning her chosen path--to live with purpose to make a difference. She lost a dear friend and she wrote these words which have appeared wrapped around mugs on carry bags and journals day planners refrigerator magnets...

**AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today** In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of...

An innocent pawn  A kingdom without a king  A new dynasty will reign…  The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her...

A secretive child by nature, Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father, determined that one day she will find him. Unable and unwilling to adapt to life in her mother's unsympathetic household, she distances herself as much as possible.When she finally discovers her...

Can’t get enough of Hamilton? Think the British were the only ones we squabbled with during the Revolutionary War? Think again! A unique look at how the founding fathers settled their differences in their quest to settle a nation. George Washington vs. King George. Benjamin Franklin vs. his...

Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O’Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination—indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. Gone With the Wind took the American reading public by storm and went on to become...

From their initial, intense training, friendships were born and a special bonding of the unit began. Over the next three years that bond strengthen as these combat engineers found themselves supporting the troops on the front-lines of almost every major battle: from the shores of North Africa, across...

Después de La villa de las telas llega la segunda parte de esta saga romántica histórica para fans de Downton Abbey, María Dueñas, Kate Morton o Lucinda Riley, que ha cautivado a más de dos millones de lectoras. Una poderosa familia. Una guerra terrible. Una mansión que esconde más...

In Buying the Night Flight Georgie Anne Geyer, one of the first American women to cover wars abroad, tells of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated world of journalism. Born from thirty years of reporting experience, Geyer transports...