John Gordon: 114 books

John Brown Gordon (1832-1904) was one of the Souths biggest firebrands, and he fought like it, displaying personal courage and toughness unmatched by most of the Souths fighters. The result was multiple wounds at places like the Seven Days Battles, and most notably at Antietam, where he was hit 4 times...

Gray, a warrior from a remote planet in Sector 8, works as security on space runs for small, often marginally legal outfits. Now he has the chance to make a tremendous amount of confederate credits and achieve a good end in the process. He accepts the assignment with some misgiving because he must...

Three tales for children and some adults. The Magician, The Lion, And The Mouse - is a fable style tale about a young man looking for a little protection that he could have done without. DreamDancer - a young girl wants to dance and gets her chance with results greater than she expected. Marshall...

Pleasure Houses were found on every civilized planet in the galaxy. Their work was designed to prepare the way for Star Black to consume all life. The unique ruling consciousness for controlling all sentient life was the Inchanda Teen. Inchanda, always a woman, was trained and uniquely prepared for...

If you can answer the following fourteen questions, you need NOT buy Awestruck. Otherwise…spend a buck and have some fun. Whose record-setting endeavor was officially deemed by the U.S. government to be "manifestly unsafe," yet he persevered? What was Neil Armstrong's version of...

"When a web is broken it can never be rebuilt. Instead you abandon the old and build anew. But the new web, you wonder, will it break? What caused the old one to break, what tore that painstaking symmetry that experience and the history of lifetimes of web building created? So you build the next web...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.   In contemporary discussions of...

The 2008 financial crisis was a reminder to people both inside and outside the Actuarial Profession of just how complex the Financial Services industry has become, and just how tied the World economy presently is to its fortunes. This wide-ranging, non-technical book examines our present economic...

I don't know why I was chosen for this, or even how it happened. After many years of meditation and development, one night my Guide told me to "let go and we'll do the rest." This book is all about what heppened next.

A stirring and compelling story, full of adventure, set against the background of the move to freedom in Africa. In the face of opposition, hatred, violence and death, the gentler human feelings of friendship and love are nonetheless maintained. Joseph Mahoney is the last Colonial Commissioner in...

For many years hunters had tried to kill Dhlulamiti, but he had survived. An elephant some thirteen and a half feet tall – his name translated to ‘Taller than trees’ – and weighing in at twelve tons he was a giant even amongst the largest species of mammal ever to have inhabited the earth....

It's lunchtime and the farmer's hungry, but his lunch box is empty! He turns to all the animals on his farm for help, the sheep, cows, horses and geese, but they are all being very secretive. Are they hiding his lunch, or a much bigger and better surprise? The delightful illustrations develop the...

Wintertime in the moody, atmospheric mists of East Anglia. Diving into the cold, murky water of a lake, Kit and Joe find an elaborate patten - a Fen word for ice skate. Its return to the surface is not widely welcomed and, as it emerges, the story of how the skate became detached from its owner fifty...

You are flying cross-country in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. I’ll bet you an overpriced on-board sandwich that three-quarters of your fellow passengers can’t explain how that half-million-pound machine stays aloft. “It is something about lift, and curved wings,” they will say. Really? If the wing’s...