Larry: 3162 books

The wonder and mystery of The Great Tomes series continues with The Great Tome of Fantastic and Wondrous Places. Volume Three of this collection features narratives revolving around the exploration of fantasy or alien locales in which the acts of exploration and adventure are central to the plot....

Treachery and double-cross are the hallmarks of the mercenary soldier. Because, who is the real enemy? Is he the man in your cross-hairs, or the friend alongside you? Or is it the man who pays your wages? Martin Palmer knows that a potentially fatal bullet might come from any direction. And yet he...

Two short stories with Josef, "The Enochian": The Secret Under the Hills: This story begins with Josef tracking the first of his prey to a secret base in the hills of Colorado. The Mystery in the Swamp: This story takes Josef to meet another experiment and a possible future for Josef.

Nero's palace, the Domus Aurea (Golden House), is the most influential known building in the history of Roman architecture. It has been incompletely studied and poorly understood ever since its most important sections were excavated in the 1930s. In this book, Larry Ball provides systematic investigation...

Ma Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd once shot their way across the state, and Bonnie and Clyde were known to travel within its borders. Between 1933 and 1938, thirty bank robberies occurred in Kansas, while livestock thefts also grew at an alarming rate. Little wonder, then, that pressure was brought to...

“A vivid and compelling account by a true master of oral history.” —General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.), Supreme Allied Commander, Europe On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000...

Six Words Fresh Off the Boat marries the phenomenon of Larry Smith's successful Six-Word Memoirs with ABC and 20th Century Fox Television's hit comedy Fresh Off the Boat. The book captures hundreds of takes on the immigration experience, from every-day people as well as world-famous celebrities including...

During the Civil War, Springfield was a frontier community of about 1,500 people, but it was the largest and most important place in southwest Missouri. The Northern and Southern armies vied throughout the early part of the war to occupy its strategic position. The Federal defeat at Wilson's Creek in...

You might be wondering how you could make more friends or improve your existing relationships and, it is completely normal, nothing to feel embarrassed about. The human being is a social entity by nature, and not everyone can master all the areas (even if so, they might have insecurities about it)....

A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass...

The Quest for the West is an epic, historical poem in verse. It starts with the first thirteen colonies becoming states. The poem continues telling the story of how each state was formed as the government acquired territories across a newly developing country. As the states and territories came to...

President Donald Trump fooled everyone, mainly the people who voted for him. Many believe that he is not on your side unless you are racist and sexist, but the author did attempt to write this book with an open mind. See if he succeeded. It was the most amazing run for the Presidency in our history. Read how Trump did it in one opinion of how you can win against all odds, Trump's own.

From one of the authors of Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar comes Speak and Read Chinese, a simple, fun guide that helps language learners remember essential Chinese characters.Students and teachers rate character pronunciation and tones the two most difficult aspects of learning Chinese....

The story is about the existential highly educated, rebellious kid, whose only protection with the world outside his brilliant mind is his sarcastic wit and his subversive private school demeanor. At seventeen he finds himself still haunted by his mother’s abandonment and horrific suicide,...