Aeb Publishing: 109 books

An American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel." The Leavenworth Case (1878), praised by Wilkie Collins,...

An American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader. Serviss's favorite topic was astronomy, as shown by the fact that of the fifteen books he wrote, eight...

It was in 1925 that he entered the final -- and most successful -- phase of his career; in The House Without a Key, Biggers introduced his readers to a Chinese-Hawaiian-American detective named Charlie Chan. House first ran in the Saturday Evening Post and became so popular, the magazine later paid...

Scientific pedagogy as applied to child education, included chapters on Grammar, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Drawing. Educators will appreciate having this classic in their collection.

Poet and novelist, son of a farmer, was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and educated at the University of Aberdeen, and at the Independent College, Highbury. He became minister of a congregation at Arundel, but after a few years retired, on account partly of theological considerations, partly of a...

An American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. Table of Contents Love Conquers All Of All Things Of All Things - His humorous essays feature observations on daily life, from marriage, business, and gardening to newspapers, opera, trout fishing,...

Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consolation For The Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). John Bull Washington Irving (1783-1859)....

Contents THE PROPHETIC PICTURES By Nathaniel Hawthorne THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW By Washington Irving THE GOLD-BUG By Edgar Allan Poe CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings") By J. Fenimore Cooper UNCLE JIM...

A Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning children's book author. Contents The Story of Mankind Ancient Man, The Beginning of Civilizations The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 (1915) The Story of Mankind- Most widely known among these...

Contain The Great Quest by Charles Boardman Hawes (1921) The Golden Fleece - And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (1922) The Old Tobacco Shop, A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (1921) The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon (1921)...

An Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in some public and private schools throughout the world. Contents Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook (1914) The Montessori Method...

An Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. Contents The Pleasures of Ignorance (1921) The Art of Letters (1921) The Book of This and That (1915) Old and New Masters (1919) The Book of This and That- A collection of brilliant essays by a talented Irishman.

An English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of...

A homesteader in Wyoming, and a memoirist who between 1909 and 1914 wrote letters describing her life there to a former employer in Denver, Colorado. Those letters, which reveal an adventurous, capable, and resourceful woman of lively intelligence, were published in two collections in 1914 and 1915....