Fall River Press: 140 books

The Irish people are well known for their rich tradition of oral and written wisdom that has left an indelible mark on history for more than 1,500 years. Their words embody a unique perspective on life with all its challenges, triumphs, and tragedy. The Essential Wisdom of the Irish gathers...

Celebrate the grace, humor, style, warmth, and intelligence of Michelle Obama. This illuminating and powerful collection offers new insight into the beloved First Lady, mom, and inspiring leader in her own right. The hundreds of quotes are drawn from appearances, speeches, and interviews that took...

The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan invites you to revisit the words of our fortieth president—a man who left an indelible mark on the world over the course of his eight years in office. From humble beginnings, Ronald Reagan struggled through the Great Depression and carved out successful careers as...

Most readers know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the rational detective who epitomized deductive logic. Who could have guessed that Doyle also wrote some of the most wildly imaginative tales of horror and supernatural published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? The...

Vengeful ghosts, ravenous rats, gypsy curses, and the walking dead await you in Dracula’s Guest & Other Tales of Horror, a collection of the best short macabre fiction of Bram Stoker, author of the immortal vampire classic Dracula. Written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the twelve...

Edith Wharton wrote about the lives and customs of nineteenth-century New York gentry as only an insider to their society could. Her elegant tales of elite ladies and gentlemen who worship at the alter of social propriety and who are bound by traditional social mores shimmer with the rich sheen of America's...

“I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius; I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar….My excuse for writing about them, notwithstanding, is merely the human excuse which every new poet has for writing about the spring. They have attracted me; they have moved me to reflection; they have revealed...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Her Essential Wisdom invites readers to experience for themselves the powerful words of this remarkable woman, who has spent a lifetime in service to the United States of America—as a young lawyer fighting for the disadvantaged, as First Lady, first of Arkansas and then of...

Essential Black Wisdom gathers together hundreds of powerful quotations from people of African descent into a singularly resonant collection of thought. Arranged thematically, the selections are drawn from speeches, memoirs, novels, proverbs, and folk sayings, and cover subjects as universal and singular...

Find Daily Comfort in Ancient Prayer "Kol Hatchalot Kashot."All beginnings are difficult. New graduate, newlywed, first-time mother, or new job. Every single new beginning is difficult. Not just the onset of an illness or the beginning of grad school, or the first weeks of a job search, but all new...

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater. —Albert Einstein   Everyone has heard students’ most common complaint in math class: “Why do I need to learn this? I’ll never use it when I’m older!” Some of us have even been...

Once upon a time  . . .   These words are a magic incantation that opens doors to a fantastic realm that is home to fairy godmothers, wicked witches, beautiful princesses, princes charming (and not so charming), sleeping beauties, fearsome ogres, fearless giant-killers, beasts with love in their...

Author Victor Dorff brings you on a journey around the world to explore varying aspects of different religions. With everything from facts to pop quizzes to polls, World Religions offers fascinating trivia about spirituality. Here are just a few of the interesting facts you’ll find in World Religions: •...

“Verne was a master at taking us on intriguing journeys to far corners of our planet—and beyond.” —Arthur C. Clarke   In the nineteenth century, French author Jules Verne awed readers with astounding adventures that transported them to the ends of the Earth, plunged them...