Tom: 4996 books

Imagine a tiny boy, small as a finger; that’s Tom Thumb! A woodman and his wife long for a child and very soon a son is born to them. But as the years pass, Tom grows hardly at all! Tiny he may be, but he has the heart of a lion. Tom decides to go and help with father chop wood and this...

‘As my old pappy used to say…’ Bret Maverick began, but Pappy had had it: ‘I never used to say any of those things! You’ve been misquoting me all your life!’ ‘Well, you said so many dumb things it was hard to keep track!’ As we near the end of our book, we can...

"Tom's Two Cents" was an award winning humor column by Tom M. Paolangeli that ran in the Ithaca Times for many years. This is a collection of some of his best and favorite columns. It includes some longer versions as well as some never before published pieces. Tom's columns often focused...

Mark Twain once said "The rumors of my death were greatly exaggerat—BRAINS!!!!!" Pulled from the grip of Mark Twain's rotting zombie hands, is Tom Sawyer like you've never seen him before, in a swashbuckling, treasure-seeking adventure, spiked with blood, gore, and zombie madness. In...

The baby business is booming. Billions of dollars are spent each year on strollers, cribs, and clothing, not to mention assisted reproduction and adoption. With fertility rates dropping precipitously in the US and babies becoming ever more valuable as a combination of status symbol and perfect accessory,...

Tom Kando is born at the epicenter of the world’s greatest war. In Hungary, his family survives the holocaust, the nazi and soviet occupations, the bombs, the genocide, and starvation. They escape from Budapest to Paris, living in abject poverty as war refugees. The boy roams the streets, subways...

It has been 105 years since writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name “Mark Twain,” took his final breath.But, nearly identical in appearance, personality, and authentic dress, you would think he was sitting in Tom’s living room today—a traveler brought here through...

One of NPR's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince...

Young Tom has always dreamed of wolves, which everyone knows don't exist. One day he goes out for a log from the woodpile, and when he returns, there is another Tom, like him, but other. Tom, Thom, this dark and compelling tale from short fiction writer K. M. Ferebee will make you reconsider what...

Author and columnist Tom Blake has written more than 3,200 newspaper and online columns titled "On Life and Love After 50." While his specialty is writing about finding love after 50 and 60,many of Tom's columns have included articles on travel to many parts of the world. Tom's "Travel After...

The third title in the Jameson Books-Students for Liberty Series, this is a collection of essays by eminent political economists from around the world.Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? The previous generation...

Christine and Tom had a deal. Christine submitted to him for a year as his slave. Now it's Tom's turn, but what Tom couldn't count on was how far Christine was willing to take him. He knew she was a brilliant psychologist, but he never expected she would whip out every weapon in her arsenal to manipulate...

The vision struck like a bolt of lighting. Tom Thompson had to pull off the highway to avoid an accident. His vision: an isolated rural farm where addicts could come and escape their lives, break free of addiction, and walk with God. They would learn to be sober and live out the scriptures...

Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who on British television, brings all his talent as a raconteur to this autobiography, which was first published in 1997 and ranges from his childhood, through his 7 years as Doctor Who to the engraving of his gravestone! Born in 1934, Baker grew up in an Irish Catholic...