C W : 937 books

C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the ridicule of the learned world, he actually unearths...

As a child, I would spend hours listening to my Grandad, or some other gentleman, tell outdoor stories. Many of these tales would have me literally rolling on the floor. As I grew older, I began to enjoy telling my own stories. Most of the stories I write contain a large percentage of truth. Growing...

C.W. Smith's award-winning first novel, Thin Men of Haddam, established him as a novelist of power and compassion, and Country Music offers up a shrewd anatomy of sexual and social stances that extends the range and depth of his vision. Country Music opens when Bobby Joe Gilbert, Hedorville's Bane to...

Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance...

It cannot be denied that from the theosophical standpoint the subject of our relation to children is an exceedingly important and practical one. Realizing, as we must, the purpose for which the ego descends into incarnation, and knowing to how great an extent its attainment of that purpose depends...

Tim Sweeney, one of Jacksonville’s finest garbage collectors, finds a dead house spider under his bed and does what any red-blooded American man would do when stoned – he decides to try to bring it back to life. Of course, he manages to end his own in the process but finds himself unwittingly...

Using Euripides' play Helen as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provides new interpretations of how Euripides created meaning in performance. Marshall focuses on dramatic structure to show how assumptions held by the ancient...

On the first day of school in a New Orleans suburb, terrorists hijack a school bus full of children. Corporal Alex Shepherd, decorated Sheriff's Deputy and SWAT sniper, is critically injured trying to stop the attack and save his wife and daughter. Waking from a month-long coma, Shepherd finds...

It's been said that the two worst days in a fighter pilot's career are the day he steps to the jet knowing it's his last flight and the day he steps to the jet not knowing it's his last. After years of serving his country in both the military and a covert paramilitary organization known as...

The first book in the classic, beloved Billy and Blaze series, from renowned author C.W. Anderson. Billy was a little boy who “loved horses more than anything else in the world.” Imagine how happy he was when he got his very own pony for his birthday! From that day on, Billy was seldom...

Billy and Blaze race a forest fire in this installment of the classic, beloved Billy and Blaze series, from renowned author C.W. Anderson. Billy and Blaze are more than just friends—they’re heroes! When they spot smoke in the brush, they race through the woods to sound the alarm. At...

Anaya misses her Daddy very much. She was just 4 years old when he died in a horrible accident. All she has left of him are those life lessons he taught her, and memories. A ceremony to remember those who perished in the accident is approaching. This is a story about an eight year old, who must decide if she wants to speak publicly at the ceremony. Will she do it? If so, what will she say?

Fall, current day, Atlantic Ocean. Another hurricane tears through the Bahamas, headed for Florida. Among the wreckage: a U.S. Coast Guard rescue boat, one survivor (Ret Cooper), and a spherical object of curious design (the Oracle). Ret Cooper is a simple young man with mysterious origins, unique...

The adventure continues! With the first element (earth) painfully collected within the Oracle, Ret Cooper and his friends return home to find that things are only heating up. Thanks to some mischief caused by the peculiar Benjamin Coy, Ret’s second scar makes its explosive debut. But what does it...