Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Meadow of Laughter and Dreams is a magical adventure through a lush, vibrant world where children learn valuable life lessons through the eyes of Leo, a young boy who stumbles into the mysterious meadow. This enchanting place, full of talking animals, shimmering rivers, and fields of dreams, guides Leo on a journey to discover the virtues of kindness, honesty, patience, courage, and self-expression. Each chapter introduces a new lesson, teaching children that life’s challenges...

If you love a farce, this book's your sweetheart. During the hard scrapple times of the Great Depression of 1938, a powerful widow is so selfish that to get grandchildren she'll conspire with a Gypsy grifter to obtain a love potion to use on her only daughter. A cast of Gypsies, grifters, gamblers, gangsters, and fools creates a fanciful tale about life in heartland America.

"Tour Along the Winding Country Road" is an enchanting journey through the twists and turns of a magical countryside, where the lessons of life, friendship, and virtues await. This heartwarming children’s book follows a group of young animal friends—Robby the rabbit, Squiny the squirrel, and Tessa the turtle—on their adventure down a winding country road. Each chapter presents a different challenge, and through each experience, the trio learns valuable lessons on kindness, courage, respect...

"The Golden Rule and the Lost Key" is a heartwarming tale that takes young readers on an adventurous journey through friendship, compassion, patience, and courage. Follow a group of children as they embark on a quest to discover the truth behind a mysterious key they find in the forest. Along the way, they learn the importance of values such as kindness, honesty, empathy, and generosity. Each chapter brings a new lesson as the children encounter challenges, setbacks, and moments of self-re...

Learn to Drive in 10 Easy Stages is one of the most well-established guides to preparing for and undergoing a driving test in the UK.This new edition contains everything that prospective students need to know - with both the theory and practical tests covered in this one volume. In full colour throughout, and with a wealth of new and updated illustrations, the guide is designed to be as user-friendly as possible and will ensure that reader...

In today's world, only the smartest survive. The competitive landscape is littered with graves of well-known firms whose revenues, profits and stock prices rose for decades until they suddenly imploded.In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt their strategies and innovate to remain at the top. But many successful firms fail to do so. Instead, they succumb to inertia, hesitate, or stick blindly to their old strategies, until it is too late.The ability to adap...

The only book of its kind, Profitably Buying and Selling Broadcast Stations, provides never published-before information on the business, technical and legal aspects of investing in and acquiring broadcast stations.If you are interested in buying, selling or investing in a broadcast station, this book is for you. Written in plain English by three prominent communications lawyers, it is designed to decode the mysteries of broadcast station purchase and sale contracts and pr...

Duty Answered is the title feature among a host of “war stories” gathered over 30+ years while the author soldiered around the world from Central America to Iraq. These tall tales are the rear area adventures of the soldiers who recounted them - some are bawdy and raucous, some are poignant and wistful, some are side splittingly humorous. Some are Colonel John Wells Corbett’s own recollections. This is Rudyard Kipling meets the cast of MASH - among which a militar...

Can we ‘save the Planet’? For a resilient, durable and sustainable future for human society, we need to repurpose, reinvent, redesign, remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is benignly and seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it. These are the multiple tasks that humanity must carry out imminently if there is to be a future for human society and all lifeforms and their environments on the Planet. Addressing this is the most c...

Through the immortal characters of Oliver, Nancy, Bill Sikes, Fagin, the Artful Dodger and Mr Bumble, Dickens mercilessly sends up the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century life - the high-minded reformism of the intellectuals and the snobbery of those in power.(P)1995 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks

This book portrays the highs and lows, the ups and downs of a little Black girl growing up in a rural community, and the triumphs and hardships she had to endure.Readers may be reminded of running in the house before the street lights come on, staying in church all day, or being baptized in a lake, especially if you were raised in the same era.She invites you to join her on this journey as she searches for herfamily’s origin; as she searches for my roots.Most...