Charles G. Leland's collection opens a vivid doorway into Wabanaki mythology, gathering legends from the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and related Algonquin-speaking peoples of Maine, New Brunswick, and the wider northeastern North American world. Framed as a preservation of oral tradition, the book presents these tales as ancient, extensive, and strikingly original, while also noting unexpected parallels with Norse, Finnish, Eskimo, and Greenland traditions that raise larger questions...

Charles Godfrey Leland's practical handbook treats mending not as a household afterthought but as a serious, inventive art. Drawing on long experience, chemistry, and experiment, it offers a wide-ranging guide to repairing china, glass, wood, books, fabrics, metal, leather, pictures, furniture, trunks, watches, garments, shoes, umbrellas, and more. The book classifies repair into mechanical and chemical methods and explains the uses of oils, resins, gums, varnish, caoutchouc, gutta-percha,...

Abraham Lincoln emerges here as both a self-made American and the moral center of a nation in crisis. From a frontier birth marked by hardship, violence, and restless migration, he rises out of poverty, scant schooling, and emotional loss to become the president who guided the Union through Civil War and emancipation. The story traces his family's rough Kentucky and Virginia roots, his father Thomas's wit and drift, his mother Nancy's strength, and the profound stabilizing influence of Sal...

In Toni Leland's first Kovak & Quaid mystery, a national champion show jumper in an Ohio horse training barn is replaced by a look-alike, but the switch isn't discovered for months.Comfortable in the safe world of equine photography, ex-cop Kim Kovak thinks she has finally moved past the terror of a routine patrol that changed her life forever. Then a simple photo shoot catapults her into the middle of a dangerous arena of horse theft. Old habits die hard and Kim goes afte...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn a world quick to label, judge, and box in people, one father and son stood firm and refused to be defined by an autism diagnosis.If you’re channel surfing and happen upon Leland Vittert during his nightly national cable show on NewsNation, he comes off as a poised journalist prying nuggets from guests. If you watched him for years as an anchor at Fox News Channel, you saw him on the battlefields ...

Lauded as the "911 poster child" by Katie Couric, former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory takes us back to where the funny all began..911 Report: Person answered "no" to the question: "Are you conscious?"From presidential philosophizing and political pandering to foolish felons and office idiots, Leland Gregory generates side-splitting laughter by chronicling the worst of human nature. Gregory takes us back to where all the laughs began by...

**FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZENamed one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUB"Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble curiosity." - The Atlantic, The 10 Best Books of the YearA witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn...

From absurd 911 calls to presidential philosophizing to his New York Times best-selling Stupid American History, Leland Gregory generates the best laughs by exposing the worst of human nature.Now, Gregory--sets his sights north to the frozen tundra of Canada to skewer Canadians, in Canaduh: Idiots from the Frozen North. Inside Canaduh: Idiots from the Frozen North, Gregory offers hundreds of accounts of Canadian stupidity at its most random and b...

Dr. Hulda Clark’s Cure for All Diseases presents an alternative healing philosophy built on the belief that chronic illness arises from a common underlying cause: the accumulation of parasites, toxins, and environmental pollutants within the body. Clark proposed that conditions as diverse as cancer, diabetes, candida overgrowth, and even HIV/AIDS share a similar biological foundation. According to her framework, restoring health requires eliminating invasive organisms, clearing chemical co...

When a team of brilliant kids-turned-astronauts find themselves in serious trouble in outer space, they must work together to get back home. Find out what they learn and if they get back safely in this STEAM-driven series created by real life astronaut, Leland Melvin!"[A] series that will show kids that if they can dream it, they can do it." —People Magazine"...encourages more kids to explore space if they want to or never thought they could." —...

New York Times Bestseller: Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave—and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . .Did you know that . . .*John Tyler was on his knees playing marbles when he was informed that Benjamin Harrison had died and he was now president of the United States*For reasons still unknown, Texas congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton, a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher and prohibitionis...

Faster than you can dial 9-1-1, author Leland Gregory delivers his follow-up to What's the Number for 911 with more real-life calls to the country's emergency operators. What's the Number for 911 Again' answers the urgent call for more of these wacky conversations. "Can you unplug my coffeepot I left on at my house" "Where can I get rid of my Christmas tree" Amazing and hilarious!