Walter Blasberg thought owning a historic Vermont inn would mean candlelit dinners and foliage season. What he got instead was a septic system with an acute sense of bad timing, a rotating cast of chefs who made Gordon Ramsay look stable, a New Year's Eve brawl that brought down the Christmas tree, and a great flood that nearly took the whole place with it.Along the way he also found an unlikely family - his partner John, John's mother Aida who became the inn's force-of-nature hous...

A Church Dictionary opens as both a scholarly reference and a spirited defense of Anglican identity, tracing the doctrines, practices, history, and vocabulary of the Church of England. Walter Farquhar Hook explains in the preface that the work grew from simple parish tracts into a fuller guide, enriched by scholarship and detailed references, with a clear aim: to present the Church as both Protestant and catholic, while addressing Roman teaching and controversy with precision. Its entries ...

Heroic Airmen and Their Exploits is a stirring wartime tribute to the pioneers of flight and the airmen who risked, and often gave, their lives in service to their country. It follows aviation from its earliest experiments through the bold breakthroughs that turned fragile balloons and airships into controlled machines and then into weapons of war. Along the way, it honors inventors and adventurers such as the Robert brothers, Henri Giffard, Tissandier, Renard, Santos Dumont, Sir Hiram Max...

Drift and Mastery is a searching diagnosis of modern America at a moment when old authorities are fading and new forces are still taking shape. Walter Lippmann traces the unrest of democracy, business, labor, property, consumption, reform, and public morality, arguing that citizens can no longer rely on slogans, inherited assumptions, or nostalgic dreams of a simpler past. The real task is to understand a changing world well enough to govern it. Across its chapters, the book explores "drif...

Step into a garden where every bloom has a voice, and every petal recalls a line of Shakespeare. In Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, Walter Crane gathers the flowers, herbs, and trees that flourish through the Bard's plays and turns them into a richly imagined floral tribute to the imagination of England. This charming and elegant volume brings together beloved botanical references from Shakespeare's dramas and comedies: fragrant rosemary, thoughtful pansies, sweet violets, bold marigold...

In 1877 a prospector named Ed Schieffelin walked into Apache country in southeastern Arizona. He was warned that the only stone he would find in those hills would be his own tombstone. He found silver instead, and within three years a boomtown of saloons, faro halls, theatres and mining offices stood on the desert. Money came fast, and so did gamblers, rustlers and men with reputations to protect.Walter Noble Burns tells the story of that town and the quarrel that made it famous: W...

Loss. A haunting, debilitating and shattering emotion that consumes one’s soul.Following the conclusion of Ancient, all Walter craved was peace and stillness, but a vacuum had been created that resulted in waves of dark and twisted spiritual attachment. A maelstrom of pure negative energy emerged, heightened in its intensity by personal loss and driven by a malevolent puppet master leading a pack of spineless fiends.As Walter continued to blindly push forward seeking spirit...

Discover how the brilliant survival blueprints of the human cell hold the key to emotional resilience, healthy boundaries, and personal growth.In The Architecture of Existence, author Walter Nwanja (writing as Motila-Tila) takes readers on a fascinating journey from the microscopic metropolis of the human cell into the broader landscape of personal mastery. This thought-provoking book reveals how the fundamental laws keeping a single cell alive against the forces of chaos ...

This rich scholarly collection opens a window onto the crowded world of late medieval English poetry, where Chaucer's name drew admiration, imitation, and misattribution in equal measure. Through a detailed editor's preface and carefully annotated texts, it traces manuscripts, dates, authorship, and literary connections among Thomas Usk, John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, Henry Scogan, John Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Robert Henryson, and others, separating genuine Chaucerian works from later echo...

A Book of Bridges is a richly illustrated journey through the history, art, and meaning of bridges, treating them not only as feats of engineering but as witnesses to war, trade, travel, and civilization itself. From natural crossings used by animals to the first human-made spans, the book traces how instinct became imitation, then culture, strategy, and architecture. Its wide-ranging survey moves across Europe, Persia, China, Spain, and Britain, blending historical narrative with architec...

THE BIGFOOT OF WAYAH BALDBook One of The Smoky Mountain Bigfoot FilesA Smoky Mountain mystery where the creek remembers-and Bigfoot might be watching.When twelve‑year‑old Mara Boone hikes down to Foss Ledbetter's dock at dawn, she expects the same quiet magic she's known her whole life: mist pooling low in the hollow, the Nantahala whispering over stone, and Foss reading the river like scri...

Rich thought he was simply honoring a final request: drive his dead father's ashes across the country to Funland, the fading amusement park that once defined their happiest memories. But what begins as an obligation becomes something far more personal.Haunted by the death of the woman he loved and the betrayal that shattered his family, Rich sets out west in a failing station wagon with a grieving drifter named Justin, a stack of mysterious envelopes, and no real plan for what come...