Biography & Autobiography
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Criminal Lives: True Stories
- Voices of Social Change
- Voices of Political Change
- Voices of Resilience
- Voices from American History
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
- Adventures in Exploration
Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the ma…
A Bunch of Everlastings
A collection of brief biographies and the text from scripture that was significant in the life of each. It is biography and devotional Bible…
The Man Who Dared a King
The Man Who Dared a King tells the inspiring story of St. John Fisher, a courageous bishop who stood firm in his faith during a tumultuous p…
Nisida
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…
A Glimpse of India
A Glimpse of India: being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's For…
The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Bade…
Lady Jane Grey and Her Times
Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII. As her cousin, Edward VI, lay on his death-bed, he nominated he…
Superwomen
In this 1916 work, Albert Payson Terhune introduces twelve immensely influential women, whose actions influenced world history. Terhune choo…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speak…
Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy
Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not se…
The Desire of Ages
Ellen Gould White (1827 - 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movemen…
Behind the Scenes
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…
American Men of Mind
“American Men of Mind” is a collection of short biographies of men of note in various disciplines. It is an absorbing collection of short bi…
Mary Stuart
The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of …
Richard I
Richard I by Jacob Abbott offers a concise yet insightful exploration of one of history's most renowned figures. Known as Richard the Lionhe…
Certified - The True Story of David Harris
Certified is the pacey, true life account of David Harris; how he went from typical Aussie kid to mentally deranged criminal, then experienc…
Celebrated Crimes, Karl-Ludwig Sand
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story o…
Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador
Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón (1821–1875) was an Ecuadorian pol…
Theodore Roosevelt
In this insightful biographical tribute, Henry Cabot Lodge reflects on the life and legacy of Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr., the …
The Man in the Iron Mask
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…