Colonel Chabert is the story of a French military hero of the Napoleonic Wars who's been living in asylum after being left for dead. Returning to Paris he discovers the changes in his absence, Napoleon overthrown, the French aristocracy in power and his wife now remarried. Colonel Chabert then hires a lawyer to recover his pension meanwhile trying to convince everyone who he is.

The Christmas Angel by Abbie Farwell Brown; -- Grumpy Miss Terry has quite a surprise in store for her this Christmas as she performs her experiments on the spirit of the holiday. *** Now, could any child ever have cared for so silly a thing? She pulled out a faded jumping-jack, and regarded it scornfully. Idiotic! Such toys are demoralizing for children--weaken their minds. It is a shame to think how every one seems bound to spoil children, especially at Christmas time. Well, no one can say that I have added to the shameful waste.

Long awaited translation for the famous and very valuable 1st edition of Grand Master Kanei Uechi's Karate Kyhon. 1700 page book is written in Japanese. Original books when available are selling on Ebay for over $3000US. It is the most collectible karate book anywhere. This long awaited English translation will be treasured as a wonderful companion book to the original book or simply a fantastic historical work that will be treasured by all martial artist. The e-Book series will require three sections to cover the entire book, each one approximately 700 pages in length. Each e-book will sell for $34.95. Book one is now available.

Almost eight years of Teaching in the Desert and Desert Communities does have some stories, as does running a Florist shop, and being me. It was not always easy. At times it was quite difficult. Then there were three years in Rural and Outback Australia. I asked for back to Civilization, and when I went there, I was forced to question what exactly civilization was.

The Orange Fairy Book - 33 Classic Tales from Caryn's eBooks -- Includes The Magic Mirror, The Ugly Duckling, The Clever Cat, The White Slipper and many more. **** These Fairy Books are not written by the Editor, as he has often explained, 'out of his own head.' The stories are taken from those told by grannies to grandchildren in many countries and in many languages-- French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian, Australian, Slavonic, Eskimo, and what not. The stories are not literal, or word by word translations, but have been altered in many ways to make them suitable for children. Much has been left out in places, and the narrative has been broken up into conversations, the characters telling each other how matters stand, and speaking for themselves, as children, and some older people, prefer them to do. In many tales, fairly cruel and savage deeds are done, and these have been softened down as much as possible; though it is impossible, even if it were desirable, to conceal the circumstance that popular stories were never intended to be tracts and nothing else.