Frederick: 2206 books

Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens, Marryat's books are still read today.

With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities’ civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 1818–1895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would...

This is a collection of 65 original Indian fairy tales from a wide variety of tribes including Iroquois, Mohawk, Arapaho, Hopi, Chippewa, and Passamaquoddy. Most are short, making them perfect for reading at bedtime. They include magical animals that even young children will be familiar with. This...

Terrifying possibilities come to mind in "RATTLE" by Frederick Buzan when the presence of a gigantic rattlesnake without any warning rattles is disclosed. Add the intrigue of a corrupt murderous businessman with a lustful beauty for a wife to the suspenseful mix and you've got one helluva novel.

Classic work of American history. According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 - March 14, 1932) is widely regarded, along with Charles A. Beard, as one of the two most influential American historians of the early 20th century. He is best known for The Significance of the Frontier in American History."

William Riddle, at the age of thirteen, quickly earned the moniker of 'Dead Eye' in the War of 1812. Saving his regiment from an ambush by a long distance shot that killed an Indian chief and alerted the troops to their danger, he was instantly a hero.Rising to Lieutenant, Will retired from...

Paula Jennings considers herself the epitome of Southern aristocracy as she lords over the residents of Ivy Log, a small Appalachian hamlet high in the Georgia mountains. In Paula’s eyes, only she has the wisdom--and the authority--to decide the replacement for the venerable Reverend Cobb, who passed...

Jimmy Breedlove has one goal: To escape his dead-end job, and unfulfilling relationship, for a fresh start far from his home in New Orleans. During a cross-country trip to deliver a friend's car to California, with the unexpected addition of sexy, free-spirited Sarah Rainbird, Jimmy's highway odyssey...

On the farm there was a pigsty with a barbed wire fence surrounding it. Ernie climbed inside. When a sow charged him, he retreated and cut himself as he ducked under the barbed wire. With blood all over his eye, his mom took him to the nearest medical facility, which was a tuberculosis sanitarium....

Texas Private Investigator Bartholomew Pigge journeys to Branson, Missouri. He's not going for a vacation or to catch a good show. He's there to investigate a murder, then another and yet another. He's thrown into unfamiliar territory and all too familiar circumstances of brutal killings that have...

Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes),...

Remember The Alamo is a slogan we learned in grade school, but it was the horror of Goliad, where the infamous Mexican General Santa Anna massacred hundreds of prisoners of war, that motivated author Frederick West to pen With Bowie At The Alamo.The result is a sweeping novel of such scope and depth that one cannot help being caught up in the drama even when the end is known.

The Tritargon, Book Two of The Emperor's Library, follows the separate lives of the work’s four main characters. Entering the enemy's camp to spread false information, Jon finds himself carried back to Kar and drawn deeply into the inner circle of The Chosen. Zoë, too, undertakes a second journey,...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Advice to Singers. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Frederick James...