Hugh: 1441 books

This antiquarian volume contains the narrative of a year in the life of a content, normal but extremely imaginative boy growing up with his two siblings and his dog, Hamlet, in Colchester-by-the-sea, Cornwall. It is a heart-warming and humorous tale written with an affection and insight that is indicative...

The Captives is penned down by Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, (13 March 1884  1 June 1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist. Its a lugubrious novel, centring on the children of fundamentalists, young adults who struggle to escape emotional attachments to relatives who preach hellfire religion. Maggie,...

A Book of Stories: THE LITTLE DONKEYS WITH THE CRIMSON SADDLES (English Country, Twentieth Century), THE ENEMY IN AMBUSH (Russia Pre-war), CHINESE HORSES (Beautiful Things more than Beautiful People), A SILLY OLD FOOL (A Scrap of Polchester), ECSTASY (Derwentwater in Sunlight), THE TARN (Ullswater under...

She was frightened. The fear was as sudden and, in one sense, as unexpected as an unheralded sharp stab in the breast. And yet not unexpected, because it had been hovering near her, almost out of her consciousness but not quite, for many weeks. They were at the Cross-roads. Pelynt Cross. She knew...

Hugh Walpole’s thrilling adventure novel of the 1920s revolves around Piccadily Circus. Richard Gunn is an ex-soldier in trouble after the end of the Great War. Jobless and starving in Piccadilly Circus, he encounters his nemesis, Leroy Pengelly. From this encounter the secrets of their shared past...

Many people are finding themselves at the mercy of anxiety attacks, panic, overwhelming fear, and depression. Fear comes in a variety of intensities and seems to have a number of causes. Every individual has had to face fear at one time or another. It is the cause of fear and how we respond to that...

John Freeman was one of Britain's most extraordinary public figures for over half a century: a renaissance man who constantly reinvented himself; a household name who sought complete anonymity. From advertising executive to war hero to MP tipped to be Prime Minister, Freeman then changed direction...

Bishop Hugh Gilbert’s homilies have gained him a reputation as a clear and profound teacher of faith. This collection of homilies for great feasts and saints days of the Church’s year is an ideal companion for any reader wishing to deepen their faith by coming to a deeper understanding of the...

Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international law, military thinkers, and others. **"[A] thoughtful examination of the dilemmas this new weapon poses." —**Foreign Affairs Drones are changing the conduct...

Colonel Hugh Clark was born on May 6th, 1867 on a farm on the Tenth Concession north of Kincardine, Ontario. He was a schoolteacher, a newspaperman, Lieutenant Colonel in the 32nd Bruce Regiment, and both a Provincial and Federal politician. He was still writing newspaper articles up until his death...

This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present,...

Renowned scholar Hugh Nibley presents a fascinating work written in two distinct yet related sections. In Temple Nibley discusses the meaning of the temple, the history and origin of ordinances and sacred vestments, and the temple's necessity in the Lord's work today. In Cosmos Nibley explores...

The concluding volume to this rousing two-part history of the Wars of the Roses, England’s longest and bloodiest civil war, narrated by a master historian. England, 1462. The Yorkist Edward IV has been king for three years since his victory at Towton. The former Lancastrian King Henry...

In Beyond Politics renowned religious scholar Hugh Nibley explores the inherent and ongoing conflict between religion and politics. Nibley probes fundamental questions that concern any religious person interested in earthly government: How is the government of man different from the government of...