In Volume 3, Hornblower gets married and takes his first command as Master and Commander of the HMS Hotspur to further thwart the ambitions of Napoleon. The exploits that have brought him praise and notice contrast with his concerns about his new wife and mother-in-law.
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Richard Bissell has artfully intertwined his experiences as a pilot on the Coal Queen with historical facts and anecdotes about the boats and men who made the Monongahela River in West Virginia into one of America’s greatest workhorses.
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A rookie cop gets a tough assignment to get the goods on a big dope ring and soon finds himself face-to-face with murder and a corpse gone AWOL.
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The second in a collection of three children's stories about rural life in Pittsburg, Iowa in the early 1900s. Based on the author's experiences on his grandparents' farm, each story wraps the reader in the humor, kindness, warmth, and simplicity of rural life in the Midwest.
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Drama about Iowa farm country in the 1930s. When her marriage goes wrong, a city girl returns to her roots to discover and befriend an irascible old grandfather who rules his homestead with a serene indifference to the petulant brood of relatives who fill the household. Drawn with great authenticity and tenderness, here is a classic that begs rediscovery.
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