Books with author Charles Mathes

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The five plush toys of PHORF (PE-horf) learn from experience what it takes to grow a heart. When their training is over will each be ready to become a Best Plushy Friend? What must a plushy know and do to make a child love them forever? Will the platypus be too different? Will the hen be too emotional? Will the opossum go to sleep on the job? Will the ram want to talk all the time? Will the fox run away? Like every lonely child, the plushies are faced with big questions.

Elizabethan era story of Romance, Love and Intrigue. This book has similarities to a true story. Narrated by a Frenchman named Malcolm Vernon, who followed doomed Queen Mary, (poor Mary), from France to Scotland. When things start to turn desperate for Mary, Malcolm hightails it to England, to hide out with his cousins at Hadden Hall. This is where he meets and falls in love with the beautiful, reckless, stubborn, strong and clever Dorothy. But, alas, she loves John Manners; her father's worst enemy's son. A lot of secret wooing between these two unfolds, despite the bitter family feud. A fun read, and illustration of human nature changing very little in over five hundred years.

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The rest of the audience sat in a circle in front of the hearth Frontispiece PACING PAGE I was safer on top of the bear than I would be if it were on top of me 16 We called the donkey Solomon .. 34 They forced us to draw up our feet so often that Balser said he felt as if he was dancing a jig .. .46 Wyandotte ..64 He angrily tossed off the bearskin .. .70 We had disturbed their sleep, and they could not get their eyes open 80 Balser looked like the incarnation of rage 90 The dogs, too, were lost 96 It sa bear, sure enough! 104 He wanted none save a little maiden named I onwah 112 I led her to the barren hills and left her .. .122 They long for spring and come out of their burrows in search of food 140 The bears were as much frightened as I .. .148 She had come to us for protection .. ..(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major; Illustrations by A. B. Frost and Others. Charles Major (1856–1913) was an American lawyer and novelist. Writing remained an interest of Major, and in 1898, he published his first novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower under the pseudonym Edwin Caskoden. The Bears of Blue River describes the adventures of a young boy growing up in early nineteenth-century rural Indiana. Little Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Although only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is quite familiar with the dangers and rigors of frontier life. As the story unfolds, the boy becomes lost in the forest, encounters the fierce one-eared bear, and is nearly caught by a bear as he dozes next to what he thinks is a bearskin. This is a book for children or adults who love nature and tales of early pioneer life.

Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea, and for millennia the hemispheres were separate, evolving almost entirely different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's arrival in the Americas brought together these long-separate worlds. Many historians believe that this collision of ecosystems and cultures-the Columbian Exchange-was the most consequential event in human history since the Neolithic Revolution. And it was the most consequential event in biological history since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Beginning with the world of microbes and moving up the species ladder to mankind, Mann rivetingly describes the profound effect this exchanging of species had on the culture of both continents.

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