Books published by publisher Cordon Publications

Adam to Zamzam is not just another children's book. It is a stepping stone into reading proficiency. We introduce your child to the English alphabet in a fun and Islamic way. Inshallah, your child will learn the entire alphabet and pick up common English and Arabic vocabulary as well! Adam to Zamzam was created with the Muslim child in mind. However it's also a great book for teaching cultural diversity in any home or classroom. For extra practice, please download our free alphabet flashcards from our Noon publications website. This level one reader is just the beginning of an awesome set in the making. Level 2-7 of the Islamic Phonics Series will be published over the next year. Your support will assist us in providing this much needed Islamic curriculum for our Muslim children. Thank you for helping us make this dream a reality.

Originally published in 1900, this book retells, in simple, everyday prose, twelve of Shakespeare’s plays.Review:“To families who want to share their Shakespeare with children…this book would make a good beginning.—CommonwealCONTENTSRomeo and JulietThe TempestA Midsummer Night’s DreamKing LearCymbelineThe Taming of the ShrewHamletTwelfth NightAs You Like ItPericlesThe Merchant of VeniceThe Winter’s TaleAbout the Author:Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was a British author who wrote many books for children, including “The Story of the Treasure Seekers” and “The Wouldbegoods.”

This Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 32 pages, contains five traditional American Indian fairy tales. CONTENTSI. The Ants That Pushed on the Sky (retold by Charles F. Lummis)II. The Journey to the Island of SoulsIII. Manstin, the Rabbit (retold by Zitkala-Sa)IV. The Maiden Who Loved a FishV. Two Moqui Heroes (retold by Heschel Williams)Sample passage:There was once among the Marshpees—a small tribe who had their hunting-grounds on the shores of the Great Lake, near the Cape of Storms—a woman whose name was Awashanks. She was rather silly and very idle. For days together she would sit doing nothing. Then she was so ugly and ill-shaped that not one of the youths of the village would have anything to say to her by way of courtship or marriage. She squinted very much; her face was long and thin, her nose excessively large and humped, her teeth crooked and projecting, her chin almost as sharp as the bill of a loon, and her ears as large as those of a deer. Altogether she was a very odd and strangely formed woman, and wherever she went she never failed to excite much laughter and derision among those who thought that ugliness and deformity were fit subjects for ridicule.Though so very ugly, there was one faculty she possessed in a more remarkable degree than any woman of the tribe. It was that of singing. Nothing, unless such could be found in the land of spirits, could equal the sweetness of her voice or the beauty of her songs. Her favorite place of resort was a small hill, a little removed from the river of her people, and there, seated beneath the shady trees, she would while away the hours of summer with her charming songs. So beautiful and melodious were the things she uttered that, by the time she had sung a single sentence, the branches above her head would be filled with the birds that came there to listen, the thickets around her would be crowded with beasts, and the waters rolling beside her would be alive with fishes, all attracted by the sweet sounds. From the minnow to the porpoise, from the wren to the eagle, from the snail to the lobster, from the mouse to the mole all hastened to the spot to listen to the charming songs of the hideous Marshpee maiden.Among the fishes that came every night to the vicinity of the Little Hillock, which was the chosen resting-place of the ugly songstress, was the great chief of the trouts, a tribe of fish inhabiting the river nearby. The chief was of a far greater size than the people of his nation usually are, being as long as a man and quite as broad.

Helen Keller’s well-known autobiography, “The Story of My Life,” was written while she was in college and published in 1903. Much less known is her shorter autobiography, “My Story,” which she wrote at age 12 especially for a magazine called “Youth’s Companion.” As Helen Keller explained in her 1903 autobiography: “[Miss Sullivan] persuaded me to write for the ‘Youth’s Companion’ a brief account of my life. I was then twelve years old. As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed. I wrote timidly, fearfully, but resolutely, urged on by my teacher.” When “Youth’s Companion” published the four-part account, Helen Keller was not yet well known, and her story was prefaced by the explanatory remark: “Written wholly without help of any sort by Helen Keller, a deaf and blind girl, twelve years old, and printed without change.”This Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, includes the complete text of the very rare autobiography of 12-year-old Helen Keller, “My Story.”Sample passage:I was born twelve years ago, one bright June morning, in Tuscumbia, a pleasant little town in the northern part of Alabama. The beginning of my life was very simple, and very much like the beginning of every other little life; for I could see and hear when I first came to live in this beautiful world. But I did not notice anything in my new home for several days. Content in my mother’s tender arms I lay, and smiled as if my little heart were filled with sweetest memories of the world I just had left.I like to think I lived with God in the beautiful Somewhere before I came here, and that is why I always knew God loved me, even when I had forgotten his name.But when I did begin to notice things, my blue eyes were filled with wondering joy. I gazed long at the lovely, deep-blue sky, and stretched out my tiny hands for the golden sunbeams that came to play hide-and-seek with me. So my happy baby hours went. I grew and cried and laughed, as all infants do.

This Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 20 pages, consists of two parts. Part I, a biography of Stowe, was originally published in 1919 in “Women in American History.” Part II, a highly condensed retelling of Stowe’s best-known work, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was originally published in 1920 in “One Hundred Best Novels Condensed, Vol. 4.”Sample passages:(from Part I, the biography) Soon after the Stowes were settled in their Maine home a letter came from her sister-in-law in Boston: “Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would write something to make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is.” Reading this letter aloud to the family, when she came to that sentence Harriet Beecher Stowe rose, crushed the paper in her hand, and with a look on her face that her children never forgot, she exclaimed, “I will write something—if I live, I will!” She was forty years old, in delicate health, overladen with responsibilities; a devoted mother, with small children, one still a baby; with untrained servants requiring supervision; with her pupils to be taught daily; and boarders to eke out the limited salary—her hands were full to overflowing. It seemed unlikely that she would ever do anything but this ceaseless labor. But her heart burned within her for those in bondage. The law passed and the fugitives were hunted out and sent back into servitude and death. The people of the North looked on indifferently. Could she, a woman with no reputation, waken them by anything she might write?(from Part II, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” condensed) Enter now one Simon Legree, a master of far different type from Shelby and St. Clare. A brute and a drunkard. A beast whose glance was an insult to womanhood. A fiend who prided himself upon his inflexible brutality, and with brutish satisfaction showed, to all who would look, his knuckles calloused with the blows he had inflicted upon the helpless. To him by virtue of length of purse fell Tom, who now tasted the tragic dregs of the cup of slavery. The manifest contrast between his own crass brutality and the high-minded character of his chattel aroused the envious wrath of his new owner, who endeavored by every wicked expedient possible to break Tom’s spirit and his unalterable faith in divine guidance and protection. Furtively he watched him at work, hoping to find a flaw, but in vain; but one day he found the way. He ordered Tom to flog a woman-slave who was guiltless of the shortcoming attributed to her, and for the first time in his career Legree was denied. Tom refused. Legree’s answer was a blow upon Tom’s cheek.About the Authors:Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American novelist best known for “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852), which greatly strengthened the pre–Civil War antislavery cause. Grace Humphrey was an early 20th century writer whose other works include “Illinois, the Story of the Prairie State,” “The Story of the Marys,” and “Stories of the World’s Holidays.” John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, editor, and satirist whose other works include “Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others,” and “The Pursuit of the House-Boat,” and “Over the Plum Pudding.”

The Amazing Wheat Book is the only up to date guide on getting the most out of your stored wheat. Bulk food storage and low cost meals in times of catastrophe, natural disaster, or just economic hard times has always been important. LeArta makes it easy with delicious heart healthy and wholesome recipes on milling, baking bread, gluten (wheat meat), crackers, breakfast cereals, meatballs, soups, seasonings, and even good for you treats! Contains helpful information on: Milling wheat, nutritional values of wheat, storing and preserving wheat and flour, extracting the starch and bran and much more. Vegetarians will love our alternatives to meats, LeArta shows you how to make: Chicken, Steaks, Meatballs, Meatloaf, Sausage, Hamburgers, an many more ALL OUT OF WHEAT!

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then keep reading...Ancient cultures have been looking up at the stars for thousands of years, wondering about their place in the universe. What were those glowing spots in the black cover of night? Just how far away was the moon? These and other questions hounded humanity through the millennia until, finally, relative economic stability allowed for a number of people to examine their world more closely. Slowly, knowledge and understanding accumulated generation by generation until the conditions were ideal enough for a revolution to occur in thinking, experimentation, worldview, and natural philosophy.It was the Scientific Revolution, the time period when Western theologians had more and better tools to measure and make sense of the things around them. With careful measurements, precise data collection, and an unwavering sense of curiosity, humankind stepped into the future. The truly magnificent feature of this time period, besides, of course, the scientific discoveries themselves, was the kinship between philosophers, scientists, and experimental hobbyists throughout Europe. Hundreds, if not thousands, of letters between great intellectuals such as Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Robert Hooke, and Tycho Brahe have been preserved, demonstrating how these men (and a few women) worked in cooperation with one another in order to better their own research. In The Scientific Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Emergence of Modern Science During the Early Modern Period, Including Stories of Thinkers Such as Isaac Newton and René Descartes, you will discover topics such asScience: A Definition and Brief PrehistoryThe Early Western SciencesParacelsusNicolaus CopernicusLuigi AnguillaraAndreas VesaliusIgnazio DantiTycho and Sophia BrahePaul WittichSethus CalvisiusJoseph GoedenhuyzeGiordano BrunoConrad GessnerJohannes KeplerDaniel SennertGalileo GalileiWilliam HarveyRené DescartesRobert BoyleAntonie van LeeuwenhoekIsaac NewtonRobert HookeMaria Sibylla MerianMaria Winckelmann-KirchWilliam and Caroline HerschelMary SomervilleAnd much, much more!So if you want to learn more about the Scientific Revolution, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!

For all Ford V8 owners and restorers, a complete handbook with hard to find specifications of all engines up to1972 including the OHC "Indy" engines. There's adjustments and fine tuning data of every engine from 221 to 462 CID, plus a massive list of the original factory part numbers for heavy duty and "High-Per" parts. With important details of engine assembly and ignition-carburetion modifications for premium performance. "Switch and Swap" of heavy-duty parts, from one size engine to another, is clearly explained. This is the "best ever" low-bucks handbook to upgrade horsepower and durability of the best of the early Ford V8 engines. For good reason, this book was known as "The Stocker's Bible."

Originally published in 1901 as a portion of the author’s larger “Four American Inventors: A Book for Young Americans,” and equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 60 pages, this Kindle edition describes, in simple language for young readers, the life and work of the man who invented the cotton gin, which automated the removal of seeds from raw cotton.CONTENTSI. ChildhoodII. YouthIII. At YaleIV. In GeorgiaV. The OpportunityVI. Making the Cotton GinVII. Great ExpectationsVIII. MisfortunesIX. In the CourtsX. Making ArmsXI. Last YearsSample passage:His idea was to mount a cylinder on a strong frame, so that it could be turned by hand, or by horse or water power. The cylinder was to be provided with rows of teeth, which passed through narrow openings in a curved plate or grating of metal. The rows of teeth, or circular saws, were to be about three fourths of an inch apart. The cotton was to be put into a box, or hopper, so that it rested against the grating through which the saw teeth protruded. When the cylinder was turned, its sharp teeth would catch the cotton and drag it through the grating, tearing it from the seeds and dropping it on the other side, soft and clean. The seeds, which had been left behind, would fall to the bottom of the hopper and pass out through an opening just large enough to let them pass. They would be uninjured by the process, and ready to be planted for another cotton crop.Mr. Whitney worked rapidly in spite of many inconveniences. But when all was done except the cylinder, progress stopped for a time. His idea had been to make circular saws and mount them one after the other on the cylinder. To make them, he must have tin or steel plates. As he could not buy or make such plates, he was obliged to contrive some other way of making the teeth on the cylinder.

Originally published in 1932 as a portion of the author’s larger “Pen Pictures of the Presidents,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, describes the life and career of the 19th President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes.About the author:Fred Taylor Wilson (1881-1963) was an American orator, writer, lawyer and historian. Other works include “Our Constitution and Its Makers” and “These Three Alone.”

John Tyler holds the distinction of being the first president to take office due to the death of a sitting president. Tyler was thrust into office on the death of President William Henry Harrison in 1841 after being vice president for only a month. He was at home in Richmond when he got word of Harrison’s death. Immediately he rushed to Washington, D.C., to be embroiled in a Constitutional crisis over the secession of power.The Whig Political Party had chosen Tyler as Harrison’s running mate in the election of 1840, primarily because he was from the very populous state of Virginia and it was hoped he could bring in the Southern vote. The Whigs were shocked when Tyler became president and didn’t fall in line with the party. He vetoed much of their legislation, so they kicked him out of the party!After his one term in office, he was relegated to political obscurity. As the tensions grew between the North and South leading up to the Civil War, Tyler and his new wife, thirty years his junior, became outspoken advocates for slavery and Southern plantation life. Just before his death he was elected as a representative to the Confederate States of Amercia and would be buried in a coffin draped with a Confederate flag. To the Northerners, John Tyler was considered a traitor to the Union cause, making him one of the most controversial presidents in United States history. “John Tyler: A Short Biography” reveals the life and times of the tenth president of the United States. 30-Minute Book SeriesThis is the 38th book in the 30-Minute Book Series. Books in this series are fast-paced, accurate, and cover the story in as much detail as a short book possibly can. Most people complete each book in less than an hour, which makes the books in the series a perfect companion for your lunch hour or a little down time. About the AuthorDoug West is a retired engineer and an experienced non-fiction writer with several books to his credit. His writing interests are general, with special expertise in history, science, biographies, and “How To” topics. Doug has a Ph.D. in General Engineering from Oklahoma State University.

It is no secret that prayers get answered when we pray according to the will of God. We know that it is not God's will for us to be alone because in Genesis he stated so, and soon after created Eve. So if we desire a mate and it is clearly God's will for us to have a mate, why do so many go through life and never find the person of their dreams? In Gerald Dean's first book "How to Pray...And Get Prayers Answered!", we learned how to develop a deep and intimate prayer life with God where we could stand in faith and believe him for anything. In his second book "Find, Meet, And Marry the Person of Your Dreams" Gerald invites you to take an adventure with Christ as you go through the process of praying for the person of your dreams, writing the vision down making it clear, dodging counterfeit mates, putting action behind your words and stepping out in faith until the promise of God is manifested and you Find (Identify what you are looking for), Meet (The courtship process), and Marry (The life long commitment) the person of your dreams.