fielding americans childhood mysteries

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1 review
Carl Sandburg

American Printing House for the Blind, 1963

A home-style, family book for everyone
If you enjoy history and want a clean read that will keep you hooked cover to cover than this is the book for you! I found this children's book a fun read that would be great for adults and kids alike if they are trying to rekindle their innocent, free-spirit days as a child! It takes you from Abe's youth to his adolescent and the history of his aduldhood. What a great read!

Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)

63 reviews
Nevada Barr

Putnam Adult, 1998

Deep Subject
Nevada Barr's BLIND DESCENT, the 6th Anna Pigeon mystery is not for the claustrophobic. New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns is one of the most beautiful and mysterious of the National Park System. I'm not a spelunker, but have managed to find myself in several along with my camera. Tight spaces don't particularly bother me, but I've watched people freeze even in a mock up of a cave in a natural history ...

Eli Whitney, boy mechanic (Childhood of famous Americans)

1 review
Dorothea J Snow

American Printing House for the Blind, 1961

Great imagination sparker
This was a wonderful book to share with two of our boys, ages 7 and 8. The first chapter immediately drew them in and they begged to continue until we finished the whole book. Since the book opens when Eli was 8 years old, it was perfect for my boys to identify with. Eli is seen as an obedient (with one slight exception), honest, reliable, hard-working, tenacious boy. He honors his parents ...

Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding)

35 reviews
Bruce Alexander

Putnam Adult, 1994

Truth Stranger Than Fiction
The narrator of the story is fictional, but Sir John Fielding is not. "The Blind Beak of Bow Street" was a very real magistrate in the rough and tumble London of Samuel Johnson and this series is a delightful time machine back to a colorful era. The younger brother of the novelist who wrote "Tom Jones", Sir John Fielding was the creator of the Bow Street Runners, a forerunner of the modern ...

Confession or the Blind Heart
William Gilmore Simms

IndyPublish.com, 2003

1885. Simms, American poet, novelist and historian, whose novels are almost wholly southern, and marked invariably with local color; many of them are historical, but for the most part they aim to reproduce the various types of southern and southwestern life. Confession begins: The pains and penalties of folly are not necessarily death. They were in old times, perhaps, according to the text, and he who kept not to himself the secrets of his silly ...