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  • San Francisco's Potrero Hill

    by Peter Linenthal, Abigail Johnston, Potrero Hill Archives Project ...
    Series series Images of America
    In the early 1800s, it was called the Potrero Nuevo, or �new pasture.� Gold-rush squatterssoon put the squeeze on Mission Dolores�s grazing cattle, and when the fog lifted, Potrero Hill became the first industrial zone in San Francisco, with iron-smelting plants, butcheries, and shipbuilding dominating the waterfront during the late 19th century. The Hill has been home to immigrants from Scotland, ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • California, a Pro-Life Novel: With Jesus Loves Unborn Children, a Pro-Life Blog

    by Abigail Hill ...
    “California, a Pro-Life Novel” documents Abby and Bill’s exodus from Southeast Pennsylvania to the South West where they marry, and then to California. Bill is a survivor of a Hurricane. Abby has spent 4 years in Pennsylvania as a psychiatric patient after a nearly fatal overdose. Tragically, however, Abby gets pregnant and can’t have the baby because she is ill. “Jesus Loves Unborn Children, a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • A Classical Dictionary (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An accessible guide to Greek and Roman mythology, historical figures, and ancient civilizations for students and scholars

    by John Lemprière, Jared Covington, Abigail Hill ...
    A Classical Dictionary distills the mythography, biography, geography, and institutions of Greece and Rome into an alphabetized treasury of proper names. Lemprière offers concise entries—supported by citations of ancient poets and historians—while retaining the eighteenth‑century encyclopedic manner: lucid, occasionally moralizing, eager to reconcile variant traditions. The scope runs from ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The String of Pearls (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Victorian London Gothic: a murderous barber, sinister meat pies, and secrets in underground passages.

    by James Malcolm Rymer, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    The String of Pearls inaugurates the legend of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, in a heady blend of urban Gothic, crime fiction, and sensational melodrama. Serialized in a penny weekly in 1846–47, the novel fuses labyrinthine London topography with a suspense engine of cliffhangers, shifting viewpoints, and theatrical set‑pieces. Its plot—pirated wealth condensed into the titular ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • East Lynne (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Victorian melodrama of love, betrayal, and redemption amid class divides and moral ambiguity

    by Henry Mrs. Wood, Lydia Marchmont, Abigail Hill ...
    East Lynne, a keystone of the 1860s sensation novel, fuses domestic tragedy with legal drama. It charts the ruin and remorse of Lady Isabel Vane, who, after eloping with the rakish Sir Francis Levison, returns incognito as "Madame Vine" to serve in the household of her steadfast former husband, lawyer Archibald Carlyle. Through cliffhangers, courtroom revelations, and close social detail, Wood ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Reed of God (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Catholic mystical meditation on the Virgin Mary's humanity, surrender to faith, and sacred imagery.

    by Caryll Houselander, Aiden Eastwood, Abigail Hill ...
    The Reed of God is a meditative classic on Mary as the archetype of receptive creativity. In spare, luminous prose, Houselander unfolds the image of the reed—hollow, supple, made to carry music—to clarify Mary's emptiness, fiat, and hidden fruitfulness. Blending Scripture, psychological insight, and poetic imagery, and rooted in mid‑century English Catholic spirituality, the book offers a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Bambi (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Deer Prince's Coming-of-Age: Forest Life, Motherly Love, Woodland Adventures, and Nature's Wisdom

    by Felix Salten, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    Translated by Whittaker Chambers ...
    First published in 1923, Bambi: A Life in the Woods traces a deer's growth from fawn to seasoned survivor through seasons of courtship, scarcity, and mortal risk. Salten's spare, lyrical realism and unsentimental anthropomorphism produce a modernist animal bildungsroman: impressionistic vignettes, close focalization, and the ominous figure of "Him" refract ecological fact into parable, guided by ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An Anthropological Journey into Celtic Fairy Lore across Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and the Isle of Man

    by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Owen Lennox, Abigail Hill ...
    The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries surveys living belief across Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man. From extensive field interviews, Evans-Wentz assembles typologies of apparitions, changelings, abductions, and processions, preserving long testimonies alongside notes and a bibliography. Blending folklore, comparative religion, and psychical research within the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • My Brilliant Career (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A 19th-century Australian coming-of-age of a young woman confronting class, rural hardship, and empire - an introspective feminist classic.

    by Miles Franklin, Kevin Nicholls, Abigail Hill ...
    Set in the backblocks of New South Wales, My Brilliant Career follows Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong teenager who narrates her refusal of the marriage market amid drought, debt, and the drudgery of bush life. In brisk, first‑person prose blending satire with lyrical landscape, the novel adapts the European Bildungsroman to the Bulletin school's realism. Franklin probes class precarity, artistic ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Home Life in Colonial Days (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An exploration of colonial American customs, domestic routines, and the furnishings that shaped 17th-century family life

    by Alice Morse Earle, Kelsey Ramsey, Abigail Hill ...
    Home Life in Colonial Days, first published in 1898, is a capacious tour of early American domesticity—from hearth and house-building to spinning, candle-making, schooling, medicine, travel, and courtship. Earle's prose is lucid, anecdotal, and meticulously sourced, weaving quotations from diaries and town records with descriptions of surviving artifacts. Situated within the late‑nineteenth ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Perfect Sight without Glasses (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Self-Help Guide to Natural Vision Improvement with Visual Exercises, Eye Muscle Strengthening, and Mind-eye Connection Methods

    by William Horatio Bates, Selene Dorswell, Abigail Hill ...
    Perfect Sight Without Glasses sets out Bates's radical claim that vision improves by relieving strain rather than by wearing lenses. In clinical yet polemical prose, he braids case histories, retinoscopic notes, and exercises—palming, sunning, shifting, "central fixation"—arguing that accommodation reflects extraocular muscular action and that refractive errors fluctuate with attention and emotion ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Anabasis of Alexander or, the History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Primary Source on Alexander the Great's Campaigns and Strategy

    by Arrian, Abigail Hill, Abigail Hill ...
    Translated by Edward James Chinnock ...
    Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander is a lucid, classicizing chronicle of the Macedonian's campaigns from the Hellespont to the Hyphasis. In measured, Xenophontic prose, it marries crisp battle narratives—Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela—to analyses of logistics, siegecraft, and provincial settlement, with ethnographic asides and sparing speeches. Rejecting the sensational Cleitarchan stream, Arrian ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD