Are you ready to go on a journey to a place you have never been before? What would you like to do? Maybe a swim with dolphins, meet strange new creatures, or see John Dillinger behind bars? You could take a trip through time, visit a new planet, or hop on a train worn with memories. The possibilities are just a page away.So, strap in and get comfortable as we travel into the imaginative realm of possibilities. Together, we will journey into all things possible and impossible. Once ...

Time and Time-Tellers is a fascinating exploration of the history, science, and cultural significance of timekeeping devices, authored by James W. Benson. This comprehensive work delves into humanity’s enduring quest to measure and understand the passage of time, tracing the evolution of time-telling instruments from ancient sundials and water clocks to the intricate mechanical watches and chronometers of the nineteenth century. Benson, a renowned watchmaker, combines technical expertise w...

Popular children's book, from the Canoe and Campfire series, first published in 1912.

Fifteen Years in Hell is a harrowing and deeply personal memoir by Luther Benson, first published in 1879, chronicling his prolonged and devastating struggle with alcoholism. The book offers an unflinching look into the author’s descent into addiction, beginning with his early life in Indiana, where he was raised in a loving and religious family. Despite a promising start, Benson’s experimentation with alcohol quickly spiraled into a relentless and destructive habit that would consume the ...

“The Book of Mormon is the greatest book in the world.” So writes President Ezra Taft Benson on what was to be one of the landmark topics of his presidency.Across the world and throughout The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an increasing number of men and women are coming to Christ — and growing in Christ — through the Book of Mormon. It is the key to conversion.Joseph Smith called the Book of Mormon “the most correct of any book on earth.” Throughout his presi...

A broad-based approach to preservationAfter completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this comprehensive approach to historic preservation, examining where it has been and where it is going, anticipating that historic preservation must encourage collaborative projects among planning, design, and development professionals.This text focuses on complex eco...

The affliction of fruitless and profitless labour is so very common in the world today. These people work like elephants and they end up eating like ants. This is the affliction of fruitless and profitless labours at work!The affliction of fruitless and profitless labours affects careers, businesses, dreams, visions, projects, marriages, relationships, child birth, parenting and all that concerns an individual or a whole family. These are all demonic attacks, operations and manifes...

"It's absolutely delightful, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Sarah Caudwell, or Agatha Christie, or anyone who loves really clever British murder mysteries set in the '20s." - Gillian Flynn, international bestselling author of Gone Girl.After eight years in South Africa, Charles Knox returns to England a wealthy man, determined to put his past behind him. But when he is invited to Sissingham Hall, the Norfolk home of Sir Neville S...

The thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches – from the three-time T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poetPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEIn her thrilling fourth collection, Midden Witch, Fiona Benson enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge-magic and focuses on the persistent superstition – the fear and false knowledge – that was witchcraft.Telling tales of imagined transformations and sp...

In ten days, Hong Kong will pass into the hands of the Chinese—and 007 is on his way there to undertake his most dangerous and thrilling mission yet.In the Australian desert, a nuclear bomb explodes. There are no survivors and no clues about who has made it or detonated it.In England, two police officers are shot dead when they apprehend a cargo vessel in Portsmouth dock. Vast quantities of heroin are later found on board.And in Hong Kong, an explos...

Could Martin Talbot's elderly, Alzheimer-stricken mother, Judy, really have been the Black Stiletto? When Martin discovers several volumes of her diaries hidden by his mother, he is stunned beyond all imagination. His mother, the underground heroine of yesteryear? The famed ,still unidentified woman who battled Communist spies, took on the Mafia, and preyed on common crooks? The woman who exacted punishment on evildoers without mercy? But it is all described, in great detail, in the diarie...

On a reluctant visit to her painfully respectable brother and his wife, Angela Marchmont finds herself once again caught up in murder when a local farmer is shot dead, apparently at the hands of his sworn enemy. But the case is not as simple as it seems, for other motives and suspects soon come to light. With reporters hot on the scent and her friend Inspector Jameson battling a conflict of interest, Angela must use all her ingenuity to unravel the case and bring the murderer to justice—or...