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The Heart of the New Thought by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
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The Heavenly Footman; Or, A Description of the Man That Gets to Heaven by John Bunyan
The present book ‘The Heavenly Footman; Or, A Description of the Man That Gets to Heaven’ was written by 17th century Christian English writer and preacher John Bunyan. It was first published in the year 1698.
The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent by Mrs. Oliphant
Lord Frogmore was about sixty when his step-brother, John Parke, his heir presumptive, announced to him one day his desire to marry. John was thirty-five, the son of another mother, with whom, however, Lord Frogmore had always lived in the best intelligence. A more indulgent elder brother could not be. He had never himself married, or even thought of doing so, so far as anybody knew. He had considered John’s interests in everything. Had he been his father instead of his elder brother he could not have been more thoughtful. Whether perhaps it was John’s advantage he was thinking of when he remained unmarried was another matter, though you would have supposed that was the elderly peer’s only notion to hear how John’s mother spoke of it. At all events it was very much to John Parke’s advantage. His creditors did not press him, his tailor and he were the best friends in the world, everything was in his favor in life, and in London, where even his little extravagancies were greatly encouraged and smiled upon. Heir presumptive, the Honorable John Parke: that one line in the “Peerage” made life very smooth for John.
The Hell of Heaven by Shanta Kumar
The Hell of Heaven’ is one of the most famous novels of Shanta Kumar which has a multiplicity of theme ranging from petty politics to the commuting nationalism which represents integrity of character, sense of belonging and commitment to the human cause. It also is story of Promod and Savitri, their hopes and illusions, their commitments and disillusions which ultimately flower into cherished values of life. The best and the worst of politics, the best and worst of women exploitation find simultaneous place in the novel. The novel also tells about the hard mountainous life of the people living beyond Rohtang pass in Lahaul and Spiti valleys. The novel is a very interesting exposition of the hill life and the dreams, the faltering, the illusions and the disillusions of the hill people. The author is sensitive to the smallest incidents and events that take place in the life of villagers. The astute and crooked politicians also find their share in the descriptions of the novel which acquires epic dimensions as it reaches its culminations.
The Helpful Hand of God by Tom Godwin
The helpful hand of God … can be very helpful indeed. But of course, it’s long been known that God helps those who wisely help themselves…
The Helpful Robots by Robert Shea
The story of Rankin, who prided himself on knowing how to handle robots, but did not realize that the robots of the Clearchan Confederacy were subject to a higher law than implicit obedience to man.
The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey
“BUT the man’s almost dead.”
The words stung John Hare’s fainting spirit into life. He opened his eyes. The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its deceiving purple distance. Near by stood a sombre group of men.
“Leave him here,” said one, addressing a gray-bearded giant. “He’s the fellow sent into southern Utah to spy out the cattle thieves. He’s all but dead. Dene’s outlaws are after him. Don’t cross Dene.”
The stately answer might have come from a Scottish Covenanter or a follower of Cromwell.
“Martin Cole, I will not go a hair’s-breadth out of my way for Dene or any other man. You forget your religion. I see my duty to God.”
“Yes, August Naab, I know,” replied the little man, bitterly. “You would cast the Scriptures in my teeth, and liken this man to one who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves. But I’ve suffered enough at the hands of Dene.”
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories by Edith Wharton
“When the Hermit was a lad, and lived in the town, the crenellations of the walls had been square-topped, and a Guelf lord had flown his standard from the keep. Then one day a steel-coloured line of men-at-arms rode across the valley, wound up the hill and battered in the gates. Stones and Greek fire rained from the ramparts, shields clashed in the streets, blade sprang at blade in passages and stairways, pikes and lances dripped above huddled flesh, and all the still familiar place was a stew of dying bodies.” -an excerpt
The Hero by W Somerset Maugham
“Colonel Parsons sat by the window in the dining-room to catch the last glimmer of the fading day, looking through his Standard to make sure that he had overlooked no part of it. Finally, with a little sigh, he folded it up, and taking off his spectacles, put them in their case.” -an excerpt
The Hero of Kargil & Other Stories by Lt Gen Yashwant Mande
The stories in this book pertain to the wars, which India has fought since its Independence in 1962, 65, 71 and 99. The war stories have always aroused the curiosity of the readers. Although many books have been written on conflicts between India and its neighbours, no author has attempted to write stories. This book is therefore unique, the only one of its kind, a book of fiction on events and characters, in the background of war.
The wars have topical interest and as time passes, one forgets them and gets engrossed in current issues. This is natural. However, certain events such as missile attack on Karachi, shattering of enemy offensive by Hunter aircraft at Longewala, the role played by the aircraft carrier INS VIKRANT and the heroics of men in uniform have a lasting value, an element of permanence.
These stories provide insight into ethos, culture and lifestyle of the armed forces, their values, hardships and character. The stories narrate the account of war and unfold its conduct in easy and interesting manner.
The stories have been written in simple and endearing style. It is a book, which ought to be read by all, the old and young.
The Hero Of Work by Andrew Carnegie
From a speech to students at the Curry Trade Institute in Pittsburg, June 23, 1885.
Experience from a long business lane
It’s good that young men get started from the beginning and perform the most minor tasks. Many of Pittsburg’s outstanding businessmen received a very responsible call just at the very doorstep. They got the mess of trust and used the first hours of their business life to sweep clean the office. Now I notice that we have special caretakers and cleaners for the offices, and our young men unfortunately lose out on this useful branch of a vocational education. But if the ordinary sopier was to be gone one morning, then the gossip who carried the seed to an inexperienced chief should not hesitate to work on the broom. “The other day, a young man is spoken by a sore mother in Michigan, if He has ever seen a young lady so elegant and graciously sweeping the golf fat with her trailer as her Priscilla.
The Heroic Enthusiasts by Giordano Bruno
“Nola, a city founded by the Chalcidian Greeks, at a short distance from Naples and from Vesuvius, was the birth-place of Giordano Bruno. It is described by David Levi as a city which from ancient times had always been consecrated to science and letters. From the time of the Romans to that of the Barbarians and of the Middle Ages, Nola was conspicuous for culture and refinement, and its inhabitants were in all times remarkable for their courteous manners, for valour, and for keenness of perception.” -Introduction
The Hidden Power by Thomas Troward
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The High Bouncing Lover by Ashwini Bhatnagar
A compelling account of contemporary life, both interesting and tragic. “He had been a high-bouncing lover who had savoured the pleasure of being caught on the throes of a vibration that flowed from a clap of cymbals struck upon a spire. It needn’t have ended but it had. He would carry the echo of it with him but the actual pulsation had ceased. A memory had been formed. Danny felt relieved-it was easier to carry memories than people with him.
The High School Freshmen; or, Dick & Co.’s First Year Pranks and Sports by Hancock
It isn’t all play in a High School. A vast amount of study has to be mastered. There are nerve-racking examinations. It is a tremendously busy life despite its sport.
So here we would better take leave of Gridley H.S. so far as this volume is concerned.
It was soon known that, had not Dick & Co. taken their little walk the robbers would have gotten away with one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in cash.
As it was, however, all four men were in the police toils, and they were presently sent to the penitentiary, where they are serving long terms.
The bank directors did vote to reward the H.S. boys as individuals, but Dick & Co. and all the upper classmen refused to accept anything for their own pockets.
The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett
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The Higher Power of Mind and Spirit by Ralph Waldo Trine
One of the supreme essentials of all successful living is to strike the right balance in life. This book helps determine our inner, outer & soul physical universes with sheer precision.
Ralph Waldo Trine was a philosopher, mystic, teacher and author of many books, and was one of the early mentors of the New Thought Movement. His writings had a great influence on many of his contemporaries including Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science. He was a true pioneer in the area of life-transforming thought. No other New Thought author has sold more books than he, his writings reaching far beyond New Thought circles out to the general public, which has bought and read Trine’s books without ever knowing that they were New Thought.
The Hindu Book of Astrology by Bhakti Seva
This is a short book similar to the Yogi Publication Society books, published by William Walker Atkinson. At the cusp of the 20th century, some occult publishers were more than willing to bend the truth in the interest of satisfying a popular demand for information on the ‘Mysterious East.’ So while this makes for an interesting read, don’t be deceived. Hindu Astrology is a difficult art and divides the heavens into dozens of ‘Asterisms,’ not just twelve. Hindu astrologers are, even today, consulted at important life passages, particularly marriage, and their horoscopes and the interpretation thereof take great skill and knowledge to create.
The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath by William Walker Atkinson
First published in the year 1903, the present book ‘The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath’ by famous psychologist William Walker Atkinson is a complete manual of the oriental breathing philosophy of physical, mental, psychic and spiritual development.
The Historical Christ; by Fred. C. Conybeare
This little volume was written in the spring of the year 1913, and is intended as a plea for moderation and good sense in dealing with the writings of early Christianity; just as my earlier volumes entitled Myth, Magic, and Morals and A History of New Testament Criticism were pleas for the free use, in regard to the origins of that religion, of those methods of historical research to which we have learned to subject all records of the past. It provides a middle way between traditionalism on the one hand and absurdity on the other, and as doing so will certainly be resented by the partisans of each form of excess.
The Historical Growth of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton Thompson
This small book is intended to be a companion and complement to the writer’s book in the same series on The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church. In that book the growth of the ground plan is treated with necessarily scanty reference to the circumstances to which, directly or indirectly, that growth is due. Some attempt is made in the present volume to supply an account of the historical conditions amid which our parish churches were built, to say something of the builders, and to remove the popular idea, still current even among educated people, that our architecture is mainly due to the profuse benefactions of the religious orders.
The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus
Written in 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, ‘The History of Herodotus’ serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece at that time. Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of West’s most important sources regarding these affairs. Moreover, it established the genre and study of history in the Western world, despite the existence of historical records and chronicles beforehand.
The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells
The choice is great, but Wells’s ironic portrait of a man very like himself is the novel that stands out.
The History of Pendennis by William Thackeray
First published in the year 1850, the present novel ‘The History of Pendennis’ by William Thackeray is set in 19th-century England, particularly in London. The main hero is a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis, who is born in the country and sets out for London to seek his place in life and society.
The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. Saleeby
The first object sought in the search for the Genealogy of Sulu was a knowledge of those significant historical events of Sulu which antedated the Spanish discovery and conquest of the Philippine Islands, the connection which those events might have had with the earlier history of the other islands and the light that they might throw upon the subject of prehistoric Malayan immigration to the Archipelago. The tarsila (genealogies)1 of Mindanao show that events of considerable importance had occurred in the Archipelago, especially in the south, long before the Portuguese or the Spaniards reached Malaysia. Some tribes, such as the Samals, we were told, had emigrated from western Malaysia to the Sulu Archipelago and Mindanao, and indications were not wanting that probably other tribes, now inhabiting the Philippine Islands, came from the same place. Further, information was desired relative to the mohammedanization of Sulu and the possible connection that such a movement might have had with the introduction of Islam into Sumatra and Malacca.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki by Lewis E. Jahns et al.
“The troopships “Somali,” “Tydeus,” and “Nagoya” rubbed the Bakaritza and Smolny quays sullenly and listed heavily to port. The American doughboys grimly marched down the gangplanks and set their feet on the soil of Russia, September 5th, 1918. The dark waters of the Dvina River were beaten into fury by the opposing north wind and ocean tide. and the lowering clouds of the Arctic sky added their dismal bit to this introduction to the dreadful conflict which these American sons of liberty were to wage with the Bolsheviki during the year’s campaign.” -Introduction
The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe
First published in the year 1726, ‘The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts’ is a study of the devil’s role in society and combines Biblical history with common sense as Defoe considers the conflict between forces of destructive evil and the benevolent Deity which controls the world.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great’ from Henry Fielding, renowned English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowessn was first published in the year 1900.
The History of The Lives and Bloody Exploits of The Most Noted Pirates: Their Trials and Executions by Ezra Baldwin Strong
Captain Misson was born in Provence, of an ancient family. His father was master of a plentiful fortune; but having a great number of children, our rover had but little hopes of other fortune than what he could carve out for himself with his sword. His parents took care to give him an education equal to his birth, and upon the completion of it would have put him into the musketeers; but as he was of a roving temper, and much affected with the accounts he had read in books of travels, he chose the sea as a life which abounds with more variety, and would afford him an opportunity to gratify his curiosity, by the change of countries. -an excerpt
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War’ is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between Sparta and Athens. It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war. His account of the conflict is widely considered to be a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History is divided into eight books.
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard by Daniel Defoe
First published in the year 1724, noted English journalist and writer Daniel Defoe’s present book ‘The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard’ is fictional. Daniel Defoe is known as a writer who used novel for the first time as a literary genre and made it famous in England.
The History of the Ten “Lost” Tribes: Anglo-Israelism Examined by David Baron
A few words of explanation are needed by way of preface to this little book. More than twenty years ago, being often appealed to by friends for my judgment on Anglo-Israelism, or to answer questions which were addressed to me on this subject, I finally, after making myself acquainted with the positions and arguments by which the theory is supported, drew up a statement in the form of “A Letter to an Inquirer.” This “Letter,” somewhat amplified, was printed in the form of an appendix in my book, “The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew,” whence by special request it was subsequently reprinted in pamphlet form under the title, “Anglo-Israelism, and the True History of the Ten Lost Tribes”—a separate edition of it having also been published in America. This pamphlet is now out of print, and, being appealed to by prominent Christian friends to bring out a new edition, I felt constrained before doing so to re-examine the whole question anew, and more thoroughly than before. To this end I have read through, with much inward pain I must confess, a number of the more recent Anglo-(or “British”)-Israel publications, which for the most part are mere repetitions of one another. The result is the treatise now in the reader’s hands, which will be found to consist of three Parts.
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones is a classic English novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters have come to represent Augustan society in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic variety.
The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories by Anonymous
Great Stories and poems for children is a collection of most delightful childrens stories.
The History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare’s problem plays
The Hive by Will Levington Comfort
There is much to say. Many have a part in this story of our days. Their work is on the table. Yet no manuscript, no chapter, is a real beginning. One must start a book this way—with a fresh sheet in the machine and tell what he is going to tell about…. First of all, it has to do with the unfolding of the child mind; all the Stonestudy work has been for that, but the brimming wonder of it all is that we have chiefly been employed unfolding ourselves.
The Holy Earth by L. H. Bailey
So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation.
The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the by John Bunyan
“In working out the details of ‘The Holy War’ Bunyan seems to have kept in mind his own experience. The fortifications of the city, the movements of the opposing forces, the changes in the municipal offices of Mansoul were reproductions of scenes and events that had but recently gone on under Bunyan’s eyes. He adapted them with extraordinary success to the presentation both of the doctrines of grace and of the temptations which attend the Christian life. The characters and the incidents are, in effect, the characters and incidents of every age. It is this which gives to the story of Mansoul its undying freshness, and suits it to the needs of men in all climes. ‘The Holy War’ has been translated into many languages, including some of those with the scantiest of literature. Indeed, as this edition is being prepared for the press, assistance is being rendered by the Religious Tract Society in the printing of ‘The Holy War’ in Kongo.” -Preface by A. R. BUCKLAND
The Holyhead Road, Vol 2 by Charles G. Harper
There are said to be no fewer than a hundred and forty different ways of spelling the name of Birmingham, all duly vouched for by old usage; but it is not proposed in these pages to recount them, or to follow the arguments of those who have contended for its derivation from “Bromwicham.” It is singular that in the first mention we have of the place, in Domesday Book, it is spelt “Bermingham,” almost exactly as it is to-day, and this lends much authority to the view that we get the place-name from an ancient Saxon tribe or family of Beormingas.
When the original Beormingas, the Sons of Beorm (whoever he may have been), settled here, in the dim Saxon past, they founded better than they knew; but they chose a hill-top, a place where no river runs, unless we choose thus to dignify the little stream called the Rea. This lack of watercourses mattered nothing at all to mediæval Birmingham, but when, in spite of all disabilities, the place rose into commercial importance, the want began to be severely felt, and herculean have been the efforts in modern times to effect a proper water-supply.
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
This powerful saga of the female protagonist, Bimala, traces her metamorphosis into a spiritually and intellectually evolved person in great detail. The story set against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, is one of the most thought provoking and powerful one by the Nobel laureate.
The Home, Its Work and Influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I hear a deep voice through uneasy dreaming,
A deep, soft, tender, soul-beguiling voice;
A lulling voice that bids the dreams remain,
That calms my restlessness and dulls my pain,
That thrills and fills and holds me till in seeming
There is no other sound on earth—no choice.
“Home!” says the deep voice, “Home!” and softly singing
Brings me a sense of safety unsurpassed;
So old! so old! The piles above the wave—
The shelter of the stone-blocked, shadowy cave—
Security of sun-kissed treetops swinging—
Safety and Home at last!
The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts by Arnold Bennett
Through the window can be seen a view of the garden, and the sea in the distance. The fireplace is not seen. —from this book
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford
“Mr. Pierce was talking. Mr. Pierce was generally talking. From the day that his proud mamma had given him a sweetmeat for a very inarticulate “goo” which she translated into “papa,” Mr. Pierce had found speech profitable. He had been able to talk his nurse into granting him every indulgence. He had talked his way through school and college. He had talked his wife into marrying him. He had talked himself to the head of a large financial institution.” -an excerpt
The Hope of the Katzekopfs by Francis Edward Paget
The Hope of the Katzekopfs By Francis Edward Paget
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
He did not know how to drive, he did not know the road, and he drove on at random, hoping that the horse would find the way of itself. Two hours passed; the horse was exhausted, he himself was chilled, and already began to fancy that he was not going home, but back towards Ryepino. But at last above the uproar of the storm he heard the far-away barking of a dog, and a murky red blur came into sight ahead of him: little by little, the outlines of a high gate could be discerned, then a long fence on which there were nails with their points uppermost, and beyond the fence there stood the slanting crane of a well. The wind drove away the mist of snow from before the eyes, and where there had been a red blur, there sprang up a small, squat little house with a steep thatched roof. Of the three little windows one, covered on the inside with something red, was lighted up.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Arthur Conan
Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville family’s home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate?
The House Behind The Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt
Time touches all things with destroying hand; and if he seem now and then to bestow the bloom of youth, the sap of spring, it is but a brief mockery, to be surely and swiftly followed by the wrinkles of old age, the dry leaves and bare branches of winter. And yet there are places where Time seems to linger lovingly long after youth has departed, and to which he seems loath to bring the evil day. Who has not known some even-tempered old man or woman who seemed to have drunk of the fountain of youth? Who has not seen somewhere an old town that, having long since ceased to grow, yet held its own without perceptible decline?
The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
First published in the year 1905, the present book ‘The House of a Thousand Candles’ by the famous novelist Meredith Nicholson is a novel of romance and adventure, of love and valor, of mystery and hidden treasure.
The House of Armour by Marshall Saunders
He is on all her sides, lapping her grassy shores, breaking against her frowning cliffs, and running away up into the land, wide, blue tongues of water, where foreign ships can ride at anchor and give to lovely Nova Scotia their fairest merchandise.’ – an excerpt
A novel by Marshall Saunders, first published in 1897, in USA.
The House of Baltazar by William John Locke
THE early story of Baltazar is not the easiest one to tell. It is episodic. It obeys not the Unities of Time, Place and Action.