1926. Haggard was an English writer, who published colorful novels set in unknown regions and lost kingdoms of Africa, or some other corner of the world: Iceland, Constantinople, Mexico, Ancient Egypt. His best-known work is the romantic adventure tale King Solomon's Mines. Although Haggard's novels first were written for adults, several of them, such as Queen Sheba's Ring are now categorized as juvenile literature. This story takes place in the uncharted regions of Africa, where a Jewish community struggles to defend itself from barbaric tribes. Contents: The Coming of the Ring; The Advice of Sergeant Quick; The Professor Goes Out Shooting; The Death-Wind; Pharaoh Makes Trouble; How We Escaped from Harmac; Barung; The Shadow of Fate; The Swearing of the Oath; Quick Lights a Match; The Rescue Fails; The Den of Lions; The Adventures of Higgs; How Pharaoh Met Shadrach; Sergeant Quick Has a Presentiment; Harmac Comes to Mur; I Find My Son; The Burning of the Palace; Starvation; and The Trial and After. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Black humor alternates with almost unbearable pathos in National Public Radio journalist Jacki Lyden's memoir of her mother's manic-depressive episodes. Dreadful though those periodic bouts of madness were, they also gave an unhappy housewife a sense of power and freedom that Lyden couldn't help but admire. "You could say that the life of my imagination began with my mother's visions," she writes, making connections between her profession of "find[ing] things out in places of great secrets" and her struggle to deal with her mother's illness.

The story of KING SOLOMON AND THE QUEEN OF SHEBA tells how Queen Makeda set out to learn whether King Solomon truly possessed the wisdom of the ages. She devises a series of clever riddles that will putsolomon to the test. But as the king answers her riddles, Makeda realizes that she has discovered more than wisdom; she has found a whole new way of looking at the world...and at God.

Novel from the busy American editor and prolific writer and poet.

Sheba—that was her real name—looked innocent as a lamb and twice as cuddly. She happened to be a she-wolf in sheep’s clothing. A saleswoman, that is—who used her retching femininity to move merchandise.She had been taught her trade by an expert—the same virile sales executive who had shattered the lamblike innocence once hers, the innocence now worn like a disguise. Maybe it was exactly this virginal aspect of Sheba which encouraged Fred, the man she loved, to brutally ravish her. Why should the sales people have all the fun?The time came when Sheba tired of delivering the goods. But how could she expect help from the operators making her sell her soul for a commission? Or from Fred, who had forced himself upon her. Maybe it would be better, she figured, just to take what she could get—and like it!

Sheba—that was her real name—looked innocent as a lamb and twice as cuddly. She happened to be a she-wolf in sheep’s clothing. A saleswoman, that is—who used her retching femininity to move merchandise.She had been taught her trade by an expert—the same virile sales executive who had shattered the lamblike innocence once hers, the innocence now worn like a disguise. Maybe it was exactly this virginal aspect of Sheba which encouraged Fred, the man she loved, to brutally ravish her. Why should the sales people have all the fun?The time came when Sheba tired of delivering the goods. But how could she expect help from the operators making her sell her soul for a commission? Or from Fred, who had forced himself upon her. Maybe it would be better, she figured, just to take what she could get—and like it!