Benbrook Public Library

From the nobility in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery, the inspiring life-story of Nicholas Said is an epic journey through the nineteenth century that takes him from Africa to the Ottoman Empire, and finally from Czarist Russia to the American Civil War, becoming a sergeant in one of the first African American regiments in the Union Army. In the late 1830s a young Black man was born into a world of wealth and privilege in the...

Marnie Wilson, age 34, has finally been asked for her hand in marriage by a man she truly and deeply loves: the tall, handsome, and dashing Alex LeBeau. They've been seeing each other for a while and, last night, he got down on bended knee and asked the question. Marnie squealed a little and then happily exclaimed, "Yes!" Now, over lunch, she's telling her mother, Mrs. Leticia Williams, all about it. Upon hearing what should be wonderful news, Marnie's...

“Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France” is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller, a young Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation.

A huge prize awaits them, but only if they can escape. The Second Boer War is finally ending, and for three thieves there is the unexpected bonus of stealing an army payroll so large that they have to bury it outside a Free State town until the heat cools off. While they wait for an opportunity to return to their stolen bounty, the entire might of the army gives chase, giving rise to a riotous set of events. Based on a true story, John Harris' adventure...

This book sets out to illustrate the relationship between Gaelic and English words within the wider Indo-European context. Many Scots, finding Gaelic difficult, are unaware that much of Gaelic comes originally from the same source as English (and many other European languages), this origin being an early language of Europe and areas of the Indian sub-continent. Known as Indo-European, this long vanished language evolved in various ways to become the...

Thirteen-year-old Dale Melnyk finds himself stuck in an iron lung, desperately fighting for breath - and wishing he could die. It is the worst outbreak of polio in the history of Winnipeg, and Dale is one of the many young victims being treated in the early 1950s. Second Chances follows Dale's slow and often agonizing struggle to regain his life, first of all to breathe on his own and then to regain the use of his limbs. Will he ever be able to play...

In 1965, twenty-three-year old Mary Brunner was out walking her poodle in California, when she met a man almost ten years her senior. The pair immediately hit it off and soon the man moved in to her apartment... Little did she know his name was Charles Manson.

In 1946, a returning World War II veteran is determined to reclaim his place among professional baseball's upper echelon and win back the woman he once fell for. Two months into the new season, at the top of his game, he abandons his team, casting aside his fame and riches and vanishing forever from the public eye. What drives a man to walk away from everything he cherishes, never to be heard from again? THE BATTER'S BOX follows the path of Will...

England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief's life… is death. Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and has intimated to the Company of Rogues that he is willing to share them. The problem is, he has vanished. Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – still recovering from a duel with death upon the frozen...

En 1902, Vladimir Arseniev, chef d'une expédition d'exploration de l'extrême-est sibérien nouvellement cédé par la Chine à la Russie, croise un vieux chasseur nommé Dersou Ouzala qui accepte de le guider à travers la taïga sauvage. Avant de devenir cinquante ans après le célèbre film d'Akira Kurosawa,Dersou Ouzala était ce livre, récit d'aventures et d'amitié, hymne à la nature et à l'homme. Traduction de Pierre P. Wolkonsky, 1939. EXTRAIT Au...