Laura E. Richards

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850-1943) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a high-profile family. During her life, she wrote over 90 books, including children's, biographies, poetry, and others. A well-known children's poem for which she is noted is the literary nonsense verse Eletelephony. In 1917, she won a Pulitzer Prize for The Life of Julia Ward Howe, a biography, which she coauthored with her sister, Maud Howe Elliott. Among her most famous works are: Queen Hildegarde (1889), Captain January (1890), Melody (1893), Marie (1894), Hildegarde's Neighbors (1895), Nautilus (1895), Three Margarets (1897), Geoffrey Strong (1901), The Green Satin Gown (1903) and The Silver Crown: Another Book of Fables (1906).

Melody The Story of a Child by Laura E. Richards

Hildegarde's Home by Laura E. Richards

Hildegarde's Holiday by Laura E. Richards

Captain January by Laura E. Richards

The Paladins of Edwin the Great by Clements R. Markham

Excerpt: ...when to be silent,

The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 14 by Michel de Montaigne

Coniston -- Complete by Winston Churchill

Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida by Kirk Munroe

A Manual of Elementary Geology by Charles Lyell

Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

The Smuggler Chief by Gustave Aimard

Green Eyes by Roy J. Snell

Diary of a U-Boat Commander by Anonymous