The story focus on how Luther and Nora Krank try to avoid the frenzy traditionally experienced during the Christmas holiday. On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the two bring their daughter Blair to the airport, where she departs for a year-long assignment in a remote area of Peru with the Peace Corps. Nora bemoans the fact the upcoming Christmas will be their first time they are separated as a family, prompting her husband to calculate how much they spent celebrating the holidays the prior year. When he realizes they have little to show for the $6,100 they invested in decorations, gifts, and entertaining, he decides to skip all the hubbub at home and surprise Nora by booking a ten-day Caribbean Cruise aboard the Island Princess

This book has taken a long time to prepare. It is one of the useful patterns of President

A biography of the Indian who went to London with some of the first English explorers, was sold into slavery in Spain, and finally returned to America where he befriended the Pilgrims when they landed

This book is a collection of Tolstoy`s greatest stories. It opens with the story of Two Hussars written by Tolstoy at the age of twenty-seven just after he had returned to St. Petersburg from active service in the Crimea, and closes with After the Ball, the last of the great writer`s stories which was not published until after his death

This book about singer Sandi Patti and her biography

Sir Nigel is a story of the eponymous hero as he seeks his fortune and the hand of his lady-love in England and France in the early part of the Hundred Years War.

Stumbling Toward Justice is a collection of stories of one man"s odyssey through the darkness of the modern world

The book is a work of fiction based on some real characters in WW-II, particularly Wilhelm Canaris from AbWehr who forms a satellite military intelligence center "Saturn" in occupied Soviet territory to pin the blame for defeat, in case of the failure of German offensive

The universe is composed not of matter but of music