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The generation of 1914 holds a special place in memory, affection, and myth. In this irresistible and moving book, Robert Wohl rescues it from the shadows of legend and brings it fully into the realm of understanding. He tells the story of the young men--the middle class elite of five European countries, France, Germany, England, Spain, and Italy, to recreate the generational consciousness that united them as well as the unique national experience that made them different.

These were men born at the end of the nineteenth century when the world of reason was disintegrating into a...

And she used it to become a star. There and been many men in her life. She married three, and then had affairs with countless others. But each encounter began and ended the same way - she was alone, lonely, and unloved.

She had risen to the top of her profession as an outstanding sex symbol, but sexual love was something she had never found. The she met Vito...

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage says you can t step in the same river twice, and Ellen Wohl would agree natural and synthetic change are so rapid on the world s great waterways that rivers are transforming and disappearing right before our eyes.

A World of Rivers explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world....

Molly Williams is a powerful hereditary witch who manages to keep her powers under control as she tries to be normal. Most of the time, it works.

An invitation from friends Winnie and Angus is just the diversion she needs right now, and she jumps at the offer to go backpacking along the Umatilla River in northeast Oregon. When a freak storm forces them to take shelter in a secluded, crumbling cabin, their trip takes an unexpected turn. The moment Molly touches a leather-bound book discovered in the floorboards, they're transported back in time.

Only with the help of the...