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AALBC.com, launched in 1998, focuses on books written by, or about, people of African descent; AbeBooks, online marketplace for used books, owned by Amazon.com since 2008; Adrian Harrington, rare and antiquarian books, based in the United Kingdom. Alibris an online marketplace for used but also new books
Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner.
The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War.
AbeBooks (/ ˈ eɪ b. b ʊ k s / AYB-buuks [1]) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries.
Wonder is a contemporary children's novel written by R. J. Palacio [2] and published on 14 February 2012. Wonder is in part inspired by an incident where the author's son started to cry after noticing a girl with a severe facial deformity.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library website, an example of a digital library. A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the ...
The book remains available on Barnes and Noble's website. [115] It is also available in multiple languages, including German, at the Internet Archive. [116] One of the first complete English translations was published by James Vincent Murphy in 1939. [117] The Murphy translation of the book is freely available on Project Gutenberg Australia. [118]
The book was meant to carry their message far and wide. Wilson started writing the book in 1938 [6] with the financial support of Charles B. Towns (1862–1947), an expert on alcoholism and drug addiction who was a supporter and creditor of Alcoholics Anonymous and lent Wilson $2500 ($41,870 in 2014 dollar values). [7] [8]