Gertrude Bell Books
A Woman in Arabia
A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, sta...
Read MoreThe Desert and the Sown
"By the standards of any age, the life of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was extraordinary. During her travels in the Middle East, she rode with bandits; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a har...
Read MoreRoundabout road.
To protect their guns, gold, and a valuable race horse from thieves in the early days of the Civil War, three youngsters take a roundabout road on their three-hundred-mile journey home across Misso...
Read MoreFirst crop.
Burned out by Federal troops and anxious to search for his grandfather, fifteen-year-old Ambrose is delayed by an abandoned black boy, a young mother and baby, and a wounded Confederate soldier who...
Read MoreWhere runs the river
A fourteen-year-old experiences the cruelty, danger, and destruction of the Civil War in Missouri.
Read MoreA ladder for Silvanus.
Silvanus, a squirrel that keeps falling out of trees, seeks a measure of confidence.
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