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Your need to read a classic work of literature for class like Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart , but you don't know how to find it. We help students with that all the time, and now we have brand new tips just for you! Go to the Guide . Get our tips for finding the classics in print and online, like the eBook Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales where you can read stories like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Read Death, and The Pit and the Pendulum . We even point you to some great sites where you can download free classics to keep!

When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry in their pockets and their rucksacks, in every theater of war. Comprising 1,200 different titles of every imaginable type, these paperbacks were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy; in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific; in field hospitals; and on long bombing flights. They wrote to the authors, many of whom responded to every letter. They helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity. They made Betty ...

Read about the history of Hispanic Americans, including books, articles, media, primary and secondary sources. Go to the guide . Features Watch the PBS series Latin Music U.S.A. Listen to first hand accounts from Cesar Chavez or learn about Flor Del Pueblo from the the audio CD From the vault subject series, Volume II .   Read the book The Hispanic presence in North America from 1492 to today.   Read the eBook Del Pueblo : A History of Houston's Hispanic Community.  

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first.  Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying.        The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed.  Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself.  In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died.  A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from ...

With COM Library's guide, Writing for College. Get great resources to help you write for college. Go to the guide . Features Watch the presentation How to Write an Awesome Paper with 1/2 the Stress!   See an Annotated Bibliography Example. Read the book Thank you for arguing : what Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion.   Read the eBook Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style.   Read the eBook Write Great Essays!

Clay Marzo has an almost preternatural gift with a surfboard. From his first moments underwater (he learned to swim at two months old) to his first ventures atop his father’s surfboard as a toddler, it was obvious that Marzo’s single-minded focus on all things surfing was unique. But not until late in his teens, when this surfing phenom was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, did the deeper reasons for his obsession—and his astonishing gift for surfing—become clear. Just Add Water i s the remarkable story of Marzo’s rise to the top of the pro surfing world—and the personal trials he overcame in making it there. Marzo endured a difficult childhood. He was a colicky baby who his mother found could be soothed only with water. Later, as he entered school, his undiagnosed Asperger’s made it tough for him to relate to his peers and fit in, but his relationship with the wave was elemental. Marzo could always turn to surfing, the only place where he truly felt at peace. -Exc...

Our book of the month is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. -Excerpt courtesy of amazon.com. See it in the Catalog You can see a...