Jonathan Horn
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Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn tells the astonishing true story of George Washington's forgotten last years-the personalities, plotting, and private torment that unraveled America's first post-presidency.
Washington's End begins where most biographies of George Washington leave off, with the first president exiting office after eight years and entering what would become the most bewildering stage of his life....
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On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy of George Washington and the hopes of a divided land. Both North and South knew Robert E. Lee as the son of Washington's most famous eulogist and the son-in-law of Washington's adopted child. Each side sought his services for high command. Lee could choose only one. The decision he made would change history. In The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee and His Civil War, former...
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What happens when the stadium clears for the last time? You've built a career-a life-around your sport. But when, the stadium clears and you hang up your jersey after your final game, what will your career be? Who will you be? What will be your legacy?
In SHIFT, Jonathan Van Horn explores the truth behind the adage that athletes die twice, once when they stop competing and again when they stop breathing. Having experienced heartache, withdrawal,...
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Extra yarn: a modern fairy tale about how a young girl and her magical yarn transform a community.
The amazing bone: a lonely pig named pearl dawdles long enough in a field of dandelions to meet a bone who speaks to her.
My garden: a girl dreams of creating a garden full of chocolate rabbits, flowers that change color, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
The very fairy princess: Geraldine knows deep down that she is a very fairy princess, but...
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"Perplexed and dissatisfied, the detective went to the river end of the street. There was a rotten wharf extending toward the big grain-elevator. It was short, and for a portion of its length the planking had been torn out."
An epic story of murder and mystery. Follow detective Carter's path of evidence and determine the truth of the case.
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Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.
Once upon a time there lived a man south of the Yangtze-kiang. He had taken a position as a teacher in Sutschoufu, on the border of Shantung. But when he got there he found that the schoolhouse had not yet been completed. Yet a two-story building in the neighborhood had been rented, in which the teacher was to live and...