“bob brooke”

TURN ATTIC CLUTTER INTO FINE TREASUREWith a modest initial investment, a few hours a week, and a few simple tools, you can transform yard sale, auction, flea market, and secondhand shop finds into objects of beauty for your personal collection or for profitable resale. A must-have for the weekend an... More

- Mexico has become a popular family vacation destination, with resorts catering to parents and children of all ages- Over 5.3 million tourists visit Mexico annually.The Everything Family Guide to Mexico is the travel handbook for the adventurous and cautious family alike. With a historical and cult... More

Based on the chart-topping song by the same name, Butterfly Kisses is for every dad who knows the joy of raising a daughter, and for every little girl who has experienced the comfort of a father's unconditional love.... More

Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a high-value commodity, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor of a now vanished sociocultur... More

BUT WHILE THEY RELAXED ON THE SURFACE, MOBY DICK WAS THUNDERING TOWARDS THEM, CHARGING UP FROM A THOUSAND FEET BELOW. THE SPEEDING WHALE SMASHED INTO THE HULL OF ONE BOAT AND CARRIED IT FORTY FEET INTO THE AIR. IT BURST INTO A CLOUD OF WOOD CHIPS AND BROKEN, BLOODY MEN, , LONGING TO GO TO SEA, ISHMA... More

"Fire shot from its open mouth, its eyes flashed and its muzzle, throat and neck were covered in flames. I could never have imagined anything as savage as the dark shape and the snarling face that charged out of that bank of fog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in peculiar circumstances, ... More

AHOY, MATE! Step into the past and aboard the decks of these twenty-five proud vessels, each one launched with high hopes but doomed finally to disaster. From the Huron, a wreck that caused 103 sailors to lose their lives, to the Pulaski, a maritime mishap where two star-crossed lovers almost lost e... More

THESE STORIES HAVE BEEN RETOLD FOR TODAY'S READER, WITH ATMOSPHERIC ILLUSTRATIONS, AN INFORMATIVE INTRODUCTION AND USEFUL NOTES. TWO SAILORS DRAGGED ME BACK FROM THE SIDE OF THE SHIP, AND THEN A THUNDERBOLT SEEMED TO STRIKE ME ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD. THERE WAS A GREAT FLASH OF FIRE, AND THEN NOTHIN... More

For anglers interested in catching more than trout and bass, who dont want to travel to at faraway places and buy expensive, specialized equipment, opportunities for coarse fishing abound. Using unconventional baitfishing techniques and equipment, Brook Landis has developed a uniquely American appro... More