Pauli Hertha

Handel's work at London's Foundling Hospital and the first and famous performance there of his Messiah are the focal points of this biography of the well-known German born musician.

A somber look at the life of a cattleman and his family, in the Australian outback. The author, Mary Elwyn Patchett, doesn't sugar-coat the harsh existence of people and animals in the unforgiving wilderness, but weaves a good story. I was reminded of "The Thorn Birds" as I read, another story full of the knowledge of the life people have and continue to live in many harsh corners of the world. If you can't handle how cruel man and "nature" can be, I would suggest you skip this book. However, in skipping "Cry of the Heart", you would miss a good "read". And you'd never meet Mu, and Juli.

Biography of Isabella, born a slave in the early nineteenth century, who spent her adult life preaching and agitating for the rights of the Negro.

Describes the lives and works of the Nobel Prize winners and relates their comments on man's use of their discoveries.

With the help of Brother Francis a little boy of Assisi makes friends with all the birds.

Tells the story of an eleven-year-old girl who wrote a letter to Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and suggested that he "would look a great deal better" if he would let his whiskers grow.