Gripping history written like a novel. Marathon missions that would test one's courage, stamina and perseverance. Hardships that required drugs issued to keep fliers awake. A book to read twice.
As long-time water sport enthusiasts, author Lee E. Pate and his sister Deb decide to get certified as scuba divers. During the training, Lee asks the instructor about sharks and is told, "You're privileged to see a dangerous shark-it's very rare to see
A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and
This book is about how my belief in God and Jesus Christ became more important to me than anything else in my life and since the last 32 years has changed my life forever.
This book is a true story about how I had turned my life upside down and seriously
When he was a child, author Timothy Burns' parents thought that moving the family to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, would give their children a better place to grow up, rather than the mean streets of Boston. But they were wrong.
Gerry Haines grew up on a farm located in the center of the northern border of Missouri. He graduated from Livonia High School as Valedictorian at age sixteen and left home to seek his fortune. After moving to Moline, Illinois, he got a job as an apprentice
The United States' influence in the Philippines has produced a remarkable and highly successful experiment in democracy through education-not through military intervention. With the education provided by American teachers known as the Thomasites who came
A nostalgic true diary of rural England in the 1930s containing approximately 70 watercolors painted by the author (an accredited war artist)and many photographs taken during a holiday with his wife,two friends and a dog. A charming story which is a real
When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the
A Day in the Life is the story of how the ideal marriage between two young and extraordinarily beautiful members of the English upper class fell apart as the psychedelic dreams of the sixties gave way to the harsh, hard-rock reality of the seventies. A
A Duty of Remembrance recounts the lives of two families during the first half of the twentieth century. August, a cooper, spent WWI in Flanders carrying the dead and wounded by horse-drawn wagon to the field hospital. His son, Gustel, joined the SS at
This is the story of a rise from nothing to something, with a turning point coming when revelation turns ignorance into inspiration, and a nonentity is fated to become a philosopher with ideas that could change the mind and world of man.
In this book, Dr. Grace LaJoy shares her life story of being deserted by her mother, living in foster care, and ending up in a gifted and talented class while still in foster care. She recalls her life story before, during and after foster care. Her turbulent
First published in 1907, Father and Son recounted Edmund Gosse's fundamentalist upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren. A hundred years on, A Good Boy Tomorrow tells a similar story.
Wheeler grew up in the idyllic surroundings of the Lake District of
Farm life from the 1930s to present times. Changes that have taken place with anecdotes about various characters, each chapter describing different farm chores and rural events.
