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Law of San Luis Wash
Howard Pelham - Thomas Bouregy & Co; No Edition Stated
Format: Hardcover
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Product Identifiers PublisherBouregy & Company, Incorporated, Thomas ISBN-100803488785 ISBN-139780803488786 eBay Product ID (ePID) 2088945 Product Key Features FormatHardcover Publication Year1991 LanguageEnglish Additional Product Features AuthorHoward Pelham Number of Pages192 Pages... |
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Complete Guide to Flags of the World, The
Brian Johnson Barker - IMM Lifestyle Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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An up-to-date reference guide showing each country s national flag, explanation of its origin and meaning, a locator map and key statistics. |
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This Day in Presidential History
PAUL BRANDUS - Bernan Press
Format: Hardcover
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For reference librarians, journalists, social media managers, history buffs, and more, a treasure trove of information about the US presidency for each day of the year from the popular, award-winning White House journalist Paul Brandus. The Atlantic calls Brandus "one of the top Washington... |
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War -- a conflict... |
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Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History
Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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Medicine tells the fascinating story of the discipline, from ancient times to the present day, charting developments in healing, diagnosis, surgery, and drugs in a vividly visual and accessible format.Follow the gory pitfalls and the miraculous breakthroughs of medical history from... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West.... |
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Ligonier
Daniel L Replogle - Arcadia Pub
Format: Print book
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Isaac Cavin, of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, traveled to Indiana in 1830. He returned home and married Elizabeth Marker in 1834, and they traveled together to northern Indiana. In May 1835, he planned a new town and named it Ligonier. He built his home a few miles north of town and lived there... |
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TIME-LIFE The Civil War in 500 Photographs
TIME-LIFE Books - TIME-LIFE
Format: Print book
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The name TIME-LIFE has become synonymous with providing readers with a deeper understanding of subjects and world events that matter to us all. Now, with the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War upon us, TIME-LIFE The Civil War in 500 Photographs will be an indispensable guide... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar - New American Library
Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary... |
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The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
Mark M Smith - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback
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From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One hundred thousand... |
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The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
J Kael Weston - Alfred A Knopf, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict, The Mirror Test asks that we as a nation look in the mirror and address hard questions about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working... |
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Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich
Jochen Hellbeck - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans, huddled in the ruined city, surrendered to Soviet... |
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The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
Emma Sky - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little idea what she was getting in to. Her assignment was only supposed to last three months. She went on to serve there longer than any other senior military or diplomatic figure, giving... |
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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel - Viking
Format: Print book
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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR,... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich
Jochen Hellbeck - PublicAffairs
Format: eBook
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Just days after the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad, legendary Red Army sniper Vasily Zaytsev described the horrors he witnessed during the five-month long conflict: “one sees the young girls, the children who hang from trees in the park... I have unsteady nerves and I'm constantly... |
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Top 10 San Francisco
Jeffrey Kennedy - DK Eyewitness Travel; Lam Pap/Ma edition
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 San Francisco will lead you straight to the very best this city has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. The guide is divided... |
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Photography and the American Civil War
Jeff L. Rosenheim - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Book
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Six hundred thousand lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between North and South the nation’s deadliest war. If the “War Between the States” was the test of the young republic’s commitment to its founding precepts, it was also a watershed in photographic... |
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The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, July 18-21, 1861
John J Hennessy - Stackpole Books
Format: Print book
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"Unmatched in its description of the battle's tactics and actual fighting."--Ethan Rafuse, author of McClellan's WarOn July 21, 1861, near a Virginia railroad junction twenty-five miles from Washington, DC, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in the first major battle... |
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March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
Will Englund - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I."We are provincials no longer," declared Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inauguration. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat.... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved
Catharine Arnold - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Victorian England: We know what that was supposed to mean -- all priggish prudery and "we-are-not-amused" harrumphing. Except now we know it wasnt all that . . . [Catharine Arnolds] new biography focuses -- deliciously -- on the women who shared the scandalously plentiful... |
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499 Facts about Hip-Hop Hamilton and the Rest of America's Founding Fathers
Stephen J Spignesi - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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You want a revolution? So did Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers!America has fallen in love again with Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers. Here is a popping fresh collection of facts and forgotten trivia surrounding the American Revolution and our forefathers - from those... |
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck - Simon & Schuster; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 Indie Next Pick * Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting ... A book filled with so much love ... Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon." - The Wall Street... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against... |
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. By January 1968,... |
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"Elegiac and richly detailed...[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair...evocative." - Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already... |
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National Geographic The Old West
Stephen G. Hyslop - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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From Lewis and Clark's epic 1803 expedition to the showmanship of Buffalo Bill, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing tales of tragedy and triumph. Lavishly illustrated with vivid photographs and intricate maps, The Old West is the definitive history of a time... |
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The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia
Susan Jaques - Pegasus Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world and turning St. Petersburg in to a world wonder. The Empress of Art brings to life the creation of this captivating woman's greatest legacy... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other... |
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Christopher Knowlton - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813
Michael V. Leggiere - Cambridge University Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleons catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the struggle against Napoleon as a war of national... |
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia,... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
David Fisher - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone... |
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1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
Jay Winik - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put more pressure than any other on an ailing yet determined President Roosevelt.It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that... |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and moralizing. Now, in the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author and esteemed biographer... |
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In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir
Patricia Gucci - Crown Pub
Format: Book
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The gripping family drama and never-before-told love story surrounding the rise and fall of the late Aldo Gucci, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today, as told by his daughter. Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could... |
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The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany
DAVID KING - W W NORTON
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told story of the scandalous courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution.... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell - Amazon Publishing
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expos of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter... |
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Gettysburg Replies: The World Responds to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Almost five months after the Civil Wars deadliest clash, President Abraham Lincoln and other Union leaders gathered to dedicate the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The program for the occasion featured music, prayer, orations, and benedictions. In the middle of it all,... |
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Helen Castor - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." - Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian... |
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The Fifties
David Halberstam - Villard Books
Format: Print book
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The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon,... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
James M. McPherson - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about... |
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Best Little Stories from World War I: Nearly 100 True Stories
C. Brian Kelly - Cumberland House
Format: Print book
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Behind the tangled alliances, feuding royals, and deadly battles are the nearly 100 riveting true stories of the men and women who lived, fought, and survived the first Great War. Based on the writings of soldiers, politicians, kings, nurses, and military leaders, Best Little Stories... |
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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The 1916 Irish Rebellion
BriÌona Nic Dhiarmada - University of Notre Dame Press
Format: Print book
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One hundred years ago, during Easter Week, 1916, rebel Irish leaders and their followers staged an armed uprising in the city of Dublin in an attempt to overthrow British rule and create an autonomous Irish republic. One week later, their rebellion ruthlessly quashed by British forces,... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist
Stephen Kurkjian - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless artworks... |
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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS
Nada Bakos - Little
Format: Print book
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The story of a young woman from Montana who joined the CIA and worked her way up through the ranks to the frontline of the fight against Islamic extremists. In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity... |
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The Handy Diabetes Answer Book
Patricia L Barnes-Svarney - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback
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Whether young, old, type 1, type 2, gestational, newly-diagnosed, long-time sufferer, caretaker or loved one, millions of people are afflicted and affected by diabetes. The CDC estimates 9.3% of the population in the U.S. and Canada have diabetes, with millions more with prediabetes. From... |
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Punk: Chaos to Couture
Andrew Bolton - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Paperback
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Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an explosive influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage to the elevated precincts of haute couture and directional ready-to-wear. As a style, punk is about... |
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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"Elegiac and richly detailed...[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair...evocative." - Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already... |
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton - Metropolitan Museum of Art; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth... |
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First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit
Patrick K. O'Donnell - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men - among them a dentist, a Hollywood movie star, an archaeologist, California surfers, and even former enemies of the Allies - united to form an exceptional unit that would forge the capabilities of the Navy's Sea, Air, and Land... |
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
RUSSELL SHORTO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those... |
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Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace
BANA ALABED - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"I'm very afraid I will die tonight." - Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 2, 2016 "Stop killing us." - Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 6, 2016 "I just want to live without fear." - Bana Alabed, Twitter, October 12, 2016When seven-year-old... |
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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
Jesse Holland - LP
Format: Print book
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THE INVISIBLES: Slavery Inside The White House and How It Helped Shape America is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White... |
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Helen Castor - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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"Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift. . . . Readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding." - Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall In the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiringand until now, untoldstory of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. After risking... |
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The Secret Chamber of Osiris: Lost Knowledge of the Sixteen Pyramids
Scott Creighton - Bear & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Reveals the true purpose behind the pyramids of Giza and the location of the secret vault of Egyptian treasures hidden on the Giza plateau • Details how the first 16 pyramids represent the allegorical “dismembered body of Osiris” and the legendary missing part is a secret... |
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America's Secret Aristocracy: The Families that Built the United States
Stephen Birmingham - LP/Lyons Press
Format: Print book
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America has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy emerged anyway - a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Renowned social historian Stephen Birmingham reveals the inner workings of this aristocracy... |
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro - Viking
Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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My Life in France
Julia Child - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found 'her true calling.'From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first... |
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Michigan's US-12 Heritage Trail: America's Second Federal Highway
Gladys Saborio - Arbutus Press
Format: Print book
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Beginning in Detroit, US-12 spans 212 miles in southern Michigan. It passes through eight counties and several cities including Ypsilanti, Clinton, Jonesville, Coldwater, Sturgis, Edwardsburg, and New Buffalo before passing into Indiana. It is, or has been, known by several names including... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT" OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT" THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"January 1961: President... |
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Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915
Prit Buttar - Osprey Publishing (UK)
Format: Hardcover
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While millions of men died in France and Belgium in 1915, battles equally as large and bloody were being fought on the Eastern Front, as Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia clashed on a scale greater than anything seen on the Western Front. These massive offensives... |
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Counterfeit Justice: The True Story of 19th Century Organized Crime
Eric T Alli - Createspace
Format: Print book
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Long before the days of Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and other prohibition era gangsters, existed an organized crime syndicate which lasted almost one hundred years. 19th century organized crime plagued the Midwest at a time when many areas were just being settled. The gang... |
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