Jim: 5732 books
by Jim Wellman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
“To succeed at fishing, one must be creative and constantly find ways to outsmart nature.” Newfoundland captain and fisherwoman Tracey Button adds another dimension to her thoughts on the career path she’s chosen: “Fishing is a fine way to exercise my gambling instinct,” she says. That’s...
by Jim Pangrazio
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein traveled to Berlin in July of 1939 to complete the transaction that would secure the safety of his two sisters now living in an Austria that had become part of Nazi Germany. For a large sum of Wittgenstein gold the regime would reduce the status of the sisters to...
We’Ll All Die as Marines
One Marine’s Journey from Private to Colonel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
For seventeen-year-old high school dropout Jim Bathurst, the Marine Corps’s reputation for making men out of boys was something he desperately needed when he enlisted in March of 1958. What began as a four-year hitch lasted nearly thirty-six years and included an interesting assortment of duty stations...
Revolution in the Lymes
From the New Lights to the Sons of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Revolutionary War in the Lymes started as a rebellion of ideas. From its origins in the Cromwellian Saybrook Colony, Lyme (today's Lyme, Old Lyme, East Lyme and Salem) prospered under the free hand of self-governance and spurned King George III's efforts to rein in the wayward colonies. In 1765,...
Final Salute
A Story of Unfinished Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification....
American Spirit
Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new book
Life leads us through difficult terrain. But what happens if you use challenge as an opportunity to discover your PURPOSE? These Americans did and are changing the world.
After...
Crossfire
The Plot That Killed Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, "the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unlocked." (Kirkus)
Will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy assassination? In Crossfire, Jim Marrs demonstrates that the facts are all there-they just need to be...
by Marrs, Jim
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The year 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, those historychanging events that have come to be known simply as 9/11. In The Terror Conspiracy Revisited, the world's leading conspiracy writer updates his authoritative dissection of the official story of...
by George Biro, Jim Leavesley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
After their successful book speculating on What Killed Jane Austen, Dr Jim Leavesley and Dr George Biro turn their attention to How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles and more medical mysteries. the life and death of this hypochondriac scientist is just one of over 50 intriguing stories of famous patients,...
by Jim Leavesley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Throughout history, many doctors have worked outside the occupation for which they were originally trained. Not Your Ordinary Doctor reveals sixty such medical truants who found fame in fields other than medicine.
Meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes; cringe as Stalin...
Bully Boy
The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
What Hath TR Wrought?
“I don’t think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man’s hands.” —Theodore Roosevelt
The notion that Theodore Roosevelt was one of America’s greatest presidents is literally carved in stone—right up there on Mount Rushmore. But...
The Last Mission
The Secret History of World War II's Final Battle
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war.
How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two previously...
Abandon Ship!
A Survivor's Story: Attack on Pearl Harbor, Sinking of the USS Helena, and my life during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Abandon Ship is a fascinating account of enlisted life onboard U.S. naval warships in the Pacific Theater during WW2. Bill Jim Davis, the author, provides a riveting account of what it was like for him as a young seaman during those hazardous times. Amazingly, his individual experiences took him from...