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Frank and Me at Mundung-Ni
A Korean War Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
It was 1937 when Joseph Donohue first met Frank Milisits in grammar school. As they grew up together on the Upper East Side of New York City, the two boys kept scrapbooks on World War II, became junior aid-raid wardens, and attended block parties for returning veterans. But little did Joseph and Frank...
When Women First Wore Army Shoes
A First-Person Account of Service as a Member of the Women's Army Corps During Wwii.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Daughter, sister and sister-in-law of Army men who would all rise to the rank of General, it was not much of a surprise when Ethel A. Starbird decided to serve her country as a member of the Womans Army Corps during World War II.
After multiple attempts to make weight to join the Army, due...
by Earl Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
At the age of fifteen, Earl Russells life was ripped out from under him. His uncle, the only father he ever knew, banished Earl from the only home the boy had ever known. Earl found himself a teen outcast in a state of despair that sent him spinning without direction or hope for years. His vision...
Ebony & Ivory
An In-Depth Look at Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
Many books have been written about the problems of racial hostility and cultural diversity-but none like Ebony and Ivory.
This powerful collection offers a refreshing and humorous look at these serious issues that face our society. The fables and articles in Ebony and Ivory will make the reader laugh, cry, and shout and will also cause us to do some deep self-evaluation.
No Eta
The Pioneering Days of Skydiving
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Why would anybody want to jump out of a perfectly good, functioning airplane? Ask any sport parachutist in the world that question and you may find a different answer every time. For Dick Fortenberry, his love of parachuting began long before he joined the US Army at age eighteen and attended jump...
Thoughts of a Serious Woman
A Collection of Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
I write about life, relationships, experiences and things I see going on around me. Writing is a release, a way of expressing how I feel, a clearing of my mind.
A small book of poetry, covering the larger issues of life. My soul is at peace when I can be alone with my thoughts surrounded by...
I've Got Some Lovin' to Do
The Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen, 1925–1926
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
It is July of 1925 when, on a whim, fifteen-year-old Doris Bailey decides to keep a diarya place where she can openly confide her dreams, hopes, and ambitions. Doris is flirtatious, untamed, and romantic, imagining herself in and out of love with each passing day.
In this first volume of Th...
by Ray P. Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
How does a person born with mental and physical challenges become the most popular person in his community ? Why did the town throw a 50th birthday party for him and name a street in his honor ? Why do valedictorians mention him in their commencement addresses ? Why does a person who can't use a computer...
Reaching for the Moon
More Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen (1927-1929)
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Im glad Im alive.
Doris Louise Bailey, a teen in the Prohibition era, writes this sentiment over and over in her diaries as she struggles with a life-threatening bout of scarlet fever. But its also an apt summation of how she lived in the years following her brush with death. Reaching for the...
A Long Walk Home
My Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
A Long Walk Home is the third book in a trilogy written about the women in the author's life the first being Julia, her maternal grandmother; the second Emma, her mother, and concluding with the authors own story. As with her forebears, it is a story of faith, determination and survival in a world fraught with challenges.
by Nathan Graham
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
As a child, Nathan Graham was convinced he would one day lead a worry-free existence filled with independence and acclaim. Unfortunately for him, his goals have yet to be realized. In his collection of humorous essays, Graham shares stories from a life paved with weird and quirky characters, including...
Box of Mustaches
The Darkly Funny, True Story of How Twin Brothers Survived Their Mother's Madness
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2003
Box of Mustaches is the powerful, true story of identical twin brothers and how they coped with their mother's descent into madness.
At first, Stanley and Jimmy Evans thought their mother was normal, but they soon discovered that her twisted views and mood swings were a result of her schizophrenia....
Lucy a to Z
The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
Praise for the updated 2012 Kindle edition of Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia
"Very important. Fresh insights. The most detailed-and most enjoyable-book available on Lucille Ball. A must-have."
-Laura Wagner, Classic Images
"As we are producing the I Love Lucy...
by Morris M. Faierstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2007
Aaron Zeitlin was a living cruse of sacred oil saved from the Holocaust. Wracked by guilt and despair for having survived by chance, Aaron Zeitlin, a Yiddish poet of religious intensity, reconfirmed his faith while memorializing Polish Jewry and his lost family. In Poems of the Holocaust and Poems...