A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous New England ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.
Utah Curiosities brings to the reader with humor and affectionand a healthy dose of attitudethe oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the states borders and in the chronicles of its history.
Facing Unimaginable Events With CourageIts only human to be fascinated by disasters--and uplifted by reports of survival in the face of overwhelming circumstances.
It Happened in Mississippi takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Magnolia State's storied past.
From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous ';road' to freedom.
True Tales from the Pelican Statefrom the longest Civil War battle to one of history's worst man-made disastersLouisiana is well known for its spicy gumbo, Cajun music, and horrific hurricanes, but few may know why Tarzan once swung through the piney woods, how an entrepreneur used a land auction to build a town in a day, or how one man's vision drew thousands of miracle-seekers to an empty field for over twenty years.
It Happened in West Virginia takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Mountain State's storied past.
Sunday, June 22, 1941: three million German soldiers invaded the Soviet Union as part of Hitlers long-planned Operation Barbarossa, which aimed to destroy the Soviet Union, secure its land as lebensraum for the Third Reich, and enslave its Slavic population.
THE BOOK: In every generation, according to Jewish tradition, thirty-six just men, the Lamed-waf, are born to take the burden of the world's suffering upon themselves.
In late November 1941, two college football teamsWillamette University and San Jose Stateset sail for Honolulu for a series of games with the University of Hawaii.
David Danelo spent three months traveling the 1,952 miles that separate the United States and Mexico--a journey that took him across four states and two countries through a world of rivers and canals, mountains and deserts, highways and dirt roads, fences and border towns.
Sunday, June 22, 1941: three million German soldiers invaded the Soviet Union as part of Hitlers long-planned Operation Barbarossa, which aimed to destroy the Soviet Union, secure its land as lebensraum for the Third Reich, and enslave its Slavic population.
'Unflinchingly candid and extraordinarily powerful' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Dominic Gregory hasn't just delivered a survey of courage and determination - Lifeboat at the End of the World is a hymn to human decency, and that makes it a very timely book indeed' TIM WINTONDo you really think all lives are worth saving?
Known as the Father of the Outdoor Movement, William HH Murrays writings have been appreciated by generations of readers looking to nature as an escape from our daily lives as well as a portal to our past, perhaps none more so than his classic Adventures in the Wilderness: Or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks.
The triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'.
From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflictsIn these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y.
Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope.
This is a comprehensive volume capturing the Lardner style and offering a considerable insight into Americas favorite sportswriter Ron Rapoport has done a superb job in his selectionThe New York Journal of Books Frank Chance's Diamond is a time machine.
From the first Polynesian voyagers who crossed vast oceans in fragile waka, to the arrival of European settlers and the shaping of a modern nation, A History of New Zealand traces the remarkable story of Aotearoa through discovery, conflict, adaptation, and identity.
A remarkable true story about saving life in wartime, not taking it'War is often described in terms of blood and treasure The Lifesavers tells the story of the people who saw blood as treasure.
The acclaimed true story—originally published in Mountain Gazette and a finalist for the Livingston Award in International Reporting One night in September 1943, a Jewish mother took her nine-year-old son in one arm and five-year-old daughter in the other and jumped off a moving train to save their lives.
