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by J.E.B. Spredemann
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Luke Beiler has loved Elisabeth Schrock for as long as he can remember and is looking forward to the day they both join the church so they can marry. Elisabeth, however, chafes under the church rules and flees to the Englisch world leaving Luke heart broken.
When an accident leaves Brianna...
by J.E.B. Spredemann
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Hannah has a good life. A beautiful home, a loving husband, and a wonderful Amish community are only a few of her daily blessings. But she has carried a heavy burden for years: a secret that no one must know. When tragedy strikes, her secret threatens to be revealed, jeopardizing everything she’s...
Grave Predictions
Tales of Mankind's Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
"This is a book of stories intended to describe that hand of mortal destruction in 16 utterly different, yet all apocalyptically stunning ways!" — Harlan Ellison, from the Introduction.
These compelling visions of post-apocalyptic societies and dystopian worlds include short stories by...
Grey Wolf, Grey Sea
Aboard the German Submarine U-124 in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The inside story of life aboard the deadly Nazi U-Boat that sank forty-nine ships.
The history of one of World War II’s most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in Grey Wolf, Grey Sea, from its few defeats to a legion of victories. Kapitanleutnant Jochen Mohr commanded his German...
The Philadelphia Negro
A Social Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those...
Black Families
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The condition and characteristics of the black family have been subjects of intense debate since at least the 1960s, when the Moynihan Report and the culture of poverty theses held sway. Since then a consistent theme has been that black families are pathological. Despite the fact that research has...
The Seven Secrets of Germany
Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
German economic performance has astonished the world. At the turn of the century, Germany had been written off as the sick man of Europe. No more. Even as most of its European neighbors and OECD trading partners have struggled in the face of a turbulent global economy, the German economy has thrived....
Shakespeare Basics for Grown-Ups
Everything You Need to Know About the Bard
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
An essential guide to Shakespeare, from the international bestselling authors of Homework for Grown-Ups
The Bard was so incredibly prolific that even most Shakespeare scholars would welcome the occasional refresher course, and most of the rest of us haven’t even got a clue as to what a petard...
JFK's Secret Doctor
The Remarkable Life of Medical Pioneer and Legendary Rock Climber Hans Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Set against the grand panorama of twentieth-century world events, it captures the remarkable life and spirit of climbing and medical visionary Hans Kraus (1905-1966). Kraus was taught English by James Joyce, escaped Nazi dominated Europe, and was JFK’s secret back specialist. A legendary rock climber...
by W.E.B. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1989
It is 1964. The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics, and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the United States Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division, a force critical to its chances of success. The obstacles...
by W.E.B. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1988
From the blistering jungles of Vietnam to the far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, they faced the turmoil of a new era. It was a different kind of war. But the courage and skill of these young fighting men were an American tradition. Like their fathers before them, they rose up to the ultimate...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIV
The Eastern Roman Empire from Leo III to the Macedonian Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
THE history of the Byzantine Empire under the rule of the Isaurian dynasty is one of the periods in the prolonged evolution of the monarchy least easy of comprehension. The work of the sovereigns usually called the Iconoclast Emperors has been, in fact, recorded for us practically only by opponents...
by E.B. Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the first time, continues to be considered the best book ever written about Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. Highly...
by E.B. Long
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
“In all the vast collection of books on the American Civil War there is no book like this one,” says Bruce Catton. Never before has such a stunning body of facts dealing with the war been gathered together in one place and presented in a coherent, useful, day-by-day narrative. And never before...