Dixon: 1281 books

Jess is a young girl who has been punished. She has been sent to work at the Railway Historical Society as a part of a community work order, to paint trains. There she meets the old school Barry, who is obsessed with trains, runs the place and who has nobody now that his funding has been cut...

On an Oxford bound train in 1866 Mary Miles refused to move to the 'blacks-only' section, eighty-nine years before Rosa Parks' famous ride. Eight years later in a West Chester courtroom photographic evidence was used for the first time. Soon after that the hills of Westtown became the testing grounds...

“That was the first time in my life I was happy…the happiest I ever would be. And I never told you.” There’s always one moment in life that passes without you saying what you really wanted – needed – to. For Ruth that day came after the death of her beloved husband Trip. She and Trip had...

How to Save More Money Guaranteed is a time-tested system that puts more money in your pocket. Whether you hate numbers or can’t live without them, this straightforward book will help you increase your savings. Most financial literature today focuses on reducing spending instead of teaching...

The first ever overview of women's contributions to the dawn of cinema looking at a variety of roles from writers and directors to film editors and critics. Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working...

Mike has traveled extensively in China during the past twenty-five years, on climbing expeditions and as a general tourist. This book was written to entertain and provide travel advice. Over fifty photographs.

This edition is fully updated to include Mayweather’s battle with UFC star Conor McGregor.Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time, with fifty professional victories in a glittering unbeaten ring career that has spanned two decades. Mayweather was...

An insightful journey into the relationship between a father and his daughter. David Dixon writes from his heart as he shares life lessons. He reveals the depth of a father's love as he gives purposeful direction to help guide his daughter's life down a meaningful path.

Carl Dixon’s journey through the twists and turns of a music performer’s life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture. Though Carl’s road was rocky, it was still paved with gold. It has led from his early days with...

Eat, Pray, Love meets The Rosie Project in this fresh, heartwarming memoir by a man who travels to Verona and volunteers to answer letters addressed to Shakespeare’s Juliet, all in an attempt to heal his own heartbreak. When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he packs his bags for Verona, Italy....

Praise for Almost Persuaded: ✯✯✯✯✯ ❝ I loved how this story was told from a less popular character and that it perfectly matched my own imaginings of the personality of Mary King.❞ - Erlynn, Books Hug Back ✯✯✯✯✯ ❝ I always enjoy Ms. Dixon's work and she has...

The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century and a half of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidents-as the “bloody fool” theory has it-or are they inevitable? The...

Using a full range of original literary sources, modern Continental scholarship, and current archaeological research, Pat Southern and Karen R. Dixon provide a stimulating overview of the historical period, the critical changes in the army, and the way these changes affected the morale of the soldiers.

Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imperial. The conflict known as Pontiac’s Uprising, which lasted from 1763 until 1766, erupted out of this volatile atmosphere. Never Come to Peace Again, the first complete account...