James Rada Jr: 21 books

"The country had only 600 trained nurses at the start of the Civil War. All were Catholic nuns. This is one of the best-kept secrets in our nation's history," Father William Barnaby Faherty once wrote.When the Civil War broke out, the Union and the Confederacy were prepared to fight, but...

In the midst of a World War, the true enemy was unseen. It came with a handshake or a breath and it left behind 40 million dead. In October 1918, World War I was winding down, but the world had yet to face the deadliest killer known. Spanish Flu would devastate the world. In Cumberland,...

The Civil War split the United States and now it has split the Fitzgerald Family. Although George Fitzgerald has returned from the war, his sister Elizabeth Fitzgerald has chosen to remain in Washington to volunteer as a nurse. The ex-Confederate spy, David Windover, has given up on his dream of being...

Matt Ansaro returns to his hometown of Eckhart Mines in the Western Maryland coal fields. It has been five years since Matt was here, and he swore when he left in 1917 that he would never return. Although Matt’s parents are dead, the rest of his family welcomes him home with open arms. Joseph McCord,...

The rain began on March 16, 1936, and with it, the rain came pain. Raymond Twigg hates the rain because it gives the Rain Man power. It is a power to bring Raymond to his knees or drive him to deadly action.As the March 1936 rains bring the St. Patrick’s Day Flood, the worst flood ever seen...

The war between the North and the South takes hold on the canal boat Freeman. As the Fitzgerald Family struggles to make it through the winter of 1862-1863 after a poor year of boating on the C&O Canal along the Potomac River in Maryland, the Civil War draws closer to being fought aboard...

Janet Sinclair is not looking forward to her first Christmas without her young daughter. Danielle Sinclair died earlier in the year, and Janet still doesn't know how she will go on. The littlest things bother her, such as the beautiful porcelain angel she receives as a mystery gift. The little angel...