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Book cover of Adam's Fall

Adam's Fall

Traumatic Brain Injury The First 365 Days

by Robert V. Bullough Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011

On a warm summer’s evening, while riding his bicycle with his girlfriend down a gentle slope something inexplicable happened. Suddenly, Adam flew over his handle bars, bounced on the street, and crushed the back of his head. TBI—traumatic brain injury. In that moment, as told by his father, Robert...
Book cover of Mildred Burke Champion Girl Wrestler
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015

Mildred Burke was a diminutive powerhouse wrestling men and women over a career that spanned some twenty years. Only 5'2", her shoulders were likened by an observer to those of a coal heaver. Her legs were compared to small redwood trees. Born in Kansas and raised for part of her teenage years...
Book cover of Caryl Chessman: Red Light Bandit?
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Caryl Chessman was a car thief in the 1940s. From St. Joseph's, Michigan, many of his father's ancestors settled in DuPage County, Illinois. Chessman's father, Serl was born in Itasca. Caryl Chessman was convicted of two kidnapping charges under California's "Little Lindbergh" Law. The California...
Book cover of The Measure of a Man
by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

First published in 1959, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism. Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive. “AT THE first National Conference on...
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Reptiles of North America

A Guide to Field Identification

by Hobart M. Smith, Edmund D. Brodie Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

This eBook is best viewed on a color device. Reptiles of North America by Hobart M. Smith and Edmund D. Brodie, Jr. Discover the Red-bellied Turtle, which is nearly extinct. Uncover a Garter Snake in your backyard. Locate an Alligator Lizard--or a Legless one. Identifying reptiles is...
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A Magic Web

The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island

by Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of the forest's plants and animals create a community? In...
Book cover of Beyond the Fire and the Rain
by Wilbert Williams Jr. M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013

In July 1978, Dr. Wilbert Williams Jr. was standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, New York, afraid for his life. It had been less than three months since he was awarded a medical degree from Albany Medical College in upstate New York; yet there he wasenduring racial slurs from a group of angry white...
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Constructing Jesus

Memory, Imagination, and History

by Dale C. Jr. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? In this volume, now in paperback, internationally renowned Jesus scholar Dale Allison Jr. addresses such perennially fascinating questions about Jesus. The acclaimed hardcover edition received the Biblical...
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To Light a Fire on the Earth

Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age

by Robert Barron, John L. Allen, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017

The highly anticipated follow-up to Bishop Robert Barron's hugely successful Catholicism: A Journey to the Faith As secularism gains influence, and increasing numbers see religion as dull and backward, Robert Barron wants to illuminate how beautiful, intelligent, and relevant the Catholic faith...
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Doomed Ships

Great Ocean Liner Disasters

by William H., Jr. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012

These true-life adventures unfold amid flames, collisions, and explosions, with frantic calls of SOS and a rush to clamber aboard the lifeboats. Naval historian William H. Miller, Jr., recounts the dramatic stories behind a host of ill-fated passenger ships. He takes readers beyond the newspaper headlines...
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Discovery

The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition

by Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

From the moment Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Anarctica, he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific promise it held were too much to leave behind forever. Launched during the Great Depression amid great public skepticism, and with funding at...
Book cover of A United Airlines DC-4 Crashes Into Medicine Bow Peak Albany County, Wyoming October 6, 1955
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017

A United Airlines DC-4 crashed into Medicine Bow Peak on the night of October 6, 1955. The 12,500 summit is located in the Medicine Bow Mountain Range of Albany County, Wyoming. The accident has never been completely explained. Perhaps the likeliest explanation for the disaster is that Pilot C.C....
Book cover of The Crash of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 Juneau, Alaska September 4, 1971
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016

The crash of the Alaska Airlines jet into Mount Fairweather on September 4, 1971 has never been explained definitively. A National Transportation Safety Board report hinted that the flight crew acted properly with the incorrect information they were given. However the same NTSB report stated that...
Book cover of Basketball's Most Wanted™ II
by David L. Hudson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005

Basketball has so many great stories, so many interesting anecdotes-about college and pro teams, players from all levels, announcers, and even owners-that one book just isn't enough to hold it all. That's why Potomac Books, Inc. is introducing Basketball's Most Wanted™ II: The Top 10 Book of More Hotshot...
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