Papamoa Press: 213 books
Zachary Taylor
Soldier in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This tome is the second volume of Holman Hamilton’s landmark biography of Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the 12th President of the United States. It examines Taylor’s brief but important political career and traces Taylor’s life from his return to the U.S. in December of 1847 from the bloody Mexican...
The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned
A Moving Record of America’s Great Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco, April 18, 1906 [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned is the dramatic, complete account of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. In the early morning of that day, the sleeping city was rocked by a violent earth tremor that ravaged buildings, heaved streets, and terrified drowsy residents. But worse was to come:...
Forts and Forays
A Dragoon in New Mexico, 1850-1856
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Forts and Forays is a rare account of frontier soldiering in the pre-Civil War Southwest by an enlisted man. James A. Bennett joined the regular army in 1849 and was stationed in New Mexico for six years before he deserted to Mexico. Assigned to the First Dragoons, he visited most major New Mexico...
by Juan José Arévalo
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
The Shark and the Sardines is a scathing allegorical short story by Juan José Arévalo Bermejo (1904-1990), who was the first of the reformist presidents of Guatemala (1944-1951). As a country that had seen a series of dictatorships following its independence from Spain, Arévalo’s 1944 election...
by S. George Ullman
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was an early pop icon and a sex symbol of the 1920s, having starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik, and he became known as the “Latin lover” or simply...
A Wayward Quest
The Autobiography of Theresa Helburn
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A WAYWARD QUEST, which was first published in 1960, is the autobiography of a woman who for forty years was one of the most important figures in the American theater—and who loved every minute of it. Small, vivacious, imaginative, Theresa Helburn was a wonderfully attractive person who at one time...
Go North, Young Man
Modern Homesteading in Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
First published in 1957, this is the story of how a young West Coaster forsakes civilization for the rugged satisfactions of homesteading in Alaska.
Like many other World War II veterans, Gordon Stoddard headed up the Alcan Highway because he found civilian life too tame. He had heard of easy...
by Edwin C. Bearss
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Originally published in 1963, Rebel Victory at Vicksburg by renowned American Civil War and World War II historian Edwin C. Bearss details the Confederate victory. Told with great power and imagery, this book will make an invaluable addition to any historian’s collection.
Broadsides and Bayonets
The Propaganda War of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Originally published in 1961, author Carl Berger has “attempted to encompass the story of propaganda and subversion in the American Revolutionary War. The archives and literature of the Revolution contain many intriguing references to “secret arts and machinations,” some relating to incidents...
My Own Particular Screwball
An Informal Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
An informal autobiography of the old-time professional baseball pitcher and entertainer, Al Schacht. The Bronx-born Schacht pitched for a decade in the minors with the New York Giants, then the old Washington Senators in 1919, 1920 and 1921. One of the first Jewish players in the professional game,...
by Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, Til Ferdenzi
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Life had not been kind to young Tommy Riggs—and even though he had all the natural playing ability to become a Major Leaguer, his anger at the world kept him from becoming the great player he could be.
How Tommy Riggs learned not only to be a star catcher, but also to live with himself and...
Suicide or Murder?
The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark. Their mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase,...
Gold and the Gold Standard
The Story of Gold Money, Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Edwin Walter Kemmerer was one of the unsung heroes of the 20th century. A Professor of Economics at Princeton, he was known as the “money doctor” between the wars, helping countries to establish and maintain strong currencies between 1923 and 1933. He was a firm advocate of the gold standard and...
Gerald Manley Hopkins
A Study of His Ignatian Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
First published in 1959, this book is a reading of G. M. Hopkins as a meditative poet whose poetic experience originated primarily from his learning and living the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. It is the main intent of this study to examine to what extent Hopkins’ art was influenced by Ignatian spirituality.