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Lucky Me
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Edwin F. Thompson, Jr. loved to tell stories and he had plenty of stories to tell. These are stories of a 20th century American life: from the pre-depression construction trade in Eastern Massachusetts, to flying troop transports into China during World War II, to raising a large family during the...
My Memoirs
A Remembrance of Love, Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
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Looking Back
A Journey Through the Pages of the Keowee Courier for the Years 1888, 1907, 1911 and 1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The Keowee Courier, a small weekly newspaper located in Walhalla, South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, was founded in 1849 and has published continuously ever since then, except for a brief interruption of two or three years during the Civil War. In fact, the editor and publisher...
Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science
The Dawn of the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science is a series of four closely related books that provide an amplyillustrated, overarching perspective to a broad, nontechnical audience of the entire panorama surrounding the development of rockets, missiles, and space vehicles as we know them today and what the exciting...
Kissing Fish
Christianity for People Who Don’t Like Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Christianity receives a lot of attention in the media, but the most frequently discussed version represents a type of Christianity that sometimes turns people away from the Church. Kissing Fish presents a postmodern systematic theology of progressive Christianity, a growing movement that reclaims...
From the Flood to the Reign of George Iii
Developmental History and the Scottish Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
An examination of all eighteenth-century historical works produced by Scots is not the intention of this book, which is instead a case study of a limited number of Scottish eighteenth-century historical writings, here designated as developmental history. Since this is a term new to historiography,...
by Allan Wilford Howerton
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Baptists, Bibles, and Bourbon in the Barn is a spunky memoir about growing up in Western Kentucky during the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, and the run up to World War II. Written from the viewpoint of a kids bottom-up perspective of the fundamentalist Baptist culture of the era, it is a...
Too-Many-Words
The Collected New Year’S Day Essays of Wayne P. Hughes, Jr. with a Sampler of Other Assorted Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Almost every New Years Day since 1974, Wayne Hughes set down on paper his take on some of the most important issues facing modern life. These essays were not written for publication, but as true correspondence with a circle of friends from many walks of life. Waynes hope was that a dialog would ensue...
by Mel Bergstresser
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Have you ever been in a situation where you searched for some humor or wanted to share something humorous with someone and couldnt think of anything or didnt have any humorous sources handy? I have been in this situation many, many times when I wanted to share some personal humor and suitable joke...
by Vance Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
This is the story of Vances drinking years and how he dealt with the underlying causes, the sex, gambling, suicidal impulses and compulsive change of circumstance that ruled him.
River Bottom Rum
A Collection of Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
For his first foray into fiction after his FBI memoir James Botting jumps into what he knows best, a collection of gritty police procedural short stories based on thirty years as an FBI agent and police officer. Not for those with a weak stomach or a strong sense of morality, his blunt copspeak, unforgiving...
by Michael Andrew Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Features more than thirty articles by Michael Andrew Law in the proposal of iEgoism - an artistic viewpoint article, in order to use our history to make [the Hong Kong original style art tradition] and [the high-context translation to low-context] concept to the creation of thought process to Pale...
Divided We Stand
The Forgotten War and the 181St Signal Repair Co.
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
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Veterans of Foreign Whores
Military Life Between Korea and Vietnam: a Memoir of Company C, 25Th Signal Battalion, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1960-1964
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Set in the politically-incorrect early 1960s, Veterans of Foreign Whores recounts the experiences of teenage soldiers and their World War II-era soldier-mentors in the U.S. Army's biggest base of American servicemen abroad, Germany's Kaiserslauternthe GIs' notorious K-Town. Not quite the heroes of...