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Dead Reckoning
Navigating a Life on the Last Frontier, Courting Tragedy on Its High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Reminiscent of The Perfect Storm and Into the Wild**—an intimate look at life at sea, small-town Alaska, and the people drawn to its endless thrills.**
This is the true story of a journey to a seaside town and the always unpredictable torrent of dark escapades that accompany a life at sea. It’s...
Cycling in the City -- How I Got My Confidence Back
Burnout to Bliss
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
"Somehow, in the process of regaining my confidence and self-respect with my little bicycle project, I also got off the fence about suicide."
Cycling in the City is a story about overcoming limitations – one small step at a time. It’s also about the process of making life changes...
by Allen F. Glazner, Greg M. Stock
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Few places in the nation rival Yosemite National Park for vertigo-inducing cliffs, plunging waterfalls, and stunning panoramic views of granite peaks. Many of the features that visitors find most tantalizing about Yosemite have unique and compelling geologic stories-tales that continue to unfold today...
No Malice
My Life in Basketball or: How a Kid from Queensbridge Survived the Streets, the Brawls, and Himself to Become an NBA Champion
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Metta World Peace knows what it means to be both the hero and the villain. In his 17-season professional basketball career, he's darted back and forth between extremes, taking on the roles of youthful phenom, league-wide disgrace, All-Star, unlikely international ambassador, and fan favorite. Along...
If These Walls Could Talk: San Francisco Giants
Stories from the San Francisco Giants Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The San Francisco Giants are one of baseball's most storied franchises. Through the words of the players, via multiple interviews conducted with current and past Giants, readers will meet the players, coaches, and management and share in their moments of greatness and defeat. Haft recounts stories...
Red Heat
Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on
During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson,...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Saba Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected.
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Sponsored Migration
The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors...
Cachita's Streets
The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals,...
by Timothy DeTellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The mystery of Haiti's history is a story waiting to be told. Today, the reality of Haiti's need has captivated the global community. As the poorest country in the western hemisphere, there seems to be little hope. Opportunity awaits like never before for the country once known as the Pearl of the...
Islam, Black Nationalism and Slavery
A Detailed History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
Beginning with the origins of Islam in Arabia and continuing to the African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, Mr. Rashad examines the influence the religion had on the peoples of that continent and the impact of slavery on African Muslims brought to the Americas. He offers several biographical sketches...
Haunted Arizona
Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Grand Canyon State
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
From the arid desert to the cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona is rich in tales of the paranormal.
by William Kittredge
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
For part of each of the last twenty years, much-loved essayist and fiction writer William Kittredge has ventured to the storied desert landscape of the American Southwest and immersed himself in the region's wide-ranging wonders and idiosyncrasies. Here Kittredge brings all this experience to bear...
HIGH TEA WITH CASTRO
a not quite serious book for first time travelers to Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
Two middle aged ladies from Canada on vacation in Cuba: more than a discovery of country and people this turns out a journey back in time and history reviving long lost memories of the past. Their daily observations reach from the oddities of fellow travelers to the hardships of everyday life in Cuba....