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Once Upon a City
Greensboro, North Carolina’S Second Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
If you love Greensboro, this book is for you. It is a twentieth-century history of our city that was researched and written over a five-year period by Howard Covington Jr., who is a splendid storyteller who makes our leaders, our crises, our successes, our disappointments, our accomplishments all...
Torture Central
E-Mails from Abu Ghraib
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Michael Keller was once a software executive from Florida. Then came September 11, 2001. A few weeks after the al-Qaeda attacks on America, he joined the Army National Guard and was deployed to Iraq in November of 2005.
In this revealing collection of e-mails and photographs, Keller shares...
Hunting Muqtada
Iraq's Most Dangerous Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
In late 2003, five Military Intelligence Soldiers were tasked to track the radical firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. These Army Reservists followed his moves through the streets and back alleys of Kufa and Najaf, they reported the activities of and the growing influence of his Mahdi Army as...
My Black Family, My White Privilege
A White Man’S Journey Through the Nation’S Racial Minefield
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
In 1970, a working-class, Jewish man from New York City married an African American woman from rural, segregated North Carolina. From their union, Michael Wenger has three children, four grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Years later, Mr. Wenger served as Deputy Director for Outreach and Program...
From Palestine to America
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Taher Dajani remembers playing soccer with his neighborhood friends in his idyllic city of Jaffa, Palestine. But on April 24, 1948, when Taher was fourteen, his carefree lifestyle came to an abrupt end. His family, with little money and few possessions, escaped the city by sea in a crowded fishing...
by H R Coursen
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Death in Sevilla: Agent Scott Winthrop is called out of retirement to help Spanish authorities thwart an attempt on King Juan Carlos during the April festival in Seville. Posing as a journalist and accompanied by a beautiful young photographer, Winthrop soon finds himself the target of the would-be...
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
Insights and Opinions from the Players
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2000
There is no better authority on jazz than the creators, educators, and writers who have made this enigmatic musical style a major force internationally as well as in American history. The answer to the question what is jazz? is as complex and diverse as those involved in it. This book takes the question...
Elvis as We Knew Him
Our Shared Life in a Small Town in South Memphis
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2003
You are invited to take a journey, along with the author, to her hometown in the American South, a unique culture of relative safety within a sheltered small town in the mid-twentieth century. You will discover a time when sorority girls were virgins, baton twirlers mattered, and Elvis Presley's hips...
by Scott Coner
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
During a time when toughskin blue jeans, button-down shirts, and flat-top haircuts were all the rage, Gene Odom and Ronnie Van Zant became best friends. Growing up on the same block, Ronnie and Gene fished, played football, and dreamed together. Years later, one of the boys would become famousand...
Ripped to Shreds
A True Story of Domestic Abuse in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Ann Wilson offers her readers her searing personal story of domestic violence. Ann was born and raised on a farm in Mississippi and served as a Major in the Army Nurse Corps as a registered nurse. But her military career was interrupted when she was shot by her husband three times with a .45 Magnum,...
by Eliezer Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
You are not giving them up. You are saving them. You have my word that I will see they are safe. At wars end, I will reunite you. I promise.
A Holocaust story unlike any youve read before.
When Yanusz Dov vows to protect the family of his Jewish friend, Kalman Gold during the Nazi occupation...
Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds
Inside Secrets to Achieving Financial Success in Television and Radio Commercials
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2000
Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds is written by a veteran of more than thirty years in show business and is filled with inside secrets and helpful tips, many not taught in university programs. It has in-depth interviews with successful actors, teachers, agents, and casting directors. Special chapters...
Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop
The Music and Artists of the 1950S and Early 1960S
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop: The Music and Artists of the 1950s and Early 1960s digs back through the catalogue of popular music and brings to life the solo artists, duos, and groups whose music once filled the airwaves and turntables with rock & roll and doo-wop. The...
Breaking the Chain
Life and Times of a Convict Through the Eyes of His Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
To outsiders, Larry Owen Azlin was a drug-addicted criminal who defied societal rules and norms. But to authors Shirley Anne McMurray and Melinda Leigh Alkire, he was the man they called Daddy. In this memoir, these sisters paint a picture of their life with their father and mothera life marked by...