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Goals Gone Wild!
101 Inspiring, Motivating, and Moderately Entertaining Stories of a Boy and His Goals
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Can a book that helps us find lasting success and happiness actually be fun to read? It can if its Goals Gone Wild! Visionary coach and humorist, Dr. Matt Poepsel, knows better than anyone what its like to seek personal improvement, set goals, and then watch your dreams come to fruition. In his collection...
by Lawrence Nesbitt
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses.
Lawrence...
by Eric F. Legge
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
THERE IS NO BLACK OR WHITE is the story of an older marine that was brought back to be part of a unique group in the Marine Corps called 6th CAG. A CAG unit is a Civil Affairs Group that is designed to help rebuild, rather than destroy countries. 6th CAG was a group of 190 marines, all volunteers,...
by Richard T. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In 1945, the United States was the most powerful nation in the world. But an Iron Curtain soon surrounded Eastern Europe, and by 1950, Americans were fighting in Korea. In 1952, I Like IKE! swept the nation, and the Fabulous Fifties began. GM sold the most cars, gas was 29 cents a gallon, and a new...
No Soap, No Pay, Diarrhea, Dysentery & Desertion
A Composite Diary of the Last 16 Months of the Confederacy from 1864 to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
No Soap, No Pay, Diarrhea, Dysentery & Desertion is a groundbreaking study of life during the final sixteen months of the Confederacy.
Civil War studies normally focus on military battles, campaigns, generals, and politicians, with the common Confederate soldier and Southern civilians receiving...
Blue Blood Mirage
On the Other Side of Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Life for Faryal and her family is far from uncomplicated. Upon their return to Afghanistan from Jordan, her father, Jalal Sitam, learns that he is no longer welcomed by his own government and that his cousins are trying to steal his propertyand by extension, his future.
Romaan, Jalal's friend's...
Unpaved Road
An Iranian Girl's Real Life Story of Struggle, Deception and Breaking the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
UNPAVED ROAD is about an Iranian woman named Niki and her real-life story about living through the Islamic Revolution in Iran. With political tension building, and the mindset of the people shifting, Niki chooses to go against the system as well as her protective family and stand up for herself. After...
Cairo: June, 1967
A Dangerous Place for an American
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
An outsider, who did not speak the language, at first, I saw only the surface of life in Cairo. I was thrilled to be in the "land of the Pharaohs," which had fascinated me since I was a teen-ager.
Gradually, the dark side of Egyptian life began to reveal itself. Spied upon by neighbors,...
Ticonderoga Soldierelijah Estabrooks Journal 1758-1760
A Massachusetts Provincial Soldier in the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
The French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years' War), was fought between 1754 and 1763. One of the major battles in the North American campaign was fought at Fort Carillon, also known as Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga had been erected by the French in New York in 1755, on a site which...
by Alexander Acimovic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Scipio Africanus was one of the greatest generals and statesmen of the Ancient World. When he was 18, he saved his father's life in battle during the Second Punic War and later survived the horrific Roman defeat at Cannae.
At the age of 26, he was named Commander-in-Chief of the Roman army...
War Torn
My World in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
John Balls road to self-discovery took a dangerous turn when he was recruited to serve in a top secret squadron in Thailand during the Vietnam War. In his memoir, War Torn, Ball recalls his time as a young naval officer and pilot, when he chose to create his own path in light of the social and political...
Course Corrections
One Man's Unlikely Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In this new memoir, Commander Larry Nevels describes the course corrections he has made throughout his life. He takes a critical look at the various places he has been in his life and considers how he got there and if it was where he wanted to be. He observes that people should learn to validate the...
by Major Harold A. Skaarup
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2008
This book is a collection of "there I was" stories highlighting the experiences of Canadian Forces pilots who have had the opportunity of a lifetime to fly in the combat aircraft operated by former adversaries. Technical descriptions of key Soviet-built fighter jets such as the MiG-15, MiG-21,...
Arabian War Games
Cataclysmic Wars Redraw the Map of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Ali al Shihabi analyzes the two most dangerous political fault lines running across the Middle East today: the Arab-Israeli conflict and Arabian-Iranian tensions.
In Arabian War Games, the author proposes, through the use of fiction, a scenario where these issues all come to head in an explosive...