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It Must Have Been Moonglow

by Shirley Spires Baechtold WW II is over, and Parker's Mill High School is back to normal, with football games, dances, and teenage romances. Sixteen-year-old Maggie is attracted to Phil, a basketball star, but worldly Eric introduces her to poetry and literature. She learns more about anti-Semitism, speaks out about censorship, and deals with a [...]

Race to Radar

by Richard Black In September of 1940, Ned Smith, Professor of Physics at a small men's college in Illinois, gets a telegram inviting him to join a secret project at MIT. He jumps at the chance, even if it means parting from attractive and intelligent Dorothy Wilson, just as they are getting to know each other. [...]

Vinyl Lives II

by James P. Goss Vinyl Lives II continues to turn up the volume for independent record stores in the digital age. Chronicling the histories of 16 independent record stores, Vinyl Lives II also includes the stories of 9 record collectors. "An absorbing view of independent record stores, enhanced by portraits of record collectors." -Harold Bronson, Co-Founder, [...]

Vinyl Lives

by James P. Goss Vinyl Lives is an intimate look inside the walls and hearts of 25 independently owned record stores. Examining and celebrating the important cultural role of record stores in the community, Vinyl Lives turns up the volume for independent record stores in the digital age. "Anybody who has an interest in record collecting [...]

Irish History: Beyond Shamrocks & Shillelaghs

by Dan Holden "Irish History: Beyond Shamrocks & Shillelaghs" is packed with fascinating and inspiring stories. Thoroughly researched and written in an engaging style, this eclectic collection of stories brings to life some remarkable characters of Irish and Irish American past. The individuals and events portrayed best exemplify the Irish traits of tenacity, perseverance, and the [...]

Bridge to the Future

by Amos Merritt This story takes the reader back to the early 1,800's, settlers thriving in Florida's vast wilderness. Settlers raised families, braving the surroundings, bad guys and Indians as they grew up and watched Florida develop into the state that it is today. The story prompts the reader to wonder what adventure the next [...]

Voices of the Wright Brothers

by James T. Tecu For thousands of years man watched with envy as the birds soared effortlessly in the skies above. He was confined to the ground, unable to unlock nature's secrets to the mystery of flight. Then in 1903, after four years of systematic scientific research, two unknown brothers from Dayton, Ohio had found [...]

Hitler: Stalin’s Stooge

by James B. Edwards Hitler was the stooge Stalin used to start World War II. Stalin was the "eminence gris" behind the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power. Stalin envisioned World War II as a replay of World War I, in which the Europeans would destroy each other and be ripe for conquest. [...]

Cabbages and Kings

by James B. Edwards Space Pioneer Rollin Gillespie: the man who conceived of NASA and ARPA. Gunfighter: the Navy's first supergun project. The March Hare: "Light as a feather; strong as a tank". "Ragged Dick": in the securities business. Patton's assault on the Rhine at St. Goar. Alpenstrasse/Tegerness; Mosel/Rhine.

Crystal Lake

by Roy Marshall with Janielle Kenworthy For Charley Willey, editor of the Lewis Standard, things were not going well. He was sick, he was going blind, and his paper was losing money. The Iowa Highway Commission made him a promise, broke it, and forever diminished his town. The state had some making up to do. [...]

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