Author
Issam Jameel
Publisher
Modern History Press
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Iraq through a Bullet Hole: A Civilian Returns Home
A unique on-the-ground account of a country shattered
Iraqi playwright Issam Jameel returns to Iraq in the summer of 2005 after a 12-year exile. From the relative safety of Jordan, where he worked for an opposition radio station under the watchful eyes of Saddam's spies, he travels by car to Baghdad visit family and friends.......
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George Rathmell
Publisher
Infinity Publishing
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Realms of Gold: The Colorful Writers of San Francisco 1850-1950
A vibrant history of San Francisco through the activities of the renowned writers who lived in one of the world's favorite cities. Few regions in America can equal the rich literary history of San Francisco and its surrounding areas with authors such as: Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Isadora Duncan, Jack London, Robinson Jeffers, Dashiell Hammett, John St.......
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Catherine C. Brooks
Publisher
Infinity Publishing
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War Brought Trials and Anxiety at Home and Overseas
After Pearl Harbor, life in the United States changed for everyone. Brooks had access to the entire local and many daily newspaper clippings from 1942-1945. From these, she gleamed survivor’s stories—hair raising and emotional tales that tear at the heart. She gives details given by prisoners from both Germany and Japan.......
Author
Kevin Cochrane
Publisher
CreateSpace
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The Potter's Keeper
Have you ever wondered why your cell phone doesn't have an antenna anymore? What did the Spanish conquistadors do with all that silver and gold they brought back from the New World? And what's up with the Neanderthals? How come we didn't descend from them and ended up Homo sapiens instead? Inspired by globe-circling travels through China, Asia, South America and Europe, Co.......
Author
Katelyn Bohl; Eric Wilder
Publisher
Gondwana Press
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Lost on Route 66 - Tales from the Mother Road
Lost on Route 66 is a compilation of short stories, poetry and essays about The Mother Road, Route 66. Stories of the Mother Road guaranteed to bring a smile or two, and maybe even a few tears......
Author
Brayton Harris
Publisher
CreateSpace
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WAR NEWS: Blue & Gray in Black & White: Newspapers in the Civil War
WAR NEWS (originally published in 1999 as Blue & Gray in Black & White) is an exploration of the individual and collective efforts of newspaper journalists during the Civil War. As eyewitnesses to one of the most memorable conflicts in history, they left a record that is sometimes brilliant but, at other times, marred by shoddy journalism, sensationalism, and self-.......
Author
Rick Ritter and Paul Richards
Publisher
Modern History Press
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Made In America, Sold in the Nam (Second Edition) (Reflections of History)
Hope and Healing For All Who Have Been Touched by War
Made in America, Sold in the Nam brings together the writings of more than two dozen Vietnam-era veterans who have never before had the chance to speak their peace.......
Author
Lewis Melville
Publisher
Victorian Heritage Press
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The Windsor Beauties: Ladies of the Court of Charles II
"The Duchess of York wished to have the portraits of the most beautiful women at Court," Anthony Hamilton wrote in the Memoirs of Count Grammont. "Lely painted them, and employed all his art in the execution. He could not have had more alluring sitters. Every portrait is a masterpiece.......
Author
Gloria O'Donnell
Publisher
Sunbury Press, Inc.
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Letters From Bill: 20 Years of Correspondence With Bill Clinton
Author Gloria O'Donnell's friendship with former President Bill Clinton began in Arkansas prior to his first election run for a Congressional seat. Enthralled by the young law professor, Gloria became a devoted political operative, assisting in Clinton's campaigns from the Arkansas governorship through two presidential elections.......
Author
Issam Jameel
Publisher
Modern History Press
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Iraq Through A Bullet Hole: A Civilian Wikileaks
A unique on-the-ground account of a country shattered
Iraqi playwright Issam Jameel returned to Iraq after a 12-year exile. Giving up the relative safety of Jordan, he made a perilous journey to Baghdad for a reunion.......
Author
Wayne Thorburn
Publisher
Jameson Books, Inc.
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A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement
Founded in 1960, Young Americans for Freedom was the national conservative youth organization for more than 30 years. YAF helped forge the conservative movement into a force that seized control of a party, elected one of their own to the presidency, and in the process changed the world.......
Author
Tyler R. Tichelaar
Publisher
Modern History Press
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King Arthur's Children: A Study In Fiction and Tradition
Did you know King Arthur had many other children besides Mordred?
Depending on which version of the legend you read, he had both sons and daughters, some of whom even survived him. From the ancient tale of Gwydre, the son who was gored to death by a boar, to Scottish traditions of Mordred as a beloved king, Tyler R.......
Author
Florin Grancea
Publisher
CreateSpace
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The Pigs' Slaughter
Undoubtedly, "The Revolution WILL be televised" was the main players' motto. Most Romanians only saw their revolution on their small black and white televisions while others were the actors, willing and uninformed. Young draftees, sacrificied to put on a show to fool a deceived population into believing terrorists were responsible.......
Author
George W. Doherty
Publisher
Rocky Mountain DMH Institute Press
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Crisis in the American Heartland: Disasters & Mental Health in Rural Environments -- An Introduction (Volume 1)
Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis?
Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially given uneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services, and ongoing migration to urban centers.......
Author
Mary Ellen Goulet
Publisher
Outskirts Press
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Cascade of Flames
"You will feel the fire!"
Peggy Sanders, author of The Civilian Conservation Corps In and Around the Black Hills.
At one minute to seven on the evening of July 7, 2007, after seven years of drought in the beautiful Southern Black Hills of South Dakota, lightning struck in Alabaugh Canyon, directly below a new development of twenty-seven.......
Author
Walt Shiel
Publisher
Jacobsville Books
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Rough War: The Combat Story of Lt Paul J Eastman, a "Burma Banshee" P-40 and P-47 Pilot
"One of the most unusual and insightful stories of a young American at war, and it has a particular significance for today." --from the Foreword by Walter J. Boyne
"In the annals of WWII aerial warfare Rough War is a jewel that has been missing for far too long.......
Author
Artie Van Why
Publisher
Lulu.com
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That Day In September
We all have our stories to tell of where we were the morning of September 11, 2001. This is one of them. In "That Day In September" Artie Van Why gives an eyewitness account of that fateful morning.......
Author
Alewyn J Raubenheimer
Publisher
CreateSpace
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Survivors of the Great Tsunami: The course of Eurasia after the 4.2ka BP Impact
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 17.85pt; margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt">"Survivors of the Great Tsunami" is a factual account and the result of an in-depth study into the uncovering of the most advanced civilization in Early Antiquity.......
Author
Eugene Arundel Miller
Publisher
Antelope-Press
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Soldiers' Letters Home
Soldiers--United States--Letters--Spanish American War, 1898--Civil War 1865--World War I 1918--Personal Narratives--Military History--Miller, Eugene A.(Eugene Arundel)--Nebraska Soldiers.....
Author
Bryna Kranzler
Publisher
Crosswalk Press
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The Accidental Anarchist: From the Diaries of Jacob Marateck
The Accidental Anarchist is the remarkable true story of Jacob Marateck, an Orthodox Jew who was sentenced to death 3 times in the early 1900s in Russia -- and lived to tell about it.......
Author
Geoffrey Gibson
Publisher
Modern History Press
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The Taciturn Man: and other Tales of Australia
An immigrant's tale of an untamed country
Alexander Gibson, my father, was a young Englishman who with his brother settled in Australia in the 1920s. The brothers each married one of the Solomon sisters just prior to the Great Depression.......
Author
Chester Brigham
Publisher
Whale's Jaw Publishing
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On Opposite Tacks
John Sloan, major American artist, and Capt. Solomon Jacobs, schooner fisherman and ocean adventurer, were both in Gloucester, Massachusetts from 1914 until 1918. Sloan, during five consecutive extended summers in Gloucester, was reinventing himself as an artist following the 1913 Armory Show, and was painting many of his finest works. Capt.......
Author
Gary Caruso
Publisher
The History Press
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Marietta College Baseball: The Story of the 'Etta Express (Ohio) (The History Press)
Nestled at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers in the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory resides one of the most dominant college baseball dynasties in the nation. The Marietta College Pioneers--known as the 'Etta Express for the way they ve barreled over opponents for half a century--own a record five NCAA Division III National Championships.......
Author
Niall McLaren
Publisher
Future Psychiatry Press
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A (Somewhat Irreverent) Introduction to Philosophy for Medical Students and Other Busy People
During their careers, many students become aware that, lurking in the background, there are complex and conceptually difficult questions that, all too often, their teachers either can't answer, or can't even understand. These are traditionally the questions addressed by philosophy, and this little primer is the result of another student's journey over many years.......
