Old Is Gold

Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial--and irredeemably sexist--society and set off for America. True North--the testament of an extraordinary woman living in an extraordinary...

"We had much rather be all alone in the right than with the whole world in the wrong." So wrote Jeremiah Hacker in 1862. He was the main writer and editor of The Pleasure Boat, which may have the distinction of being Portland, Maine's...

San Sebastian, 1936. Abene Garc?a, a fisherman's daughter, must make a terrible choice: risk being caught in the crossfires of the escalating Spanish Civil War or abandon her seaside home and make the perilous journey across the Pyrenees to the border of France. But...

Based on the incredible true story of two unsung heroines who defied the odds to save countless lives, this powerful novel reveals how acts of extraordinary courage by ordinary women saved so many in the countdown to WW2. Connie Fitzwalter never imagined that her...

Inspired by the true story of the author's ancestors, this enthralling WWII novel tells of the Kisch family's heart-wrenching struggle against Nazi oppression.When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in 1940, the Jews of Amsterdam know nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. As...

In Nazi-occupied Latvia, two sisters are forced to make an impossible choice. To save a child, one sister must flee, while the other must stay behind. The secret of what happens next will endure for generations. But the truth won't stay hidden forever...Riga, 1943....

Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 10/15/2018Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51dISBN: 9781613829868Audience: Young AdultThis title is not returnable

Author: James Otis, Richard A. SamuelsonPublisher: Liberty FundPublished: 05/15/2022Pages: 1Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781614872702

Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this...

Harper Alexander is devastated by a miscarriage even though she thought she never wanted to be a mother. Because of her husband's determination to create a family and her inability to carry a child to term, they consider alternative options.As the result of a...

James Kennovan was a rebellious youth who went to sea as a teenager and later walked the rugged streets of the Bowery as a New York City cop. Then, in 1849, he answered the siren's call and sailed to California intending to fill a...

Explore the War of the Currents and the Individual Lives of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison Two captivating manuscripts in one book: Nikola Tesla: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a...

Explore the history of County Dublin from the pre-Christian era in Francis Elrington Ball's "A History of the County Dublin".The complete work comprises six volumes. In each volume, the parishes are used to geographically divide County Dublin as a useful way of approaching local...

George Washington (February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799) was an American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led...

Flight from Dallas presents factual documentation of the experience of Robert G. Vinson, an Air Force Sergeant with a crypto-security clearance who was working for the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) when on November 22, 1963, he personally and accidentally became involved in...

Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly--he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor...

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are...

In The Silver Women, Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the Panama Canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West...

In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power--a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy--asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow never again repeatedly fail to stop...

Lives are changed forever in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor . . . 1941: Andrew Troost, heir to generations of naval tradition, has just been made admiral, when reports fly in of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Troost's son, Warren, has followed in his...