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The Severn Bridge Railway was more than once linked with that of its contemporary, the first Tay bridge: but whereas the Tay failed structially and quickly, the subject of this book failed commercially and protractedly. The Severn Bridge lasted for eighty years until 1960 when two drifting barges...

It's January 20, 2017, and Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.As he hangs his red cap on the door of the Oval Office, President Trump is eager to show that "we can start winning again, folks."But his ambitions are cut short, with a one-month term...

.... But after that, I realized that I really knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.I could have talked to them a lot about...

Everyone knows the tales of haunted castles and ghost-ridden cemeteries that have long plagued Scotland's well-known capital. But there are few who understand the deeper, darker facets of Edinburgh's paranormal past. Now, Scotland's foremost investigator of the weird and the bizarre shares his wealth...

Steelers Takeaways approaches the Steelers organization and players in a way no other book has spanning across seven decades of Steelers players, the book is comprised of personal and on-field stories. Author, Ron Lippock has conducted over 400 interviews with former Steelers from those that played...

As a young boy Frank Kovac Jr. fell deeply in love with stargazing, painting glow-in-the-dark constellations on his bedroom wall and inviting friends to an observatory he built in his Chicago backyard. As he reached adulthood, Kovac did not let go of his childhood dreams of reaching the stars. He...

By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshem’s debut novel is an international literary sensation, winner of Israel’s top award for literature and the basis for a prizewinning film. Charged with brilliance and daring, hypnotic in its intensity, Beaufort is at once a searing...

During television's first fifty years -- long before cable networks, Hulu, Netflix, and the like -- families would gather around their television sets nightly to watch entertaining shows such as I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, M*A*S*H, The Beverly Hillbillies, Fantasy Island, and The Rockford Files. Many of...

Slag River Sins is the confession of an imperfect life, the harsh truths of lost love, gluttonous hungers, loathing, and violence. Drunk on bourbon whiskey and with a cigar clinched between his teeth, Ron Gavalik thrusts a filth-ridden hand into his soul, extracts bloodied regrets, and then sculpts...

When a Chinese military plane explodes in a fireball before her lens, life for street photographer Henrietta Fox gets dangerous.Five murders across Europe, each victim found dead with an exotic, lop-eared Sumxu cat, animalsconsidered extinct for 300 years.Only Henri Fox knows why - and that...

George is a 'wannabe' main stream author. To find realism for his book he cooks a meal-and then dies in his sleep. But his body didn't tell him that he's dead. When he wakes up things are not quite as they seem. He feels that he's still asleep but starts on a project that he's given. Then, he realises the truth behind the phrase 'Infinite Monkey'

“America’s best book on making presentations strikes again.” –Don E. Shultz, Northwestern University The smart, witty, nationally bestselling guide to public speaking. “If you get nervous, just picture everyone in the audience naked.” We've all heard this piece of advice on public speaking...

Memories of Croton Airpark is a pictorial essay about a small airpark during the 1950s and 60s. It portrays some of the special people and small airplanes that made it a one of a kind place. The author describes, and the photos illustrate why it was such a great place to grow up in America during this era.

An eerily prescient original screenplay by Ron Kurz, author of Friday the 13th, Parts I & II.A government agent, sent to an Indian reservation to discredit their environmental protest, discovers his boss is facilitating an imminent alien invasion. Men in Black with humorous Close Encounters...