Sally: 1896 books
The Other Barack
The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The life story of the father of the most powerful elected leader in the world is an epic tale, one as daring as it was improbable.
The father of the U.S. president, the first Barack Hussein Obama, was born in rural poverty in Kenya. His own father was a dominating figure who worked as a cook...
Pisces
The Art of Living Well and Finding Happiness According to Your Star Sign
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
You are a Pisces. You are the romantic dreamer and idealist of the zodiac.
The signs of the zodiac can give us great insight into our day-to-day living as well as the many talents and qualities we possess.
But in an increasingly unpredictable world, how can we make sense of them? And...
Desperate House Lies
It Could Happen to You
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Affair-Proof Your Marriage
Think it couldn’t happen to you? Most women never make a conscious choice to have an affair, yet it happens to even the most active Christians. How? Why? This book takes a look at the series of seemingly harmless choices that can lead you straight down that dangerous,...
A Place They Called Home
Reclaiming Citizenship. Stories of a New Jewish Return to Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
This book gives a voice to the descendants of Jewish Holocaust survivors who have chosen to restore their German citizenship. Dena, a New Hampshire retiree, feels at home in Germany the moment the vineyards across the Rhine come into her view. Maya, a journalist for Deutsche Welle, pursued German...
Blacks in the Adirondacks
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History tells the story of the many African Americans who settled in or passed through this rural, mountainous region of northeastern New York State. In the area for a variety of reasons, some were lifetime residents, while others were there for a few years or months—as...
by Kathleen Bacus, Sally J. Smith, Jean Steffens
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
When the ghouls come out to play... the amateur sleuths are on the case! Curl up by the fire and sip a cup of cider with this collection of 3 full-length, spooky cozy mystery novels from USA Today bestselling and award winning authors! This collection includes:
Calamity Jayne and the Haunted...
Dinosaur Discovery
Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The ‘Creative Writing Tutor’ scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide ‘a tutor’ for the child, fun features and stories to read,...
by Sally Harrison-Pepper, Nyle Monday, Lewis Hershey
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
In contrast to the overabundance of writings about martial arts that are often promotional and misinformative, there are rare works by scholars that are praiseworthy for their sincere, unbiased approach to writing. This is the very definition of “scholarly.” This two-volume...
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion
Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companionis an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality.
Part 1 explores the full range of genres and asks the question: what...
People and Their Contexts
A Chronology of the 16Th Century World
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
This chronology was begun to fill my own needs. While preparing lectures and articles on Renaissance music, I sought general information on the period in order to place specific events in their context. I had already done considerable reading on 16th century subjects, but it had been specialized rather...
by Sally MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
At Spinster House, a woman can enjoy the spoils of single life—or find the love of a lifetime…
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It has been twenty years since Lord William Wattles laid eyes on Annabelle Frost. Still, he remembers everything—her ethereal beauty, her bookish intelligence, her surprisingly modern attitudes...
The Profiteers
Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the “compelling corporate history” (The National Book Review) and inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they’ve controlled since the construction of the Hoover Dam.
The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic...
Myths and Mysteries of Michigan
True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
This selection of 12 stories from Michigan's past explores some of the Great Lakes State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Paul Hymans
Belgium
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Paul Hymans was the champion of the small states in the League of Nations Commission at the Paris Peace Conference and was rewarded by becoming the League's first president. He thereby brought about Belgium's transition from the status of sheltered child to full participation in much great-power diplomacy.