Blue: 1806 books

Benjamin Franklin was a natural leader and helped to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. As one of America's most versatile of the Founding Fathers, Ben began his career in his brother's printing press. He wrote articles for The New England Courant, the first newspaper...

Known nationally for winning a Super Bowl and receiving Coach of the Year honors while leading the Green Bay Packers, the Mike McCarthy story begins decades earlier in Pittsburgh, a city famed for its football prodigies. Born in 1962 and raised in the Steel City Mike followed closely the great...

As a mountain climbing guide, it was Vern Tejass job to climb the tallest and most dangerous mountains in the world. Always rebellious, Tejas never met a challenge he couldnt overcome, even the daunting task of climbing Mount Everest. In fact, he climbed all of the tallest mountains on each of the...

They came to Europa to see if the icy moon harbored life—but found only death. It takes only moments for a catastrophic failure to send the lander smashing down into the little world's cold surface, scattering twisted fragments of steel across ten miles of blue ice. The crash leaves Mission...

With almost one murder every day of the year in Indiana, violent crime is no stranger to the Hoosier state and has not escaped the heartland of America. And while Indiana is the nations sixteenth largest state by population, it has often stolen national headlines with astonishing crimes that defy...

By what authority does your government govern you? Do they have your explicit consent? Did they ask for your permission? And why is it that our paid employees, the politicians, tell us what the rules are? Don't we own and pay for the government to exist? For hundreds of years people have explored...

Since back in prehistoric times, men and women have found the mystery, beauty, and power of stones irresistible. Just as an herbalist understands the powers of herbs, the practitioner of magic understands the powers of gems, crystals, and metals. They used this knowledge to change themselves and their...

Another comic adventure for the trio of lovable mice starts when Rolo meets a wounded homing pigeon.“Homing Mouse” is a comedy in a similar vain to Ratatouille - if you are a parent please read through before giving to a child.The author would like to thank Louise (bristolwritersgroup.com/members-2/louise-g)...

The third eye or the brow chakra is the sixth major chakra of the human subtle or non-physical body. While all the chakras of the subtle body are considered to be important for health and well-being, the third eye has always attracted more attention due to the benefits it brings. By working on the...

Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding the local black YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she weren't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American business owners ever. Born Sarah Breedlove, she...

The Book of Shadows acts a little like a Wiccan’s guide book, holding a varied amount of knowledge from rituals and spells to beliefs and traditions. Written by Gerald Gardiner in the late 1940’s to early 1950’s for his coven of Brickett Wood, it was written to guide beginning Wiccans. They...

If God is good, why do we get sick? When God created the world, He declared: "It is good." But then came the Fall, and with it sickness and death. In this heart-tugging monograph, Dr. Davis McGuirt draws from both his training in theology and the personal agony of watching his father die from cancer...

One of the most famous poets in the history of Turkish literature, Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is well-known as a Sufi saint-poet who has exerted a great influence in both the East and the West. This book is an analysis on Emre's ardent, deceptively simple, yet powerful expressions of love, the musicality...

This book is an account of how the author dealt with the 'roller-coaster' of emotions she suffered as a result of the death of her daughter. It reflects on the stages of grief which she wrote about in her first book, 'One Step at a Time/Mourning a Child', (ISBN 978-0-9573670-3-6). Now in, 'A...