Grey: 921 books

Slot car racing reached its peak of popularity in the mid 1960s but has continued to draw fans during the digital age. The first generation of enthusiasts included an equal number of kids and adults, each of them having an avid appreciation of the sport/hobby. Now it is possible for more than one...

Jay Florian Mitchell was a talented Long Island/New York City photographer from the 1920s until the 1950s. Much of his work is in the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas. A talented portrait and children's photographer, Mitchell organized field trips in the New York metropolitan area beginning in...

My e-book is a compilation of newspaper stories of shark attacks in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Hawaii, South Africa, New Guinea, and Australia. Perhaps readers are unaware of the dangers of swimming in inlets, like those that empty into the open waters of Raritan Bay. At times sharks venture...

A variety of international recipes for tasty salads that are fast to make and simple to do, using a variety of mostly everyday ingredients and easy to use measures. Almost every one of them can be a meal on its own, so they are perfect for those who don’t have time to cook.

Ten Naval Battles tells the story of an alternate history from the mid 18th century to the mid 19th century through the eyes of a historian writing about the ten most decisive naval battles of this period. Read about the Egyptians defeating the French, events in the North American colonies, and the...

Sputnik blasted off in late 1957 and the Space Age and Space Race between the Cold War adversaries heated up. U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was under pressure to do more in the science and military fields to catch up to the Soviet breakthrough. Sputnik I and it successors generated a debate...

I have written from ancestry and newspaper sources a brief anthology of mini bios of young people who died in Cary, NC prior to the beginning of its rapid growth in the late 1970s. The e-book is most relevant to understanding the North Carolina town's past and its people. I have written in my Foreword...

Giuseppe Zangara has been compared to Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley. Czolgosz was electrocuted at Auburn Prison in upstate New York within weeks after he shot and killed McKinley in a receiving line at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York in 1901. Like Czolgosz, Zangara...

Anthony Strollo, also known as Tony Bender and Tough Tony, was a Mafia powerhouse in the Genovese crime family for several decades. His brothers, Dominic and Emillio, were also members of the syndicate. Strollo's primary territory included the New Jersey docks and the Greenwich Village area of...

My e-book treats numerous photographic scandals that I have researched from the twentieth century, i.e. 1900-1984. The first of these involved a mixed race photographer who surprised citizens of DeSoto, Missouri by photographing numerous women there nude. The naked images didn't surface until after...

In 1969 an off campus newspaper at the University of Florida-Gainesville published nude photos of a woman standing and seated in the university's research library. The controversial publication was the second instance of nudity causing a stir in Gainesville in the previous three years. In 1966 Pamme...

Sasquatch is a native term for a huge humanoid creature that has been sighted, primarily in the northwest United States and southwest Canada since the 18th century. Caucasian records of Sasquatch date from 1811 when a trapper in the northwest sighted huge footprints and recorded them in his diary....

Robert Green "Bob" Harmon was a right-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals during what is known as the dead ball era of modern major league baseball. In the two seasons in which he won a total of 41 games, 1911-1912, he was the equal of the best pitchers of his era. On one afternoon...

Cedar waxwings have been called the gypsies of the bird family as their range is uneven and widespread. This species of birds, Bombycilla cedorum, can be found from New York to Georgia on the east coast. They breed in New York and Canada and fly to wherever they can find the berries which are the...