Product Description: Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Their oral histories offer first-hand experiences: three days on a roof with Navy veteran Leonard Smith; at the convention center with waitress Eleanor Thornton; and with Willie Pitford, an elevator man, as he rescued 150 people in New Orleans East...read more

Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter was a registered nurse, physicians' assistant, pecan grower, university housemother, nursing home manager, Peace Corps Volunteer, and renowned public speaker and raconteur. She ignored the restrictive mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression years, and was an avid lifelong supporter of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers because she happened to attend the first major league baseball game in which Jackie Robinson, from Cairo, Georgia, ever played. "Miz Lillie" was a favored guest on television talk shows, including those of Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite, usually able to "steal the microphone" from her hosts. Carter writes: "My mother was often gone from home when I was a boy, serving as a nurse on private duty in her patients' homes. She was supposed to receive six dollars for her twenty hours of service, but knew in advance that most of her families would never be able to pay. Since she came home around midnight to bathe and change into a fresh uniform, we children would sometimes miss seeing her for more than a week at a time. She would not forget, however, to leave written instructions on the front room table that prescribed our multiple chores." President Carter loved his parents deeply and he particularly ascribes to his mother, the inspiration for his life's work.

Product Description: "He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union..." The Constitution of the United States, under the above words in Article II Section 3, require the President to give a State of the Union message to the Congress from time to time on no set schedule...read more

A visual celebration of the wild places and animals of western Europe features depictions of such subjects as Mount Everest, twenty-foot-wide trees, and a newborn Tibetan antelope, in a photographic and cultural survey that also describes current conservation efforts.

Product Description: Jimmy Carter was a Democrat from Georgia. He served in the Navy and later was a peanut farmer. He served his state as senator and as governor. He was the 39th President and winner of the Noble Peace Prize. During his presidency he created two new cabinet posts that of Secretary of Energy and Secretary of Education...read more

Product Description: To read 'The Substance of Faith' is once again to experience Clarence Jordan at his best: the flashing wit that could illuminate even as it entertained, the blazing concern that knew how to lay its burden on the heart of even the casual listener, the biting irony that pierced sham and pretense, the depth of spirit that saw fresh meaning in the most familiar passage of Scripture...read more

Product Description: by Minnie E Thompson