Product Description: Peter Greene blogs about the current state of public education with plenty of sass and not much rigor. This book includes almost 100 favorites from his popular blogs Curmudgucation and View from the Cheap Seats, and makes the case that there is much to love at US public education and much not to take serious about many of the folks who want to tear down one of our most fundamental democratic institutions...read more

Product Description: On December 4, 1753, Gen. George Washington traveled to the junction of the Allegheny River and French Creek during one of his military excursions. There, the settlement was called Venango but soon became known as Franklin. Established in the heart of the original oil country in the 1740s, Franklin is the seat of Venango County...read more

Product Description: Teacher's Guide!!!!! The entire text, with the Student activities at the end! Vocabulary words underlined! WINNER of the 2012 Grand Master Award sponsored by the Clive Cussler Collectors Society. A great adventure books for youngsters and adults...read more

Product Description: Northwest Pennsylvania's oil region is known for the many tales surrounding the birth and growth of the petroleum industry, but there's much more to tell. The Venango County area was a pre-Revolution frontier and a front row seat for the Whiskey Rebellion before settling in to become the embodiment of American small town life, both in the age in which that life typified America, and in the era in which the city left the small town behind...read more

Product Description: This collection of warm and witty pieces by Venango County columnist Peter Greene profiles some of NW PA's most remarkable residents including John D. Rockefeller, Johnny Appleseed, Civil War General Jesse Reno, best-selling author Hildegarde Dolson, town character Grassy Nichols, trust inventor S...read more

Product Description: Skull Eye Island: Homeless and alone on the streets of London in the year 1800, twelve year-old Jonathan Moore barely survives this harsh and dangerous world using courage, intelligence and determination. His dismal fate changes dramatically one day after he is abducted by a gang and pressed into service aboard the HMS Poseidon, a forty-four gun fighting frigate of the British Royal Navy...read more

Product Description: Sudoku is the number-placing puzzle that is spreading across the world, engaging the minds of people of all ages. The rules are simple, you don't need to know any mathematics, all you need is logic. Samurai Sudoku puzzles are like traditional Sudoku puzzles but with five interlocking Sudoku grids...read more

Product Description: Once upon a time, every town in America, large and small, boasted a band of its own. In one small Northwest Pennsylvania town, those days still live on. This is the story of the Franklin Silver Cornet Band, the men and women who have filled its ranks, and the town that has been its home for 150 years...read more

Product Description: Sudoku is the number-placing puzzle that is spreading across the world, engaging the minds of people of all ages. The rules are simple, you don't need to know any mathematics, all you need is logic. Samurai Sudoku puzzles are like traditional Sudoku puzzles but with five interlocking Sudoku grids...read more

Product Description: This book contains 100 Crossword Sudoku puzzles. These puzzles are Sudoku puzzles with a twist. Instead of numbers, each puzzle contains nine different letters. The letters form a hidden word in the middle row of the puzzle. To solve the puzzle, you first have to figure out what the hidden word is...read more

Product Description: Sudoku is the number-placing puzzle that is spreading across the world. The rules are simple, you do not need to know any mathematics, all you need is logic. The puzzles in this book do not require any guessing. They can, and should, be solved by logic steps...read more

Product Description: This book collects columns that appeared in The News-Herald and The Derrick between May 1998 and early 2001. These are the essays that made readers in Venango County laugh, argue, and think. They are a reminder that life is just as rich and smart and moving and funny in a small community as in any other corner of the world...read more

Product Description: These relaxed, informal travel guides are an ideal mix of routes, itineraries, and side trips for independent, adventurous travelers who like to plan ahead but don't want to do all of the research on their own. They'll be able to take in everything they want to see, whether they have five days or five weeks, using the suggested plans and ideas "as is" or as a means of customizing their own agendas...read more

Product Description: Book by Greene, Peter, Dixon, Richard