Product Description: 100 and Holding will appeal to readers interested in one man's secrets for a life well-lived or to those interested in Colorado history. Donald Smitherman has 100 years of life experiences which he shares in this moving autobiography.

Product Description: Best quotes collection with inspirational, motivational and wise quotations on what is best and being the best by famous authors.

An engaging and intelligent look into more than just Lincoln's savvy political skills and Civil War power plays reveals other fascinating, little-known details of America's most revered president's personal and professional life. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: PLEASE NOTE: This is an unofficial summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Deep Down Dark by Héctor Tobar - A 15-minute Summary & AnalysisInside this Instaread:• Summary of entire book• Introduction to the Important People in the book• Analysis of the Themes and Author’s Style Preview of this Instaread: Deep Down Dark is a narrative nonfiction book by journalist and novelist Héctor Tobar...read more

In the summer of 1806 the vessel the Spencer left Oban, Scotland headed for Canada to pick up a load of lumber. But first it came to anchor off the island of Colonsay and took aboard 115 Gaelic speaking emigrants and their baggage. They were going to Prince Edward Island where Lord Selkirk had promised them land to be bought outright or on contract. The passengers were related in some way to two family heads named McNeill and McMillan. For example 20 year old James Munn had just married Elizabeth McMillan and their siblings James McMillan and Ann Munn would be married as soon as they reached PEI. Why these couples and their other family members wanted to leave Colonsay is the story told here. Events of Scottish history may have made it necessary to emigrate at that time and we speculate as to how it was financially possible. The McMillans and the Munns would fit with prior Selkirk Settlers by taking up property as neighbors in Belle River and Wood Islands where they would raise double cousin children, start a school, start a church and begin businesses and farms. Eventually, after two generations at Belle River, circumstances urged grandson James H. Munn to migrant to western Canada and on to the Washington Territory where homestead land was available to hardened pioneers. The story is only one many that track the western migration from Europe to the Americas.

Product Description: S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians trapped under Russian military occupation in Galicia...read more

Product Description: This book is a selection of articles from the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography, dealing with 42 men and women whose careers, in one way or another, were deeply involved with the Easter Rising of 1916. The biographies selected compose an inclusively broad picture of the Rising, representing the spectrum of personalities and perspectives that were involved in the event...read more

Product Description: This Book finally reveals the truth of what happened in 1918 to the Imperial Family of Russia for they were not murdered, as believed, in the cellar of  the house where they were held captive.  Nobody would have guessed what secrets of massive proportions lay behind the quiet unassuming exterior of a cabinet maker as he went about his daily life in 1950's England...read more

Product Description: To say that Harry Smith was born under an unlucky star would be an understatement. Born in England in 1923, Smith chronicles the tragic story of his early life in this first volume of his memoirs. He presents his family’s early history—their misfortunes and their experiences of enduring betrayal, inhumane poverty, infidelity, and abandonment...read more

Product Description: Open the Pandora box, to find the time machine. In that night, Black-hair grandma and I went back to everything in the past. In 1971, Yanzhi Guo, boss of CUMT factory, asked Engineer Zhongjie Fan to smuggle the C6108 document into the factory for him...read more

Product Description: With few TVs, children made their own entertainment, which included playing conkers, building dens and go-carts, climbing trees and reenacting fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the local corner shop...read more

The 20th Century is the eighth installment in the revised and expanded Great Lives series, which provides in-depth critical, biographical essays from around the world. This brand new, ten-volume set offers more than 1,300 extensive biographies of major personages in world history from 1901-2000. Each essay ranges from 3 to 5 pages in length and displays standard ready-reference top matter offering easy access biographical information. The body of each essay is divided into three major sections: Early Life, Life's Work, and Significance. The set also includes several appendixes and indexes and a pronunication key.

Product Description: The compulsary adventures of an 18-year old in the 1950s. Offering a comparison with some of the, so called, problems which now pass as normal for some teenagers. Did not solve all of the pains of growing up but certainly turned boys into men with the ability to appreciate life, the need for dicipline and respect for one's Country and the Flag...read more

Product Description: The 2766th Provisional Headquarters Flight WWII: Personal Pilot to Kind Ibn Saud was assigned the duty of furnishing a "Lend Lease Pilot" to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia during WWII. This was a part of President Roosevelt's foreign policy to secure adequate oil supplies for the military...read more