The 1906 Earthquake was the most dramatic event in American history outside of war, the greatest disaster in our history, and for nearly a century was the subject of enormous lies and misrepresentations. The men who ran the city claimed they were great heroes rallying San Francisco in its most desperate hours: they were not. They claimed 478 people died: the actual death count is most likely in ...

Manufacturer: Amazon
Written By: James Dalessandro

Manufacturer: Creative Age Press
Written By: Mark A Tennien

Joni's heartfelt and biblically informed response to thousands of letters from people puzzled about the "whys" of suffering. These questions are answered by taking a personal look at how God has used circumstances, people, and events in Joni's life and others' lives. First published in 1978 and updated in 1990. New 16-page photo section.

Manufacturer: Zondervan Publishing Company
Written By: Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Estes

A biography of the power hitter for the Texas Rangers, from his life in Puerto Rico through his first few seasons in professional baseball in the United States.

Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
Written By: Dennis R. Tuttle

A ten-year-old AIDS patient describes the disease, how he got it, and how it is affecting his daily life.

Manufacturer: Lerner Publishing Group
Written By: Arlene Schulman

In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection -- including never-before-published letters that appear in the new ...

Manufacturer: Scribner
Written By: Andrew Carroll

A biography of the slugger from Venezuela, known as the Big Cat, who won the National League championship for most runs batted in and most home runs in 1996.

Manufacturer: Childrens Pr
Written By: Mark Stewart

Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo's eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Now Dava Sobel has translated into English all 124 surviving letters that Virginia (renamed Suor Maria Celeste at the convent) wrote to Galileo. The letters span a dramatic decade that included the Thirty Years' War, the bubonic plague, and the development of Galileo's own ...

Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Written By: Suor Maria Celeste

After learning that his father's layoff at a steel mill threatens their country home on a fateful Christmas Eve in 1953, a six-year-old boy works frantically to save it in this poignant memoir that depicts a simpler, more innocent, and, in some ways, more free America. Part true novel, part social history, this book is a paean to a lost world, depicting with detail a shy yet curious child's world ...

Manufacturer: Antaeus Books
Written By: Rick Skwiot

James A. Michener was “a Renaissance man, adventurous, inquisitive, energetic, unpretentious and unassuming, with an encyclopedic mind and a generous heart” (The New York Times Book Review). Now, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this literary legend’s birth, here is the story of his remarkable life, told by the man himself.In this exceptional memoir, James Michener ...

Manufacturer: Mandarin
Written By: James A. Michener