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Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
by Claire Bellerjeau Tiffany Yecke BrooksIn January 1785, a young African American woman named Elizabeth (Liss) was put on board the Lucretia in New York Harbor, bound for Charleston, where she would be sold to her fifth enslaver in just twenty-two years. Leaving behind a small child she had little hope of ever seeing again, Elizabeth was faced with the stark reality of being sold south to a life quite different from any she had known before. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of the first family she was enslaved by, would locate her, safeguard her child, and return her to New York—nor that Robert, one of George Washington's most trusted spies, had joined an anti-slavery movement.As Robert and Elizabeth&’s story unfolds, prominent Revolutionary figures cross their path, including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Jupiter Hammon, John André, and John Adams, as well as participants in the Boston Massacre, the Sons of Liberty, the Battle of Long Island, Franklin&’s Paris negotiations, and the Benedict Arnold treason plot. Elizabeth's journey brings a new perspective to America's founding—that of an enslaved Black woman seeking personal liberty in a country fighting for its own. The 2023 paperback edition includes a new chapter highlighting recent discoveries about Elizabeth's freedom and later life.
The Little League That Could: A History of the American Football League
by Ken RappoportWearing borrowed uniforms, practicing on obscure college campuses, and led by a former Marine Corps W.W. II fighter ace as commissioner, the American Football League (AFL) debuted in the Fall of 1960 to challenge the monopoly of the well-established National Football League. Within ten years it had won two Super Bowls and had forced a merger with its rival, splitting the NFL into the National and American Football Conferences. This colorful history of the AFL and its unforgettable cast of characters, from Billy Cannon to Joe Namath to its "Foolish Club" of team owners, arrives on the 50th anniversary of the AFL's first season to recount the startling success of an upstart league that prevailed against long odds.
Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel
by Carlton JacksonHattie McDaniel was the first black to ever win an Oscar. She was also the first black woman to ever sing on American radio. In this fresh assessment of her life and career, Carlton Jackson tells the inside story of her working relationships, her personal life, and the many obstacles she faced as a black performer in the white world of show business during the first half of the twentieth century.
Best Easy Day Hikes New River Gorge (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)
by Johnny MolloyExplore West Virginia's New River Gorge National Recreation Area with a little help from Johnny Molloy. His guidebook, packed with 20 easy day hikes and useful tips, and information will help you on your way to exploring the region.
Stories of the Old West
by Steven D. Price Tom McCarthySaddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin&’ helpin&’ of tales of America&’s frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers, wilderness exploring and range warfare, and everything else that reflects our fascination with our Western heritage from its earliest untamed era to the dawn of the 20th Century. Contributors include Zane Grey, Teddy Roosevelt, Buffalo Bill Cody, Willa Cather, Helen Cody Wetmore, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Bret Harte and Owen Wister, to name only a few.
Great Forest of the Adirondacks
by Barbara McMartinThe Great Forest of the Adirondacks has a wonderful history that demonstrates America&’s best efforts in forest preservation. The condition of the forest today owes much to little-known aspects of its logging history. By weaving together, the first comprehensive history of the Adirondack logging industry with the new research and a flesh perspective on the preservation movement. McMartin produces a story of the forest that concludes with hints to the reader about where to find remnants of that Great Forest.
Front Page Teaser: A Liz Higgins Mystery
by Rosemary HerbertThis Boston-based mystery stars smart and sassy Beantown Banner reporter Liz Higgins, who rails at being assigned only light news highlighted in front page teasers. She vows to change that by finding a missing mom and nailing front-page news in the process. Liz's quest takes her into Boston's lively Irish pub/Celtic music scene, the elegant Wellesley landscape, and as far as Fiji. Along the way, she courageously pursues a tangle of clues and falls for two very different men: the enigmatic forensics expert Dr. Cormack Kinnaird and the warmhearted Tom Horton, who pastes ads on the huge billboard that dwarfs Liz's tiny house on the edge of the Mass Pike.
Trout Dreams
by James MerrittA significant part of what has made fly-fishing such a widely read-about sporting activity is that it is populated with a world of colorful individuals. Merritt, who has written for numerous sporting magazines, assembles a collection of profiles of many of the "big names" in the fly-fishing world of our day. There is also a personal touch because Merritt structures each profile around his opportunity to fish with these individuals. Some of the individuals he fished with include Joe Humphreys, former fly-fishing instructor for Penn State University, and Seattle area filmmakers Jim and Kelly Watt who are also the hosts of ESPN's "Fly-Fishing Video Magazine" TV series. Practical knowledge and philosophical wisdom flow from the experiences collected in Trout Dreams.
Insiders' Guide® to the Maine Coast (Insiders' Guide Series)
by Andrew VietzeFor more than twenty years, the Insiders&’ Guide® series has been the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information—from true insiders whose personal, practical perspective gives you everything you need to know. Boasting a cosmopolitan city and family vacation hot spots, as well as outlet shopping and a national park, the Maine Coast has it all. This authoritative guide takes you along the Pine Tree State&’s magnificent coastline, from its beautiful sandy beaches and resort communities to its rocky cliffs and tinyfishing villages.Inside you'll find: • Countless details on how to live and thrive in the area, from the best shopping to the lowdown on real estate• Not-to-be-missed attractions, including the fantastic Marginal Way footpath between Perkins Cove and Ogunquit; the Portland Museum of Art; the outlets at Kittery and Freeport; and Portland Head Light• Comprehensive listings of restaurants, accommodations, and annual events• Sections dedicated to children and retirement
Circle of Friends Cookbook: 25 Pies, Crisps & Cobblers
by Gooseberry PatchTreat your family & friends to a helping of fresh-baked goodness. This collection features 25 down-home desserts like Apple Blush Pie, Cherry Brownie Cobbler and Pumpkin Custard Crunch...all guaranteed to be scrumptious and easy as pie to make!
Deadly Indifference: The Perfect (Political) Storm: Hurricane Katrina, The Bush White House, and Beyond
by Ted Schwarz Michael D. BrownAt last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown—infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in U.S. history.
Detox and Revitalize
by Susana BelenEven if you try to follow a healthy diet and lifestyle, every day, toxins and waste materials accumulate in your cells, compromising your health. Fortunately, help is at hand. Detox and Revitalize will show you how to purify your body from these harmful substances. It is a complete guide to fasting, cleansing, and nutrition that will allow you to detox from daily air, food, and water pollutants; regain your natural vitality; and restore mental clarity and balance.
Haunted Theaters: Playhouse Phantoms, Opera House Horrors, and Backstage Banshees (Haunted)
by Tom OgdenHaunted Theaters comprises more than two dozen suspenseful stories of spooky happenings and ghostly tales in historic theaters, opera houses, and other stages in the United States (Broadway and beyond), Canada, and England.
Natural Health for Women
by Roger MasonEvery day, millions of women are subject to their changing hormones, which play a vital role in the functioning of a healthy body. When hormones are not produced in the proper amounts or they are not in balance with one another, a number of health problems can occur, inclduing premenstrual syndrome (PMS), pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), menstrual dysfunction, fibrocystic breasts, and menopause. Symptoms of hormonal imbalance can range from mild cramping, irritability, and food cravings to hot flashes, night sweats, and mood swings. Even serious conditions and diseases, such as osteoporosis, arthrities, diabetes, premature aging, and cancer, can result. Standard hormone replacement therapies are often used to maintain proper balance; but they can have dangerous side effects. Roger Mason, in his newly revised Natural Health for Women, offers safe and naturally effective alternatives to help keep hormones in balance.Natural Health for Women begins by first explaiing how the body produces and uses different hormones, and how hormonal levels change during a women's lifetime. It goes on to discuss the various hormone replacement options, as well as safe, natural alternatives. A healthy diet and exercise program is also presented as an effective preventive measure against hormone imbalance. Other topics include natural cures for osteoporosis and arthritis, steps for maintaining good breast health, and how to avoid a hysterectomy. There is even a useful chapter on how to test hormone levels from home.Hormones do not have to control your life. With Natural Health for Women, you can learn to effectively maintian their proper balance safely and naturally.
What Hamlet Said (The Riley Fitzhugh Novels)
by Terry MortHollywood in the Thirties: Nazi saboteurs, gangsters running gambling ships, British spies and diplomats, FBI agents, starlets looking for the big break, cheap hustlers on the fringes of the law, local cops—some are friends and some are adversaries, but all are involved somehow with Riley Fitzhugh, a private eye who&’s wondering whether the death of an English aristocrat really was an accident.
How to Start a Home-based Online Retail Business (Home-Based Business Series)
by Nicole AugentiFrom getting started and finding customers to creating your website and mastering social media, this comprehensive guide provides down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based online retail business. Learn all about setting up your home office, sourcing your product, marketing from all angles, getting paid, and staying ahead of the competition. Look for useful information throughout the book, including:Online Retail Success StoriesSample Financial PlanBusiness Scenarios and Lesson LearnedEducational ResourcesFrequently Asked Questions
Wyoming Ghost Stories
by Debra D MunnScares and frights and mysteries! Haunted houses! Eerie voices! The walking dead!Here are the ghosts of Wyoming, the strange but true tales of unnerving sights and sounds that have never been explained. Footsteps when no one is there. Things that move that shouldn&’t move. Spectral bedside visitors and ghastly ghoulish sights.These stories span the state wherever ghosts ramble and roam. There are stories from Cheyenne, Sheridan, Cody, Laramie, Casper, Rawlings, Green River, and lots of places in between. The subjects are star-crossed lovers, murderers and the murdered, miners and cowboys and Native Americans, all carefully researched and authenticated by interviews with the people who have witnessed the unknown and unexplained.So find a comfortable chair and settle in for an entertaining read about the Cowboy State&’s ghosts…and is that a ghostly wail you hear or just the Wyoming wind?
Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age
by Paul ZolloIn Hollywood Remembered, a wide array of Tinseltown veterans share their stories of life in the city of dreams from the days of silent pictures to the present. The 35 voices, many of whom have come to know Hollywood inside-out, range from film producers and movie stars to restaurateurs and preservationists. Actress Evelyn Keyes recalls how, fresh from Georgia, she met Cecil B. DeMille and was soon acting in Gone With the Wind; Blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein tells how he transformed his McCarthy era-experiences into drama with The Front; Steve Allen speaks out on how Hollywood has changed since he first came there in the 1920s; and Jonathan Winters relates how he left a mental institution to come work with Stanley Kramer in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town
by W. Clark RussellThis is the tale of the kidnapping of a sea captain's daughter, his frantic pursuit of her, and a fight in the English Channel. Enlivening the novel is an unforgettable cameo appearance by Admiral Lord Nelson.
Love Tactics
by Robert H. Phillips Thomas W. McKnightMaybe that special someone is not as far out of reach as you think. Maybe what you need are a few effective strategies to finally make the right moves. Even if you&’re very shy, a little on the quiet side, or simply not the social success you&’d like to be, Love Tacticsis here to help.This book presents dozens of techniques designed to help you win the love of that special someone. With each tactic, you&’ll find yourself becoming more enthusiastic, confident, and eager to approach the person of your dreams in an effort to win his or her love. Then, for those who have already found a romantic partner but have lost or are in danger of losing that person, the authors present tactics for winning back a lost love. The dream is in sight—andLove Tactics is all you need to make that dream a reality.
The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash: A Biography
by David StuartOgden Nash was a rare poet. He celebrated the ordinary with delight and curiosity: husbands and wives at work, children at play, a society in motion. He studied popular culture with a penetrating eye and wrote about America, its icons, habits, and affectations with humor and levity. He struggled with comparisons to &“serious&” poets, those heroes of the canon who abandoned the rhyme and meter that Nash found crucial to his style of writing. His witty, insightful, and graceful vignettes captured those moments in life that defy heavy-handed treatment. Nash did not live out the stereotype of the aloof poet-recluse. In addition to his writing, Nash pursued publishing, screenwriting, and a rigorous lecture circuit. This self-styled [pet of wide appeal appeared in newspapers and magazines found in homes across the country, accessible publications such as Life, New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, SportsIllustrated, Reader&’sDigest, and McCall&’s. At a time when children&’s literature meant Winnie-the-Pooh, Nash produced verses for and about young people that amused, educated, and more importantly, didn&’t pander or lecture. These poems and collections, including Custard the Dragon, The New Nutcracker Suite and Other Innocent Verses, A Boy Is a Boy, and Girls Are Silly, were classics of the genre. Nash left behind an invaluable body of work: charming, clever, and utterly unique.
Medicinal Mushrooms: Ancient Remedies for Modern Ailments
by Georges M. Halpern Andrew P. MillerThis book explores mushroom history, as well as their possible uses in the future. Chapters are dedicated to mushrooms that are promising for medicinal uses.
The Last Survivor: The Incredible Story of the Man Who Survived Three Concentration Camps and a Major Maritime Disaster Near the End of World War II
by Frank KrakeTHE LAST SURVIVOR is the incredible story of a man who survived three concentration camps and a major maritime disaster at the end of WW II.Stowed away on top of a train, twenty-year-old Wim Aloserij escapes the obligatory &‘Arbeitseinsatz&’ (forced or &“slave&” labor) in Germany in 1943. The young man from Amsterdam then goes into hiding on a farm and sleeps for months in a wooden chest hidden underground. Despite his efforts to stay there, he is captured during a raid and taken to the infamous Gestapo prison in Amsterdam, after which he is imprisoned in Camp Amersfoort. A few weeks later he is sent on a transport to northern Germany. There, he is forced to work in Camp Husum and Camp Neuengamme, an experience many men will not survive but Wim nevertheless does, in part thanks to the harsh lessons he learned from his alcoholic and physically abusive stepfather.With the end of the war in sight, Wim ends up on the German luxury cruise liner the Cap Arcona, anchored in the Bay of Lübeck. While the Allies force Nazi Germany into submission on the docks, the RAF make a terrible mistake at sea. Fighter planes bomb several of the anchored ships, including the Cap Arcona, and in what soon becomes a veritable inferno 7,000 prisoners die. Together with just a few hundred other passengers, Wim survives one of the worst maritime disasters of all time.
Two Henrys: Henry Plant and Henry Flagler and Their Railroads (Pineapple Press Biography)
by Sandra Wallus SammonsThey shared first names. They both first came to Florida looking for a healthy place for their wives. And they both fell in love with the place and with its potential. Henry Plant and Henry Flagler also shared passions for railroads and hotels—and they both ignored the word "impossible."Henry Plant, who had steamships in addition to railroads, was determined to have his trains running to a port for ships on the west coast of Florida. In 1884 Plant realized his dream when his rails reached Tampa. With the grand opening of his fantastic Tampa Bay Hotel in 1891, Plant reached another goal.Henry Flagler first visited Florida in 1878, and he liked what he saw. He came back and built railroads and grand hotels along the east coast so that Northerners could enjoy the beauties of the state. By the end of his long and productive life, he had built a railroad all the way to the very end of the Keys. It arrived in Key West in 1912.Both Henrys were very determined and practical. They met all the great challenges they set for themselves. Their efforts brought growth and development to both coasts of Florida.Ages 12 and upNext in series > >See all of the books in this series
Bass Lures Trick and Techniques
by Larry LarsenModifications of lures and development of new baits and techniques continue to keep the fare fish, and that's important. Bass seem to become "accustomed" to the same artificials and presentations seen over and over again. As a result, they become harder to catch. It's the new approach that again sparks the interest on the largemouth. To that end, this book explores some of the latest ideas for modifying; rigging and using bass lures. All are highly effective when utilized in the correct environment and conditions. The book details productive trick modifications and tactics that any novice or professional angler can apply to catch more bass with artificial lures.