Product Description: 149 Palmer Street, Akron, Ohio, was a labor of love, many tears and sorrow, sweat and lost sleep. To recall the heyday of growing up in the largest rubber manufacturing center in the world (Firestone, Goodyear and Goodrich), with a loving family and a host of relatives and friends brought back the sounds, sights and sweet smell of “the bakery,” the wafting fragrance of beer brewing at Burkhardt’s Brewery, and that ever-present scent of rubber that we all took for granted...read more

Product Description: From the author: The idea for '17 Pieces' came from a friend's reaction to a bad-sad situation. I had just broken up with someone I adored - I mean, I had the Romeo & Juliet, travel to the ends of the Earth kind of love for them. A few days after our parting, as I was trudging to work, angry at the world, shouting in my head, I received a text message from one of my best friends, it simply read: "I'm sorry your heart has been broken into 17 Pieces...read more

Product Description: These Children grew up under extreme conditions of hardships and hunger. The six sibling broke the cycle and made success out of their lives. This stop child labor and slavery in the family. All the generations from my mom and dad on back, were working the children on the farm...read more

Product Description: For years past I had regarded a general war in Europe as an eventual certainty. The experience which I gained during the seven or eight years spent as a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence, and my three years tenure of the Office of Chief of the General Staff, greatly strengthened this conviction...read more

Product Description: 1930s Hollywood The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Vol. 1 provides a concentrated review of what made the decade stand out as a winner. Vol. 1 focuses on Tinseltown's highs and lows throughout a turbulent period in America's history.

Product Description: The story tells of how Jim came to Canada and met his wife Elizabeth He continued on with surveying for several years, and this work took him to many pristine and remote areas of B.C. In 1962 he and his family moved to Portland Oregon where their second daughter was born, and where he formed his own successful Construction Company, building many homes and apartment buildings...read more

1960 Wow! What a year is the eyewitness account of a year viewed by a newly minted college grad who wanted to see what life was like beyond his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Leaving his longtime girlfriend before the altar was even reserved, he headed west armed with little cash and loads of hope. The hitchhike produced not only miles of travel but a long and winding collection of the curious and remarkable - from the devout Benedictine monks to the downandalmostout drifter relentlessly searching for a wife he could call his own. The journey starts at the outskirts of Pittsburgh. It coils its way across the continent to the fogshrouded hills of San Francisco, then returns across parched rattlesnake country and rolling highway to the smokewreathed hills of home - and a first job - just in time to witness the Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 World Series miracle.

Product Description: Selbourne Reid, the author of this book is a retired Detective Inspector of Police. He was a member of the Rifle Squad which travelled in front with Inspector Fisher who led the charge in the operation against the Rastafarians. He saw a man chopped and killed within three to five (3ft-5ft) feet of where he was standing...read more

Product Description: Editor's note: Osric Martext was born in Miami in 1949. He was taken to South Carolina in 1953 when his family moved there, settling in a large house built before the Revolution, Dirleton Plantation, in the crossroads town of Stateburg, which lies between Columbia and Sumter, just south of the Wateree Swamp...read more

Product Description: We had a nice family, a nice new home, we were not wealthy. We did have good jobs, worked hard for what we did have. We were just a normal quiet family. We were not rich or famous, or anything noticeable that would warrant our nine year old to be kidnapped from our home, on a hot summer night back in 1993...read more

Product Description: To thine own self be true . . . With these stories we are providing a forum for women's voices; a way for women to see each other as role models and mentors, and to say, "Hey, she did it. With hard work, I can too" We also see this book as a way of redefining success...read more

Product Description: 20 YEARS AT PARADE REST by: Frank Washam

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