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Major General Lewis A. Grant was one of Vermont's greatest heroes in the Civil War. He organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont Brigade from February 1863 to June 1865. He participated in 22 battles, most notable were Savage's Station in 1862, Marye's Heights and Bank's Ford in 1863, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cedar Creek in 1864, and the breakthrough of the Confederate lines in 1865. He was selected by ...

Essentially, this is a story of hope, faith and love. These pages expose a war with cancer in a humorous, while brutally honest manner. The story is laid out in a sequential format representing the events as they occur. It details the immediate and ongoing trials triggered by the disease as seen through the eyes of a married couple, John and Georgetta Warner. As treatments fail and different medications are employed in the conflict, John and G...

In 1925 most of the farm girls in the community of Landover, Minnesota likely expected a life filled with the familiar and white-haired children. Hester Lilje would have been one of them. But with the sudden death of the mother she adored such girlish thoughts left her imagination forever. Within a matter of months Hester, along with her father and younger brother traveled the vast expanse between everything she had ever known and her grandpar...

Africa's plight is no doubt, presently, a concern of notable political and business leaders across the world. I believe this is Africa's time and age in which Africans, African leaders and the rest of the world must put their hands on the plough. And in the natural impossibility of having more than two hands per human, the legs of all must be engaged to follow their hearts. Now is the best time for anyone to help walk Africa out of misery whil...

This novel is the gripping and tumultuous journey of Claire Infante, a naïve housewife of sincere heart and sensitive soul, whose innocence is shattered by a series of tragic events. In and through these events, we follow the dark and twisted path of Arthur Shockley, a most charming and diabolical serial killer, as he pursues a hidden agenda of his very own. While rising up from the ashes of her emotional devastation, Claire be-comes unwitting...

Lance Segundo's midlife crisis takes a bizarre twist when a long-dead loved one shows up seeking help. And offering help. The two embark on a journey of mutual self-discovery that takes them around the world-and beyond the world. Nothing you have ever read will prepare you for Window Beyond the World. It's a transforming novel that will change the way you look at life and death, because it takes you to the strange, wonderful meeting place betw...

Whether it was Lucy and Ethel (Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance) or Eve Arden as Miss Brooks, Gale Storm flaunting 1950s conventions as Margie, or Bea Arthur as Maude, flaunting every convention about female behavior we could think of, we all have our favorite funny ladies, who brought us laughter every week, and, for a half-hour at least, took us away from our daily problems. Classic TV expert Michael Karol, in a series of original essays, exami...

How do you loose the magic of your childhood? By growing up and discovering that rent, food, and health insurance take the place of pixie dust, fairytales and imagination. Just when she's resigned herself to the boring fate of being an adult, imagine Katie Gaber's surprise when she finds herself thrust into a parallel dimension to our own, a Land where she is an all powerful Oracle. In the Land, Katie embarks on an historic quest to save the P...

Nicole is a highly successful African American pediatrician who has it all, a high paying dream job and a dream home in a ritzy Atlanta gated community. But unfortunately, she also has been living in a dream world when it comes to her husband of six years, Maxwell Ferris. That is until she has her rude awakening and stumbles upon his double life style on the "down low, " and her world falls apart piece by precious piece. Struck to the core she...

David Llewellyn, a white American writer, becomes infatuated with a young black woman while vacationing on a small Caribbean island. But love is not all he finds in paradise. Llewellyn becomes enmeshed in a struggle between groups on the island battling for control of an old plantation estate that is key to their aspirations, and absorbed with the dark legend of a Victorian heiress reputed to have ritually killed young children in her search f...

Write it down, " you said, and so I have. Just keep in mind, it's been a while, and memory has ways of playing tricks, which is where I'll start since that is where Professor Skye began with me. Professor who? Let me explain. Thus begins a young boy's account of his surprising adventures and unorthodox education as the apprentice of Professor Jackson Skye, the "Helping Investigator, " who enlists the boy in helping others solve problems so tha...

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Major General Lewis A. Grant was one of Vermont's greatest heroes in the Civil War. He organized the Fifth Vermont in 1861 and led the First Vermont Brigade from February 1863 to June 1865. He participated in 22 battles, most notable were Savage's Station in 1862, Marye's Heights and Bank's Ford in 1863, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cedar Creek in 1864, and the breakthrough of the Confederate lines in 1865. He was selected by ...

In 15th Century England, a secret Star Chamber met to decide the interests of the Crown and the course of the nation. They dispensed justice as they saw fit. The Chamber was officially abolished in 1641. Lord Harold McMann, an outspoken critic of the war and the government's adventurism into Iraq, is silenced by a sniper's bullet. Two unassuming detectives are assigned to the case: John Dimond-a divorcee, and his partner, Jack Muldown-a bachel...

All the sonnets to Dr. Sarah Joan Tuccelli-Gilbert. the author's wife, express an abiding love between two persons. A few were written before their marriage, most written directly to Sarah during their lifetime together and a few after she is gone. Fifty-two in number, each sonnet represents each year since the author first met Sarah. Their eternal theme of romantic love reveals joys and sorrows that relate to everyone. Older readers recall wi...

Learn from two insiders how the 1981 PATCO strike and the Reagan administration changed labor-management relations by sanitizing corporate reliance on strike-breakers, discouraging strikes, destroying a federal labor union, blacklisting over 11, 000 striking air traffic controllers, and tilting power in favor of business from that time to this.

Raised in Germany during the Hitler years this girl had two wishes: to go to a university and to leave Germany for America. Both of these wishes were granted, but it was not easy. She was often confronted with obstacles and even had to endure life-threatening situations. Only her positive attitude, her persistence, and her belief in her own personal "Guardian Angel" pulled her through. Her parents, well respected citizens of her hometown, Brem...

Amongst the thematic topics discussed are global frequency, impacts on society, analysis of initial rock slope failure, monitoring of rock slope movement, analysis and modeling of post-failure behaviour, volcanic landslides, and influences of massive rock slope failure on the geomorphological evolution of mountain regions. Regional contributions include reports on rockslides and rock avalanches in Norway, western Canada, the Andes of Argentina...

Christoph Deveraux, Sohn reicher Eltern, führt ein sorgenfreies Leben. Mit dem Ausbruch des Krieges wendet sich das Blatt für ihn. Obwohl er versucht seinen eigenen friedfertigen Idealen treu zu bleiben, zwingen ihn die Ereignisse mehr und mehr in eine Rolle, die er nicht gewollt hat. Die Autorin nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Reise in die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele. Man fühlt mit Christoph, als seine Welt langsam zerbricht, und steht plötz...

Das Klatschen der einen Hand erzählt die (Liebes-)Geschichte von Girisha, die mit ihren beiden Freunden, dem Baum Samyo und dem Fluß Bodhygyan im Land hinter der Zeit lebt. "Die Zeit, Bodhigarba, ist wie ein Fluß, dessen Quelle, Verlauf und Mündung zugleich existieren. Doch wir Menschen können immer nur einen winzigen Teil wahrnehmen, können nur in eine einzige Stelle springen oder an einem kleinen Stückchen Ufer sitzen. Der Fluß ist überall ...