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  Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes...

  Charles Haven Ladd Johnston

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  Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border is a collection of biographies of valiant and daring adventurers, who were among the early settlers of the Wild West. These men were real scouts and trappers, for they lived in the wilds and had to know how to shoot a rifle; how to trap; and how to camp in whatever place night happened to overtake them. Biographies presented in this book are accurate histories of several important frontiersmen and heroes of the border. These stories are all true and are vouched for by early historians.  
  Contents: 
  Daniel Morgan: The Famous Virginian Rifleman, and His Adventures with the Indian Bear
  James Harrod: Founder of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and Famous Scout of the Frontier
  Robert McLellan: Pluckiest of the Early Pioneers
  Colonel Benjamin Logan: The Intrepid Fighter of the Kentucky Frontier
  George Rogers Clarke: Famous Leader of the Borderland of Kentucky
  John Slover: Scout under Crawford and Hero of Extraordinary Adventures
  Lewis Wetzel: Heroic Virginia Frontiersman and Implacable Enemy of the Redskins
  Samuel Colter: And His Wonderful Race for Life
  Meshack Browning: The Celebrated Bear Hunter of the Alleghanies
  "Bill" Bent: Hero of the Old Santa Fé Trail
  Thomas Eddie: The Last of the Old School Trappers
  Jim Bridger: Founder of Bridger, Wyoming, and Famous Indian Fighter
  "Old Bill" Williams: The Famous Log Rider of Colorado
  "Big Foot" Wallace: Noted Ranger on the Texan Frontier
  Captain Jack Hays: Famous Texan Ranger and Commander of Valiant Border Fighters
  Bill Hamilton: Famous Trapper, Trader, and Indian Fighter
  Uncle Job Witherspoon: And His Exciting Adventures with the Blackfeet
  Henry Shane: Heroic Scout of the plain of Teas
  Poor Jerry Lane: The Lost Trapper of Wyoming
  The Song of the Moose

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  Happy Days - My Mother My Father...

  Shana Alexander

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  Acclaimed 60 Minutes commentator and true-crime author Shana Alexander turns her journalist’s eye to her own unconventional family—and herself—in this fascinating, moving memoir  Shana Alexander spent most of her life trying to figure out her enigmatic parents. Milton Ager was a famous songwriter whose creations included “Ain’t She Sweet” and “Happy Days Are Here Again.” Cecelia Ager was a film critic and Variety columnist. They were a glamorous Jazz Age couple that moved in charmed circles with George and Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Parker, and Jerome Kern. They remained together for fifty-seven years, and yet they lived separate lives.   This wise, witty, unflinchingly candid memoir is also a revealing account of Alexander’s own life, from her successful career as a writer and national-news commentator to her troubled marriages and emotionally wrenching love affairs. She shares insights about growing up with a cold, hypercritical mother, her relationship with her younger sister, the suicide of her adopted daughter, and her reconciliation with her parents after a twenty-year estrangement. “I had to do a lot of detective work to uncover the truth about my parents’ lives,” Alexander said. “I knew almost nothing about them as people. But by the end they really did become my best friends.” 

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  Total Shambles

  George F.

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  After slipping through the cracks of modern life and into the amoral underground beyond work-a-day society, George F finds himself at the heart of London's political frontline, where anarchy, alcohol and addiction stalk the streets of a different city to the one you know.
  From life on the street to behind the barricades, from the occupation of derelict buildings to inevitable evictions and confrontation with law and order, from euphoria to despair, Total Shambles follows the journey of an idealistic writer as he tries to thrive and survive in the contentious world of squatting in London.

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  Missing - The Unsolved Cases of...

  Barry Cummins

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  From 1950 to the present day, there have been almost 900 long-term missing people in Ireland. The equivalent of a vibrant village, all gone, vanished without a trace.
  Where did they go? Are they dead or still alive somewhere? How many have been murdered? How many killers have got away with their crimes?
  RTÉ journalist Barry Cummins has reported on the unsolved cases of Ireland's missing for decades. In this new edition of his bestselling book, he examines the latest leads and developments of Ireland's most high-profile missing cases, including the women who disappeared under eerily similar circumstances in the 1990s and whose bodies have never been found.
  Written with the assistance of the gardaí and the families concerned, Missing is a comprehensive and shocking account of the cases that have in turn fascinated, puzzled and horrified the Irish public. It also examines the possibility that there may be a serial killer out there who has gone to extraordinary lengths to evade justice, leaving open the possibility that they could strike again.

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  With Hitler in the West

  Heinrich Hoffmann

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  From the Führer’s photographer and author of Hitler Was My Friend, “very rare images that provide a crisp record of the German advance into France” (Firetrench).   In May 1940, the German Army swept over Europe, unleashing a campaign of battles of annihilation on a hitherto unheralded scale. France was quickly overcome and Holland, along with Belgium, fell in a matter of days. At the head of this vast operation was the Führer with his Supreme Command, and on hand to document the highlights of their inimitable campaign was Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s close friend and official photographer. This is an invaluable photographic record of the events of Spring 1940, originally published as Mit Hitler im Westen, which was regarded as Heinrich Hoffman’s finest work. The striking images displayed within provide both an intimate view inside the life of the Führer and present a chilling glimpse into one of history’s most vicious campaigns, and darkest hours. An important historic work, With Hitler in the West provides a fascinating insight into the events of 1940 that shook the world.   “Hoffmann was a great photographer and his images of Hitler’s tour of the French battlefield of both world wars, in effect a pilgrimage; and his stage-managed entry into Paris are genuinely superb.”—War History Online   “Certainly a fascinating collection of pictures to see . . . A book intended to display the power and prowess of the German armed forces of the day.”—Military Modelling

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  There Was a Time - James Brown...

  Alan Leeds

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  A behind-the-scenes look at the Chitlin' Circuit during America's most vital period of soul music—from the eyes and ears of a young, Jewish kid from Queens who joined the team of the hardest working man in show business and learned the art of the music business at the hand of the performer who mastered it. 
  In the mid-'60s, Alan Leeds was a young DJ looking for his way into the music business. An interview with James Brown to promote a local show in Virginia led to an opportunity to promote one of Brown's concerts, which then led to Brown hiring him to help run his tours. Soon Leeds was wearing many hats and traveling around the country as Brown battled a complicated web of local promoters and managers, all too willing to try to rip him off. 
  In this riveting book—part memoir, part history—Leeds weaves a wholly new and remarkable portrait of Brown as an idiosyncratic iconoclast, determined artist, and forceful businessman. It is a rare look into a world little known to white America immediately following the Civil Rights Movement. Leeds discovers that Brown is a fascinatingly complex man and their experiences, both business and personal, range from emotional to humorous. All the while, they navigate the complicated world of popular black music in America, told by someone who actually lived it.

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