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  The Voices From The Past –...

  Administration Work Projects

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  After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the living former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 US states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. This edition brings to you the complete collection of first hand experiences and voices from the past that makes one question whether is it safe to forget or keep the memories alive for bigger battles ahead. A must read for everyone who is interested in US History, race relations and authentic historical research. 
  Contents:
  Alabama
  Arkansas
  Florida
  Georgia
  Indiana
  Kansas
  Kentucky
  Maryland
  Mississippi
  Missouri
  North Carolina
  Ohio
  Oklahoma
  South Carolina
  Tennessee
  Texas
  Virginia

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  In Nixon's Web - A Year in the...

  Ed Gray, L. Patrick Gray III

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  L. Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. He was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon considered him a threat. Closing in on the conspiracy, Gray became the target of one of Watergate's most shocking acts-Nixon's "smoking gun" attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation. And when the U.S. Senate focused its attention on Gray in April 1973, the White House threw him to the wolves; John Ehrlichman famously advised that he be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind."This book is Gray's firsthand account of what really happened during his crucial year as acting director of the FBI, based on a never-before-published first-person account and previously secret documents. He reveals the witches' brew of intrigue and perfidy that permeated Washington, and he tells the unknown story of his complex relationship with his top deputy, Mark Felt, raising disturbing questions about the methods and motives of the man purported to be Deep Throat.Gray's book was completed and expanded by his son, journalist Ed Gray, who has supplemented the text with revelatory excerpts from documents, tape transcripts, and third-party accounts. Every other major figure has told his story, and now Patrick Gray's unique inside account will change the way we think about the crisis that destroyed the Nixon presidency.L. Patrick Gray III did not speak publicly about his role in Watergate for thirty-two years, breaking his silence only for one brief interview before his death in 2005. This book contains details and revelations about Watergate that have never been published before.

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  American Leaders and Heroes -...

  Wilbur Fisk Gordy

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  This edition presents incredible lives of some of the most notable persons of American history. It is hoped that this book will furnish reader's mind some conception of what American history is, and at the same time stimulate an abiding interest in historical and biographical reading.
  Contents: 
  Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America
  Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi
  Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America
  John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown
  Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676
  Miles Standish and the Pilgrims
  Roger Williams and the Puritans
  William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania
  Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley
  George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier
  James Wolfe, the Hero of Quebec
  Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act
  Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party
  Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington
  Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France
  George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier
  Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox"    
  Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer
  Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
  Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
  Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union
  Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution
  Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph
  Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves
  Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War
  Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain

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  Where the Tree Frogs Took Me

  Maia Williamson

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  How encounters with strangers shaped a life of travel and beyond~ We are all looking for ways to make our lives meaningful and often turn to those in our inner circles and communities for the direction. But what if that sense of meaning and perspective comes from complete strangers? And what if those random encounters were not so random after all? This book shows us how to embrace the messages and subsequent lessons we receive from the different people – often complete strangers – that we meet while out there in the world.This collection of stories from over twenty years of travel shows what we can learn about the world we live in through greater empathy and understanding of the people we share it with. Each encounter we have, however, sad, humorous, strange or seemingly insignificant is part of the journey we are all on.Where the Tree Frogs Took Me is for anyone who appreciates the diversity of the human experience and our reaction to it in all of its different forms. This book will resonate with people who are open to the notion of synchronicity and the significance of each encounter as meant to happen in order to create a change or shift in our lives.

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  Real Estate - A Living...

  Deborah Levy

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  "Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A love story."Virginia Woolf wrote that in order to be a writer, a woman needs a room of one's own. Now, in Real Estate, acclaimed author Deborah Levy concludes her groundbreaking trilogy of living autobiographies with an exhilarating, boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it.In this vibrant memoir, Levy employs her characteristic indelible writing, sharp wit, and acute insights to craft a searing examination of womanhood and ownership. Her inventory of possessions, real and imagined, pushes listeners to question our cultural understanding of belonging and belongings and to consider the value of a woman's intellectual and personal life.Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory, Real Estate is a brilliant, engaging narrative.

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  Great Detective Stories - The...

  Various Authors

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  An anthology featuring famous sleuths: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter", Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Crooked Man" and G.K. Chesterlon's "The Man in the Passage".

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