Biographien, Tagebücher, Briefe

Pepys's Later Diaries

Samuel Pepys

Pepys never resumed the personal Diary which he abandoned in 1669 fearing he was going blind. He was one of the greatest accidental historians, never intending to record for posterity, but for amu...

A Brother's Love

Matthew Cubbler

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Father Abraham

Richard Striner

"Just Mary"

Margaret Anne Hume

<p>Just Mary and Maggie Muggins are names that will arouse memories in those who grew up with CBC radio and television in the 1940s and 1950s. The creator of these and other children’s sho...

Nature Not Mocked: Places, People And Science

Day Peter Day

Vatican Iii

Edward J. Hahnenberg

The authors latest work . . .Vatican III . . . an apocalyptic thriller, set on 2050, involves foreboding world events and the twenty-second major Council of the Catholic Church. Follow the Vatican...

Leben und Werk von Jeanette Odenwald. Über das soziale Engagement der ersten Vorsteherin des Kurhessischen Diakonissenhauses

Christa Fischer

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Biographien, Note: 1, Hessisches Diakoniezentrum e. V. Schwalmstadt-Treysa, Veranstaltung: Geschichte sozialen Handelns von Christinnen und Christen,...

Die Strassmanns

Wolfgang Paul Strassmann

1797 nimmt ein jüdischer Tuchhändler aus dem polnischen Rawicz den Namen Strassmann an. Seine Enkel studieren in Berlin Medizin – der Beginn eines rasanten sozialen Aufstiegs trotz aller Hinde...

Benjamin Franklin

Edwin S. Gaustad

Legends In Their Time

A remarkable cast of past and present young Canadians stride across the pages of Legends In Their Time, each having a significant role to play in Canadian history. Beginning in the 1500s and movin...

Legends In Their Time

George Sherwood

<p>A remarkable cast of past and present young Canadians stride across the pages of <b><i>Legends In Their Time</i></b>, each having a significant role to play in Can...

Out of the Shadows

The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here a...

Memories In Translation

Denys Johnson-Davies

Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic English translator of our time." With m...

The Color of My Heart

Judith A. McGee

Forty six years hadnt wiped away the memories of 1955 and 1956. I still was fearful someone from the past would harm me. Time stood still and I pictured the people exactly as they were then. As I ...

The Rising Son

James Kelso

Were you one of the elite who used to meet in The Rising Sun? Did you ever raise a jar in one of its bars? Many a football fan did. If you lived in the middle of the last century in London, in Che...

#89 the Road to Number One

Ralph V. Brooks

Ralph Brooks narrates his life story about three cities where high school football is king. In Eufaula, Dadeville, and Jackson Gap where Brooks grew up and went to school football is a way of life...

I've Been Watching You

Rigor mortis had set in by the time police arrived, Special Prosecutor Tony Clayton told the jury, watching their eyes as they viewed the photograph of the bloodied arm of Geralyn Barr DeSoto. Ge...

God Says, "It's Okay"

Miss E

Ever since she was a child, there was something special about her. Something she just could not put her finger on. Having lived in the city of brotherly love Philadelphia, and then having to move ...

Bonding with Piedmont

Victor D'Amico

Author Victor D'Amico and his wife, Yvonne, are both of Italian heritage. Although Vic's parents did not maintain ties with their origins, Yvonne's and her parents were very close to r...

Chesnut Hill

Winona C. VanLandingham

This book is a collection of short stories, poetry and recipes gleaned from the Growing Up Years of the nineteen-thirties, forties and fifties, on Chesnut Hill. I was born in the big old white cla...