A gripping, vital account of one man's imprisonment by Taiwan's police state early in the Cold War.In 1954 Tehpen Tsai was arrested by the Kuomintang regime on suspicion of being a Chines...więcej »
Face masks, hand sanitiser, Zoom meetings, daily Amazon deliveries, social distancing - a way of life that we have become all too used to after the country was locked down on 23 March 2020.<...więcej »
One Student at a Time is a memoir of my extraordinary teaching career including some of my incredible and memorable life experiences. My adventures in teaching and life are a roller-coaster r...więcej »
Josephine Brown presents a detailed biography of her father, William Wells Brown, who was born on a plantation but escaped to become a successful abolitionist. Biography of an American Bondm...więcej »
"Shufto, shufta, shuno." Translation? "Seen it, what have you seen?" Shufto follows a young man's journey from a small schoolhouse in Khartoum to living in a bustling ...więcej »
I loved sorority life and hope nowadays sorority girls can catch a glimpse of what makes a wonderful sisterhood experience. I see it needed on the market because of all the old and new, good, a...więcej »
The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation (1911) is a work of nonfiction by Charles Eastman. Recognized for his achievements as a pioneering Native American physician, Eastman was also a ...więcej »
Like all technology in the late-twentieth, early twenty-first century, automobiles are not exempt from the fast-paced evolution; the telegram system has been replaced with the cellphone. The ev...więcej »
The inspirational true story of a man who rejected the call of God on his life. A modern-day story of Jonah the prophet. Steve ran from his calling from God to begin a prison ministry because he...więcej »
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowd...więcej »
By age fifty, Lorelie Friesen considered herself an educated woman who should have been living the good life. Instead, she found herself with a serious problem: how to justify staying in an abusive...więcej »
One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights. As a leader of...więcej »
I grew up in the forties and fifties, when the news was local. We didn't know much about what was going on outside our town for two or three days. There was no multimedia, and today's front-page...więcej »
A coming of age story of a young man facing his draft notice during the Vietnam Era, and how his decision shaped his life, and that of his family. Told through a series of letters sent to his mo...więcej »
"For me, journaling has long been a way to highlight my strengths and my weaknesses. My struggles have been the gas that fires up my writing hot rod. Today, as I flip through the pages of my ...więcej »
Rasputin the Rascal Monk (1917) is a work of historical nonfiction by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thr...więcej »
A true story about an immigrant woman who arrived from Italy in 1904 at the age of sixteen and who created a financial empire, Cristina Covino was able to accumulate her wealth by grit, hard wor...więcej »
This is all the saga of global yacht delivery crew who are the unsung glue who fill in the gap by manning and moving those boats smaller than the mega-ya...więcej »