"The bestseller is coming! The bestseller is coming!"- Paul Revere"Wish I'd had this book at the Alamo. We needed a hearty chuckle - and more bullets!" - Davy Crockett"I laughed, I cried, I picked up my ax. A head splitting good yarn!" - Lizzie Borden"Astounding and stimulating like the light bulb and the ever-evolving variety of Chia Pets - I felt like I was there. Wait, I was...." - Thomas Alva Edison"My new favorite book, sehr gut!"- Johan...

The incidents described in this book, however improbable or implausible they may appear to be, are all completely true and have needed little or no embellishment on the part of the author. They all took place during a two year period between 1952 and 1954, and helped to transform a callow, naive, possibly diffident youth, into a tougher, more worldly, self confident young man, teaching him along the way, the importance of discipline, self-reliance and loyalty. For readers who reme...

Exploring Mathematics gives students experience with doing mathematics - interrogating mathematical claims, exploring definitions, forming conjectures, attempting proofs, and presenting results - and engages them with examples, exercises, and projects that pique their interest. Written with a minimal number of pre-requisites, this text can be used by college students in their first and second years of study, and by independent readers who want an accessible introduction to theoretical math...

About the book"The Compliance Blueprint" is a comprehensive anthology resource to the dedicated community of compliance professionals during a time of unprecedented disruption." Compliance professionals have never been more important in a world marked by rapid change and unprecedented challenges. An evolving global landscape and complex regulatory webs have made governance, risk management, and compliance practices non-negotiable for organisations.For those responsible for ...

As a bartender at exclusive country clubs in Atlanta and Savannah, Cass Cassidy has perfected his art of seducing "golf widows," the wives of high-roller golfers whose only real love is the mistress that is their sport. Over cocktails, these ladies chatter about their Louis Vuitton purses, Ferragamos, designer jewelry, and who among them has had "work done," all the banter masking their boredom. Cass has the looks and the bold confidence to make some of them forget their boredom - and thei...

Covers the deaths of 124 generals, including Stonewall Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Jeb Stuart, James B. McPherson, John Reynolds, and numerous others

Everyone knows the story of how the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, but what happened to the fort after the first shots were fired there? The North wanted to restore Sumter to its rightful place in the Union and close the vital Confederate supply port of Charleston while the South needed to defend its birthplace and keep the supplies flowing--thus making Fort Sumter one of the most fervently attacked and most tenaciously defended pieces of real estate in the United or Confederate ...

Spellbinding account of the Confederates' retreat after their crushing defeat at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864.

When Emily Gillon kills her abusive husband - making it appear to be suicide - she hopes the shotgun blast will free her finally to find the happiness and normalcy she never knew in rural Pierpont, Georgia.Against a canvas of the north Georgia mountains and the ageless beauty of the coastal city of Savannah, Gallica's Thorns is the modern-day story of Emily's quest - a journey laden with innocent love, violent evil, personal tragedy and heart-rending deceit.Beginni...

Lucy-Anne's world is a magical place where a blanket on the washing line becomes a hungry elephant, where buses fly, where snowmen talk, where you might find yourself as small as a doll, or invisible, or turned into a runner bean.'Half a dozen gently told tales of Lucy-Anne and her Daddy' (School Librarian)

It's the slowest race on record when Lucy-Anne becomes a tortoise and has a race with a snail. She becomes a statue and doesn't like pigeons at all. In another tale, she's a cat on the rooftops trying to stop the howling cats keeping her awake. And then a book in a library, treated badly by a girl and boy who have only come in to mess around. 'Highly recommended' says The Book Trust.

You mustn't step on a crack or the Pavement Bears will get you! Sure, sure, says Lucy-Anne, but it's not a game when an angry family of bears turn up. Then there's the time she becomes a firework and goes blasting off into the night, or when Lucy-Anne becomes an ant forced to carry a crumb of cake to the nest where she makes an enemy of the Queen. 'an enduring character that will be loved by children for many years to come' (The Book Trust)