A bracing and vividly told story set against the backdrops of the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside revolution from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food costs, eventually emigrating t...

In the spirit of Amy Tan’s international bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, Mirrors and Mirages is an intricately woven, deftly told story that follows the lives of women and their daughters.In Mirrors and Mirages, Monia Mazigh lets us into the lives of six women. They are immigrant mothers — Emma, Samia, and Fauzia — guardians of tradition who want their daughters to enjoy freedom in Western society. They are daughters — Lama, Sally, and Louise, a youn...

Killer Kink, set in Washington, DC, is a return to hard-boiled crime fiction. The author, an ex-Marine combat veteran, spent eight years as police reporter for the Washington Times. From hundreds of nights in squad cars he knows the city, the bad places, the cirrhotic drunks crawling in alleys and wtting themselves, the transvestites, the paranoid schizophrenics babbling in Georgetown, the blank streets of Capitol Hill at three a.m.In Killer KINk, Robert Dawson, police reporter for...

Robert Dawson, police reporter for the Washington (DC) Herald, and his girlfriend Attila the Liberal find themwelves involved in what seems a routine drug murder but isn't. The author, who spent eight years as police reporter for the Washington Times, knows the city, cops, and the uderside of things as few do.

It could be happening here… or there. Today the place is Greece, wracked by a crisis that has pushed people to the brink. Two strangers meet in a train for Athens. One spews out his disgust at the foreigners and the poverty that have invaded the neighborhood he calls home, Vic City. He even has a "final solution” in mind. The other, seized by fright—or is it resignation and apathy?— squirms as his haughty silence gives way to voyeurism and political correctness. While the former, uninhibit...

Civil War tokens are tangible reminders of American history. These small, cent-sized tokens served as emergency “money” during the small-change shortage of 1862–1865. Today they are highly collectible, and A Guide Book of Civil War Tokens elevates the collecting and study of these once-shunned imitation cents to a new level of scholarship and accessibility. Novice and experienced collectors alike, as well as history buffs and everyone interested in the Civil War, will find this volume a fa...

From Award-Winning Author Q. David Bowers. Collect, grade, and attribute your paper money. Organize your collection, with Friedberg and Whitman numbering systems. Make wise purchases in today's market. 900 Pages; more than 1,600 full-color images. Printing quantities for nearly all issues - a guide to rarity. Dealer pricing for all federal notes, 1861 ot date, $1 to $10,000. History and values for Contintental Currency, War of 1812 notes, Fractional Currency, encased postage stamps, star n...

A Crash Course on How to Survive a Tsunami A tsunami is a series of destructive and very dangerous waves that result from earthquake activity or some other type of underwater disturbance (meteorite, landslide, underwater volcanic activity etc.).  Although "tidal waves" is the common term for tsunamis but it is not true because tsunamis have nothing to do with the moons gravitational pull on the tides, this term is a misnomer; although a tsunami's impact upon a coastline is d...

From Award-Winning Author Q. David Bowers. Collect, grade, and attribute your paper money. Organize your collection, with Friedberg and Whitman numbering systems. Make wise purchases in today's market. 900 Pages; more than 1,600 full-color images. Printing quantities for nearly all issues - a guide to rarity. Dealer pricing for all federal notes, 1861 ot date, $1 to $10,000. History and values for Contintental Currency, War of 1812 notes, Fractional Currency, encased postage stamps, star n...

Air Travel Rules: An Essential Handbook to Traveling by Air This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Flying?  How To Learn The New Air Travel Rules Chapter 2: Air Travel Rules:  Traveling With Sports Equipment Chapter 3: Air Travel Rules:  Are They Different For Those With A Disability? Chapter 4: Air Travel Rules: Are They Different With Children? Chapter 5: Air Travel Rules: Traveling With Tools Chapter 6: Air Travel Rule...

The Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money is the new standard reference on currency issued by state-chartered American banks from 1782 to 1866. In volume 2 of the Whitman Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money, Q. David Bowers, the “Dean of American Numismatics,” takes you on a guided tour of New England banks and notes from Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire. Inside you will find decades of research containing the history of every town and city, and every bank, that issued currenc...

Nearly 150 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln consistently ranks at or near the top of every poll of America's best, most admired, or most popular president ever. The U.S. Mint will issue four new Lincoln cent designs in 2009. A yearlong celebration has been organized and supported by the congressionally established Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. In the midst of all the excitement and commemoration debuts Fred Reed's outstanding new work, Abraham Lincoln: The Image of His Greatness. ...