"The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans" by Thomas Ewing Dabney explores the intricate relationship between the city of New Orleans and its waterways. Dabney delves into the historical significance of the Industrial Canal, highlighting its role in shaping the economic landscape of the region. The book provides a detailed examination of the canal's construction, its impact on trade and transportation, and the environmental considerations that arose from its development. Throug...

The Times-Picayune was a newspaper published in New Orleans, USA, established in 1837. This work is a result of five years research into not only every issue of the Times-Picayune but the history of the community, the state and the country. This book outlines the most creative century in history, and brings that hundred years into sharp focus to create a connected narrative with evaluating emphasis on the human implications reflected in the paper's increasing columns.

In Shampoo Blow Dry Curl, Thomas Ewing delivers a witty, heartfelt, and unfiltered look inside the high-energy, drama-filled world of professional hairstyling. When Tomas, a seasoned stylist from Detroit, takes a management role at a new salon in Nashville, he finds himself surrounded by an eccentric mix of flamboyant personalities, talented misfits, and sizzling rivalries. Navigating office politics, unexpected romantic tensions, and the challenge of leading a team of both season...

Thomas Esson Ewing is a fourth generation Oregonian, the great-grandson of Alexander Esson. He was born on Maple Hill Farm in 1945. With a Ph.D in Asian studies, Ewing was a university professor in the United Kingdom from 1972 to 1981. After earning a law degree in 1984, he returned to Maple Hill, where he and his wife Virginia raised their three sons—Alexander, Ross and Nathan. Ewing moved to the neighboring town of Mt. Angel in 2019, but he and his brother, Zan Esson Ewing, continue to o...

Starting in 1943, millions of children were separated into boys' and girls' schools in cities across the Soviet Union. The government sought to reinforce gender roles in a wartime context and to strengthen discipline and order by separating boys and girls into different classrooms. The program was a failure. Discipline further deteriorated in boys' schools, and despite intentions to keep the education equal, girls' schools experienced increased perceptions of academic infe...

The newest romance from New York Times bestselling, Audie Award winning author Kylie Scott!He walks the red carpet. She’s more familiar with vacuuming one.When a scandal tarnishes the reputation of hot as hell A-lister, Patrick Walsh, he needs a reputation rescue, pronto.Enter waitress Norah Peers–a nobody who’s average with a capital A. She’s available, dependable, and has sworn off men for the rest of her natural born life. In other words...

A fascinating history of women on America's western frontier by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee .Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it's the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too—and this boo...

For more than eight years, I lived and worked in the dark underworld of Las Vegas as an exotic dancer. Some things are worth repeating-others you try to forget. Unfortunately, you never forget. I decided it was time that somebody told the truth about what really happens in Las Vegas strip clubs and their VIP rooms. Is there "sex in the champagne room?" With the right dancer and for right price, there is anything you want in the champagne room! This book gives a lot of insight into what rea...

A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ."Glorious . . . Do not miss a page." — Rocky Mountain NewsFrontier life, Dee Brown writes, "was hard, unpleasant most of the time," and "lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts." ...

What chance does a small-town girl have with a world-famous rock star?Two years after his wife’s death, rock star Garrett Hayes hasn’t moved on. But he has moved out of L.A. Where better to escape his past than a small town in the northern California mountains? If only he could get the townsfolk of Wildwood to leave him the hell alone.Ani Bennet returned to her hometown for some much-needed serenity. The last thing she needs is a grumpy, too hot for his own...

An acclaimed historian's "compellingly told" year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century ( The Guardian).In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknow...

An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.