These are the memories of an eighty-year old who grew up in a rural area of Oklahoma, somewhat isolated by location and time but impacted by almost a century of American history. The values instilled in him by teaching, association and example formed his life .

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Contribu...

In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home Christmas story about tradition, family, and the shared experiences of women.Here, in a letter of her own, Lee Smith explains how she was inspired to write this celebrated epistolary novel:Dear Friends,Like me, you probably get Christmas letters every year. I read every word and ...

Chicago lawyer falls for exotic dancer and she changes his dull life. Many of her colleagues add remarkable vigor to this tale.

In True Stories: Memories, Musings, Odds and Ends, C.J. Ott tells of the first seven years of his childhood in New York City and the next seven years in the Saugerties area, a hundred miles north of the city. He recounts his experiences as a postulant, novice and scholastic in the Marianist religious order; four years of military service in the U.S. Air Force, and a twenty-five year career as a teacher and principal in Trotwood-Madison City Schools, by Dayton, Ohio. Along the way he recall...

Fruitcake Hill is a cleverly written history and personal memoir of an Irish family from the Chicago suburbs that has continuously occupied a single farmhouse property for over 137 years. The story focuses on the family's struggles to preserve the life they knew before urban sprawl became a reality. A humorous and informative read!

A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR BOOK • A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets.“An intimate perspective on a tumultuous era and an homage to the power of language.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewLooking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman thro...

Poems and Stories written by my Grandparents, Webster and Maggie Baker during the 1880s brings that part of History to life.Maggie was 18 and Webster 23 when Websters dad moved his family to Kansas to Homestead. Webster had to leave his girl friend back in Indiana. That is the heart ache behind the poem Separation. How he came back and married his formal sweetheart is part of the story.My dad, Chester Baker, grew up on this Sugar Maple farm and he had many adventures as a f...

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This is a memoir of an ordinary boy who grew up in a cotton mill village in northern Alabama , he was a boy full of adventure , mischief , and everything that comes along with country living . Some of the things he found himself in was fun and exciting and others got him just in plain trouble . This book is to bring your attention to when you was coming up with the simple things as well.

Back then the big old house was heated with an old coal furnace. One of my winter chores each morning before walking to school, which was only one block away, was to go down to the basement and shovel coal into the furnace fire box from the coal bin. It was a big responsibility for a six year old boy.

Every day, J.C. Dunn comes home to his wonderful house on Bryant Street. He used to love the place, now he fears it. Every night it smells of spaghetti sauce and fresh garlic bread.He lives by himself and never cooks anything like that. But the smell, every day, persists, like a swarm of insects invading his home.Dean Wesley Smith wrote this story in honor of his departed good friend Kip. When Dean started off writing, he worked for Kip in his spaghetti restaurant. A magica...