Inspired by a true story, this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise, and staunch criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
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Struggling to make a home for herself and her five-month old son Samuel, Grace Moore accepts a position as a personal assistant to Roman Velasco, a temperamental successful artist.
In the Treaty of Paris, Great Britain recognized the new United States of America. They also ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisco...
"Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his...
"Early one morning, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu send the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead thirty years ago. Rachel Rimmer has also received news that her husband,...
Lydia can't believe she is Mrs. Samuel Bontrager, or that she has a six-month-old daughter at the age of 16. As baby Mattie grows fussy by the day, Lydia wonders how she will survive a lifetime of marriage to a man she doesn't love, at least not in the way she wants. Samuel knows...
Text and photographs illustrate how crayons are made at the Binney & Smith company in Easton, Pennsylvania, where an average of twelve million crayons are produced every day.
"Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has o...
"Three years after the accident that almost claimed her life, Emma Esh has recovered physically. But she has no memory of the year before the accident. When Emma moves to a new community to help her sister Lydia and brother-in-law, Caleb, prepare for the birth of twins, she falls...
"After the murder of both her parents, Emma Hochstedler returns to the small community of Johns Mill, hoping to resume her quiet existence. Reclaiming her place proves harder than expected- especially now that a movie is being made about her family's loss. But then, an old friend...
When Amish carpenter Samuel Bowman is injured in an accident, he fears he'll never see again. He's always provided for his family -- and now that it's harvest season, the Bowmans are needed in the fields, not at his bedside. So when a young Amish widow becomes his nurse, Samuel e...
"Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu is called to the banks of the Thames after a tour guide makes a shocking discovery, one that will unearth a decades-old crime linked to the unsolved murder of three people in a grand Chelsea mansion thirty years before. In another part of the cit...
"When the war ended, Dr. Samuel Kniqht went home to Texas, but the life he expected was in ruins, his wife married to a carpetbagger. Trying to defend what's left of his previous existence, the good doctor is branded an outlaw and driven from Texas. Now he's laying low in New Mex...
Uses the daily activities of one doctor to describe the work of a pediatrician.
This book profiles people that were involved in the conflicting views of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, including Cotton Mather, Samuel Parris, Tituba (a slave), Elizabeth Parris, and others.
"Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacqu...
Provides a brief background to the witch trials of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, then focuses on five of the personalities at the center of this unusual chapter in U.S. history.
This book profiles three men who were at the center of the industrial revolution--railroad pioneer George Stephenson, textiles industrialist Samuel Slater, and the labor leader Samuel Gompers.