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The Five Arrows is a nostalgic historical novel about a war veteran and his civilian life in the United States. Excerpt: "After years of anonymity in various city rooms in the States, a brief turn as a byline correspondent in Washington, a still briefer career as a Broadway playwright, Matthew Hall had drawn an assignment as a third-string man..."
Written specifically for all those who are involved with membership programs, Membership Development: An Action Plan for Results provides all the tools you need to implement a membership program that will not only meet the needs of a nonprofit organization, but the organization's membership, and surrounding community. The authors offer a thorough examination of the "best practices" in the membership development arena.
This edition of Gateway to the West has been excerpted from the original numbers, consolidated, and reprinted in two volumes, with added Publisher's Note, Tables of Contents, and indexes, by Genealogical Publishing Co., SInc., Baltimore, MD.
Following the passage of the Confederate Ordinance of Secession in April 1861, pro-Union Virginians met in Wheeling and began the process that would lead to the formation of West Virginia as a separate state. Despite the new state's allegiance to the North, the population of West Virginia remained divided in its loyalties, as author John W. Shaffer has described in his other book, "Barbour County, A Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War." In his latest effort, "Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers," Mr. Shaffer enumerates over 1,000 individuals who comprised the fractious community of Barbour County. Using official military records, the 1860 U.S. federal census, and...
Henry Skidmore (ca. 1650-1695) and his brother, Thomas, immigrated from England to Maryland in 1658, and settled in Sussex County, Delaware. Descendants lived in Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere.
Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. Hundreds of families held the line in the 1983 strike against Phelps Dodge Copper in Arizona. After more than a year the strikers lost their union certification, but the battle permanently altered the social order in these small, predominantly Hispanic mini...