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The Last Muster
'We only have the frozen Mississippi to cross...if we get through this...' Virginia continued to walk beside the wagon as she trudged through the snow, her hand in Allen's, her thoughts lingering on her dead sister, buried outside Gallatin, just yesterday. Then she stopped and looked back. Joseph Smith was not with them this time. He was in the hands of the mob awaiting execution for treason. It had been a long time since those desperate days in Missouri. The temple in Salt Lake City had taken forty years to build. Virginia looked up at the granite structure and thanked God she had been allowed to live to see it finished. Today her grandsom would be sealed there.--Back cover.
Dimly Lit Meals for One - Heartbreaking Tales of Sad Food and Even Sadder Lives
Dimly Lit Meals for One is an anthology of despair for all the people out there who have ever seasoned a dish with the bitter salt of their own tears. Based on the popular tumblr this book features never-before-seen photographs of humanity at its lowest culinary ebb, accompanied by tragicomic stories that will either leave you crying with laughter, or just crying ('Dimly Lit Meals for One will make you laugh till you're no longer hungry' – Washington Post). Inside these pages you'll meet a cast of colourless characters trapped in a kitchen hell of their own devising, witness their struggles to fulfil their recommended five a day, and marvel at how much human misery can be heaped onto a sin...
Charles Thomas Kennedy V.C.
This is the story of Charles Kennedy an exceptionally courageous young man whose selfless acts of valour won him the most prestigious military medal, the Victoria Cross. Although highly honoured at the time he was soon forgotten and his grave remained unmarked for 94 years before he was again fittingly remembered.
The Final Four of Everything
Edited by Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir, and featuring contributions from experts on everything from breakfast cereal and movie gunfights to First Ladies and bald guys, The Final Four of Everything celebrates everything that's great, surprising, or silly in America, using the foolproof method of bracketology to determine what we love or hate-and why. As certain to make you laugh as it will start friendly arguments, The Final Four of Everything is the perfect book for know-it-alls, know-a-littles, and anyone with an opinion on celebrity mugshots, literary heroes, sports nicknames, or bacon. Bracketology is a unique way of organizing information that dates back to the rise of the knockout (...
Television Game Show Hosts
This unique work profiles the private lives and careers of 32 American game show hosts, including the originals (e.g., Bill Cullen, Peter Marshall), the classics (e.g., Bob Barker), and the contemporaries (e.g., Regis Philbin). Organized by host, each chapter includes birth and family information and a complete career history. The most significant developments of each host's early life and career are highlighted--complete with successes, failures, and scandals. Many of the biographies are accompanied by interviews with the host or his family and friends.
The Castillos
MEET THE BILLIONAIRE CASTILLO BROTHERS FROM VOLS. 1 - 4 BEAUTY AND THE BEASTLY BILLIONAIRE - Vol. 1 Amadeo Castillo - The tycoon with the reputation for being a terrible tyrant…one who finally meets his match. TRAINING THE TYCOON -Vol. 2 Julio Castillo - The brother with the reputation for being a ‘lady killer’…until he falls into the hands of his ex, and that’s when he finds that she’s the one who’s in charge. THE MOGUL’S MAIDEN MISTRESS- Vol. 3 Enrique Castillo - The Castillo who finds himself entrusted with the task of teaching a true innocent the ways of the world…but how do you do that without losing your heart? EVA AND THE EXTREME EXECUTIVE - Vol. 4 Sergio Castillo – The adventurous executive who’s determined to get the girl even though she hates the fact that he’s an incurable risk taker. Can he convince her that he’s the right man for her? Alpha males at their best - which one will you fall in love with?
Felix Longoria's Wake
Winner, Tullis Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2004 Private First Class Felix Longoria earned a Bronze Service Star, a Purple Heart, a Good Conduct Medal, and a Combat Infantryman's badge for service in the Philippines during World War II. Yet the only funeral parlor in his hometown of Three Rivers, Texas, refused to hold a wake for the slain soldier because "the whites would not like it." Almost overnight, this act of discrimination became a defining moment in the rise of Mexican American activism. It launched Dr. Héctor P. García and his newly formed American G.I. Forum into the vanguard of the Mexican civil rights movement, while simultaneously endangering and advancing the c...
A Murder in Wellesley
Inside one of New England's most infamous murders
