Strange But True, America
Author: John Hafnor
Publisher: John Hafnor
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780964817555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains 101 curious tales and oddball facts about events and people from the fifty states.
Author: John Hafnor
Publisher: John Hafnor
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780964817555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains 101 curious tales and oddball facts about events and people from the fifty states.
Author: Chelsea Lin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1426330243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collects three hundred facts about Canada's wildlife, cuisine, history, sports, and culture.
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1426331045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a collection of true facts about animals, food, science, pop culture, outer space, geography, and weather.
Author: John Searles
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2004-07-20
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780688175719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BLYTHE DANNER, AMY RYAN AND GREG KINNEAR After a mysterious fall from his New York City apartment, Philip Chase has moved back home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death of her younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Numb from watching too much television, rereading a tragic biography, and trading snipes with his mother, Philip is in stasis. But everything changes late one windy February night when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up on their doorstep. A sad young woman who still bears the scars of the accident that took Ronnie's life on the night of their prom, Melissa has unexpectedly found hope. She is nine months pregnant. And the father, she claims, is Ronnie. So begins this startling tale, which moves from one breathless surprise to another as Philip and his mother confront not only Melissa's past but their own. Their desperate search for answers takes them on a poignant and emotional journey, ultimately placing them in the path of murder and revenge. At once a moving story of redemption and a heart-stopping work of suspense, Strange but True confirms John Searles's place among the most gifted voices of his generation. Beautifully written and charged with a sublime wit, the novel brings to vibrant life a cast of characters that no reader will forget.
Author: John Hafnor
Publisher: John Hafnor
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780964817531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Find out quirky facts and wacky trivia about Colorado.
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1426327269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interesting and little known facts about the human body intended for kids. --
Author: Kregg P. Jorgenson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2010-02-24
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0307434699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →AMERICAN BOYS AT WAR IN VIETNAM--AND INVOLVED IN INCIDENTS YOU WON'T FIND IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES In this compelling, highly unusual collection of amazing but true stories, U.S. soldiers reveal fantastic, almost unbelievable events that occurred in places ranging from the deadly Central Highlands to the Cong-infested Mekong Delta. "Finders Keepers" became the sacred byword for one exhausted recon team who stumbled upon a fortune worth more than $500,000--and managed, with a little American ingenuity, to relocate the bounty to the States. Jorgenson also chronicles Marine Sergeant James Henderson's incredible journey back from the dead, shares a surreal chopper rescue, and recounts some heart-stopping details of the life--and death--of one of America's greatest unsung heroes, a soldier who won more medals than Audie Murphy and Sergeant York. Whether occurring in the bloody, fiery chaos of sudden ambushes or during the endless nights of silent, gnawing menace spent behind enemy lines, these stories of war are truly beaucoup dinky dau . . . and ultimately unforgettable.
Author: Rose Sobol
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 1992-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780780712409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of bizarre true stories about crimes, criminals, prisoners, and police.
Author: Eddy Portnoy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1503603970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird—Jews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed butter side down in the dirt. These marginal Jews may have found their way into the history books far less frequently than their more socially upstanding neighbors, but there's one place you can find them in force: in the Yiddish newspapers that had their heyday from the 1880s to the 1930s. Disaster, misery, and misfortune: you will find no better chronicle of the daily ignominies of urban Jewish life than in the pages of the Yiddish press. An underground history of downwardly mobile Jews, Bad Rabbi exposes the seamy underbelly of pre-WWII New York and Warsaw, the two major centers of Yiddish culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With true stories plucked from the pages of the Yiddish papers, Eddy Portnoy introduces us to the drunks, thieves, murderers, wrestlers, poets, and beauty queens whose misadventures were immortalized in print. There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed by an American widow, mass brawls at weddings and funerals, a psychic who specialized in locating missing husbands, and violent gangs of Jewish mothers on the prowl—in short, not quite the Jews you'd expect. One part Isaac Bashevis Singer, one part Jerry Springer, this irreverent, unvarnished, and frequently hilarious compendium of stories provides a window into an unknown Yiddish world that was.
Author: Howard Liss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780394856322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recounts twenty-three humorous, frustrating, disappointing, and exciting moments in the past half-century of football.