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Inferno!: And the Miracles of the Colorado Marshall Fire
by Tom GormleyINFERNO! And the Miracles of the Colorado Marshall Fire reveals the true story of the December 2021 Colorado Marshall fire and the many events that can only be described as miracles that occur during and after. Interviews, local history and over seventy powerful images convey the turmoil, tragedy and drama of this nightmare. These stories are intertwined with the police and fire dispatch broadcasts and public announcements to provide a timeline of the fire and its aftermath. In a little over fo... more -
In the Catskills, The Armenian Enclaves
by Michael BoyajianThe story of the Armenian enclaves of the Catskills where they came to dance, hike and heal from Hunter to Tannersville to Haines Falls all centered around the American Hotel and the the Shady Hotel.
A great memory of times past by many immigrants who dreamed of a great life in America.
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How to Choose Digital Marketing Dissertation Topics 2021
by Alexa demieI would like to help students in selecting their dissertation topics
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Junior Bounous and the Joys of Skiing: A biography
by Ayja BounousA biography of Junior Bounous, a leader in the American West ski industry, and an account of the American ski industry through his eyes. As one of the first American-born ski school directors, Bounous helped develop a power skiing technique in the 1940s and 1950s, became a consultant for ski and ski boot manufacturers, and became an acclaimed sports writer from articles written about skiing techniques and published in nationally acclaimed skiing magazines. Set the Guinness World Record for the o... more -
America's First Soldiers
by Amelia McNuttThis book tells the remarkable stories of the men who created the American Revolution. You will meet the men who were waiting for General Gage's British troops. You will learn why they stood fast before the world's most powerful army. We will witness the skirmish at Lexington and the battle at Concord. We will travel the 16 mile road from Concord to Charlestown, remembered as Battle Road it was the road to Damnation for Gage's forces. We will dig-in on Bunker Hill, and we meet the young Bostoni... more -
The Portable Pat Lang
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Harry the Armenian, Army Air Corps Airman
by Michael BoyajianJoin the author as he discovers his dad Harry's military service for the entirety of World War II as an Army Air Corps Airman designated as a radio operator in the North Africa campaign who witnessed his best friend killed on the runway whereupon as soon as he completed his required 2,200 air time hours pushed back against pressure to do another 2,200 hours and landed service as a jeep driver for the rest of the war. The next flight that his crew mates flew out on urging him to join... more
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Fishkill, America's Central Command in the Revolutionary War: Spies, Supplies and Heroines
by Michael BoyajianLargely forgotten over the years Fishkill and the Hudson Valley have been rediscovered as the central point of he American Revolution blocking British attempts to capture the Hudson River from the north, west, east and south and divide New England hotbeds of liberty from the other colonies. It was visited by almost every American patriot from George Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette.
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Royal Scythia, Greece, Kyiv Rus
by Andy Lazkohe Scythians are commonly thought to be an Iranian tribe, but were they? Herodotus described them as the conquerors of Persia who looked and spoke a different language than the Iranians. He also mentioned Royal Scythia being situated within the territory of present-day Ukraine and the Dnieper River being the sacred one for them—the largest and the most impressive of the Scythian Royal Barrows are situated in its vicinity. The Scythian mythology was so powerful that even the Greeks borrowed some ... more -
Brothers and Friends: Kinship in Early America
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Assignment Potsdam
by Charlie FitzGeraldBerlin 1961. Height of the Cold War. Col Mac McDesmond has just arrived in East Germany, taking over United States Liaison Mission, the sole US Army outpost behind the Iron Curtain. An East German cop is chasing a serial killer who has kidnapped a US Army soldier; 5 CIA operatives have gone missing; Mac's Soviet Army counterpart has uncovered a plot by the CIA and Stasi to assassinate Khrushchev and remove JFK from office and on top of all of that Mac has to deal with an alcoholic wife and prote... more -
Levon Helm: Rock, Roll & Ramble—The Inside Story of the Man, the Music and the Midnight Ramble
by John W. BarryMillions of music fans know Levon Helm from the gritty, granular and hard-as-an-oak tree vocals he delivered on one of modern music's most classic rock songs, "The Weight."
"I pulled in to Nazareth/Was feeling 'bout half past dead," Helm sings on "The Weight" by The Band.
The drummer, mandolin player and vocalist who was raised in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, and lived in Woodstock, New York, for more than 40 years, generated a sonic la... more -
Stealing Mona Lisa
by Carson MortonBased on a true story, a turn-of-the-century con artists masterminds the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre; his plan: to create 6 copies and sell them to American millionaires who each will think they are getting the real article. -
Do No Harm
by George J. HawkinsDo No Harm. A Historical Novel By George J. Hawkins The story of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker began on an upstate New York farm, Oswego Co., November 26, 1832 and ended there, February 21, 1919. During the intervening 86 years, she graduated with honors from Syracuse Medical College (only woman in her class), got married and divorced, was a physician-surgeon in fierce Civil War battles of Fredericksburg, Chickamauga and others. In 1864 she was a Confederate prisoner of war at Richmond, VA. On... more -
The Global Golden Age of Armenian Literature
by Michael BoyajianNEW BOOK RELEASE JANUARY 2023
THE GLOBAL GOLDEN AGE OF ARMENIAN LITERATURE:
THE RECOVERY FROM GENOCIDEBY MICHAEL BOYAJIAN
As the world crosses into the decade of the 2020s, with an authoritarian threat to democracy on the hopeful cusp of resolution and at the same time emerging from the worldwide Covid pandemic and subsequent economic turbulence, something magical has happened. Almost like the Big Bang creation of the universe, an ancient people known as the Armenians ... more
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Delaware Before the Railroads
by Dave TablerHistorical overview of Delaware history 1610-1832, illustrated with 100+ photographs of the state's historic sites as they look currently.