Jim Burnside's Books

The Madonna of The Astrolabe

By: J.I.M. Stewart

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Professor Sanctuary favours the immediate launching of an appeal . . .' And so it begins . . . In J.I.M. Stewart’s superbly melding of wit, mystery, observation and literary prowess a gripping novel develops that will enthral the reader. A surveyor's report is alarming and the Governing Body is awed by the dimensions of the crisis.

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House of Stratus

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0755133544

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9780755133543

75 Classic Rides Oregon

The Best Road Biking Routes

By: Jim Moore

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75 Classic Rides Oregon

The Best Road Biking Routes

By: Jim Moore

CLICK HERE to download two free rides from 75 Classic Rides Oregon * Bike riding trails that range from family-friendly paved biking paths to epic Oregon mountain-pass climbs * Features easy-reference lists to help you quickly find the biking riding trail for your interests and fitness level * Full-color guidebook with maps, photographs, and lively turn-by-turn route descriptions + FREE downloadable cue sheets for each route From an after-work ride through Portland's neighborhood streets or a family cycle along the flat Willamette Valley Scenic Bikeway, to a multi-day tour in the salty breezes of the Oregon coast -- if you're seeking the best bike trails in Oregon, you'll find plenty of blacktop bliss in 75 Classic Rides: Oregon. 75 Classic Rides is a Mountaineers Books series authored by passionate local cyclists who've put thousands of miles on their bikes to bring you the very best bike riding trails across their given state. The focus is on one-day routes (a mix of loops and one-way courses), but you'll also find suggestions for link-ups and some inspiring, longer routes for touring, including at least one cross-state route. Terrain varies from flat paved trails to epic mountain challenges. The bonus is all rides found within 75 Classic Rides also come with FREE downloadable ride cue sheets for each trip. Downloadable ride cue sheets are free with purchase of your book. Each route description starts with the basic essentials to get you going: a brief overview, full-color map, elevation profile, difficulty level, round-trip distance, road conditions, and advice on the best season to ride. Full narrative descriptions tell what sights to expect, best towns for food or a cup of coffee, safety info on road shoulders and bike lanes, as well as turn-by-turn descriptions and mileage logs.

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Mountaineers Books

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1594856516

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9781594856518

Full Term

By: J.I.M. Stewart

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Full Term

By: J.I.M. Stewart

Duncan Pattullo is thinking of re-marrying, although his former wife causes difficulties. His intended is also providing gossip for the college, but that is as nothing compared with Watershute, who abandons his family, conducts an affair in Venice, and is drunk at High Table. Things get very serious when he appears to be involved in treason.

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House of Stratus

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075513348X

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9780755133482

The Civil War Journal of Private Heyward Emmell, Ambulance and Infantry Corps

A Very Disagreeable War

By: Jim Malcolm

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The Civil War Journal of Private Heyward Emmell, Ambulance and Infantry Corps

A Very Disagreeable War

By: Jim Malcolm

The Civil War Journal of Private Heyward Emmel is a primary source documenting one man's experiences on the front line of the American Civil War. For three years, first as an infantryman in the 7th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and later as a stretcher bearer in the Ambulance Corps, Emmell reports on virtually all the major campaigns of the Army of the Potomac between October 1861 and October 1864. Devoid of political editorializing, usual and unusual aspects of battles, marching and maneuvers, and camp life are described. This is the only published account of the experiences of a member of the Ambulance Corps.

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Fairleigh Dickinson

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1611470412

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The Tigers and Yankees in '61

A Pennant Race for the Ages, the Babe's Record Broken and Stormin' Norman's Greatest Season

By: Jim Sargent

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The Tigers and Yankees in '61

A Pennant Race for the Ages, the Babe's Record Broken and Stormin' Norman's Greatest Season

By: Jim Sargent

The Detroit Tigers gave a memorable performance in the pennant race against the New York Yankees in 1961, the American League's first expansion season. Starting faster, the Tigers held first place for more than half the season, until the Yankees caught up in late July. They met in a climactic three-game series at Yankee Stadium. The Bronx Bombers swept all three, winning the pennant for the eleventh time in 13 seasons. But the 18 games the Tigers and Yankees played against each other were some of the most exciting contests of '61. The Yankees' saga is well known but the Tigers' tale has largely been ignored. This book chronicles the season highlights, such as the home run duel between Roger Maris, who slugged a record 61, and Mickey Mantle, who hit a personal best 54. Other outstanding performances were given by the Tigers' Norm Cash, who led the league with a .361 average, and Rocky Colavito, who hit 45 home runs.

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McFarland

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1476623112

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9781476623115

Reservation Restless

By: Jim Kristofic

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Reservation Restless

By: Jim Kristofic

Once in a great while, a miracle of a book comes along, a gift that both touches the heart and engages the mind. Reservation Restless is such a book."--Anne Hillerman, New York Times best-selling author of Rock with Wings and The Tale Teller

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826361137

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9780826361134

Office 2008 for Macintosh

The Missing Manual

By: Jim Elferdink

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Office 2008 for Macintosh

The Missing Manual

By: Jim Elferdink

Provides information on using Microsoft Office 2008 with a Mac, covering the features and functions of Word, Entourage, Calendar, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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059651431X

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9780596514310

A Savage Thunder

Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom

By: Jim Murphy

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A Savage Thunder

Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom

By: Jim Murphy

Enhanced with maps, photographs, and black-and-white illustrations, the story of the battle of Antietam Creek in Maryland in 1862 is described via first-person accounts and factual details with an examination of how this major event changed a nation with regard to Lincoln drafting the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Simon and Schuster

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0689876335

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9780689876332

Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

The Missing Manual

By: Jim Elferdink

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Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

The Missing Manual

By: Jim Elferdink

Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features. You'll find lots of new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not a page of printed instructions to guide you through the changes. Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual gives you the friendly, thorough introduction you need, whether you're a beginner who can't do more than point and click, or a power user who's ready to tackle a few advanced techniques. To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four superb books in one -- a separate section each for program! You can manage your day and create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in no time. Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons blend in better with your other Mac applications. But there are still plenty of oddities. That's why this Missing Manual isn't shy about pointing out which features are gems in the rough -- and which are duds. With it, you'll learn how to: Navigate the new user interface with its bigger and more graphic toolbars Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage separately or together Keep track of appointments and manage daily priorities with the My Day feature Create newsletters, flyers, brochures, and more with Word's Publishing Layout View Build financial documents like budgets and invoices with Excel's Ledger Sheets Get quick access to all document templates and graphics with the Elements Gallery Organize all of your Office projects using Entourage's Project Center Scan or import digital camera images directly into any of the programs Customize each program with power-user techniques With Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, you get objective and entertaining instruction to help you tap into all of the features of this powerful suite, so you can get more done in less time.

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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0596554508

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9780596554507

Custer and the Little Bighorn

The Man, The Mystery, The Myth

By: Jim Donovan

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Custer and the Little Bighorn

The Man, The Mystery, The Myth

By: Jim Donovan

This is the first major illustrated book to examine the life and death of General Custer.

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Crestline

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0785825894

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The CSS Albemarle and William Cushing

The Remarkable Confederate Ironclad and the Union Officer Who Sank It

By: Jim Stempel

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The CSS Albemarle and William Cushing

The Remarkable Confederate Ironclad and the Union Officer Who Sank It

By: Jim Stempel

On October 27, 1864, two marvels of the Civil War collided on the Roanoke River near Plymouth, North Carolina. The first was the formidable Confederate ironclad Albemarle, a 376-ton behemoth that had for months roamed the nearby rivers and waters of Albemarle Sound, defeating in turn everything the Federal Navy could throw at it. The second was William B. Cushing, a 21-year-old Federal naval lieutenant who had been selected to lead a virtual suicide mission to destroy the ironclad in her berth. This chronicle of the young officer's "David vs. Goliath" victory over the daunting ironclad presents a tale of courage and accomplishment.

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McFarland

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0786488735

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Paths to Victory

A History and Tour Guide of the Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville Campaigns

By: Jim Miles

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Paths to Victory

A History and Tour Guide of the Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville Campaigns

By: Jim Miles

Paths to Victory is the story of the Civil War in Middle Tennessee and northwest Georgia beginning with the battle of Stones River on December 31, 1862. Includes a series of driving tours that enable readers to see the battlefields and important sites.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1620453088

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No Certain Rest

A Novel

By: Jim Lehrer

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No Certain Rest

A Novel

By: Jim Lehrer

On a hillside overlooking Burnside Bridge—the focus of the Battle of Antietam—souvenir hunters find the unmarked grave of an unknown Union officer. Don Spaniel, an archeologist in the National Park Service, is called in to examine the remains. He soon discovers that the officer was murdered and that his identification disk could not possibly belong to him, since its rightful owner is buried elsewhere. So who was this officer? Where did he come from? And why was he killed? In a swift narrative deftly combining the past with the present, Jim Lehrer has created an engrossing story that will appeal to a wide variety of readers.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812968220

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Guns of the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum

By: Jim Supica

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Guns of the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum

By: Jim Supica

Guns of NRA National Sporting Arms Museum features the most common and popular sporting arms in America pictured side-by-side with some of the greatest firearm rarities...These guns reflect the three-part theme of the NRA National Sporting Arms Museum at Bass Pro Shops." -- Amazon.com.

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Chartwell Books

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0785835326

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I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

By: Jim Dickinson

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I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

By: Jim Dickinson

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King. With verve and wit, Dickinson (1941–2009) describes his trip to Blind Lemon's grave on the Texas flatlands as a college student and how that encounter inspired his return to Memphis. Back home, he looked up Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis, began staging plays, cofounded what would become the annual Memphis Blues Festival, and started recording. The blues, Elvis, and early rock 'n' roll compelled Dickinson to reject racial barriers and spurred his contributions to the Memphis music and experimental art scene. He explains how the family yardman, WDIA, Dewey Phillips, Furry Lewis, Will Shade, and Howlin' Wolf shaped him and recounts how he went on to learn his craft at Sun, Ardent, American, Muscle Shoals, and Criteria studios from master producers Sam Phillips, John Fry, Chips Moman, and Jerry Wexler. Dickinson is a member of the Mississippi Music Hall of Fame and an inaugural inductee of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Engineering and Production from the Americana Music Association, a Brass Note on the Beale Street Walk of Fame in Memphis, and a Heritage Marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This memoir recounts a love affair with Memphis, the blues, and rock 'n' roll through Dickinson's captivating blend of intelligence, humor, and candor.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496811186

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9781496811189

The Civil War: Weapons

By: Jim Ollhoff

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The Civil War: Weapons

By: Jim Ollhoff

The American Civil War continues to be one of the most significant events in US history. In this title, readers will examine the weapons-large and small-used by both Union and Confederate forces in the war. Engaging text introduces readers to the new ironclad ships and submarines built for battle and the roles they played in military campaigns. Chapters also highlight common personal weapons, such as swords, guns, and bayonets, and the development of bombs, mines, and cannons that were implemented into battle tactics. Additionally, readers will explore the impact of newer technologies such as railroads and telegraphs during the war. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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Piercing the Heartland

A History and Tour Guide of the Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Perryville Campaigns

By: Jim Miles

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Piercing the Heartland

A History and Tour Guide of the Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Perryville Campaigns

By: Jim Miles

Piercing The Heart and: A History and Tour Guide of the Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Perryville Campaigns"", by Jim Miles, traces the history of the Civil War from the attack on Logan's Crossroads, through the battle of Shiloh, and the running war through Tennessee and Kentucky during the Perryville campaign. Includes driving tours.

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162045310X

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The Last Greatest Magician in the World

Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards

By: Jim Steinmeyer

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The Last Greatest Magician in the World

Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards

By: Jim Steinmeyer

Steinmeyer presents the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans, and set the standard for how stage magic is performed today.

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TarcherPerigee

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0399160035

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Send a Runner

A Navajo Honors the Long Walk

By: Edison Eskeets,Jim Kristofic

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Send a Runner

A Navajo Honors the Long Walk

By: Edison Eskeets,Jim Kristofic

The Navajo tribe, the Diné, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But over a century ago, they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk, a forced removal of most of the Diné people to a military-controlled reservation in New Mexico. The summer of 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the Navajos' return to their homelands. One Navajo family and their community decided to honor that return. Edison Eskeets and his family organized a ceremonial run from Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, to Santa Fé, New Mexico, in order to deliver a message and to honor the survivors of the Long Walk. Both exhilarating and punishing, Send A Runner tells the story of a Navajo family using the power of running to honor their ancestors and the power of history to explain why the Long Walk happened. From these forces, they might also seek the vision of how the Diné—their people—will have a future.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826362346

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The Iceman

The Rise and Fall of a Crime Lord

By: Jim Wilson,Russell Findlay

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The Iceman

The Rise and Fall of a Crime Lord

By: Jim Wilson,Russell Findlay

The elite police officers secretly launching Scotland's biggest ever offensive against organised crime had only one target. His name was Jamie Stevenson, but he was known as The Iceman, the biggest drugs trafficker the country has ever seen. Suspected of a string of murders - including the gangland assassination of his best friend - Stevenson's decade-long rise was built on ruthless ambition, strategic cunning and calculated, brutal violence. It left him at the head of one of Europe's biggest smuggling operations pouring tons of drugs and guns onto the streets of Scotland. The Iceman tells the astonishing story of Stevenson's rise and fall, offering a unique and explosive insight into Operation Folklore, the unprecedented four-year investigation that ended in his arrest. It lays bare the blood-soaked business of Scotland's most powerful crime lord and, for the first time, exposes how he made - and laundered - his dirty millions.

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Birlinn

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0857902032

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Civil War: Weapons

By: Jim Ollhoff

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Civil War: Weapons

By: Jim Ollhoff

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Sound of Mind

By: Jim Waltzer

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Sound of Mind

By: Jim Waltzer

Richard Keene is a former mental patient who thinks he's overheard a murder in his high-rise apartment house, but who's going to believe him? Richard has an obsession to prove himself and not only solve the case, but chase a ghost from his past.

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Five Star Trade

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1594145334

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The Granite Men

A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland

By: Jim Fiddes

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The Granite Men

A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland

By: Jim Fiddes

Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of north-east Scotland was the engine that built civilisations. As early as the sixteenth century, granite from Aberdeen and its vicinities was building castles. In the heyday of the mid-nineteenth century, the granite men of the North East hewed this material from the bowels of the earth and used it to fashion the iconic structures that defined the age. It paved the streets and embankments of London. It was used to build bridges over the Thames. It was carved into monuments for kings and commoners not only in Britain but all over the world. None of it possible without the men that toiled in those quarries and yards. This is the story of those granite men and their industry.

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The History Press

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0750991186

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The "Iron Man" and the "Mississippi Company" of Morgan's Raiders

By: Jim Power

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The "Iron Man" and the "Mississippi Company" of Morgan's Raiders

By: Jim Power

The story ofa MS. cavalry compnay that becamr part of John Hunt Morgan's 2nd Ky. Cavalry. While the leader appeared to be a sickly misfit in his previous army service, due to his health his men had to help him mount his horse at the start ofthe "Great Raid" into Indiana & Ohio where most of the men were captured., but not before they began to call him the "Iron Man." After prison, he and many of thecompany escorted Jefferson Davis as he attempted to escape. The concluding chapter tells of the men and their return to a difficult life where many died very early. Considerable non-published and out of print material is included.

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1452033552

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Raiding with Morgan

By: Jim R. Woolard

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Raiding with Morgan

By: Jim R. Woolard

This is the legend of Morgan's Raiders--as it's never been told before. . . In the summer of 1863, Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan led two thousand Confederate soldiers across the Ohio River into southern Indiana. Pursued by fifteen thousand Union cavalry, infantry, and militia, Morgan's Raiders blazed a trail of destruction unparalleled in Civil War history. In forty-six days, they covered one thousand miles, destroyed thirty-four bridges, and captured six thousand enemy soldiers. But only a handful of Morgan's men would live to tell the tale. . . Born in the heart of Kentucky, Ty Mattson never knew his parents. His mother died in childbirth while his father went off to fight in the Mexican War. For seventeen years, Ty never discovered why his father didn't return. But when he receives news that his father is alive--and he's joined the forces of General John Morgan--the boy leaves home to enlist with the Raiders, hoping to finally meet the father he never had. Owen Mattson turns out to be everything Ty imagined he would be: a good man, a true mentor and a great soldier. But the bullets of a self-appointed Confederate assassin divide father and son yet again, leaving Ty near death. From the blood-soaked chaos of Morgan's devastating defeat at Buffington Island, to the care of an enemy nurse and the harsh brutality of a Union prison, Ty Mattson will do whatever it takes to fight and survive. For his father. For the love of a beautiful woman. For revenge. Filled with military action and fascinating historical detail, Raiding with Morgan is award-winning author Jim R. Woolard at his page-turning best. North to Glory "We are bound for the Ohio in a bold bid to carry the war and its bloodletting and destruction into the enemy's lair. We will etch the terror and fright of our passage in the minds of every man, woman and child we encounter as well as those who hide in fear of us. The fame and glory garnered by our victories will shine forever in the hearts of our southern brethren and earn us the hatred of northern sympathizers. May the Lord ride with us." --Journal of Lieutenant Clinton J. Hardesty, Morgan's Confederate Cavalry, 7 July, 1863.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786034807

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Civil War Siege of Jackson, Mississippi, The

By: Jim Woodrick

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Civil War Siege of Jackson, Mississippi, The

By: Jim Woodrick

Even after a grueling forty-seven-day siege at Vicksburg, Ulysses S. Grant could not rest on his laurels. Just fifty miles away in Jackson, Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston and the "Army of Relief" still posed a threat to Grant's hard-won victory. General William Tecumseh Sherman countered by marching Union troops to Jackson. After a weeklong siege under a hot Mississippi sun, Johnston's army abandoned the city, leaving the fate of Jackson in the hands of Sherman's troops. Historian Jim Woodrick recounts the Civil War devastation and rebirth of Mississippi's capital.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1626197296

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Quest for the Finish

By: Jim Buck

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Quest for the Finish

By: Jim Buck

Quest for the Finish-Diary of a Distance Runner is the story of one man's personal experiences in the custom of running. It details how he got mixed up in such an endeavor and how it became an integral part of his life; how it morphed into a preferred method for keeping fit. The author describes how a fitness routine can become a sport; how the everyday jogger can become an athlete; how the athlete moves from one challenge to the next. In relating his running experiences over the years, the author provides detailed and inspirational accounts of his own experiences in training and in races at distances from 1 mile to the 26.2-mile marathon. These accounts offer valuable insights into training and racing techniques: the challenges of reaching the finish line; the joy of competition; the anguish when things go wrong. The book is also a travel log of sorts, since it provides descriptions of running adventures across the USA and in several foreign countries. The author takes the reader on an often humorous and sometimes painful journey from the novice runner to the peak of fitness, followed by the eventual slow decline in performance that comes with age and life's struggles.

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eBook Partnership

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1839780975

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9781839780974

Anna and Darel

By: Jim McConkey

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Anna and Darel

By: Jim McConkey

Who were these parents who had lived in a tent on an island in the Potomac River during the Depression, while the father wrangled WPA guidebooks toward publication, and later wrote speeches for the Senator investigating cartels during World War II, wrote the book on foot-and-mouth disease, and crossed swords with Joe McCarthy’s inquisition? Who was the mother who hadn’t worked in thirty years yet fended off financial disaster after her husband’s early death? Seventeen years later, those questions still lingered, with his mother’s death leaving a void that Jim McConkey fills with a compelling narrative. From ‘drinking wet and voting dry’ during Prohibition to starving as a freelance writer in the Depression, the WPA Writer’s Project, the early days of commercial air travel, and the international cartels that thwarted America’s war mobilization and led to civilian rationing, McConkey’s story captivates and informs. And finally, that gorgeous farm in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains is vividly preserved. The family’s history, stored in a four-drawer filing cabinet stuffed with family papers, is brought to life in this loving parental biography.

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Just a Thin Slice: A Family's Journey Through the American Landscape - 1623 to the Present

By: Jim Kenaston

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Just a Thin Slice: A Family's Journey Through the American Landscape - 1623 to the Present

By: Jim Kenaston

Just a Thin Slice" is a selective account of a family history covering nearly 400 years. The life and times of multiple generations are characterized for the sake of young members of the family and for others who may find the account to be a useful or edifying word. This second edition provides an updated set of reflections in accordance with our changing times.

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1387252003

ISBN 13

9781387252008

Book's by Jim Burnside

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