Baby-naming has become an art form with parents today, but where do parents go to find names and their meanings? The Name Book offers particular inspiration to those who want more than just a list of popular names. From Aaron to Zoe, this useful book includes the cultural origin, the literal meaning, and the spiritual significance of more than 10,000 names. An appropriate verse of Scripture ...

Manufacturer: Bethany House
Written By: Dorothy, Astoria

One of the most comprehensive baby name reference guides available, featuring more than 30,000 baby names, has been revised and expanded. Each chapter focuses on names from specific countries, regions, and ethnicities, including details about traditional naming customs. Each entry contains various spellings and pronunciations, as well as the name's meaning, history, etymology, and derivations.

Manufacturer: Perigee Trade
Written By: Teresa Norman

What we now call "the good life" first appeared in California during the 1930s. Motels, home trailers, drive-ins, barbecues, beach life and surfing, sports from polo and tennis and golf to mountain climbing and skiing, "sportswear" (a word coined at the time), and sun suits were all a part of the good life--perhaps California's most distinctive influence of the 1930s. In The Dream Endures, Kevin ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: Kevin Starr

This book tells about the solid history of the Commonwealth that fills an urgent need as Kentucky faces its most challenging century.

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: Lowell H. Harrison, James C. Klotter

"A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination."--Los Angeles Times

Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Written By: Frances Gies

Your life is full of rich stories waiting to be told and Grandma's Memory Book is a way to help you share those treasured memories with the ones you love. The book is a series of questions that prompt you to share the information essential for your children and grandchildren to know more about their heritage. The questions are arranged in chronological order: from childhood and adolescence to ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry Publishing

The highly anticipated 10th edition of Everton's Handybook for Genealogists is one of the most valuable genealogy bibliography collections currently available. It is an indispensable resource for any genealogist attempting to trace their heritage using the county record system of the United States. The Handybook contains: well-researched histories of each state, state capital and ...

Manufacturer: Everton Publishers
Written By: George B. Everton

The saga of the Ledfords of Lancaster, Kentucky, Generations transcends family biography to become a social history of our national experience, a metaphor of America. This twentieth anniversary edition brings the Ledfords’ remarkable story up to date.

Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Written By: John Egerton

Now re-releasing as a part of the Lives of Faith series, this is Douglas Gresham’s delightful memoir of the true story that inspired the critically acclaimed film Shadowlands.

Manufacturer: HarperOne
Written By: Douglas H. Gresham

The definitive sourcebook for Vermont facts, figures, people, events, and history.

Manufacturer: Vermont