A lavish keepsake volume provides space for grandparents to record personal thoughts and memories, in a gift book that is certain to become a treasured family keepsake. Original.

Manufacturer: HP Trade
Written By: Milton Kamen

Finally--the only guidebook devoted exclusively to research in America's courthouses. Full of essentials starting with preparation, interacting with the clerks, using the indexes, and what to expect to find in each courthoiuse office. But it doesn't stop there. Evaluating the records and using them to solve genealogical problems are included. For those who can't travel to the courthouse ...

Manufacturer: CR Publications
Written By: Christine Rose

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis ...

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Trade
Written By: David McCullough

Written by two of the country's top genealogists, this authoritative book is the first to explain how new and groundbreaking genetic testing can help you research your ancestryAccording to American Demographics, 113 million Americans have begun to trace their roots, making genealogy the second most popular hobby in the country (after gardening). Enthusiasts clamor for new information from ...

Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Written By: Megan Smolenyak, Ann Turner

Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I ...

Manufacturer: Modern Library
Written By: Plutarch

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Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
Written By: Jerry E. Patterson

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in ...

Manufacturer: Scribner
Written By: Frank McCourt

No scholarly reference library is complete without a copy of "Ancestry's Red Book. In it, you will find both general and specific information essential to researchers of American records. This revised 3rd edition provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization. Whether you are looking for your ancestors in the northeastern states, the South, the West, ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry Publishing

This book reveals the inherent relationship between personality type, brain function and writing style. Includes 40 proven songwriting strategies - guaranteed to spark songwritersÕ imaginations. 240 pages. 6x9.

Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books / F & W Publications
Written By: Sheila Davis