This is the dramatic story of the sinking of the HMT Rohna, which resulted in one of the greatest number of casualties suffered in WWII. The fact that the huge loss of life and the subsequent cover-up of the details surrounding it make for fascinating and disturbing reading. Limited publications exist on the subject, so this is a valuable resource for interested historians.

Allied Secret: The Sinking of Hmt Rohna

History

Carlton Jackson

Military

University of Oklahoma Press

Hattie McDaniel was the first black to ever win an Oscar. She was also the first black woman to ever sing on American radio. In this fresh assessment of her life and career, Carlton Jackson tells the inside story of her working relationships, her personal life, and the many obstacles she faced as a black performer in the white world of show business during the first half of the twentieth century.

Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Madison Books

Challenge and Change: United States History: The Second Century

Harold H. Eibling

Vito Perrone

Laidlaw Brother (Division of Doubleday)

My story begins with a group of southern emigres going to Brazil just after the Civil War. They have been promised cheap cotton land by Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil. Many go because they believe they can resurrect their old lives in the south with cotton, slaves, and "dignity." The Oliver family goes to Brazil. Stanley, the father, who has lost his arm in the War, tries to re-start his medical practice in Rio. Victoria Stanley,the main character of the book, does not want to go at first.Gradually, she warms to the experience of Brazil however, Dom Pedro has become extremely controversial: he offers free land to displaced southerners, and then he starts an emancipation program. He gets Henry Hilliard (in the novel Hilbertson), from Alabama, to write his Emancipation Proclamation! Having an Alabaman write an Emancipation Proclamation is not the only twist and turn, and changed lives in this novel about Brazil, "The Land of Tomorrow!"

Window on the Wood: A Novel of Brazil

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Denlingers Pub Ltd

On to Freedom! Author Carlton Jackson has done it again! This time with Freedom's Way, weaving a compelling tale in an epic novel showing the extraordinary efforts to which freedom-loving people will go for their dream of Liberty. In this book, two pre-Civil War-era slaves, Ellen and William Craft of Georgia, devise a brave and cunning plan of escape from their life of bondage that is full of intrigue and peril at every turn of this amazing journey. Could Ellen, who is half white, dressed as a sickly plantation owner going North for her health, accompanied by his slave William, ever thread her way through a highly suspicious and adverse territory? Follow their precarious trek as they stay only a step ahead of the slave catchers up the American East Coast, through the Underground Railroad and toward their elusive but undying vision, Freedom. "A wonderful story of hope, tribulation and success! Carlton Jackson brings home the inhumanity of slavery and weaves a fascinating and heart-rending story of human beings whose only desire was justice and equality. While accurately placed mid-nineteenth-century history, Freedom s Way carries clear messages for the modern day. A must read for all ages!" Frederick M. Beatty, Ph.D. Director of Civil Studies, Troy University, Montgomery, Alabama 6"x9" hardcover w/ full color dustjacket 152 pages w/ illustrations

Freedom's Way

Children's Books

Acclaim Press

This is the shocking but true story of Joseph Gavi, a small Jewish boy growing up in Minsk, Belorussia, during the German invasion of WWII. Relive unspeakable horrors surrounding Joseph s struggle to simply survive then to overcome his brutal oppressors through covert action with the Freedom Fighters. Follow as he rescues more than 200 of his people from the imprisoning ghetto while constantly evading death by execution. Read in Joseph s own words the spellbinding detail of each harrowing escape, at times only inches from the promise of a torturous death. Experience the war-time betrayal of loyal friends and comrades as his post-war success in his homeland is thwarted by an old enemy, anti-Semitism. Follow this national hero, mountain climbing instructor and scientist as he resolves to pierce the Iron Curtain and flee to America toward an illusive dream of success.

Joseph Gavi-Young Hero of the Minsk Ghetto

Community & Culture

On January 19, 1829, President-elect Andrew Jackson began his three-week journey from his home at the Hermitage near Nashville, Tennessee, to the nation's capital at Washington City to assume his new role as the seventh president of the United States. What was to be a celebratory trip, greeting well-wishers along the way, was instead a sad time for Jackson, whose wife, Rachel, had died just weeks earlier and was buried on Christmas Eve, 1828. Bittersweet Journey explores Jackson's trip along the Cumberland and Ohio rivers, and the overland journey to Washington, the places he visited and the people he met along the way, including many supporters, and enemies as well. By comparison, the trip from Nashville to Washington in modern standards would take only a few hours by airplane, or perhaps 14 hours by automobile, but in 1829 it included a steamer voyage up river with stops at the growing cities of Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, among others, and then by horse and carriage over dusty, bumpy roads to his new home. Bittersweet Journey also examines some of the highlights of the Jackson presidency, and his quiet journey back to Tennessee in 1837, where he was laid to rest beside Rachel in 1845. Author Carlton Jackson has done a masterful job in recording a portion of Jackson's life that has generally been ignored by historians this grand journey to assume the presidency of the United States.

Bittersweet Journey: Andrew Jackson's 1829 Inaugural Trip

Historical

Kentucky s Incomparable Guitar MasterThere are many country guitar legends, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and Eddie Pennington, to name a few, who trace the roots of their music to Mose Rager of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (home of the Everly Brothers). Known for developing a unique thumb-picking style, Mose worked as a barber and a coal miner when he wasn t playing gigs with Grandpa Jones, Curly Fox and Texas Ruby.Mose Rager: Kentucky s Incomparable Guitar

Mose Rager - Kentucky s Incomparable Guitar Master

Nancy Richey

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