Follow the 1869 voyage of John Wesley Powell as he explored the Colorado River from Green River City, Wyoming to Lake Mead. The authors have followed Powell's journey with excerpts from his journal, photographs of the areas he visited, plus commentary on the challenges they faced along the trail.

John Wesley Powell: Voyage of Discovery:The Story Behind the Scenery

Biographies & Memoirs

Dan Murphy

Reference & Collections

KC Publications. Inc.

Stretching from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City in the Oregon territory the Oregon Trail was traveled by thousands of settlers looking for a better life in the promised land of Oregon, where the pigs were running about under the acorn trees, round and fat, already cooked, with knives and forks sticking in them. Beginning in the 1840s many people emigrated across the dangerous and beautiful country going to Oregon. This beautifully illustrated book gives you a taste of what that trip was like. Includes excerpts from diaries of emigrants, period illustrations, and photographs. 
Crossing two thousand miles of prairies, river crossings, storms, hardship, Indians and mountains, the trip was not something to be taken lightly. It was the promise of a better life that dragged them through.

Oregon Trail: Voyage of discovery

History

Americas

Learn the history of the Santa Fe Trail, that traveled from Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico (Mexican territory). Illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs you will get a front row seat to this unique highway in our nation's history. It began as a way for Mexican farmers to get goods from the United States and became a trail of western expansion.

Santa Fe Trail: Voyage of Discovery:The Story Behind the Scenery (English Edition)

Travel

Travel Writing

A translation package consists of a complete translation bound within the English book.

Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery (German Edition)

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is administered by the National Park Service in St. Louis, Missouri, for two centuries the "Gateway to the West". There the soaring, 630 foot Gateway Arch honors those who pioneered the West; the immense Museum of Westward Expansion tells their story. The photo-murals with which this book is concerned are a major feature of the museum, magnificently displayed in a 16 foot high exhibit extending 500 feet along one wall of the museum.

Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery:The Story Behind the Scenery

The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history-with new details and insights into the institutional failures, as well as the bravery that brought it to light. For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while treating countless others at his office on Michigan State University's campus. It was largely within the high-pressure world of competitive gymnastics that Nassar exploited young girls, who were otherwise motivated by fear and intimidation, sexually assaulting hundreds of them under the guise of medical treatment. In Start by Believing, John Barr and Dan Murphy confront Nassar's acts, which represent the largest sex abuse scandal to impact the sporting world. Through never-before-released interviews and documents they deconstruct the epic institutional failures and individuals who enabled him. When warnings were raised, self-serving leaders chose to protect their organizations' reputations over the well-being of young people. Following the paths traveled by courageous women-featuring a once-shy Christian attorney and a brash, outspoken Olympic medalist-Barr and Murphy detail the stories of those who fought back against the dysfunction within their sport to claim a far-from-inevitable victory. The gymnasts' uncommon perseverance, along with the help of dedicated advocates brought criminals to justice and helped to fuel the #MeToo revolution. Start by Believing reveals the win-at-all-costs culture in elite athletics and higher education that enabled a quarter century of heinous crimes.

Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster

Politics & Social Sciences

John Barr

Sociology

Hachette Book Group and Blackstone Publishing

Literary short stories by established and emerging writersExcerpts:
 Peter Parsons No One There, No One to Talk to, Nothing to Say I feel I have to bless everyone else I know who has died, and I start naming grandparents, relatives, friends, and how about those who haven't died.
 Alicia Oltuski Let's Take It from the Top "Don't call Dom," my father said to me. I wished he hadn't. Dom had known what to do the time Dad forgot how to swallow for two days, and I suspected she would have known what to do here.
 George Makana Clark Pluto Some people complain that snoring keeps them awake, but there's a rhythm to it, a repetition that says, I trust you, I trust you with my life.
 Tori Malcangio Donna of Mesker Park Zoo Brokaw knows his parents went to bed on November 1 and didn't wake up on November 2. They both stopped breathing because sometimes the gorillas won't mate and sometimes the turnstiles don't work and that's that.
 Katherine Easer Parade of Cats Before he met me, Brandon thought Taiwanese people spoke Thai, and all Asians looked alike. He had never dated anyone who wasn't Aryan, though this wasn't by design.
 Courtney Knowlton Mean Blonde Ponytail Girl I hoped that I could one day do something so generous for my children, but there was a good chance that we'd never be able to. We were teachers, and I was a spender.
 Cady Vishniac Remainders Our shul was a permissive environment, so reasonable and rule free we had trouble thinking up ways to rebel.
 Dan Murphy In Miniature Let's warp speed to feeling okay, okay? Let's get straight back to feeling ... anything other than this.
 Jennifer Wortman Love You. Bye. But it could happen, I say. By your own admission, you never know. She stares at me, her dark eyes darkening. I'm her longtime depressive friend. Why am I on the side of hope?
 Nikole Beckwith The Beginning And then the emergency siren stopped. It was meant to sound three short bursts to punctuate safety, as if to say "The End," but the bursts never came. Just silence.
 Valeria Luiselli Interview by David Naimon That is what it means, in fact, to translate. It comes from the Latin translatio, which means to move something, to carry it over, to transfer it, to take it on a trip from A to B. I think of translation in those terms. I think of many practices as forms of translation.
 Eric Boehling Lewis Blue Ridge Years ago your grandmother told you that the happiest period in her life had slid by, disguised as tedium. Only after the Soviet police killed her husband did she realize she'd been living in a kind of heaven.
 Oguz Dinc The Hurricane We are way behind Americans when it comes to disaster preparation, maybe because we are ahead in fatalism.

Glimmer Train Stories, #101

Valeria Luiselli

George Makana Clark

David Naimon (interviewer)

Peter Parsons

Alicia Oltuski

Tori Malcangio

Katherine Easer

Courtney Knowlton

Cady Vishniac

Jennifer Wortman

Nikole Beckwith

Eric Boehling Lewis

Oguz Dinc

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

Western New York 101: The 101 Greatest Moments in Buffalo History

WNY Wares

Buffalo was built by immigrants from strong social drinking cultures and became a brewing power house. This is history as seen through a pint glass.

Nickel City Drafts: A Drinking History of Buffalo, NY by Dan Murphy (2010) Paperback

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

North Country Books

The definitive compilation of the superstars, also-ransand wanabees of the sporting world whose nicknamesdefined their personalities and their performances

The 100 G.O.A.T. Sports Nicknames: The definitive compilation of the superstars, also-rans and wanna-bes of the sporting world (100 Greatest)

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Emerge Publishing Group, LLC

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