Me and Fat Glenda

Perl, Lila.

Archway Publishing

A guide to North America's mass transit museums, tourist trolley operators and private mass transit collections.

Veteran and Vintage transit, a guide to North America's mass transit museums, tourist trolley operators and private mass transit collections.

Engineering & Transportation

Young, Andrew D.

Transportation

The years 1946-1966 brought tremendous change to community life, especially in the inner ring of St. Louis suburbs originally created by the streetcar. This unusual collection of more than 300 photographs documents those changes as it records the line-by-line, suburb-by-suburb disappearance of the streetcar from St. Louis. Almost all the photographs are the work of St. Louisan Ray Gehl and most have never been published before. They are a unique record of a time well within living memory, yet utterly different from the way most folk live now.

Streets and Streetcars of St. Louis: A Sentimental Journey

Between 1899 and 2003 St. Louis was served by almost 300 street cars and soon will have 99 Light Rail cars in operation. This book examines and analyzes the rich variety of passenger and utility car classes owned and operated by United Railways, St. Louis Public Service Company and Bi-State's MetroLink system. Rosters and statistical digests come from newly-researched material at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation's Archives and there are more than 200 photographs, most published for the first time.

Street Cars, Light Rail and Utility Cars of St. Louis, 1899-2003

This brand-new 224-page 8½ x 11 soft-cover book is the first ever to explore the state s trolley history. It tells how trolleys came to Missouri, why people rode them, how the quality of life improved because of them and how the auto soon deposed the trolleys. Thumbnail histories of every Missouri town that had a trolley system, or planned one, are included. The book is packed with newly-researched material plus almost 400 photos, maps and drawings.

When Missouri Took the Trolley

Andrew D. Young

The Russian Embassy Party

A ride on the edges of history, with all its unanticipated connections, from the 1963 March on Washington to the 1993 chaos of Yeltsin's Russia. When an ex-CIA agent convinces a bumbling law student to write a term paper on international rights on the high seas, the student and his roommates in Washington wind up with the whole Soviet Embassy coming to dinner. This happened on August 10, 1963, and has never been marked in the history books. Out of this encounter spins a story of revenge, counterpoint, and rollicking foolishness, ending on a railroad platform by the Russian-Finnish border in September, 1993. The Russian Embassy Party follows its sort-of-ordinary people in a not-so-ordinary web through the edges of history (the set for 'I Have a Dream,' watching the fall of the Berlin Wall, revelations of the Katyn Forest Massacre, the last gasp failed Soviet coup of August 1991, stumbling attempts to shore up democracy in Yelstin's Russia) until . . . Well, let's say only that there is a good dose of history in the story, and a larger dose of realism in the minds, environments, and conversations of both American and Russian protagonists and supporting cast. At the same time, the echoes of the 1963 Russian Embassy Party itself (when the students behaved and talked like the late-adolescents they were) cut veins through the story, linking its participants in ways they realize, bit by bit, as adults.

Literature & Fiction

Adelman, Cliff

Contemporary

Grandma's Stories: A Collection of Six Children's Stories

Three-year-old Henry loves his school, his family, and more than anything, he wants his teacher and classmates to like him too.  But one day when he tells his teacher the reason why he is not hungry, Henry discovers the power of laughter! Suad F. Dajani relies on her experience teaching preschoolers as she shares a charming collection of six children's stories sure to entertain, educate, and inspire creativity in the youngest of imaginations. Four-year-old twins who learn the heart is a very important part of the body get to feel the pump, pump, pump of their own hearts! A little girl saddened when the leaves fall off a tree is happy once again after her dad tells her about seasons. A brother and sister fondly remember the lessons their grandfather once taught them. A boy excited to pick up his grandma from the airport soon learns about being safe in crowded places. A son and his mother ride in the car together one day and discover the reason why they must always wear their seatbelts. Grandma's Stories shares a collection of relatable tales that will encourage children to read, express themselves verbally, and most importantly, respect and care for one another.

Dajani, Suad Farsakh

The year is 1945. The horrible war that wrapped the world in torment has come to an end-yet the torment of young Adam Shoemaker lives on. His father never came back from battle, and his mother is in the hospital with tuberculosis. Homeless, Adam seeks shelter in the Cranberry Street Church belfry ... but Adam is not alone. The belfry is inhabited by strange spirits. One spirit seems to wish good on others, while the demonic shadows mean only harm. Adam hears them both; they whisper to him and give him power. When thieves break into the church one night, Adam is the only witness, but by revealing himself, he would expose his only home.  Adam has a choice. He can listen to the spirit of the belfry and get his family back, or he can side with the shadow beings, who promise justice to the thieves and power he never imagined. Adam feels as though he is being watched, but with the help of new friends, he stays hidden as he fights to decide who he will call on for help. Will he side with the light or the darkness?

Escape from the Belfry

Rapp, Doris Gaines

A Not-So-Small-Time Town: Growing Up in Plainfield, New Hampshire

Plainfield, New Hampshire, has been an extraordinary place since its beginnings. The serene river valley life offers nature's very best and has beckoned many artists and intellectuals, including Ethel Barrymore, J.D. Salinger, and President Woodrow Wilson. In her whimsical and touching Americana memoir, Viola Sawyer Lunderville reflects on her growing up years spent in the quaint New England town in the Connecticut River Valley where she explored, learned, and experienced a simple lifestyle full of freedom, memorable places, and special times. As she looks back on the years, Viola not only offers a unique look at Plainfield's history from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, but also shares a glimpse into all the reasons why the beautiful landscape beckoned many to settle on this picturesque land, including the famous and wealthy. Through detailed personal anecdotes, Viola brings to life historic places by sharing real-life experiences that detail adventurous days spent exploring local swimming holes, roaming the vast woodlands, licking sap from maple trees, and skiing on Whaleback Mountain. A Not-So-Small-Time Town takes a nostalgic, sentimental ride through a New England town filled with historical significance and many wonderful memories from a simpler time.

Biographies & Memoirs

Lunderville, Viola Sawyer

Regional U.S.

Dr. Donald Michaelson knows it is impossible to exist for any length of time without wondering whether life is worth living at all. For five years, he has watched the eyes of his students glaze over with boredom as he lectures about beauty, truth, and justice. But now he has just taught his last English class at Bluestone University, the victim of a forced resignation. He decides on suicide as the means to end his pain and confusion-only to find that self-inflicted death is neither an easy nor satisfactory way to end his problems.  As he attempts to make his way off campus for the last time, he is recruited by a student dissident to speak in front of hundreds, causing a chain of unpredictable events that leaves Donald horizontal and bleeding, with a lust-driven coed on top of him. Confused and unhappy he is still breathing, Donald begins searching for the perfect way to end his life. In order to achieve his goal, Donald must travel a curious road filled with obstacles and absurdities that include a group of anarchists, a seismologist more interested in measuring her sexual prowess than in determining the power of earthquakes, the ghost of a long-dead Confederate soldier, and figures from his dreams.  The Unsubdued Forest shares one man's tragic yet curiously comedic quest to seek a simple death that ultimately leads him down a path where life-changing answers await.

The Unsubdued Forest

Birdseye, Lewis E.

Humor & Satire

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