A warm and witty memoir of Dick Wall's years at Anheuser-Busch and McDonnell Aircraft, as well as a broadcaster and media executive in St. Louis and Kansas City. After he retired from private business, he served in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. A good read!

The Broom Is Out: Confessions of a Budweiser Beer Drummer

Wall, Dick

Biographies & Memoirs

Leathers Pub

The life of Jerry Cohen needs to be told because his story is that of hundreds of other Jews who overcame anti-Semitic prejudice and other obstacles it left in its wake to make the United States a better nation from their very presence. Cohen is proud of his heritage and is at the same time grateful for the American way of life that allowed him the freedom to make the major contributions of his life to his community. Perhaps best known for his role of the spirit of Christmas in his role of 40 years a chairman of the Mayor's Christmas Tree Fund, a fund-raising effort held annually during the holidays to help make the season a little cheerier for the less fortunate. He also left his mark on countless other activities from the Starlight Theater to a variety of children's charities. Cohen and his wife, Jeannette, are products of the great flood of Jews who left Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880's and 1890's to escape persecution and become a part of the American Dream of instant riches for those who had the drive and the intelligence to seek them.

Citizen Jerry Cohen: A Jewish life in Kansas City

MORGAN, RAY

Before storm sirens, before the Weather Channel, before Doppler Radar, a tornado "dropped out of a troubled May sky and twisted its way into our lives forever." On the evening of May 20,1957 three communities south of Kansas City, Missouri were destroyed by a seventy-one mile, F-5 twister. This monstrous storm left in its path five hundred injured, forty-four dead and over a million dollars worth of property damage. 
Nothing defines a community more than its reaction to disaster. Caught In The Path is a story of fear and courage, suffering and resiliency. The hardest hit area, four year old Ruskin Heights, was the first post-war tract housing development in the Kansas City area. Like so many of their generation, its residents, mostly first time home buyers in their twenties and thirties, came to Ruskin to raise their baby-boom families with the optimism of the fifties. When the tornado scattered their dreams along its path, they came back, and changed a housing development into a community. 
Author Carolyn Glenn Brewer's family was among those caught off guard by the tornado. Most of the houses on her block were leveled to the foundation. She combines her story with extensive interviews from nearly one hundred survivors and period media coverage. The narrative flow of this book reads like fiction, but makes the tornado, and the summer that followed, pulse with reality.

Caught In The Path, A Tornado's Fury, A Community's Rebirth

History

Brewer, Carolynglenn

Americas

Ten Shades of Gray, Any Shade of Blue (An irreverent look at local television)

Turner, Clayton B.

Arts & Literature

This second book in a series of Inspirational Poetry reminds readers of God's love in the face of life's challenges. In this collection fo 44 poems, Hervey Chambers reflects on life's thoughts, feelings and experiences. He urges readers to recognize the role that emotions play in their personal conduct and the part that knowledge of the attributes of God's love should play in their decisions and attitudes. Each poem conveys a unique message for men and women confronting the tests and temptations of daily life.

A Walk with the Son

Literature & Fiction

Chambers, Hervey

Poetry

Paperback: 152 pagesPublisher: Leathers Publishing (October 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1585972541ISBN-13: 978-1585972548

Pipedreams

Unknown, Author

Contemporary

A charming blank journal with lined pages for answering the questions about oneself that appear throughout the book - intended as a keepsake book of memories given to family members to return completed.

Memories from My Heart

Coulter, Linda

A collection of poetry based on the author's life experiences and reflections on life - some fictional, some humorous and some designed for introspection on the nature of the human mind.

Fragrance of Life, Poetic Reflections

Paramesh, C. R., Ph.D.

A comprehensive guide, based on the author's seminars, designed to provide the basics of achieving successful training, productivity, and performance of employees, and measuring training effectiveness. Includes managing costs, best approaches and strategies, new concepts, job aids and valuable tools.

Measurit: Achieving Profitable Training

Business & Money

Mondschein, Marsha

Management & Leadership

This is a tale of the author's discovery of Ireland and her heritage, and goes on to tell the history of her ancestors through diaries and interviews with friends and neighbors. Also the history of the Connemara Bus, run in the Ferguson family for generations.

The Connemara Bus

Webb, Ann Milholland

Europe

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