The Sports Encyclopedia

Reference

Unknown, Author

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Rutledge Books

Softcover book c 1981 by the News Staff and Photographers of the Associated Press who covered the story of the takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran in Nov 4, 1979 and ended Jan 20, 1980 after a failed rescue attempt and many negotiations. The book has many photographs and gives information on each of the 52 American hostages. Play 'Where's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?', later Iranian leader and reputed to be involved in the takeover. He may well appear in some of the photographs of this book.

444 Days: The American Hostage Story

History

Sid Moody

Americas

Modern reprint of an oversized (15" x 11") volume that provides a rare window into America's Victorian age. Here are essays describing the whole range of 19th century industries, illustrated with over 1000 beautifully done engravings: mines and railways, farm machines and factories, hotels, carriages, colleges, showrooms, furniture, and early skyscrapers. Originally printed in 1876 as part of the International Exhibition in Philadelphia to celebrate the Nation's Centennial, the book contains drawings that range from naive to sophisticated but all draw a picture of a vigorous and forward looking civilization. 192 pages.

Asher and Adams' Pictorial Album of American Industry, 1876

Asher & Adams

Business & Money

Many creative ideas for garnishing and decorating food.

Culinary Crafting: The Art of Garnishing and Decorating Food

Doris McFerran Townsend

The YWCA way to physical fitness: How to make what you have better

Fiore, Evelyn L

The Smirnoff Brunch Book

No-Author

Rob and Keep, Hide and Seek

Roger H. Small

Kat-Tales

Literature & Fiction

Grice, Kathryn

Contemporary

The return of young hero, Jason, to Mayport after an odyssey of discovery, the birth of his son, and the loss of Jessie. Jason is followed to Mayport by a troupe of retired circus sideshow personalities who befriended him on his journey. Their stay in Mayport provides a colorful and whimsical counterpoint to the recurring struggles that beset Jason's family and Mayport's townspeople.

Oak Baby

Comics & Graphic Novels

G. W. Reynolds III

Graphic Novels

THE GHOSTS OF GETTYSBURG is an historical novel based on real people and a true incident during the Battle of Gettysburg. Jennie Wade was the only civilian casualty in the three-day battle that left six thousand soldiers dead and twenty-seven thousand wounded. The book begins when Jennie is a pre-teen and introduces her friends when they all set out on a mission to find the Devil at Devils Den in Gettysburg. Instead they find themselves. Ten years later when Jennie is twenty, the story picks up the focus on Jennie and her family when they are faced with the reality of the Civil War in their small, out-of-the-way town. Her childhood friends have scattered, but they are finally brought back together by the tragic aftermath of the unexpected combat. THE GHOSTS OF GETTYSBURG is an honest account of this period in history that children can relate to and learn from.

Summer Storm in Gettysburg

Brophy, Ann

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