In response to many requests, the author has brought us Volume 2, more true stories (all new) of the perils and triumphs faced by the merchant marine as they crossed the world's oceans to "deliver the goods" during World War II. Volume one of this title is in its third printing.

Patriots and Heroes: True Stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II, Vol. 2

Biographies & Memoirs

Reminick, Gerald

Leaders & Notable People

The Glencannon Press

Our Pond is a wonderful journal of quiet observation, thought, and poetry that calms the spirit and nourishes the soul. In the thoughtful musings of the author as he observes the pond and its creatures through the changing seasons, we see and remmber many things lost in the clangor of modern life -- the peace of early morning, flowers opeing to the sun, birds and wild creatures in the cycle of life.

Our Pond: A Year in the Life of St. John's Pond

Religion & Spirituality

The complete story of the sinking of the German raider Stier by the Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins, the only time during World War II that a German surface warship was sunk by a U.S. ship.

Action in the South Atlantic

History

Gerald Reminick

Military

This is the second volume of the history written by former Baltimore Sun editor and current volunteer on the Liberty ship, John W. Brown, Ernest F. Imhoff. Through more than 200 interviews with fellow volunteers on the ship, Imhoff captures their adventures and life lessons in a colorful mosaic of hard work, volunteerism, camaraderie and inspiration.

Good Shipmates: The Restoration of the Liberty Ship John W. Brown, Vol. Two: 1995-2006

Ernest F. Imhoff

An engrossing story set in the 1990s but with its roots in the "fishing wars" of the 1960s and '70s. Then, foreign fleets, doubling as spy ships, hauled vast catches off the U.S. East Coast, bitterly resented by the fishermen whose livlihoods they were poaching. Woven into the realistic stories of fishermen on their boats is a mystery that spans a quarter of a century.

Freedom Plant, The

Capt. Kevin M. McCormick

Literature & Fiction

The California Gold Rush of 1849 assured the fortunes of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Based in San Francisco, its wooden steamers carried gold, passengers, mail and high-value freight, forever changing the city, the Pacific Coast and the nation.

Gold, Silk, Pioneers & Mail: The Story of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company

Robert J. Chandler and Stephen J. Potash

Americas

Second Printing! Between 1853 and 1953 clipper ships, barks, schooners and steamers sailing the California coast fell victim to Pigeon Point's dense fogs, unpredictable weather, and rocky shores. Each shipwreck is an important part of our maritime heritage, linking us to unforgettable times. If it is true that every ship has a soul, then every shipwreck has a spirit waiting to be discovered.

Shipwrecks, Scalawags and Scavengers

JoAnn Semones

For over a decade during the Roaring Twenties, a great white ocean liner would sail from berth 156 in Los Angeles every Saturday. The pier was packed with waving and cheering people looking up at the happy passengers crowding the railings. The vessel's band on deck played jazz tunes and popular favorites. The captain stood forward on the bridge wing watching the lowering of the gangway amid a hail of colored streamers and confetti. The liner's whistle would blow at noon, raising the cheering to a higher pitch as the band played Aloha Oe. Slowly the great mass of the liner inched away from the dock. These magnificent ocean liners provided not only a regular connection between the mainland and the islands, but were a high-profile means of proclaiming that Los Angeles was becoming a world class harbor, financial center and artistic metropolis. And the Los Angeles Steamship Company, LASSCO, became known across the country.

Hollywood to Honolulu, The Story of the Los Angeles Steamship Company

Engineering & Transportation

Gordon Ghareeb, Martin Cox

Martin Cox

Transportation

This is the history of the Liberty ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien, an active museum ship in San Francisco Bay. She is was the first ship to sail out of a mothball fleet under her own power. She was the only ship from the D-Day armada to return for the 50th Anniversary of that event in 1994. Through personal interviews and the diaries of the World War II crew, and personal accounts of the Return to Normandy voyage crew, the reader is aboard to share it all; sailing in convoy through ice storms, hurricanes and giant seas; dodging enemy wolf packs and torpedoes in the Battle of the Atlantic to deliver her cargoes of food, tanks, trucks, ammunition, oil and other supplies vitally needed on the war front; the awesome preparations for the great invasion; D-Day; the troop landings on the beaches of Normandy; an ammo ship in the Pacific; a thirty-year lay-up. Then come back aboard to share her second life as a national landmark, a time capsule and living history museum, and join her crew on the trip of a lifetime, her celebrated voyage back to Normandy fifty years after D-Day, the last survivor of the great armada. This second edition includes photos and events to the end of 2008.

SS Jeremiah O'Brien (2nd Edition), The History of a Liberty Ship From the Battle of the Atlantic to the 21st Century

Capt. Walter W. Jaffee

With only days until their final port, the passengers of the Contessa Voyager learn that their guest lecturer, an ex-F.B.I. profiler, has been found hanging from the ship's rock-climbing wall. Suddenly their balmy, carefree idyll on the Caribbean is fraught with danger and anxiety. Will someone else be next? What can the shipping line do to ease the passengers fears? Clearly, this is a job for Henry Grave, a professional maritime detective. Join him as he helicopters aboard to solve the crime. His methods and style are unusual, and guaranteed to keep you laughing as you follow him from one hidden clue to the next.

Grave Passage

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

William Doonan

Mystery

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