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Here is one of the most extraordinary and invaluable documents in the annals of Native American history: the authentic testament of a remarkable "war shaman" who, for several years, held off both Mexico and the United States in fierce defense of Apache lands. During 1905 and 1906, Geronimo, the legendary Apache warrior and honorary war chief, dictated his story through a native interpreter to S. M. Barrett.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist - Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom by Haroula Saridaki offers the inside scoop on Edinburgh.

Greater Than a Tourist - Sibiu Transylvania Romania, by Iris Matubis-Diaconescu, offers the inside scoop on Romania. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Prepare yourself to embark on an exciting journey into local politics with our new eBook, "The Office Quest." This practical guide invites readers to explore the nuances and strategies inherent in serving your local community through political roles. Our eBook begins by highlighting the pivotal role local politics play in shaping our daily lives, and the overall structure of local government, further emphasizing the profound impact of local political positions on our communities. It then guides you on introspecting your political goals, assessing your skills, and aligning your objectives ...

Greater Than a Tourist: Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Island, Spain by Izabella Miklos offers the inside scoop on Palma de Mallorca. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you’ll discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other travel audiobooks.

It’s all change at Mill Street Station. The old hierarchy has been retired and a new broom has swept its last vestiges away. As a consequence Fiona Madden has been promoted to detective inspector and now heads up the CID unit. Sean Tracy has taken her post as detective sergeant. Their first case under the new regime comes quickly. A man has been shot in the back outside the holiday village of Letterfrack. The dead man is not a local but has a connection to a past that the villagers would like to forget. The victim is identified be a for former member of the Society of Christian Brothers ...

Join Eleanor and Oliver on another adventure as they dig into their family history. Eleanor and Oliver discover a hidden hero, a WASP, or Women Airforce Service Pilot and are determined to help uncover her past and ensure her service to her country is told and remembered. Along the way, they discover more about Ohio's history in aviation and what the future can bring as they visit a multitude of sites. With the help of their friends and family, they help grant her final wishes.

A delightful Christian romance that will leave you cherishing the heart of Christmas Even though she's a new woman in Christ, single mom Bren Haddock was no angel as a teen. Now managing the Hiller Farm for a CSA, life is good until a friend offers to enter her daughter into the Little Miss Snowflake Pageant. Old insecurities flare when she meets the intriguing head of marketing for the pageant. Rob Santoro isn't so sure about handling the pageant portfolio until he meets Bren. Soon he's fallen for her and her two kids, but when a Thanksgiving adventure goes awry, he's left wondering how to...

The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is written by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo - Bowie, Travis, and Crockett - and the course and outcome of the battle itself. This concise and engaging account of a turning point in Texas history will appeal to students, teachers, historians, and general listeners alike.

Sudhir Venkatesh, acclaimed sociologist at Columbia University and author of Gang Leader for a Day, returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York's divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city's underground economy. Based on Venkatesh's interviews with prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, Floating City exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity - revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York.

Love and rodeos, land and greed. The inhabitants of Blue Deer are gearing up for the annual Fourth of July rodeo, with tourists descending upon the town "in a kind of berserk westward ho." When the bodies of an environmental lawyer and his lover are found bobbing inside a tent in a reservoir, Jules at first assumes jealousy, but follows the evidence through the intricacies of mining law, rodeos, and explosions, leading to a proposed resort in the Crazy Mountains.

How much do you know about the Aloha State? There’s so much to learn about Hawaii that even residents of the state don’t know! In this trivia audiobook, you’ll learn more about Hawaii’s history, pop culture, folklore, sports, and so much more! As an added bonus, you’ll learn words from the Hawaiian language throughout the audiobook. This audiobook is packed with trivia facts about Hawaii. Some of the facts in this audiobook are surprising, while others are sad or creepy. The one thing they have in common is that all of them are interesting!

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.

Leah Robinson is a newly single woman who has been recently laid off from work during what seems to be the height of her career. During this time, she decides to go on vacation, but once she gets there she runs into unexpected people and her trip suddenly becomes a whirlwind of new events.

In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a 26-year-old living in a small apartment without even a garden plot to her name. But she cared about where food came from, how it was made, and what it did to her body: so she decided to go an entire year without eating processed foods. Unprocessed is the narrative of Megan's extraordinary year, in which she milled wheat, extracted salt from the sea, milked a goat, slaughtered a sheep, and more - all while earning an income that fell well below the federal poverty line.

The ministry of prophets when they flow together as a team in prophetic presbytery, is a powerful event in the life of any local church. This book gives the reader a first-hand look at prophetic presbytery and why it is so important for the members of a church and the church itself. Prophet Bill Emmons has been teaching about, and personally ministering prophetic presbytery for over three decades. As a globally recognized prophet with nearly nearly fifty years of ministry, prophet Bill Emmons provides some clear insight, and much needed instruction, about this vital ministry in the New ...

In the tradition of William Warner's Beautiful Swimmers, veteran journalist Colin Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) traces the history of the rugged fishing communities that dot the coast of Maine and the prized crustacean that has long provided their livelihood.

The Spanish word cimarron, meaning "wild" or "untamed," refers to a region in the southern Rocky Mountains where control of timber, gold, coal, and grazing lands long bred violent struggle. After the United States occupation following the 1846-1848 war with Mexico, this tract of nearly two million acres came to be known as the Maxwell Land Grant. When Cimarron Meant Wild presents a new history of the collision that occurred over the region's resources between 1870 and 1900.

Greater Than a Tourist: Ljubljana, Slovenia by Andreja Dintinjana offers the inside scoop on Ljubljana. As a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your trip. Travel like a local. Slow down and get to know the people and the culture of a place.

With the meteoric success of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus placed himself among America’s most original and emotionally engaged storytellers. If his first comic novel mapped the late nineteenth-century South, Local Souls brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O’Connor kicking into our new century.