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A Son of the South Bay is a memoir of growing up in the Beach Cities of LA. Palos Verdes, Redondo, Torrance, Hermosa and Manhattan are the crown jewels of the South Bay. Even a kid from a broken home can find magic in the sand. This series of hilarious stories will remind you of a time before cell phones, computers and video games where we had to make our fun the old fashioned way. This glimpse back will kick the bee hive of your own memories and we will laugh together at the life we lived. If you are from the South Bay, you will love this. If you're not, you will wish you were and you will still love it.
The story of developers selling off the Sunshine State is as old as the first railroad tracks laid across the peninsula. But seldom do we hear about the men who actually built a better Florida. In George Merrick, Son of the South Wind, South Florida historian Arva Moore Parks recounts George Merrick's quest to distinguish himself from the legions of developers who sought only profit. Helping to create the land boom of the 1920s, Merrick transformed his family's citrus grove just outside of Miami into one of the finest planned communities: the "master suburb" of Coral Gables. With a team of architects and city planners, he built homes for the growing middle class in the Mediterranean Style using local stone, and he invested in public infrastructure by designing and building parks and pools, trolley lines and waterways. He pledged land for a library and the university that would become the University of Miami. Hailed in national publications as a visionary, Merrick was green before green, a New Urbanist before the movement even had a name. As Coral Gables and Merrick prospered, he reinvested in education, affordable housing, and other progressive causes. But the Great Depression ravaged Miami, and Merrick's idealism cost him his fortune. He died with an estate worth less than $400. With unprecedented access to the Merrick family and mining a treasure trove of Merrick’s personal letters, documents, speeches, and manuscripts, Parks presents the remarkable story of George Merrick and the development of one of the nation’s most iconic planned cities.
"The first volume of the Story of the South Carolina Lowcountry is a story pure and simple with facts, beginning with the founding of the Lowcountry and describing its subsequent growth and development." The second and third volumes include biographical sketches and portraits of the citizens who "have been significant factors in their State."
Following the devastating loss of his 22-year-old son, Bill Kaspari describes his odyssey from unconcerned skeptic concerning an afterlife to firm believer. This is an inspiring work growing not out of conventional religion but the world's best paranormal research. Kaspari introduces the reader to many of the biggest names in the field and shows how his convictions gradually fell into place. Starting with nothing, he ends with a vision of life's ultimate purpose, which is far from finished when we die.
"[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact.” —Publishers Weekly Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe’s sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army. Marthe, using her perfect German accent and blond hair to pose as a young German nurse who was desperately trying to obtain word of a fictional fiancé, would slip behind enemy lines to retrieve inside information about Nazi troop movements. By traveling throughout the countryside and approaching troops sympathetic to her plight--risking death every time she did so--she learned where they were going next and was able to alert Allied commanders. When, at the age of eighty, Marthe Cohn was awarded France’s highest military honor, the Médaille Militaire, not even her children knew to what extent this modest woman had helped defeat the Nazi empire. At its heart, this remarkable memoir is the tale of an ordinary human being who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero her country needed her to be.
Built around the phrase, "Never stop believing," kids are encouraged to put their beliefs into action in everyday life. This bright, kid-friendly Bible is packed with lots of extras to help kids get what it means to be a believer. 16-page full-color insert.