Chasing My Shadow

Stone Langston left on his buying trip as usual with his list of items needed for his Collectibles Store in the town of Colburgh, NY. From then on nothing was as usual. For one thing, he was one of the lucky ones who survived a plane crash ending up in

Ever since she was a young girl Judith Ypeij was intrigued by the USA. In 2006 she finally decided to give up everything in The Netherlands and cross the United States by herself. It became a bicycle ride from Florida to California. During her trip she turned out to be

The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection of autobiographies—including those of Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, and more... A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), perhaps the first American bestseller, recounts this thirty-nine-year-old woman’s harrowing months

IT was an autumn night on the plain. The smoke-lapels of the cone-shaped tepee flapped gently in the breeze. From the low night sky, with its myriad fire points, a large bright star peeped in at the smoke-hole of the wigwam between its fluttering lapels, down upon two Dakotas talking

A testimony to the power of one woman's spirit, this moving collection of autobiographical tales and family stories portrays a Native American teacher's struggle between her heritage and American society.