This collection is the fruit of Hillinger's nearly fortysix years of a dream job spent traveling the United States as a feature writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. The result was 6,000 human and general interest stories. He traveled, came home to write, and hit the road again.
In Charles Hillinger's America, you will learn about Thomas Edisons first motion picture studio, built in New Jersey; about the only surviving wooden whaling ship, in Connecticut; about the place in West Virginia where someone actually built a mountain out of a molehill; about the hauntingly mysterious mural in Utah known as the Great Gallery; about why Minnesota is the looniest state in the lower 48, and why firemen from America beat a steady path to Ponce, Puerto Rico.
From one of the worlds leading experts on reading and dyslexia comes the most comprehensive, uptodate, and practical book yet to help readersand their parents, teachers, and tutorsunderstand, identify, and overcome this common reading problem.
Raise self-confident, self-reliant children using the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) Approach.Your baby knows more than you think. That's the heart of the principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarer...
This explosive book chronicles why and how Ronald Reagan helped to bring down the Soviet Union. Based on exclusive interviews with key participants, including Caspar Weinberger, George Schultz, John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, and William Clark, P...
One of Hollywood's best-loved southern ladies...in a conversation you'll never want to end.Known to millions as Julia Sugarbaker of Designing Women, Dixie Carter now offers her personal report on the possibility of happiness and an ode to beauty (in...
The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Is there ...
Narrator: Richard M. Davidson,Howard McGillin Published: 08/01/2004
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“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days. The most devastating poli...
The latest and most bitterly contested battle in the culture war is the controversy over Darwin and intelligent design. But much of what youve heard about it is wrong. Jonathan Wells, a battlehardened veteran with doctorates in biology and theology,...
Ninety-one-year-old Dr. Robert Fulford has spent more than fifty years successfully treating patients failed by conventional medicine. In Dr. Fulford's Touch of Life, this sage physician provides strategies to attain and sustain optimum good health,...
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