In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establi

The uproarius companion to "The Schwa was Here" and "Antsy Does Time" In honor of Old Man Crawley’s eightieth birthday, the Bonano family has been invited to celebrate with a weeklong cruise to the Caribbean aboard the world’s largest, grandest ship. But whether on land or at sea, Antsy can’t manage to stay out of trouble: He quickly finds himself the accomplice of stowaway and thief Tilde, whose self-made mission it is to smuggle onto the ship and across the U.S. border illegal immigrants from her native Mexico. When Antsy steps in to take the fall for Tilde, he becomes the focus of a major international incident and the poster child for questionable decisions. Equal parts clever and riotous, Ship Out of Luck brings back the beloved cast of characters from Neal Shusterman’s acclaimed The Schwa Was Here and Antsy Does Time.

To book a ride on the "World's Shortest Airline" or learn aerial stunts from the redheaded widow of Lawrence Avenue, you've got to go through the airports buried beneath the housing developments and shopping malls of Chicagoland. Many of these airports sprang up after World War I, when training killed more pilots than combat, and the aviation pioneers who developed Chicago's flying fields played a critical role in getting the nation ready to dare the skies in World War II. Author Nick Selig has rolled wheels on his fair share of Chicago's landing strips but faces an entirely new challenge in touching down in places being swallowed by a city and forgotten by history.

This economic and social history assesses the impact of the coastal wine and brandy trade on the early modern French, Dutch, and Atlantic economies, and highlights the importance of interconnecting personal networks of Dutch, Sephardic Jewish, and New Christian merchants.

In this Parrothead themed novel, story teller Jimmy Buffett's music drives the protagonist (Gerry Boon, II) via a "haunted radio" in his hotrod Chevy Corvette convertible. New to the ways of the world, Boon would NEVER know that a girl liked him unless she came right up to him and planted a big old smooch on him. Even then, he might NOT still know if she liked him or not.

The story starts out in St. Louis in 1868 with Peter Langerman, an Ex-Confederate soldier leaning on the rail of the steam-wheeler reflecting on his gracious southern lifestyle in Waycross, Georgia. The grandson of a prominent merchandiser, he knew on his release from the Yankee prison that he could not go back home to a war torn South. "BILLINGS" is a historical, romantic drama that takes place just after the Civil War. It was during that time when the young and adventurous looked to the West for more opportunity and a better way of life. Its about how Billings, Montana was born, the first settlers, their ambitions, hard work, loves, wins, losses and terrible political fights for power and how Billings opened the west for shipping cattle and grain east. "PEGGY", the sequel to BILLINGS, is about the granddaughter of Henry Reiner who continues the story from 1916 through World War II with the third generation grandchildren of Peter Langerman. We meet Ed and Judy MacFarland, the children of Millicent (Langerman) and Frank MacFarland as well as Bill Callahan the son of Mike and grandson of Pat Callahan and Attorney Jim Duffy, the son of Judge Dan Duffy.

A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters, the book's significance lies in its investigation of how the trauma of shipwreck affected American values and behavior. Through stories of death and devastation, Amy Mitchell-Cook examines issues of hierarchy, race, and gender when the sphere of social action is shrunken to the dimensions of a lifeboat or deserted shore. Rather than debate the veracity of shipwreck tales, Mitchell-Cook provides a cultural and social analysis that places maritime disasters within the broader context of North American society. She answers questions that include who survived and why, how did gender or status affect survival rates, and how did survivors relate their stories to interested but unaffected audiences? Mitchell-Cook observes that, in creating a sense of order out of chaotic events, the narratives reassured audiences that anarchy did not rule the waves, even when desperate survivors resorted to cannibalism. Some of the accounts she studies are legal documents required by insurance companies, while others have been a form of prescriptive literature—guides that taught survivors how to act and be remembered with honor. In essence, shipwreck revealed some of the traits that defined what it meant to be Anglo-American. In an elaboration of some of the themes, Mitchell-Cook compares American narratives with Portuguese narratives to reveal the power of divergent cultural norms to shape so basic an event as a shipwreck.