Bookstore: History
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Arizona Color Me Wacky!
By Michael Hagelberg, story by Lynda Exley & Conrad Storad
Born out of the wildly successful Arizona Way Out West & Wacky, Arizona Color Me Wacky! features 32 pages of coloring fun. The accompanying text teaches children about the Grand Canyon State's unique animals, plants and insects. The delightful, yet scientifically correct illustrations were created by award-winning illustrator Michael Hagelberg.
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Arizona Way Out West & Witty
By Conrad J. Storad & Lynda Exley
Library Edition
In addition to true, but gross, humorous, interesting and wacky stories and facts, Arizona Way Out West & Wacky makes reading about Arizona’s history fun through word searches, crossword puzzles, recipes, crafts and many other amusing activities.
While Arizona Way Out West & Wacky solicits children to write and color on its pages, Witty: Library Edition, has reconfigured activities and word games with no coloring pages, and it’s formatted as a chapter book. It’s ideal for libraries and schools, because its readers are entertained and educated, but not tempted to mark up the copy. Plus, it comes with a curriculum guide in the back of the book!
Finally, history books kids will want to read!
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Spirit Stones
By Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
Nearly a decade in the making, award-winning author Dianne Ebertt Beeaff's transcending new book, Spirit Stones, explores the enduring lessons of Europe's prehistoric monoliths, stone circles and burial chambers. Beeaff's fastidious research, first-hand accounts and prevailing love of history capture not only the architectural essence of these archeological treasures, but also their spiritual strength. Uniting civilization throughout the ages, the stone relics being rediscovered throughout Western Europe speak not only of our Neolithic and Bronze Age past, but also of contemporary humanity. The lessons of these ancient stones can help our present-day society unearth and cultivate its own spiritual potential…with reverence, celebration and hope.
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Arizona Way Out West & Wacky
By Conrad J. Storad and Lynda Exley
In addition to true, but gross, humorous, interesting and wacky stories and facts, Arizona Way Out West & Wacky makes reading about Arizona’s history fun through word searches, crossword puzzles, coloring pages, recipes, crafts and many other amusing activities. Finally, a history book kids will want to read!
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Addie Slaughter
By Susan L. Krueger, Ed.D. with Reba Wells Grandrud, Ph.D.
Famous Sheriff John Slaughter's young daughter, Addie, bravely travels from Texas to the Arizona-Mexico border, settling on the 1800s Slaughter Ranch. Along the way, her mother dies; she narrowly escapes a stagecoach robbery and murder; an earthquake destroys the ranch; her father's earlobe is shot off; and she meets Geronimo.
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Riding With the James Gang
By Gayle Martin
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Lady Lost
By Marge Graziano
Imagery, wisdom and humor punctuate Marge Graziano’s personal account of an elaborate home restoration project she undertook unexpectedly but accomplished with pure heart and soul. When she was introduced to the “Lady” of the Honeymoon Cottage, Marge never expected where this fantastic journey in historic Jerome, Arizona would lead.
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Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War
By Gayle Martin
As Luke and his sister Jenny resume their summer vacation their mother plans a stop at the historic town of Lincoln, New Mexico. But when a thunderstorm begins to brew, Luke and Jenny realize things aren't what they seem. Suddenly they are swept back in time and find themselves face-to-face with the notorious Billy the Kid. The ghost of Paul, a young buffalo soldier who lived over a century ago, guides them on their journey as they experience the life and times of this mysterious young outlaw. Will Billy the Kid live up to his legend?
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Power's Garden
By Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
Tragedy and triumph unfurl when a devout Mormon family hires a headstrong young widow during trying economic times. Two families—one Texan, one Mormon—develop an embattled but gripping relationship in the Arizona desert, while WWI rages abroad. Long-kept secrets unfold as they challenge tradition and ultimately learn to love.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
By Gayle Martin
Luke and his sister Jenny aren't overly excited when they first learn of their mother's plan to take them to Tombstone, Arizona, as part of their vacation. That changes in a hurry when they are suddenly swept back to the 1880s and the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The ghost of the Grand Hotel's handyman, a kindly gentleman by the name of Swamper, guides them through the events of that fateful time. Young readers are right there with Luke and Jenny as they learn firsthand the story of the Earp brothers and what led to the historic shootout.
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WWII: A Legacy of Letters
By Clinton Frederick
Clinton Frederick returned to his grandparents' house for a family wedding in 2002. In the attic, just as he'd remembered, were Japanese swords, parachutes, and other memorabilia from WWII. In a trunk stuck back under the rafters, Clinton made a discovery that would change his life forever. Inside were more than hundred letters written by his father, Captain George Frederick.
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Mr. Monday and Other Tales of Jewish Amsterdam
By Meyer Sluyser, foreword by Mels Sluyser
True stories of rugged people with tender emotions tested beyond human comprehension during the Nazi invasion. Sluyser's characters are people from his past who face life-and death-with indefatigable humor and resolve. With laughter and tears, Sluyser has thankfully immortalized for readers everywhere the yesterdays of his life.
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SHOAH:
Journey from the Ashes
By Paul M. Howey
Shoah: Journey from the Ashes includes an historical prologue which chronicles the 2000 years of anti-Semitism
which led inexorably to Hitler's "Final Solution" and the creation of death camps whose
names still reek of the horrors that occurred in them � Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor,
Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz. It was in Auschwitz that Cantor Fettman lost nearly
every member of his immediate family.
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