Biography & Memoirs on page 2

FORWARD In accordance with historians and family members, people, places, and things that are important to James Mapes Pool are included in this last revised addition, to include but not limited to, biographical photos of families that, in successive generations, have been documented and identified with the development of a nation called the United States of America. The Book includes early historical settlements of Pool, Mapes', and Mӧbs families who originally immigrated from Germany and Bohemia, to include the Dutch American Pool Family from Holland, and the Netherlands, along with the Bosgra, Eason, other members of James’ family from Bergum, Tietjerksteradeel, Hollan ...

Although “A Time Apart,” is a novel, and the dialogue is imagined, it is based on actual events which were told in my book “The Last Best of All Times,” about my upbringing in West New Rochelle. This story is narrated by the protagonist, Bobby Belmonte, who, in the latter part of his life, is reminiscing about those early years, as the world is evolving from the devastating effects of the COVID- 19 pandemic. It centers on the summer before his last year at Saint Joseph’s elementary school, transporting the reader back to “A Time Apart” from the present, based on his boyish recollections of his family, the school, the church, the Boys Club, and the games they invented, and the special jo ...

This is the story of Abraham Lincoln's first run for the U.S. Senate in 1855.

Joyce Ann Prettol served on the mission field with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 45 years. She served first in the jungles of Bolivia, then the tropics of the Philippines, and finally in South Asia. Joyce was most passionate about her relationship with Jesus and making sure to share the good news. She dedicated both her personal and professional life to that pursuit, praying daily that friends and family would know Jesus more. Her greatest desire was that her children and grandchildren would follow Christ just as fully and passionately. This book was written as her personal testimony of that journey and evidence of God’s faithfulness all the way through her untimely death in 2022.

Like everyone, Allie spent her formative years trying to discover who she was. But life decided there were going to be exceptions to the rule, not least of which was a devastating illness at the age of sixteen. From her sheltered childhood, to an unusually progressive college experience… An early musical talent that blossomed into a diversified career... And getting her fifteen minutes of TV fame... Every word of this book is true, even the parts that are unbelievable. "Cool. I'd read the h*ll out of that" - Galen W. "How is your book going?" - Keith S., at least weekly "I don't read, but I'd probably get through 7 or 8 pages of it. As long as it's not about other books." - ...

When I told my neighbor and friend Marjan that I was going to America the next day, he answered: “Sure, with a finger on the map!” "No, really, by boat..." I replied, "...that will sail in a bathtub!" he insisted. But in 1962 we really did travel from Trieste to New York, on the historic Italian Line 24,500-ton Vulcania. Since in socialism trips abroad were severely restricted, among other ways by making it impossible to buy foreign currency, we had to borrow significant dollars and marks from my uncle, who was in diplomatic service at the time. Another limitation was that the whole family was not allowed to leave the country. Thus my mother and brother stayed home while my father and I ...

At four years of age, Jeffrey was holding to his mother's coat tails while she roamed the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Annie was attempting to escape the expectations of society and the responsibilities of motherhood. Jeffrey only wanted the love of his mother and followed her everywhere in the streets. He had to forage for food and shelter while Annie was searching for the means to purchase her next "fix." Jeffrey would witness the stark reality of substance dependency without understanding the effects until his teen years. Annie was traveling south of the border into Mexico, when on a whim, she abandoned her five year old boy with some strangers on a bus ...

My life didn't start out the greatest in the beginning but with the will to want more and most importantly God, things really can change. No one saw me becoming the man that I've become to be but yet here I am. This is not to glorify street life or anything negative, I'm simply telling my life as it happened and as I recall it. From a guy who was told I was unapproachable to a guy people love to be around today. I'm just happy the past is the past and AT LAST I ARRIVED.