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This book is collection of essays that have been written over the 2013-2014 school year.

Coal miners, Midwestern schoolteachers, Civil War veterans, and the daughters of a Philadelphia industrial magnate--what could they possibly have in common? In the 1880s-90s, they all signed Mary Boyd's autograph album. Mary lived in a coal patch town in the anthracite coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, and over the course of 14 years she had those around her fill her album. Curiosity about Mary Boyd eventually led to a mission to learn about not only her, but those who signed her album. Using online records, historical documents, newspaper articles, and family records, an amazing amount of information was found about the neighbors, friends, and family members who signed Mary's album. Those who lived in the shadow of a coal breaker were hardy, resilient people, and learning about the people who signed Mary Boyd's album gives us a fascinating glimpse into the world in which they lived.

An American Founding Father s important contributions to the French Revolution

Melanie Marie Robinson, I was born in Jesup, Georgia, but I wasn't a small town girl. I wanted to see the world and so I'm seeing the world and loving life in the fast lane.

When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.

After Phoebe welcomes the new schoolteacher, Miss Hornswaggle, and her bird to the Texas town of Buzzard, she finds she has to put the Tumbleweed Gang in line once again.