Entries by Jim McCabe

An Army of Amateurs

Download an epub file for your Android, or Apple tablet, or the Send to Kindle feature on your Amazon device. Download a mobi file for your Amazon device. AN ARMY OF AMATEURS is the incredible story of the resistance of the ordinary Frenchman in the street to the Nazis—secretly sapping the strength of the invading […]

Runaway Russia: An American Woman Reports on the Russian Revolution

A “Gripping Account” —The Wall Street Journal Florence Harper was the first American female journalist in Petrograd. Sure that trouble was coming, she waited “as I would for a circus parade.” From the women’s bread protests of the heady first days when the mob seemed “good-natured” to the later horror of the “Marseillaise”-singing crowds being […]

They Called it “Purple Heart Valley”-A Combat Chronicle of the War in Italy by Margaret Bourke-White

An excerpt from The New York Times review by Foster Hailey, November 26, 1944: “Reading Miss White’s remarkable book and looking at her even more remarkable photographs, many of them taken under fire, you know that all the American men and boys, in Italy, in France, in India, China, Burma and the many Pacific islands, […]

Why Does the Volume of Reading Matter?

See how the volume of reading influences reading comprehension. Could the volume of reading matter more than intelligence in reading comprehension? What did Anne S. Cunningham and Keith Stanovich discover in their research? https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/cunningham.pdf What are the barriers to more reading which Cunningham and Stanovich advocate? How do literacy practices influence the achievement gap in […]

Quality

Samples of all of our titles are available on Amazon so that you and your faculty, and students can see if the narratives are engaging. The ebooks are a combination of young adult and regular trade biographies. These books were not published in the last couple of years. Typically, they are trade biographies or young […]