Emilee Hines Libri

Offers a look at approximately 30 events that shaped the Old Dominion, from the first years of the English settlement to the recent discovery of far earlier habitation.

Fortune Barranger came from almost nothing, a sharecropper's son with big ambitions. But through his resourcefulness and decisive action, he grew a job into a business, then a business into an empire. Along the way, he saw his beloved state of Virginia progress from the post-war devastation of the 1870s to the prosperity and opportunity of the 1910s. He and his family experienced the changes too, as women were gradually made more welcome in the workplace and the advent of the car changed the city trolley system.But Fortune's business acumen didn't always extend to personal relationships, nor could his wealth shield him from the realities of life: illness, heartbreak and death. Even a fortune as vast as his couldn't solve all of life's problems.

When Scruffy is abandoned by his owners, he knows a lot of "bad" words. He is lonely and lost. When he is rescued by a loving family, he learns "good" words like "home." This is an excellent teaching tool for young children between the ages of 5 and 9.

A search for the missing treasury of the Congolese government and its smugglers, as well as a missing friend who may be a killer sends two searchers from Nairobi to the border of the Congo. If the searchers' cover is blown, they may become the hunted. Set in East Africa in the closing days of the British colonial system "Coffins for the Congo" is based on a real happening.