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A man travels back in time to meet his grandfather and become part of the development of the U.S. Navy's first submarines in 1900.
Faced with a fatal cancer diagnosis, a man has the opportunity to travel back in time to try and alter the faulty DNA that he inherited from his alcoholic grandfather. Set back in 1900 in the midst of the development of the U.S. Navy's first submarines, the story deals with the complex relationships that could occur if a person were able to travel back in time to interact with their grandparents when they themselves were young. | |  | | Images of America: Glendale
A detailed photo history of the town of Glendale, New York.
In a fast paced easily readable style, the book uses more than 18- captioned photographs to tell the story of this unusual town with a rural atmosphere located just 6 miles from Manhattan. Surrounded by cemeteries and rich in German history, the town was once known as the playground of New York City with its picnic parks and outdoor beer gardens. Today it is a large community of 80,000+ people intent on keeping the traditions that gave it a small town feel in spite of its proximity to one of the world's largest urban centers. | |  | | Landmarks & Historic Sites of Long Island
A virtual tour of Long Island, New York to see many of its historic sites.
In addition to background information about the area's better known sites, the book explores the location of the U.S. Navy's first submarine base, where the first passenger flights to Europe originated, Charles Lindbergh's historic Atlantic crossing and the home of America's first published African-American poet. |
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The Search for Edward Lewis
by Glenn Martin
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 This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w |
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