A set of equipment to be used for recording video history.

"When Greta Mercy's brothers disappear from the Barlowe Theater in 1915, she will do anything to uncover what threat lurks beneath the stage. Decades later, revealing what happened to the boys falls on Kit Boyd, who must determine whether she's willing to pay the price to end the pattern of evil that has marked their hometown for a century."--

As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...

Evan Jacobson is an immigrant Norwegian stage coach driver in west central Minnesota. The stops along his stage route introduce the families who live on the trail between Fort Snelling and Fort Abercrombie, just south of Fargo, and reveal their ultimate fate in the 1862 Sioux Uprising and the siege of Fort Abercrombie. Jacobson struggles with learning English, falling in love and fulfilling his dreams, while living with events of the war in the South...

From abstract shapes to identifiable icons, making your own stamps allows you to play with your own custom designs. Using erasers and carving blocks, mixed-media artist Lisa Solomon leads you through the carving of an array of stamps to create your own stamp collection. Print with stamp pad ink, brayer and printmaking ink, and create patterns and images on a variety of surfaces including various color papers and fabric. Make this kit for play, correspondence,...

"This book details the history, culture, geography and government of South Dakota."--Provided by publisher.

An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.

The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next...