Biographies & History

When Ann Carbine marries Larry Best in the Salt Lake temple in 1961, she's certain their marriage will last forever. Eleven years later, she learns that he's been having affairs with men. Devastated by the revelation, Ann feels betrayed and abandoned. She still loves Larry and wants to save their marriage. However, powerful emotions pull Larry away from his family, just as AIDS is beginning its relentless march through the gay community.

This is the enlightening civil war memoir of John S. McCorkle, a confederate guerrilla operating in the Missouri area. With the help of his friend O.S. Barton, he finally committed his reminiscences on the civil war to paper first in 1914.

A Life Stolen is the gripping account of a father and daughter’s devastating, but inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. Its purpose is to give guidance to others caring for loved ones with this terrible affliction, whether it is in providing helpful information, feelings of support or simply words of encouragement. The hope is that it will make the road for others an easier one to travel.

Annie never outgrew the needs of an infant. She didn't walk or talk. Her parents fed her, changed her clothes, and carried her in their arms from bed to chair and back every day of her life. Annie rewarded them with her smiles. Grote's memoir of Annie's life and death is a story about strength, compassion, determination and unconditional love as their family adapted to Annie's limitations and surrounded her with genuine love. But more importantly, Annie's story is a testament to the basic intrinsic value of human life.

Eddie Rickenbacker's WWI memoirs were first published in 1919 and reveal the bravery of men leaping into dangerous contraptions 15,000 feet above the Earth, fighting for their cause and fighting for life.

“…as illustrating the daily life of a soldier in the ranks it is one of the very best publications I have read. I found it a vivid reminder of the days gone by…” — E. M. Schutte, late Sergeant Company C, 13th Massachusetts.