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The Henry Bagwell Story is a remarkable tale of survival and achievement against great odds. Henry Bagwell was an enterprising young man from a prosperous merchant family in Exeter, Devon, England. A passenger on the ill-fated "Third Supply" mission that shipwrecked on the reefs of Bermuda en route to Jamestown in 1609, Bagwell earned the unofficial title of "adventurer" and the official designation of "Ancient Planter."Bagwell was in the early wave of seventeenth-century English pioneers who dared to cross a dangerous ocean (in his case, more than once); to serve his time in the development and defense of a new land; and then to take possession of the acreage for which he had worked. He was an important personality in the emerging society of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the progenitor of a substantial family.This is the first biography that has been written about him.

This is the first-ever biography of Elisabeth Gilman, a largely forgotten Marylander born to privilege in the nineteenth century who became an irrepressible force for social justice in the twentieth. As the second daughter of Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Elisabeth was raised in well-to-do, influential circles. Privately educated by tutors, she eventually earned a bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins. But unlike many who shared Elisabeth's elevated station, she was possessed of a restless and critical spirit. As a strong devotee of the Social Gospel, she campaigned on behalf of the poor, African- Americans, women, and laborers exposed to harsh conditions. After her father's death, Elisabeth joined the Socialist Party and was nominated as a candidate for governor of Maryland, United States senator, mayor of Baltimore, and even sheriff of Baltimore. Never married, Elisabeth fell under the spell of a charismatic, progressive Episcopal priest named Mercer Green Johnston, and followed him and his wife to Paris during World War I, where she helped to support homesick American doughboys under the aegis of the YMCA.

National Indie Excellence Awards, Finalist, 2017: Self-Help Living Now Book Awards, Silver, 2017: Motivation - Practical Self-Improvement "An organizational psychologist provides tools and insights to achieving professional and personal happiness in this debut self-development guide.... A tangible, motivational life-planning approach with useful examples." -Kirkus Reviews "All the tools you need to create your own future!" -Marshall Goldsmith, The Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World "Fulfilled! lives up to its promise. It highlights choices we make to build alignment, capability, and engagement into our professional and personal lives so that we achieve exceptional happiness and inner peace. Schiemann gives us the art and science of fulfilling our potential." -Dave Ulrich, bestselling coauthor of The Why of Work; Rensis Likert Professor of Business, University of Michigan; Partner, The RBL Group Fulfilled! holds the key for every reader to figure out what they want most from life, both personally and professionally - and then stay focused in a consistent way to achieve their goals. The lessons in this book are based on interviews with over 100 life-fulfilled people and additional research on generational differences, leading to conclusions about what will work best for Millennials and Baby Boomers alike: -ACE: This acronym helps individuals think about their Alignment with life goals, the Capabilities needed to get there, and how to make choices that bring continuous Engagement across work, family, hobbies and other vital parts of life. -Balanced Scorecard: How can people achieve better balance across career, family, social, spiritual, educational, and even political needs and desires? -Life Mapping: incorporates the unique life goals, key success drivers, and ties those to actions individuals needs to take now in their lives. This type of thinking enables them to see both the short and long term, and to adapt to change. -Measurement: you can't manage what you can't measure. Readers are taught how to devise appropriate measures for their individual scorecard, and how to track success over time. - Street Smarts: Savvy, life-fulfilled people also have street smarts. They have learned the 'art' of becoming fulfilled: how to adjust to bumps in the road, how to overcome common setbacks, and the ten factors that most often lead to fulfillment.

Saturday, November 10, 1984. Max and Charles are off on a "guys' getaway" with their stepfather, Fred. The trip takes them to Kent and Queen Anne's counties, located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.It's Veterans Day Weekend, and Fred has planned this trip around history to show the boys a few important sites from Colonial times and the Civil War era. Included in the "getaway package" is meeting old and new friends. And a very important reason for the trip is to find a new home for Miss Starry Eyes, a wild Canada goose who was rescued and raised by their grandparents. During the weekend, some plans will unfold as Fred hoped, but many new people, twists and turns, fill this Saturday-into-Sunday morning with unexpected adventures.

As they pass the halfway point in their high school journey, life begins to get more serious for the four classmates in Eleventh Grade Stress. Luke continues to wrestle with math and the standardized state tests. He takes refuge in his work on the yearbook and his solitary fishing trips. The hostility of his girlfriend's father abruptly ends the most rewarding relationship of his life. He tries to start over. Elly is getting along better than ever with her parents, especially her status-conscious mother, because she is dating the star quarterback for the school's football team. But her folks don't seem to care about, or even suspect, the secret damage that this relationship is doing to Elly's body and self-esteem. Marcus still loves basketball, but literary classics and American history classes are beginning to open his eyes to life beyond the court. His planned campus visit to the nearby state university leads his father to sit down and have "the talk" with him. Mia is still on track to graduate first in her class and pursue her dream of becoming a doctor, but her home life is troubled. Her parents finally reach a breaking point, and Mia finds herself worrying about her mother's prospects and trying to protect her little sisters.Big games, dances and parties produce moments of happiness and joy. But as the classmates' final year in high school swims into view, with a series of forced choices staring them in the face, they find all of the stakes are getting higher.

On the occasion of his 65th birthday, Garry Cosnett took stock of his full and eventful life and was stunned to realize how much of it had been flavored by his largely hidden and recurring battle against clinical depression.Cycling through numerous colleges and universities, and seeking a relief from pain through a remarkable series of psychiatrists, hospitals, relationships, jobs, and drugs, he realized that sharing his candid story might bring hope to other sufferers. Because, at the end of it all, he has found a kind of peace - one preserved by attentive physicians and never-ending vigilance on the part of him and his wife, to whom he dedicates the book."Most important," he writes, "this is a book about hope. Hope that even in the most pernicious cases, depression can be managed, like so many other chronic diseases. I am a living example of that possibility."

Winner, Silver Medal, IPPY AWARDS (Regional Fiction) Elizabeth's Field captures the realities of pre-Civil War life on Maryland's Eastern Shore and creates characters that struggle in extraordinary adversity. Lockhart traces the branches of several generations of black families, their histories merging, the memories of their grandparents' miseries fading yet not forgotten. Her carefully limned descriptions of the land - the profusion of flora and the turning of the seasons - are masterful. Through fully rounded characters and lyrical prose, Lockhart's novel teaches some hard lessons about man's inhumanity to man. Kathryn Lang, former editor at Southern Methodist University Press The characters in Elizabeth's Field are clearly defined and the environment carefully re-created so that we feel we are indeed stepping into the past, actually viewing people behind the gauze curtains of long ago. Weaving the present with the past, Lockhart brings us face-to-face with how slavery has continued to impact people on the Shore. Elizabeth's Field is a thoroughly readable work, thought-provoking and well-written. G. Ray Thompson, PhD, professor of history emeritus and former director, The Nabb Center, Salisbury University Elizabeth's Field is the story of the free black population living on Maryland's Eastern Shore in a county known for being the birthplace of Harriet Tubman. Elizabeth, a free woman of Indian and African-American descent, owns land in 1852 and loses it in 1857. Her struggle to hold onto the land and her connection with Sam Green, the local minister who is sentenced to ten years imprisonment for having a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, attest to the turmoil existing within Maryland's borders. Mattie, the present-day farm worker on whose oral history the novel is based, searches for answers to her genealogical history. As she tells the story of her life, she reveals the societal and agricultural changes that occurred on the same land that was Elizabeth's field one hundred and fifty years before.

In Islander's War, his first work of fiction, popular Eastern Shore writer Don Parks uses a novelist's imagination and insider's knowledge to dramatize the struggles of traditional Chesapeake Bay island communities early in the twentieth century.Arthur Crockett, an unsophisticated but courageous young man from the fictional Caplan's Island, is swept up in a host of changes, beginning with service of a draft notice for duty in World War I. He joins his good friend Horace Stevens in a long day and night's journey by steamboat to Camp Meade near Baltimore.During leave time from training in Alabama, Arthur meets and is smitten by the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. Marjorie Symington bowls over everyone but Arthur's mother. The battle between these two women becomes almost as fateful for the course of Arthur's life as the trench warfare in France waiting for him and Horace.All the old verities of life on the water seem under assault, but Arthur's common sense and sturdy faith provide him with a compass that shows him what he has to do-even when it is not easy.

The James River is Virginia's premier river for recreation, and the James River Guide is the key to enjoying it, whether you are an angler, kayaker, rafter, or bird watcher. Twenty-nine locator maps provide vital information on the river, all the way from its headwaters near Iron Gate to the dramatic fall line at Richmond. The longest river in the Old Dominion, the James offers some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the state. Spring blossoms, fall color, and the fascinating history of the batteaux era's canals lend the James a unique charm. There is something for everyone. River runners will face everything from placid stretches of calm water to white-water rapids that should only be tackled by the most experienced paddler. This new edition for 2015 includes updated and expanded information on favorite float trips, including new coverage of the marvelous Maury River, the main tributary of the Upper James; favorite fishing spots; updated access points; classic fishing lures; and directories of river guides and other resources.

The Henry Bagwell Story is a remarkable tale of survival and achievement against great odds. Henry Bagwell was an enterprising young man from a prosperous merchant family in Exeter, Devon, England. A passenger on the ill-fated "Third Supply" mission that shipwrecked on the reefs of Bermuda en route to Jamestown in 1609, Bagwell earned the unofficial title of "adventurer" and the official designation of "Ancient Planter."Bagwell was in the early wave of seventeenth-century English pioneers who dared to cross a dangerous ocean (in his case, more than once); to serve his time in the development and defense of a new land; and then to take possession of the acreage for which he had worked. He was an important personality in the emerging society of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the progenitor of a substantial family. This is the first biography that has been written about him.