Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 18 results for “james rada”
Skip side bar filters

  • Secrets of Catoctin Mountain: Little-Known Stories & Hidden History of Frederick & Loudoun Counties

    by James Rada ...
    Catoctin Mountain runs from northern Frederick County, Md., to northern Loudoun County, Va., crossing the Potomac River as it does. Its natural history dates back to prehistoric times. Its history during the era of man is more recent and more fascinating filled with crimes, secrets, monsters, and drama.* Hunt the snallygaster and dwayyo, legendary monsters that roam the mountain ridges.* Train to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battlefield Angels: The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses

    by James Rada ...
    "The country had only 600 trained nurses at the start of the Civil War. All were Catholic nuns. This is one of the best-kept secrets in our nation's history," Father William Barnaby Faherty once wrote.When the Civil War broke out, the Union and the Confederacy were prepared to fight, but they weren't prepared to care for the wounded that their fighting created. While many people volunteered to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking Back II: More True Stories of Mountain Maryland

    by James Rada ...
    More than 200 years ago, a British general and his men left Fort Cumberland heading toward Fort Duquesne. They were massacred en route and somewhere before that point, their payroll in gold was buried. The election of President James Garfield was nearly upset because of a forgery conspiracy undertaken by a group of Democratic Party operatives in Cumberland. During the late 1800's and early 1900's, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canawlers: The 25th Anniversary Collection

    Canawlers, #1

    by James Rada ...
    Series Book 1 - Canawlers
    The Fitzgeralds made their living on the C&O Canal, but the Civil War brought them problems. Can they survive when caught in the crossfire between two nations?Body: Hugh Fitgerald proudly calls himself a "canawler." He works on the C&O Canal transporting coal nearly 185 miles between Cumberland and Georgetown in Maryland. For nine months a year, he and his family live on their canal boat, working ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rain Man

    by James Rada ...
    The rain began on March 16, 1936, and with it, the rain came pain. Raymond Twigg hates the rain because it gives the Rain Man power. It is a power to bring Raymond to his knees or drive him to deadly action.As the March 1936 rains bring the St. Patrick's Day Flood, the worst flood ever seen in Cumberland, Maryland, it also unleashes the power of the Rain Man on the citizens of the city.While most ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • October Mourning: A Novel of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

    by James Rada ...
    In the midst of a World War, the true enemy was unseen.It came with a handshake or a breath and it left behind 40 million dead.In October 1918, World War I was winding down, but the world had yet to face the deadliest killer known. Spanish Flu would devastate the world.In Cumberland, Maryland, Dr. Alan Keener, a young doctor fresh from medical school, suspects the flu has reached Allegany County. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Between Rail and River: The 25th Anniversary Collection

    Canawlers, #2

    by James Rada ...
    Series Book 2 - Canawlers
    The Civil War has come to the Freeman testing loyalties and love. Can the Fitzgeralds survive it?As the Fitzgerald family struggles to make it through the winter of 1862-1863 after a poor year of boating on the C&O Canal, the Civil War draws ever closer to being fought aboard the Freeman. George Fitzgerald's unexpected return from the battles of the Civil War pits him against David Windover, an ex ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving Shallmar: Christmas Spirit in a Coal Town

    by James Rada ...
    In the fall of 1949, the residents of Shallmar, Maryland, were starving. The coal mine that was the town's only business had closed in March and the miners had no cars so that they could drive to another town to look for work. Their unemployment benefits ran out over the summer and they had maxed out their credit at the company store.Then the children began fainting in school. Principal J. Paul ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Smoldering Betrayal

    by James Rada ...
    Matt Ansaro returns to his hometown of Eckhart Mines in the Western Maryland coal fields. It has been five years since Matt was here, and he swore when he left in 1917 that he would never return. Although Matt's parents are dead, the rest of his family welcomes him home with open arms.Joseph McCord, the superintendent of the Consolidation Coal Mines and a classmate of Matt's, is not so happy to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canawlers

    Canawlers, #1

    by James Rada ...
    Series Book 1 - Canawlers
    At a time of war, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was caught in the crossfire between two nations.Hugh Fitzgerald proudly calls himself a "canawler." He works on the C&O Canal transporting coal nearly 185 miles between Cumberland, Maryland, and Georgetown. For nine months a year, he and his family live on their canal boat, working hard to get them through the lean winter months.The year 1862 was a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Echoes of War Drums: The Civil War in Mountain Maryland

    by James Rada ...
    Though the mountains of Western Maryland were not the site of any major battles during the Civil War, the area did have its share of activity and minor skirmishes. One of the most-daring raids of the war occurred in Cumberland in 1865 when McNeill's Rangers kidnapped two Union generals from their hotels beds and carried them off to Richmond, Va. Also, because of its location on the B&O Railroad, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secrets of Garrett County: Little-Known Stories & Hidden History of Maryland's Westernmost County

    by James Rada ...
    Garrett County, MD, is known for its natural beauty, but hidden in the valleys, beneath the ground in coal mines, and in the attics of homes are true stories of crimes, cover-ups, legends, and life in Garrett County.* Learn about the grave for a general no one can identify.* Read about how the government dosed unknowing citizens with LSD at Deep Creek Lake.* Decipher clues to the hidden silver ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus