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Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart's ancestors who fought in the American Revolution. Alexander Stuart fought at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse with Nathaniel Greene. William Letcher lost his life at the hands of Tories on the Laurel Hill Farm in Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia, where over fifty years later J. E. B. Stuart was born. The Laurel Hill Farm known as Stuart's Birthplace is part of a 75 acre park preserving the history of the family that has fought in almost every war this country has participated.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry is his second true crime book reveals the dark side of Mount AIry and the surrounding area's history of murder and mayhem. Before it was Mayberry from native son's Andy Griffith show, it was known as Little Chicago.This book covers murder stories in Mount Airy and the surrounding area in Patirck and Carroll Counties in nearby Virginia.

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist listener and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of 22 essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and re-read familiar stories, objects, symbols, and myths.

As the American Civil War began to run down the southern Virginia town of Martinsville in Henry County saw one of the last actions of that war. A Confederate cavalry regiment under the command of James T. Wheeler met the brigade of Union Brevet Brigadier General William J. Palmer on April 8, 1865. The result was a victory for the United States forces. This book tells the story of that fight for Martinsville and the life of Palmer, who was born a Quaker in Delaware and ended his life as a millionaire businessman in Colorado.

Civil War General Jubal Anderson Early commanded everything from regiments to entire armies under Robert E. Lee in the War Between the States 1861-65. This book discusses Early's life concentrating on his home county of Franklin and the efforts to preserve his homeplace there.

To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos. Years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent to Libya to covertly assist a rebel army. When the plan turned sour, Chase reacted according to his own ideas of right and wrong, triggering consequences he could never have anticipated. And someone still wants him dead because of them.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart and his first sweetheart Elizabeth Perkins "Bettie" Hairston in this book on the history of Patrick and Henry Counties in Virginia in the antebellum period and through the War Between The States. Using Stuart's letters to Hairston, Perry tells the story of their romance and their lives afterwards. The story comes forward to the piano she played and he sang with her in the days before a war torn this nation apart.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

Durch sein Mitwirken in der US-Kultserie "FRIENDS" erreichte der Schauspieler Matthew Perry Weltruhm. Erstmals erzählt er nun seine eigene Geschichte und berichtet ungeschönt von seinem Aufwachsen als Scheidungskind, einem unsteten Leben zwischen Kanada und Kalifornien, Humor als Coping-Mechanismus, dem steilen Aufstieg als Schauspieler - und seinem schwindelerregenden Fall, bedingt durch Alkohol und Drogen. Ein Hörbuch, das die Magie von "FRIENDS" heraufbeschwört, zu Tränen rührt und ungeahnte Einblicke in ein bewegtes Leben erlaubt.

A short biography of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart concentrating on his Christian faith.

Author Thomas D. "Tom" Perry writes in his first book about a murder in the fictional town of Moonlight, Virginia, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In a tale about friendship and greed, the narrator has to come face to face with the drug trade and the cost to his hometown due to crime.

Historian Thomas D. Perry, Founder of the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace, edits the first of a projected three volume series of the papers of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart.

The story of a father and a daughter separated for twenty-one years until the latter comes looking for the former. Sadly, they never had a chance, but this book speaks to the tragedy of mental health issues and the dysfunctional world and families that we all live with in today's society.

Thomas D. Perry tells a story about a mythical monster that lives in Lynch Hollow in Ararat, Virginia, where he grew up. Told to Perry as a teenager, he weaves a story that is part myth and part based on a real life murder and vigilante death of the accused murderer.

Continuing his series of books about the history of his boyhood home, Patrick County, Virginia, Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry tells the story of Notley Price Adams, who was accused of arson in Meadows of Dan, Virginia, went through four criminal trials before finally being pardoned by the Governor of Virginia, John Letcher. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this book tells the story of a man and the times he lived.

In this revised edition of his 2012 best selling book, Beyond Mayberry, Award Winning Author and Historian, Thomas D. "Tom" Perry, doubles the size of the previous book from 250 to over 500 pages just in time for the 60th anniversary of the release of The Andy Griffith Show in October 1960. Perry adds to the knowledge about how much Andy Griffith's hometown, Mount Airy, North Carolina, is the basis for the fictional town of Mayberry made famous in the show. This book has new chapters about Betty Lynn, who played Thelma Lou on The Andy Griffith Show and later moved to Mount Airy. This book ...

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry writes about stories of true crime along the Virginia North Carolina border region that he calls home. From the 1912 Hillsville Shootout to the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre, Perry writes about these stories that have interested him over a long career of writing about the history of the place he calls home. Subjects covered include the 1929 Lawson family Christmas murders in Stokes County to the shootout on Fayette Street in Martinsville, Virginia, along with the case of the Martinsville Seven. Multiple bombing stories from Mount Airy, North Carolina, before it...

This books tells the story of history along the Ararat River from its beginning at Bell's Spur in Patrick County Virginia until it flows into the Yadkin River in Surry County, North Carolina.

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry writes about growing up in Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia, centered around his car a 1964 snow white Volkswagen that he got when he turned 16 and drove until his marriage at age 28.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Mayan Secrets by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry, read by Scott Brick. Husband and wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon an astonishing discovery - the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, their cities, and about mankind itself.