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  • Forging Ahead

    How Five Generations of Small-Town Values Collided with Big Ambitions to Spark One of America's Fastest-Growing Companies

    by Angie Klink ...
    "A delightfully written book about the little business that could." -Julia Scheeres, New York Times bestselling author of Jesus LandMatthew Nix, age twenty, yearns to grow Nix Welding, even though his grandfather, father, and aunt are content with the way things are. Small. Status quo. Good enough.In 1902 in tiny Poseyville, Indiana, Matthew's great-great-grandfather opened the blacksmith shop ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Winged Seed

    John E. Christian, Father of Purdue Bionucleonics and Devoted Steward of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samara

    by Angie Klink ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Winged Seed is a fascinating, intertwined tale of science and art—the fusion of Dr. John E. Christian’s quest to conduct research with radioactive isotopes and to live in a Frank Lloyd Wright–designed home.Christian established Purdue University’s Bionucleonics Department in 1959 and, later, the School of Health Sciences. All the while, he and his wife, Catherine, painstakingly stewarded the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Purdue’s Female Founders

    The Untold History of Trailblazing Women Faculty

    by Angie Klink ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Purdue’s Female Founders: The Untold History of Trailblazing Women Faculty chronicles and celebrates the fortitude and achievements of the foremothers of Purdue University. This engaging book offers a collection of profiles of women faculty who, despite profound roadblocks because of their gender, shaped the institution from its beginning in the late 1800s through the latter half of the twentieth ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divided Paths, Common Ground

    The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home

    by Angie Klink ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue's new Home Economics Extension Service. According to those who knew them, Lella was a "sparkler" who traveled the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kirby’s Way

    How Kirby and Caroline Risk Built their Company on Kitchen-Table Values

    by Angie Klink ...
    The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself "a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash." He was much more. The fastidious, dapper man from Lafayette, Indiana, exuded philanthropy and free enterprise. Like a sheepdog, he tended the flock, rounded up strays, darted to key places to close up stragglers, and nudged everyone toward a common goal. Sometimes his stubborn persistence caused ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Deans' Bible

    Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality

    by Angie Klink ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in America's heartland during the 1930s to 1990s. Each became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. Collectively, they wove a sisterhood of mutual support in their common-sometimes thwarted-pursuit of shared human rights and equality for all. Dorothy C. Stratton, Helen B. Schleman, M. Beverley Stone, Barbara I. Cook ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Trimby Boys' Great Adventure - Finding Christmas

    Beyond Papa's Magical Rattling Red Box

    by Rocky Killion ...
    Illustrated by Lizzy Rainey ...
    Series Book 2 - The Trimby Boys' Great Adventure
    Two years after the Trimby Boys traveled beyond the rainbow to find their grandparents' beloved dog, Baxter, Micah, Justy, and Pierce are ready for a brand-new adventure. This time, Mommy and Daddy Trimby are moving the family to a new home in a sunny and warm place. Mama, Papa, Uncle J, and Gracie are coming too, so everyone can stay close together. While helping Mama and Papa unpack, the boys ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Trimby Boys' Great Adventure

    Finding Baxter

    by Rocky Killion ...
    Illustrated by Lizzy Rainey ...
    Series Book 1 - The Trimby Boys' Great Adventure
    The Trimby Boys' Great Adventure: Finding Baxter is a heartwarming, faith-based children's story about love, loss, prayer, and the comforting promise of God's love.When Mama and Papa lose their beloved Bichon, Baxter, The Trimby Boys share in their grandparents' sadness. What follows is an extraordinary adventure beyond the rainbow, where the boys discover that love never truly ends and that faith ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Plunges Into
    We’ve assembled a crackpot team of Ohio investigators to comb the countryside, explore the cities, and uncover the history, trivia, and fun facts that make the Buckeye State such a unique and special place. Read about…* Ohio firsts* John Glenn, Johnny Appleseed, and other famous Ohioans* Cleveland rocks!* From Ada to Youngstown: a crossword puzzle* The pride of the Buckeyes* The Wright sister’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Secret History of Home Economics

    How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

    by Danielle Dreilinger ...
    **"Deeply researched and crisply written." —Margaret Talbot,?The New YorkerThe surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.**The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Bitter Brew

    The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer

    by William Knoedelseder ...
    "An engrossing saga of one of the wealthiest, longest-lasting, and most colorful family dynasties in the history of American commerce" ( USA Today )."[An] Intoxicating reading. . . . This is a lurid, fascinating tale, which narrowly escapes the charge of being sensationalist thanks to its factual grounding and the significance of its subject—a family business that managed to dominate an industry ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Why Is The Foul Pole Fair?

    Answers to 101 of the Most Perplexing Baseball Questions

    by Vince Staten ...
    Chicken soup for the baseball lover's soul -- the inimitable Vince Staten takes you out to the ol' ballgame and answers all the baseball questions your dad hoped you wouldn't ask. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD