Fleming Community Library

A SKY OF MY OWN is the story of a remarkable woman's discovery of the endless challenge and the joy of flying. Molly Bernheim's flying experience began twelve years ago. Until t hen, she had led and active and varied life-teaching biochemistry, performing research, managing a home and raising children-yet she felt the need to do something new. When her husband decide to learn to fly, Mrs. Bernheim was at first uneasy, believing that light planes were...

In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William Adams. Foreigners had been denied access to Japan for centuries, yet Adams had been living in this unknown land for years. He had risen to the highest levels in the ruling shogun's court, taken a Japanese name, and was now offering his services as adviser and interpreter. Seven...

" Laura Rose White is one of the most gifted riverboat pilots on the Missouri River--her late father taught her and her brother Joe everything he knew, and even named their family's riverboat after her. But in 1867, the idea of a "skirt" being a captain is unheard of. At least until Joe takes ill and dies in the middle of a trip, leaving Laura grieving and halfway upriver with a full cargo. She successfully takes charge of the crew and expertly guides...

Historian Andrš Resňdez uncovers a voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery, and tells the story of a Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history.