Recent Vantage Press Titles

 
BROSNAN:
THE RAILROAD'S MESSIAH
Vols. I and II
By Charles O. Morgret

Drawing mainly on Brosnan's personal files, taped interviews, diaries, corporate documents, public speeches and feature articles, here is a portrait of a pioneer and visionary — Dennis William Brosnan, Jr., head of Southern Railway, who modernized U.S. railroading after WWII. A quintessential Americam, he believed free enterprise was the bedrock of liberty. The author served for over 20 years with the Association of American Railroads, and as advisory railroad editor to Encyclopedia Americana.


BEFORE I WAKE
A novel by Regina Poleondakis

Unable to accept the most devastating loss in her like, 34-year-old Jeanne moves back to the sleepy Southern town where she grew up. Here her best friend is involved with a married man; her mother is lonely; and a man from her past suddenly appears...


SATAN'S CARAVAN
A Victory Over the Adversary
By Grace Conlon

A thrilling true-life action-adventure tale — still a mystery today — based on the little-known Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 when Indians and renegade Mormons attacked over 130 pioneers who had come to Utah to build new lives.


QUOTABLE QUOTES OF BENJAMIN E MAYS

"I would rather go to hell by choice than to stumble into heaven by following the crowd."
Here is an inspiring, witty and profound collection by Martin Luther King's teacher. The President of Morehouse College for 27 years, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School, the author exhorts us to put out beliefs into action with vigor and strength.


CAN YOU IMAGINE?
By Harold H. Hopfe
Illus. by Christine Daniels

These whimsical, imaginative short stories for children reveal why dragons breathe fire, how Idaho potatoes got out West from Maine, and introduce such delightful characters as the man who wanted to smell the music he loved so he had his ears and his nose change places!

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