Books with author David Berg

A thousand hands shaped its banks and a thousand ships have traversed the waters of a canal that defined a region. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal has both provided an important route between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and acted as a secondary and unofficial boundary between the North and South. Yet this historic waterway almost failed before the first shovel struck earth in 1804. Local historian David Berry tells the fascinating story of the C&D Canal, from the tenacious Gilpin family's sixty-year struggle to open the shipway to the canal's role in the Civil War as a vital path for Union troops and supplies to quickly cross the Delmarva and travel down the Chesapeake.

When Tasha Karne goes to check the noisy, smelly, and creepy things going on in her basement, she finds nothing, not even her brother's clay statues, until a growling in the shadows and a set of sharp teeth reveals the truth about the creatures lurking there.When Tasha Karne goes to check the noisy, smelly, and creepy things going on in her basement, she finds nothing, not even her brother's clay statues, until a growling in the shadows and a set of sharp teeth reveals the truth about the creatures lurking there

In the past twenty years, a far higher percentage of ordinary, middle-class Americans began investing in the stock market, either as individual investors or as part of retirement-related investment funds. Within a generation, investments have not only become a central component of the average family's income, but also an essential tool for its future planningincluding saving for college, weddings, first house purchases, and retirement. This highly readable and comprehensible guide demystifies the terminology and mechanics of investments and savings for teen readers. This resource provides a superb grounding in the basic principles of financial planning, earning interest, inflation, banking and savings and checking accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, commodities, money market funds, CDs, savings bonds, debt, taxes, hidden fees and charges, and get rich quick schemes. Readers are provided with the information they need to manage their money carefully, wisely, and safely and plan for a comfortable and enjoyable future for themselves and their family.