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A Secret Gift

A Secret Gift

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Author: Ted Gup

A book for our times, sharing stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the generosity of a man who understood hardship. A timely and powerful work of America at its worst - and Americans at their best - woven fro ...
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Let's Go Bowling!

Author: Eric Dregni

From super-smooth alley sharks to granny-style rollers, the sport of bowling excludes no one. It is the great equalizer, knocking down barriers with each strike rolled. Rabble-rousing proletariat and flush fat cats, anyo ...
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How the States Got Their Shapes

How the States Got Their Shapes

Author: Mark Stein

Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?

We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities ...

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The Southern Strategy

The Southern Strategy

Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780

Author: David K. Wilson

This book presents a reexamination of major Southern battles and tactics in the war for independence. A finalist for the 2005 Distinguished Writing Award of the Army Historical Foundation and the 2005 Thomas Fleming Book ...
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Cuba in the Special Period

Cuba in the Special Period

Culture and Ideology in the 1990s

Author: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant

This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of la ...
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THE Chronicles of Canada

Volume VII - The Struggle for Political Freedom

Author: George M Wrong & H H Langton

The Chronicles of Canada was a Canadian literary landmark. First published in 1914, it was a series of thirty-two, short, concise, freshly-written historical narratives for the lay person. It was designed to set forth, w ...
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Edward Bancroft

Edward Bancroft

Scientist, Author, Spy

Author: Thomas J. Schaeper

A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a r ...
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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan ... Illustrated by Numerous Engravings ... Twelfth Edition.

Author: John Lloyd Stephens & Frederick Catherwood

Title: Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan ... Illustrated by numerous engravings ... Twelfth edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national libr ...
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Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honour

The Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence

Author: Charles, A. Goodrich

Charles Augustus Goodrich (1790-1862) commited his life to writing books that would entertain, instruct and edify children and young people. This volume is one of his very best as it gives moving details about the lives ...
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Belonging to the World

Belonging to the World

Women's Rights and American Constitutional Culture

Author: Sandra F. VanBurkleo

"Belonging to the World" surveys the treatment of women in American law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America to the present. An original work of historical synthesis, the book aims to build brid ...
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The Boys in the Boat

Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Author: Daniel James Brown

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit" and "Unbroken," the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics
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The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W.Starr on President Clinton and the White House Scandals with Analysis by the Staff of the Washington Post

The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W.Starr on President Clinton and the White House Scandals with Analysis by the Staff of the Washington Post

Author: Kenneth Starr

The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair contains the complete text of the Independent Counsels report, the White Houses Response from September ...
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The Guns at Last Light

The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

Author: Rick Atkinson

Originally published: New York: Henry Holt and Co., c2013.
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Rise and Fall of the American Empire

Rise and Fall of the American Empire

Author: Michael Cox

In this timely and compelling new volume, Michael Cox aims to analyse the whole of the Bush era in a broader historical context. In a cogent and carefully argued analysis, he uncovers some of the fundamental assumptions ...
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The JFK Myths

The JFK Myths

A Scientific Investigation of the Kennedy Assassination

Author: Larry Sturdivan

After decades of debacle readers will welcome the scientific rigour that underwrites this erudite new investigation. It is the only book to address the firearms and ballistic aspects of the JFK assassination in a logical ...
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1812

1812

A Nation Emerges

Author: Sidney Hart & Rachael L. Penman

The War of 1812 completed the struggle for American independence that began in 1776 and propelled a new nation forward. 1812: A Nation Emerges accompanies the National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the same name and fea ...
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Alaska and the Airplane

A Century of Flight

Author: Julie Decker & Jeremy R. Kinney

Alaskans were introduced to the airplane as early as 1913, when town officials in Fairbanks invited stunt flyers James and Lilly Martin to fly over the local baseball park on July 4. Because many areas are only accessibl ...
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THE Chronicles of Canada

Volume IX - Our First National Highways

Author: George M Wrong & H H Langton

The Chronicles of Canada was a Canadian literary landmark. First published in 1914, it was a series of thirty-two, short, concise, freshly-written historical narratives for the lay person. It was designed to set forth, w ...
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Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

Narrating Creole Subjectivity

Author: Elisabeth L. Austin

Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Narrating Creole Subjectivity casts new light on the role of exemplary narrative in nineteenth-century Spanish America, highlighting the multiplicity of d ...
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Hard Times

Hard Times

An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression

Author: Studs Terkel

First published in 1970, Studs Terkel's Hard Times has been called 'a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit' (Saturday Review) and 'an invaluable record' (New York Times). With grace and compassion, Terkel evokes ...
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