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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early AmericaCharity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early nineteenth century. Based on diaries, letters, and poetry, among other original documents, the research traces the women's lives in sharp detail. Charity Bryant...
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of AmericaNamed one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....
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From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981The third volume in Great Issues In American History, From Reconstruction to the Present Day is now updated and revised to include another decade of American history. Beatrice K. Hofstadter, wife of the late Richard Hofstadter and herself an historian who worked with him...
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The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1949 Facsimile Edition2020 Reprint of 1949 Edition. The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual guidebook for African American road trippers. It was originated and published by African American, New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow...
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A Childhood: A Childhood: The Biography of a Place"One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written" -The New Yorker "A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia." -Harper's The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the...
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At Night All Blood Is Black*WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE**ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fictionShortlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award "Astonishingly good." --Lily Meyer, NPR"So incantatory and visceral I don't think I'll ever forget...
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Ten Days That Shook the WorldAn impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook...
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Why Read Moby-Dick?A "brilliant and provocative" (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville's masterpiece--from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel...
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The State and RevolutionIn July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The...
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Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged...
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The Many Seas to Guernsey*KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW - "An engrossing saga of love set against a subtly drawn, disturbing depiction of Hitler's tyranny... Taylor's sprawling narrative is a coming-of-age story with the highest possible stakes, a tense wartime thriller, a study of faith in extremis... and an unusually...
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Generations of Deceit: The Struggle and Survival of Women in the Early 20th CenturyHow does a woman facing trauma and adversity find the courage and resilience to survive?Susan Harris tells the stories of her grandmother and mother as they faced the difficult situations life dealt them, yet persevered despite the weight of being women in the early...
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The Detective and Dorothy DayThe Detective and Dorothy Day blends detective noir with historical fiction, set in eastern New York in 1975. The story follows Sy Johnson, a Manhattan private investigator hired by a labor union to probe the murder of upstate chemical tycoon Jack Williams. The accused...
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Operation BerlinDiscover the first in a BRAND-NEW series of post-WW1 mysteries, from international bestselling author Michael Ridpath. An absolute must-read for fans of Robert Harris, Alan Furst and Robert Goddard. 'The perfect marriage of thriller and whodunit' Simon BrettIn a city rebuilding from war, truth...
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Uninvited Valor--The Forsaken Soldiers of WWII: Based on the Epic True Story of the 442nd Regimental Combat TeamFinalist in 2024 Foreword Indies Book of the Year (War & Military)In the wake of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, 22-year-old Joe Horiuchi is faced with a decision: volunteer for America's war against the Axis Powers, or reject the country that is locking his...
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Songs of the Dead RoadEvery note tells a story of those the world forgot. But remembrance comes at a price.In the shadows of post-war Soviet Union, Ján Balik, a quiet composer, has spent decades gathering the stories of the missing and the broken. He weaves their grief into...
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I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive"Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit, and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is like a dream you can't shake, offering beauty and remorse, redemption in spades." --Patti Smith "Shot...
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Arkansas BlackA haunting tale of brotherhood, betrayal, and resilience in the face of defeat.Arkansas, 1927. When a late spring frost decimates the apple harvest, the Fitch family orchard collapses under the weight of ruin. Jesse Fitch, weary and pragmatic, prepares to leave the land behind...
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Baker TowersIn a stunning follow-up to her best-selling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh′s second novel, BAKER TOWERS, is a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Bakerton is a company town, built on...
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A Nation of Immigrants"In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America's best leaders have embraced, not feared, the diversity which makes America...
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