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Whisper in the Tempest: A Novel of the Great WarDecember, 1917: When an urgent matter forces Ginger and Noah Benson to sail from Malta on the HMT Aragon, the unthinkable strikes: the Aragon is torpedoed-and Ginger and Noah are separated in the chaos. But the way back to each other will be an...
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Concerto: One Boy's Struggle to Survive the HolocaustWhen Nazi Germany troops enter Krakow, Poland on September 2, 1939, fourteen-year-old Simon Baron learns two truths that have been hidden from him. One, the people who have raised him are not his biological parents. Two, his birth mother was Jewish. In the eyes...
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To Receive a Child: Jim Kopp and the Prolife UndergroundThis is a biography of James C. Kopp who shot and accidentally killed Buffalo abortionist Barnet Slepian in 1998. It covers, among other things, his childhood, his college and love life, and his science career. Then it goes into his gradual move from agnostic...
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Pony Express & Overland Stage: Two Accounts of the Opening of the American Western Frontier-Seventy Years on the Frontier by Alexander Majors & A ThrPony Express and Stage Coach--icons of the Western FrontierThe opening of the great North American interior during the 19th century has passed into legend. This was the 'Wild West' and its personalities and great events have become familiar to almost everyone. This was a...
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The Electrical Unions and the Cold War: Generation of ResistanceElectrical workers and their unions were at the vortex of the arguments that shook the labor movement and the country during the Cold War. This book recounts and interprets that experience. While international issues were widely considered beyond the bailiwick of workers, they split...
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The Old Santa Fe Trail, the Story of a Great HighwayThe story of the Old Santa Fe Trail, so truthfully recalled by Colonel Henry Inman, ex-officer of the old Regular Army, in these pages, is a most thrilling one. The vast area through which the famous highway ran is still imperfectly known to most...
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For the Independent, Peaceful Reunification of the CountryThis book contains speeches and writings between 1948 and 1975 of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on the subject of reunification of Korea. His thoughts offer interesting insights into the communist view of reunification on the Korean Peninsula.Author: Kim Il SungPublisher: University Press...
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City of NetsA dazzling social and cultural history of Hollywood's golden age in the decade from World War II to the Korean WarIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced...
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Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877From its shocking curtain-raiser--the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835--to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes of Democracy carries the saga of the American people's continuous self-reinvention...
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Lost Boys of Hannibal: Inside America's Largest Cave SearchIn 1967, the largest cave search in US history unfolded in historic Hannibal, Missouri, the boyhood home of author Mark Twain. Three modern day Tom Sawyers, with no caving expertise but an abundance of bravado, made Hannibal ground zero for a terrifying calamity that...
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The Outer LimitsIn this TV Milestone, author Joanne Morreale highlights the differences of The Outer Limits (ABC 1963-65) from typical programs on the air in the 1960s. Morreale argues that the show provides insight into changes in the television industry as writers turned to genre fiction-in...
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From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of TampaSince its early days as a boomtown on the Florida frontier, Tampa has had a lively history rich with commerce, cuisine, and working-class communities. In From Saloons to Steak Houses, Andrew Huse takes readers on a journey into historic bars, theaters, gambling halls, soup...
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Ghosts of Winter: A young woman encounters the Third ReichAnger smolders in Germany over the country's humiliation following the Great War. A brash Führer has seized on the discontent, and militarized all citizens to regain world power. Germany is no longer a democracy - it is the Third Reich.Despite her father's misgivings over...
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Saint Louis: The Story of Catholic Evangelization of America's Heartland: Vol 3: The Age of Cardinals"The Age of Cardinals of Saint Louis ranged from 1903..". to 1969: John Joseph Glennon (made Archbishop in 1903, Cardinal in 1946) to Joseph Elmer Ritter (made Archbishop in 1946, Cardinal in 1961) to John Joseph Carberry (made Archbishop in 1968, Cardinal in 1969).Prostrate...
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Last Days of TheresienstadtIn February of 1945, during the final months of the Third Reich, Eva Noack-Mosse was deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. A trained journalist and expert typist, she was put to work in the Central Evidence office of the camp, compiling endless...
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Lampasas 1855-1895: Biography of a Frontier CityFor nearly three decades, the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers. The isolated Hill Country community was founded in the 1850s amid bubbling mineral springs, During summer "watering seasons," hundreds of Texans made their way through the wilderness to "take...
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SanctionedHis name was Lonnie Siegel, but he was known by others.Lonnie was born into an aristocratic German family and orphaned during an allied bombing raid over Dresden. Shuttled from one caretaker to the next, he was ultimately taken in by an elderly first-generation immigrant...
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A Passionate Life: W. H. H. Murray, from Preacher to ProgressiveThe first full biography of W. H. H. Murray (1849-1904), a Boston preacher often described as the father of the American outdoor movement and the modern vacation.Author: Randall S. BeachPublisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoPublished: 03/02/2023Pages: 189Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...
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Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political StruggleSouthern Conference on African American Studies, Inc., C. Calvin Smith Book Award This volume highlights the little-known story ofRobert R. Church Jr., the most prominent black Republican of the 1920s and1930s. Tracing Church's lifelong crusade to make race an important part of thenational political...
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Big Bend Country: Land of the UnexpectedHaving first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this...
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