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The Daughter of ParadisoA TERRIFIED CHILD. A DESPERATE MOTHER. THE PROMISE OF A NEW LIFE...Italy, 1963. Graziella Bianchi returns to Paradiso, barely able to believe she has been gifted her childhood home by an old friend.The beautiful house has fallen into a state of disrepair, but Graziella...
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The Lost Time of TBThis book is a daughter's late-life piecing together of her father's short life. These were years of lost time, time when she knew only the silence surrounding him. He died in 1952 from tuberculosis, leaving behind a wife, a five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old...
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St Nicholas OwenDuring the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I it was high treason, and therefore death, to be a Catholic priest in England. It was consequently vital that there be somewhere to hide when the pursuivants came battering at the door. One name is...
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The Oldest Ranch in Texas: A Ranch on the Road to HistoryLocated nine miles south of the Alamo, between Leon Creek and the Medina River, Rancho de la Purisima Concepti n may quite possibly the oldest surviving ranch in North America, And, incredibly, is still owned by the same family. Don Juan Ignacio Perez de...
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The Rim to Rim Road: Will Hamblen and the Crossing of Texas' Palo Duro CanyonWilliam Henry Hamblen was a man with a dream. He was a pioneer with a purpose, a trail blazer, a man of action and persistence. With no formal training in road building, at a time when resources and funds were slim, he left a...
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Project Seek: Onassis, Kennedy, and the Gemstone ThesisFor the first time, a serious and definitive inquiry into the Skeleton Key to the Gemstone Files: At last, the story can be told about the so-called Gemstone files which have been circulating the globe since the mid-1970s. Who was the mysterious author of...
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Over the Mountain Men: Their Early Court Records in Southwest VirginiaThe records in this unpretentious volume are of four kinds--marriages, wills, Revolutionary petitions, and gravestones--though, indeed, the bulk of the work is comprised of marriage records and wills. The marriage records derive from the counties of Bedford, Franklin, Grayson, Pulaski, and Roanoke; and the...
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The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left BehindAn inspiring memoir from a legendary activist and political prisoner that "reminds us of the sheer joy that comes from resisting civic wrongs" (Truthout). In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization's newspaper on a Harlem...
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We Were Very MerryTwenty-three-year-old Lillie Carrigan has left behind the America of her childhood to study at Oxford, dismissing her past as she tries to write and become a woman. In the autumn of 1946, she meets a man over whiskey and cigarettes at Balliol College -...
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On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death After StonewallThrough the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US's queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in minute detail, and rightly...
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The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and HunterAt the same time that he charged Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the great Northwest, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned William Dunbar and George Hunter to make a parallel journey through the southern unmapped regions of the Louisiana Purchase. From October 16, 1804,...
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The Origins of Cool in Postwar AmericaCool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of...
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Oblivion or Glory: 1921 and the Making of Winston ChurchillAn engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy "Important . . . Its power lies in a vivid re-creation not only of Churchill's public roles but also his private...
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The Sixties: Cultural Transformation in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, C. 1958 - C. 1974If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, providing the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped...
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Russia in 1913A pivotal year in the history of the Russian Empire, 1913 marks the tercentennial celebration of the Romanov Dynasty, the infamous anti-Semitic Beilis Trial, Russia's first celebration of International Women's Day, the ministerial boycott of the Duma, and the amnestying of numerous prisoners and...
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Recollections of JapanRecollections of Japan is a personal account of living in Tokugawa Japan in the beginning of the nineteenth century, from a European's perspective. The author, Hendrik Doeff, chief of the United Dutch East India Company in Deshima, mastered the Japanese language, giving him a...
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Washington Grove 1937-1977: a history of the Town of Washington Grove, Maryland...the first forty yearsThis is the second volume of my history of Washington Grove, Maryland. The first volume covers the period 1873 to 1937, when the Washington Grove Camp Meeting Association was a private corporation and the land and other assets were the property of the stockholders....
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City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and ChicagoA city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people...
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Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of InsinuationJ. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover's FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will forever be associated...
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Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience"It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918," Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars. In Doughboys on the Great War the voices of thousands of servicemen say otherwise. The...
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