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Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their FrieParis on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during which workers flexed their economic muscle and their opponents struck...
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Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial KillerThe gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree *** A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant...
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The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell During World War II Volume 8World War II, British RoWith the outbreak of yal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States the first of six schools, No. 1 British Flying Training School (BFTS), was...
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The Buffalo HuntersThe near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains by countless millions but which had been hunted to near-oblivion within thirty-five years, is one of the most exciting yet tragic stories of American history. Charles M. Robinson III...
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Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok's Colt Revolvers To Geronimo's Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our HistoryFrom Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them More than a few of the actual guns once in the hands of the heroes and villains of America's Old...
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Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: And Other Streets of New OrleansFirst published by now-defunct New Orleans publisher Robert L. Crager in 1949, the book remains funny and informative, generally accepted as a standard reference about the Crescent City. Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans! details the interesting stories of the...
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The Lost Rocks: The Dare Stones and the Unsolved Mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost ColonyIn the depths of the Depression, a man stopped along Highway 17 north of Edenton, North Carolina, and in the woods there found a stone that seemed to be carved with Elizabethan english. The man took the stone to scholars at Emory University, who...
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The Spanish Treasure FleetsThe story of the expeditions of Spanish explorers told through the history of the first American currency: pieces of eight.Author: Timothy R. WaltonPublisher: Pineapple PressPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 270Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.04w x 0.77dISBN: 9781561642618
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A Prelude To War: The Presidency of James BuchananIn October of 2000, the Federalist Society and The Wall Street Journal asked 132 professors of history, political science, and law to rank presidents on a scale from one to five; five equaled "highly superior," while one represented "below average." Ultimately, 78 of the...
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Peg Leg Annie: Pistol Packing Madam, Rocky Bar, Idaho TerritoryIn this book of Creative Non-Fiction based on the author's own life experience and extensive research, Love tells the story of an Idaho Territorial Legend in the first book length treatment of Peg Leg Annie's life. Thousands of lines of prose were written of...
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PatienceThe Orphan Train Saga Continues with Patience, Paddy's story, Book Six in the saga.Paddy entered the world on June 5, 1909, as the seventh son of Irish immigrant parents with fiery red hair... While Paddy blends with his family, fitting into a society in...
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Navigating With(out) InstrumentsWith their second book, Navigating With(out) Instruments, traci kato-kiriyama uses her present-political unrest, family love and loss, her own cancer diagnosis-to join the traumas of the past generations with the hope of the future ones. Often seamless, often with a loud bang, kato-kiriyama moves...
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Everything We Had: a Novel of the Pacific Air War November-December 1941November 1941: War is coming to the Pacific.In Europe, the Nazis are triumphant. England is under siege by air and sea. France has fallen to the Nazi Wehrmacht, which in turn fell on Soviet Russia. The Red Army is reeling in full retreat, with...
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One Night of MadnessOn the cusp of the civil rights movement, tragedy and injustice in rural Southern towns was not uncommon, but the wickedness as retold by author Stokes McMillan in One Night of Madness is shocking and utterly desperate. The year was 1950. Mary Ella Harris,...
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The King of Greenpoint Peter McGuinness: The Amazing Story of Greenpoint's Most Colorful CharacterArguably the most colorful politician Brooklyn ever produced, Peter J. McGuinness came to personify working class Greenpoint between the two world wars. His vivacity, wit and outrageous antics have become legendary. The first book ever published about this outrageous personality and the product of...
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Five Days that Shocked the World'A gripping account of the last days of World War II... It reads like a thriller, informs like a scholar and is not to be missed.' - Randall Hansen, author of Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany 1942-45On 28 April 1945 Benito...
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The Dance Teacher of Paris: An absolutely heart-breaking and emotional WW2 historical romanceAuthor: Suzanne FortinPublisher: Embla BooksPublished: 05/26/2023Pages: 370Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.82dISBN: 9781471415258This title is not returnable
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The Italian Bookshop Among the Vines: An absolutely gripping and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel, inspired by true eventsAuthor: Amanda WeinbergPublisher: Embla BooksPublished: 04/17/2023Pages: 354Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.79dISBN: 9781471415197This title is not returnable
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Tennessee Wildcat: On the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Mr. EdwardsMr. Edwards ... that colorful Tennessee Wildcat Laura Ingalls Wilder so deeply loved. He helped Pa build the family's cabin, saved Christmas by carrying presents across a raging creek, and spit farther than Laura thought possible. Though he was a little rough around the...
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German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in ConversionThis book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary milieu. Utilizing archival family texts and multiple interviews spanning three generations, beginning...
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