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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the WorldThe historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's...
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CrazeFresh off the boat from Roaring Twenties Paris, Henrietta "Henri" Adams lands in New York in the midst of the Queer Craze that is taking the city by storm. An art critic by day and lady lover by night, she ventures into the clandestine...
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Chicken Bridge RoadPauline only wanted love and happiness in her marriage. Instead, she and her six, soon to be seven, children suffered abuse. The choice she's about to make may free them from death-but will it cost her everything else?In the rural South in the mid-twentieth...
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The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & a Rescue from Nazi GermanyWith a forward by Elizabeth Thalhimer Smartt, learn about William Thalhimer's elaborate plan to save Jewish Germans from Hitler and the Third Reich.During Hitler's rise to power in the 1930's, Richmond department store founder, William Thalhimer and his family traveled to Germany to visit...
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Battalion Surgeon"They call you a battalion surgeon. I didn't know surgery; really, I was simply trying to save lives." (Audio Interview) William M. McConahey graduated from medical school in 1942 and enlisted with the Army in 1943. He attended medical field service school and served...
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Saving Andiamo: Book One, The Gallivanter SagaAs the Gallivanter Expedition prepares to travel the globe in their Model T Fords, young Edith has only one goal: to do whatever it takes to be on that team.When she impulsively drops out of school to join the ragtag group of explorers, taking...
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The Sister Knot"A moving, thorough, and entrancing novel about how two orphaned young Berlin women become each other's family during and after the Holocaust." Simone Yehuda, contributing author of The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the HolocaustIn the heart-wrenching tapestry of The Sister Knot, an...
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Honour Above AllMary Clark, a promising young lawyer, is asked to handle the estate of a wealthy friend. In the process, she discovers a decades-old letter that will not only test her integrity and her skills as a lawyer, but her loyalty to her client. When...
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In The Shadow of SugarloafLife in Arkoal, Arkansas, is centered around coal mining in the early 1900s. Young boys and men are expected to work in the Piney Creek mine to provide for their families. The danger in the deep mine shafts has taken the lives of many...
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Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification--and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany's...
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Villa EAlong the glittering coast of southern France, a white villa sits atop an earthen terrace--a site of artistic genius, now subject to bitter dispute. Eileen, a new architect known for her elegant chair designs, poured the concrete herself; she built it as a haven...
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Ella's WarIt's 1943 on the American home front, and Ella's pent-up, common-law husband finally decides to leave their farm and enlist. Ella must either depart their seafaring town in coastal Delaware to pursue other dreams inland or try to save their farm. Their grade-school son,...
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EdelweissEva Abrams is thrown into the past to a time of violence and chaos- revealing the hidden ugliness of war, allowing her eyes to see things she never thought they would. But she is unable to escape mainland Europe before the invasion, and her...
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Mennonite Mystery: Bizarre Saga of Hawkeye, KansasDon't believe everything you see on the news. Sometimes towns have secrets-big ones. And sometimes learning those secrets comes with a price.In the year 1934, the United States government quietly purchased a large plot of land near Hawkeye, Kansas. Only a select few Mennonite...
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Study in HysteriaAuthor: Kathleen CollinsPublisher: Vine Leaves PressPublished: 02/13/2024Pages: 278Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69dISBN: 9783988320438This title is not returnable
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A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855-1856In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton....
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The Barbary Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First Overseas Wars Conducted by the United StatesDiscover the captivating history of the first American wars in Africa!In this book, you'll learn about the Barbary Wars of 1801 to 1805 and 1815, the first American wars outside of North America. The enemies were the Muslim Barbary pirates of the North African...
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Kentucky and the War of 1812: The Governor, the Farmers and the PigHow the Bluegrass State Helped Win a War While not a single battle of the War of 1812 was fought on Kentucky soil, Kentuckians were involved to the very end. Henry Clay and his War Hawks convinced Congress and President Madison to declare war,...
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Armijo High School: Fairfield, CaliforniaOver a century of history, pride and tradition. Armijo High School opened its doors for the first time in 1891. What began in the upstairs classrooms of Crystal Elementary School in Suisun City grew to the sprawling campus on Washington Street in order to...
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New Mexico Fiestas: A History of Music, Dance & FandangoRevel in the festive history of the Land of Enchantment. The beautiful red and blue skies of New Mexico have been the perfect backdrop for centuries of celebration, from the venerable Fiestas de Santa Fe to the world famous Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Ageless...
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