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Along a Breton ShoreA soldier must choose between his heart's desire or his duty to country in this gripping novel of friendship and survival. Maxence Étienne believes fiercely in the Revolution and longs for his name to be listed among the heroes bringing liberty to France. It's...
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The Flight Girls: A Novel Inspired by Real Female Pilots During World War IIA stunning story about the Women Airforce Service Pilots, whose courage during World War II turned ordinary women into extraordinary heroes 1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home...
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Night Flight to ParisIt is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win--or lose--World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris. Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win the war. October 1942: it's...
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The London RestorationAuthor: Rachel McMillanPublisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompPublished: 04/05/2023Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.43w x 1.10dISBN: 9798885786959
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AshesAuthor: Christopher VinckPublisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompPublished: 04/26/2023Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.94dISBN: 9798885786973
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On Samuel R. Delany's DhalgrenSamuel R. Delany is the winner of two Hugos and four Nebula Awards. He has been honored with lifetime achievement awards, including SFWA's Grand Master, the Eaton Award, the Lambda Pilgrim Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and was inducted into the Science Fiction...
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The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams"Published in 2021 by arrangement with Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc."Author: David S. BrownPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 07/14/2021Pages: 748Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.00dISBN: 9781432887698This title is only available via back order
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The Quotable Robert E. Lee: Selections From the Writings and Speeches of the South's Most Beloved Civil War GeneralAsk the average American who their favorite Civil War general is and you will invariably get the name of the blue-coated Union military hero Ulysses S. Grant. Victorian Yankees loved him so much they put his face on their fifty-dollar bill and made him...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America"Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned architect, was the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Henry...
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz AgeThe compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar--from the...
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Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow SouthThe true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of...
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American WestAuthor: Thomas ClavinPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 07/05/2017Pages: 573Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.40dISBN: 9781432840358This title is only available via back order
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The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19: Prelude to the HolocaustBetween 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless and destitute, including orphaned children. A number of...
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The Ins on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the Us-Mexico Border, 1917-1954For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different. Here, they confronted a set of political, social, and environmental obstacles that prevented them from replicating their achievements on Angel Island and Ellis Island,...
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Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early ModernityIn this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early modern period. They examine how cultural configurations of sound impacted communication, comprehension, and the categorisation of people. Addressing questions of identity, difference, sound,...
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Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration PolicyHistorians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration and government control on the East...
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William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism: A Biography and Documentary HistoryIn 1906, William J. Seymour (1870-1922) preached Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million people around the world. Gast n Espinosa provides new insight into the life and...
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Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban AmericaDuring the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and...
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The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner RevoltOn the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had ever been killed in any slave...
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Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe V. WadeOn April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far...
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