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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the Fbi's War on the American Indian MovementAn "indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise On...
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo AstronautsThe authoritative masterpiece (L. A. Times) on the Apollo space program and NASA's journey to the moon This acclaimed portrait of heroism and ingenuity captures a watershed moment in human history. The astronauts themselves have called it the definitive account of their missions. On...
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American StudiesAt each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable...
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An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of TearsThough the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture--running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on...
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American MafiaReppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling. --The New York Times Book Review Organized crime--the Italian American kind--has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto...
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Tesla's WalkAccompany the genius inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla on a poetic journey through one autumn day in 1899 Colorado Springs.Nikola Tesla's eight-month visit to Colorado Springs in 1899 is integral to his evolution as a genius inventor. Yet, for many, it still exudes an...
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Our Time: "Books, like bridges, build bonds between people, places, and possibilities."Set in Guernsey, Channel Islands, (UK), during the occupation by the Germans from 1940-1945, Our Time, shares the stories of Zuri, T, and Will through Journal Entries as the setting expands to London, Boston, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island.Our Time encourages and provides for...
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Latino USA: A Cartoon HistoryAn irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of...
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The Promise of Unbroken StrawPaul's teachers say he's distracted, and they're not wrong. With the demands of a struggling farm, Allied boots in Europe, and secrets surrounding his mother's death, who can blame him? And the expectations of his unapproachable father are seemingly out of reach. When a...
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President Garfield: From Radical to UnifierAn "ambitious, thorough, supremely researched" (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield. In "the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years" (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the...
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World Starts AnewBallycreggan, Northern Ireland, 1955Erich Bannon is happy in the small Irish village he has thought of as home since he arrived as a terrified, traumatised seven year old, one of the last Jewish children to escape Berlin in 1939. Now at twenty-three, it feels...
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Our God Is Marching onA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At the end of the march from Selma to Montgomery on March 25, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in...
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Once an Eagle"Once an Eagle is simply the best work of fiction on leadership in print." --General Martin E. Dempsey, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffRequired reading for West Point and Marine Corps cadets, Once An Eagle is the story of one special man,...
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Hard way HomeDublin 1950Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She'd been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the...
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EquimedianJason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines-scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection-when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get his...
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Emerald HorizonBerlin, 1944Ariella Bannon is being hunted. Someone is determined to betray her as a Jew, but she has survived against incredible odds, and the end is in sight. She will be reunited with her precious children, no matter what it takes.Meanwhile, Liesl and Erich...
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The Most Amazing Department StoreStepping onto the floor of Sunderland's means stepping into a whole new world for two young women whose lives will never be the same again.After Lilly leaves her first husband, she takes a job at Sunderland's Department Store. The Mecca of luxury in 1950s'...
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Star and the ShamrockFrom the streets of wartime Berlin, to the bombed out city of Liverpool, and finally resting in the lush valleys of the Ards Penisula, The Star and the Shamrock from USA Today best-selling author Jean Grainger is a must read WWII saga.Author: Jean GraingerPublisher:...
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I've Been to the MountaintopA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, and...
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Black Fox OneA deadly mission to hunt down the resistance's top soldier will make SS Officer Jonas Amsel question everything he kills for...Jonas Amsel and Avalina Keller, devoted Nazis and best friends, have a bright future in Hitler's Third Reich. Ava, a talented gymnast, wants to...
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