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Yet, Here We AreAuthor: Brenda K. MassmanPublisher: Koehler BooksPublished: 05/14/2024Pages: 322Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72dISBN: 9798888243015This title is not returnable
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50 Barn Cupolas50 Barn Cupolas explains how old New England dairy barns came to have cupolas and presents fifty beautiful color images of unusual cupolas. Take a trip back to the nineteenth century when dairy farmers turned a ventilation problem into an opportunity to express their...
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The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List"Don't thank me for your survival, thank your valiant Stern and Pemper, who stared death in the face constantly."--Oskar Schindler in a speech to his released Jewish workers in May 1945. Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film Schindler's List popularized the true story of a German...
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Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964 -- The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in AmericaA stirring and saddening account of the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 and the turning of the civil rights movement in America. Mills recalls the triumphs of the episode but also shows how the quest for racial solidarity turned divisive and laid the foundations...
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The Ferocious Engine of Democracy, Updated: From Theodore Roosevelt Through George W. BushIn the first major, in-depth study since World War II, Michael P. Riccards provides a narrative history of the U.S. presidency, showing how the chief executives and their personalities shaped national events. Riccards provides coverage of each administration from TR to George W., with...
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In the Wake of Madness: My Family's Escape from the NazisA cache of poignant lettersA narrow escape from Nazi-occupied EuropeA family scattered and forever changed by warIn 1940, thousands of Jewish refugees descended upon sunny Lisbon, desperately scrambling to acquire visas to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. Among them were Elsa and Saly Levi, a young...
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Pocahontas and Sacagawea - Interwoven Legacies in American HistorySo many myths surround Pocahontas and Sacagawea that the fascinating true stories are often obscured. Mysteries about their lives remain even today. For instance, did Pocahontas really save John Smith's life? Did Sacagawea die young or live a long life? Pocahontas and Sacagawea brings...
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Legacy of Honor: The Air Warrior - An Air War SagaIn The Air Warrior, book 2 of the Legacy of Honor trilogy, Sean embarks on a journey of physical and moral courage as he is commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, completes pilot training in 1943, and is sent to England to fly B-17s with the...
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The Devil in the DiamondTwo soldiers. One American. One Japanese.One thing in common - baseball!World War II is coming to a violent close.As the Battle of Okinawa rages on, American soldiers seize Shuri Castle and find a single survivor: Yuujin Miyano. The U.S. private put in charge of...
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Bipolar Refugee: A Saga of Survival and ResilienceIn 1939, Mary Krotoczynski left Berlin on the Kindertransport while her parents remained to perish in the Holocaust. In this memoir, her son chronicles her courageous struggles as a refugee, first in England and postwar Germany, and then in America. Mary fought to build...
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Cinnamon GirlWhen her step-grandmother, a retired opera singer, dies of cancer in 1970, 15-year-old Eli Burnes runs away with a draft-dodger, thinking she's on the road to adventure and romance. Instead she's embroiled in a world of underground Weathermen, Black Power revolutionaries, snitches and shoot-first...
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Tell me Who I amA journalist is tasked with investigating the life of his great-grandmother, Amelia Garayoa. All that is known about her is that she -fled Madrid shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, abandoning her husband and son. To rescue her from oblivion, he...
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Black Knights and Fighting Irish: A Rivalry, a Game, and America One Year After the End of World War IIFor thirty-three years, the football rivalry between the US Military Academy and Notre Dame provided countless thrills to fans across the country. Yet both schools decided to end the series at the peak of its popularity, after the 1946 game that many consider to...
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Mystic Sails, Texas Trails: Captain Grimes, Shanghai Pierce, Range Wars, and Raising TexasThis four-generation saga, written with Mickey Herskowitz, begins with Richard Grimes, who became a sea captain at the astonishing age of 21, and made the first of his fortunes carrying passengers from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, to the West Indies. In 1821, he heard of...
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Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide To Pioneer Life In AmericaWith more than 200 illustrations by the author. Author: Edwin TunisPublisher: Lyons PressPublished: 08/01/2000Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 10.99h x 8.52w x 0.51dISBN: 9781585741373Audience: Ages 9-12Award: Newbery Medal - Honor Book
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Military Wives in Arizona Territory: A History of Women Who Shaped the FrontierWinner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (History, Arizona 2021 Military Writers Society of America Silver Medal for History 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Bronze Winner for Western Non-Fiction When the U.S. Army ordered troops into Arizona Territory in the 19th century to...
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The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather UndergroundBombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young Americans opposed to the US presence in Vietnam. Mauled in street battles with the Chicago police during the...
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Kashmir: The Case for FreedomKashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world--and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is...
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Border Boss: Captain John R. Hughes - Texas RangerNaturally self-effacing and deferential, Captain John Reynolds Hughes is not as famous today as his publicity-hog contemporary Captain Bill McDonald. Yet, Texas Rangers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries considered him an authentic hero, a straight-ahead lawman that did his job and left the...
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Rat LineWorld War II has been over for 2 years, and the Iron Curtain is firmly in place between East and West. Tech-four Jim Colling, a member of the U.S. occupation force in Germany, is looking forward to the end of his enlistment and returning...
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