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The War of the PoorInternational Booker Prize FinalistThe Spectator (UK): Best Book of the Year From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century,...
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Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant: Undercover & Overwhelmed as a CIA Wife and MotherImagine being married to a spy. Imagine keeping the big secret and moving your family from country to country to country. How does it all work? In this entertaining memoir, Lillian McCloy shares stories from her life as the wife of an undercover CIA...
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Pug, Tug and Me: ...and Don't Forget Patsye Suevolume 1They were born in the 1920's. They grew up in the 1930's during theGreat Depression. They went to war in the 1940's. They served in thearmed forces during World War II. They became part of what is nowknown as the Greatest Generation.This account shares...
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Mr Darcy's Guide to CourtshipTop 5 Austen-inspired Nonfiction Book of the Year - Austenprose.com Inspired by the works of Jane Austen, the amusingly tongue-in-cheek Mr Darcy's Guide to Courtship is written from the perspective of Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy and closely based on real Regency advice manuals....
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The Age of ReformWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent historian comes a landmark in American political thought that examines the passion for progress and reform during 1890 to 1940. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional...
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Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862"Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness," reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers following that momentous engagement between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) in Hampton Roads, Sunday, March 9, 1862.The...
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The Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard: Chief of Scouts, U.S.A.The true story of the one of the most thrilling figures of the Wild West. Every army needs its scouts. A good scout knows the enemy and the enemy's terrain as well as his own, and is resourceful and incisive, cool-headed and courageous. A...
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To Live, To Think, To Hope - Inspirational Quotes by Helen KellerOne of the most enigmatic figures in history, Helen went from being locked in a prison of darkness and silence, to one of the most well-respected philosophers and beacons of change in the modern world. Now, with this book, one can experience Helen's most...
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The Arctic Brotherhood: The Story of Alaska-Yukon's Most Influential OrderThe Arctic Brotherhood, a fraternal order that emerged from the Klondike Gold Rush, established itself in 1899 in the boomtowns of Skagway, Bennett, Atlin, and Dawson City and then spread into the Alaska Interior and all the way to Nome. In this captivating history...
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Over the Beach: The Air War in VietnamWhile the jet-jockey competitiveness, the undercurrent of fear, the victories and foul-ups of jet sweeps have been described many times, few such chronicles have done it so grippingly and with such a ring of accuracy. Mr. Grant explores the emotions felt not only by...
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Otto Mears and the San JuansA friend of Otto Mears described him this way: "Mr. Mears is a man who always said 'I can;' and he did." His accomplishments are mind boggling. Mears' trading business led directly to his building toll roads. His newspapers touted Saguache, Ouray, and other...
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The Enlightenment: A Beginner's GuideBlamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day historians disagree over when it...
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Absaraka, Home of the Crows: A Military Wife's Journal Retelling Life on the Plains and Red Cloud's WarThe classic journal and firsthand account of one of the most disastrous military battles of the American frontier. On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks....
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Life Among the Apaches: The Classic History of Native American Life on the PlainsAuthor: John C. CremonyPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingPublished: 02/17/2015Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10dISBN: 9781629143705About the AuthorJohn C. Cremony was an American newspaperman who also served as a lieutenant in the Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry. He fought in the Mexican-American War, the...
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Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountainvolume 5On a cold February evening in 1896, prominent attorney Col. Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry disappeared near the White Sands of New Mexico. The governor called in both the Pinkerton Agency and Pat Garrett, killer of Billy the Kid, to investigate....
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Heart of the Trail: Stories of Covered Wagon WomenUpdated and expanded for its twentieth anniversary-the beloved book that tells the stories of the women who traveled West. In Heart of the Trail Mary Barmeyer O'Brien beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of women who crossed the American frontier by wagon during the...
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Because Our Fathers Lied: Death and Deception Afloat and AshoreTruth is the first casualty of war. Tom Carpentier knew this well. A WW-II destroyer commander, he had spent years as skipper of merchant vessels carrying war materials to Vietnam. But when his daughter, a Navy nurse, died under mysterious circumstances in Danang in...
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Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the WorldOn the 100th anniversary of the first attempt to climb Mt Everest, Margret Grebowicz shows how and why climbing and mountaineering are still important today. In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there". Today the...
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In the Grip of the Whirlwind: The Armistice Day Storm of 1940Author Tom Powers presents a book filled with incredible stories of great courage, narrow escapes, tragedy, faith, odd twists of fate, and the dogged perseverance of those who were caught in the hurricane-like storm that ripped through the upper Midwest. From lonely motorists in...
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The Zulu War: Through Contemporary Eyes"March slowly, attack at dawn and eat up the red soldiers." King Cetewayo, Battle of Isandhlwana 1879 Written in 1894, just 15 years after the war, this is James Grant's excellent military history of the Zulu War of 1879. From the British disaster at...
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