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What We Leave BehindUrsula comes to Minneapolis from Germany in 1947 hoping for a new start with her American GI husband-but the American dream proves more elusive than she imagined it to be. Author: Christine Gallagher KearneyPublisher: She Writes PressPublished: 07/25/2023Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.40h x...
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Sunniland"An interesting story centered around an actual event during World War II..." -- Wayne Abrahamson US Navy, retired, MAs in Anthropology and History, Author of Black Silver and Sergeant Dooley and The Submarine Raiders Faced with guilt and uncertainty, a young geologist travels to...
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Jap Herron: A Novel Written from the Ouija BoardSeveral years after Mark Twain's death in 1910, Emily Grant Hutchings claimed that Twain dictated this novel from the beyond, letter by letter, over a Ouija board. She went on to publish it with Mitchell Kennerley in 1917. When the Twain estate discovered the...
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La Espía. Una Novela Sobre Mata Hari / The SpySu único crimen fue ser una mujer independiente En esta novela, Paulo Coelho, autor de los best-sellers El alquimista y Adulterio, da vida a una de las mujeres más enigmáticas de la historia: Mata Hari. La historia de su célebre pero misteriosa vida como...
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The Forger of MarseilleSarah is a nineteen-year-old Jewish artist living in Paris at the outset of World War II. Her gift for forgery makes leads her to Marseille, where she joins a secret network dedicated to saving political refugees, writers, and artists from arrest by Hitler's Gestapo....
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EscapesArturo DiMartino's Italy is in ruins at the end of WWI. Its politics splintered. Its economy tattered. Its social fabric shredded.Italians blame their weak leaders and demand their overthrow. Mussolini steps onto the political stage and his populist views and spirited charisma captivate the...
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Happy as a Big Sunflower: Adventures in the West, 1875-1880In 1876 Rolf Johnson and his family left Illinois for Phelps County, Nebraska. There they faced the challenges of pioneering on the Great Plains: digging wells, building sod houses, plowing and planting crops, and fighting prairie fires. Johnson's diary goes beyond individual conquest, however,...
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Kill the Gringo: The Life of Jack Vaughn--American Diplomat, Director of the Peace Corps, Us Ambassador to Colombia and Panama, and ConFinalist for the Foreword INDIES Award for Best Autobiography or MemoirRecipient of the University of Michigan Outstanding Achievement Award in 1966Recipient of the Distinguished Fiji Award 2016 from Phi Gamma DeltaMember of the Order of the QuetzalWinner of the 2002 Ecotrust AwardHonorary Doctor of...
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Wild with All RegretsLucas Connolly's best friend and first love Jamie died during World War I; a decade later, Lucas is still riddled with guilt over his role in his passing. But it's only when a specter that looks and sounds exactly like Jamie begins to haunt...
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Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age Through the Great DepressionFrom the beginning of the twentieth century to World War II, farm wife May Lyford Davis kept a daily chronicle that today offers a window into a way of life that has all but disappeared. May and her husband Elmo lived through two decades...
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Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, BerlinThis updated edition includes new evidence from archives in the US, Germany and Britain about the Victoria's wartime chairman who, post-war, received national and academic honors.Author: Dina J. GoldPublisher: AnkerwyckePublished: 12/07/2016Pages: 270Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90dISBN: 9781634254274About the AuthorDina Gold...
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The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked Britain's Chinese ColonyTigers once came to Hong Kong. They preyed on pigs, chickens, cattle and deer. They sometimes killed people. They came to Hong Kong most years through to the end of the 1950s, and possibly into the 1960s. As long as there were South China...
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A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the HolocaustIn his landmark bestseller The Abandonment of the Jews, David Wyman exhaustively detailed America's failure to help rescue the victims of Nazi genocide. But one man, Peter Bergson, led a tireless battle against that tide of indifference, making it impossible for American leaders to...
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Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle: A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story and VerseThis classic of cowboy lore including illustrations by cowboy artist William Moyers, first published in 1976, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press.A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years...
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Upon That Mountain: The First Autobiography of the Legendary Mountaineer Eric ShiptonUpon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete...
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The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (Updated Paperback Edition)"[In] this slim but powerful book . . . Younge is adept at both distilling the facts and asking blunt questions."--Boston Globe"Unequivocal."--Financial Times"Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on [the speech's] significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation,...
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Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the SixtiesAs leading New Leftists in the Sixties, Peter Collier and David Horowitz were intimately involved in the radicalism of the day. Later on, they became the first of their generation to publicly reject the objectives of that revolutionary era and point out the cultural...
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Adventures on the Columbia RiverRoss Cox was a fur trader for the Pacific Fur Company. In 1811 he sailed from New York around the Horn to Hawaii and up the Columbia River. He resided on the Columbia River and surrounding areas for six years. He was not a...
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The Fighting Marlows: Men Who Wouldn't Be LynchedMany people in northern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma still believe that the Marlow brothers--George, Charles, Alf, and Epp--were thieves and killers. In 1888 they were charged with rustling and murder, tried by public opinion, and betrayed by law officials responsible for their safety. After...
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Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard"Strong mental faculties and a vigorous constitution" were among the attributes of Zenas Leonard, according to the publisher of the 1839 edition of this book, which the Bison Books edition reproduces. In the spring of 1830, Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, "ventured to...
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