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Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien CriticismUnderstanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism is the definitive collection of essays on Tolkien's masterpiece. The essays span fifty years of critical reaction, from the first publication of The Fellowship of the Ring through the release of Peter Jackson's...
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The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of AcademeThis provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier...
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The Education of Crazy Jane"The quickest way to learn history is to stand at the wrong end of a bayonetted rifle."So begins The Education of Crazy Jane. A college student named Sam discovers the risks of protesting against the Vietnam War. Confronted at gunpoint by a hostile soldier,...
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What We Did in the WarCan you ever let go of the past? Two women unhappy with their lives seize a chance to start over during a WWII bombing raid, in this dramatic and suspenseful novel. London, 1944: As bombs start raining from the sky, two women rush out...
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Code Name SorrowMajor Clement Wisdom of the Secret Intelligence Bureau is in Sydney, Australia to learn Morse Code and its Japanese equivalent, Kana Morse. But when a fellow student from the college is found dead and another missing, Clement begins to suspect espionage.While assisting the local...
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Fleeting MomentsStep aboard a timeless journey across continents and decades in Michelle da Silva Richmond's captivating memoir, Fleeting Moments.Travel back to the Golden Age of air travel with Fleeting Moments, a compelling memoir from Michelle da Silva Richmond. Experience the world through the eyes of...
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Maggie: Trapped in The School for the Feeble MindedA Heartbreaking Odyssey through America's Darkest Hours: The Tragedy of Maggie UnveiledIn the annals of American history, there exists a chapter so harrowing it reverberates through time - the era of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the Eugenic movement. Maggie: Trapped in...
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The Last Train from Paris: An absolutely emotional and gripping World War 2 historical novelFor Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon's Cove, Cornwall has been the same - a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breaths in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood home, a heavy weight of...
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Jefferson's Angels: How ending the draft doomed the American RepublicDiscover a thought-provoking and in-depth analysis from a dedicated citizen-soldier on the events of the Vietnam War and how it had profound long-term consequences for the American Republic. The Vietnam War's conclusion saw the discontinuation of conscription, severing the connection between the American people...
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Every Night Has A DawnAuthor: Rachel ValencourtPublisher: Marmont PublishingPublished: 10/10/2023Pages: 322Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72dISBN: 9798989224296This title is not returnable
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WHITE as Christmas Snow, a Candle's Glow, and Heaven's RobeIn December of 1929, the Great Depression is beginning to roll across America and so are men, riding trains and looking for jobs. When fourteen-year-old Lisenka helps her friend Albert serve soup to men in a hobo jungle, she doesn't suspect that homelessness could...
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Keeper of the BeesA war-torn World War I soldier hears the doctors give up hope for his recovery. He has a feeling that if he could live by the sea, get plenty of fresh air, exercise and sunshine, that he would begin to heal. So one day...
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Miss Royal's Mules: A Classic Historical Western Romance SeriesIt's the year 1900, and Jocelyn Belle Royal has lost her farm to the bank. She joins a mule drive, hoping to earn back what she lost. Unexpectedly, she finds herself stranded on an abandoned ranch with the mules after her new companions, Whit...
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The Case of Joe HillThe famous Wobbly poet, songwriter and organizer was executed in Salt Lake Cityon November 19, 1915. Many felt that he was not guilty of the murder he was charged with, that he did not have a fair trial, and that he was the victim...
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The Confederate Nation: 1861-1865"The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. " --Journal of Southern History, 2007"Incisive and insightful.... As good a short history of the Southern war effort was we have." --T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln...
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Voyagers of the TitanicIt has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the...
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American NotesAmerican Notes is Charles Dickens' detailing his trip to North America. While traveling he acted as a critical observer of North American society. His American journey was an inspiration for his novel Martin Chuzzlewit. "My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the...
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Beautiful Jim Key: The Lost History of the World's Smartest HorseBeautiful Jim Key -- the one-time ugly duckling of a scrub colt who became one of the most beloved heroes of the turn of the century -- was adored not for his beauty and speed but rather for his remarkable abilities to read, write,...
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American Uprising"Breathtaking. [Rasmussen's] scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something about history itself--about how fiction can become fact, and how 'history' is sometimes nothing more than erasure." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr."Deeply researched, vividly written, and...
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the KlanThe New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history--the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night...
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