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That Pinson GirlIn a bleak Mississippi farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose father she refuses to name, but who will, she is convinced, return from the war to rescue her from a hardscrabble life with a distant mother, a dangerous...
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Israel History: Israel and Palestine History and Conflict (The End Times and the Future of Israel With Hamas in the Gaza Strip)The ottoman empire quickly collapsed after world war i, and its extensive lands were divvied up between the french and british. While the french gained control of the levant, which would later become modern day nations like syria, the british were given the mandate...
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Catherine's Dream: A Story of Spirit and CourageBased on the true story of a young Polish peasant woman who comes to America in 1921 under an arranged marriage, Catherine's Dream is a testament to the power and possibility of nurturing one's dreams against all odds.Author: Roxanne BocyckPublisher: Morgan James FictionPublished: 11/21/2023Pages:...
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There's a Riot Going on: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the '60sBetween 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking.Rock and soul music...
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My Kaddish: A Child Speaks from the Warsaw Ghetto"Elegant yet shattering... Rendered in plainspoken yet devastating prose, Masson's historical narrative is intercut with startling present-day moments... This is haunting." -- Publishers WeeklyThis short, beautifully-written memoir is a rare first-hand account of a child's life in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II....
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Jonestown: An American Family TragedyAfter the heartbreaking loss of her own father, the youngest daughter, Mary, found a replacement in Reverend Jim Jones. But as a member of his Peoples Temple in California, she soon became overworked, underfed, and was beaten. Meanwhile, her family back home watched helplessly...
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How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family"[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman." -- Publishers WeeklyIn World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husband Wacek refuse to be classified as Jews destined for extermination.Instead, they evade the Nazis and the Soviets in...
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Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the BisonThe gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a hopeful one for the future, is Ken Zontek's account of Native peoples' efforts to repopulate the Plains with a healthy,...
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The Fetterman MassacreThe Fetterman Massacre occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause célèbre and was the subject of a...
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A Theory of Expanded LoveA Theory of Expanded Love is a coming-of-age story featuring an unflinching, gullible skeptic, trapped in her enormous Catholic family in 1963. On the verge of adolescence, Annie Shea is young enough to want a doll for Christmas, yet old enough to be responsible...
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Good for a Single JourneyAt the outbreak of WWI, the Spiegels flee their home in Poland. The Hasidic couple struggles to adjust to life in Vienna. One daughter is in love with a man from an unsuitable background. Two sons drift from orthodoxy, embrace Zionism and face danger...
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Gentle ResistanceGentle Resistance is a story of nonviolence in the face of tragedy. Two photographers, one English and one German, meet on the field of battle, early in WWII. They become fast friends, later, partners, and we ride with them through the 1940s, 50s, and...
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Crucible of Terror: A Story of Survival Through the Nazi StormOn September 11, 1939, Max Liebster, a young German Jew, learned firsthand what it meant to be an enemy of the Nazi state. After his arrest, followed by four months of solitary confinement in a Nazi prison, Liebster plummets headlong into the nightmare of...
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An Ordinary YouthAn Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother's jazz records, his father's fluctuating moods, and...
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Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading...
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Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved HymnA fascinating journey through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity. Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, "Amazing Grace" has become an unparalleled anthem for...
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Pilates: Wall Pilates for Seniors to Enhance Flexibility and Balance (An Illustrated Guide to Improve Your Posture and Build YoThis comprehensive guide is designed specifically for newcomers to pilates, providing an accessible and gentle approach to harnessing the benefits of this renowned exercise method. With easy-to-follow instructions and accompanying illustrations, you'll learn how to engage your muscles effectively, enhance flexibility, and promote overall...
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the PassportThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty...
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The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through MississippiWinner, 2018, Operational / Battle History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWinner, 2018, Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, Civil War Round Table of New YorkBenjamin Grierson's Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. The last serious...
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market EraThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that,...
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