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An A-Z of Jane AustenJane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar...
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The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American GangThis expos investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant gang accused of terroristic intentions. Interwoven into the narrative is the dynamic influence of leader Jeff Fort, who--despite his flamboyance and high...
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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and PoliticsSweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the postwar twentieth-century decades, despite its reputation...
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The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes ModernThe Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted during the earlier Regency period (1811-1820) when the profligate Prince of Wales--the future king George IV--succeeded his father. Around the Prince Regent surged a society of...
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Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern VirginiaLonglisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a "riveting and tightly argued" history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte.Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the...
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Black Indian Slave NarrativesFew people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently, historians have determined that of the 2,193 interviews with former slaves...
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1959: The Year Everything ChangedAcclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959...
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White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate StoryEx-stripper Heidi Rikan was working for the mob in Washington, DC. White House Call Girl tells how a call girl operation she was running at the time led to the Watergate break-in, which brought down Tricky Dick Nixon himself.Needless to say, this is not...
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Leaving Campus: A World War II EpitaphWhile America was struggling to claw its way out of the Great Depression, and the shadow of war growing stronger by the day, life for the students of Bemidji State Teachers College remained largely untouched by the looming threat of war. The surprise attack...
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Hong Kong Beat: True Stories from One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong KongSex, drugs, gambling, ghosts, drinking, rugby, overseas adventures - and even some police work. Hong Kong on the edge of empire was a place teeming with triads, smugglers, Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees. Simon's memoir of his time in the Hong Kong police force...
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The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to TodayA noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King,...
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The Ute Indians of Southwestern ColoradoHelen Sloan Daniels, now deceased archeologist, anthropologist, and historian from Durango, Colorado, wrote The Ute Indians of Southwestern Colorado in 1941 as a project for the Durango Public Library. It was one of the first popular books written on the Ute Indian culture. Unfortunately,...
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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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Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's WorldThe triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artistTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday...
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The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern BaseballIn the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein....
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The Most Wonderful Wonder: True and Tragic Tales From the Back Roads of American HistoryBuy a ticket and take a dark joyride through American history. See bizarre spectacles of calamity and disaster. Behold true stories of lives cut short by grisly murders, dreadful diseases, and devastating storms. Witness babies saved by extraordinary means, and children lost through heartbreaking...
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Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' HomeAfter the heartbreaking death of his son Willie, Abraham Lincoln and his family fled the gloom that hung over the White House, moving into a small cottage in Washington, D.C., on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, a residence for disabled military veterans. In...
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Dearest Anna: A Love Story"Before my grandmother, there was Anna."So begins the true story of a family secret, a trunkful of hidden letters, and a love story buried for almost a century.In 1894 Roy and Anna graduated from high school and began writing hundreds of love letters to...
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The Lyncher in Me: A Search for Redemption in the Face of HistoryIn June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10,000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus workers had raped a white teenage girl--charges that would later be proven false. Three men were dragged from their cells and...
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Comanche BondageNo homeseekers were ever plagued with more bad luck than those who followed the Englishman John Charles Beales to southern Texas late in 1834. On the banks of Las Moras Creek, not far from the Rio Grande, they established the colony of Dolores. Among...
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