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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- ASIN: 1501168681
- ISBN: 1501168681
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Par... [Read More]
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Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
- ASIN: 0142409324
- ISBN: 0142409324
- Brand: Puffin
- Manufacturer: Puffin Books
Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can’t believe his good fortune. He’s heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native ... [Read More]
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The Girls in My Town: Essays (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
- ASIN: 0826356621
- ISBN: 0826356621
- Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Winner of the 2017 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayThe autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longi... [Read More]
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Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War
- ASIN: 0061241814
- ISBN: 0061241814
- Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
From historian Thomas B. Allen, author of Remember Pearl Harbor and George Washington, Spy Master comes a sweeping, dramatic history of the Americans who fought alongside the British on the losing side of the American Revolution. Allen’s compelling account comprises an epic story with a personal core, an American narrative certain to spellbind re... [Read More]
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Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945
- ASIN: 0375759638
- ISBN: 0375759638
- Manufacturer: Random House
Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers. Another River, Another Town is the story of John P. I... [Read More]
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Famous in a Small Town
- ASIN: 1250179637
- ISBN: 1250179637
- Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
For Sophie, small town life has never felt small. With her four best friends―loving, infuriating, and all she could ever ask for―she can weather any storm. But when Sophie’s beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it’s her job to get them all the way to LA. Her plan? To persuade country sin... [Read More]
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Ghost Towns of Route 66
- UPC: 752748338432
- ASIN: 0760338434
- ISBN: 0760338434
- Brand: Brand: Voyageur Press
- Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil wells, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 25 ghost towns, rich in stories and h... [Read More]
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The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
- ASIN: 1473662176
- ISBN: 1473662176
- Manufacturer: Nicholas Brealey
From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers, raucous Gay Pride parades, tranquil Lake Constance and snowy mountain climbs, The Rhine blends travelogue and offbeat history to tell the fascinating story of how a great river helped shape a continent. SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK... [Read More]
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Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most
- UPC: 971494625539
- ASIN: 0060564075
- ISBN: 0060564075
- Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks
Forced from her downtown Manhattan apartment by the terrorist attack of September 11, journalist Wendy Bounds was delivered to Guinan's doorstep - a legendary Irish drinking hole and country store nestled along the banks of the Hudson River in the small town of Garrison, New York - by a friend. Captivated by the bar's charismatic but ailing owne... [Read More]
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Peace Like a River: A Novel
- ASIN: 0802139256
- ISBN: 0802139256
- Brand: Atlantic Monthly Press
- Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
One of Time Magazine's Top Five Books of the Year.A Christian Science Montor,Denver Post, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year."Once in a great while, a book comes along that has such wonderful characters and marvelous prose, that you read it as much for the pure joy it offers on every page as to find out how it ends." -Denver PostLeif Enger... [Read More]
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Ghost Towns of the West
- ASIN: 0760350418
- ISBN: 0760350418
- Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Ghosts Towns of the West is filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions to find the best ghost towns to linger in the wake of the Old West.Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, N... [Read More]
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Of Mice and Men
- ASIN: 0140177396
- ISBN: 0140177396
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable ... [Read More]
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
- ASIN: 038547721X
- ISBN: 038547721X
- Manufacturer: Anchor
Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor fo... [Read More]
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Another City upon a Hill: A New England Memoir (Portuguese in the Americas Series)
- ASIN: 1933227567
- ISBN: 1933227567
- Manufacturer: Tagus Press
This gripping memoir is both a personal story and a portrait of a distinctive New England place―Fall River, Massachusetts, once the cotton cloth capital of America. Growing up, Joseph Conforti's world was defined by rolling hills, granite mills, and forests of triple-deckers. Conforti, whose mother was Portuguese and whose father was Italian, rec... [Read More]
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City-building In America
- ASIN: 0813308437
- ISBN: 0813308437
- Brand: Brand: Westview Press
- Manufacturer: Westview Press
Why do some cities grow and expand, while others dwindle and decline? Why is Milwaukee a town of the past, while Minneapolis-St. Paul seems reborn and infused with future dynamism? And what do Milwaukee and the Twin Cities have to tell us about other cities' prospects, the trials and destinies of industrial Cleveland and post-industrial Austin? Ant... [Read More]
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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
- ASIN: 0679773002
- ISBN: 0679773002
- Brand: Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman in what had until lately been the wilderness ... [Read More]
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A Tiger among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
- ASIN: 0306902028
- ISBN: 0306902028
- Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from NebraskaAdaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent four grueling days facing down the "tiger" among them.... [Read More]
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The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway
- ASIN: 1595580980
- ISBN: 1595580980
- Brand: Brand: New Press, The
- Manufacturer: New Press, The
In the tradition of Robert Caro's The Power Broker, a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country.At the dawn of America's love affair with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were unceremoniously dumped out of the western end of the Holland Tunnel onto lo... [Read More]
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Ghosts of Wilmington (Haunted America)
- ASIN: 1596291508
- ISBN: 1596291508
- Manufacturer: The History Press
Rising from the banks of the Cape Fear River like a spectral stage, Wilmington, North Carolina, remains one of America’s most haunted cities. Its beautiful homes and tidal waterways belie a history of violence. Wilmington is a true theatre of horror, the cast of which includes runaway slaves, children lost at sea, murderous lovers and fallen wome... [Read More]
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Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul
- ASIN: 0312134916
- ISBN: 9780312134914
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall River, Massachusetts, is a once-prosperous industrial center haunted by its history, the Durfee High School basketball team begins its annual drive for a state championship: a quest that inspires ... [Read More]
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