Born Primitive

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Audrey Barrett Cook
Obedience Smith (1771-1847), Pioneer of Three American Frontiers, Her Ancestors and Descendants
4 books in one book about a courageous pioneer, her ancestors and her descendants from the 1600s to the 1900s -- their accomplishments and defeats, their loves and their losses, as well as several murders and a disappearance! -- Obedience (Fort) Smith was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina in ...
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Roger Lowenstein
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so...
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Brandon Sanderson
Calamity (The Reckoners)
Read the final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners series by worldwide bestselling author Brandon Sanderson!     When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David’s fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Fire...
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Glenna L. Combs
Down A Crooked Road: Memoirs Of My Journey
Down A Crooked Road: Memoirs of My Journey is the story of a lifetime of troubles and triumphs. A poor Appalachian girl becomes successful in both career and business against all odds. Being born as the youngest of 10 children to a poor family in 1950, there was little chance of being more that marr...
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Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
The Ancient South Asian World (The ^AWorld in Ancient Times)
A young archaeologist finds a primitive hand axe that is thought to be more than 400,000 years old. Engineers building a railroad discover that the gravel they're using is actually 5,000-year-old crumbling brick from the ancient Indus Valley civilization. An Englishman living in India is fascinated ...
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Garrett Calcaterra
Dreamwielder: The Dreamwielder Chronicles - Book One
"In a world shrouded by soot and smoke, young Makarria has literally been forbidden to dream... Legend has foretold the demise of Emperor Thedric Guderian at the hands of a sorceress with royal blood, and the Emperor has made it his legacy to stamp out all magic from the Sargothian Empire in favor...
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Tommy Dangcil
Hollywood Studios (Postcard History Series)
Just after the turn of the 20th century, the motion picture industry moved to the West Coast, and the largest land of make-believe was created in Hollywood, California. From the silent-era beginnings of primitive, open-air stages to the fabled back lots of the studios' heyday, Hollywood Studios pres...
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Mary Oliver
Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that ha...
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Prof Numa Denis Denis Fustel De Coulanges
The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome
Originally published in 1864 as La Cité Antique, this remarkable work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of Pericles and in Rome at the time of Cicero. Working with only a fraction of the materials available to today's classical scholar, Fustel de Coulanges fashioned a complet...
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Brian Moore
The Mangan Inheritance (New York Review Books Classics)
Not so long ago James Mangan was a brilliant young poet. These days, however, he toils as a journalist  and shivers in the shadow of his glamorous movie-star wife. And now she has left him for her lover. Adrift and depressed, Jamie takes refuge with his father, in whose house he turns up a 19th-ce...
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Mary Oliver
Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition
A beautiful deluxe edition of the New York Times bestselling Dog Songs , now housed in an elegant box along with a special poster--containing a new poem from Mary Oliver, not released in the previous edition--perfect for framing and gift-giving. Beloved by her readers, special to the poet’s o...
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Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Lincoln's Mothers: A Story of Nancy and Sally Lincoln
An excellently researched historical novel about Abraham Lincoln's family and formative years with particular emphasis on his mother, Nancy, and stepmother, Sally. “All that I am,” said Lincoln, “I owe to my angel mother.” “Which mother?” he was once asked. “Both,” he replied. This i...
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Jack London
Love of Life
JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways –robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a...
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Mary Oliver
Blue Horses: Poems
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature. Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and imperman...
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek
A stunning new translation of the classic book—and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film—brings the clarity and beauty of Kazantzakis’s language and story alive. First published in 1946, Zorba the Greek , is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lover o...
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Jack London
Classic Starts®: The Call of the Wild (Volume 15)
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and childre...
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Alan Dean Foster
Howling Stones
The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise. Its vast oceans were dotted with thousands of lush islands containing vast deposits of rare-earths and minerals. But Senisran was also the Humanx Commonwealth's problem child, for each island was inhabited by a different tribe of abor...
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Ryan English
Subtle Powers: A High Fantasy Adventure (The Land of Broken Roads, 3)
As new threats emerge, Socks and Dirt face the deepening mysteries of the world in the latest installment of this epic fantasy. After a summer of adventure, Socks must return to Father to make an accounting of himself. It’s time to justify what he’s been up to and demonstrate that he remains the...
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Willa Cather
My Antonia (The Great Plains Trilogy)
Beloved American novelist Willa Cather’s nostalgic classic about life on the Midwest prairie. Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family, Ántonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive sod...
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Lana Button
Tough Like Mum
What does it mean to be tough? Kim finds out in this moving mother-daughter story about family hardship, vulnerability and love, perfect for fans of Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors . Kim's mum is tough. Everyone says so. She can deal with unruly customers at the Red Rooster with a snap of her ...
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