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Jan Reid
Sins of the Younger Sons
Luke Burgoa is an ex-Marine on a solitary covert mission to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA in Spain and help bring down its military commander, Peru Madariaga.  Luke hails from a Basque ancestry that came with the Spanish empire to Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and, seventy-five years...
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Conrad Wesselhoeft
Adios, Nirvana: A Raw YA Novel About a Poet's Twin Brother and Friends Who Won't Let Go
    When you piss off a bridge into a snowstorm, it feels like you’re connecting with eternal things. Paying homage to something or someone. But who? The Druids? Walt Whitman? No, I pay homage to one person only, my brother, my twin.        In life. In death.        Telemachus. Si...
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Eilene Lyon
Fortune's Frenzy: A California Gold Rush Odyssey
The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to his financial woes. Joining a company of younger men, Jenkins and the other prospective miners si...
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Nell Robertson Chinchen
The Yankee Officer and the Southern Belle: A Journey of Love Across Africa
It began like a fairytale-amidst mint juleps and magnolias in Mississippi. But as their love grew, its fruit flourished and spread to a most unlikely place-across the mission fields of Africa. The Yankee Officer and the Southern Belle is the vivid recollection of how God called Nell and Jack Chinc...
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Christine Swanberg
Wild Fruition: Sonnets, Spells, And Other Incantations
A book of new and selected poems with color photographs by Jeffery Swanberg. It contains poems from across the authors entire life divided into sections. Many of the poems have a nature theme. There are many sonnets included in this collection. Most were written recently. Other newer free verse poem...
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Boubacar N’Diaye
Mauritania's Colonels (African Governance)
This book, the result of more than a decade of research, focuses on the socio-political dynamics and civil-military relations in a little studied country: Mauritania, located in the troubled North-western part of Africa. Boubacar N’Diaye brings into light the political evolution of this country wh...
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Charles River Editors
The Klondike Gold Rush: The History of the Late 19th Century Gold Rush in Alaska and the Yukon
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rush written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Alaska is the land of the Nineteenth Century Argonauts; and the Golden Fleece hidden away among its snowcapped and glacier-clad mountains is no...
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Les Roberts
The Dutch: A Milan Jacovich Mystery (#12)
#12 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series … “Brilliantly plotted, with a powerhouse climax.” — Booklist When Ellen Carnine’s broken body is found 150 feet below the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge in downtown Cleveland, everyone thinks it’s suicide. A terse, sad suicide note has been left on the ...
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Harrison Wick
Greater Wyoming Valley Trolleys
The Wyoming Valley is nestled among the Endless Mountains in Luzerne County with the scenic Susquehanna River meandering through it. Best known for its rich deposits of anthracite coal, the Wyoming Valley was first colonized by Connecticut settlers in 1769. Electric trolleys served many urban center...
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Jack Schaefer
Shane
This classic Western is a profoundly moving story of the influence of a singular character on one boy’s life. The Starrett family’s life forever changes when a man named Shane rides out of the great glowing West and up to their farm. Young Bob Starrett is entranced by this stoic stranger who bri...
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Alexandra M. Nickliss
Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics
In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics , Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age’s most prominent and powerful women. A financial manager, businesswoman, and reformer, Phoebe Apperson Hearst was one of the wealthiest and most influential women of...
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Mitri Raheb
Surviving Jewel: The Enduring Story of Christianity in the Middle East (The Global Story of Christianity)
The Christian church was born in the Middle East and grew there for centuries. Its interaction with Islam turned Christianity in this once predominantly Christian region into a marginalized jewel, surviving at great peril within a difficult, even sometimes hostile, political and religious climate. O...
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Donovan Campbell
Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. So he joined the service, becoming a commander of a forty-man infantry platoon called Joker One . Campbell had just months to train and transform a ragtag group of brand-new...
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Tracy Daugherty
Larry McMurtry: A Life
*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book* A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned ove...
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Jack Flam
Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art: A Documentary History
This book is the first to bring together texts documenting the encounter between Western artists and writers and what has historically been called primitive art―the traditional, indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and North America. Beginning with the "discovery" of that art by European artists an...
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Louis L'Amour
The Man from the Broken Hills: A Novel (Talon and Chantry)
For years Milo Talon had been riding the outlaw trail, looking for a man who had betrayed his family. Only Hank Rossiter wasn’t the man he had been: old now and blind, Rossiter was trying desperately to hold on to a small ranch to support his daughter, Barbara. Suddenly Talon found himself in the ...
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John Farris
I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream.
Feel that... a forty-year-old cold front has once again risen riding shotgun on the old Cheer-i-o Ice Cream truck that still serves up the best ice cream in the whole world. Its driver, the circusy Buster Dockins, who, thought to be long dead, has returned, but this time he is confecting a cone spri...
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Willa Cather
Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories
Best known for the distinctive portraits of the people and land of the American West in her prairie novels, Willa Cather is one of the greatest American writers of this century. The fourteen short stories in this richly diverse collection, along with an exemplary introduction by author Cynthia Griff...
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Samiha Hoque
Slums of Paradise: A Novel
For fans of Pachinko and Half of a Yellow Sun , an intimate debut novel about immigration, marriage, and vengeance politics told through the eyes of four Bengali teenagers in two vastly different time periods. In 1970s Sylhet, eleven-year-old Sumaya is the daughter of a wealthy Bengali aristocr...
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Peter Annin
Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water
In 2000, a transformative climate-driven “megadrought” swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river’s two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside the West, water stocks are stressed even ...
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