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Peg A. Lamphier

Civil War on Film, The (Hollywood History)

The Civil War on Film informs high-school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy. The nation's years of civil war were painful, destructive, and unpleasant. Yet war films tend to embrace mythol...

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Denise E. Bates

We Will Always Be Here: Native Peoples on Living and Thriving in the South (Other Southerners)

“The Southeastern Indian people found their voices in this work. They are alive and well—still on their land!”—Hiram F. Gregory, coauthor of The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present “This collection fills a major void in our understanding of recent southern ...

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The Rings of Jeffrey

Jeffrey Ballon Jones is a spiky haired, overly energetic eleven-going-on-twelve- year-old who loves dance and soccer. He’s a standout at his mom’s dance studio and on the soccer team his dad helps coach. He has big dreams of being both a professional dancer and soccer player. Only his older sist...

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Linda Stephens-Jones

Overcoming: Stories of Triumph Through Faith

In this book you will find deeply personal stories of people who triumphed over major challenges through their faith. Sometimes when we are going through tough times in life, we can feel that we’re the only one, which can lead to discouragement and feeling that no one else will understand. If t...

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My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor

My Fabulous Disease: Chronicles of a Gay Survivor is an anthology spanning four decades - in turns emotional, biting and hilarious - from activist and writer Mark S. King. The sum of these chronicles is a manifesto of survival. But they also are a portrait of a man giggling through a graveyard. Th...

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They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing

They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as hybridized forms that push the boundaries of concepts like “ genre” and “ author.” Contributors to this anthology include: Kelli Russell Agodon, Anne-Marie ...

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A Collection of PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME II: BIOGRAPHIES & GENEALOGIES (A Collection of PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I:

Many people settled in Alabama for a time when the Mississippi Territory opened, then moved further west. This is a great book for genealogists researching early citizens of Perry County, Alabama. Brush Creek in Perry county, Alabama was settled before Alabama became a state. The area was designated...

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Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem

In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and soci...

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Journey to Lean: Making Operational Change Stick

In the current climate attention has refocused on lean production. While books have looked at the principles of lean production and techniques, this book from McKinsey & Company, the world's most influential management consultancy, provides a unique approach, which is holistic in nature and argues t...

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Peter J. Thuesen

Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather

One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition and predicted they would pass away as humans became more scientifically and theologically sophistic...

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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War

“A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” — The Wall Street Journal “Friedman’s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried...

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Roger Huntington

How to Hop Up Ford & Mercury V8 Engines:: Speed Tuning Theory, Costs, H.P. & Torque

This Roger Huntington classic will help you understand how things were done around 1951, specifically, the details on planning the modifications, fitting the block, boring and stroking, flathead and overhead-valve cylinder heads, cams, pistons, rings, intake manifolds, exhaust headers and special ig...

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Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice “A window to the soul of a great city.” ―Inga Saffron, Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building. Conceived in the Gild...

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Elayna Fernandez

Raw Motherhood: A Collection of Poems and Prose to Honor the Joy and Pain in the Journey (Raw Poetry)

Raw Motherhood: A Collection of Poems and Prose to Honor the Joy and Pain in the Journey By 100+ Inspired Poets and Storytellers; Compiled by Elayna Fernández Compiled by bestselling poet and award-winning storyteller Elayna Fernández , Raw Motherhood is an evocative collection of over 100 ...

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