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Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden: A Norton Critical Edition
Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries claim her as their own. The Secret Garden , her best-known work, became an instant modern classic and world-wide bestseller upon its publication in 1911. T...
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Emily Arnold McCully
Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business―and Won! – The Young Adult Story of an Investigative Journalist Who Took Down Rockefeller
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even ...
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Richard Hess
High Flight: A Pilot's Journey Through Life
Richard Hess, born John Patrick Aliano, began life in a typical middle-class household. His parents divorced when he was just a toddler, and after his mom remarried, she gave him her new husband's surname, further distancing him from his paternal roots. Growing up on New York's mean streets with an ...
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William Riordan
Divine Light: The Theology of Denys The Areopagite
In his missionary journeys, St. Paul spoke in a number of cities in the Greek peninsula including Athens, renowned for its philosophical heritage. He addressed to them the message of the One, Unknown God (Acts 17:22ff). Among those present in the Areopagus (the open city center of Athens) on that da...
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Bodil Stefansson
A Man Called Glader: The Emigrants
This is the true story of the real people who were like Vilhelm Moberg’s Kristina and Karl Oskar. The emigrant Swedes packed food and other necessities in travel chests and sold all other properties. They left their home and family, going on a one-way journey with no expectation of ever returning....
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Thea Gallo Becker
Cleveland: 1796-1929 (OH) (Images of America)
See how Cleveland's growth, strength and wealth of diversity made it the most populous, prosperous and influential city in the history of Ohio. Located on the southern shores of Lake Erie, Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland, an agent of the Connecticut Land Company surveying...
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L. Neil Smith
The American Zone
In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free--really free. Free to do as they please, whether it be starting a business, running for elected office, or taking target practice in the back forty. There's not a whole lot of government, nor is there a lot of crime, because everyone who want...
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Captivating History
History of Argentina: A Captivating Guide to Argentine History, Starting from the Pre-Columbian Period Through the Inca Empire and Spanish
Did you know that as of 2018, Argentina has a literacy level of 99 percent? Are you curious to find out how it achieved this? Argentina has a long and complex history. For hundreds of years, Argentina was inhabited by hunter-gatherer groups. For the most part, these people groups got along well wi...
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Garold Hamilton
Ghetto Youth's Bible: Wise Words For Ghetto Youth On The Rise
Ghetto Youth’s Bible provides a riveting narrative of the life of one of Jamaica’s brightest sons, Garold Hamilton, PE, LEED AP BD+C, CEng, MCIBSE, SASHE, CxA, MSc. BSc (Hons). Who would believe that a youngster hailing from the tough inner-city community of Shaolin, located between two cemeteri...
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Thomas Sheppard
Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic
Winner of the John Lyman Book Award in the category of “U.S. Naval History.” Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic tells the story of the creation of the American Navy. Rather than focus on the well-known frigate duels and fleet engagements, Thomas Sheppard emphasi...
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Amy Godine
The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier
Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Forest History Society Book Award The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s to the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build the farms that helped them meet a $250 property requirement...
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Dr. Jerry Thompson
Tejano Tiger: Jose de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891 (The Texas Biography Series)
Riding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benavides, who served several terms as alcalde of Laredo, Texas, and Chief Justice of Webb County. When...
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Sarah M. A. Gualtieri
Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity)
Los Angeles is home to the largest population of people of Middle Eastern origin and descent in the United States. Since the late nineteenth century, Syrian and Lebanese migration, in particular, to Southern California has been intimately connected to and through Latin America. Arab Routes uncover...
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Sid Steiner
They Call Me Sid Rock: Rodeo's Extreme Cowboy
Sid Steiner is a fourth-generation legend rodeo star in one of the fastest growing sports in the country; his autobiography covers his family history as well as his life from popular son of a star to becoming the 2002 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo Champion. Sid Steiner had the pedigree: he was born...
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Alice Coldbreath
His Forsaken Bride
Fenella Thane is a desperate woman. Her absentee husband of eight years has served her with divorce papers and she looks likely to lose her beloved home and be forced into a convent. There is just one slim chance to avoid this fate, one person of prominence at court who she knows has the ear of the ...
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Tim Challies
The Commandment We Forgot (Cruciform Quick)
We are all children, we ought to pursue God’s blessings, and we need to give prominence to God’s prominent command. For these reasons, we can no longer ignore the forgotten commandment. The fifth commandment is not just for children. Rather, it pertains to the whole of life and to every person o...
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Thomas J. Shelley
Upper West Side Catholics: Liberal Catholicism in a Conservative Archdiocese
This remarkable history of a beloved Upper West Side church is in many respects a microcosm of the history of the Catholic Church in New York City. Here is a captivating study of a distinctive Catholic community on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, an area long noted for its liberal Catholic sympa...
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David S. Heidler
Henry Clay: The Essential American
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured i...
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Darrell Rigby
Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos
Agile has the power to transform work--but only if it's implemented the right way. For decades business leaders have been painfully aware of a huge chasm: They aspire to create nimble, flexible enterprises. But their day-to-day reality is silos, sluggish processes, and stalled innovation. Today, ag...
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John Ensor Harr
Dark Eagle
A stirring, dark novel of one of the nation's most notorious traitors traces his rise to prominence as Dark Eagle, a military man both feared and revered by his Indian enemies, and his treasonous attempt to sell out three thousand American troops. 17,500 first printing. Tour. At first, Benedict Arno...
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