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A Savage Thunder: Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom
In September 1862, two great armies faced off across Antietam Creek, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, knowing that the fate of the United States and the future of millions of slaves were at stake. From behind-the-scenes conversations to the action on the front lines, renowned nonfiction...- $19.99
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A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
The story of the American Revolution as experienced by a Connecticut farm boy who enlisted in the army in 1776. A Young Patriot skillfully weaves together excerpts from the boy's wartime account with the author's explanatory text to create a fascinating and factual history...- $7.95
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Across America on an Emigrant Train
An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve-day journey from New York to California in 1879 to see his ailing fiancé provides the opportunity to experience a cross-country journey firsthand. Drawn from Stevenson's journal, Across America offers a unique and fascinating primary-source account of transcontinental...- $10.95
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American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Powerful and riveting, this Newbery Honor-winning narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever, the toll it took on the nation's capital--and the eventual triumph over the disease.Long before Covid and the West Nile virus, yellow fever was a medical mystery that forced thousands...- $21.99
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Blizzard! Lib/E: The Storm That Changed America
On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the region of Virginia to Maine to its knees. During the next three days, the Great Blizzard raged out of control, devastating every community in its path. Through the eyes and words...- $26.95
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Crashed Wagon Canyon
Gold...silver...precious gems...the stuff dreams are made of. This is the story of a hoard of just such valuable metals and stones, whose journey begins in the year 1311, when the Knights Templar were prosecuted. A small band of valiant knights escape with the hoard...- $23.95
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Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible life
Want Guaranteed Freedom and Confidence When You Perform?Discover the life guide that has developed world champions, empowered athletes to become world #1, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will...- $17.97
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
"Who knew the biography of a germ could be so fascinating?"--Kirkus (starred review)This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the microorganism that causes TB was identified and the...- $11.99
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Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City's Heroes and Historic Sites
Philadelphia is known as the home of vibrant colonial history: the Liberty Bell, the Betsy Ross House, and Independence Hall. But the City of Brotherly Love is also home to--and less well known for--its quirky history. The country's first quarantine station was located here....- $18.95
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Swim Kings: Tales of the Jones Beach Lifeguards
Blacky has been an ocean-rescue lifeguard on the Atlantic Ocean at Jones Beach State Park for 15 years, and his job means everything to him. The summer of 1971 changes Blacky's life when a new love awakens his hardened heart and a lover from...- $13.99
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The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War
This well-researched and readable account provides fresh insight into the human cost of a pivotal event in United States history.--The Horn Book, starred review. Illustrated with over 50 archival photos.Author: Jim MurphyISBN-10: 0780722221ISBN-13: 9780780722224Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1993Pages: 110Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w...- $25.85
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The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War
This contemporary classic explores the role of boys who fought in the Civil War. No reader's vision of America's most brutal and bloody war will be the same after reading this book."This wrenching look at our nation's bloodiest conflict through the eyes of its...- $12.99
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The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America's most famous hoaxes!When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions....- $20.99
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The Great Fire
Jim Murphy's Newbery Honor Book available for the first time in paperback.The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few...- $14.99
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The Uniform House
This powerful book is kaleidoscopic in all ways-patterns of language, history, and landscape tumble down the page to be formed anew on the next. It is reflective and absorbing at once. It brings dignity and insight to a raw, unlettered world in order to...- $15.95
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Versions of May
Without seeming to at first glance, Jim Murphy's Versions of May succeeds in speaking to the anxieties that move beneath the surface waters of our times. It is a collection of tremendous depth and breadth, piercing insight and tenderness. Global, and yet attentive to...- $15.00
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Versions of May
In Versions of May we are pushed from our present moments "forward into other histories, / no sights, no path, no guide." Every poem is a little trip, visiting cathedrals, temples, tombs, battlefields, forests, and creeks, and with every stop, there is an opportunity...- $20.00
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