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Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Lee Smith · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth was a place... |
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Devil's diary.
Robert Wittman · Harpercollins, 2015.
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's "chief philosopher" and architect of Nazi ideology - interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors:... |
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MAKING OF ST. PETERSBURG
Will Michaels · The History Press
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
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The Making of St. Petersburg captures the character of this bay city through the telling of significant events, from the Spanish clash with indigenous peoples to the creation of the downtown waterfront parks and grand hotels. Take a journey with local historian Will Michaels as he chronicles... |
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
ELIZABETH NORTON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also... |
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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters
Giles Milton · Picador Usa, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles MiltonThe first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary... |
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 1: Religion
Samuel S. Hill · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious... |
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered AmericaIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York... |
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The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
EDWARD L AYERS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the devastation of war rise the first stirrings of freedom in this absorbing, ground-level narrative by an acclaimed historian.Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace with a rich soil and an enslaved workforce, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman · Custom House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous... |
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Grant
RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida
Cathy Salustri · University Press of Florida
Pages: 239
Format: Print book
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"A handy road companion for any tourist, newcomer, or longtime Floridian who wants to get off the beaten path and travel back in time." - Bobby Braddock, Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter "In staccato bursts of frenzy and passion, Salustri has written a modern love... |
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea
Ralph Young · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dissent The History of an American Idea examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher · Penguin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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