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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (A Norton Short)
Tiya Miles - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America.Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations... |
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Anderson Cooper - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story - of ambition, invention, destruction,... |
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Michael Harriot - Dey Street Books
Format: Audio CD
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From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted... |
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The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper
Paul Sheard - Matt Holt
Format: eBook
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WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER. Money permeates our everyday lives - it literally makes the economic world go round - and yet confusion and controversy about money abound.. In The Power of Money, economist Paul Sheard distills what money is, how it comes into existence, and how it interacts... |
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A History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II
Kanaya Shunichiro - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!. A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from its misty origins up to the present day. Epic battles, noble Samurai and duplicitous leaders are all portrayed in modern manga fashion!... |
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