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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON · Ballantine Books
Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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Evacuees: Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front
Gillian Mawson · Pen and Sword
Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover
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On the outbreak of the Second World War, during the first week of September 1939 over three million people were evacuated. Operation Pied Piper was the largest ever transportation of people across Britain, and most of those moved to safety in the countryside were schoolchildren. Social... |
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Ex Libris: 100 Books to Read and Reread
Michiko Kakutani · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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"Books can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures, national boundaries, and historical eras," Kakutani writes in her introduction to Ex Libris. Here readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics... |
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