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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Paperback

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by Editorial Oneness (Editor), Mark Twain (Author)Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc By Mark Twain, Editorial Oneness (Edited by) Number of Pages: 428 Dimensions: 0.87 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 14, 2016 Accelerated Reader: Quiz Name: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8 Reading Level: 4.4 ...

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by Silvia Isabel Rael Almanza (Author)Silvia Isabel Rael Almanza is a Chicana. That is not a racial or an ethnic statement/status but, rather, a political one. It was in the 1950s that the hyphen in Spanish-American defined a group of people as less-than-American. It was the political process that eliminated the hyphen and restored our rightful place on this North American land in the United States of America. Silvia feels at home and is proud to be defined as a Chicana. Number of Pages: 108 ...

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau - Hardcover

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by Martha Ward (Author)Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and daughter of the same name. Both were legendary leaders of religious and spiritual traditions many still label as evil. The Laveaus were free women of color and prominent French-speaking Catholic Creoles. From the 1820s...

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by Adolf Hitler (Author)Reprint of unexpurgated ed. Originally published: 1939. "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in the Landsberg Prison in 1923–1924. The book outlines Hitler's political ideology, beliefs, and his vision for Germany's future. It became the blueprint for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) and laid the foundation for Hitler's policies and actions once he came to power. Key asp...

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide - Paperback

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by Henry Morgenthau (Author)By the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was beginning to dissolve. Upon seeing this weakness, Germany set its own plans into action in the capital of Constantinople-to bring the vast Turkish Empire under its control. In this book, American statesman HENRY MORGENTHAU SR. (1856-1946) details how Turkey fell under the influence of Germany and how this led to the Armenian Genocide. In a trial run of the extermination of the Jews, the Germans orchestrated the murder and ...

The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus - Paperback

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by Michel Nostradamus (Author), Nostradamus (Author)Here are the complete prophecies of Nostradamus. Nostradamus is the best known and most accurate mystic and seer of all times. There are those who say that he predicted Napoleon and even the attack on the World Trade Center. Read the prophecies and judge for yourself. Since governments, sects and countries will undergo such sweeping changes, diametrically opposed to what now obtains, that were I to relate events to come, those in power now -...

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by Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood (Author), Lord Charnwood (Author)One of the most important works on Abraham Lincoln from the era when he was passing out of living memory and into history, this 1917 classic is a rich, evocative portrait of the man and how actions as a leader were shaped by his character and ideals. From its British perspective, offering a fresh angle on an American legend, to its charming readability, Charnwood's treatise-which was called, in 1947, "the best one-volume li...

Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction - Paperback

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by Gary Rogowski (Author)"Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blisters)." --Nick Offerman In an era when there are countless competing claims on one's attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski, the answer is in the act of creative work itself. The discipline of working with one's hands to create unnecessarily beautiful things shap...

The Autobiography of Mother Jones - Paperback

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by Mother Jones (Author)Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.Jones worked as a teacher and dressmaker, but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 187...

Young Abraham Lincoln: The Childhood and Early Life of Abraham Lincoln - Paperback

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by Brinkley Howard (Author), Lifecaps (Created by)Few famous humans came into the world under such humble circumstances as Abraham Lincoln on February 12, 1809. But it may very well be that the humble and unassuming life he lived actually served to shape him into the solid, moral, honest, decent, hard-working adult that he became. What were those circumstances, the formula so to speak, that molded this future president? This biography looks at the childhood and young adulthood of Abraham Li...

Grace O'Malley: The Queen of the Sea - Paperback

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by Elizabeth O'Neill-Sheehan (Author)Grace O'Malley, The Queen of the Sea is a children's storybook written and illustrated by Elizabeth O'Neill-Sheehan. Grace was a heroic woman whose legacy as warrior, chieftain, and pirate should ring on as one who did not let roles, but rather made her ambitions define her. Written with rhythm and rhyme, Grace's story, including her famous meeting with Queen Elizabeth I, is echoed in true Irish songlike manner to inspire readers to tap into the pirate in ...

John Colter: The Life and Legacy of America's First Mountain Man - Paperback

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by Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"Again he turned his head, and saw the savage not twenty yards from him. Determined if possible to avoid the expected blow, he suddenly stopped, turned round, and spread out his arms. The Indian, surprised by the suddenness of the action, and perhaps at the bloody appearance of Colter, also attempted to stop; but exhausted with running, he fell whilst ende...

The 48 Laws of Black Empowerment - Paperback

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by Dante Fortson (Author)The 48 Laws of Power was written by Robert Greene and first published in 1998. It is often praised as one of the best books to read if you want to get ahead in life. This got me to thinking, "why isn't there anything like this for our community?" We have a lot of people talking about what we need to do, what we should do, and what we could do as a community, but nothing con-crete that we could all sit down with, learn from, and relate to on an individual level. The 48...

The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites - Paperback

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by Frederick Lent (Translator)Originally published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, this English translation of The Life of Saint Simeon the Stylite is a fascinating account of the prototypical pillar saint-the first of those strange holy athletes who took their stand atop a high column. Of unknown authorship, this vita was originally written in Syriac and was most likely penned shortly after Simeon's death in AD 459. Much of Simeon's biography consists of mystical events, mir...

Francis Marion: The Life and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Legendary Swamp Fox - Paperback

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by Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Marion's life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "As for this damned old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him." - Colonel Banastre Tarleton "Well, now, this is exactly my case. I am in love; and my sweetheart is Liberty. Be that heavenly nymph my companion, and these wilds and Woods shall have charms beyond London and Paris in slavery. To have no proud monarch driving over me ...

Life Among the Piutes: The First Autobiography of a Native American Woman: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites, Domestic and Social Moralities - Paperback

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by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Author)Life Among the Paiutes is considered the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman." This is both an autobiographic memoir and history of the Paiute people during their first forty years of contact with European Americans. It Anthropologist Omer Stewart described it as "one of the first and one of the most enduring ethnohistorical books written by an American Indian." Contents: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites Domestic and Social Moral...

Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Women Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Davis - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Keckley (Author)In "Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House," Elizabeth Keckley offers a poignant and personal account of her experiences as a former slave who rose to become the dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. Keckley employs a candid narrative style that intertwines her harrowing life story with sharp socio-political observations of 19th-century America, particularly concerning slavery and the complexities of race in the midst o...

King Philip: War Chief of the Wampanoag People - Paperback

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by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (Author)Metacomet (1638-1676), also known by his adopted English name King Philip, was chief to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. He became a chief in 1662 when his brother Wamsutta (or King Alexander) died shortly after their father Massasoit. Wamsutta's widow Weetamoo (d. 1676), sunksqua of the Pocasset, was Metacomet's ally and friend for the rest of her life. Metacomet married Weetamoo's younger sister Wootonekanuske. No one know...

Dorothy Dandridge: The Life and Legacy of One of Hollywood's First Successful Black Actresses - Paperback

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by Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"If I were white, I could capture the world." - Dorothy DandridgeThe bright summer sun shined blissfully on a secluded valley tucked into the romantic Costa del Sol in southern Spain. Water bubbled friskily over a rocky streambed as trees swayed in the gentle tropical breeze and dappled the banks in playful shadows. A closer look reveals a man and a woman entwined on the rocky shore in an intimate embrace. ...

Beyond Columbo: The Life and Times of Peter Falk - Paperback

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by William J. Birnes (Author), Richard A. Lertzman (Author)We knew him as Lieutenant Columbo, showing up at a crime scene behind the wheel of an iconic Peugeot 403 convertible and wearing a rumpled trench coat, tie often at half mast from an open collar, and smoking a cigar. He was meticulous, though, in his search for clues, focusing on things that didn't add up and homing in on a person whom he suspected as he tightened the web around his prey until, in a final reveal, he got the suspect to...

John Stark of Rogers' Rangers: a Famous Ranger and His Associates During the French & Indian War: The Life of General John Stark of New Hampshire by H - Paperback

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by Howard Parker Moore (Author), Caleb Stark (Author)The early military career of a great American soldier and patriotStudents of the history of the American War of Independence will be familiar with Major-General John Stark of the Continental Army who served at Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton and notably at Bennington, 1777. However, in common with many American soldiers of his period, he had once been a soldier of the British Army. More interestingly he joined the elite rangers, serving wit...

Dyatlov Pass Incident: The Grotesque Death Of Nine - Paperback

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by John Downey (Author)In February 1959, nine hikers, led by Igor Dyatlov, died in mysterious circumstances on the slopes of the Ural Mountains. Rescuers found their bodies hundreds of metres from the campsite. The tent had been slashed from the inside and still contained their clothes and shoes. Their half-naked corpses had crushed ribs, fractured skulls; one poor girl was even missing her tongue. An inquest at the time concluded that they had been killed by "unknown compelling natural force...

The Memoirs of Paul Kruger: Four Times President of the South African Republic: Told by Himself - Paperback

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by Paul Kruger (Author)Paul Kruger was the dominating figure of Boer-and therefore South African-history of the nineteenth century. His life spanned the time of the Great Trek-the European settlement of the interior-right up to the end of the Second Boer War, and the shadow of his political career stretched deep into the twentieth century.His memoirs, dictated while in exile shortly after the end of the Second Boer War, provide a remarkable and unique insight into this period of history, from...

Stories from Texas: Some of Them are True Vol. II - Paperback

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by W. F. Strong (Author)This is a collection of 70 stories from the popular radio series, Stories from Texas, that runs on the Texas Standard Network of 32 NPR stations across Texas. This is the second book in the series and includes short, memorable stories, that are extensions of the radio stories. Some are inspirational and some are humorous. The book covers the exploits of classic Texans like Sam Houston and Jim Bowie and modern icons such as Barbara Jordan, Mary Kay Ash, and T. Boone Pic...

The Kings and Queens of England and Great Britain Colouring Book - Paperback

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by Joseph Stephen (Author)From William the Conqueror and the Normans, through Henry VIII and the Tudors, and all the way up to Elizabeth II and the house of Windsor, this beautifully illustrated book covers all of the kings and queens to have reigned England and Great Britain.With detailed histories of each monarch alongside a full-page image of that king or queen, you'll be learning while you are enjoying colouring in these important people.Take some time away from your everyday life to enjo...

Gone Wild: The Alaska Off Grid Survival Series - Paperback

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by Miles Martin (Author)A first-person account of living in the wilds of Alaska as a Mountain Man! The second in a series of eight books, much of it written in the wilds.Book 2 - Gone WildI have many adventures on the houseboat and acquire a dog team. There are issues with the police, a bear on my boat, and a trip to see my family who live a civilized life.My houseboat sinks. I get lost and learn other hard lessons. I start doing artwork and end up on TV. I win a land lottery and start my fir...

The Story of Katherine Johnson: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers - Paperback

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by Andrea Thorpe (Author)Discover the life of Katherine Johnson--a story about reaching for the stars, for kids ages 6 to 9 Katherine Johnson was one of the best mathematicians in the history of the United States. Before her math skills helped send the first American astronauts safely into space, she was a smart and curious girl who loved to learn new things about the world around her. She studied hard in school and became one of the first Black women hired by NASA. Independent reading--This...

Bar Brat: A Childhood Tale of the 1960s in Nederland, Colorado - Paperback

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by C. B. Rowe (Author)As America was rolling toward the social and cultural sea change that was the late 1960s, a spunky, precocious, and perceptive little girl was growing up in bars in isolated Colorado mountain towns. While her mother worked in the Branding Iron in Nederland or The Stage Stop in Rollinsville, little Cheryl spun around on bar stools, eavesdropped on patrons' titillating conversations, and watched the local drunks brawl. She knew more than she should have at her age about so...

From Southside Chicago to Global Icon: The Lil Durk Story - Paperback

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by Beverly J. Grassi (Author)"From Southside Chicago to Global Icon: The Lil Durk Story" takes readers on an inspiring journey through the life and career of one of the most influential voices in contemporary hip-hop. This gripping biography delves deep into the captivating rise of Lil Durk, exploring the challenges, triumphs, and transformative moments that shaped him into the global icon he is today.Born and raised in the notorious streets of Chicago's Southside, Lil Durk's story is one of ...

The History of Women in The Marines: Women's Firsts In The Marines - Paperback

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by Savannah Harris (Author)Women Who Changed the Face of War: Discover the Fascinating Histories of Women Who Overcame Prejudices, Destroyed Obstacles, and Paved the Way for Female Marines in the US. Today, only 8% of the officers in the Marines are women. We consider that an amazing accomplishment, even though it might not seem sufficient. But there's no denying it -- the Marine Corps, the last all-male fortification of the US military has finally accepted that which they couldn't deny any ...

A Man From Montana: Memoirs of My Life in Western Montana - Paperback

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by Freeman A. Halverson (Author), Richard L. Hamilton (Editor), Esther a. Hull (Editor)Freeman A. Halverson, a son of Norwegian immigrants was born in Barron County, Wisconsin in 1889 near the town of Dallas. His mother died when he was barely a year old, and he was taken in and raised by close relatives. At the age of 21 years he, along with his cousin Fred, decided to see the world, so they trekked west on the Great Northern Railroad to a place called Kalispell, Montana. Having the youthful...

Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention - Paperback

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by David Shields (Author)NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the "collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump," and above all as a dagger into the rhetoric of American political discourse-a dissection of the polit...