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Pretty Evil New York: True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous Matriarchs

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (Author)Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales. But the real stories are much more fascinating and complex. In Pretty Evil New York author Elizabeth Kerri Mahon takes you on a journey through a rogue's gallery of some of New York's most notable female criminals. Drawing on newspaper coverage and other primary sources, this collection of historical true crime stories chronic...

The Outlaw Youngers: A Confederate Brotherhood

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Report copyright infringementby Marley Brant (Author)A character study of the men, the myths and the legends of the Outlaw Youngers, one of the most notorious gangs in the Wild West.Author BiographyMarley Brant is the author of ten books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her books have been featured in People Magazine; the New York Times and numerous other newspapers; have been the basis for television programs on A&E and VH1; and have served as the primary research for hours of television pr...

Shortened Seasons: The Untimely Deaths of Major League Baseball's Stars and Journeymen

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Report copyright infringementby Fran Zimniuch (Author)Shortened Seasons recounts the stories of some of the baseball players who never made it back for the next game, who died with the suddenness of a walk-off homerun. For them, there was no next year. From Hall of Fame caliber players such as Roberto Clemente, Thurman Munson, and Ed Delahanty to players who were still finding their niche in the game like Ken Hubbs, Lyman Bostoc, and Darryl Kile, this book explores the lives and deaths of bal...

The Promise of the West: Young Pioneers on the Overland Trails

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Barmeyer O'Brien (Author)Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed and excited about the adventures that awaited them as they headed toward the setting sun. Little did they know how treacherous and grueling the trip would be.Author BiographyMary Barmeyer O'Brien's books on the pioneer experience include ...

Pretty Evil Pennsylvania: True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous Matriarchs

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Hoover (Author)Pennsylvania may have been founded by peaceful Quakers, but the sect's pacifist ways didn't dampen the state's enthusiasm for violent scandals-or capital punishment. In Pretty Evil Pennsylvania, historical true crime author Stephanie Hoover recounts the crimes of some of the Keystone State's most violent female criminals from the 1850s through the 1930s. The stories of these law-breaking ladies are complex and nuanced. On occasion you m...

Royal Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Edwards (Author)In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject. From birth to maturity, they were the stuff of which dreams are made. "I'm three and you're four," the future Queen, then a child, imperiously informed her s...

Never Don't Pay Attention: The Life of Rodeo Photographer Louise L. Serpa

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Cleere (Author)Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born "in the wrong place, to the wrong woman, at the wrong time." Born in 1925 and growing up in New York society with a mother who was never satisfied with her rather lanky, unpolished daughter, teenager Louise eventually found happiness when she spent a summer on a Wyoming dude ranch scrubbing toilets, waiting tables and wrangling cattle. Later in life, she settled in Tucson, Arizona, where her intro...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas V. Meed (Author)Captain Klevenhagen was one of the best officers Texas ever had. He combined the qualities of the frontier Ranger and his modern day counterpart . . . a peerless horseman and deadly shot, he was also versed in ballistics, fingerprints, and other facets.Back JacketCaptain Klevenhagen was one of the best officers Texas ever had. He combined the qualities of the frontier Ranger and his modern day counterpart . . . a peerless horseman and de...

Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Agonito (Author)The lives of Plains Indian women are revealed through this series of fascinating vignettes. Some of these women never knew anything but the old, nomadic way of life, while others lived on to suffer through the reservation years. Others were born on the reservation but did their to keep to the old ways. Some never left the reservation while others ventured out into the larger world.Author BiographyJoseph Agonito, PhD, an award-winning auth...

Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Dismore (Author)In November 2017 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. As a 13-year-old Princess, she fell in love with Prince Philip of Greece, an ambitious naval cadet, and they married when she was 21; when she suddenly became Queen at 25, their lives changed forever. Philip has been her great support, but fortunately she also had a solid foundation that helped prepare her for a life dedicated to duty. With previ...

Early American Naturalists: Exploring the American West, 1804-1900

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Report copyright infringementby John Moring (Author)This history is the first to detail the lives, adventures, and discoveries of pioneering American naturalists such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Martha Maxwell, Spencer Baird, Asa Gray, John Torrey, Florence bailey, John Burroughs, and John Muir. From discovering new species to discovering prehistoric fossils, Early American Naturalists celebrates these intrepid trailblazers who boldly navigated and documented the untrammeled, awe-i...

The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told

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Report copyright infringementby Lamar Underwood (Editor)Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape--in art, books, and film, including 2016's Leonardo DiCaprio hit movie The Revenant--is today shared by the figures called Mountain Men. They were the trappers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the years following Lewis a...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Roberts Rinehart (Author), Rick Rinehart (Foreword by)"The lure of the high places is in your blood. The call of the mountains is a real call. The veneer, after all, is so thin. Throw off the impedimenta of civilization, the telephones, the silly conventions, the lies that pass for truth. Go out to the West. Ride slowly, not to startle the wild things. Throw out your chest and breathe; look across green valleys to wild peaks where mountain sheep stand impa...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah F. Wakefield (Author)Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees is a reprint of the classic narrative of Sarah Wakefield's survival. Told in her own words, this compelling tale was a best seller when it was originally published more than one hundred years ago. Today it offers readers a unique perspective on Sioux culture and what life was like on the Great Plains in mid-nineteenth-century America.Author BiographySarah F. Wakefield penned the story of her six-week capt...

Outlaw Tales of Texas: True Stories of the Lone Star State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Convis (Author)A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the West.Back JacketMeet the Most Notorious Texans Who Ever LivedRide with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. From the tale of the infamous street shoot-out in Uvalde to the stories of the Dalton brother's most despicable escapades, each story ...

La Vida Según Mafalda / Life According to Mafalda - Paperback

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by Quino (Author) La mejor edad de la vida es estar vivo! Descubre la filosofía de vida de Mafalda: una manera rebelde, concienciada, inteligente y sobre todo divertida de estar muy vivo. «Con ustedes, la filósofa con lacito con la que han crecido varias generaciones, [...] la Greta Thunberg de la historieta. [...] Por su espíritu contestatario, humor cuchillero y costumbrismo con guiños progres, Mafalda jamás pasará de moda. [...] Quino se ganó la inmortalidad y los amantes de las viñetas ...

International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s - Paperback

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by Tim Bergfelder (Author) West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "New German Cinema." Yet for domestic and international audiences at the time, German cinema primarily meant popular genres such as exotic adventure films, Gothic crime thrillers, westerns, and sex films, which were dismissed by German filmmakers and critics of the 1970s as "Daddy's Cinema." International Adventures p...

Pollen's Women: The Art of Samson Pollen - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Samson Pollen (Artist), Robert Deis (Editor), Wyatt Doyle (Editor)POLLEN'S WOMEN is a lush visual archive collecting some of artist Samson Pollen's most memorable pieces, selected from the hundreds of jaw-dropping illustrations Pollen provided for men's adventure magazines (MAMs) from the 1950s through the 1970s. Sexy women were a regular component of story illustrations published in the more than 160 MAM titles that flourished from the early 1950s through the ...

S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large - Hardcover

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by Rem Koolhaas (Author), Bruce Mau (Author)S, M, L, XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings.The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal ...

The Official U.S. Army Survival Manual Updated - Paperback

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by Department of the Army (Author), Peter T. Underwood (Author)This comprehensive new edition of U.S. Army Survival Manual, issued by the Department of the Army and thoroughly revised by Colonel Peter T. Underwood USMC (Ret), is ideal for military personnel and all outdoors enthusiasts. From the psychology of survival and basic medicine to personal camouflage and signaling techniques, this essential resource provides all the information you need to survive. Included here is a guide to identif...

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar G. Daylight (Author), Raymond Boute (Contribution by), Arthur C. Fleck (Contribution by)Edgar Daylight's rather provocative theme in this book is that many high-profile computer scientists do not consistently distinguish between their favorite mathematical concepts and the representations thereof in the real world. This leads to mistakes. Daylight introduces seemingly small but useful distinctions. As a result, technical corrections are put forth in conne...

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by Augustine (Author), Marcus Dods (Translator), Thomas Merton (Introduction by)One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought. Contrasting earthly and heavenly cities--representing the omnipresent struggle between good and evil--Augustine explores human history in its relation to all eternity. In Thomas Merton's words, "The City of G...

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - Paperback

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by Hampton Sides (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers. - "A splendid book in every way...a marvelous nonfiction thriller." --The Wall Street Journal On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country ...

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels - Paperback

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by Thomas Cahill (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York Times), recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today.The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen...

Train: The Definitive Visual History - Hardcover

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by DK (Author)This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track. Packed with stunning photography, Train catalogues the development of trains from early steam to diesel engines and electric locomotives, explores in detail iconic trains such as the Palace on Wheels and the Orient Express, and chronicles the social, political, and cultural backdrop against which railways were built the world over. Profiling the best loved railways and rail journeys of all time - from th...

Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1963 - Hardcover

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by Shelby Foote (Author)A matchless account of the Battle of Gettysburg, drawn from Shelby Foote's landmark history of the Civil War Shelby Foote's monumental three-part chronicle, The Civil War: A Narrative, was hailed by Walker Percy as "an unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." Here is the central chapter of the central volume, and therefore the capstone of the arch, in a...

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - Hardcover

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by Yeonmi Park (Author), Maryanne Vollers (Author)"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller "Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible d...

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam - Paperback

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by Karen Armstrong (Author)Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. The epic story begins with the Jews' gradu...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story - Hardcover

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by John Berendt (Author)Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining firs...

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by Hugh Thomas (Author)"Mr. Thomas has understood the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject."--Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new reve...

Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 - Paperback

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by Rósa Magnúsdóttir (Author)Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this period saw cultural relations develop in close connection to oppression as the Soviet authorities attempted to contain and appropriate images of the United States. Rósa Magnúsdóttir analyzes two official narratives abo...

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer - Paperback

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by Irene Gut Opdyke (Author), Jennifer Armstrong (With)"No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starred I did not ask myself, "Should I do this?" but "How will I do this?" Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, In My Hands has become a profound testament to individual courage. You must understand that I did not become a resis...