Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan: Two Stories of Bravery

Meet two heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the rights to freedom and education in these inspirational nonfiction tales from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeannette Winter. Two stories of bravery in one beautiful book!Meet two...

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Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America

“Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.”–Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin...

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May 9th, 2017
Oglethorpe in America

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Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George...

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Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics

Martin Van Buren was a one-term president whose public life has long been overshadowed by the more fiery personalities of his day--Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. Nevertheless, Van Buren was a transforming...

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Edward Hopper Paints His World

As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And...

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Strongheart: The World's First Movie Star Dog

Strongheart may have been a movie star, but he wasn't always famous. He started out as a police dog who could sniff out criminals and march like a soldier, but he didn't know how to have fun. Larry Trimble was a Hollywood director who wanted to put Strongheart in...

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Black Elk Speaks

The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth...

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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Before the Revolution

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I Got This: To Gold and Beyond

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!Gold medal-winning Olympic gymnast and Dancing with the Stars champion Laurie Hernandez shares her story in her own words in this debut book for fans of all ages—with never-before-seen...

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Dec 16th, 2016
The Other Side of the Medal

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A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty

Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today s greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority...

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سيف الله خالد بن الوليد

نبذة النيل والفرات:إن كتاب "سيف الله خالد بن الوليد" من تأليف ضابط باكستاني برتبة لواء، مسؤول عن تدريس مادة التاريخ العسكري في كلية القيادة والأركان الباكستانية. وهو يبحث بالتفصيل وبأسلوب عسكري جيد في الحياة والتربية العسكرية لدى العرب في فترة...

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Shameless: How I Ditched the Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure...and Somehow Got Home in Time To Cook Dinner

A funny, sexy, and wildly entertaining look at the rewards of fully realized desire in the life of one ordinary woman.At 43 years old, Pamela Madsen was happily married to the man she fell in love with at 17....

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Jan 14th, 2016
The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane as an inmate of a torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was,...

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يوميات هيروشيما - من 6 أغسطس إلى 30 سبتمبر 1945

كتاب "يوميات هيروشيما" يبدأ بدراسة للدكتور رءوف توضح التطور التاريخى الذى وصل إلى أن قصفت مدينتى هيروشيما وناجازاكى بالقنابل الذرية فى نهاية الحرب العالمية الثانية يتبعها بترجمته لليوميات الشهيرة للطبيب اليابانى متشھیكو ھاتشیا والتى وثق فيها شهادته كطبيب عمل على علاج المصابين فى...

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Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics

Imagine you are fluent in a magical language of prophecy, a language so powerful it can accurately describe things you cannot see or even imagine. Einstein's Heroes takes you on a journey of discovery about just such a miraculous language--the language...

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Where the Hell is Matt? The Story Behind the Internet Dancing Sensation

Matt Harding created an Internet sensation with his awkward, limb-flailing dance of joy. His travels, and his bad dancing, have been viewed online nearly 75 million times. It started as a lark on a curbside in Hanoi, Vietnam. He did it for fun, but Matt 's irreverent spirit...

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May 22nd, 2017
Great Meadow

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The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City

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The Journal of John Wesley

Author, evangelist, preacher, organizer, theologian, and pietist John Wesley is arguably one of the most important Christian voices of the 18th century. We continue to be influenced by him nearly three centuries later. He was a founder of the...

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Stephen F Austin Empresario of Texas

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The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette

"Evocative photography and a wealth of detail make the book a visual treat."--"Interior Design" Marie Antoinette, whose marriage at fifteen made her queen of France before she was twenty, died under the blade of the guillotine in 1793....

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اثنا عشر عاماً من العبودية

يكشف هذا النص كيف عاش نورثوب في ظروف العبودية القاسية، وكابد المرض والجَلْد وتعرّض لمحاولة شنق. ويصف الحياة اليومية للعبيد في لويزيانا، ونظامهم الغذائي، وظروف حياتهم، والعلاقة بين السيّد والعبد، وكيف كان مطاردو العبيد يلاحقون الفارّين ويعيدونهم إلى نير العبودية. كما يوضح الظروف التي أحاطت...

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No Time For Romance

Lucilla Andrews was only eighteen when, as a volunteer nurse at the beginning of the second world war, she experienced the grim realities of wartime . Young, inexperienced and coming from a comfortable and sheltered background, she found herself dealing with survivors from Dunkirk and the...

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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood

Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the...

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Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

This diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager provides a fascinating record of what an everyday American girl felt and thought during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Young Chicagoan Joan Wehlen describes her daily life...

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Dec 28th, 2016
Mao

Michael Lynch presents an engaging and thorough account of Mao's life and politics, making use of a wealth of primary and secondary sources. He locates Maoism in the broader context of twentieth century Chinese history, discussing the development of the Chinese Communist Party, the creation of...

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Beatles, The: Recording Sessions

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Epilogue: A Memoir

When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he discovers he has two half-brothers living in England. In exquisite prose Will Boast sets about piecing together...

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Jul 12th, 2017
Sam Houston

In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley’s fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly...

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Thinking In Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life With Autism

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who...

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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan

In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began...

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A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song

With The Initial Publication of A Hard Day's Write, music journalist Steve Turner added a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by exploring for the first time the personal true stories immortalized in their compositions. In this updated edition, Turner...

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I Knew Their Hearts: The Amazing True Story of Jeff Olsen's Journey Beyond the Veil to Learn the Silent Language of the Heart

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