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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451629552Author Philippa GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684425891Author Karl F FridayFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Capt. John R. Hughes' exploits in tracking down horse thieves led not only to his earning the enmity of the Wild Bunch, the desperados led by Butch Cassidy, but also to his becoming a Texas Ranger. Originally published in 1942 with a new introduction by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982111403Author Edward Wilson-LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book Company

When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook-two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341071Author Joseph AmatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

By definition, a maverick is a "lone dissenter" who "takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates" or "a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive policies or ideas." The word maverick has evolved in the English language from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595166718Author Aleksandra KasubaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894898447Author Daniel Williams HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams' P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as ""the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy's always dramatic, often perplexing"" general (Chicago Tribune). Chivalric, arrogant, and of...

This is the history of Washington Duke and two of his sons, Benjamin Newton Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Although numerous other members of the family play their parts in the story it focuses primarily on the three men who were at the center of the...

Timothy Isaiah ""Longhair Jim"" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at...

New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter.' Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old Tomiko...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385480338Author Anne FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602625Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541646698Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062355911Author Eleanor RooseveltFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 499g

A rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality.Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746324Author Jung ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1032gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

First published in 1959, The Autobiography of James Monroe collects the compelling fragments of Monroe's unfinished autobiography, written after his retirement from the presidency. The memoirs trace his boyhood, education, and experiences during his long...

" WITH A FOREWORD BY MARION WRIGHT EDELMAN The award-winning biography of black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. ""Riveting. Provides a history that helps us to understand the choices made by so many black men and women of Hamer's generation, who...

Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained...

Herbert S. Parmet's Eisenhower and the American Crusades is a major assessment of the American presidency during the critical period of America at mid-century. The book follows the career of General Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1952, when he decided to...

This volume provides an account of one family's experiences in post Communist China. The author documents his own coming of age and eventual departure from a country that failed to live up to the hard fought ideals of his father.Book InformationISBN...

This title was first published in 1971: Aims to provide an exciting and psychologically penetrating account of the life of Russia's 18th century tsar/reformer and the theme of progress through violence in Russia.Book InformationISBN 9781138045835Author E...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101872802Author Nick BunkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 233mm...

The letters of Eleanor Roosevelt reveal a cagy, self-confident woman who was never afraid to speak her mind on politics, religion, civil rights, and sitting presidents.Book InformationISBN 9780813191331Author Eleanor RooseveltFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916968267Author William R. BusterFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Kentucky Historical Society,USPublisher Kentucky Historical Society,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875801100Author John Kennedy OhlFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g

This beautifully written memoir is composed of linked stories about growing up on a kibbutz in Israel in the 1950s and 60s, when children spent most of their time, from birth on, in a Children's House. This memoir starts with a Prologue drawn from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954622159Author Katherine JankowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Gallaudet University PressPublisher Gallaudet University Press

A window into the world of nineteenth-century California, from two women who experienced it firsthandIn the early years of California’s statehood, Emily Brist Ketchum Bancroft (1834–1869) and Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft (1848–1910) had front-row...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940423166Author Andrew CoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Four Winds PressPublisher Four Winds PressWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760062Author Huiyuan LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint ACA Publishing LimitedPublisher ACA Publishing Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501195716Author Anita AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Salo W. Baron (1895-1989) was the most important and influential Jewish historian of the twentieth century. This volume is based on an international conference organized by the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345544230Author Daniel Mark EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362745Author Helen RappaportFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438489346Author Randall S. BeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 227g

" ""Far and away the best film book published so far this year.""--National Board of Review Cecil B. DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive...