Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
By: Christina Snyder
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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1. A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
By: William Deresiewicz
3.84
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Before Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant gradu… read more
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"I sentimenti sono anche il modo primo di conoscere un romanzo; e i romanzi sono il terreno di prova per conoscere il mondo, santuari dell'immaginazione dove affinare e mettere alla prova i nostri val…"-William Deresiewicz, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
"There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had gi…"-William Deresiewicz, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
2. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
By: Fred Anderson
4.19
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the Am… read more
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- nonfiction
- american history
3. The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
By: Linwood Custalow , None , Angela L. Daniel
4.00
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has b… read more
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4. The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)
By: Nora Sakavic
4.37
Format: 423 pages, ebook
The Foxes are a fractured mess, but their latest disaster might be the miracle they've always neede… read more
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"Some of the strongest people I’ve known are women."-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)
"I am a bad person trying very hard to be a good person."-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)
"You can't cut down someone who's already in the gutter."-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)
"He ran until he couldn't breathe, but he never stopped hurting."-Nora Sakavic, The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)
5. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
By: David Hackett Fischer
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English… read more
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6. The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)
By: Nora Sakavic
4.58
Format: 556 pages, ebook
Neil Josten is out of time. He knew when he came to PSU he wouldn't survive the year, but with his … read more
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"He wouldn’t die a lie."-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)
"If it means losing you, then no"-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)
"Is your learning curve a horizontal line?"-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)
"We're all going to die," Kevin said at last."-Nora Sakavic, The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)
7. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.88
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more
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"W"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
8. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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9. Batman: The Long Halloween
By: Jeph Loeb , Tim Sale , Richard Starkings , Gregory Wright
4.50
Format: 282 pages,
Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery … read more
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10. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
By: Bill Browder
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more
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11. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
By: George R.R. Martin
4.54
Format: 1177 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here Here is the third volume in George R.R. Marti… read more
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"I am alive, and drunk on sunlight."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
"Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
"Half-truths are worth more than outright lies."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
"We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky."-George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
12. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
By: Jon Meacham
4.04
Format: 802 pages, Kindle Edition
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and … read more
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"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
13. Zuleiha deschide ochii
By: Guzel Yakhina
4.39
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Marea revelație a literaturii ruse din 2015, romanul Zuleiha deschide ochii, salutat cu entuziasm l… read more
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"„Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiuni"-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiunii."-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Мысли – не речка, плотиной не перегородишь; пусть текут."-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Метлой по спине – это не больно. Почти как веником. Зулейха лежит смирно, как и велел муж, только вздрагивает и царапает ногтями лэукэ при каждом ударе, – поэтому бьет он недолго. Быстро остывает. Вс…"-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
14. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
15. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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16. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
17. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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18. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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19. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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20. Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
By: Christina Snyder
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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21. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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22. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
By: Fredrik Logevall
4.42
Format: 864 pages, Kindle Edition
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought o… read more
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23. The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
By: Ann M. Little
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening biography of a woman whose life intersected with three distinct cultures in eighteen… read more
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