Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By: Nicholas A. Basbanes
4.28
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than …
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1. The Song of Hiawatha
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3.89
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The infectious rhythm of The Song of Hiawatha has drawn millions to the shores of Gitchee Gumee. On… read more
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"Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it"-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
"I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions"-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
"Poor, deluded Shawondasee! 'T was no woman that you gazed at, 'T was no maiden that you sighed for, 'T was the prairie dandelion That through all the dreamy Summer You had gazed at with such longing,…"-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
"Thus it is our daughters leave us, Those we love, and those who love us! Just when they have learned to help us, When we are old and lean upon them, Comes a youth with flaunting feathers, With his fl…"-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
2. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a … read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Co…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
3. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more
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- audiobook
"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
4. Nathan Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nathan Coulter begins Wendell Berry's sequence of novels about the citizens of Port William, Kentuc… read more
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- audiobook
"Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot"-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
"Tobacco,' Jig said. 'I used to raise tobacco once. But I quit. I was plowing one morning, and the Lord said, "Jig, how'd you like for your daughter to smoke?" And I said, "I wouldn't like it, Lord. I…"-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
5. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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6. The Screwtape Letters: First Ever Full-Cast Dramatization of the Diabolical Classic [With DVD]
By: C.S. Lewis , Dave Arnold , Focus on the Family
4.48
Format: 448 pages,
First published in 1942, The Screwtape Lettershas sold millions of copies worldwide and is recogniz… read more
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7. Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton (Historical Proper Romance #1)
By: Josi S. Kilpack
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
A Proper Historical Romance series The first book in a new series which will focus on the lives of … read more
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8. The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
By: Joshua Kendall
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
America's own The Professor and the Madman: the story of Noah Webster, author of the first dictiona… read more
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- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
9. A House Divided
By: Robert Whitlow
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Corbin Gage can stand up to anyone . . . But his own divided house will bring him to his knees. Cor… read more
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10. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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11. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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12. The Blithedale Romance
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Classic novel set in 19th-century New England, and drawing on the au… read more
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13. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
By: Anthony Everitt
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more
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14. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
By: Catherine Clinton
4.10
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman h… read more
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15. Laurus
By: None , Lisa Hayden
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more
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16. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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18. It's a Long Story: My Life
By: Willie Nelson
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson "Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . … read more
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19. Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Loneliness is the most dangerous and least talked-about epidemic--but Made for People offers a cure… read more
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- audiobook
20. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
21. Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By: Nicholas A. Basbanes
4.28
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than … read more
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