The Pioneers
By: Huston Horn
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Leather Bound
Reproductions of paintings, drawings, and photographs highlight a study of the men and women who op…
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1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.91
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more
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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
2. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
3. Mrs. Pollifax Pursued (Mrs. Pollifax, #11)
By: Dorothy Gilman
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The last thing Mrs. Pollifax expects to find in her closet is a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk in… read more
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4. The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.35
Format: 2700 pages, Paperback
This nine-book paperback box set of the classic series features the classic black-and-white artwork… read more
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5. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
By: James Agee , Walker Evans
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
6. Just So Stories
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The B… read more
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7. The Wright Brothers
By: David McCullough
2.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story ab… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
8. The Chimes
By: Charles Dickens
3.54
Format: 230 pages,
"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Vec… read more
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9. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
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- nonfiction
- american history
"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
10. Klee Wyck
By: Emily Carr , Kathryn Bridge
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas & McIntyre is proud to announce definitive, completely redesigned editions of Emily Carr's … read more
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11. The Case of the Deadly Toy
By: Erle Stanley Gardner
4.50
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
Toddler Robert, heir to Selkirk fortune, plays with his mother Lorraine's real gun outside, vanishe… read more
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12. The Lifted Veil / Brother Jacob
By: George Eliot
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
First published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859, The Lifted Veilis now one of George Eliot's most w… read more
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13. The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seco… read more
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"Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em."-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence des…"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
"Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as …"-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
14. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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15. Johnny Tremain
By: Lynd Ward , Esther Forbes
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 B… read more
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16. Snow Country
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.59
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more
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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
17. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
18. The Whispers of War
By: Julia Kelly
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In August of 1939, as Britain watches the headlines in fear of another devastating war with Germany… read more
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19. The Great Chiefs
By: Benjamin Capps
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Leather Bound
Part of The Old West series of Time-Life Books, this book is well-illustrated and has several chapt… read more
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- westerns
- history
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20. The Book of Revelation
By: Clarence Larkin
4.48
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
Clarence Larkin's examination of The Book of Revelation stands as one of the most detailed commenta… read more
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21. The Pioneers
By: Huston Horn
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Leather Bound
Reproductions of paintings, drawings, and photographs highlight a study of the men and women who op… read more
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- nonfiction
- american history
