#nonfiction #hardcover #history #CivilWar #ChesapeakeBay During the Civil War the Chesapeake Bay was crucially important to both North and South. This book covers events from the months preceding the conflict to shortly after the death of Lincoln. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

"At the start of the great Civil War, the Chesapeake Bay was a crucially important piece of watery real estate, with North and South struggling for its control. Up the Potomac, the Chesapeake's second-largest tributary, lay the capital of the United States; up the James, the Chesapeake's third-largest tributary, lay the Confederate capital. Whoever controlled the Bay would determine the course of the war." "On the Rappahannock and other rivers of the region, fierce and tragic battles were fought. Down the Bay, the greatest American army ever assembled waged war. In Chesapeake waters, naval warfare was transformed forever, and on the rivers and the open Bay, the Civil War was finally won." "This thoroughly readable narrative covers events in Chesapeake country, from the months preceding the conflict to shortly after the death of Lincoln. Throughout the war the Bay was a marshy danger zone crawling with privateers, smugglers, and spies. It was a place where classic army-navy operations were carried out, where runaway slaves became contraband, where brother literally fought brother, and where freedom was denied, for the sake of preserving freedom."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War

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Florence W. Biros

A stray mongrel dog, wandered into a Pittsburgh fire station and became the mascot that went with the men of the 102nd regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers and became a civil war hero. His picture hangs on the wall of the Soldiers Musuem in Pittsburgh. It includes a 14 page "living History Gallery" (actual photos of the reenactment of the 125th anniversary at Gettysburg) and other pictures throughout the book. The family feature film, "Dog Jack" will be released in late 2007.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arkansas

The Heartwarming story of a runaway slave and his best friend.

Dog Jack

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#paperback #scifi #arcadiaproject #spirits #civilwar #fey #romance #heist #saga #sagapress Ex library book.  Stamps and stickers inside and on cover/spine. Tape on cover.  

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

Impostor syndrome

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Jennifer Chiaverini

Iowa

A Novel

Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

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Conor Grennan

*First Edition

*Ex-Library book, see photos for sticker and stamps

The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not they are trafficked. Despite the danger, Conor treks up dirt paths with photographs of the children, miraculously reuniting dozens of families. It's 2006 and Nepal is a country torn apart by war, greed and corruption. Caught in the middle are the Nepalese children, snatched and sold into slavery, the kidnappers promising their families that they will be taken to a safe haven from where they will eventually return. Some of the luckier ones are finally dumped in an orphanage, only to be found by Conor, an unlikely philanthropist. Conor's search for intrepid adventure on the cusp of 30 soon becomes a dangerous and haphazard mission, buoyed by the energy and adoration of the children. Conor nevertheless vows to do everything he can, including risk his own life, to bring these lost children back to their families. The process is painstaking and chaotic, involving weeks of trekking across inhospitable peaks and surmounting the infinite cultural and language barriers, but the children's raucous happiness on seeing photos of their parents after years of separation, abandonment and fear make the wounds, the danger, the freezing cold and the food poisoning pale into insignificance. An epic thriller and also a love story, Little Princes is as full of life and hope as the children Conor's organisation, Next Generation Nepal, continues to save every day.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ex-Library 

"Funny, touching, tragic....A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land--and one man's extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents."
--Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts

Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.


Little Princes - One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (First Edition)

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#paperback #civilwar #fiction #historical #americanhistory #history #warhistory #war 

Ohio

A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh

"[An] exciting read . . . [Jeff] Shaara returns to the U.S. Civil War in this first book of a new trilogy. . . . This novel is meticulously researched and brings a vivid reality to the historical events depicted."--Library Journal
 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Spring 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse. General Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to abandon the critical city of Nashville and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: Ulysses Grant and Don Carlos Buell. If their combined forces can crush Johnston's army and capture the railroad, the war in the West likely will be over. There's just one problem: Johnston knows of the Union plans and is poised to launch an audacious surprise attack on Grant's encampment--a small settlement in southwestern Tennessee anchored by a humble church named Shiloh.
 
Drawing on meticulous research, Jeff Shaara dramatizes the key decisions of the commanders on both sides of the conflict--and brings to life the junior officers, conscripts, and enlisted men who gave their all for the cause. With stunning immediacy, Shaara takes us inside the maelstrom of Shiloh as no novelist has before.
 
"Brilliant . . . riveting . . . a work to be embraced."--Bookreporter

Includes a preview of Jeff Shaara's next Civil War novel, A Chain of Thunder

A Blaze of Glory

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Michigan

The war between the states has finally come and the civilians of Gettysburg hope the battles will stay as far away from them as possible. But the war will touch them all more than they can imagine. Four friends, old and new, will find themselves looking to God and each other to get them through.Charlotte Turner is left to run the family farm and will lose more than she may be able to bear. Alexandra Sadler must live without her new husband as he goes off to fight for the Union. Ginny Wade must help her family survive by doing odd jobs as she worries about her best friend fighting in the war. And Augusta Lewis, born and raised in South Carolina, must spend the war days with her husband's family amidst Northern sympathizers. Will the four long years leave the town unharmed? Or will the hamlet of Gettysburg be changed forever?

Though War Shall Rise Against Me (signed)

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Julie Hyzy

Some shelf wear on the cover and spine 
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Arizona

Grace Interrupted

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#paperback #history #civilwar #nonfiction

Connecticut

The Stories Behind the Most Influential Battles, People and Events in the War Between the States

The Civil War was the defining event in American history.

The Civil War 100 uses a truly novel approach to analyze the respective importance of the events, leaders and battles of America's most important war.




"Across this easily accessible reference, readers meet not

only such icons as Lincoln and Lee, but also chronic fumblers

whose tarnished reputations have most often sunk beneath

the notice of the endless waves of Civil War histories...A

recommended reference for the aficionado and the uninitiated

alike. Those well-versed in Civil War lore will enjoy the

intellectual challenge of supporting or debunking Lanning's

rankings, while the merely curious will be exposed to an

insightful world of detail that they may have otherwise

missed." --ForeWord Magazine

Civil War 100

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First Washington Square Press Printing, November 1996. Originally published in 1895. Includes period illustrations and photographs. 

Red Badge of Courage 

Geraldine Brooks

Florida

March

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New York

Annie, Between the States

'Mitford brings warmth to everything she touches, and her biography of Madame de Pompadour is testimony to that' Daily Telegraph

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose, against a backdrop of savage social-climbing, intrigue, excess and high drama, to become the most powerful women of the eighteenth-century French court: Le Pompadour.

'Reads as if an enchantingly clever woman was pouring out the story to me on the telephone' Raymond Mortimer

See also: The Sun King

Stranger in Savannah

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Howard Bahr

Alabama

A Novel of the Civil War

It's been 20 years since Cass Wakefield returned from the Civil War to his hometown in Mississippi, but he is still haunted by battlefield memories. Now, one afternoon in 1885, he is presented with a chance to literally retrace his steps from the past and face the truth behind the events that led to the loss of so many friends and comrades.

The Judas Field

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John Jakes

Some creases and wear to spine and covers. All pages intact. No damage to text.

Virginia

The Civil War displaces Charles in the sequel to 'Love and War, ' and his wife dies, so he takes his infant son out West to start a new life.

Heaven and Hell

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#paperback #classicalconversations #civilwar #history 

Texas

The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him. Fleming receives his own "red badge" when a fellow soldier hits him in the head with a gun. "The idea of falling like heroes on ceremonial battlefields," Ford Madox Ford remarked later, "was gone forever." Shelby Foote, author of The Civil The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford- able hardbound editions of impor- tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy- fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch- bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

The Red Badge of Courage

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South Carolina

The Shocking Assassination That Changed America

Describes the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.

Killing Lincoln

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#paperback #fiction #blueridgemountains #historicalfiction #civilwar #thesouth 

New Jersey

Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who desperately works to revive a struggling farm.

Cold Mountain

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#paperback #refugee #doaaalzamel #threedollarsteal #Syria #civilwar #emigration #youngadult #scholasticedition #bravegirl 

The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel: One Teen Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

The extraordinary true story of one teen refugee's quest to find a new life--now adapted for young readers

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea tells the story of Doaa Al-Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by her country's brutal civil war. She and her family escape to Egypt, but life soon quickly becomes dangerous for Syrians in that country. Doaa and her fiancé decide to flee to Europe to seek safety and an education, but four days after setting sail on a smuggler's dilapidated fishing vessel along with five hundred other refugees, their boat is struck and begins to sink...

Doaa's eye-opening story, as told by Melissa Fleming, represents the millions of unheard voices of refugees who risk everything in a desperate search for a safe future.

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea (Young Readers' Edition)

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Veronica Rossi

Tennessee

A reimagining of the story behind Agent 355--a New York society girl and spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War--perfect for fans of Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and the novels of Julie Berry. Rebellious Frannie Tasker knows little about the war between England and its thirteen colonies in 1776, until a shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity. The body of a young woman body floating in the sea gives Frannie the chance to escape her brutal stepfather--and she takes it. Assuming the identity of the drowned Emmeline Coates, Frannie is rescued by a British merchant ship and sails with the crew to New York. For the next three years, Frannie lives a lie as Miss Coates, swept up in a courtship by a dashing British lieutenant. But after witnessing the darker side of the war, she realizes that her position gives her power. Soon she finds herself eavesdropping on British officers, risking everything to pass information on to George Washington's Culper spy ring as agent 355. Frannie believes in the fight for American liberty--but what will it cost her? Inspired by the true "355" and rich in historical detail and intrigue, this is the story of an unlikely New York society girl turned an even unlikelier spy.

Rebel Spy

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North Carolina

In this superb new novel from the acclaimed, bestselling author of Ellen Foster, Sights Unseen, and Charms for the Easy Life, an extraordinary woman recalls a nation's bloodiest epoch and a magnificent life forged in its fires.

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

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Published 2002, ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. ISBN: 9780486424828

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