Kelcey Wilson-Lee

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks

Revealing the truth behind the life of a royal princess in medieval England, the colorful story of the five remarkable daughters of King Edward I.

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized--and largely mythical--notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks.

The lives of these sisters--Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth--ran the gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages. Edward's daughters were of course expected to cement alliances and secure lands and territory by making great dynastic marriages, or endow religious houses with royal favor. But they also skillfully managed enormous households, navigated choppy diplomatic waters, and promoted their family's cause throughout Europe--and had the courage to defy their royal father. They might never wear the crown in their own right, but they were utterly confident of their crucial role in the spectacle of medieval kingship.

Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, Daughters of Chivalry offers a rich portrait of these formidable women, seeing them--at long last--shine from out of the shadows, revealing what it was to be a princess in the Age of Chivalry.

Daughters of Chivalry

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

Freedom's Journey

Williamsburg-Three Hundred Years re-creates in photographs and words significant moments from the history of Williamsburg. It brings to life events that occurred in this important town and stories about the people who experienced them.

Williamsburg-Three Hundred Years

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1867-1886

Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns

Colette Brull-Ulmann

Anne Landau

Margaret Sinclair

Jean-Christophe Portes

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

One Woman's Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris

Through the Morgue Door

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#history #civilwar #appalachia #paperback 

North Carolina

Western North Carolina in the Civil War

In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions by both Confederate and Union troops disrupted life and threatened the social stability of many communities. Even more disruptive were the internal divisions among western Carolinians themselves. Differing ideologies turned into opposing loyalties, and the resulting strife proved as traumatic as anything imposed by outside armies. As the mountains became hiding places for deserters, draft dodgers, fugitive slaves, and escaped prisoners of war, the conflict became a more localized and internalized guerrilla war, less rational and more brutal, mean-spirited, and personal--and ultimately more demoralizing and destructive.



From the valleys of the French Broad and Catawba Rivers to the peaks of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, the people of western North Carolina responded to the war in dramatically different ways. Men and women, masters and slaves, planters and yeomen, soldiers and civilians, Confederates and Unionists, bushwhackers and home guardsmen, Democrats and Whigs--all their stories are told here.







The Heart of Confederate Appalachia

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Austin Channing Brown

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

I'm Still Here

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James Patterson

Couple bends in the pages and dust jacket but still in good condition 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Alabama

The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most storied family, as told by America's most trusted storyteller.

The House of Kennedy

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Texas

An Autobiography

IACOCCA

Ronald Reagan in Private A Memoir of My Years in the White House

A Memoir of My Years in the White House

Ronald Reagan in Private

#hardcover #fiction #nonfiction #history #pilgrims #childrens 

Pennsylvania

Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans

Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.

Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims

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Has a little bit of folding on the back page, but otherwise kept in good condition. 

A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century 

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England 

Niall Christie

Indiana

Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources

"Muslims and Crusaders presents the Crusades from the perspective of those against whom they were waged, the Muslim peoples of the Levant"--Provided by publisher.

Muslims and Crusaders

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Damien Lewis

California

The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon

Now in paperback from award-winning war reporter and internationally bestselling author Damien Lewis, a blistering account of one of the most daring raids of WWII--and the top-secret weapon that changed the course of history. Based on the never-before-seen World War II archive of those who masterminded Britain's air defenses, Churchill's Shadow Raiders reveals the untold story of Operation Colossus - the Allies first successful airborne raid, and the forgotten heroes of World War II. In the winter of 1941, as Britain faced defeat on all fronts, an RAF reconnaissance pilot photographed an alien-looking object on the French coast near Le Havre. The mysterious device—a “Wurzburg Dish”—appeared to be a new form of radar technology: ultra-compact, highly precise, and pointed directly across the English Channel. Britain’s experts found it hard to believe the Germans had mastered such groundbreaking technology. But one young technician thought it not only possible, he convinced Winston Churchill that the dish posed a unique and deadly threat to Allied forces, one that required desperate measures—and drastic action... So was launched Operation Biting, a mission like no other. An extraordinary “snatch-and-grab” raid on Germany’s secret radar installation, it offered Churchill’s elite Special Air Service a rare opportunity to redeem themselves after a previous failed mission—and to shift the tides of war forever. Led by Major John Frost, these paratroopers would risk all, their only exit point a small stretch of beach menaced by enemy guns. With the help of a volunteer technician who knew how to dismantle the dish, as well as the courageous men and women of the French Resistance, they succeeded against all odds in their act of brazen robbery. Some would die. Others would be captured. All fought with resolute bravery. This is the story of that fateful night of February 27, 1942.

Churchill's Shadow Raiders

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Ken Follett

A Novel

#1 New York Times Bestseller
An Amazon Best Book of 2020
 
The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages

"Just as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series." --The Washington Post

It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns.

In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when his home is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in. . . . A Norman noblewoman marries for love, following her husband across the sea to a new land, but the customs of her husband's homeland are shockingly different, and it soon becomes clear to her that a single misstep could be catastrophic. . . . A monk dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning that will be admired throughout Europe. And each in turn comes into dangerous conflict with a clever and ruthless bishop who will do anything to increase his wealth and power.

Thirty years ago, Ken Follett published his most popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth. Now, Follett's masterful new prequel The Evening and the Morning takes us on an epic journey into a historical past rich with ambition and rivalry, death and birth, love and hate, that will end where The Pillars of the Earth begins.

The Evening and the Morning

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Claudio Saunt

The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

A masterful and unsettling history of "Indian Removal," the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.

Unworthy Republic

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McDougal-Littell Publishing Staff

Florida

History

1940s-1970s

"Nextext stories in history explore key people and events through authentic, high-interest narratives told in a highly accessible style."--Cover p. [4]

The Struggle for Civil Rights

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C. G. Draper

Nine classic American short stories with questions for discussion, vocabulary reinforcement, and writing practice.

Great American Stories 3

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Jill Ker Conway

Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia and the United States

In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By Herself, Vol. II represent three generations, four continents, and a range of experience that is equaled only by the diversity with which they transform life into literature.

Here are England's Vera Brittain, commemorating the deaths of the men she loved in the carnage of World War I; Emma Mashinini, who endured imprisonment and torture as a labor organizer in South Africa; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the daughter of Indian aristocracy who became an architect of her country's independence; and Edith Mirante, the wisecracking American whose passion for justice took her to the opium trails of Burma. Collected in this stirring volume, their voices demonstrate the ways in which women strive for power, inclusion, and autonomy-- and never fail to move, inspire, and instruct us.

Contributors include: Margery Perham,Isak Dinesen,Shudha Mazumdar,Vivian Gornick, Vera Brittain, Elspeth Huxley, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Angelica Garnett, Emma Mashinini, Meena Alexander, Edith Mirante, Mary Benson, and Ruth First.

Written by Herself: Volume 2

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Autobiographies of American Women: an Anthology

The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Written by Herself: Volume I

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

First Edition

John Adams Party of One

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J. Fritsch

Stories Behind a Decadent Decade of Death

The 1980s were a time of notorious serial killers--Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, Samuel Little--but also of advances in forensics that helped lead to their capture.

The serial killer became part of our common cultural consciousness in the 1970s and, in the decade that followed, the FBI confronted even more incomprehensible crimes and their perpetrators. This engrossing collection of illustrated true-crime profiles details the unthinkable exploits of a rogue's gallery that includes--in addition to Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, and Gary Ridgway--Samuel Little and Joseph James DeAngelo, serial murderers whose criminal legacies are still making headlines today.

Serial Killers of The 80s

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David Grann

Wisconsin

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Killers of the Flower Moon

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Tom Brokaw

Connecticut

Focuses on the generation of Americans who were born in the 1920s, came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era.

The Greatest Generation

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#history #hardcover #killingjesus #historicalfiction 

A History

In this third installment in the bestselling history series, the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor traces the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history - Jesus of Nazareth, taking readers inside Jesus' life and recounting the seismic political and historical events that made his death inevitable.

Killing Jesus

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Kelcey Wilson-Lee

Daughters of Chivalry

David M. Doody (Photographer); Suzanne E. Coffman

Williamsburg-Three Hundred Years

Nyle H. Miller

Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns

Colette Brull-Ulmann; Anne Landau; Margaret Sinclair; Jean-Christophe Portes

Through the Morgue Door

John C. Inscoe; Gordon B. McKinney

The Heart of Confederate Appalachia

Austin Channing Brown

I'm Still Here

James Patterson

The House of Kennedy

Lee Iacocca

IACOCCA

Jim Kuhn

Ronald Reagan in Private

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims

Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England

Niall Christie

Muslims and Crusaders

Damien Lewis

Churchill's Shadow Raiders

Ken Follett

The Evening and the Morning

Claudio Saunt

Unworthy Republic

McDougal-Littell Publishing Staff

The Struggle for Civil Rights

C. G. Draper

Great American Stories 3

Jill Ker Conway

Written by Herself: Volume 2

Jill Ker Conway

Written by Herself: Volume I

James Grant

John Adams Party of One

J. Fritsch

Serial Killers of The 80s

David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon

Tom Brokaw

The Greatest Generation

Bill O'Reilly; Martin Dugard

Killing Jesus