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Written by Ann Chandonnet
Format: Trade Paperback, 60 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony’s most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare food in the harsh, unfamiliar climate of the New World. From the meager subsistence...
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Written by Ann Chandonnet
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony’s most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare food in the harsh, unfamiliar climate of the New World. From the meager subsistence...
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El sucesor de Hugo Chavez
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.00
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente... Read more >
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Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.99
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente... Read more >
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Written by Thomas Bender
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $19.99
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Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $12.99
"I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are pretty much alike. On the surface they may seem to differ greatly, but what appears on the surface is not always religion. Go beneath it, and one finds invariably the same sense of helplessness before the cosmic mysteries, and the same... Read more >
Written by Nathan Holth
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $7.95
Stretching more than 150 miles and cutting through the city that bears its name, the Chicago River divides the Second City into the North Side and the South Side. In 1832, the first bridge across the river was constructed. In 1834, the first moveable bridge was erected. Today, Chicago is home... Read more >
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Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Maya
Written by David Stuart
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $15.00
The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe.
Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled books, the...
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Written by David Knudson
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $9.95
As early as 1916 - just eight years after Henry Ford's Model T revolutionized the automobile industry - Congress embarked on legislation that would link America's major cities by highway. But it wasn't until 1925 that the government began executing its plan for national highway construction. In summer 1926, Route 66... Read more >
The Mother Road
Written by David Knudson
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $7.95
Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers alike, and in 1939 it became known as 'The Mother Road' thanks to John Steinbeck's classic "The Grapes of Wrath". Over... Read more >
Written by Pierre Fricke
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $7.95
With the outbreak of the U. S. Civil War in 1861, the Confederate States of America began issuing its own paper money. Over the years, seven different series of currency were issued. Counterfeiting became a significant problem for the South, as did depreciation and inflation. By the end of the war...
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Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.95
A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491. Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China...
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Written by Nathan Holth
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
Stretching more than 150 miles and cutting through the city that bears its name, the Chicago River divides the Second City into the North Side and the South Side. In 1832, the first bridge across the river was constructed. In 1834, the first moveable bridge was erected. Today, Chicago is home... Read more >
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Written by Pierre Fricke
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
With the outbreak of the U. S. Civil War in 1861, the Confederate States of America began issuing its own paper money. Over the years, seven different series of currency were issued. Counterfeiting became a significant problem for the South, as did depreciation and inflation. By the end of the war...
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Written by Thomas Powers
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $18.00
With the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramatic final months and days of Crazy Horse’s life.
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century, whose victory over General Custer at the battle of Little...
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Historic Documents That Tell the Story of Washington State from Territory to Today
Written by Lorraine Mcconaghy
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $40.00
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Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $35.00
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French... Read more >
Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $20.99
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought the French... Read more >
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Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $30.50
From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically... Read more >
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $12.99
From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically... Read more >
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Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Written by Charles C. Mann
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $50.00
From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically... Read more >
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Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Written by Charles C. Mann
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $25.00
From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically... Read more >
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The Maya World and the Truth About 2012
Written by David Stuart
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $11.99
The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe.
Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled books, the...
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The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Written by Anthony Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound...
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A Story of a Cuban Family
Written by Wendy Gimbel
Format: eBook, 248 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2011
Price: $11.99
A fascinating, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women, through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture--both personal and historical--of Cuba in our century.
"When I want to read a culture," writes Wendy Gimbel in her prologue, "I listen to stories about families, sensing in their contours the substance... Read more >
