Unbridled by Roots and Branches $13.95
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Louis P. Masur $7.57
This second edition of Franklin's famous autobiography is accompanied by a portfolio of illustrations and an introduction that provides background for students and invites them to think about the work's lasting impact on American society and culture.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: AND A True Life of Slavery (Penguin Classics) by Penguin Classic $13.00
One of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery and the antebellum SouthA haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing...
Little Women by Books on Tape $96.00
An American classic, the story of beloved matriarch Marmee March and her four daughters -- domestic Meg, headstrong Jo, sensitive Beth, and artistic Amy -- was first published in 1868, and has never lost favor since. Marmee raises the March girls to womanhood while their father is serving as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War. The caring family, mired in poverty but genteel and...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (with images and illustrations) by Sidney Paget $1.99
The book included 12 illustrated adventures: 1. A Scandal in Bohemia 2. The Red-Headed League 3. A Case of Identity 4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery 5. The Five Orange Pips 6. The Man with the Twisted Lip 7. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle 8. The Adventure of the Speckled Band 9. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb 10. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor 11. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet...
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Crown $26.00
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) by Thorndike Press $31.99
In 1951, a young woman from Baltimore died of cancer. Her death changed medical science for ever. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first 'immortal' human tissue grown in culture, HeLa cells were vital for developing the...
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $14.95
"Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of"(Christian Science Monitor), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set out in 1909 to prove that a woman could ranch. Stewart's captivating missives from her homestead in Wyoming bring to full life the beauty, isolation, and joys of working the prairie.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Echo Library $14.90
"Excerpt from the book..."At the beginning of the twentieth century there is, strictly speaking,no frontier to the United States. At the beginning of the nineteenthcentury, the larger part of the country was frontier
The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister by Carolyn Tomlin $14.99
Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she had kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust. This book reveals that story. Nonna’s childhood writings, revisited in her late adulthood, tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl from a family that had known wealth and privilege, then exposed to German labor camps, learned the value of...