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Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance...
Chronicles the authors return to her grandmothers northern Appling County, Georgia farm and offers stories of the community and longleaf pine ecosystem she left seventeen years ago, and the changes...
Red River Women Women of the Wes...
During the Victorian era 18371901, many women took the best and worse of Texas and not only endured, but thrived Author Sherrie McLeRoy profiles eight of these women who shared a simple link of geo...
Tower Stories: The Autobiography...
Presents stories from survivors, witnesses, rescuers, and others who reveal their experiences and memories of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in their own words ISBN10:...
Ordinary Heroes: A Tribute to Co...
This collection of moving blackandwhite photographs of recipients of the Medal of Honor shows not the glory of war, but the underlying spirit and humanity of true heroism Fortyeight portraits are c...
Lemp: The Haunting History [Pape...
The dramatic and tragic story of St Louis notorious Lemp brewery and family The intriguing Lemp saga has everything: suicides, court battles, and, yep, even Lemp ghosts This is truly a great read ...
Tell Me a Texas Story Welch, Jun...
Tell Me A Texas Story is a rare collection of tales Texan, dealing with longhorns, governors, cowboys, outlaws, senators, soldiers, preachers, professors and plain old Texas folk - ISBN10: 09128541...
Jewish Stars in Texas : Rabbis a...
This thoroughly researched volume, covering a time span from the 1870s through the 1920s, tells the lively stories of eleven rabbis, their lives, and their Texas towns, from big cities such as Dall...
John Henry Faulk: The Making of ...
Traces the life of the humorist and folklorist, describes his career in radio and television, and discusses his encounter with McCarthyism and blacklisting ISBN10: 0890159238 ISBN13: 9780890159231...
Legacy of the Sacred Harp [Paper...
Sacred Harp music or shapenote singing is as old as America itself The term sacred harp refers to the human voice Brought to this continent by the settlers of Jamestown, this style of singing is al...
Before Texas Changed: A Fort Wor...
Growing up in Fort Worth during the 1950s never lacked in excitement for David Murph In his memoir, Murph recalls a mischievous childhood punctuated by adventures in driving, occasional acts of acc...
The Search for Emmas Story: A Mo...
Martinello, Marian L With Ophelia Nielsen Weinheimer, Search For Emmas Story, The ISBN10: 0875650708 ISBN13: 9780875650708 Material Type: paperback
The Kiowas and the Legend of Kic...
Until now, the mysterious death of Kicking Bird, one of the great leaders of the Kiowas, has overshadowed other significant events of his life Stan Hoig fills this void in scholarship by providing ...
Five Thousand Days Like This One...
Presents the history of the authors family who were farmers in New Englands Merrimack Valley ISBN10: 0807021067 ISBN13: 9780807021064 Material Type: hardcover
Saga of Lewis and Clark: Into th...
A richly illustrated account of the expedition of Lewis and Clark from Missouri, through vast uncharted territories, to Oregon, encompasses excerpts from personal diaries, annotated sketches of loc...
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London H...
Jack London was born a workingclass, fatherless Californian in 1876 In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coastby turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prosp...
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winte...
The wardens climbed into their truck, ready to leave Youll need about seven cords of firewood Concentrate on that Youll have to get it all in before the snow grounds your truckThough I didnt want t...
Alexander Hamilton [Paperback] C...
The 1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical HamiltonPulitzer Prizewinning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding ...
Shakespeare: The World as Stage ...
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scan...
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