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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bryan edward stone”
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  • The Chosen Folks

    Jews on the Frontiers of Texas

    by Bryan Edward Stone ...
    Series series Jewish Life, History, and Culture
    An exploration of Jewish history in the Lone Star State, from the Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition to contemporary Jewish communities.Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks brings this rich aspect of the past to light, going beyond single biographies and photographic histories to explore ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neither Fish nor Fowl

    A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande

    by Morris S. Riskind ...
    Series series Modern Jewish History
    Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande is the memoir of Morris Riskind, who was born and lived most of his life in the small Texas border town of Eagle Pass. Riskind’s parents, Michael and Rachel, were Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in Eagle Pass in 1910, where Michael founded a clothing store that three generations of his family operated for nearly a century ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Memories of Two Generations

    A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas

    by Alexander Z. Gurwitz, Alexander Z. Gurwitz ...
    Translated by Rabbi Amram Prero ...
    Series series Jews and Judaism: History and Culture
    The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish historyIn 1910, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    1860-1960

    by Naomi Sandweiss ...
    Series series Images of America
    Albuquerque, founded by Spanish colonists in 1706, seems an unusual place for Jewish immigrants to settle. Yet long before New Mexico statehood in 1912, Jewish settlers had made their homes in the high desert town, located on the banks of the Rio Grande River. Initially, business opportunities lured German Jews to the Santa Fe Trail; during the expansive railroad days of the 1880s, Jewish citizens ... Read more

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  • America, América

    A New History of the New World

    by Greg Grandin ...
    **A New York Times bestseller • A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker,The New Republic, and Mother Jones“Greg Grandin's argument is compelling and written with zest. His history is punchy, the array of sources is vast, and the ... Read more

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  • Forget the Alamo

    The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

    by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!“Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review"Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal“Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston ChronicleThree noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Jews in America Trilogy

    "Our Crowd," The Grandees, and "The Rest of Us"

    by Stephen Birmingham ...
    Three New York Times bestsellers chronicle the rise of America's most influential Jewish families as they transition from poor immigrants to household names.In his acclaimed trilogy, author Stephen Birmingham paints an engrossing portrait of Jewish American life from the colonial era through the twentieth century with fascinating narrative and meticulous research.The collection's best-known book, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cost of Free Land

    Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

    by Rebecca Clarren ...
    **Winner of the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General NonfictionWinner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western NonfictionFinalist for The Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeShortlisted for The William Saroyan International PrizeA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work."—The Boston GlobeAn award-winning author investigates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

    by Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco ...
    **Through a mixture of words and drawings, two award-winning journalists tell the stories of Americans surviving in the parts of the country most ravaged by capitalism, and the ways they manage to find hope“As moving a portrait of poverty and as compelling a call to action as Michael Harrington’s The Other America.” —The Boston GlobeA New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Best Book of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Importance of Not Being Ernest

    My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway

    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author of Salt examines the intersections between his life and Ernest Hemingway's in this mix of travel memoir and history.By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky's life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway's death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between ... Read more

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  • LatinoLand

    A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

    by Marie Arana ...
    “A perfect representation of Latino diversity” (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in “a work of prophecy, sympathy, and courage” (Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Most Interesting People in Politics and History: 250 Anecdotes and Stories

    The Most Interesting People in Politics and History: 250 Anecdotes, #1

    by David Bruce ...
    Series Book 1 - The Most Interesting People in Politics and History: 250 Anecdotes
    Some samples: 1) When the United States was fighting the war in Vietnam, a sergeant wrote famed photographer Yousuf Karsh and requested a copy of a portrait that he had taken of Eleanor Roosevelt. Mr. Karsh wondered why a young man would be interested in a portrait of a woman who had been First Lady before he was born, so he wrote the soldier. As it turned out, the soldier was not young, but ... Read more

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