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The Packing Room

by James Oakes ...

THE PACKING ROOM is a story about four working class people and their manager who’ve suffered tragedies which have hindered them and changed the course of their lives.Still plagued with domestic, social and financial problems, their friendship wanes as they desperately fight for self- preservation at all costs.Looking deep into their souls as to how low they’ve sunk for survival, character changes ... Read more

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THE PACKING ROOM is a story about four working class people and their manager who’ve suffered tragedies which have hindered them and changed the course of their lives.Still plagued with domestic, social and financial problems, their friendship wanes as they desperately fight for self- preservation at all costs.Looking deep into their souls as to how low they’ve sunk for survival, character changes
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Freedom National

The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

by James Oakes ...

**Winner of the Lincoln Prize"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books**Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It ... Read more

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**Winner of the Lincoln Prize"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books**Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It
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The Radical and the Republican

Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

by James Oakes ...

"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker“My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America ... Read more

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"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker“My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America
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The Scorpion's Sting

Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

by James Oakes ...

A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom, constricting slavery and inducing the social crisis in which the peculiar institution ... Read more

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A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom, constricting slavery and inducing the social crisis in which the peculiar institution
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Slavery And Freedom

An Interpretation of the Old South

by James Oakes ...

This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology. ... Read more

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This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology.
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The Crooked Path to Abolition

Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

by James Oakes ...

**Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeAn award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.**The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a ... Read more

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**Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeAn award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.**The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a
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The Ruling Race

by James Oakes ...

This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they ... Read more

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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they
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Jerry Todd And The Oak Island Treasure

by Edwards Leo, Leo Edwards ...

Jerry Todd and the Oak Island Treasure by Leo EdwardsTitleJerry Todd and the Oak Island TreasureOriginal PublicationUnited States :Grosset & Dunlap,1925.CreditsProduced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)LanguageEnglish ... Read more

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Jerry Todd and the Oak Island Treasure by Leo EdwardsTitleJerry Todd and the Oak Island TreasureOriginal PublicationUnited States :Grosset & Dunlap,1925.CreditsProduced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)LanguageEnglish
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The Oak Papers

by James Canton ...

"A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree."—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees"James Canton knows so much, writes so well and understands so deeply about the true forest magic and the important place these trees have in it. Knowledge and joy." — Sara Maitland, author of How to Be ... Read more

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"A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree."—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees"James Canton knows so much, writes so well and understands so deeply about the true forest magic and the important place these trees have in it. Knowledge and joy." — Sara Maitland, author of How to Be
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Isaiah Light and the Sea of Darkness

A Prequel of the Light the Ark Series - A Christian Fiction Thriller

by James Bonk ...

Narrated by Jonathan Lee Taylor ...

Series Audiobook 0 - Light of the Ark
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4 hours 58 min

For readers who can't get enough of thrillers and suspense, with a Christian twist, Sea of Darkness will have you hooked from the first page. It's 1962, and Isaiah and Rebecca Light have built a small, yet steadily growing church in the North Florida area, living a quiet life devoted to worshiping God. But their lives are changed forever when Isaiah's father, Michael, passes down the family Bible ... Read more

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For readers who can't get enough of thrillers and suspense, with a Christian twist, Sea of Darkness will have you hooked from the first page. It's 1962, and Isaiah and Rebecca Light have built a small, yet steadily growing church in the North Florida area, living a quiet life devoted to worshiping God. But their lives are changed forever when Isaiah's father, Michael, passes down the family Bible
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Fifty Shades Of Grey

Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

by E L James ...

Series Book 1 - Fifty Shades of Grey Series
"And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled ... Read more

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"And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled
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Fifty Shades Freed

Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

by E L James ...

Series Book 3 - Fifty Shades of Grey Series
"Christian, I've been yours since I said yes." I scoot forward, cupping his beloved face in my hands. "I'm yours. I will always be yours, husband of mine. Now, I think you're wearing too many clothes."When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, ... Read more

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"Christian, I've been yours since I said yes." I scoot forward, cupping his beloved face in my hands. "I'm yours. I will always be yours, husband of mine. Now, I think you're wearing too many clothes."When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked,
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