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“john edward weems”

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  • The Tornado

    by John Edward Weems ...
    Series Book 83 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    The Tornado gives account of one of the world’s most terrifying natural disasters. Twisters have left their wake of freakish consequences throughout the United States and the world, and The Tornado vividly describes some of the most bizarre from around the country—houseboats sailing through the air; cars flown to a landing half a cornfield away; an entire house lifted and demolished, leaving only ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • The Whole History Of Grandfather's Chair

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    This is the annotated edition including both volumes of the book, a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, a special introductory to the book, as well as an essay by Edgar Allan Poe on Hawthorne's tale-writing. About 1840 the first part of "Grandfather's Chair" was written, and published in Boston and New York; the second part not being brought out till 1842. This is a series of ... Read more

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  • Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes

    by William D. Westervelt ...
    "A richly entertaining series of Hawaiian tales with explanatory facts, which will delight and inform both the folklore fan and the general reader…" -The Honolulu AdvertiserHawaiian Legends of Volcanoes made its first appearance in 1916, in both American and British editions, as the third in a series that represented a pioneering study of Hawaiian folklore. The rich tradition of Hawaiian legends ... Read more

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  • Endangered Dreams

    The Great Depression in California

    by Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
    California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than Kevin Starr, in his acclaimed series of gripping social and cultural histories. Now Starr carries ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist

    And Other Strange-but-True Tales from American History

    by Robert Damon Schneck ...
    American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks.There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like:• The man who ... Read more

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  • Ghost Cats of the South

    by Randy Russell ...
    Award-winning "ghostlorist" Randy Russell admits to being flummoxed by cats. Some cats will give you whisker kisses or sit with you when you're sick. Others will invite you to rub them, then take a swipe at you, claws out. Some might do any of the above, depending on which way the wind is blowing. Visits from departed pets are easily the most common ghost experiences. And cats refuse to be left ... Read more

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  • America the Philosophical

    by Carlin Romano ...
    A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and ... Read more

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  • Somebody Forgot to Tell Harry

    Harry Reid's Journey from Searchlight to Spotlight

    by Adrienne Tropp ...
    Series Book 1 - Nevada Biographies for Children
    Harry Reid was born into a life that provided little promise for success. He grew up in poverty. As a child, he experienced his parents’ drinking and domestic violence. The small town of Searchlight, Nevada, where he was born, had no high school.Yet, with the help of mentors and an education in college and law school, he achieved great success as an attorney, going on to become Nevada’s youngest ... Read more

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  • The Johnstown Flood

    by Johnson, Willis ...
    The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth century—a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a center of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated by floods unprecedented in the records of the great waters. On both sides of the Alleghenies these ... Read more

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  • Jo Daviess of Kentucky

    by Robert F Coleman ...
    A Brief Biographic Sketch of the  Federalist Kentucky Lawyer known for his eccentricities. Daviess on one of the first to accuse Burr of treason.  He suffered a heroic death at Tippecanoe. ... Read more

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  • Death at Cross Plains

    An Alabama Reconstruction Tragedy

    by Gene L. Howard ...
    Death at Cross Plains follows the tragic life and career of William Luke, a white Canadian minister who became a teacher at the HBCU Talladega College in 1869. Later taking the position of schoolteacher to Black railroad workers near Talladega, Luke became caught up in a web of racial antagonisms, xenophobia, and partisan conflict rampant that characterized the Reconstruction-era South ... Read more

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