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  • A Tale of Two Colonies

    What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?

    by Virginia Bernhard ...
    In 1609, two years after its English founding, colonists struggled to stay alive in a tiny fort at Jamestown.John Smith fought to keep order, battling both English and Indians. When he left, desperate colonists ate lizards, rats, and human flesh. Surviving accounts of the “Starving Time” differ, as do modern scholars’ theories.Meanwhile, the Virginia-bound Sea Venture was shipwrecked on Bermuda, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Smell of War

    Three Americans in the Trenches of World War I

    by Virginia Bernhard ...
    Series Book 14 - C. A. Brannen Series
    Historian Virginia Bernhard has deftly woven together the memoirs and letters of three American soldiers—Henry Sheahan, Mike Hogg, and George Wythe—to capture a vivid, poignant portrayal of what it was like to be “over there.” These firsthand recollections focus the lens of history onto one small corner of the war, into one small battlefield, and in doing so they reveal new perspectives on the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Ima Hogg

    The Governor's Daughter

    by Virginia Bernhard ...
    Series Book 20 - Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    Texas legend has it that James Stephen Hogg, Governor of Texas from 1890 to 1894, named his daughters Ima and Ura, but that is only half-true: there never was a Ura. Ima had three brothers, Will, Mike, and Tom. Ima Hogg, who was born in 1882 and died in 1975 at age 93, became a legend in her own right, and this book is her story. It is also the story of the extraordinary bond between a father and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Jamestown: The Novel

    The story of America's beginnings

    by Virginia Purinton Bernhard ...
    In 2013 archaeologists in Jamestown, Virginia discovered the grave of a fourteen-year-old girl who had died there 400 years ago. Her bones bore the unmistakable marks of cannibalism: proof that in the terrible "Starving Time" in the winter of 1609-1610, some of the desperate colonists who ate rats, mice, shoe leather to stay alive, also ate human flesh. Their story is told in this extraordinary ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Elites, Masses, and Modernization in Latin America, 1850–1930

    by E. Bradford Burns, Thomas E. Skidmore ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America are explored from the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians in this volume. The result is a counterbalance of viewpoints on the urban and the rural, the rich and the poor, and the Europeanized and the traditional of Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.E. Bradford Burns ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Witches

    Salem, 1692

    by Stacy Schiff ...
    **The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.“The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet**It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

    by Blanche Caldwell Barrow ...
    Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, Bonnie and Clyde were joined by Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche. Of these four accomplices, only one—Blanche Caldwell Barrow—lived beyond early adulthood and only Blanche left behind a written account of their escapades. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Break

    by katherena vermette ...
    Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots ... Read more

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  • Fetch the Devil

    The Sierra Diablo Murders and Nazi Espionage in America

    by Clint Richmond ...
    In 1938, Hazel Frome, the wife of a powerful executive at Atlas Powder Company, a San Francisco explosives manufacturer, set out on a cross-country motor trip with her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Nancy. When their car broke down in El Paso, Texas, they made the most of being stranded by staying at a posh hotel and crossing the border to Juarez for shopping, dining, and drinking. A week later, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • An Obvious Fact

    A Longmire Mystery

    by Craig Johnson ...
    Series Book 12 - A Longmire Mystery
    **Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates a hit-and-run near Devils Tower in this thrilling novel from the New York Times bestselling author Craig JohnsonThe hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+**In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Voices Out of Slavery

    23 First-Hand Accounts of American Slavery

    by Various ...
    VOICES OUT OF SLAVERY is a collection of twenty-three slave narratives dating from the early 1700s to the 1860s. All of these first-hand accounts of slavery provide valuable insight into the everyday lives of slaves, as well as incredible and disturbing descriptions of kidnappings, torture, and inhumane treatment. While often disturbing, many of the narratives also include themes of overcoming ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Fire the Sky

    Book Two of Contact: The Battle for America

    by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear ...
    Series Book 2 - Contact: The Battle for America
    New York Times bestselling novelists W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear have long been considered the foremost chroniclers of early Native American life. Now, in a critically acclaimed, sweeping new series, they recreate the conflict-filled years following one of the first European invasions. Seen through the eyes of a courageous pair of Native Americans, Fire the Sky follows Hernando de Soto’s ... Read more

    $7.99 USD