American Book of the Dead

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A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most promine...

For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for r...

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Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. Th...

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Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmat...

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Reducere. This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fant...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis is the forgotten story of the American World War II dead. Told from personal family letters, official documents, contemporary magaz...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Life of George PattonGeneral George S. Patton remains a household name to this day even though he died decades ago. Not onl...

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Reducere. For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question...

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Reducere. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, the...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a book about war. A war against America's enemies, against racism, against the loss of fellow warriors in battle, and against th...

DescriptionThe Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was the bloodiest day in American history, with more than twenty-three thousan...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Brandon Shimoda's THE DESERT, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book EVENING ORACLE, gu...

Beautifully painted grotesque body horror from the Judge Dredd universe, starring beloved villains The Dark Judges Can humanity escape the icy clut...

Reducere. Edna Ferber wrote So Big in 1924 and won the Pulitzer Prize for it the following year. The bestselling book was inspired by the life of Antje Paarl...

Reducere. Wrongs of Passage is about the breakdown of common sense, civility, and leadership in major areas of American college life. What forces young men a...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Carol Brightman brings the Grateful Dead and their history to life in this fascinating and "cogen...

The second edition of The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska represents a major enlargement and revision of the first edition, making this the mos...

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Return to the roots of romance legend Janet Dailey's most beloved family--the Calders--in this first book in a brand new series set on the beautifu...

Reducere. Revised and enhanced to make the best reading experience possible Henry Berry Lowrie was a blue-eyed North Carolina Indian who became a real Americ...

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An unmissable gift book, A Small Book of Jewish Comedians is a perfect (please God) post-pandemic pick-me-upIn 1978, Time magazine estimated that a...

Reducere. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecede...

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"The best and most thrilling book of exploration that we have ever read ... an] immensely important book." -- New York Evening Post"A series of exc...

Night Work the second book in David C. Taylor's transporting historical crime fiction series.Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert SullivanFor centuries the hunting of the whale was what defined the Makah, a Native American tribe in Neah Bay, but ...

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Reducere. Reveals the evidence of life beyond death - Examines 125 years of scientific research into reincarnation, apparitions, and communication with the d...

DescriptionCollection of Richard Corben's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations from various publications - stories include: Spirits of the Dead, Alone, The ...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the boneyards of w...

Reducere. From bestselling and National Book Award-nominated author Tahereh Mafi comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating the hyphen of d...

Reducere. Description"Take Me Home is a riveting novel of two heroic people attempting to transcend the prejudices of their time and place. . . . Skillful ar...

Reducere. This volume contains four classic spiritualist works, three by W. T. Stead and one by his daughter, Estelle. William T. Stead (1849-1912) was a wel...

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Reducere. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Sl...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Professor Robert Eisenman details his struggles to break the monopoly on the Dead Sea Scrolls enjoyed by "The Official Tea...

Reducere. The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the o...

``A superb book--an American equivalent to John Keegan's The Face of Battle. I sincerely believe that Grunts is destined to be a classic.``--Dave G...

DescriptionCrime historian Lizzie Stuart goes to Gallagher, Virginia for a year as a visiting professor at Piedmont State University. She is there ...

Reducere. Karen DeSonne is used to pretending to be something she's not. All her life, she's passed as a normal all-American teenager; with her friends, with...

Reducere. Winter Count is a historical novel set during the fifteen turbulent years leading up to the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Turtleheart, a ...

Reducere. For mysterious reasons, a man forsakes his American life and arrives in a strange country called Andorra. He settles into the grand--and only--hote...

Reducere. DescriptionBack in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction ...

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Reducere. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of "dazzlingly told" (The New York Times) short st...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: George G. Ritchie Jr. MDIn December, 1943, 20-year-old Army private George Ritchie died of pneumonia. Nine minutes later, h...

How silly of me to think this would be a blood-free nightmare . . . Denver psychologist Kismet Knight and the dark world of the vampires are back i...

A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Military Times Best Book of the Year J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan worki...