Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison, Paperback

As one of the earliest literary forms of colonial America, the Indian captivity narrative is important not only in the history of American letters ...

Reducere. In 1643, when Susanna Hutchinson is nine years old, her family goes to live in the wilderness near Long Island Sound. Her mother, Anne, is famous i...

Reducere. Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian femal...

Reducere. DescriptionRead along as renowned author, Quineka Ragsdale of the Demarcus Jones series, tells of the 1st African American woman to receive a four-...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Story of Mary MacLane shocked the literary world when it was published in April 1902. It sold 100, 000 copies in its first month, an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Flo Aeveia MagdalenaEditor: Jayn StewartFrom the Swing Between Worlds, a realm of light where souls create the design for t...

Reducere. Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Chri...

Reducere. Mary Anning is probably the world's best-known fossil-hunter. As a little girl, she found a fossilised sea monster, the most important prehistoric ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Story of Mary MacLane By Mary MacLane

Reducere. In the new Mini Movers and Shakers children's book series comes a cast of characters who have failed, yet succeeded despite overwhelming obstacles....

Reducere. Mary Jones was poor and illiterate. She learned to read and walked two miles to study a neighbor's Bible. A resolution became fixed in her mind tha...

Reducere. LIKE THE FEMALE SCIENTISTS PORTRAYED IN HIDDEN FIGURES, MARY SHERMAN MORGAN WAS ANOTHER UNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE--NOW HER STORY IS FINALLY T...

Reducere. Mission: The Freckled Indian book series seeks to help children be proud of who they are and increase their confidence in their identity. The book ...

DescriptionIn 1874, an amazing event took place. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) initiated the rescue of a se...

Reducere. Mission: The Freckled Indian book series seeks to help children be proud of who they are and increase their confidence in their identity. The book ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings ...

Reducere. Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering experiences in her life when she was separated fro...

Charlestown, originally known as No. 4, was first settled in 1740 by three families from Lunenburg by the name of Farnsworth. In 1744 a fort was be...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the morning of February 29, 1704, a French and Indian force invaded Deerfield, MA, the northwesternmost outpost of the colonial front...

Reducere. "The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave" is a 1831 autobiography of Mary Prince (1788-1833), a British abolitionist and autobiographer. B...

Reducere. She's the most famous woman in history, yet almost nothing is known about her. Although she's portrayed as the gentlest and most tragic of all wome...

After learning about electricity that can make dead frogs twitch, she has a nightmare that triggers the birth of one of the greatest scary stories ...

Reducere. A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of the litera...

Reducere. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery; it's the only life she has ever known. Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be giv...

Reducere. The Indian Chiefs Of Pennsylvania, Or, A Story Of The Part Played By The American Indian In The History Of Pennsylvania: Based Primarily On The Pen...

Reducere. Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculpt...

A brilliantly original take on the First World War, tracing the Indian army's journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the co...

Reducere. At age 12 Elijah Nicholas Wilson ran away from his family. Fighting off the constraints of his Mormon upbringing he found a new home with a Shoshon...

Reducere. Based on a remarkable true story, The Boy Captive in Canada, Book 2 in the "Boy Captive" series, completes the story of Stephen Williams, one of th...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the 2014 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfictionWinner of the 2014 Pate Award from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table. When the p...

Reducere. You probably already knew that Mae Jemison was the first black woman astronaut in space (and also a doctor and a dancer), but Sneeze will tell you ...

Reducere. Maryam Rostampour Marziyeh Amirizadeh 978-606-732-018-3

Reducere. The Indians of the Great Plains have dispatched two of their strongest scouts to learn what has become of the buffalo herds that sustain their peop...

Based on interviews with some of the few surviving members of E715 Auschwitz, this book charts the British captives' true story: from arriving on c...

Reducere. While camping near Indian Creek, Matt and his best friend, Parker, get up early to see if they can spot a blue heron. Instead, they find the body o...

Reducere. "I have had enough of this new Abbot " announced one of the monks at Vicovaro. "Yes, Abbot Benedict thinks we have to be always obeying those rules...

Reducere. O remarcabila marturie despre triumful credintei in ciuda ororii unui regim aspru de detentie dintr-o inchisoare din Teheran. Intemnitate, dar nu r...

Reducere. "Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas."--San Francis...

Reducere. West Indian poet Ian McDonald journeys down the generations of his family, describing with a loving and fascinated eye his ancestors, including war...

In this "scrupulously reported biography" (NPR) Jordan documents how Melania Trump had discussing being First Lady nearly two decades before she la...

Reducere. Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding scho...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The book explores the evolving history of immigration to the U.S. -- a long saga about people searching for religious and political freedom, saftet...

Reducere. The dramatic and exciting story of Indian guerilla warfare against the Confederates during the Civil War. During the Civil War many young Lumbee In...

Reducere. DescriptionMary's StoryOctober 21, 1949, in the bucolic little town of around 2, 000 souls, Beaver, Utah, all seemed right in my world. World War I...

After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong ... this is her s...

Reducere. DescriptionThe love story of Vlad Dracula Europe's most fearsome prisoner, Vlad Dracula, gifted military commander and one time Prince of Wallachia...