The Age of Lincoln, Paperback

Reducere. Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency o...

Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age--literally(He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United...

Reducere. The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Abraham Lincoln in a simple, age-appropriate ...

The age-old question about the life cycle of chicken-and-egg is explored with stunning photographs and a simple, informative text.

Scenes from the life of the world's greatest playwright, brought alive for primary-age children. Publishing ahead of the 400th anniversary of Shake...

Blasting into aciton......is Dynamite Thor, the EXPLOSION man Peter Thor is a wealthy mine owner with a unique power -- immunity to explosives. He ...

Reducere. Brielle Atwater isn't sure of much, but she knows a few things: 1. Having black wings is not normal. 2. Selling her soul to the demons was a mistak...

Before the era of the interstate highway, before there was even a Route 66, there were auto trails. For a brief period in the early 20th century, t...

Reducere. Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American me...

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Jedi Academy books comes a hilarious graphic novel series about two young cave kids living 40, 00...

Reducere. The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dyna...

Reducere. "Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the e...

Reducere. A galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western historyIn this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life t...

Reducere. Juan Patrón lived through one of the bloodiest chapters of the American West: the 1878 feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. Reputed ...

Carolyn Jenkins has never had a problem getting a man, but keeping one is another story. After two failed marriages and numerous short-term relatio...

Reducere. Tom Stoppard s magnificent trilogy, ``The Coast of Utopia, `` was the most keenly awaited and successful drama of 2007. Now Stoppard s crowning ach...

A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling parody that includes thirty-pages of new text, photos, and contemporary subjects--a clever and fr...

Reducere. At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Wash...

What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Goth...

Reducere. In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, author Harlow Giles Unger tells how a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Telling My Father, James Crews explores familial bonds, memory, and grief through a beautifully written collection of poems. This Cow...

Abraham Lincoln and Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" were ardent admirers of John Bunyan's wondrous allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress. Now beginni...

Reducere. Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard...

Reducere. By age 35, General George B. McClellan (1826-1885), designated the "Young Napoleon, " was the commander of all the Northern armies. He forged the A...

Reducere. The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,...

Reducere. His name is Henry McCarty. One day the lad will be christened Billy the Kid and achieve world fame. But in 1875 he is just an obscure orphaned runa...

Reducere. Residents of small towns in New England like to say "George Washington slept here, " while citizens of the Illinois Valley like to say "Al Capone s...

DescriptionIn this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the fir...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the rural town of Verdon, Nebraska, in the early days of the 20th century, you can't go ten feet without running into one of the Farg...

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed...

DescriptionFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling Jedi Academy books comes book three in the laugh-out-loud graphic novel series about N...

Reducere. Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. "I suspect, " he says, "that the ...

Reducere. Death of an American Beauty is the third in Mariah Fredericks's compelling series, set in Gilded Age New York, featuring Jane Prescott. Jane Presco...

Reducere. An ancient evil has been summoned... John Decker left Wolf Haven, Louisiana, to escape the memories of his troubled past, believing he would never ...

Reducere. DescriptionBrielle Atwater isn't sure of much, but she knows a few things: 1. Having black wings is not normal. 2. Selling her soul to the demons w...