The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America, Hardcover - David Stout

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A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous...

Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated three thousand ransom k...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

Reducere. Are you curious to learn what happened after the US Civil War? Then dive into the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era The US Civil War br...

Are you curious to learn what happened after the US Civil War? Then dive into the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era!The US Civil War br...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan SmeleThis volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualization of the compendium of struggl...

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Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. Th...

Now with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with updated research In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science...

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"Dr. Gamow, physicist and gifted writer, has sketched an intriguing portrait of the scientists and clashing ideas that made the quantum revolution....

Reducere. Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, w...

Reducere. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local dar...

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

Reducere. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what ...

An original interpretation of the wars that ravaged Russia for decades after the toppling of the Romanovs.

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Reducere. Former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lieutenant Rita Y. Shuler leads us through the twenty-eight days of ter...

Reducere. The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slav...

Reducere. This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited th...

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign ...

Reducere. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local dar...

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Reducere. The time between the historical end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament was approximately 420 years. Bible-study classes ra...

Reducere. Did you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people?The stock market crash of 1929 didn't cause the Great Depressi...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Kraig BeckerIllustration(s): 50 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

Reducere. The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tr...

Reducere. Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Tom SanctonNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 237 x 163 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Description Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency a...

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolut...

Reducere. The "intelligent and sweeping" (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776--and how Boston's...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David M. GlantzWith: Mary Elizabeth GlantzContinuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front campaigns, the writer cit...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

An entertaining and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the hit TV show that defined an era, tying into the 25th anniversary of Friends.

Reducere. In this explosive little book, the first publisher to devote his newspaper to the coverage of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome details the role of...

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Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about ...

Reducere. What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, onl...

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years aft...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Victorian Era, then keep reading...When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Brit...

Description27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretc...

A new edition of a classic book by one of Scotland's most eminent historians (originally published by Mainstream as Culloden and the Last Clansman)...

Reducere. A Holocaust memoir unlike any other: first-person accounts by nine family members, separated, disguised, and desperate to survive the Nazi occupati...