The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Paperback - Isabel Wilkerson

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American...

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Reducere. In what The Washington Post has called "fascinating, " Frank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and sett...

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When a young Amish woman discovers that she was adopted and that her birth parents are English, she will have to determine what she believes and wh...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): John HarrisNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Deb CalettiNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 218 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

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The first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation. 'Shrewd, articulate and incredibly well-informed' - Mi...

Reducere. Great Lakes Book AwardsBestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gri...

An accessible prose retelling of the medieval German epic brings the wonderful story of Parzival to life for today's readers.

Reducere. The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country's demogr...

DescriptionA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s--"Smoketown will ap...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Claude JohnsonNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 44Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the "American Century." Panama Fever draw...

The true story of the men who made Shackleton's most famous expedition possible and paid the highest price for it.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Scott CaneThe epic story of Australia's Aboriginal people, as told through astonishing archaeological discoveries, ancient ...

Reducere. The True Story of a Man Who Risked It All for GodWith over 15 million sold, this modern-day classic is now available in a new edition especially fo...

Hey America! unearths the untold story of how successive presidents and their most senior aides recruited pop, rock and soul musicians to campaign ...

DescriptionAs the weather grows cold and the nights grow long, the cheer and warmth of the Christmas season is one thing all readers can find comfo...

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A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were perma...

America's most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of "Devil Anse" Hatf...

Reducere. Award NameChristopher AwardsAward categoryBooks for AdultsIt was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from...

Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?

Reducere. DescriptionIn Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas's journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic ...

Publisher: Poolbeg Press LtdAuthor(s): A. O'ConnorPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 199 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farme...

Reducere. Young Isabel loves her peaceful life. But when the king summons her and her brother, Alfonso, to live with him, Isabel knows they have no choice bu...

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release.Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor...

Reducere. "Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad...

From the air we breathe, to our oceans and plant life, algae has helped create and sustain our world - and may just save it...

Reducere. The Peregrine s Journey vividly describes one of the most remarkable feats in the animal kingdom. Beginning in Alaska and ending two months later i...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Aviva ChomskyNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 209 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. In the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Tang was hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of...

DescriptionThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revol...

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Reducere. Description"Go to New York City and help those boys."When David Wilkerson heard those words in his heart late one night, he was dumbfounded. The bo...

Reducere. Around the time of WWI, large numbers of African Americans began leaving their homes in the rural South in search of employment in the industrial c...

The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States, by the award-winning author of ...

The dramatic and compelling account of the first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition in 2022...

Stephen R. Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom tells the dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping Rebellion: the bloodiest civil war in hist...

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Reducere. In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940...

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