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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Paperback - George Eliot

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Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant susp...

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The Diary of a Nobody, Paperback - George and Weedon Grossmith

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Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Porter. Port...

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Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues, Paperback - George Berkeley

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Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hu...

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On the Site of the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare. Lying to the North of Maiden Lane, Bankside, Southwark, Paperback - George U. Hubbard

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Originally published in 1923, this book addresses the old controversy regarding the exact location of the Globe Theatre. Through a wealth of eviden...

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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, Paperback - George Steiner

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When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary ...

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Phishing for Phools : The Economics of Manipulation and Deception - George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller

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Reducere. Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand...

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Imperial, Paperback - George Bilgere

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Reducere. In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-...

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Blood Pages, Paperback - George Bilgere

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Reducere. In Blood Pages George Bilgere continues his exploration of the joys and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in the Midwest. OK, maybe...

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Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation, Paperback - Douglas M. George-Kanentiio

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Reducere. In their homelands in what is now New York state, the Iroquois have assumed a prominent role in public debate as residents of the region seek ways ...

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Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, Paperback - Frank X. Walker

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Reducere. Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and afte...

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Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words, Paperback - Susan Reyburn

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Reducere. Until recently, Rosa Parks's personal papers were unavailable to the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Pa...

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The Oxford History of Medieval Europe, Paperback - George Holmes

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This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full cove...

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Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter, Paperback - David Vann

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On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. But he was an A s...

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The Viewing Room: Stories, Paperback - Jacquelin Gorman

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Reducere. In The Viewing Room, two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a lar...

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North Carolina's Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas, Paperback - David Bryant

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Reducere. Fun and learning come together in North Carolina's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the fl...

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Confederate Statues and Memorialization, Paperback - Catherine Clinton

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Reducere. Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hi...

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Through a Small Ghost: Poems, Paperback - Chelsea Dingman

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Reducere. This collection of poems speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility. But more than that, these poems are concerned w...

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Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies, Paperback - Barbara Hurd

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Reducere. Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book de...

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Valuing: Poems, Paperback - Christopher Kondrich

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Reducere. In his second collection, Christopher Kondrich navigates the link between what we see as our inner value and the external world that supplies it. V...

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A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering: Poems, Paperback - Dawn Lundy Martin

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Reducere. Lambda Literary AwardsDawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces t...

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Semiotics: Poems, Paperback - Chekwube Danladi

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Reducere. The poems in Chekwube Danladi's debut collection ardently expose unnamed spaces of agency, proclaiming power and beauty through an unaccustomed yea...

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[White]: Poems, Paperback - Trevor Ketner

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Boy, Paperback - Patrick Phillips

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Reducere. This follow-up to Patrick Phillips's award-winning debut navigates the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. Like Virgi...

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Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays, Paperback - Brian Doyle

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Reducere. Brian Doyle himself explains it best: "A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most gr...

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A Crash of Rhinos: Poems, Paperback - Paisley Rekdal

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Reducere. In these quizzically probing and provocative poems, atoms and torture, tattoos and laundromats, mug shots, the theory of light, and such personalit...

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They Are Sleeping, Paperback - Joanna Klink

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Reducere. In They Are Sleeping, Joanna Klink tests the limits of solitude, setting her poems in places where our grip on "self" is loosened and blurred--cave...

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Leaving Saturn: Poems, Paperback - Major Jackson

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Reducere. "Leaving Saturn, " chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through b...

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My Life on the Plains: or, Personal Experiences with Indians, Paperback - George Armstrong Custer

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DescriptionWhen General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most notorious Indi...

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The Cruel Country, Paperback - Judith Ortiz Cofer

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"I am learning the alchemy of grief--how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted--but I have not yet mastered this art, " writes Jud...

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Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace, Paperback - Frank Soos

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After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painsta...

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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Paperback - Natasha Trethewey

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Reducere. "Beyond Katrina" is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were for...

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Salvinia Molesta, Paperback - Victoria Chang

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Reducere. Victoria Chang's collection takes its title from what many call "the worst weed in the world, " a plant so rapidly and uncontrollably invasive that...

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Georgia's Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas, Paperback - David Bryant

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. Fun and learning come together in Georgia's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fa...

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Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections, Paperback - Jim Downs

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Reducere. Historians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of ...

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Back to the Light: Poems, Paperback - George Ella Lyon

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Reducere. Acclaimed poet George Ella Lyon returns with a brilliant new collection that traces the arc of a woman's life from girlhood to mature womanhood. In...

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Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia, Paperback - Gordon Lamb

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No ...

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Billy Watson's Croker Sack, Paperback - Franklin Burroughs

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Reducere. DescriptionIn South Carolina, a croker sack is any big cloth sack. When opened, it sometimes reveals more than expected, as do these deceptively si...

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Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance, Paperback - John T. Edge

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of sym...

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The Pond Lovers, Paperback - Gene Logsdon

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Reducere. To his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. His writings, which blend commonsense advice, curmudgeonly wit, and r...

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Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, Paperback - Melinda Moustakis

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Reducere. In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Bor...

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The Riots, Paperback - Danielle Deulen

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Reducere. Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationsh...

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Common Birds of Greater Atlanta, Paperback - Jim Wilson

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Reducere. Designed for beginning birders and nature enthusiasts alike, this easy-to-use guide presents sixty-one of the most common species of birds in the g...

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Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O'Keeffe, Paperback - Jennifer Sinor

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Georgia O'Keeffe mistrusted words. She claimed color as her language. Nevertheless, in the course of her long life, the great American painter wrot...

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Neighborhood Hawks: A Year Following Wild Birds, Paperback - John Lane

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Reducere. After reading J. A. Baker's fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shoul...

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Tracking Desire: A Journey After Swallow-Tailed Kites, Paperback - Susan Cerulean

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Reducere. Description"My memory is etched with a clear image of how that bird swung into view and hung over me, suspended like an angel, so starkly black and...

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Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, Paperback - Barbara Hurd

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Reducere. In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Ariz...

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Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella, Paperback - Kate McIntyre

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Reducere. In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between f...

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Backpacking Overnights: North Carolina Mountains, South Carolina Upstate, Paperback - Jim Parham

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Reducere. DescriptionWith 50 routes ranging from 3 to more than 30 miles, this guide features destinations like the pristine waterfalls of Panthertown Valley...

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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation, Paperback - Colin G. Calloway

107,99 RON

DescriptionGeorge Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and f...

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Waterfall Hikes of North Georgia, Paperback - Jim Parham

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Reducere. DescriptionJim Parham recommends 60 hikes to over 200 waterfalls in this hiking guide, which covers cascades--from famous, to obscure and remote--i...

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Transferred Life of George Eliot, Paperback - Philip Davis

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This new biography of George Eliot is not just the story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like ...

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My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas - John Lane

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Reducere. Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventaz n, John Lane sets out wi...

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Etowah River User's Guide, Paperback - Joe Cook

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Reducere. From its headwaters on the southern slope of the Tennessee Valley divide near Dahlonega to its confluence with the Oostanaula to form the Coosa in ...

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Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, Paperback - Julian Hoffman

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Reducere. All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. F...

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American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning, Paperback - Kate Sweeney

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each yea...

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia, Paperback - Robert Burton

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South Georgia is rich in wildlife and spectacular scenery, and it is a prime destination spot on most Antarctic tours. This beautifully illustrated...

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Ghostbread, Paperback - Sonja Livingston

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Reducere. When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through. "Ghostbread" makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape ...

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Trouble in July, Paperback - Erskine Caldwell

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Reducere. Through the summer twilight in the Depression-era South, word begins to circulate of a black man accosting a white woman. In no time the awful forc...

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Drifting Into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River, Paperback - Janisse Ray

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Reducere. Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

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Invisible Sisters: A Memoir, Paperback - Jessica Handler

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Reducere. When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upendi...

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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture, Paperback - Grace Elizabeth Hale

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Reducere. In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard cha...

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Common Birds of Coastal Georgia, Paperback - Jim Wilson

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Reducere. Ideal for amateur birders, nature enthusiasts, and visitors to the Atlantic coast, this guide presents 103 species of birds commonly seen on the be...

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A Body of Water: Poems, Paperback - Chioma Urama

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Reducere. Beautiful and lyrical, Chioma Urama's A Body of Water is a poetic exploration of ancestry in the American South. These poems are the result of a co...

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Chattahoochee River User's Guide, Paperback - B. J. Freeman

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National Outdoor Book AwardsThe Chattahoochee River is one of the premier waterways of Georgia and the Southeast. It is a mecca for summer recreati...

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Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan, Paperback - Bill Shipp

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Reducere. First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku K...

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In Search of a Home: Nineteenth-Century Wendish Immigration, Paperback - George R. Nielsen

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Reducere. In the previous century a large portion of the smallest of the Slavonic nations left their German homeland and migrated to three distant continents...

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The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever, Paperback - David Williams

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Reducere. In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This souther...

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The Line of the Sun, Paperback - Judith Ortiz Cofer

114,99 RON

Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling...

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Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays, Paperback - Megan Harlan

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Reducere. Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving hou...

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Oklahoma Place Names, Paperback - George H. Shirk

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Reducere. In this new and enlarged edition of his popular book, the author has added not only a number of new entries but also new information to existing en...

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