Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud, Hardcover

When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly ...

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DescriptionIn this rhyming, hilarious romp about a little-known facet of American history, Thomas Jefferson tries to disprove a French theory that ...

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DescriptionIn 1820, Thomas Jefferson worked for months, often by candlelight, carefully cutting the pages of several Bibles to remove the life stor...

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The shocking and amazing true story of the first female US District Attorney and travelling detective, who solved the case the NYPD had given up on.

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Reducere. Discover the life of Thomas Jefferson--a story about big ideas and building a nation for kids ages 6 to 9 Thomas Jefferson helped write the Declara...

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DescriptionA warm-hearted tale of wartime survival against a backdrop of evacuation and bombs. In June 1940, 10-year-old Pam Hobbs and her sister I...

The stranger-than-fiction case that has gripped Iceland for four decades.

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