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  • This is Where Mother Sat Down to Die

    by Belle Spaulding Nye ...
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    $11.99 CAD

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    The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old ... Read more

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  • Wondrous Times on the Frontier

    America During the 1800s

    by Dee Brown ...
    A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ."Glorious . . . Do not miss a page." — Rocky Mountain NewsFrontier life, Dee Brown writes, "was hard, unpleasant most of the time," and "lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts." ... ... Read more

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  • Modern American Memoirs

    1917-1992

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page."— Booklist“Packed with superb writing.” — New York NewsdayModern American Memoirs is a sampling from 35 quintessential 20th century memoirs, including contributions from Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, ... Read more

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  • A Cowboy Detective

    A True Story Of Twenty-Two Years With a World Famous Detective Agency

    by Charles A. Siringo ...
    Charles Angelo Siringo (1855-1928), was an American lawman, detective and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.This is his autobiography. He was a very interesting guy. ... Read more

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  • The Telltale Lilac Bush

    And Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

    by Ruth Ann Musick ...
    "Spine-tingling pleasure and entertainment, along with a lot of folklore and history of the particular region" ( Lexington Herald-Leader).West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. And, like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad ... Read more

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  • The Great Northern Express

    A Writer's Journey Home

    by Howard Frank Mosher ...
    From bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year ... Read more

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  • Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories (LOA #235)

    Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods /uncollected stories

    by Sherwood Anderson ...
    The first complete anthology of short stories by “the creator of the American short story”— includes the landmark collection Winesburg, Ohio (Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic)In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of “nervous exhaustion.” Over the next few years, abandoning ... Read more

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  • Haunted Catskills

    by Lisa LaMonica ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Discover the ghosts who wander these upstate New York mountains—includes photos!Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a "spellbound region"—and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition.In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling's ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she was hanged in 1817 for murdering her ... Read more

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  • The Goffle Road Murders of Passaic County

    The 1850 Van Winkle Killings

    by Don Everett Smith Jr. ...
    "A fascinating trip back to a pastoral New Jersey where malls, gangsters and toxic waste did not exist, and violence still shocked the public."—Robert Schneck, author of The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-but-True TalesOn January 9, 1850, Judge John Van Winkle and his wife, Jane, were brutally stabbed to death by their former farm hand, John Jonston, in their home on Goffle Road in Hawthorne, NJ ... Read more

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  • Always the Young Strangers

    The Poet Historians Moving Recollection of His Small Town Youth

    by Carl Sandburg ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of ... Read more

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  • The Awakening of Annie Hill

    by Allen R. Remaley ...
    In 1905, in Washington, D.C., a young newly-trained nurse is called to the White House for special duty. With the money earned on that venture, she sets out on a cross-country trip by train for California. Along the way, the young woman encounters events and people whose stories enthrall and excite. These anecdotes are recorded over the years, 1905 and 1908 in the young womans diary. Upon her ... Read more

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