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  • South Carolina Civilians in Sherman's Path

    Stories of Courage Amid Civil War Destruction

    by Karen Stokes ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    Discover the true accounts of South Carolinian's as they recount General Sherman's march through the Palmetto State during the Civil War. During the fateful winter and spring of 1865, thousands of civilians in South Carolina, young and old, black and white, felt the impact of what General William T. Sherman called "the hard hand of war." This book tells their stories, many of which were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Confederate in Paris: Letters of A. Dudley Mann 1867-1879

    by Karen Stokes ...
    As war loomed in March 1861, President Jefferson Davis sent Ambrose Dudley Mann on an important diplomatic mission abroad to seek recognition of the Confederate States of America from the chief European powers. When the war ended four years later, Mann took up residence in France and stayed there as a voluntary exile for the rest of his life.In Paris, and at his country estate in Chantilly, he ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • South Carolina in 1865

    by Karen Stokes ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    The year 1865 brought an end to the war in America, but it also ended a civilization that had existed for nearly two centuries in South Carolina. Plantations, churches, farms, factories and whole villages and towns were pillaged and burned by General William T. Sherman's army, and a once thriving and wealthy state was reduced to poverty. While Columbia burned, besieging Union troops swept in and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twisted Secrets

    by Karen Stokes ...
    Death greeted Kelli when she moved to a small town. A murdered loved one left her a trail of secret clues leading to who she was certain was the killer. Unable to convince the authorities she was forced into betrayal and loss. She was pursued relentlessly by what appeared to be pranks until they turned deadly. A surprise proves her wrong and places her in eminent danger. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Immortal 600

    Surviving Civil War Charleston and Savannah

    by Karen Stokes ...
    In 1864, six hundred Confederate prisoners of war, all officers, were taken out of a prison camp in Delaware and transported to South Carolina, where most were confined in a Union stockade prison on Morris Island. They were placed in front of two Union forts as "human shields" during the siege of Charleston and exposed to a fearful barrage of artillery fire from Confederate forts. Many of these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confederate South Carolina

    True Stories of Civilians, Soldiers and the War

    by Karen Stokes ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    The Civil War never left South Carolina, from its beginning at Fort Sumter in 1861 through the destructive, harrowing days of Sherman's march through the state in 1865. Included here are the stories of Confederate civilians and soldiers who remained true to their cause throughout the perilous struggle. An English aristocrat risked his life to run the blockade and become one of the defenders of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Be an Anticapitalist City

    From Crisis to Hope

    by Allan Cochrane, Amro Yaghi, Antonios Ktenidis, Catherine Malpass, Claire Rodgerson, Gabriel Silvestre, Hang Kei Ho, Helen Traill, Jess Steele, Joe Kearsey, Kamau Wairuri, Karen Laing, Kathleen Stokes, Liz Todd, Mary Lawhon, Morag Rose, Nick Clare, Owain Hanmer, Philippe Koch, Rex McKenzie, Ross Beveridge, Sharda Rozena, Shaun French, SJ Cooper-Knock, Zakiya McKenzie ...
    How do we find new ways of urban being and doing? This edited collection explores how global capitalism has shaped cities into sites of inequality, precarity and alienation—spaces designed to serve profit rather than people. Drawing on diverse examples, the book analyses how urban life is failing under current economic systems and offers real-world alternatives that promote human flourishing.From ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Vascular Responses to Pathogens

    Edited by Karen Y. Stokes, Felicity N.E. Gavins ...
    Vascular Responses to Pathogens focuses on the growing research from leaders in the field for both the short and long-term impact of pathogens on the vasculature. It discusses various organisms, including bacteria, parasites, and viruses, and their role in key events leading to vascular disease. Formatted to discuss the topic of the interaction of pathogens with the vascular rather than individual ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Drugs And Democracy

    by Geoffrey Stokes, Peter Chalk, Karen Gillen ...
    In 1988 the United States Congress passed laws declaring improbably that the USA would be 'drug free' by 1995.In 1998 the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs committed itself to the implausible goal of eradicating the trade in heroin and cocaine within a decade—at a time when global heroin production had trebled and global cocaine production had doubled.Somewhere in Australia, ... Read more

    $14.44 USD

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  • George Washington

    by William Roscoe Thayer ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Washington is seen as a symbol of the United States and republicanism in practice. His devotion to civic virtue made him an exemplary figure among early American politicians. Washington died in 1799, and in his funeral oration, Henry Lee said that of all Americans, he was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Washington has been ... Read more

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  • A Surprise Christmas Wedding

    by Phillipa Ashley ...
    Experience the magic of a perfect Cumbrian Christmas…It’s been a year since Lottie’s fiancé walked out, leaving her heartbroken. But things start to look up when she lands her dream job at a beautiful Lake District estate, with a handsome groundskeeper for a neighbour.So when Lottie is asked to organise a last minute Christmas wedding at Firholme, she can’t wait to get started. Until she meets the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • A Plague of Prisons

    The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

    by Ernest Drucker ...
    The public health expert and prison reform activist offers "meticulous analysis" on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration ( The Washington Post).An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate that incarceration in the United States has become an epidemic—a plague upon our body politic. He argues that ... Read more

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