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  • Colfax County

    Series series Images of America
    Colfax County is unique with having two towns within its boundaries, Schuyler and Clarkson, plus four villages: Leigh, Howells, Richland, and Rogers. A number of farm precincts were once bustling communities, including Dublin, Heun, Maple Creek, Midland, Shell Creek, Tabor, and Wilson; now, most have only a church and/or cemetery to denote their sites. Schuyler is the county seat and can boast of ... Leer más

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  • In Cold Blood

    de Truman Capote ...
    Series series Vintage International
    National BestsellerOn November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he ... Leer más

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  • Operation Family Secrets

    How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family

    The chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago helped bring down the last great American crime syndicate: the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit.In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. reveals for the first time the outfit’s “made” ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, and ... Leer más

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  • Year of the Pitcher

    Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball's Golden Age

    de Sridhar Pappu ...
    The story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season. "Seldom does an era, and do sports personalities, come alive so vividly, and so unforgettably." — The Boston GlobeIn 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation's hope for integration at a heated ... Leer más

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  • The Baseball Whisperer

    A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams

    " Field of Dreams was only superficially about baseball. It was really about life. So is The Baseball Whisperer . . . with the added advantage of being all true." —MLB.comFrom an award-winning journalist, this is the story of a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys would come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers—and ... Leer más

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  • A Love Affair with Birds

    The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts

    de Sue Leaf ...
    Imagine a Minneapolis so small that, on calm days, the roar of St. Anthony Falls could be heard in town, a time when passenger pigeons roosted in neighborhood oak trees. Now picture a dapper professor conducting his ornithology class (the university’s first) by streetcar to Lake Harriet for a morning of bird-watching. The students were mostly young women—in sunhats, sailor tops, and long skirts, ... Leer más

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  • Inside the Ohio Penetentiary

    Explore one of history's most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness.As "animal factories" go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America's first vampire, accused of sucking his victims' blood five years before Bram ... Leer más

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  • I Go to America

    Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson

    Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for NonfictionNear the end of her life, Mina Anderson penned a lively memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create "Kristina," the central female character of his beloved emigrant novels, a woman who constantly yearns for her homeland. But Mina's story was quite different.Showcasing her previously untranslated memoir, I Go To America traces Mina's ... Leer más

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  • These Granite Islands

    A Novel

    de Sarah Stonich ...
    These Granite Islands is an arresting novel about a woman who, on her deathbed, recalls the haunting and fateful summer of 1936, a summer that forever changed her life. Sarah Stonich’s debut novel, set on the Iron Range of Minnesota, is an intimate and gripping story of a friendship, a portrait of marriage, and a meditation on the tragedy of loss. ... Leer más

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  • The Battle of Mine Creek: The Crushing End of the Missouri Campaign

    Series series Civil War Series
    In 1864, Union troops controlled much of the South, Sherman's men marched with impunity through Georgia and defeat at Gettysburg was a painful and distant memory. The Confederacy needed to stem the tide. Confederate major general Sterling Price led an army of twelve thousand troops on a desperate charge through Missouri to deliver the state to the Confederacy and dash President Lincoln's hopes for ... Leer más

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  • Michigan State Football

    They are Spartans

    Series series Images of Sports
    Michigan State University's football history is overflowing with famous, interesting, and colorful figures. From Gideon "Charlie" Smith, who in 1913 became one of the nation's first black collegiate players, to George Webster, the "Greatest Spartan of All Time," to Morton Andersen, who still holds the Big Ten record for longest field goal-they are all Spartans. Earl Morrall, Bubba Smith, Lorenzo ... Leer más

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  • From Shy to Bungtown

    This is a story about My Great Grandfather's journey from Kloster Eberbach, Germany to being a Pharmacist in the suburbs of Chicago. Then in 1909 packing up three kids and moving to a farm near Benton Harbor, Michigan to a place called "Spinks Corners" Interesting antics throughout the whole book that will keep you wanting to read more. ... Leer más

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