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Freedom A History of Us
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In this companion book to the PBS television series, historian Hakim presents American history through the stories of people ... read more
New York: Oxford Univ Pr, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. History. Many photographs and illustrations. For over a decade, Hakim has brought the stories of our nation's past to millions of readers. In Freedom, she explores the dazzling---and revolutionary---idea set out for us by our founding fathers. Pages are clean and tightly bound. 416 pp. ... more information
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Bloodlines Odyssey of a Native Daughter
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New York: Random House Inc, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Essays. Hale brings her own family history to life. In lyrical, haunting prose, she interweaves her own experiences with striking portraits of relatives, both living an dead---a rich tapestry of history, storytelling, and remembrance. . . Pages are very clean and tightly bound. DJ is protected by a clear plastic sleeve. 187 pp. ... more information
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Empire in the Dust A Walker Western
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New York: Walker and Company, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Frank Cullen had worked hard and long to build up the X-R ranch on forbidding Texas terrain. It was no wonder that he felt bitter that his ranch was gradually being squeezed out as the Legislature granted more and more land rights to farmers. To make matters even worse, his own daughter was spurning the attentions of Cullen's foreman George Cox in favor of Shelly Horn, the son of a troublemaking farmer. A very nice, cle... more information
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The Comanche Empire
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New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Univ Pr, 2008. Book of the Month Club. Hardcover. New/new. Native American History. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European and Native American rivals in military prowess, political prestig... more information
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Mummies, Death and Life in Ancient Egypt
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New York: Penguin USA, 1979. First Penguin Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Archaeology. To the ancient Egyptians, death was a dark river, an underground Nile. Its dismal waters bore the deceased away to endless night . . . or to a shining "elsewhere" of immortal life. But only the mummified could reach immortality. Thus did mummification become a distinct profession . . . A very nice, clean and unmarked copy. 224 pp. ... more information
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The Thin Man
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New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1992. First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Literature. Nick and Nora Charles are Dashiell Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners. Pages are clean, crisp and tightly bound. 201 pp. ... more information
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The Maltese Falcon
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An often ignored key to Hammett's philosophy is contained in the anecdote of Flitcraft that Spade tells Brigid O'Shaughnessy ... read more
New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1992. First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Literature. A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel... more information
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Far from Home Families of the Westward Journey
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New York: Schocken Books, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. American History. Settling American frontiers, they find, had a profound effect on families as well as on their ties back East. Even in America today, the authors maintain, the western ideals of mobility and individualism are still stronger forces than the notion of keeping families together, and this, too, is part of our frontier legacy. Pages are clean and tightly bound. 264 pp. ... more information
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True North
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New York: Grove Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. A Novel. True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the damage scarred into the American soil. An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, and his own father's more personal violations, it is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots. Pages are clean and tightly bound.... more information
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Returning to Earth
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Donald has always treated life as something to be devoured and relished rather than merely nibbled and when, at age 45, he's ... read more
New York: Grove Pr, 2007. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A Novel. In Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece---a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease. . . A very nice, clean and unmarked copy. 280 pp. ... more information
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Wolf A False Memoir
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Harrison's first novel is a "false memoir" by a latter-day Thoreau, who has gone back to the land in northern Michigan. Carol... read more
New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence , 1989. New Delta Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. A Novel. Wolf, Harrison's first work of fiction, is a boisterous, eloquent meditation on youth, nature, America, poetry, and what it means to live with an open though often wounded heart. In good condition, clean and unmarked. 225 pp. ... more information
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Diamond The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
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Hart, the New York correspondent for the Rapaport Diamond Reporter, offers this study on the iconic gemstone. DIAMOND examine... read more
New York: A Plume Book, 2002. First Plume Book Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. For centuries, diamonds have symbolized wealth, prestige, and love. But behind those symbols lies a world of deceit, monopoly, and war. Today, although 85 percent of American women own a diamond, the diamond trade remains one of the world's most mysterious businesses. A very nice, clean and unmarked copy. 288 pp. ... more information
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Eventide
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The citizens of Holt, Colorado, return in Kent Haruf's follow-up to his bestselling 1999 novel, PLAINSONG. His characters' pr... read more
New York: Knopf, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. A Novel. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace---a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround, transport, and lift the reader off the ground. A very good used copy. Pages are very clean and tight. 300 pp. ... more information
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Men From Boys
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New York: Dark Alley, 2005. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Detective and mystery stories. Amid card sharks, revolvers, and shallow graves, the characters who inhabit these stories strive to discover what is right, what will give them dignity, what will earn them respect. Whether at the age of ten or thirty-five, all will come face-to-face with a situation that will brutally separate the men from the boys. Pages are clean and tightly bound. 429 pp. ... more information
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Leaning into the Wind Women Write from the Heart of the West
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The women of the High Plains provide essays, stories, and poems about living close to the land.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Jellico, Nancy. Western History. "Vivid personal accounts by women of the High Plains West . . . A truly rich contribution to the natural literature of America. A very good readable copy. Clean. Tight. 388 pp. ... more information
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The Real Thing Truth And Power At The Coca-Cola Company
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New York: Random House Inc., 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Non-Fiction. A definitive history of Coca-Cola, the world's best-known brand, by a New York Times reporter who has followed the company and who brings fresh insights to the world of Coke, telling a larger story about American business and culture. In very good condition except for an embossed stamp on the first page which states "Library of George E. Miller". 398 pp. ... more information
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How the West Was Lost The Theft & Usurpation of State's Property Rights---America's Frontier: 1776-2000 Our Public Land---Who Really Owns It
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Springville, Utah: Bonneville Books/Cedar Fort, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. Western American History. This book is one the people of this country should read. It tells the story of how the Federal Government, largely through its bureaus and agencies, has taken authority and control away from our separate states--something our Founding Fathers would have rejected. Pages are very clean and crisp. 447 pp. ... more information
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Across the Nightingale Floor Tales Of The Otori Book One
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The first novel of a planned five-part series, ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR is set in an imagined country very much like medi... read more
New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. First Riverhead Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A Novel. A New York Times Notable Book. "Complex. . .fast-paced, arousing adventure reminiscent of Arthurian legend that's told with all the urgency of a modern-day thriller." A very nice, clean and unmarked copy. 320 pp. ... more information
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River Horse The Logbook of a Boat Across America
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The Nikawa, or "river horse," is the boat on which William Least Heat-Moon crossed the United States, from New York to Oregon... read more
New York: Penguin Group USA, 2001. First Penguin Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Travel. En route, the voyagers confront massive floods, dangerous weather, and their own doubts about whether they can complete the trip. But the hard days yield up incomparable pleasures: generous strangers, landscapes untouched since Sacagawea saw them, riverscapes flowing with a lively past, and the growing belief that efforts to protect our lands and waters are beginning to pay off. A very nice, clean... more information
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The Bozeman Trail Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes into the Northwest, and the Fights With Red Cloud's Warriors
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Lincoln, Nebraska: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1990. First Bison Book Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. Western American History. Volume 1. The Bozeman Trail was the battleground of the fighting Sioux. Mapped out by John Bozeman in the years 1863-65 as the shortest route to the Montana gold fields, the Bozeman Trail began at Julesburg on the South Platte, went past Fort Laramie to the Powder River, and from there continued beyond the Big Horn Mountains to the Yellowstone Rover and westward to Virginia City and th... more information
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