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How did Ohio become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? Ohio Women: Remarkable Women in OhioHistory recognizes the women who shaped the Buckeye State. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies.

How did Virginia become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Old Dominion. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies.

Georgia Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Georgia's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Georgia history.

From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous "road" to freedom.

Touted in his time as one of the "great men of the West," Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune. From a fraudulent New Mexico land claim to taking up mining claims and real estate in Southern California, he used sheer cunning and guile to manipulate the system of the Gilded Age to his own ends.

Blue ribbon-winning techniques for dressage, cross-country and jumping

The fascinating autobiography of a woman hobo, originally published in 1937 and made into a feature film by Martin Scorsese in 1972.

A classic whodunit, originally published in 1946, follows the plucky New Orleans reporter Margaret Slone as she tries to solve the murder of a womanizing surgeon.

Here are twelve classic essays by True Crime pioneer William Roughead, including The Fatal Countess and Physic and Forgery.

A family saga set during the American Revolution, traces the path of the powerful Hessian family, the Haynows, as they navigate a tumultuous path from Europe to America.

A compilation of letters sent by Daphne du Maurier to her close friend Oriel Malet with further text by Oriel Malet linking and contextualizing the letters.

Completing Elisabeth Ogilvie's Tide Trilogy, The Ebbing Tide follows Joanna Bennett as she works to keep the home fires of Bennett's Island burning while the men of the island are off fighting in World War II. A handsome stranger shows up on the island, helping Joanna at a critical time, but also instigating a crisis of the heart.

This essential party primer includes new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America's political parties and the effects of new media and campaign finance laws, and the implications of all these things on future policymaking and electoral prospects moving forward.

This collection of essays uses the term "Arab Uprisings" as the organizing frame to address numerous socio-cultural, economic, political, experiential, and communicative aspects of the uprisings. The text is organized around three themes: origins, experiences, and trajectories. The first section addresses catalyzing factors that help explain the emergence of the uprisings from various political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives. The second section examines the functions and responses of diverse people, institutions, and ideologies during the initial years of the uprisings. It includes an in-depth case study on women's changing political situation in the catalyzing country of Tunisia, as well as discussions about the roles of political Islam, new mass media, and social networks in these rapidly changing contexts. The third section discusses cross-national implications and the multitude of repercussion the uprisings are having on the global system.

Here is the enthralling story of the Grand Duchess of Courland and her daughters, and their cunning navigation of the courts of Napoleonic Europe. They shared beds with the most powerful men of Europe-Metternich and Talleyrand-and these remarkable women were able to subtly shape history from their boudoirs.

Bonnie Ehrlich was tired of Dior suits and diamond necklaces and being told by her press agent, "You're just not newsworthy." She had made headlines once before when she sued world famous filmmaker Hercules Fokis for running her over in a drive-in brothel. And she would, at any cost, make headlines again. She would, at any cost, make headlines again. She would write a book."I'll write about the broads I used to know in Hollywood," she explained to her husband Manny."No good," he said. "Polly Adler done that bit years ago.""Not those broads, stupid. I mean actresses I knew when they were starting out. The ones who made it big. Of it's dirty enough it can't miss."The Broadbelters is the story of what happened when Bonnie Ehrlich signed a contract with Dave Shmeer, publisher of bestsellers, and made use of his formula: Chapter = 2 Bedroom Scenes + Narrative. It's a very funny story. In fact The Broadbelters is probably the funniest book since Candy, or Candide, or Candle in the Night, or Valley of the Dolls, or Up the Down Staircase, or Jean Christophe, or Auntie Mame.

Working from the historical existence of the brave Tehuelche tribe, who fought the South American settlers in Patagonia at the turn of the century, Jim Berry ahs created a powerful, mythic novel of courage and the warrior spirit.The Moon Stallion is the story of a tribe of noble warriors and their charismatic leader, Harkana the Orphan. Exiled for one hundred moons for the killing of his father, Harkana returns to the Tehuelches riding the moon stallion, and takes his place as their rightful leader. He is of them, but changed. Living where his people have not, Harkana has learned of things beyond their understanding. Imprisoned by white men, he ahs learned their language and their ways. Alone, through dreams and visions, he has come to understand that the great battle prophesied by his ancestors-that of the slaughter and ultimate annihilation of his people-must come to pass.Driven by a vision of this destiny that is both triumphant and brutal, Harkana prepares for the fatal battle with the white conquerors. He draws together the splintered Indian factions and meets Pandra, the strong and beautiful daughter of a neighboring chieftain, The lovers' story-the Tehuelches' story-reveals the philosophy of a time past with depth and emotion: love, community, respect for a sacred wilderness, and acceptance of one's fate. Harkana leads his people into death, yet they triumph; this is the way of the Tehuelche.

At thirty-three, Lady Andrea Harrington is the most glamorous and powerful figure in the American food establishment, star of an award-winning gourmet television show and owner of the catering firm most in demand among the very chic and very rich. Then suddenly, at the height of her career, a miscalculation threatens to destroy everything. And once again she must fight to protect the position her ambition has driven her to reach. Getting there once has guaranteed her nothing.Born Andrea Nilsson in Cleveland, she is the only daughter of doting, middle-class parents who, in giving her all they could, simply taught her how much more there was. She becomes a Broadway star at twenty, and a has-been at twenty-two. She is offered a real-life role wife to an English baronet nearly twice her age, only to become the heroine of a real-life tragedy.Moving from brilliant Broadway openings to backstage despair, from English garden parties to lavish Los Angeles mansions, from the kitchens of the world's greatest restaurants to the bedrooms of the very rich, we follow Lady Andrea on her climb to the top.A gripping saga about a woman force to choose between love and career set in the heady world of international cuisine.

The people have fled the countryside. They have come by the thousands into the city. What it is they are fleeing they cannot say. They fear "the enemy"-an enemy whom they are certain will one day attack. One man sits beyond the gates watching. But when the true enemy attacks, he comes not from the outside, but from within.From the beginning, Marcel Clouzot weaves this fascinating contemporary fable that may be interpreted as a political statement or a philosophical summation of the future of the West.The Walled City is an allegory about the malaise infecting today's world. In it Clouzot has created a Western Society which is about to lose its souls in its battle with technology. It would prefer to lay the blame on external enemies, but the sickness is within-inside the walls. All the symptoms are there: the all-powerful state, Law & Order, the swollen Factory, the controlled Press, inflation and bad money, the ailing Church, the arrogance of Science, the ravages of Pollution, the deadening impact of the egalitarian society, even Feminism-and the man of good will, its protagonist, who is trapped between the Law and his own conscience. When The Walled City was published in France it was called 'a great hallucinatory book' and Clouzot was compared to Celine.

This book is the first collection of essays on the works of William T. Vollmann. It offers a comprehensive overview of his writings through scholarly essays and nonscholarly reflections that assess his oeuvre in terms of four conceptual categories: social, historical, political, and methodological. Taken together, these pieces place Vollmann among his peers in contemporary North American literature and open up new avenues for readers to negotiate the many challenges and rewards his texts present.

The fascinating cases of real-life detective Rupert Schindler details 25 cases he solved during the Thirties and Forties. It provides fascinating insights on both Schindler and the era during which he was solving crimes.

With questions about killers and kidnappers, blackmailers and burglars, The True Crime Quiz Book is the definitive proving ground for readers fascinated with the hard facts of true crime throughout history.

A mid-century tale of passion and scandal that plays out over the course of twenty-four hours at a luxurious beachfront estate.

The first full length account of the Smithsonian's history, and a vintage account of its gigantic and wonderful collections circa 1950.

An epic novel of love, passion, crime, and the criminal system set in America in the 1940s.

An entertaining handbook of magic tricks you can perform without fancy, costly equipment.

Tascosa Cummings and his band of mounted men find themselves in the crossfire of a two-sided range war, and getting out alive with their guns in their holsters just doesn't seem to be an option. When the people who enforce the law join forces with those who break it, it's up to Tas and his men to defend what's rightfully theirs-law or no law.