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When I Was Young in the Mountains
$17.99 Add to cartFor twenty years, Cynthia Rylant’s story of childhood in the Appalachian Mountains has been an enduring favorite. Growing up in the mountains is depicted with a spare, lyrical text and beautiful, tend… [more below]
- Author: Rylant, Cynthia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 30 1982
- ISBN10: 052542525X
- Language: English
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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Flappers and Philosophers: Stories
$11.00 Read moreFlappers and Philosophers was published in 1920 on the heels of Fitzgerald’s sensational debut, This Side of Paradise, and anticipated themes in The Great Gatsby. This iconic collection marks the writ
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307474526
- Language: English
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Like Life
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the national bestselling author of Birds of America comes “a brilliant collection” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) of eight exquisite stories of men and women stumbling through their daily existence.… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Moore, Lorrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 375719164
- Language: English
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Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday’s Traditions
$24.95 Read moreBehind every Christmas tradition is a story — usually, a forgotten one. Each year, as we decorate a tree, build a gingerbread house, and get ready for a visit from St. Nicholas, we’re continuing gene
- Author: Earl, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149306939X
- Language: English
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Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay
$16.00 Read moreDON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH–NOW ON FREEFORM!
New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely es- Author: Robinson, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0525534164
- Language: English
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Tales of the Jazz Age: Stories
$11.00 Add to cartEvoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer’s most famous and celebrated stories. In “The
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0307476375
- Language: English
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Forward from This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008
$17.00 Add to cartSince 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts’ writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper c… [more below]
- Author: Pitts Jr, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 349
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 1932841326
- Language: English
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First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
$32.00 Read moreDispelling common myths about the first US president and revealing the real George Washington.
Winner of the George Washington Prize by George Washington’s Mount Vernon
George Washington–hero of the Fr
- Author: Valsania, Maurizio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 142144447X
- Language: English
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My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
$14.99 Read moreFrom acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. The quirky, brilliant author takes a magnifying gl… [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1621450716
- Language: English
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War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream
$21.95 Read moreIn this monumental book by one of the Church’s greatest contemporary defenders, Bill Donohue explains how the ruling class is systematically undermining the virtues that have built Western civilizatio
- Author: Donohue, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1644138840
- Language: English
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Celebrating Chinese New Year: History, Traditions, and Activities – A Holiday Book for Kids
$7.99 Add to cartCelebrate Chinese New Year with this festive introduction for kids ages 6 to 9
Chinese New Year, also called the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is one of the most celebrated holidays around the wor
- Series: Holiday Books for Kids
- Author: Chu, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: December 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1647396883
- Language: English
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If You Lived During the Civil War
$9.99 Read moreWhat do you know about the Civil War?
What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different?
Scholastic’s If You Lived… serie
- Series: If You
- Author: Patrick, Denise Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1338712799
- Language: English
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The Ferrari in the Bedroom
$19.00 Add to cart“[Jean] Shepherd is that very rare breed, a homespun humorist cut from the same Midwestern cloth as Mark Twain and George Ade.”–Saturday Review
Jean Shepherd was one of America’s favorite humorists,- Author: Shepherd, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0385237928
- Language: English
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project
$30.00 Add to cartThe true-life stories in this unique collection provide a window into the American mind and heart (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices – male and female, young and old, from all walks of li
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: September 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0312421001
- Language: English
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Everyone’s Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11
$36.33 Add to cartEveryone’s Gone to the Moon is a week-by-week journey through July 1969, one of the most pivotal months in human history – in space and here on Earth. This unique book follows the crew of Apollo 11 an
- Author: Cuhaj, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888819
- Language: English
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The Cancel Culture Curse: From Rage to Redemption in a World Gone Mad
$27.99 Add to cartIn a groundbreaking first, cancel culture and its core elements are clearly defined, and a convincing case is made against this fundamentally un-American practice.
Cancel culture is an insidious forc- Author: Nierman, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1510777199
- Language: English
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Jazz Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Roaring Twenties
$21.00 Add to cartHow the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go “underground”
“Roaring Twenties” America boasted famous firsts: women- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Tichi, Cecelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1479810126
- Language: English
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All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America
$23.99 Add to cartThe birth of rock ‘n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy–one critic called it “musical riots put to a switchblade beat”–but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History (Oxford)
- Author: Altschuler, Glenn C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0195177495
- Language: English
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
$19.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class–those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0684853787
- Language: English
