The Adventures of Oliver Twist  List price: $18.99 20 new & used available from $9.75. This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.... |
 List price: $27.50 33 new, used & collectible available from $16.08. In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful In... |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  List price: $26.00 107 new, used & collectible available from $12.70. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pil... |
 List price: $15.95 57 new & used available from $8.95. A New York Times Notable Book An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the YearA Huffington Post Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Decade The true story of one family, caught between Amer... |
List price: $1.00 Discusses duty of individuals to resist government excesses. 1849... |
The Invisible Man (Longman Simplified English Series) List price: $5.75 6 new & used available from $10.35. With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses, and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin—the new guest at the Coach and Horses—is at first assumed to be a shy accident victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from th... |
 List price: $15.95 An adrenaline-fuelled behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant world in audiobook read by Bourdain himself. After twenty-five years of -sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine-, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he first experiences the rea... |
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition  List price: $30.00 39 new & used available from $18.00. A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the ... |
 List price: $8.99 16 new & used available from $8.27. "Life on the Mississippi" is Mark Twain's depiction of his life on the Mississippi river as a steamboat pilot; beginning with a brief history of the river, continuing with a depiction of his early training as a steamboat pilot and following many years later with a description of his trip on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. Combined with many tall tales "Life on the Mississippi" is a char... |
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn  List price: $30.00 73 new, used & collectible available from $11.84. The bestselling author of Mayflower sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans' defeat at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Ala... |
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