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How a Nation Grieves: Press Accounts of the Death of Lincoln, the Hunt for Booth, and America in Mourning
Author: Glenn Alan Cheney, with a foreword by U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney
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Description: It was the most traumatic experience in American history.
Every one of Abraham Lincoln's 1,503 days of presidency saw America tearing itself apart. Peace seemed imminent only as his second term began. Lee and Grant sat down together at the farm house where the nation's worst war had begun. A week later, Lincoln was shot dead. The last thing he heard was people laughing....Click here to read the rest of this description, see reader reviews and order this title securely.
Break the Spell
Author: Susan Marie Powers
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Description: Break the Spell is about the ways life surprises us with its wonder and terror, its losses and unimaginable blessings. Major themes reiterated throughout the collection include the intense feelings aroused by motherhood, the acute pleasure of sexuality, and the harsh reality of death in its many forms. Many people strive to have it all -- meaningful work, passionate relationships, quality time with their children, health and longevity....Click here to read the rest of this description, see reader reviews and order this title securely.
Potshots from the Left
Author: G. Amicus Curiae
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Description: Potshots from the Left Curiae’s collection of letters and essays defends such liberal causes as world peace, universal health care, grassroots democracy, environmental protection, and fiscal responsibility, fundamental values, and honesty in government. It also criticizes militarization, corporate influence over government, nuclear power, capitalism, Big Oil... Click here to read the rest of this description, see reader reviews and order this title securely.
Remember Me
Author: Penny Newbury
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Description: Remember Me is a collection of short stories that combine fantasy with the remembered past and recount the interconnected lives and adventures of people who never thought they’d meet each other, especially in fiction. Characters include the denizens of a new-age spiritual community, career criminals, Paraguayan cattle thieves, fishermen, freemasons, humanitarian aid workers, remembered family, and ghosts. Included in the collection is the first chapter of a novel loosely based on a 1990 unsolved murder in southeastern Connecticut...Click here to read the rest of this description, see reader reviews and order this title securely.
Time Gone
Author: Lynda Wesley McLaughlin
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Description: Time Gone is lushly illustrated with detailed watercolors by the author. Its broad format invites the reader into scenes of a different world...a Caribbean island in days that were as simple as they were human and beautiful... Click here to read the rest of this description, see reader reviews and order this title securely.
Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America
Author: Glenn Alan Cheney
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Description: Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It’s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage... Click here to read the rest of this description, see reader reviews and order this title securely.
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