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  • The Wrecking of La Salle's Ship Aimable and the Trial of Claude Aigron

    by Robert S. Weddle ...
    Translated by François Lagarde ...
    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    When Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, landed on the Texas coast in 1685, bent on founding a French colony, his enterprise was doomed to failure. Not only was he hundreds of miles from his intended landfall—the mouth of the Mississippi—but his supply ship, Aimable, was wrecked at the mouth of Matagorda Bay, leaving the colonists with scant provisions and little protection against local Indian ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • 97 Orchard

    An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

    by Jane Ziegelman ...
    A "highly entertaining" culinary and social history of five immigrant families living in a turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City tenement house ( New York Times )."A unique and aromatic narrative of New York's immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round." —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World</... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • 13 Days In October: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Howard Brinkley ...
    Never has the world come as close to the catastrophic destruction that nearly came to pass in October 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union, uneasy allies in World War II but Cold War rivals after the defeat of Germany, squared off over the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. This launched 13 days of tense negotiations between the two nations, as both President John F. Kennedy and ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD

  • Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer

    by Wooden Leg, thomas B. Marquis ...
    Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer is a book by Thomas Bailey Marquis about the life of a Northern Cheyenne Indian, Wooden Leg, who fought in several historic battles between United States forces and the Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where he faced the troops of George Armstrong Custer. The book is of great value to historians, not only for its eye-witness ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First Ladies

    From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

    by Betty Caroli ...
    Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. This expanded and updated fourth edition includes Laura Bush's tenure, Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and an in-depth look at Michelle Obama, one of the most charismatic and appealing First Ladies in recent history. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Salem Possessed

    The Social Origins of Witchcraft

    by Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum ...
    Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in ... Read more

    $34.69 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lasso the Wind

    Away to the New West

    by Timothy Egan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award"Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times"Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." --Los Angeles Times"They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Center of the World of Steel: Pittsburgh 1900. Illustrated

    by Walden Fawcett ...
    Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was the center of the world of Steel at the beginning of the 20th century. Take a look at Steel and Steel making in the industrial powerhouse of turn of the century Pittsburgh. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Taxi-Dance Hall

    A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life

    by Paul Goalby Cressey ...
    Series series University of Chicago Sociological Series
    First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls.Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction notes, were social centers where men could come and pay to dance with “a bevy of pretty, vivacious, and often ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • In Their Shoes

    In Their Shoes

    by Grace Halsell ...
    Series series Chisholm Trail Series
    Probably no American journalist, man or woman, has had a more extraordinary career than Grace Halsell. Before President Lyndon Johnson personally hired her to work in the White House, Halsell had, over a period of two decades, written her way around the world - Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Orient, and the Americas.Born on the windswept plains of West Texas, Halsell was encouraged from the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Mysteries of Sedona

    The New Age Frontier

    by Tom Dongo ...
    Chapters Include:The CanyonsSedona Vortex SitesUnderstanding, Experiencing, and Enjoying the VortexesChannelingSedona: The Re-Emergence of LemuriaSpaceships and Paranormal OccurrencesSedona and the Days Ahead ... Read more

    $9.55 CAD

  • Good Medicine For the Bow

    A History of Medicine Bow, Wyoming

    by Marvin Cronberg, B.S., A.F.T. ...
    It was not easy to establish and maintain a frontier community. Aside from the harassment from the native americans, there were the usual petty jealousies and worse, a total lack of law enforcement. Fortunately there were individuals whose leadership would overcome the desire for personal gain and supplant the community effort. These were people who wanted something more and sacrificed to make it ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD