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  • The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

    The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine Ida Lewis

    by Lenore Skomal ...
    The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter is the absorbing, painstakingly researched story of Ida Lewis and the fearless rescues she made at Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island. Born in 1842, Ida began tending the light at age fifteen after her father, the keeper of the light, was disabled by a stroke. When her father died in 1872, Ida’s mother assumed the role of lighthouse keeper but Ida ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

    The Remarkable True Story Of American Heroine Ida Lewis

    by Lenore Skomal ...
    The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter is the absorbing, painstakingly researched story of Ida Lewis and the fearless rescues she made at Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island. Born in 1842, Ida began tending the light at age fifteen after her father, the keeper of the light, was disabled by a stroke. When her father died in 1872, Ida’s mother assumed the role of lighthouse keeper but Ida ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • 12,000 Dreams Interpreted

    A New Edition for the 21st Century

    A bestselling classic, back and bigger than ever!Nearly a century ago, Gustavus Hindman Miller published his groundbreaking masterwork, 10,000 Dreams Interpreted, the most compelling and thorough study of all the symbols that appear in our dreamscape. Miller offered an enlightening introduction to dream history and types, and organized his symbols into eminently logical categories. Now, popular ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Last Slave Ship

    The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

    by Ben Raines ...
    An NPR Best Book of the YearThe incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains.Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Strange and Obscure Stories of New York City

    Little-Known Tales About Gotham's People and Places

    by Tim Rowland ...
    The 1948 crime film The Naked City (later a television show) ended with this iconic line There are eight million stories in the naked city.” Things have not changed either before or since: every era and neighborhood is full of true tales and legends about which even residents are likely to be unaware. Strange And Obscure Stories Of New York City takes the reader on a breathtaking tour of the five ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Wicked River

    The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

    by Lee Sandlin ...
    A riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the 19th century.Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River brings to life a place where river pirates brushed elbows with future presidents and religious visionaries ... Read more

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  • The Ride

    Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America

    USA Today BestsellerTimed for the 250th anniversary of America’s revolution and founding: Paul Revere’s heroic ride, newly told with fresh research into little-known aspects of the story Americans have heard since childhood but hardly understoodOn April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on a borrowed horse to fulfill a ... Read more

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  • Mob Rule in New Orleans

    First published in 1892, Ida B. Wells' scathing essay on the horrors of lynching and, more importantly, the upholding of these atrocities by law in the southern United States years after the Civil War had already been won, serves now as an important reminder of our not-too-distant past and its effects on our present racial tensions. ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rush

    America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853

    A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Brilliant Beacons

    A History of the American Lighthouse

    "What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical subject." —Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four VoyagesIn this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history of America itself" ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Ida, in Love and in Trouble

    For fans of Bridgerton and The Davenports comes a sweeping historical novel from bestselling author Veronica Chambers about courageous (and flirtatious) Ida B. Wells as she navigates society parties and society prejudices to become a civil rights crusader.Before she became a warrior, Ida B. Wells was an incomparable flirt with a quick wit and a dream of becoming a renowned writer. The eldest child ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD