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  • Guns and Roses

    The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone

    by Rose Keefe ...
    Based on information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses traces O'Banion's rise from Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss ... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bessie Perri: Queen of the Bootleggers

    Organized Crime, #1

    by Rose Keefe ...
    Series Book 1 - Organized Crime
    ★★★ Behind every smart man is a smarter woman ★★★Rocco Perri was the Al Capone of Canada. Without him, the American market of alcohol would be a little...dry.Rocco is frequently cited as the most successful bootlegger of Canada, however, for one important reason: his wife, Bessie Perri. If Rocco was the King of Bootlegging, Bessie was the obvious queen.With page-turning suspense, this gritty book ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fighting Parson: The Life of Reverend Leslie Spracklin (Canada’s Eliot Ness)

    Organized Crime, #2

    by Rose Keefe ...
    Series Book 2 - Organized Crime
    ★★★ Some ministers preach...some get locked and loaded ★★★Reverend Spracklin was a gangster's worst nightmare. Known to the press and public as the 'Fighting Parson', he and his handpicked squad of dry agents burst into the roadhouses of Essex County with pistols drawn and fists clenched.They chased liquor-laden vehicles through dark city streets and along rough country roads, and intercepted ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester New York

    Their Home Was Open to All

    by Rose O'Keefe ...
    The story of the upstate New York home where the orator and former slave lived with family, houseguests, and fugitives on the Underground Railroad.Despite living through one of our nation's most bitter and terrifying times, Frederick Douglass and his wife, Anna, raised five children in a loving home with flower, fruit, and vegetable gardens in Rochester, New York for twenty-five years beginning in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Special Delivery

    From One Stop to Another on the Underground Railroad

    by Rose O'Keefe ...
    Illustrated by John K Bender ...
    Frederick and Anna Douglass's 11-year-old son Lewis is shocked to learn the family is moving from their gracious home on Alexander Street in Rochester, NY. He is even more shocked to learn he must drive a team of horses to help with the move. What could go wrong? ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • All Rights for All

    Working for Justice

    by Rose O'Keefe ...
    My dad was born in London. My grandparents were English and they became citizens. Their British outlook on life didn't match my mother's Brooklyn Irish Catholic ways or what I had learned from living in France with my family as a girl. Growing up, I watched generational and cultural clashes at holiday meals and saw how grown-ups believed their opinions were right.Reading became an escape from ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Rochester's South Wedge, Revisited

    by Rose O'Keefe ...
    Rochester's South Wedge follows the hundreds of ambitious and ordinary people who have formed a distinct community for 185 years. Immediate neighbors include Mount Hope Cemetery, the nation's first municipal cemetery and final resting place for the Frederick Douglass family and Susan B. Anthony; and Highland Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Close by are the University of Rochester and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Historic Genesee Country

    A Guide to Its Lands and Legacies

    by Rose O'Keefe ...
    Genesee Country, composed of Allegany, Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, Monroe and Ontario Counties near the Genesee River in western New York, is rich in local history with national importance. The Seneca and Algonkin nations once called this lush land home, and after the American Revolution, settlers came in hordes to till the soil and raise families. The region later became a hotbed of activity ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animal ABCs

    by Rose O'Keefe ...
    IntroductionAnimal ABCs is a word game for people who enjoy a search that gets harder as it goes along; who enjoy unusual words and consider a dictionary one of their favorite books or research tools. There is a pattern, that we will leave to the curious reader to unlock on their own. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Bessie Perri

    Queen of the Bootleggers

    by Rose Keefe ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Mike G ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 33 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.★★★ Behind every smart man is a smarter woman ★★★Rocco Perri was the Al Capone of Canada. Without him, the American market of alcohol would be a little...dry.Rocco is frequently cited as the most successful bootlegger of Canada, however, for one important reason: his wife, Bessie Perri. If Rocco was the King of Bootlegging, Bessie was the obvious queen ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Harriet Tubman

    The Road to Freedom

    by Catherine Clinton ...
    The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" ( Newsday).Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, ... Read more

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  • Never Caught

    The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

    by Erica Armstrong Dunbar ...
    A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, ... Read more

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