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Edward I

Edward I -- one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages -- pioneered legal and parliamentary change in England, conquered Wales, and came close to conquering Scotland. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker...

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King John

King John is a study of a king and his political misfortunes. It is also an examination of a fascinating era -- the early thirteenth century, a period of profound social and political change and unprecedented insecurity. W.L. Warren paints a picture of...

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All Heart: The Autobiography of Michael Pinball Clemons

Michael Clemons is only 5'6' tall and weighs 170 pounds. Yet this diminutive running back for the Toronto Argonauts Football Club is one of the best in the league, an electrifying player named the CFL's most outstanding player in 1990 and one of the key...

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A Passionate Pen: The Life and Times of Faith Fenton

'...an extraordinary biography of an extraordinary woman'. -- The Globe and Mail Downie gives us an unforgettable view of a working woman's Canada a century ago'. -- The Gazette (Montreal) '...it reveals much of the humor, joy and misery behind the...

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Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage

Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940), daughter of the famous suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, played an essential role in the winning of woman suffrage in the United States. This powerfully written book is both a biography of Harriot Blatch and a new...

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All of These People: A Memoir

Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal.

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Spycatcher

The former assistant director of MI5 offers an account of British Intelligence, including his work on the Ring of Five and exposing Soviet espionage and the conspiracy to oust Harold Wilson from the office of Prime Minister in the 1970s

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Nothing by Chance

Setting out to explore his beliefs in the environment of a simpler time, Richard Bach shares the adventure of one magical summer he spent as an old-fashioned barnstormer flying an antique biplane. The journey is another soaring personal adventure of wonder...

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Exit the Rainmaker

The story of a well-known college president in Southern Maryland, who left his wife, work, and friends to commit what some would regard as a courageous--others as outrageous--act

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Dr. Franz Hildebrandt: Mr. Valiant-For-Truth

Franz Hildebrandt was Dietrich Bonhoeffer's closest friend in the 1930s. A remarkable preacher and able scholar, he was a leading figure in the German Confession Church's struggle against the Nazis. As the youngest signatory of the Baumen declaration...

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Through the Burning Steppe: A Wartime Memoir

A dramatic, compelling chronicle of a young Russian woman's exile and survival during World War II, and the story of her mother's indomitable strength in the face of life's greatest adversity.

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John Ruskin; The Early Years

This is the authoritative biography of John Ruskin, the most influential nineteenth-century critic of art and society. It draws on the complete text of Ruskin's diaries and many thousands of unpublished letters and other documents to provide flesh insight...

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Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen

Called 'fascinatingly complex' by 'The Wall Street Journal', this 'New York Times' bestseller is the first biography of Great Britain's current monarch written by a palace insider--Sarah Bradford, the Viscountess Bangor. This definitive, widely-praised...

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A Place in the Country

In 'Sleeping Arrangements', the author introduced readers to her childhood self. Now, In 'A Place in the Country', she explores her lifelong quest to find the perfect country home. '[A] lovely, bittersweet memoir'.--'USA Today'.

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Race and Resistance: African Americans in the Twenty-First Century

In Race and Resistance: African-Americans in the Twenty-First Century, leading African-American scholars and activists discuss the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality. This broad, inclusive anthology...

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