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Life in New York: How I Learned to Love Squeegee Men, Token Suckers, Trash Twisters, and Subway Sharks
ISBN: 9781936218158 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of:
2015 Seven Sister Books Award, Nonfiction Laura Pedersen, author of bestseller"Play Money"and award-winning"Buffalo Gal," serves up a hilarious memoir about three decades of city life. Originally from Buffalo, NY, friends thought the seventeen year old was suffering from blizzard delirious when she left Buffalo for Manhattan. Pedersen experiences her adopted city in the best and worst of times while becoming the youngest person to have a seat on the stock exchange, performing stand up comedy, and writing a column in the"New York Times." Neighborhoods that feature chai... Winner of:
2015 Seven Sister Books Award, Nonfiction Laura Pedersen, author of bestseller"Play Money"and award-winning"Buffalo Gal," serves u... |
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Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont
ISBN: 9780916718015 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Harbor at Scituate Massachusetts
ISBN: 9780991092321 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
ISBN: 9780802127877 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
ISBN: 9781535273589 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. ...
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Rogues of Rhode Island
ISBN: 9781928758174 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair, True Stories from New England History
ISBN: 9781483705477 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The three parts of The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair were first published as three separate volumes under titles, Grandfather's chair, Famous old people and Liberty tree. The collection includes thirty-two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist writing centers on New England, many featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration and centering on the inherent evil and sin of humanity.
The three parts of The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair were first published as three separate volumes under titles, Grandfather's chair, Famous o...
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Miracle on the Mayflower: John Howland's Remarkable Rescue and Lasting Impact on America
ISBN: 9781950067886 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
ISBN: 9781982159191 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Last One In: Tales of a New England Boyhood
ISBN: 9781608935505 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There used to be a time when marvelous skyrockets could be purchased for a dime and the iceman came around once a week, when throwing a cap on and off took special talent and pants had watch pockets. When John Gould was young it didn't take much to amuse a boy. A boy would wake up in the morning ready to be "amazed all day long at all manner of things." Warmth, humor, nostalgia--these pages are filled with them, all conveyed lovingly in John Gould's signature wit. For anyone who has ever been young and wants to remember or just laugh with Gould as he recounts his experiences growing up in...
There used to be a time when marvelous skyrockets could be purchased for a dime and the iceman came around once a week, when throwing a cap on and off...
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Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries
ISBN: 9781493023790 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether it's for their solace and beauty or for the sense of history that seeps from the ground, cemeteries are fascinating places to visit, this spirited guide to burial grounds takes the reader to the most interesting and unusual ones in all of New England.
Whether it's for their solace and beauty or for the sense of history that seeps from the ground, cemeteries are fascinating places to visit, this spir...
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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
ISBN: 9780679759614 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband. Out of this incident, The Bancroft... Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
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The House That Jacob Built
ISBN: 9781608934584 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1940, the 1780-farmhouse that noted Maine essayist and curmudgeon John Gould's great-grandfather built burned to the ground. To honor the generations that came before him, Gould there and then decided to rebuild the house in Lisbon Falls. Like his great-grandfather, Gould cut the timbers from the same woodlot, and the new house rose so smoothly, it seemed as if Great-Grandfather Jacob was building it himself. Memories clung to every beam and rafter and this host of recollections form the substance of this memoir. Woven in are stories of how Gould's Grandfather Thomas started the Battle of...
In 1940, the 1780-farmhouse that noted Maine essayist and curmudgeon John Gould's great-grandfather built burned to the ground. To honor the generatio...
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The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion
ISBN: 9781023024853 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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An Old Town By the Sea
ISBN: 9781023025010 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Campaign of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
ISBN: 9781023352420 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Shower of Stars: The Medal of Honor and the 27th Maine
ISBN: 9780811736664 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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In Search of the Stone of Destiny
ISBN: 9780999600009 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Everyday Life in Early America
ISBN: 9780060912512 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assump...
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