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1	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln more books like this by Doris Kearns Goodwin add to wishlist Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in her #1 "New York Times" bestseller, as she chronicles the rise of the the one-term congressman/prairie lawyer from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. 16 pages of photos. see all copies from $3.41! new only from $11.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West more books like this by Professor Stephen E Ambrose add to wishlist A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers their incredible hardships and the contributions of Sacajawea. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	King Leopolds' Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa more books like this by Adam Hochschild add to wishlist First published in 1999, Hochschild provides a riveting account of the Congo massacres, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes. This exemplary piece of history writing gives the facts that caused those atrocities. see all copies from $3.37! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West more books like this by Hampton Sides add to wishlist Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, and at the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson--the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier who embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American experience in the West. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Reliable Wife more books like this by Robert Goolrick add to wishlist Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. see all copies from $7.90! new only from $9.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Walden or Life in the Woods more books like this by Henry David Thoreau add to wishlist Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, WALDEN vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt more books like this by Edmund Morris add to wishlist The first volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his life up to 1901, when he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President McKinley. Morris explores Roosevelt's origins and growth, and conveys the robust personality that charmed a nation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II more books like this by Douglas A Blackmon add to wishlist Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers. see all copies from $5.05! new only from $5.11! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Pride & Prejudice more books like this by Jane Austen add to wishlist It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel was rejected, revised, retitled, and finally published--anonymously--in 1813, only four years before Austen's untimely death. In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Austen calls on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Norton Anthology of English Literature more books like this by Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), M H Abrams (Editor), George M Logan (Editor) add to wishlist A best-seller for more than forty years, this is the survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" to global twentieth-century classics. Over 75 colour plates and ... see all copies from $2.58! new only from $12.94! \| SVS
11 view cover	Jane Eyre more books like this by Charlotte Bronte add to wishlist Charlotte Brontë's first novel, published in 1847, was based in part on the author's own days in a brutal boarding school where two of her sisters died of tuberculosis; her characterization of the place in her first published work was an act of revenge. The novel's heroine is a plain, impoverished, but spirited young governess who not only wins ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation more books like this by Cokie Roberts add to wishlist In "Founding Mothers," Roberts paid homage to the women who helped establish America. Now she continues the story of more remarkable women and their achievements in moving the fledgling nation forward, from the election of John Adams in 1796 to the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Wuthering Heights more books like this by Emily Bronte add to wishlist Drawing on the Gothic tradition, Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS is the tale of Catherine Earnshaw, a wilfull and romantic girl brought up to be a lady, and Heathcliff, the mysterious gypsy orphan. Bronte's use of a series of unreliable narrators to unfold their story heightens the mythic quality of the passionate attachment that is at the heart ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Sweet Far Thing more books like this by Libba Bray add to wishlist After discovering an enchanted world, Gemma Doyle has bound the dark magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. As Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds, in the final book of Bray's bestselling trilogy. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $6.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Give Me Liberty!: An American History more books like this by Professor Eric Foner add to wishlist Freedom, the oldest of clich s and the most modern of aspirations, is the unifying theme in the new survey of American history by Eric Foner, the well-known historian and author of The Story of American Freedom. Give Me Liberty! examines the changing meanings of freedom, the social conditions that make freedom possible and its shifting boundaries ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.87! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself more books like this by Frederick Douglass add to wishlist In 1845, just seven years after his escape from slavery, the young Frederick Douglass published this powerful account of his life in bondage and his triumph over oppression. The book, which marked the beginning of Douglass's career as an impassioned writer, journalist, and orator for the abolitionist cause, reveals the terrors he faced as a slave, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Offer from a Gentleman more books like this by Julia Quinn add to wishlist While searching for a mysterious beauty he met at a masquerade party, Benedict Bridgerton meets Sophie Beckett, a servant in need of his help, and as passion flares between them, he must choose between Sophie and the woman of his dreams. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.22! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Great expectations more books like this by Charles Dickens add to wishlist The tale of the orphan, Pip, and his mysterious benefactor provides a grotesque but pointed comedy that explores the many levels of English society with insight and sympathy as well as a satiric eye. Considered by many to be Dickens's best novel, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the story of a young man who rises out of a rough, deprived childhood to a life ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Basic Writings of Nietzsche more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (Editor) add to wishlist One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $9.75! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	If You Deceive more books like this by Kresley Cole add to wishlist Ethan MacCarrick, the eldest and most wicked of the MacCarrick brothers, tricks lovely and innocent Holly Weyland into thinking he's eloping with her; instead, he takes her to his wind-tossed, seaside estate in the Highlands, planning to seduce her and make her his mistress until he tires of her. Yet just when Ethan realizes he can't live without ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| SVS
21 view cover	Silent on the Moor more books like this by Deanna Raybourn add to wishlist Despite his warnings to stay away, Lady Julia arrives at Grimsgrave in Yorkshire to find Brisbane as remote yet attractive as ever. A mystery soon unfolds from the rotten heart of the house, one that Lady Julia may have to solve alone. Original. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $7.92! \| SVS
22 view cover	Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation more books like this by Cokie Roberts add to wishlist Explores the lives of women who helped shape the United States, profiling such key figures as Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinkney, Dolley Payne Madison, Deborah Read Franklin, and Catherine Littlefield Greene. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Journals of Lewis and Clark more books like this by Bernard Augustine DeVoto add to wishlist In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank - not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.74! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869 more books like this by Professor Stephen E Ambrose add to wishlist In this railroad history, a noted historian tells the story of the construction of America's transcontinental railroad. Ambrose describes how the idea was conceived in the 1830s, and organizes his story by individual rail lines, telling how each met the specific challenges posed by nature in each state or region until the lines were completed and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 more books like this by George C Herring add to wishlist The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring ... see all copies from $16.01! new only from $22.44! \| SVS

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