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To most Americans, Frank Hamer is the "villain" in the 1967 film Bonnie & Clyde.In Texas Ranger, historian John Boessenecker argues that Hamer was in fact a classic American hero. His ca
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Higgs Boson Bing has seven days left before his perfect high school career is completed. Then it's on to Harvard to fulfill the fantasy portrait of success that he and his parents have cultivated for
A charming and intimate collection of correspondence between #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, that offers timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse
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Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company’s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854–1894), “A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or th
A daughter recounts the story of her late father. Coach Scott Myers was a loving son, husband, father, friend, teacher, and coach. Myers passed away at the early age of 45 after a three-year battle
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One of only two patron saints of Italy, the other being St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine was ahead of her time. As a political powerhouse in late 14th century Europe, a time of war, social unrest
Every little kid who's ever taken the mound in Little League dreams of someday getting the ball for Game Seven of the World Series. Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as pl
A perceptive, enlightening biography of one the most important American poets of the twentieth century—Wallace Stevens—as seen through his lifelong quest to find and describe the sublime in the human
Koch describes how Prescott (1796-1859), because of poor health, was unable to follow his prominent Boston father into a lucrative law and business career, so became a man of letters and wrote some of
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If it is possible for a book to be healing, spiritual, smart, and sexy at the same time, then this is it.From Bestselling author and creator of the Man Whisperer Multimedia Series comes the new book S
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The remarkable achievements that modern science has made in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and engineering contrast sharply with our limited knowledge of the huma
How many times have you heard someone in your family tell stories about olden days and about your ancestors' lives that are inconceivable to imagine and you wondered if those stories were true? If you
In 1986, the bad guys of baseball won the World Series. Now, Erik Sherman, theNew York Times bestselling coauthor of Mookie, profiles key players from that infamous Mets team, revealing never-before-e
G.A. Henty (1832-1902) was one of the most prolific and popular writers for boys of his era, famous for his historical and adventure stories of which just over 80 appeared as hardback books. His cont
Conservatives tried to block voting by women, but lost. They also tried to prevent couples from using birth control - and to obstruct Social Security pensions - and to outlaw labor unions - and preven
In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an
There are pivotal moments in the lives of all seekers when we realize that we’ve been traveling on our path of growth toward happiness and fulfillment, but, simply put, we want to go faster. How we ha
Over a three-decade period that began in 1919, Oscar Micheaux wrote, directed, edited, produced and distributed over forty films nationally and internationally. These films usually featured all-Black
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There are an estimated 3.3 million wheelchair users in the United States alone. This is the equivalent of the entire populations of Chicago and Boston combined and represents a tremendous challenge fo
Ita was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. The place was the former Pale of Settlement which was a large swath of land in western Russia where Jews were forced to live for centuries. The year
